By Rutendo Ngara THE World Bank (WB) says Zimbabwe is among the countries experiencing droughts mainly due to climate changes hence there is an urgent need for the country to expedite smart-agriculture. This comes as the country expects low to below normal rains in the coming 2023/24 summer cropping season. Speaking at a breakfast meeting…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa THE cholera threat that the Harare City Council (HCC) council has been grappling with since the beginning of the year has now been contained with no cases currently being recorded, a city official has said. This comes after HCC has recorded 114 confirmed and over 1000 suspected cholera cases since the first…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bitter rival Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa are both dead right that Zimbabweans must maintain peace after last week’s harmonised elections. This is despite the fact that Chamisa has rejected the outcome of the presidential poll he lost to Mnangagwa. Mnangagwa won with 52.6 percent, followed by Chamisa…
BY MATHEW NYASHANU THE big story about capitalism is not the kind of crisis that it has often presented such as the…
ECONET Wireless Zimbabwe and EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited have become the first companies in the country to obtain independent assurance on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. ESG reporting is the process of disclosing information about an organisation’s environmental, social, and governance performance. This information can include data on greenhouse gas emissions, water usage,…
THE national trade development and promotion organisation, ZimTrade, says it is facilitating more economic trade with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Currently, Zimbabwe is exporting goods to the DRC worth US$60 million annually. Speaking to the media yesterday at a DRC-Zimbabwe business meeting at the ongoing Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (Zas), Zimtrade chief executive Allan…
By Blessings Mashaya and Brighton Muronzereyi SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) Panel of Elders (PoE) is currently in Zimbabwe to assess the post-election situation in the country. The team is led by former Botswana minister Charles Tibone. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesperson George Charamba confirmed that the team arrived yesterday. “(Former Tanzania president Jakaya) Kikwete is…
By Ashley Moyo BEAUTIFUL Man, a two-hander play which puts men’s issues in the spotlight, is set to light up this year’s edition of Intwasa Arts Festival in Bulawayo next month. The festival scheduled to run between September 26 and 30 will see the hour-long play, performed by Farirai Borerwe and Jasen Mphepo, being screened…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa HARARE continues to record new cases of mumps, whose cumulative total has since risen beyond the 1 000 infections mark. The city’s epidemiologist, Michael Vhere, told the Daily News yesterday that the disease was more prevalent among children under the age of 12. “We have recorded more than 1 000 cases of…
By Brandon Josphat THE police have warned the public against being influenced to gather illegally with a view to engaging in violence and destruction of property, saying they risk being arrested. This comes after the defeat of opposition leader Nelson Chamisa by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the just-ended general elections whose results the former rejected…
