FARMERS who exhibited their services at the just-ended Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) this year say they enjoyed brisk business after recording improved sales than last year. The Daily News spoke to various farmers at the trade fair who spoke highly of the annual event. Farm and City head of marketing Walter Tayengwa said their…
THE country has recorded more than 10 cases of murder over a period of one week, mainly due to misunderstandings, police have revealed. This comes after Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) recently reported that there was a 12 percent increase in crime in the third quarter of last year in the country. It also comes…
Yvonne Ncubein BULAWAYO THE National Aids Council (Nac) has donated $338 million to the Zimbabwe Basic Education Assistance Module (BEAM) to aid vulnerable children, so as to reduce the risk of them contracting HIV and AIDS in the event that they drop out of school due to lack of fees. Speaking during the handover of…
GALLO Music Publishers has clinched a deal to publish the rich catalogue of world-renowned late musician Oliver Mtukudzi. Mtukudzi, a human-rights activist and Unicef Goodwill Ambassador for Southern Africa, died in January 2019 at the age of 66. His colourful career spanned over four decades and saw him release 67 albums. Mtukudzi’s catalogue has hits…
By Nyasha Kunyiswa PERSONS with disability have bemoaned paucity of information regarding their challenges, saying it hampers efforts at addressing them. Addressing the media yesterday, director of Deaf Women Included (DWI), Agness Chindimba said there was a need for Parliament to enact laws with specific gender provisions for women with disabilities and integrated provisions for…
Black Edward IT’S distressing to observe that most of those with the power to make a difference in other people’s lives are not doing so and, consequently, literally prolonging their misery. Watch how some of our highest-ranking officials keep their mouths shut when one of them makes a blunder which results in many people suffering….
ZIMBABWE has been engaging and re-engaging the international community in the quest to discard the bad image tag stuck on it for over two decades as it seeks to turn around its flagging economic fortunes. With its foreign policy premised on being an enemy to none and a friend to all, Harare recently expressed satisfaction…
“EVERYONE finds selling on the streets the easiest way to survive, but you have to be creative.” Noel Ngwenya, 44, from Chivi,…
FINANCIAL services giant Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited has launched its fintech business, Old Mutual Digital Services (Private) Limited (OMDS), a subsidiary that will provide mobile money services, insurtech, investech, digital lending, e-commerce, payments and digital products and services for the retail mass market. The company is wholly-owned by Old Mutual Zimbabwe Limited (OMZIL) and has…
BY BRIGHTON MURONZEREYI AND BRANDON JOSPHAT DESPITE the recent insistence by authorities that parents can pay fees in Zim dollars, many schools — which are feeling the heat of the country’s slumping currency — are asking for payments exclusively in US dollars. This comes as schools open for the second term this week, amid growing…
