AT LEAST 150 teachers left the country for Rwanda yesterday after Zimbabwe last year signed a deal with the east African country to deploy more than 400 educators. Speaking during a send-off briefing in Harare, deputy minister of Public Service Lovemore Matuke, pictured, said teachers should exhibit their competences so that their two-year contracts would…
ZIMBABWE’S health system is in dire straits, weighed down by the meagre budget being allocated to the Health ministry which is continually shrinking year in, year out. Not surprisingly, public hospitals currently have limited capacity to provide very basic services against the backdrop of a worsening turnover of critical staff like doctors and nurses, who…
By Brighton Muronzereyi AUTHORITIES will crack down without mercy on all perpetrators of political violence ahead of the crunch 2023 harmonised elections, Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe, pictured, has warned. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday — after police confirmed that they were probing reported clashes between Zanu PF and Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)…
By Brighton Muronzereyi THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has given Time Bank of Zimbabwe Limited the green light to re-open, 18 years after it was closed unlawfully by the central bank in 2004, during the time of governor Gideon Gono. In a public notice on Tuesday, the RBZ said: “It is hereby notified that…
BY DIONNE KANYOWA THE HIGH Court has quashed attempts made by the Health Professions Authority of Zimbabwe (HPAZ) and Medical Laboratory and Clinical Scientists Council of Zimbabwe (MLCSCZ) to bar popular paternity test television show host, Tinashe Mugabe, from operating. The two boards had suspended Global DNA Zimbabwe’s (Mugabe’s company) operations after cancelling his registration…
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has announced the approval of the use of long-acting injectable cabotegravir (CAB-LA) as a pre-exposure prophylaxis…
By Ketty Nyoni VICE President Constantino Chiwenga who is also minister of Health, says the government is improving the welfare of health workers and many of them are now coming back to the country after they left for greener pastures. Speaking in the National Assembly on Tuesday, Chiwenga says the government is doing everything to…
By Hazel Marimbiza THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) says it is currently in the process of building strategic partnerships with the government in mitigating the effects of climate change. Over the past years, rainfall patterns have become increasingly unpredictable and erratic and droughts have become more frequent. Climate change has hit hard, particularly the…
By Dr. Echey Ijezie EVEN after the novel coronavirus exposed glaring flaws in the world’s collective ability to respond to infectious disease…
By Brighton Muronzereyi TEACHERS and the ruling Zanu PF have an inseparable bond that dates back to the liberation struggle, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said. Speaking during the launch of the Teachers for Economic Development, Mnangagwa said teachers must remain alert and raise political consciousness and reject those keen to sow seeds of divisions.“As the…
