THE Grade 7 pass rate for Harare City Council primary schools that sat for last year’s Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) tests has declined by eight percent, the council’s education committee has said. This comes as the 2020 national pass rate dropped by 9, 79 percent from 46, 9 percent in 2019 to 37,11 percent….
DEVOLUTION will speed up development in some of the remote parts of the country through establishing resort towns, construction of airports, universities and tobacco auction floors as there are vast investment opportunities in these areas, provincial affairs ministers have said. Speaking during a webinar hosted by The Financial Gazette yesterday on Creating Provincial Hubs Through Economic Devolution,…
BUS operators caught smuggling goods through the country’s ports of entry risk losing their travel and route permits, the police have said. The police have impounded 42 buses since March 1, four of which were seized at the Beitbridge Border Post last Friday while trying to smuggle groceries and electrical goods into the country. The…
THE Harare City Council (HCC) has been hit by a mass exodus of nurses, plunging its health department into distress and forcing the municipality to resort to locums to temporarily address the situation. Speaking to the Daily News at the weekend, HCC spokesperson Michael Chideme, pictured, said that while they have managed to open all clinics, resignations…
A FRESH Covid-19 storm could be brewing in the country, after St David’s Bonda High School in Mutare reported that 120 girls had tested positive for the virus. The jarring infections at the school are believed to represent the highest number of recorded positive cases at a single learning institution in the country to date. It…
OVER 80 percent internally displaced persons’ children in cyclone prone areas in eastern Zimbabwe have been struggling to access education, the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) has said. This comes after Cyclone Idai hit the provinces of Manicaland and Masvingo in 2019, bringing torrential rains and winds that caused flash flooding and subsequent destruction of…
OVER 11 000 people from Mt Darwin and Matobo will benefit from a US$1 million Japanese government investment towards food security and community building. This comes as over 5,5 million rural people have been projected to be food insecure at the peak of the hunger season following surveys by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee 2020…
THE United States (US) injected US$341 million into Zimbabwe’s healthcare sector in 2020 alone to mitigate the treatment of HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria cases last year alone. This comes as HIV prevalence in Zimbabwe declined to 12,9 percent from a high of 29 percent in 1999 with up to 339 multi-drug resistant TB patients…
THE Mines and Mining Development ministry is set to establish a Mining Industry Loan Fund to capacitate small-scale miners who are major contributors to the country’s gold production. This comes as the miners have bemoaned lack of support for their operations and failure to have access to health, safety and mechanisation schemes. In a post-Cabinet…
THE Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has started collecting data for the 2021 population and housing census — paving the way for the delimitation of new legislative constituencies ahead of the 2023 national polls. The data will see the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) mapping out the country’s 210 parliamentary constituencies and thousands of local government…
