AMALGAMATED Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) president Obert Masaraure has on several occasions claimed abduction by State security agents for fighting for better conditions of service for teachers. He has also been accused of being one of the Trojan horses of the United States and the West to effect regime change in the country….
KEEPING Zimbabwe in the international business news spotlight is an important broadcast role, and it is one that Rebecca Muchenje, pictured, finds stimulating and enjoyable. As the Zimbabwean correspondent for the BBC’s specialised programme In Business Africa, Muchenje seeks out stories about a range of business and financial matters that are seen and analysed by…
THE month of July was marked by an exponential increase in coronavirus (Covid-19) cases in Zimbabwe. The country’s confirmed cases jumped from less than 500 to more than 3 000, while deaths increased from below 10 to over 50. The month also witnessed a dramatic shift in the trajectory of Covid-19 as local transmissions have…
Dakarai Mashava Features Editor mashavad@dailynews.co.zw THE Transforming Zimbabwe’s Dairy Value Chain for the Future (TranZDVC) project, which aims to address the root causes of under-performance in Zimbabwe’s dairy value chain, has identified the participation of women and youth farmers as a strategy to address succession issues. TranZDVC is a partnership between We Effect, Zimbabwe Association…
The soaring levels of unemployment in the country as well as the operational restrictions in the informal sector as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has left a number of people without a source of income to sustain themselves as well as their families. This has seen an increase in the number of home burglaries…
Afritractors is Zimbabwe’s sole distributor for Farmtrac, one of the market leaders in the Tractor Segment in the world, based on the previous renowned Ford Models DNA.It is Manufactured by Escorts Group, India’s third largest tractor manufacturer and the world’s top ten. The 20-113hp Farmtrac range has been on the Zimbabwean Market since 2018. …
WHEN typhoid struck the country in 2017, registering 11 deaths from 181 confirmed cases, Zimbabwean Elizabeth Gonese, pictured, was one of the health experts deployed by the United States Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help contain the outbreak of the waterborne disease. Gonese is a public health specialist at CDC, where, among…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday announced a raft of measures to contain and mitigate the spread of the deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) after a sharp increase in infections in the country. Among the tough measures, Mnangagwa introduced a 6pm to 6am curfew starting Wednesday, a move opposition political parties, civil society and human rights groups…
STAFF WRITER THE Transforming Zimbabwe’s Dairy Value Chain for the Future (TranZDVC) project, which aims to address the root causes of under-performance in Zimbabwe’s dairy value chain, has noted that feed constitutes up to 70 percent of total costs in the country’s dairy value chain. TranZDVC, which conducted a nationwide analysis on the contribution of…
AMID Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and political crises, the Church has stepped up its efforts to convince President Emmerson Mnangagwa and MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa to end their long-drawn rift. However, outspoken cleric and leader of Devine Destiny Network, Ancelimo Magaya, says they have not done enough and now is the time to abandon Uncle…
