© ZIMBABWE’S Arts and Environment minis- tries recently signed the 2020 to 2023 execu- tive programme of the cultural agreement with the ministry of Culture and Tourism of China in Harare. The aims of the agreement is to create strategic mutual support and build on the momentum of Zimbabwe and China’s historical exchanges as well…
© THE community of Chitungwiza, especially Zengeza 5, which like the rest of the country has been experiencing severe water shortages, heaved a huge sigh of relief following the sinking of a borehole at Glory Ministries in the suburb by a good samaritan. Chitungwiza also bore the brunt of the cholera epidemic of 2008, which…
ZIMBABWE Development Party (ZDP) president Kisinoti Mukwazhe (49) died on Sunday night at Karanda Mission Hospital in Mt Dar- win after a short illness. Mukwazhe, who launched ZDP in 2008, was a presidential candidate in the 2013 harmonised elections. Mukwazhe withdrew from last year’s elections after failing to get an order from the Constitutional Court…
PARENTS at St Ignatius College are up in arms against the school’s decision to privatise it and hike fees, saying it violates their children’s right to education. The Catholic Jesuits say the move to privatise the school they founded is part of efforts to raise standards, which the administration claims have been deteriorat- ing over…
© ZIMBABWEANS were among passengers left stranded after South African Airways (SAA) cancelled all its flights due to an on-going South African Airways Technical (SAAT) strike. Both domestic and regional routes were affected since Wednesday last week, with some desperate passengers, including Zimbabweans, having to be transferred to other airlines such as British Airways and…
© A SOCIAL and economic justice organisation has challenged the government to ensure that the $500 million allocated for youth empow- erment is not confused for donations to youth in political party structures leading to high rate of non-perform- ing loans. Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) said the setting aside of $500 million…
© ZIMBABWE is set to receive US$25 million from the United Nation’s Global Financing Facility (GFF) to boost its maternal, child and adolescent health and nutrition programmes and reduce millions of deaths. This comes as the United Nations is running an Every Woman Every Child (EWEC) initiative where the GFF seeks to mobilise support for…
© IN A development that is likely to provide relief for rural cancer patients, Harare Central Hos- pital’s Tariro Hostel is set to reopen after receiving support and resources to refurbish from Stanbic Bank and its partners. The hostel closed down in 2007 owing to financial constraints. [GoogleAd] Stanbic Bank partnered The Cancer Association of…
© JUSTICE, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday warned MDC legislators saying they must know that Parliament can continue with- out them because Zanu PF has a two-thirds majority in the august House. In an interview with the Daily News, Ziyambi said Zanu PF could run the country without MDC legislators. [GoogleAd] “We…
© OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is on a global charm offensive to update African and European leaders on the political and economic crisis the country is faced with ahead of his “Hope of the Nation Address” on Wednesday, his spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda has said. [GoogleAd] In a statement yesterday, Sibanda said Chamisa was in…
