© RESIDENTS of Chipinge rural area are living on wild fruits and competing with wild animals to access scarce food and water amid intensifying hunger. [GoogleAd] Chipinge is one of the areas ravaged by Cyclone Idai, which killed over 300 people, with hundreds more unaccounted for. Homes and livestock were also destroyed in a disaster…
© THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), which had kept a constant watch on Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association (ZHDA) acting president Peter Magombeyi, pictured, have finally given him the go-ahead to leave for medical attention in South Africa, his lawyer has confirmed. [GoogleAd] Magombeyi was barred by the police from leaving the country on Monday, despite…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded with the world to be patient with the Zimbabwean government as it seeks to implement reforms aimed at boosting its re-engagement efforts. [GoogleAd] Speaking at the 74th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly in New York, United States on Wednesday, Mnangagwa said the country’s re-engagement efforts were…
© THE government’s fight against the HIV/Aids pandemic continues to falter due to the country’s worsening economic rot, which has left at least one million people on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) in danger of defaulting due to serious shortages of the vital medications, the Daily News reports. [GoogleAd] This comes as the National Aids Council (Nac)…
© IN YET another dramatic turn of events to hit the funeral arrangements of former president Robert Mugabe, his family has changed its mind and will now bury him in Zvimba this weekend — and not in a special grave at the National Heroes Acre in Harare next month as planned, the Daily News reports….
© FORMER Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira, who is facing several corruption charges after she allegedly swindled the National Social Security Authority US$95 million, was yesterday granted bail with stringent conditions.Mupfumira allegedly committed the offences during her tenure as Labour and Social Welfare minister. [GoogleAd] High Court judge Justice Ammy Tsanga released Mupfumira on $5 000…
© THE National Assembly has summoned Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services minister Kazembe Kazembe to come to Parliament to explain the issue of Internet data price increases. This comes as mobile operators have been increasing the prices of data bundles since May this year. [GoogleAd] The matter was raised by MDC Magwegwe MP…
© IN AN ominous development for both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, a reputable United States university has stripped First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, pictured, of an award it had given her in recognition of her charity work in Zimbabwe. [GoogleAd] This comes as there are fears Western powers are increasingly losing patience with Mnangagwa’s…
© ZIMBABWE must legalise abortion amid a rising groundswell of support from the pregnancy termination rights movement. Women’s organisations said legalising abortion would end unregulated abortions that government data show are the leading cause of maternal deaths. [GoogleAd] According to the Health and Child Care ministry, 71 women died from abortions during the first quarter…
© PARLIAMENT’S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has warned that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and its management risk being prosecuted for flouting the country’s laws. [GoogleAd] PAC chairperson and former Finance minister Tendai Biti yesterday read the riot act to RBZ officials led by the deputy governor Kupukile Mlambo after they had given oral…
