© HEALTH experts have warned of an increase in avoidable deaths if government does not step in and ensure continuous power supply at the country’s public health institutions, the Daily News on Sunday can report. [GoogleAd] The warning follows the introduction of a 10-hour load shedding programme by Zesa Holdings in most parts of the…
© GOVERNMENT has raised concern over growing incidents of motorists blocking the presidential motorcade which they said endangers the life of the first citizen. [GoogleAd] This follows a video circulating online of a policeman bashing a motorist for allegedly interfering with the motorcade which has caused public outcry. The public, judging from the video, believe…
© FINANCIAL institutions and other users on the Paynet platform are now required to pay their fees in United States dollars (USDs), Paynet revealed in a notice. [GoogleAd] Paynet is the electronic payments processing system offered to the market through financial institutions. It is an outsourced payments transfer platform that offers clients an easy, secure…
© THE Zanu PF Youth League has embarked on an economic awareness drive across the country to inform its members of achievements and challenges being faced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government. [GoogleAd] Zanu PF deputy secretary for youth, Lewis Matutu said meetings would be conducted at each and every constituency across the country to bridge…
© THE Zanu PF top brass, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his entire presidium, snubbed the burial of the late national hero Dumiso Dabengwa yesterday. [GoogleAd] Thousands of people including opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, and top officials from the South African government and Umkhonto Wesizwe attended the burial at Dabengwa’s rural home in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North….
© THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned farmers of severe frost likely to affect crops and livestock. The frost is expected to sweep across the country. In a statement, MSD said people into horticulture, hatchery, poultry, piggery and dairy farming are advised to get appropriate advice from their agricultural extension officers on ways…
© ZIMBABWEAN cotton farmers are advocating for payment in foreign currency to cushion them from rising costs of producing the crop. [GoogleAd] They want an arrangement currently prevailing in the tobacco sector where farmers are paid in United States dollars. The farmers have formally advised the Cotton Producers and Marketing Association for the farmers to…
© UNITED Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has completed the rehabilitation of 15 irrigation schemes in Masvingo Province under a multi-million dollar facility supported by the European Union. [GoogleAd] According to FAO, the project is meant to address challenges around irrigation development and improving the country’s food security. The organisation’s representative, Alain Onibon,…
© Supplementary budgets being applied for by local authorities are a reflection of the country’s worsening economy, resident associations and economists contend. [GoogleAd] Some of the local authorities that have so far gone the supplementary budget route are Harare, Kwekwe, Chitungwiza, Kariba, Ruwa, Kadoma and Bulawayo. More are likely to follow suit.Economist Moses Chundu said…
© THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has officially notified Harare council that it would no longer release foreign currency (forex) for them to buy water chemicals and that the council has to compete on the interbank market for hard currency. [GoogleAd] Harare City Council (HCC) mayor Herbert Gomba told the Daily News on Sunday…
