ZIMBABWE is making strides in clean energy adoption, with a growing shift toward renewable and environmentally friendly power sources, particularly in urban areas, the minister of Energy, July Moyo, has said. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday ahead of today’s commencement of the Sadc Sustainable Energy Week 2026, Moyo said the use of green energy…
THE government says it is intensifying efforts to address period poverty and improve access to menstrual hygiene management (MHM) services across the country as women and girls continue to face significant menstrual health challenges.Speaking at an economic empowerment workshop yesterday, the minister of Women Affairs, Monica Mutsvangwa, said many school-going girls continued to face barriers…
THE country’s civil service continues to be plagued by a worryingly dysfunctional system, redundant roles, grade distortions and high vacancy rates, a Public Service Commission (PSC) job evaluation exercise has noted.“Notwithstanding the reform efforts that were conducted by the government in the past years, the public service still encounters institutional, structural and process challenges that…
RUWA Local Board has issued a 30-day ultimatum to residents, vehicle owners and guarded car park operators to remove abandoned and broken-down vehicles from public spaces, warning defaulters face removal costs and disposal penalties.In a public notice issued yesterday, the local authority said the directive targets vehicles dumped at Ruwa Polyclinic, shopping centres, termini, open…
EXPERTS have called for increased value addition of cassava and mangoes to improve livelihoods, particularly for women-headed households in the country’s rural areas.Speaking on the sidelines of the national dissemination workshop programme in Kadoma on Thursday, Global Agri-Business Solutions (Gabs) director of global programme, Philip Quarshie said value addition would benefit farmers, especially women, by…
AUTHORITIES say Zimbabwe is preparing high-level engagements next month with the United Kingdom in a decisive push to stem the exodus of health professionals and drive their return to strengthen the country’s healthcare system.This comes as the country continues to grapple with the loss of skilled health workers to better-paying foreign health systems, a trend…
IN THE hallowed halls of Africa’s presidential palaces, the air is thick with the scent of absolute power — a fragrance that, for the children raised within those walls, often turns into a toxic incense.While their fathers stood as the “Founding Fathers” or “Strongmen” of their nations, many of their offspring have struggled to navigate…
THE 14-year-old girl who was found with two-year-old Asanda Ndhlovu on Thursday, after the child had been reported missing in Bulawayo two days earlier, says she took the toddler to show her to her 36-year-old boyfriend, intending to return her afterwards.Praise Promise Moyo of Upper Rangemore allegedly took the child from a city centre mall…
BELLARMINE Chatunga Mugabe and a co-accused are set to appear in a South African court tomorrow following a shooting at the Mugabe family’s Hyde Park residence that left a 23-year-old gardener seriously injured on Thursday.Gauteng provincial police spokesperson Colonel Dimakatso Nevhuhulwi told the Daily News On Sunday that Chatunga and his co-accused, initially detained for…
PREPARATIONS for today’s National Youth Day commemorations have reached the finish line, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa set to commission Zimbabwe’s largest Youth Service and Vocational Training Centre in Marondera.Youth minister Tino Machakaire confirmed that readiness for the landmark event stands at 93 percent. The occasion is being hailed as a decisive leap in the country’s…
