HARARE – Waste management, especially the collection of garbage in Harare and other towns and cities such as Chitungwiza — as reported in our sister publication, the Daily News on Sunday — has become an issue of major concern. While residents are doing all they can to pay for water and rates, city fathers have been…
HARARE – Health practitioners will today meet the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to discuss ways in which they can exercise their voting rights in the 2018 general election while on duty. Zimbabwe Nurses Association (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Doctors for Human Rights and other health professional associations will be part of the talks. Nurses and doctors…
HARARE – News that 45 people perished when a Zambia-bound bus — carrying mostly cross-border traders — crashed in Nyamakate near Makuti made very sad reading. Only last month, over 30 passengers were burnt beyond recognition in a bus accident at Nyamatikiti near Chaka in Chirumanzu. These accidents must jolt authorities to act on this…
HARARE – Dates for this year’s edition of Shoko Festival were announced last week, just a few days after the end of another equally big and internationally acclaimed local arts event — the Miombo Magic Music Festival. While arts lovers are obviously looking ahead to the seventh edition of Shoko Festival that will run in…
HARARE – Since independence in 1980, Zimbabwe has produced a lot of star players who have gone on to do wonders for the national team. The likes of Shacky Tauro, Vitalis Takawaira, Willard Mashinkila-Khumalo, Benjamin Nkonjera, Stanford “Stix” Mutizwa, Benjani Mwaruwari together with the Ndlovu brothers Peter, Adam and Madinda were all wonderful servants for…
HARARE – Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa was on-point when he ordered Home Affairs minister Ignatius Chombo and his Tourism counterpart Walter Mzembi to urgently meet and address concerns raised over numerous police roadblocks. Mnangagwa on Tuesday said he was aware that the issue of roadblocks has been raised by a number of tourists. In underlining…
HARARE – A strain of avian influenza virus has now been found in Zimbabwe. The highly pathogenic H5N8 strain is capable of causing death among humans and inflicting serious losses on poultry farmers. The bird flu has been detected in a chicken breeder flock on a Harare farm, and 140 000 birds have been culled…
HARARE – Goodness me! It took a long six months into this year for local rugby authorities to arrange the Zimbabwe-Zambia encounter on Saturday evening. But first things first . . . The Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) — I hate that long, unchanging name in this era of short, sexy brand names, as serious sport…
HARARE – Zimbabwe will today mark the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development in Harare as pronounced by the United Nations World Tourism Organisation. Government considers tourism as a low hanging fruit that contributes 10,9 percent to Zimbabwe’s Gross Domestic Product, 7,3 percent to total employment, 18,8 percent to export earnings and over a…
HARARE – Zanu PF secretary for youth league in the politburo —Kudzanai Chipanga — has a right to lavish praise on President Robert Mugabe because it is his democratic right. Being a leader of the next generation of politicians — the youths — it is also expected that Chipanga should inspire confidence not only in…
