Stella Madzivanyika madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw THE government has stocked 1 000 fishery business units across the country with 4,4 million fingerlings. The country is targeting to construct 70 000 village fishponds across 35 000 villages with the aim of growing the fisheries sector into a US$1 billion industry by 2030. According to Fisheries director in the Agriculture…
By Stella Madzivanyika madzivanyikas@dailynews.co.zw CHIRUNDU One-Stop Border Post (OSBP), which now operates for 24 hours daily, has improved economic trade between Zambia and Zimbabwe, a recent survey has shown. This comes after the Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) Zimbabwe funded the Chirundu OSBP endline time measurement survey report on the operations of the border post….
BULAWAYO BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is seeking to hire 178 privateowned vehicles for this month’s national polio vaccination campaign. Polio mainly affects children under five years of age and is transmitted through contaminated water or food, or contact with an infected person. In a statement yesterday, BCC town clerk Christopher Dube said the city was…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two deputies, Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi, are not focusing on politics but further improving the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans. So says presidential spokesperson, George Charamba, who adds that the country’s top leadership is treating the push for Mnangagwa to remain in office beyond 2028 as a sideshow. Speaking to…
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says Zimbabwe lost over US$42 billion to sanctions imposed on the country by the United States and western allies since 2002. He was speaking at a United Nations (UN) international sanctions, business and human rights conference in Geneva, Switzerland, last week. Ziyambi told the delegates that the restrictive measures imposed on…
LAWRENCE PAGANGADeputy News Editor A TOP urologist, Allen Chiura, has challenged local males to seriously consider their health and sexual issues to enjoy prolonged life. This comes amid high cases of men reported to be neglecting their health, having toxic social lives, including the prevalent alcohol and drug misuse and taking sex enhancing herbals leading…
THE Zimbabwe Livelihoods Assessment Committee (ZimLAC)’s 2024 report shows that Matabeleland South Province has recorded a significant increase in breastfeeding rates with 85 percent of babies suckling beyond one year. According to the latest report, the province’s breastfeeding rates leaped from 51 percent in 2023 to 85 percent this year. The ZimLAC report attributed the…
STELLA MADZIVANYIKAStaff Writer THE Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international humanitarian organisation, has engaged some youth to offer mental health and psychosocial support to their peers facing social pressures, including mental health challenges. In Epworth, Harare, 20-year-old Peter Chimutanda, is an MSF peer educator and understands the difficulties faced by many of his colleagues as…
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) now looks headed for a complete collapse, unless its bickering bigwigs kiss and make up soon. So warns the spokesperson of the party camp that is led by Sengezo Tshabangu, Nqobizitha Mlilo, who added yesterday that the senseless infighting among rival faction leaders was leading the country’s main opposition…
THE former wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, Marry Mubaiwa, has lost her bid to have the courts grant her permanent stay of prosecution. This comes as Mubaiwa is facing serious charges of attempted murder of Chiwenga five years ago, as well as money laundering. It also comes after Mubaiwa’s lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, had filed…
