THE Rural Electrification Fund (Ref) says it has so far installed electricity at over 10 000 public institutions countrywide. Ref is a statutory body created by the government through an Act of Parliament with a mandate to facilitate provision of energy infrastructure in rural communities for socio economic growth and the general development of rural…
ECONOMIC shocks are the main drivers of food insecurity in Zimbabwe and other southern African countries, an alliance of humanitarian and development actors, the Global Network Against Food Crises has revealed. In its mid-year global report for 2023 released yesterday, the organisation said more needed to be done to stabilise economies in the southern African…
ZIMBABWE is recording monthly increases of vulnerable citizens who are food insufficient with 4,2 million people recorded to be in need of aid assistance in the first week of this month due to limited own-produced food stocks and constrained household purchasing power. In its latest situation report, the World Food Programme (WFP) noted that the…
A LOCALLY developed instant personal loan application – WildFin Smart Loan App, which offers a convenient and hassle-free way for civil servants…
MORE and more people are urging authorities to do more to curb resurgent price hikes, while also implementing further steps to stabilise and promote the wider local use of the Zim dollar. Speaking in Bulawayo yesterday, the president of the Matabeleland Chapter of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Joseph Gunda, said the rising dominance…
By Brandon Josphat josphatbl@dailynews.co.zw SADC has not invalidated Zimbabwe’s recent elections, and neither has it concluded that the polls were unfair or not free. So says President Cyril Ramaphosa, who also told the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in New York on Wednesday that Zimbabwean authorities would be given a chance to speak on all…
POLICE yesterday said they are targeting some middlemen who are being used by unregistered public transport operators to thwart efforts to crack down on non-roadworthy vehicles, and then seek protection payments. This comes as authorities have intensified their blitz on errant driving in the country by extending their clampdown on kombis whose drivers are reported…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration is committed to improving the country’s health delivery system as evidenced by the increase in annual budgetary allocations to the health sector. Speaking at a high-level meeting on pandemic prevention, preparedness and response at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Wednesday, he said there is a need…
THE Zimbabwe Agricultural Development Trust (ZADT) has launched an initiative set to benefit close to 12 000 women and youth through agribusiness training across the country. The project, Creating Adaptive Unique Systems for Access to Finance for Women and Youth (Causeway), is a three-year programme.ZADT had since carried out a geographical mapping exercise for the…
THE government is engaging with business leaders and other key stakeholders as authorities bid to curb resurgent and marked increases in the prices of basic goods. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, the newly-appointed minister of Industry, Sithembiso Nyoni, said she was confident that dialogue would “iron out all niggling issues” — as there was…
