By Brandon Josphat THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) says it has lost its workers for greener pastures, making it harder for the Chapter 12 institution to enhance peace-building initiatives in the country. In its annual report for the year 2022, published last week, the peace com – mission stated that it had lost…
By Ketty Nyoni PUBLIC libraries, which were once a wealth of information for many students, have been neglected, abandoned, and have fallen apart both in terms of infrastructure and reading materials as the globe steadily drifts and becomes more technologically advanced. Harare mayor Jacob Mafume attributed the current dilapidated state of public libraries in the…
By Adelaide Moyo FORTY-five-year-old Chinjai Chikore (not his real name) had hardly contemplated leaving Kanyandura Village in rural Mashonaland East province’s Mudzi district; not until just…
BUSINESS wants comprehensive dialogue with the government to help fi nd lasting solutions to the country’s worsening economic challenges. Speaking last night on independent national television station 3Ktv’s widely-followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, the president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Kurai Matsheza, said both companies and ordinary consumers were hurting from…
THE continuation of Marry Mubaiwa’s trial, in which she is accused of attempting to murder her then husband, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has been pushed to next month after the former model’s lawyer told the court that she was unwell. Her attorney, Beatrice Mtetwa, told a magistrate’s court yesterday that her client had recently undergone…
By Rutendo Ngara AUTHORITIES need to do more to deal with worsening cases of mental health issues and drug abuse in the…
By Brandon Josphat PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged Mozambican investors to consider investing in Zimbabwe as the nation aims to become an upper-middle economy by 2030. He was speaking at the inaugural Zimbabwe-Mozambique Business Forum and Exhibition in Harare, where he said the platform provided business transactions to achieve success. “This forum affords our respective…
NEW details have emerged that five people who were arrested last week on charges of extorting US$3 000 from a Chinese national in Harare are all police officers. This was revealed in court yesterday when it was disclosed Primrose Tarumbiswa and her alleged accomplices, Lawson Muchongwe, Perseverance Chisango, Fredrick Moyo and Weston Muzoriwa, are cops…
ZIMBABWE yesterday took delivery of 18 medical, air policing, search and rescue helicopters from Russia. President Emmerson Mnangagwa received the helicopters at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The helicopters would be used by health and security sectors, while some would be used for natural disasters operations. The helicopters were part of the government’s public private…
LABOUR unions representing both private and public sector workers are pushing for an urgent meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This comes as the country’s economic challenges are mounting, amid a prices spiral and shortages of some basic goods — both blamed on the worsening volatility of the Zimbabwe dollar. The secretary-general of the Zimbabwe Congress…
