HEALTH experts are hoping that the government and the United States of America will continue to engage over the funding of Zimbabwe’s public health system.This comes as Washington is in the process of winding up its health aid to Zimbabwe, after authorities recently rejected US$367 million in American funding — citing “lop-sided” conditions that Harare…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged Zanu PF members to remain loyal to the party and steer the country’s economic development.Addressing the former liberation movement’s politburo meeting in Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said party members “should put shoulder to the wheel and face head-on the specific tasks that must be undertaken during the course of the year”.“The…
PARLIAMENT has invited Zimbabweans to submit their views on the proposed Constitution Amendment Bill Number 3, which seeks to fundamentally transform the country’s presidential elective system, among others.This comes after the Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda, gazetted the draft Bill last week.In a notice yesterday, Parliament said the process would be open to…
A 14-YEAR-OLD girl accused of kidnapping a two-year-old child from a Bulawayo city centre mall two weeks ago appeared before the regional courts yesterday.The minor appeared before Bulawayo regional magistrate Mark Dzira facing a kidnapping charge.She was not asked to plead and was remanded out of custody to March 10, remaining under the care of…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has underscored the importance of the equal rights and opportunities for everyone principles which underpinned the country’s struggle for freedom.Speaking this past weekend at the funeral wake of Miriam Kangai — the wife of the late former Cabinet minister and national hero Kumbirai Kangai — Chiwenga also exhorted Zimbabweans to respect,…
LAWYER and politician, Welshman Ncube, is facing allegations of failing to remit US$400 000 from the proceeds of the sale of three properties in Bulawayo to a trust.Ncube, who leads one of the factions of the warring Citizens Coalition for Change, was the conveyancer in the sale of the three properties — whose buyers include…
ADOPTING coordinated inspections and digital systems is critical to eliminating bottlenecks between Zimbabwe, Zambia, and South Africa, the government has said.Officially opening the Trilateral Joint Route Management Group and Joint Committee meeting in Harare yesterday, the permanent secretary in the ministry of Transport, Joy Makumbe, called for institutional cooperation, infrastructure alignment, and a shift in…
THE government has earmarked US$2,4 billion over the next five years under the National Action Plan to expand children’s access to essential services.Addressing a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday, the minister of Public Service, Edgar Moyo, said the investment would strengthen protection mechanisms, build community capacity, curb child labour, and ensure more effective enforcement…
JANUARY Disease has killed more than 1 000 cattle nationwide since the current agricultural season began, the deputy minister of Agriculture, Davis Marapira, revealed yesterday.Addressing the media after touring the Agroshape chemical manufacturing facility in Harare, Marapira stated the government had funded the production of veterinary medicines to curb the outbreak.“We have lost approximately 10…
THE troubles are piling up for the beleaguered Bellarmine Chatunga, the youngest son of the late former president Robert Mugabe and his second wife Grace.In addition to the original charge of attempted murder that South African authorities initially planned to prefer against him, Chatunga is now also facing charges of defeating the ends of justice…
