THE government has adopted the African Union’s Trusted Travel Platform as part of measures to minimise the risk of importation of new Covid-19 variants into Zimbabwe. The Trusted Travel Platform, developed by the Econet Group, PanaBIOS Consortium and Africa CDC as a public-private partnership, is a top-class digital solution to support African countries in verifying…
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi says there is need to impose stiff penalties to deter the general populace from committing crime. Speaking in…
AS AUTHORITIES continue to strive to contain the raging Covid-19 pandemic in the country, amid soaring infections and deaths, doctors have warned that hospitals are once again running out of beds for patients, while funeral parlours also say their operations are now overstretched. So bad is the situation in the country at the moment that…
DEPUTY Local Government minister Marian Chombo insists that police officers are not allowed to confiscate any wares during operations to drive vendors from the streets of urban central business districts. This comes as there are running battles between the law enforcement agents and illegal streets hawkers on a daily basis. However, police officers are seen…
A SOUTH African haulage truck driver, who was smuggling goods worth over R100 000, was arrested and got his vehicle impounded after several attempts to bribe Bulawayo police to let him go scot-free. The Zambia-bound truck was intercepted along the Harare-Bulawayo Road on Thursday night. The driver’s luck ran out when police noticed him offloading…
Z IMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Mabhudhu says the company is holding the keys to the country’s…
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri says Zimbabwe is readying its troops for deployment in neighbouring Mozambique, which is facing a violent insurgency in…
SENATORS on Thursday criticised the government for failing to deal with fuel dealers who are receiving foreign currency from the Reserve Bank Zimbabwe (RBZ), but are selling their products exclusively in United States (US) dollars. This comes as very few service stations are selling fuel in Zimbabwean dollars despite the fact that most oil marketing…
ALMOST half of Zimbabweans faced extreme poverty owing to combined effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and an increase in the price of basic necessities in 2020. This is according to the Zimbabwe Poverty Update 2017-2019 and 2021 Rapid Poverty Income Consumption and Expenditure Survey (PICES) round three results released by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency…
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa, pictured, has urged Zimbabweans to take advantage of the New Freedom of Information Act to hold the government…
