Top Stories

ZIMBABWE will this year receive over US$1 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), funds which the government will channel toward Covid-19 relief programmes, a central bank official has said. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Khupukile Mlambo, pictured, yesterday told a Lupane State University and the Women Institute for Leadership Development (Wild) public lecture…

THE United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) Zimbabwe has partnered the government in a national strategy aimed at ending child marriages after nearly 5 000 girls got pregnant during the Covid-19-induced lockdown. Speaking during the launch of the strategy in Guruve on Monday, Women Affairs minister Sithembiso Nyoni, pictured, who was the guest of honour, said…

THE MDC Alliance has been hit by fresh turbulence, with members of its youth assembly now aiming their guns at some of the opposition coalition’s senior officials, as leadership conflicts continue to ravage the often discordant group. This comes as political analysts have warned that the opposition risks receiving a heavy shellacking from Zanu PF…

FIVE people were murdered within a week with the police raising concern over the increase in murder cases, some of which are being committed by mentally-challenged individuals. In a statement yesterday, national police spokesperson Paul Nyathi said the law would take its course and perpetrators will be brought to book. “The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP)…

A NON-governmental organisation, Sivio Institute (Sivio), has implored the government to put in place clear and transparent measures to protect the poor,…

THE City of Harare is targeting to have vaccinated at least 950 000 of its 1,5 million people against the Covid-19 virus as the capital pushes to reach herd immunity by year-end. At least 120 000 people have since received their first jab, while 40 000 got their second, in a development that has given…

THE opposition’s senseless infighting is continuing unabated, with MDC factions once again engaging in violent clashes in Harare at the weekend, which left at least five people injured. The latest MDC-MDC Alliance factional wars come two weeks after groups paying allegiance to the two feuding cliques also savaged each other in Bindura, where the main…

SOUTH Africa yesterday named Tashinga Nyasha Masinire as the 33-year-old Zimbabwe man arrested for allegedly attempting to smuggle 23 pieces of gold worth R11 million into South Africa at the weekend. Masinire appeared in court yesterday and was granted R100 000 bail. National spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (Hawks) in South Africa,…

THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has not been impressed by the government’s decision to take over the rehabilitation of local roads.  Some councillors view the recent Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP) launched by the government as a political move ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections.  According to the council’s latest report, some councillors felt that…

INFORMATION Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere says the rural folk should acquaint itself with cybercrimes, following the government’s ambitious national plan to connect the communities across the country to the internet. Speaking during the Postal and Telecommunications and Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) official opening of Maranda Village Information Centre in Mwenezi yesterday, Muswere…