Chinhamo called on government to ban opening of private surgeries by public sector medical personnel. …
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Naph Matabeleland North athletics competition kicks off
Leonard Ncube, Online Reporter ATHLETES from the seven districts in Matabeleland North are gathered at Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in Victoria Falls for the National Association for the Secondary Heads Association (Nash) track and field events. The inter-district competitions started this morning with long distance. Some of the field events will spillover to tomorrow for […] …
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NPA drops criminal charges against former minister Chombo
He is now left with only two criminal accusations after more than 10 charges against him collapsed …
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Livelihoods analysis and agrarian political economy: a new podcast
At the end of last year, I had a great week at PLAAS (Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies) at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town discussing with a great cohort of post-grad students working on … Continue reading → …
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Gold Star resumes operations after agreeing terms with supplier
‘GSS has resumed the supply of granulated white sugar to the market and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future’ …
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Firms directed to start compensating pensioners
AFTER a long and uncertain wait, pensioners and insurance policyholders who were heavily prejudiced during the conversion of their benefits at dollarisation in 2009 could have smiles on their faces soon after the Insurance and Pension Commission directed insurers and pension funds to start computations to the losses. Nearly a decade after the Government commissioned […] …
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Sisa Senkosi moots Isintu Festival for SADC, UK countries
Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Reporter MASKANDI artiste Sisa Senkosi has mooted a cultural music festival which is set to be held in the United Kingdom and in Southern African countries that include Zimbabwe, Botswana, Eswatini, South Africa and Namibia. Dubbed Isintu Fest, the inaugural event is set to be held in Botswana on March 24 at […] …
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Catholic bishop sentenced to decades in prison for treason after refusing exile to US
Bishop Rolando Alvarez said he chose to remain in Nicaragua to protest the country’s treatment of Catholics A court in Nicaragua sentenced a Roman Catholic bishop to more than 26 years in prison for alleged treason after he refused to be exiled to the United States. Rolando Alvarez, who serves as bishop of the country’s Matagalpa diocese, […] …
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Livestock populations decimated by ‘January disease’ in Zimbabwe: diverse local responses
In the last few years, Zimbabwe has lost around half a million cattle to the tick-borne disease, theileriosis, better known as January disease, or in our study areas as ‘cattle covid’. This loss has had a huge impact on people’s … Continue reading → …
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How some tractors and a dead lion met in Harare: a new geopolitics in Africa?
In a bizarre ceremony recently, Zimbabwe’s president Emerson Mnangagwa offered a stuffed lion to the visiting Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko. In exchange, Zimbabwe received $66m worth of agricultural equipment for the agricultural mechanisation programme, notably tractors made at the famous … Continue reading → …
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