ZIMBABWE, like the rest of the world, recognises October as breast cancer awareness month, an annual campaign to increase awareness of the country’s second most common cancer among women. Thousands of women in the country suffer from breast cancer and three years ago it killed over 900 people. The most common cancer among women in…
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is beginning to sound like a broken record stuck in the groove on the issue of cash and assets worth at least US$7 billion it claims were illegally taken out of the country by former and existing government officials. Zacc chairperson Loice Matanda-Moyo recently told the press on the sidelines…
VIOLENCE is slowly creeping into our body politic — a worrying trend given the fast-approaching 2023 harmonised polls expected to be stiffly contested. So far, we have witnessed internal violence in the MDC Alliance and the ruling Zanu PF. The MDC Alliance youth had running battles in Masvingo at the beginning of the year, while…
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has in the past week issued a stern warning against the manipulation of the foreign currency exchange rate, especially on the grey market. He threatened to viciously descend on those fuelling the parallel market which in recent weeks has seen the Zimbabwe dollar trading at about $170 to the US$. At…
THE Mighty Warriors got their Cosafa Women’s Championships campaign off to the worst possible start following a humbling 3-0 thumping at the hands of youthful Tanzania side on Wednesday in South Africa. The result drew widespread criticism on the players as some felt the women’s national team was not doing enough to lift the country’s…
PLANS to construct Zimbabwe’s second rabbit abattoir in Bulawayo within the next 12 months will go a long way in boosting and strengthening the export readiness of the sector. This follows the US$1 million rabbit abattoir opened by the Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) which has the capacity to process meat for the export…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) estimates that over US$2 billion is circulating in the informal sector in the country. This is too much money outside the country’s formal banking system and the major question is why is the situation like that. Several theories have been bandied around to try and explain this sad scenario…
FOR a long time now the country has been grappling with cases of sexual abuse of women by supposed men of the cloth as well as child marriages in the church. The recent death of a young girl while giving birth at an apostolic church in Marange comes to mind. On Friday, an Epworth-based self-proclaimed…
THE increasing prevalence of livestock diseases in the Midlands province should be taken seriously by the government as it is a threat to efforts to boost the national herd, which currently stands at 5,5 million. According to a report we carried yesterday, quoting Midlands veterinary provincial director Martin Sibanda, the province is at risk of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa announced the extension of the country’s Level 4 Covid-19 lockdown measures for a further two weeks on Tuesday evening. The announcement had been widely expected and if Mnangagwa had said anything else it would have been a surprise. It was nevertheless a big decision given that the lockdown will now continue until…
