STANBIC Bank has donated sun protection products worth US$34 000 to the Albino Charity Organisation of Zimbabwe (Alcoz) as part of its annual Corporate Social Investment (CSI) contribution towards the welfare of people living with albinism. The financial services institution handed over 1 000 units of sunscreen lotions; 1 000 units of antibacterial soap; 1…
LIFESTYLE WRITER IN A first partnership with the Shoko Festival and Page Poetry Alive, Nhimbe Trust supported four young poets from Bulawayo to take part in the “Battle of The Cities” Digital Poetry Slam against four Harare poets. Team Bulawayo emerged the winners, to the delight of Nhimbe and all their supporters. The initiative was…
THE United Nations (UN) says it is committed to finding solutions to assist landlocked developing countries, including Zimbabwe, whose debt crisis has been exacerbated by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. This emerged during the annual ministerial meeting for foreign ministers of landlocked developing countries at the 2020 UN General Assembly. Speaking during the meeting, UN secretary-general…
ON April 24, this year High Court judge Justice Mafusire ordered the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services to promote citizens’ access to information pertaining to the Coronavirus. This follows an urgent chamber application that was filed by MISA Zimbabwe, represented by lawyer Rudo Magundani…
ETHICAL Leaf Tobacco, (ETL) one of the Zimbabwe’s major tobacco contract companies, has unveiled a $660 million input facility called the Gold Class Scheme for smallholders farmers in the country. The company says it hopes the scheme, which is entering its fourth running year and is said to be the largest indigenous input program,…
RENOWNED lobby group, Eye on Food Security Zimbabwe says government should consider declaring the country’s food security situation a national disaster so that local and international financial institutions can unlock financial support. This comes as the coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak is threatening to exacerbate Zimbabwe’s dire economic and hunger crises, drastically affecting the lives of…
MDC ALLIANCE members Joanna Mamombe, Cecilia Chimbiri and Netsai Marova have been ordered by the courts to surrender their passports after the State alleged that they are planning to flee the country. The trio is facing allegations of violating lockdown regulations by participating in a demonstration in Harare’s Warren Park suburb three weeks ago. Through…
©️ NON-Governmental Organisations and United Nations agencies have partnered with Harare City Council to repair and rehabilitate the city’s aged water distribution network in various suburbs. According to recent environmental management committee minutes, Unicef, Oxfam, VEI, Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH (GIZ) and Welthungerhilfe (WHH) have undertaken to fix boreholes and infrastructure rehabilitation. The…
©️ TOBACCO farmers countrywide are not keen to release their golden leaf for sale at auction floors demanding all their earnings in United States dollars due to a lack of confidence in the local currency, a government official has said. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has offered to pay tobacco farmers…
©️ALL Members of Parliament — including those from the opposition — will now be expected to recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa following the adoption of new rules by the august House, the Daily News reports. Parliament is now using new Standing Rules and Orders after MPs on Tuesday approved a motion by Parliamentary Affairs minister Ziyambi…
