Andile Tshuma HEALTH experts have expressed concern over the increasing number of overweight children and the growing trend of childhood obesity in Bulawayo. Child obesity is a growing concern in the continent, with the prevalence of overweight and obesity among children under five standing at 6.7 percent in 2018, according to the World Health Organisation…
ZIMBABWEANS from a wide cross-section of society have welcomed the launch of history-making, independent television station 3Ktv, which goes live at 6am…
BLESSINGS MASHAYA & BLESSINGS MASAKADZA TENSION overshadowed major rallies by Zanu PF and the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) in Kwekwe and Gokwe respectively yesterday, as campaigning for the March 26 parliamentary and municipal by-elections reached fever pitch. While President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed thousands of his supporters in Kwekwe, CCC leader Nelson Chamisa was not…
ANDILE TSHUMA BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is set to decommission two of its major water supply dams, one of them this week, if no significant rains are received as the dry spell persists. This would lead to council introducing water shedding. The city’s supply dams have not received significant inflows due to an erratic rain…
RUMBIDZAI NGWENYA THE government has urged school authorities to seriously monitor learners to ensure that Covid-19 safety measures were followed in schools…
MELISA CHATIKOBO FARMERS have called for public private partnerships (PPPs) investment in irrigation schemes and micro-irrigation kits for small holder farmers to supplement rain-fed agriculture. This comes as the country is experiencing a long dry spell that has seen rain-dependent crops wilting, especially in the Southern region, amid fears of a drop in yields this…
HISTORY was made last night when independent television channel,3Ktv, became the first private station to be launched since the era of Southern Rhodesia….
Rumbidzai Ngwenya PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, has called on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to scale up its defence and security mechanisms to fight terrorism in the region. This comes as the Sadc region is currently grappling with Islamist insurgents wreaking havoc in Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province. Addressing delegates at the Zimbabwe-Botswana Bi-National Commission in…
Andile Tshuma CONCERN has been raised over the alleged emergence of counterfeit products which are said to be flooding Bulawayo’s informal market. Consumer rights groups have raised a red flag on the flooding of fake products amid fears that residents’ lives were potentially at risk as the products were not certified by the Standards Association…
LEGISLATORS want the country’s former colonial master, Britain, to pay reparations for the loss Zimbabwe incurred when it was under foreign rule. Raising a motion in the National Assembly on Thursday, Zanu PF chief whip Pupurai Togarepi said Zimbabweans needed to be compensated, particularly because their forefathers had been disposed of their assets. “This disadvantaged…
