Zambia is reeling from a major cholera outbreak that has killed more than 400 people and infected more than 10,000, leading authorities to order schools across the country to remain shut after the end-of-year holidays. A large soccer stadium in the capital city has been converted into a treatment facility. …
Read More »Zimbabwe Currency Plunge Temporary: Mangudya
As Zimbabwe’s parallel market reels under the strain of a currency crisis, central bank governor, John Mangudya, assures the public that this turmoil is merely passing. This grey market, operating outside formal banking channels, has experienced volatility for the past three weeks, causing ripples of uncertainty among businesses and individuals …
Read More »“Be Warned!” Govt Tells Drug Peddlers Who Prey On Minors
Government has issued a stern warning to drug peddlers, especially those that target minors, that more deterrent measures are being lined up in addition to naming and shaming the culprits. In a statement yesterday, National Committee on Drug and Substance Abuse Chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, who is also Defence Minister said …
Read More »Harare Crafting By-Laws To Have Land Barons Criminally-Charged
The City of Harare is crafting by-laws to provide for the criminalisation of land barons wreaking havoc in the capital including parcelling out land on wetlands to desperate homeseekers. Land barons, most of whom are linked to Zanu PF, have been illegally selling council and State land to homeseekers. Some …
Read More »ED Hopeful Of Economic Turn Around This Year, Analysts Think Otherwise
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has predicted Zimbabwe’s moribund economy will turn around this year following the recent discovery of oil and gas near the country’s border with Mozambique and Zambia and improvement in the country’s mining and tourism sectors. Economists are not as optimistic, as Zimbabweans continue to leave the country. …
Read More »Police Will Use Lethal Force Against Armed Robbers, Rights Lawyers Complain
Zimbabwean lawyers on Tuesday condemned the police’s use of deadly force against suspected criminals, saying it violated the constitution and human rights. The lawyers’ criticism came after a spike in violent crimes during the festive season, in which police shot and killed five suspects in December 2023. “No one has …
Read More »Church Splits Shutting Out & Confusing Congregants
The recent emergence of the Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe (AFMOZ), which broke away from the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) due to factionalism, has placed a bad tag on the faith movement, thrusting congregants into eternal confusion. The split came after Cossum Chiangwa, the church president allegedly amended …
Read More »Beitbridge Traffic Increases 9pc
More travellers are now preferring to use the country’s transformed Beitbridge Border Post over other land borders with the Department of Immigration handling an increase of 9 percent in the number of people who crossed the border in 2023 compared to 2022. At the moment Beitbridge is the only land …
Read More »Zimbabwe Seeks To Drop Expensive Electricity Imports
Zimbabwe anticipates a 17,4 percent surge in electricity production this year, as the country seeks to reduce expensive imports and load shedding that negatively affected businesses and households in 2023. The optimistic outlook is based on the expected full incorporation of Hwange Thermal Power Station units 7 and 8, and …
Read More »Troubled Freeman ‘HKD Boss’ Denies Robbery Links
Popular musician, Energy Chizanga, AKA Freeman, has denied links to robbery conspiracy although admitting he was once a close friend to one of the suspects who was shot dead by police in November last year. Police have charged the Zimdancehall star with “Conspiracy to Commit Robbery”. He was picked Tuesday …
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