Zimbabwe’s foreign ministry has summoned the United States’ top diplomat in Harare to protest the embassy’s “diplomatic indiscretion.” The decision came after the US embassy in Harare was accused, in state media, of meddling in the country’s domestic affairs over a Twitter post encouraging Zimbabweans to “register to vote and …
Read More »Mnangagwa To Announce Election Date Monday
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to reveal the date when this year’s harmonised elections today. Mnangagwa announced the latest development in Binga last Saturday where he was commissioning classroom blocks at Mabobolo Secondary School. This comes as the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) opened the voters roll to the public for …
Read More »Electoral Bill: Use Of Driver’s Licence As Identity Rages On
Parliament is next week expected to resume debate on contentious clauses in the Electoral Amendment Bill after a marathon and heated sitting which started on Thursday afternoon last week went into early Friday morning as legislators could not find common ground. Debate on whether driver’s licences can be accepted as …
Read More »Chamisa Calls For Visa Free Africa With Single Currency
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has called for the use of one currency across the continent in his message celebrating the 60th anniversary of Africa Day. Africa Day was this year commemorated under the theme “Accelerating the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area”; a trade …
Read More »Zimpapers Staffers Put Down Pens In Protest Over Pay
Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited, the country’s biggest diversified media group has found the going tough as its dominant existence in the industry is under threat forcing it to embark on drastic cost-cutting measures that are likely to cost the jobs of many, Nhau/Indaba has heard. Exacerbated by the continuously dwindling …
Read More »ZEC Voters Roll Inspection Starts This Weekend
All registered voters in Zimbabwe have been given a final chance to inspect their details on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s (ZEC) voters roll which will be used for this years harmonised elections.According to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the elections will take place in August this year although he is yet to …
Read More »Third-Round Of Vaccination Against Polio Kicks-Off In Zimbabwe
By Purity MarungisaAmidst reports of the continued presence of a polio outbreak in Malawi and Mozambique, Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) will from today (Tuesday) commence a door-to-door polio vaccination programme aimed at protecting children under five years of age. The mass vaccination exercise targets to jab …
Read More »Sex Scandal Rocks Health Ministry
High ranking sex pests within the Ministry of Health and Child Care are sending female employees on financially rewarding workshops in exchange for sex, a workers’ union has said. In a 16 May 2023 correspondence to the Acting Health Secretary, Zimbabwe Health Workers Union general secretary L. Sarai also accused …
Read More »Mbare Residents Face Demolition Of Shelter Amid Health Threatening Sewer Crisis
RESIDENTS of Mbare’s New Lines and Annex Flats have resorted to using buckets and shovels to get rid of human waste from their blocked toilets as living conditions continue to deteriorate in most Harare suburbs. Women, who brunt most of the burden of cleaning the non-flushing toilets without protective clothing …
Read More »Zim Road Carnage Claims Five Lives Daily
At least five people die everyday in traffic accidents across the country, Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona has said. “Road traffic injuries are a leading cause of death and disability worldwide, with around 1,3 million people killed, and as many as 50 million people injured each year,” Mhona …
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