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8 Sep 2020 My post excited quite a discussion, and anticipation as well from my friends on Facebook because the car rental company in question – Impala Car Rental – was in the news at the time after one of their vehicles was used in the abduction and torture of university student Tawanda Muchehiwa in [...]

08 Sep, 2020  The Health and Child Care Ministry is being restructured with a new sustainable funding model, far greater effectiveness, and a new work ethic for staff under plans outlined yesterday by the Minister, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. In streamlining and expanding the operations of the ministry, but without adding to numbers with the [...]

08 Sep, 2020  Parliament yesterday signed three memoranda of understanding with ActionAid Zimbabwe, Silveira House and Women in Law Southern Africa as part of a programme to partner with non-governmental organisations. Since the beginning of the year, Parliament has signed such agreements with 16 organisations to capacitate the institution and parliamentarians to carry out their [...]

08 Sep, 2020  Urban and rural councils will share $2.9 billion to boost water and sanitation with special priority on ensuring every school has a borehole. Announcing the new disbursement of devolution funds, Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moyo said every local authority was expected to receive its share before the end of the [...]

Sep 7, 2020 ORDINARILY, a 14-year-old should be either in Form One or Form Two and exploring the world of teen-hood, but not for gifted Harare-based Taida Drucilla Mapara. The wonder-kid has made her way to university after scoring 15 points in the June A’ Level Cambridge examinations. Taida is not studying any other degree, [...]

7 Sep 2020 The President’s press Secretary George Charamba has said the American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Brian Nichols by speaking to eNCA and reiterating that SADC should intervene and stop the government of Zimbabwe from descending on people opposing the government creates a basis for Zimbabwe to expel him, The Standard reports. Responding to [...]

7 Sep 2020 With the current drive to ensure that all Zimbabweans contribute to the country’s economic revival gaining momentum, villagers from Gutu Central have ventured into garlic production for commercial purposes. Rural communities which depend on rain-fed agriculture often focus on subsistence farming but changing circumstances have seen most of them going beyond the [...]

7  Sep 2020 A man who inspired a Hollywood film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Mr Paul Rusesabagina, 66, has been arrested for leading “terrorist movements”. He had been living in exile. The authorities did not say where he was arrested or give any further details about the accusations he faces. The 2004 film Hotel [...]

  7 Sep 2020 ZIMBABWE has received a consignment of PPEs, medicines and equipment from the Russian Federation to assist in the fight to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The two countries have strong relations that date back to the days of the liberation struggle with Russian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Nikolai [...]

7th September 2020 A SECTION of the mainstream war veterans association in Zimbabwe has demanded the return of properties seized from the then PF Zapu by President Robert Mugabe’s regime at the height of the governing Zanu (then)’s hostilities with the once main opposition in the early 1980s. The properties include farms dotted across the [...]