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7 Sep 2020 FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has admitted the country’s economy was experiencing negative growth although insisting it was not the worst such battered economy in the world. Addressing parliament last week, Ncube said the negative trajectory was not only unique to Zimbabwe but was now a world phenomenon caused by Covid-19. Ncube was [...]

7 Sep 2020 KWEKWE mayor Angeline Kasipo has bravely pledged unwavering loyalty to embattled MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa whose loyalists are being recalled from parliament and councils by the rival Thokozani Kupe led MDC-T. This follows claims the country’s only female mayor had jumped ship by joining MDC-T. But Kasipo told NewZimbabwe.com weekend her [...]

07 Sep, 2020 Zimbabwe must have contingency plans for flash floods that could possibly hit known-vulnerable areas after climate experts predicted above normal rainfall over large parts of the country. Climate experts said Zimbabweans must be conditioned to prepare for flash floods, violent storms, tropical cyclones and floods in low-lying areas as climate change brings [...]

07 Sep, 2020  TWO men who stormed Chivhu Police Post on Saturday and shot two soldiers, one fatally, were yesterday killed in a gun battle with security forces, who had cornered the duo hiding in an anthill pit, 16km along the Chivhu-Gutu road. Besides the pistol they used in the murder, the assailants were also [...]

05 September 2020 By Wayne Wade Enabel, the Belgian government’s development agency also into poverty eradication across the globe has partnered DAPP Zimbabwe in the provision of tertiary education strictly to the disabled and very vulnerable youths in Shamva and Bindura districts of Mashonaland Central at Ponesai Vanhu and Chaminuka …

05 Sep, 2020  Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President Mnangagwa has promoted four colonels, who are all ex-combatants from the liberation war, to the rank of Brigadier-General, a few months before their planned retirement. The policy, now set down in regulations, gives every ex-combatant who joined the Zimbabwe Defence Forces one jump in rank [...]

05 Sep, 2020  The Zimbabwe Consulate in Cape Town will reopen for more services on Monday after having suspended other operations at the beginning of the lockdown in South Africa. Zimbabwe has two consulate offices in South Africa, one in Cape Town and the other in Johannesburg. The Johannesburg offices resumed operations on August 24. [...]

05 Sep, 2020  Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter FAMILIES of civil servants who succumb to Covid-19, if infected in the line of duty, will be looked after, with the Government committed to paying a full year’s salary to families along with the normal benefits payable to the family of a deceased civil servant. Public Service Commission [...]

The Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) has increased its fares by 100%. In a statement, ZUPCO said the increase is to ensure it keeps providing safe and reliable transport whilst ensuring operational efficiency. The new fares will take effect tomorrow (5 September 2020). “Effective 5/10/20 Zupco will be increasing fares. This is to ensure we [...]

In a move that has Zimbabweans talking, the country’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reversed a decision made by his deputy Constantino Chiwenga. Mnangagwa cut the retirement age from 70 to 65 effectively reversing Chiwenga’s decision made in 2018. In August 2018, Chiwenga, who then doubled as Defence and War Veterans Affairs minister, extended soldiers’ retirement [...]