Enabel avails tertiary education scholarships to the disabled

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 …

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Four senior army officers promoted

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 [...]

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Zim’s Cape Town consulate reopens

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. [...]

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Covid-19: Year’s pay for civil servants

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 [...]

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ZUPCO hikes busfare by 100%

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 [...]

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Mnangagwa reverses Chiwenga’s move, Lowers retirement age

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 [...]

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Zimbabwe: Not all white former farmers to get land back

09-04-20 by Spotlight Zimbabwe Senior officials say land is ‘birthright’ of indigenous Zimbabweans amid compensation deal with dispossessed white farmers ANKARA- Zimbabwe said it would not return all the plots of land that the government had previously expropriated from white former farmers to their previous owners, local media reported Thursday. Dismissing recent media reports that a [...]

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Govt to restore Old Bulawayo

05 Sep, 2020  GOVERNMENT is working on a proper roadmap towards the restoration of King Lobengula’s original palace, Old Bulawayo, which was gutted by a veld fire 10 years ago as well as sprucing up King Mzilikazi’s grave. Old Bulawayo was built by King Lobengula in 1870 and was burnt down in 1881 in protest [...]

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More downs than ups at Mpilo cancer unit

05 Sep, 2020  IT’S been 41 months since Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo opened its cancer unit for members of the public in the southern region to access treatment for one of the leading causes of deaths in Zimbabwe. Sadly, the state-of-the-art radiotherapy machines in the unit have been down more than they have been [...]

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