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Lovemore Chikova Assistant Editor President Mnangagwa left for Zambia early this morning where he will join several other foreign heads of state and government at the State funeral for former Zambian President Rupiah Banda. The President was seen off at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, service chiefs and Government officials. […]
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Herald Reporter Preparations for the main 42nd Independence Day celebrations to be held in Bulawayo are at an advanced stage, with various activities being lined up for the event, which will be held outside the capital for the first time since 1980. The Minister of Local Government and Public Works, July Moyo, on behalf of […]
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Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Senior Health Reporter THE Government will on Monday roll out the national Covid-19 vaccination blitz targeting a wider section of the population that includes children aged 12 years and above, as moves to increase the uptake of the vaccines gather pace. Despite availability of vaccines, the national vaccination campaign, which began a year ago, […]
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Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter Government is targeting transformation of rural and urban economies through enhancement of food, nutrition, markets, and jobs using value chains, including the horticulture sector, as a means of achieving a prosperous, inclusive, diverse, sustainable and competitive agriculture sector. Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Anxious Masuka said when he […]
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Rape is a very serious crime, with the criminals desiring to both hurt and dominate those they attack rather than just seek sexual gratification, so sentencing needs to be in the range of other premeditated crimes of serious assault. This means it needs when sentencing is considered, in general, to right be up there with […]
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Municipal Reporter World-class equipment and furniture has been installed at the state-of-the-art new Parliament building in Mount Hampden, which is now 95 percent complete. Of the six floors, work remains only on two floors as one of the country’s major development projects nears completion. At the main entrance of the superstructure is a water fountain […]
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Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter Government has approved the setting up of a commercial consulate in Dubai to be manned by economic and trade attachés to complement investment promotion efforts by Zimbabwe’s embassy in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Trade between Zimbabwe and other participants at the ongoing Expo 2020 Dubai has peaked to approximately US$1,6 billion […]
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Golden Sibanda Zesa has not started planned power imports from the region to plug a yawning domestic supply gap due to shortage of foreign currency required to pay suppliers. Executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata said in an interview the State power utility has failed to access foreign currency from the Reserve Bank’s weekly auction market. […]
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Eddie Chikamhi Senior Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE all-rounder Sikandar Raza is set to miss the upcoming Domestic Twenty20 competition as he has returned to Bangladesh to feature in the Asian country’s Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League. The Domestic Twenty20 tournament, which will feature Zimbabwe Cricket’s five franchises, is expected to take off next Thursday in Harare with […]
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Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Government has started collating figures of households that would require food assistance this in light of the erratic rains received this year with assurances that no one would starve. This was said by the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Professor Paul Mavima during the National Assembly question time yesterday. […]
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau More than 1 000 Zimbabweans have been hired in construction jobs for the new facilities during the ongoing US$300 million modernisation and upgrade of the Beitbridge Border Post due to be finished early next year with so far another 120 hired as permanent staff to operate the cargo terminal. Zimborders Consortium […]
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Council budget Soul Mauruka in Masvingo Government has approved a $1 billion budget for Chivi Rural District Council which is largely geared towards ramping up infrastructural development in line with Vision 2030. The local authority has earmarked a number of capital projects in water and sanitation, health and education through drilling of boreholes and piped […]
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Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau ONLY four Chinhoyi residents attended the public hearing on the Health Services Amendment Bill this Monday. Contributions before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health were made by only two of them. The Committee’s chairperson, Dr Ruth Labode said although the meeting flopped, the committee had captured contributions by the residents. […]
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Precious Manomano Herald Reporter Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has so far trained 600 inmates including those on death row and 150 officers on a peace education programme. The programme offers psychological support, moral regeneration and violence reduction. The programme aims to train both inmates and staff to enhance the rehabilitation thrust as the […]
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Nelson Gahadza Senior Business Reporter FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has said the Diaspora community has shown keen interest to invest in the US dollar bonds the Government intends to launch and list on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) this year. A Government bond is a form of security sold by the […]