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Chiefs here have implored the Government to increase food rations to avert hunger in the arid district as more villagers grapple with effects of last year’s drought.
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Chiredzi Town Council has started servicing over 1 000 medium-density residential stands as it moves to reduce the town’s housing backlog.
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Government has completed a document which outlines modalities on the implementation of a Food for Work programme, with a Cabinet minister calling for the prioritisation of productive activities largely aimed at achieving food security.
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Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said Government is working to transform the country’s road network to world class standards to achieve the vision of making the country an upper middle income economy by 2030.
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Masvingo City’s sole heavy industry firm, Sponge Iron Mining and Beneficiation Industries (SIMBI), has revealed plans to start producing nearly 20MW of electricity at its sponge-iron manufacturing plant once council guarantees sufficient water supplies.
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CONSUMER Council in Zimbabwe (CCZ) leadership here has urged consumers to shun businesses that unilaterally increase prices in response to the outlawing of the use of foreign currency for local transactions.
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A Zimbabwean woman who was arrested for smuggling drugs worth R2 million into South Africa via Beitbridge Border Post was last week denied bail.
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Government is forging ahead with its thrust to modernise rural areas, with the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) pledging to bring access to electricity to 60 percent of the rural populace in line with President Mnangagwa’s vision to make Zimbabwe an upper middle-income economy by 2030.
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The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has recorded a relative increase in revenue levied on commercial cargo which passes through Beitbridge Border Post in the first quarter of the year in comparison to the same period last year.
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Runesu Gwidi in CHIVI A Chivi Rural District Council police officer has been jailed 30 days after attacking and injuring an errant motorist with a spike during a fistfight. Webster Jowanisi (39) was alternatively slapped with a $100 fine by Chivi resident magistrate Ms Perseverance Mukumba last week. Jowanisi was convicted of assault on his […]
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Walter Mswazi in Mashava At least US$15 million is required to purchase new mining equipment ahead of resumption of asbestos mining at King Mine in Mashava after successful de-watering of flooded shafts at the mothballed facility. Acquisition of new modern mining equipment will pave way for full-scale ore extraction at the mine which started de-watering […]
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Runesu Gwidi in MASVINGO Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA)’s provincial vehicle licensing supervisor Luke Manyamazi and his two accomplices Jephias Magarasadza and Enock Mapondo, who allegedly defrauded their employer of $196 000 in a vehicle licensing scam, have been further remanded in custody by the new Anti-Corruption Court. Masvingo provincial magistrate Mr Langhton Ndokera last […]
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Runesu Gwidi Masvingo Correspondent Government has showed its readiness to end poverty and underdevelopment in rural parts of Chiredzi by allocating the local authority the biggest slice of funding from the $31 million war chest released to Masvingo Province under the devolution programme. Chiredzi is arguably the least developed area in the province with low […]
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Sydney Mubaiwa Masvingo Correspondent Christian Care, a service arm of Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC), has distributed food aid to more than 500 families who are victims of Cyclone Idai in Gutu, Zaka and Bikita districts. The non-governmental organisation’s food assistance comes as a relief to vulnerable families who were in dire need of a […]
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Government has released $2 million to facilitate the completion of the construction of civil servants’ houses under the Beitbridge Redevelopment Programme (BRP). The houses are going to ease perennial accommodation woes for its workers deployed to the border town. The Herald understands that the current tranche of funds have been committed […]
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