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Mkhululi Chimoio in Gaborone, Botswana Zimbabwe and Botswana have improved collaboration in combating trans-boundary crime, thanks to the able leadership of Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Mokgweetsi Masisi . Botswana’s Minister of Defence and Security, Thomas Kagiso Mmusi, said this recently while addressing journalists, highlighting success against mushrooming white-collar crime, armed robberies, cross-border livestock rustling and […]
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From Moses Magadza in Arusha, Tanzania The 53rd plenary assembly session of the Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum (SADC PF) began yesterday in Arusha, Tanzania, with calls for SADC member states to invest in agriculture and to make the sector attractive for the region’s largely youthful population. Twelve out of the 15-member national parliaments […]
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Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter Sadc candidate to the Pan African Parliament presidency and Chiefs Council president Fortune Charumbira and his campaign team visited three embassies today in South Africa as he winds up his campaign trail to land the top post of the continental body in an election set for next Wednesday. Chief Charumbira is […]
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The European Union (EU) has come under fire for trying to discredit the widely hailed July 30 harmonised elections in its final report released on Wednesday.
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The European Union Election Observer Mission (EU EOM) on Wednesday in the Executive Summary of its election report on the Zimbabwe polls did not veer off the trodden path. We would have been surprised if it had behaved otherwise.
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Happiness Zengeni in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia— President Mnangagwa has reiterated his pledge to preserve the legacy of former President Robert Mugabe, while assuring the 30th African Union (AU) Summit underway here that his predecessor was well and safe. In his official opening remarks as one of the new crop of leaders in the continental body, alongside […]
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Samuel Kadungure Mutare Bureau— PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today visit Zambia on the fifth leg of his tour of SADC countries to apprise his regional counterparts on political developments in Zimbabwe. He will meet President Edgar Lungu and Zimbabweans living in that country. President Mnangagwa will use the visit to explain opportunities presented by the new dispensation following the
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Tendai Mugabe Senior Reporter SADC chairman and South African President Jacob Zuma has hailed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) for the manner in which they handled “a delicate situation” that could have spiralled out of control and led to disaster under a different set of hands.
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Tendai Rupapa Senior Reporter— Government will by March 1 next year, ban the use of ordinary diesel (D500) and introduce the more efficient D50, Energy and Power Development Minister Dr Samuel Undenge has said. Addressing a Press conference in Harare yesterday, Dr Undenge said adoption of diesel 50 was in line with the dictates of the National […]
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Correspondent Southern Africa is expected to record varying rainfall patterns for the upcoming agricultural season.
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Southern African Development Community (SADC) countries should take serious note of the regional weather outlook for the 2017-18 season released by the body’s Climate Services Centre (CSC) at a recent climate forum in Botswana.
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Kizito Sikuka Correspondent IT is time the southern African region takes charge of its own narrative and tells the story about its major achievements and challenges.
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Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter A majority of Zimbabwean firms’ products and systems are not certified to national or global quality standards, with only 140 out of a possible 5 000 having taken certification standards, according to the country’s national standards body.
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Kudakwashe Mhundwa and Michael Tome Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Mike Bimha will this month attend a high level Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Committee of Ministers of Trade meeting in South Africa.
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Hearld Reporter Climate experts drawn from all 15 SADC member-states are expected to meet this month to generate a comprehensive regional weather forecast for the 2017-18 cropping season.