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Herald Reporter PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has received the credentials of the new Chinese Ambassador Mr Zhou Ding, who pledged to further broaden and deepen relations between his country and Zimbabwe. The President received Mr Zhou’s  credentials at the State House in Harare this morning. In an interview after a tete-a-tete with the President, Ambassador Zhou said […]

Wallace Ruzvidzo Herald Reporter Mbare’s New Line area has been declared a state of emergency by the Government which has subsequently ordered that devolution funds be redirected to refurbish housing, sewer systems and enhance garbage collection in the area. Families in the most dilapidated houses will be profiled and provided with temporary shelter while their […]

Golden Sibanda Business News Editor THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will from today start selling foreign currency on the interbank market through commercial banks, with the foreign currency auctions now limited to US$5 million a week and transactions of between $1 500 and US$50 000, largely in a price discovery process. This comes after […]

Wallace Ruzvidzo Herald Reporter All those who want to observe the forthcoming harmonised elections on August 23 must now apply to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. President Mnangagwa recently made it clear that Zimbabwe had nothing to hide as the country had put everything in place to ensure the election is free, fair and transparent. The […]

Mukudzei Chingwere in CAIRO, Egypt Zimbabwe and Egypt are stepping up economic cooperation for mutual benefit, with a meeting between Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga and Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly here yesterday laying the foundation. VP Chiwenga is in Cairo for this year’s Africa Health ExCon, which […]

Tendai Rupapa in MUREHWA FIRST LADY Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa yesterday took her school supplementary feeding scheme to Mashonaland East Province where thousands of children drawn from over 40 primary schools enjoyed meals, which she personally prepared and served with the help of parents and guardians who attended in support of the noble initiative. Amai Mnangagwa […]

Freeman Razemba Senior Reporter United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Road Safety, Mr Jean Todt, yesterday arrived in Zimbabwe as part of the country’s commitment to co-operation under the United Nations system, and to the adoption of international best practices and standards on road safety. Government is in the process of revising legislation, rules and […]

Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau SECURITY agents on the border with South Africa have intercepted a Toyota Fortuner worth at least R300 000 smuggled into Zimbabwe across the Limpopo River. Two people were arrested in Beitbridge on Monday soon after entering through the Gate 2 area near Mawale village, some 10km east of the border post. […]

Isdore Guvamombe If you are a law-abiding citizen of Zimbabwe or a bona fide organisation, why should you panic over a law that seeks to ring-fence the foreign policy of your country? Your own country? After all, when the law applies to you, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.  […]

The raft of radical reforms by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development now backed by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe over the past few weeks to create and maintain substantial stability in exchange rates and so prices reach their next step today with the interbank market taking over the burden of import funding from […]

Yeukai Karengezeka Court Correspondent Corporate 24 Hour Medical Clinic in Avondale and its chief executive Mika Joka were yesterday arraigned before the court for allegedly defrauding $108 000 from Premier Services Medical Aid Society (PSMAS) in 2021 by claiming for specialised services using wrong codes. Naison Muza, who is representing the company and Joka, appeared […]

Yeukai Karengezeka Court Correspondent The four University of Zimbabwe students who defaced church, court and Parliament buildings in central Harare by spray painting on them were denied bail yesterday by Harare magistrate Ms Learmore Mapiye and remanded in custody to June 21 on charges of malicious damage to property.  They drew graffiti on the outside […]

Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter At least 7 000 projects have been implemented with 5 000 completed since 2018 across the country, as the Second Republic led by President Mnangagwa demonstrates commitment to deliver on its promises to transform millions of lives in its resolve to achieve an upper-middle class income economy by 2030. The projects […]

LONDON. — England are planning to host Zimbabwe for the first time in more than 20 years, marking the resumption of cricket ties between the two nations, and could invite the African nation as well as Bangladesh to play Test cricket at Lord’s in the coming years.  England have not hosted Zimbabwe since 2003 and […]

Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau  THE Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has a thriving horticulture project at its farm in Gwanda, Matabeleland South province, which is now providing supplementary feeding to prisoners. Matabeleland South, a semi-arid region is characterised by poor rains.  ZPCS, with support from the National Aids Council (NAC), has set up a […]