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Ellina Mhlanga Senior Sports Reporter ZIMBABWE’S senior national netball team get their campaign at the World Cup qualifiers underway this afternoon when they face Botswana in their first Pool A game, in Pretoria, South Africa. The match is at 1pm. Captain Felisitus Kwangwa will lead the side as they seek qualification to next year’s World […]

Grace Chingoma Senior Sports Reporter HARARE City Queens were the biggest winners in the Zimbabwe Women’s Football League at the weekend after they hammered Scorpions Queens 28-0 at Pfupajena in Chegutu. Rosemary Mugadza’s troops were in a no-nonsense mood against the struggling Chegutu-based side that have let in huge margin scorelines at their home ground. […]

Fungi Kwaramba in KINSHASA, DRC PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived here yesterday for the 42nd Sadc summit that is expected to push for beneficiation of the region’s vast resources and promotion of economic development, among other issues.  The President arrived in Kinshasa late afternoon and was received by senior DRC government officials and Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to the country, […]

Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Senior Reporter The almost one million Zimbabweans triple-vaccinated against Covid-19 no longer need to wear masks outdoors in public Cabinet agreed yesterday but those unvaccinated, or with only one or two doses, must still be masked in public. Even the triple-vaccinated need to be masked in public indoors and riding on public transport. […]

Thupeyo Muleya  Beitbridge Bureau Incoming traffic is surging at the transformed Beitbridge border post, with more tourists and ordinary travellers coming in from South Africa now preferring to drive through the new look port of entry and as travel builds up following the decline of Covid-19 that caused a major decline in the last two […]

Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter Government has invoked the Civil Protection Unit Act to deal with the measles outbreak that has so far claimed 157 lives from complications after spreading across the country, Cabinet has resolved. The Ministry of Health and Child Care is instituting a mass vaccination campaign targeting the six months to 15 years’ […]

Columbus Mabika Herald Reporter Government is committed to ending water challenges in rural services centres, growth points, schools and small towns to achieve universal access to water, Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister, Dr Anxious Masuka has said Minister Masuka said this while commissioning three drilling rigs purchased by Zimbabwe National Water Authority […]

Mandaza Chikarango Herald Reporter SADC has agreed on a common set of traffic signs and signals, so drivers in the region will be able to instantly recognise warning signs and the signs that order stopping, giving way, speed limits and the like, boosting safety and making regional travel simpler. The Traffic Safety Council of Zimbabwe […]

Robson Sharuko H-Metro Editor IT was one of sport’s finest years — invited guests, Denmark, won Euro ’92, the US Dream Team illuminated the Barcelona Olympics and Riddick Bowe beat Evander Holyfield to win the undisputed world heavyweight boxing title. A 13-year-old Chinese diver, Fu Mingxia, became the youngest gold medal winner as the Olympics […]

Business reporter Kariba South power station remains Zimbabwe’s major source of electricity despite production limitations  due to the low water level, which has prompted the Zimbabwe River Authority (ZRA) to ration the amount of water used to generate electricity from Lake Kariba. The ZRA, being a bi-national organisation jointly and equally owned by the Governments […]

Arts Reporter Organisers for the inaugural Miss Zimbabwe Queen (MZQ) pageant scheduled for next month at Rainbow Towers have said that they are wrapping up the auditions this Saturday.  The last leg of countrywide auditions, which will be held at Rainbow Towers, will see some of the renowned model experts and fashionistas conducting the show. […]

The amnesty for unlicensed firearms declared last week and running to the end of next month was a much-needed and very welcome move to collect a lot of dubious weapons from people who are at least potentially honest, and in many cases were having to cope with negligence of others. Obviously robbers and similar criminals […]

Precious Manomano Herald Reporter Farmers will soon start harvesting the winter wheat crop and for the first time in its history Zimbabwe is likely to be self-sufficient in wheat, with zero imports, and even have a small carryover stock for next year, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development secretary Dr John Basera said recently. Speaking […]

Political Editor  Western-sponsored non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have once again contrived a bad statement alleging cooked up human rights abuses in Zimbabwe, all to cast the country in bad light, ahead of the SADC 42nd summit that starts in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), today. This has become their modus operandi ahead of each international […]

Arts Reporter While much has been publicised with regards to the flourishing economic and political ties between Zimbabwe and Rwanda, the entertainment scene has not been talked about in the same vein.  Yet, cooperation in arts and culture between the two countries is another area that is being exploited to increase people-to-people exchanges, including at […]