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Thousands of Cyclone Idai flood victims here yesterday started receiving humanitarian assistance from Government and well-wishers, with Zanu-PF National Political Commissar Lieutenant-General Engelbert Rugeje (Retired) appealing to donors to prioritise infrastructural development.
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Zimbabwe and South Africa have increased collaboration on the management of migration and repartition of children across their border through the Cross-border Coordination Committee for Unaccompanied and Separated Migrant Children, an official has said.
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Over 300 residents here have lost their houses, which were constructed on wetlands, to flash floods that swept through Chiredzi Town last month.
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Farmers here are counting their losses after Cyclone Idai destroyed 300 hectares of maize and cotton across Zaka, which was one of the worst affected districts in Masvingo Province.
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President Mnangagwa has instructed two Cabinet ministers to work together in addressing challenges affecting the teaching of sciences in Beitbridge district.
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There was a scare at Masvingo’s Mutimurefu Prison, after strong winds accompanying Cyclone Idai blew off roofs from four cells that house over 80 inmates on Saturday morning.
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A Masvingo-based non-governmental organisation, the Vulnerable Youth Support Network Trust, has added its voice to growing calls for the West to unconditionally lift illegal sanctions against Zimbabwe, saying they are hurting the ordinary people more, particularly young people.
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TelOne has donated stationery and sanitary items worth thousands of dollars to four rural schools in Beitbridge district in line with their Corporate Social Responsibility initiative.
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Tension continues to mount within the beleaguered MDC here, as Masvingo Mayor Councillor Collins Maboke yesterday vowed to continue with his duties at Town House despite being ordered to step down by party leader Mr Nelson Chamisa.
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Beitbridge East parliamentarian Cde Albert Nguluvhe on Saturday last week donated 100 bags of cement for the construction of a classroom block and a teachers’ cottage at Elangeni Secondary School (Ward 5), some 35 kilometres along the Beitbridge-Masvingo Road.
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The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has tabled an Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report on the proposed investment and irrigation around Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, as Government intensifies efforts to make sure the country’s largest inland water body is utilised.
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Government has roped in two of the country’s biggest institutions of higher learning, Great Zimbabwe University and Midlands State University, to help in the drawing up of a master plan for the Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, in southern Masvingo.
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Tshikwalakwala Irrigation Scheme in Beitbridge East constituency, about 135 kilometres outside the border town, is grinding to a halt after farmers at the project failed to repair four irrigation pumps and a fence which were destroyed by floods in 2013-14.
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George Maponga Masvingo Bureau A senior court interpreter at the Masvingo Magistrates’ Court has been fined $100 or alternatively 20 days behind bars after she was convicted of stealing a workmate’s cellphone. Antoneta Mugadza (35) was also slapped with a wholly suspended three-month sentence by Masvingo provincial magistrate Mr Langton Ndokera last week after she […]
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau President Mnangagwa has hailed women in leadership for their critical role and contribution to the Government’s Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) and national economic development. He made the remarks during the commissioning of the US$23,6 million National Backbone Fibre Optic Links in Beitbridge on Wednesday. The President also commended TelOne’s managing director, […]
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