By Bulawayo Correspondent A NEW national vetting exercise for former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe is expected soon, and the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) has urged its members to prepare and take part in the screening programme. Ex-ZIPRA cadres have been lobbying for the amendment of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Act. It is
File Image: Farmers taking the maize to a GMB depot for marketing
By Robert Tapfumaneyi MACHEKE: Female sex workers in this small farming town have been left counting losses after most tobacco farmers this marketing season chose to be escorted to tobacco auction floors by their spouses. The farmers took the decision to avoid losing their hard-earned cash through theft, or unnecessary spending with sex workers and
By Bulawayo Correspondent PRICES of commodities and services have astronomically gone up following new foreign currency measures announced by the government last week. The government gazetted the new rules under Statutory Instrument (SI) 127 of 2021 and seen as an attempt to curtail the galloping exchange rate on the parallel market and stabilise the local
By Costa Nkomo ZENGEZA West MP and MDC Alliance deputy chairperson Job Sikhala Tuesday warned Chitungwiza Municipality not to proceed with its plans to dismantle all informal business in the town as the actions will be met with violence. On Tuesday, Chitungwiza Municipality acting Town Clerk Evangelista Machona gave informal traders 72 hours to cease
Xinhua THE Chinese greeting phrase “ni hao” — which translates into English as “hello” — is becoming widely understood by many school children in Zimbabwe as more schools introduce Chinese language classes to cater to the growing demand for the language. At Gateway High School, a private school in Zimbabwe’s capital of Harare, Chinese as
By Alois Vinga Mt Darwin: A seven-year-old boy from Guruve is struggling to get a medical procedure to remove a rare growth on the left side of his face as his parents cannot raise the required funds. Speaking to NewZimbabwe.com at Karanda Mission Hospital, Morelife Chireru‘s father said the family was left in crisis after
By Robert Tapfumaneyi SHOCKING details have emerged that some female students at tertiary institutions around the country were using birth control pills to suppress their periods. One of the main reasons is that some would be doing it to please their boyfriends while putting their own health at risk. “It’s happening, it’s quite often especially
By Anna Chibamu DRUG manufacturer, Varichem Pharmaceuticals says financial resource constraints have led to a stop in the production of Anti-retroviral drugs in Zimbabwe. Giving oral evidence before the HIV/ Aids Thematic Portfolio Committee on why it had shelved ART drug manufacturing, company managing director Alois Muchabaiwa said the drug maker failed to acquire the
New York Times AS Iver Rosenkrantz and Patrick Tendayi Zindoga drove through the fertile countryside of northern Zimbabwe one day in late 2018, they noticed something out of the ordinary: A woman who had just started plowing a field with a few oxen under the scorching sun was entirely on her own. The business partners, who had
By Robert Tapfumaneyi RUSHINGA: Eyes full of tears, Rudo Magara (14) says all she wants was to get financial support and be able to complete her education, work as a housemaid and take care of her family. While most of her agemates are busy playing teenage games and studying, the story is different for the
By Robert Tapfumaneyi VARIOUS women in Mbire district, Mashonaland Central province have embarked on successful goat-rearing projects as part of efforts to end domestic violence and early child marriages within their community. Mbire district, which stretches along the borders of Mozambique and Zambia, north of Zimbabwe, is one of the marginalised area in the country.
Amnesty International PREGNANT women and girls are at risk of life-changing childbirth-related injuries, including obstetric fistula, as many shun public healthcare facilities in favour of home-based deliveries due to inadequate health infrastructure, cultural practices and high hospital costs, Amnesty International said Thursday in a new report. Zimbabwe has one of the highest maternal mortality rates
By Tonderai Saharo PARENTS and guardians with pupils attending Catholic-run Gokomere High and Primary schools, have approached the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) demanding an audit of the learning centres’ finances while complaining standards were “nose-diving”. The two Masvingo-based schools are some of the best performing learning centres in Zimbabwe. The petition was addressed to the
From Mbekezeli Ncube recently in Chiredzi FISH farming has turned out to be a fast-growing business in some parts of the country as witnessed by the high number of small-scale farmers who have ventured into the trade, which is now yielding positive financial returns. When the Zimbabwe Resilience Building Fund (ZRBF) through one of its
Agencies ONE man could not find his hometown on Google Maps, so he took it upon himself to get Zimbabwe on Google Street view. All that Tawanda Kanhema wanted was to show the house he grew up in. If you live in the US, Europe, or near most large cities in the world, there is a
By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE National Aids Council (NAC) has revealed that more than 5 000 children are living with HIV in Mashonaland Central out of 78 000 who have the infection. While the rush for gold in Bindura area has brought instant wealth to many – both young and old – it has been a
By Stephen Tsamba PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday hailed private sector participation in the establishment and rehabilitation of public health delivery infrastructure amid a tough economic environment worsened by the Covid-19 pandemic outbreak. Mnangagwa was officially opening a United Bulawayo Hospitals Orthopaedic Centre and a Covid-19 Isolation Centre in the country’s second capital. He said the
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent AN unidentified Kariba woman recently gave birth in the full glare of onlookers outside the local Nyamhunga Clinic after nurses at the medical centre reportedly turned her away arguing they were on lunch break. However, sources who spoke to NewZimbabwe.com said the middle-aged woman, was turned away for not wearing
By Bulawayo Correspondent POLICE in Bulawayo were Tuesday forced to make a major climbdown on its controversial directive to ban company and school buses, which are not registered with the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) from operating. Police in the city had banned company and school buses and kombis from ferrying students and workers, saying
