News Headlines
By Staff Reporter REDCLIFF mayor Clayton Masiyatsva is upbeat the recent $7 million debt settlement by government to the local authority will go a long way in alleviating the plight of residents in the steelworks suburb, which has gone for years without consistent water supplies. Last week, Treasury released...

By Paidashe Mandivengerei ZIMBABWEAN doctors say they were against the implementation of Public...

By Bulawayo Correspondent BULAWAYO’S Mpilo hospital has angered patients through charging them consultation...

By Staff Reporter AT LEAST 55% of Norton residents have been reported to...

By Paidashe Mandivengerei FOUR of Zimbabwe’s five central hospitals are operating below half...

By Anna Chibamu INDEPENDENT MP for Norton, Temba Mliswa says government must ban...
Zimbabwe
By Anna Chibamu The African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO) in Zimbabwe Thursday urged Zimbabweans to have a culture of planting trees to reduce the negative impact of climate change. AWLO training director Prisca Potera said due to the harsh climatic changes being experienced the world over, Zimbabweans should...

By Anna Chibamu EUROPEAN Union (EU) ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen says government...

By Bulawayo Correspondent TWO Inyathi gold panners Friday appeared before a Bulawayo magistrate...

By Staff Reporter A self-proclaimed prophet from Johanne Masowe church recently took advantage...

By Robert Tapfumaneyi ATLEAST 30 percent of urban households in Zimbabwe are cereal...

By Costa Nkomo FORMER War Veterans Minister, Tshinga Dube Wednesday dismissed President Emmerson...
Africa
BBC Roughly a quarter of Zimbabwe’s population will receive food aid from the UN to avert a hunger crisis. The World Food Programme (WFP) says it will provide 4.1 million Zimbabweans with cereal, pulses and vegetable oil. Around a half of the country’s population is facing hunger with 7.7...

BBC At least 15 people have died and 48 others have been wounded...

BBC The United Nations mission in South Sudan says it has redeployed some...

BBC Zimbabwe’s late President Robert Mugabe left behind $10m (£7.7m)in the bank and...

BBC A UN official has painted a bleak picture of the availability of...

AFP At least 29 people were killed Sunday when a small plane crashed...
World
AP Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor...

AFP Mexican forces hunted Monday for a drug cartel commando behind a bloody...

BBC A 6.4 magnitude earthquake has hit Albania, bringing down buildings and leaving...

BBC Thirteen French soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash during an...

AFP Two Roman Catholic priests were each sentenced to more than 40 years...

AFP A British driver accused of the manslaughter of 39 Vietnamese migrants found...
Health & Community
By Paidashe Mandivengerei GOVERNMENT requires over US$50 million to purchase machinery for critical units within public health institutions, Health Minister Obadiah Moyo has said. In a ministerial statement on the status of the health care system in the country, Moyo said the five central hospitals alone – Mpilo, Harare...

By Leopold Munhende WOMEN from the country’s remote villages of Masvingo province have...

By Thandiwe Garusa HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo and his cabinet colleague in Social...

By Paidashe Mandivengerei SACKED junior doctors Monday accused telecoms mogul Strive Masiyiwa of...

BBC In a major step in the fight against Ebola, the World Health...

By Mashonaland East Correspondent A Mudzi gold panner is battling for life in...
Science & Tech
By Technomag AMIDST the economic crisis, service providers have been feeling the pinch and they have been increasing prices so as to stay in business. With effect from August 9 the TelOne home broadband tariffs have been reviewed upwards by 36%. This comes after another upward price review which...

By Anna Chibamu INFRASTRUCTURE Investments in the fixed and mobile companies have greatly...

By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO: Samsung unveiled a highly anticipated smartphone with a...

By Associated Press ST. PETERSBURG: The principal of a prestigious school near St....

By Xinhua PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will on Wednesday officiate at an ICT convention...

By AFP With its colourful hammocks and table tennis table, a new tech...
Travel
By AFP Singapore Airlines insisted Thursday that cameras on its planes’ entertainment systems had been disabled after an outcry online from worried passengers who spotted the tiny lenses peering at them. Travellers took to Twitter and other social media to raise the alarm over the cameras at the bottom...

By AFP HARARE: The departure of Robert Mugabe has finally brought some good...

By AFP A sick eight-year-old triggered a cholera scare onboard a flight from...

By Staff Reporter UK-based tour operator, Wilderness Safaris, is set to return to...

By thetimes.co.uk My hols: Jon Snow My partner is from Zimbabwe and we...

By AFP After nearly two decades in the doldrums, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector is...