US$500m facility to stabilise prices

Government, through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), will begin drawing down a new US$500 million facility tomorrow to supply the interbank foreign currency market, in a development that monetary authorities say will “go a long way to stabilise the exchange rates and prices of goods and services in the economy”.

Constitutional Court recruitments begin

Treasury has given the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) the nod to begin recruiting staffers of the Constitutional Court next month, while the selection of judges will begin thereafter as efforts to decouple it from the Supreme Court gathers momentum.

Let’s extend investment to processing

When commissioning the long-desired platinum smelting plant at Unki Mines near Shurugwi last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa took the opportunity to encourage and reassure investors and potential investors that Zimbabwe understood their needs and welcomed their partnership.

‘We are entrenching unity’

Peace is an integral part of local cultural norms that could be used to forge national unity, which, in turn, is necessary to springboard the country to prosperity, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday.

FIFA to the rescue

WORLD Soccer governing body FIFA, touched by the trail of destruction that Cyclone Idai left in Zimbabwe, have pledged to help rebuild infrastructure for the communities in Chimanimani and other affected areas in the Manicaland province.

Drug supplies improve remarkably

The National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has begun round-the-clock dispatches to ensure that health institutions timeously get their orders.

Dialogue: klansmen binding glue

There is a familiar but very illuminating quote in Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” which says, “When we gather together in the moonlit village ground, it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound.”

US$60m facility for farm mechanisation

Zimbabwe is working on a US$60 million massive agriculture mechanisation deal with an Indian firm, International Tractor Limited (ITL), that will see distribution of tractors, combine harvesters and various implements to benefit local farmers, according to project promoters.

Finding love the ‘safe’ way

ARRANGED consensual marriages are an interesting culture that seem to have gained traction in church set-ups over the years.

First Lady pledges continued support for women

FIRST Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has pledged to continue empowering women by sensitising them on inheritance laws and health issues.

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