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Nesia Mhaka Herald Correspondent THE Public Service Commission (PSC) has extended the biometric authentication project and mop-up exercise to October 31, 2019 as Government presses ahead with reforms to restore…
Biosafety export permit suspended
The Rapid Results Initiative, which was launched recently by the Office of the President and Cabinet, is bearing more fruits following the indefinite suspension of biosafety export permit by the National Biotechnology Authority, the country’s trade development and promotion body ZimTrade has revealed.
ZACC arrests trade unionist
Zvamaida Murwira Senior Reporter The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) yesterday arrested former National Employment Council for Engineering Council secretary-general Pumulani Musagwiza on fraud charges after he grabbed the council’s cars…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Activate national cholera emergency action plans
Cholera is preventable and treatable. And, recent moves by the Ministry of Health and Child Care to work closely with the World Health Organisation (WHO) to assess the preparedness of the country’s healthcare institutions to fight cholera and typhoid outbreaks are welcome.
Roki, Ishan to light up Jacaranda festival
Talent Gore Arts Correspondent It is a few days to go before the ultimate musical showcase in Harare roars to life. Slated for Hellenic Sports Club from October 4 to…
The Mids with a Midas Touch
THE last happy family gathering for Hamid Dhana was a perfect picture of what he had been for more than half a century of his life – a jolly good fellow, a knife in his right hand, cutting his birthday cake, and a glass of beer in his left hand.
2022 Census preps begin
Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter Government has begun preparations for the 2022 Population and Housing Census which is held in terms of the Census and Statistics Act, which requires that it…
Sanctions agenda and the bane of change blindness
When scholars Daniel Simons and Daniel Levin set out to investigate the phenomenon of “change blindness”, they conducted an experiment whereby a complete stranger would start a conversation with a pedestrian and following a brief disruption, the stranger would be substituted, but the pedestrian would not even notice.
Zim, Israeli relations set for a lift
Herald Reporter President Mnangagwa met Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Israel Katz at the just-ended UN General Assembly, the first such high-level meeting between the two nations in 20 years, with…
Zim producer Hollywood-bound
Twenty-year-old local film producer Daniel Lasker has been shortlisted to participate at the Hollywood Silverscreen Festival to be held at Warner Grand Theatre in Los Angeles, United States of America, on October 13.