BF won’t be demolished: Government

Ngqwele Dube, Sports Correspondent BARBOURFIELDS Stadium’s sentimental value to local football history does not make room for its destruction, a Government official has said. Ministry of Youth, Sport, Arts and…

Quarantine centres playing key role in Covid-19 fight

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the quarantine of persons is the restriction of activities of or the separation of persons who are not ill but who may have…

Weekend behind bars for Nguwaya

Delish Nguwaya, a country representative for Drax Consult SAGL and Drax International (LLC), yesterday appeared in court on allegations of defrauding the Government of US$42 million in a botched medicinal products deal.

Miss Rural Africa contestants speak on why they joined pageant

Nkosilodumo Ndebele and Nomagugu Matshazi IN an effort to empower the girl child living in the marginalised communities of the country, Castor Oil, a biotechnology company is organising a pageantry…

Telling a ‘black’ story

TEEN dramas are a dime a dozen (so abounding as to be valueless).

But the 2018 film “The Hate You Give” proves to be one of the best and eye-opening instalments of the genre.

Tafataona Mahoso: African Solutions for African problems

Richard Runyararo Mahomva In one of his philosophical admiration of the late Founding Father of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Robert Mugabe, Dr Mahoso once wrote: “Mugabe is now every…

A case for adopting the Rand

Calls have been made by various economic agents on how the country should resolve the prevailing local currency ($) instability epitomised by a depreciating exchange rate.

The official rate is pegged at $25:US$1, while the parallel rate has gone beyond $60:US$1. It is important to distinguish the peculiar challenges Zimbabwe faces when coming up with a plausible route for achieving currency stability.

Boterekwa collapse a tip of the iceberg

SEVEN years ago, reports surfaced that a two-roomed house in “Scenic Shurugwi” had disappeared into a sinkhole after a mine tunnel collapsed.

Although no one was inside the house, the hair-raising incident left the community shocked.

Govt mulls fuel price hike

Fuel prices might be reviewed upwards in order to address biting “artificial shortages” of the commodity on the local market, Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has hinted.

In an interview with  Zimbabwe Television Network (ZTN) on Friday, the Minister said the current price is heavily subsidised and not market-led.

‘A year into Uhuru, we remained in Mozambique’

He was still training in Mozambique when the war in Rhodesia ended in December 1979. That period saw a majority of freedom fighters return from foreign camps to Rhodesia to prepare for a new Zimbabwe. Those who operated in the country moved to Assembly Points. But Cde Alfred Mushaninga (AM) is one of the fighters who remained holed up in Mozambique for more than a year after independence. The former liberation fighter narrates to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati (LM) what was going on.

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