adminSADC climate experts meet for 2021/22 season forecast
Regional climate experts drawn from all 16 SADC member states are expected to hold a virtual meeting from August 16-31 to generate and develop a consensus outlook for the coming rainy season within the region.
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Lockdown extension, vaccination saving lives
The extension of the level four lockdown and the continued bar on schools reopening could not have surprised anyone since although the lockdown is defeating the third wave we are still seeing daily new infections at around 25 times the rate we experienced between waves, although just over a third as bad as what we saw at the peak in the middle of last month.
‘Infrastructure to drive economic growth’
THE massive investment the Government is putting into developing key infrastructure provides the bedrock needed by the economy to sustain accelerated growth and development, economists say.
Messi a boost for Tino, Munetsi
OLYMPIQUE Lyon president, Jean-Michel Aulas, whose club have Zimbabwean forward, Tino Kadewere, on their books, feels the arrival of Lionel Messi, will transform the value of French Ligue 1 and lead to increased income from television rights.
Gokwe South ups the game with devolution funds
Gokwe South Rural District Council is stepping up efforts to improve service delivery, especially the upgrading of roads and buying critical equipment with its devolution funds.
Former Agric perm sec Chitsiko dies
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Engineer Ringson Chitsiko (pictured right) has died.
Businesses told to produce top quality goods
Businesses should produce goods of high quality and take advantage of alternative markets to boost their operations for the benefit of communities, Industry and Commerce Minister Dr Sekai Nzenza told a recent Women’s Business Leadership Roundtable.
Rustler gets reprieve in sentence blunder
A boob by a Guruve magistrate resulted in a rustler getting three times more than the actual sentence, while his co-accused got a lesser sentence in a classic case of gross incompetence and miscarriage of justice.
ZACC probes school’s tender processes
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has opened investigations into tender processes at Avondale Primary School, amid allegations of flawed tender processes where the school engaged two services providers, in questionable service provision that could have prejudiced the school of thousands of dollars.
4,5 quake hits Binga
A 4,5 MAGNITUDE earthquake was felt in Binga in the early hours of Monday with the epicentre about 15km from Lake Kariba.