ZEC gazettes local authority women’s quota

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has gazetted the actual numbers of additional councillors at each local authority to meet the 30 percent of the total membership of each local authority now reserved for women party-list councillors in accordance with the Constitution.

Citrus exports to China set to resume

Zimbabwe will next month resume citrus exports to China as the two sister republics continue to explore mutually beneficial trade, Chinese envoy to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Zhou Ding has said.

Ecstasy, relief as Angel of Hope, partners build hospital in Binga

First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa’s dream to see the Binga community accessing improved healthcare  came true, thanks to her Angel of Hope Foundation’s partnership with her friend Mrs Jeannie Burns Buckner, Matter foundation and Love for Africa who partnered to deliver an ultra-modern hospital in Chisizya.

Murambinda Hospital in major upgrade

The opening of a demonstration room for nurses’ training in Murambinda augments the infrastructural development in the health sector and enhances the health and wellness pillar in the National Development Strategy 1, Vice President and Minister of Health and Child Care Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said.

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe backs Pan-African payment, settlement system

Kudzanai Sharara in Accra, Ghana Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has thrown weight behind the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, a cross-border, financial market infrastructure enabling…

Carbon credits indaba to put Zim in global spotlight

Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S hosting of the upcoming high-level African Carbon Credits Market Forum in Victoria Falls early next month will put the country in the limelight of global…

RAZA SHINES IN BIG WIN . . . All-rounder breaks Zim batting record set by Williams

SIKANDAR Raza yesterday produced a classic all-round performance, scoring the fastest ODI century by a Zimbabwean along the way, as the Chevrons defeated the Netherlands in a high-scoring ICC World Cup Qualifier Group A match at the Harare Sports Club.

Dzimano uses abstract art to promote social awareness

Scanning through archives of historical artefacts, there is one disturbing aspect, the suggestion that women have not been part of the creative arts history.

EDITORIAL COMMENT : Pushing tobacco exports needs innovative products

THE Zimbabwean tobacco industry has been more flexible in recent years with farming contracts for shisha tobacco, a variety that has boomed in demand in the last 30 years, but is still cramped for value addition, that is turning leaf into products that are then exported.

Project to revive the Matepe Mbira sound underway

A project dubbed Matepe 21st is underway to revive the slowly dying matepe mbira sound.