Zimpapers holds editorial retreat
Online Reporter
The country’s biggest integrated media company, Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) this week held a two-day editorial retreat in the capital.
Honouring Mutoko’s elderly
Tanyaradzwa Rusike
Senator Chief Nechombo of Mashonaland East Province recently donated grocery hampers to the elderly in Chidye, Mutoko.
High-powered delegation for Global Fund
Sharon Munjenjema
Government is attending the two-day Global Fund replenishment conference, where Zimbabwe will pledge its contribution, that is set to unlock funds for fighting HIV, tuberculosis and malaria.
We will deal with DCC abuse: Matemadanda
Norman Muchemwa
ZANU-PF will deal with any abuse of the proposed District Co-ordinating Committees (DCCs) that are set to be re-introduced this weekend, the revolutionary party’s national political commissar, Cde Victor Matemadanda has said.
Agric preps begin
Government will start moving agricultural inputs for Command Agriculture to several parts of the country this week as it pushes farmers to plant early to maximise on imminent rains.
Logistical arrangements for delivery of inputs under the Presidential Input Support Scheme — expected to benefit 300 000 households — are being finalised.
Roadworks scandal hits Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is reeling from yet another controversy after an internal audit unearthed a major scandal through which some road contractors engaged to rehabilitate 43 selected roads in the capital were paid despite “the fact that absolutely no works had been done”.
Doctors ordered back to work
DOCTORS in public health institutions have been awarded a 60 percent increment as Government yesterday issued a directive that they abandon their industrial action and return to duty by tomorrow.
Failure to take heed of the directive, Government warned yesterday, will see the defiant doctors facing disciplinary action.
Prudence needed at City Council
If truth be said, the MDC run Harare City Council has gone awry and the once sunshine city has turned into a pale shadow of what it ought to be as the capital of our beautiful Zimbabwe.
The lies that feed Empire
In colonial times, Europe fed itself with half-truths and blatant lies about the African continent, which it used to justify its conquests. Today, the lies persist, as Western countries constantly create dire fictionalised accounts to justify meddling in the internal affairs of weaker nations.
Set mid-rate hits interbank volumes. . . but RBZ denies setting thresholds
The move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to make the interbank mid-rate the principal reference rate for all foreign currency trading, has slowed down transactions on the interbank market.
Last month, the country’s apex bank determined authorised forex dealers and Bureaux de Change were not supposed to go above margins of 3 percent and 5 percent, respectively of the interbank mid-rate.











