Local AI breakthroughs to give Zim insurers an edge

Tawanda Musarurwa-Checkpoint Desk FOR decades, technology promised to make users’ work simpler; faster claims, quicker service and fewer mistakes. But, with the rise of artificial intelligence, the promise is not…

Strengthening livestock health for a food-secure future

Innocent Mujeri AS Zimbabwe approaches the 2025/2026 rainy season, the country enters a period historically associated with heightened livestock disease prevalence. This seasonal pattern is not simply a veterinary concern;…

COP 11: Economic stakes for farmers, governments

Dr Tendai Mhizha As the COP11 of the World Health Organisation Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) is in progress, governments and international agencies will be grappling once more with…

Mutumwa Mwazha a deserving national hero

Dr Matthew Mare-Herald  Correspondent Archbishop Paul Mwazha began his ministry during colonial times, where he, along with other founding members of African-initiated churches, endured many trials faced by proponents of…

Dawn of new era in Zim development!

Victoria Ruzvidzo-Editor’s Brief THIS week Zimbabwe enters an important stage in its drive to attain an upper middle income economy under Vision 2030, with the launch of National Development Strategy…

Woman breaks tradition, teaches even in death

Remember Deketeke-Herald Correspondent ON her deathbed in a South African hospital in July 2021, Mrs Rosalie Chigariro recorded a WhatsApp voice note to a senior official at the University of…

Romanticising informality is killing African cities

Wellington Muzengeza AFRICA’S urban future is not being stolen by colonial ghosts or foreign conspiracies; instead, it is being sabotaged from within. The true saboteurs are not external forces, but…

COMMENT: We should commit to uplifting women, girls

LIKE most progressive countries across the world, Zimbabwe will on Tuesday begin observing the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), an international campaign to challenge violence against women and girls.

COMMUNION: It’s only power that can switch on Zim’s future

When Bishop Lazi and his peers were growing up in the village, the allure of the city lay in the bright lights and prospects of securing a job to fund a lifestyle that was different from the workaday village life.

When the law demonstrated it has a long arm

IT began as a quiet evening at Bensen Flats in Gweru.

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