Sustained health education key in curbing teen pregnancies

Anashe Mpamombe Teenage pregnancy remains a major social and public health concern in Matabeleland South, despite ongoing efforts by the Government and its development partners to strengthen reproductive health services.…

Zimpapers revolutionises advertising in digital era

Gorden Mwerenga and Elias Mambo FOR decades, advertising in the media industry was largely defined by one commodity: space. Newspapers sold column centimetres. Magazines sold pages. Radio stations sold airtime.…

A bird’s-eye view of minimum domestic worker wage rates in the SADC region

Sifelani Tsiko Fact Check Editor Zimbabwe recently approved new adjusted minimum wage rates for domestic workers to help improve employment conditions for them and other classes of workers who are…

Tracing Zim’s mass UFO sightings

Sifelani Tsiko-Fact Check Editor Recent social media debates in Zimbabwe have encompassed several trending topics. One of the major ones is on Unidentified Flying Objects – alien life and mysterious…

COMMENT: Zimbabwe makes strong strides towards free health care

ZIMBABWE is moving towards free health care for citizens, funded from tobacco and alcohol taxes, along with capital funding from beverage sugar and fast-food taxes. Already, the money from the…

Let’s reclaim discipline on the roads before more lives are lost

Marilyn Mutize ROAD traffic accidents have become one of Zimbabwe’s most persistent national tragedies, with the month of May once again exposing the deadly consequences of reckless driving, poor road…

China’s borehole scheme a lifeline for drought-hit areas

Kuda Bwititi Politics, Foreign Affairs and Opinions Editor WHEN the El Niño-induced drought swept across Zimbabwe in 2024, leaving fields bare and rural families walking kilometres for muddy water, the…

‘Intergenerational family networks stabilising Zim-Malawi relations’

ZIMBABWE-MALAWI relations cannot be explained by any treaty or bilateral cooperation agreements for they are founded on familial ties connecting people from the two countries. Intergenerational family networks that were…

LOOKING BACK: Bogus agencies rip off job seekers

The Herald 14 June 1998 UNEMPLOYED job seekers are falling victim to conmen who are setting up bogus employment agencies which demand money up front in order to ensure that…

Copying European AI regulation model won’t work for Africa

Kinfe Yilma and Grace Mutung’u Mauritius set out its national AI strategy in 2018, the first by an African country. Since then over a dozen African states have adopted national…

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