Zimbabwean health minister David Parirenyatwa has reportedly challenged private manufactures in the country to produce condoms so as “to address concerns over the size of condoms imported from China”. According to NewsDay, Parirenyatwa said the move would also save on foreign currency. Parirenyatwa said this while speaking during the launch of the Zimbabwe Private-Sector HIV/Aids … Read more
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has released the names of hundreds of companies and individuals who failed to return $827m (£590m) illegally stashed abroad despite an amnesty. After taking office last year Mr Mnangagwa gave individuals and companies 90 days to give up the funds. He said on Monday it had resulted in $591m being returned, … Read more
Four of South Africa’s neighbours have banned poultry imports from the rainbow nation following a serious outbreak of a highly contagious strain of avian influenza. Namibia on Tuesday became the latest country to ban South African chickens — live and uncooked — following last week’s outbreak of the H5N8 strain of bird flu at two … Read more
Parents in Zimbabwe can now pay the school fees of their children using livestock. That is the announcement from the country’s government. Zimbabwe’s Minister Lazarus Dokora has said that managers of schools must be willing to accept the new mode of payment. The latest transaction to benefit from livestock is the payment of fees which … Read more
Mugabe in Ghana: proceed to see why the Zimbabwean leader’s recent visit to Ghana cannot be easily forgotten by citizens… Ghana celebrated her 60th Independence anniversary on March 6, 2016. Series of events, packages and notable personalities who graced the event, have still got Ghanaians talking and reminiscing up till this moment. However, there is … Read more
The Zimbabwean government has agreed to pay Christmas bonuses of last year next month. The agreement averts a day-old sit-in strike by civil servants. Just as the government pays salaries, the bonuses will be paid in batches, starting next month. Public workers, mostly teachers, began a strike today to push the government to pay 2016 … Read more
The Zimbabwean government has launched an international humanitarian appeal to help combat floods that have affected all of the country’s provinces. The country is seeking in excess of $100m to ease the burden the floods have brought. The state-owned Herald newspaper reported on Thursday that the floods which started in December last year has claimed … Read more
The Zimbabwean government has directed that schools in the second biggest city, Bulawayo, be closed on Thursday and Friday (February 23 and 24) as part of plans in preparations for the birthday celebration of President Robert Mugabe. The state-owned Chronicle newspaper said Minister of Primary and Secondary Education, Lazarus Dokora, issued the directive on Wednesday. … Read more
A magistrates’ court in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Friday remanded political activist and pastor Evan Mawarire in custody for the next two weeks after his arrest on Wednesday. Pastor Mawarire was remanded until February 17 to allow for further investigation into charges including subversion, plot to remove a constitutionally-elected government, abuse of the national flag … Read more
Evan Mawarire, the Zimbabwean pastor and political activist, who was arrested on Wednesday night when he arrived in the country from the United States (US) has been charged with subversion and abusing the national flag. He was charged in July last year of trying to overthrow President Robert Mugabe’s government by calling for protests, but … Read more