Introduce youth quota in politics: WeLead
A national youth organization, WeLead, has called on parliament to introduce a quota system to absorb youths into decision-making and leadership positions. Zimbabwe has a burgeoning youth population (15-40), but this is not reflected in positions of authority as the…
Soldiers use violence to control cash queues
Zimbabwe National Army soldiers on Friday used violence to control desperate citizens who were trying to make withdrawals at the National Building Society bank at the corner of Samora Machel and Julius Nyerere way. Zimbabweans have been struggling to access…
Austerity finally over-Ncube
Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube has said the 2020 National Budget marks the exit from austerity to growth stimulation and employment generation era through promotion, production oriented investment and productivity without losing focus on fiscal responsibility, though…
Council nurses plead incapacitation
Zimbabwe Urban and Rural Council Nurses Workers Union president Simbarashe James Tafirenyika said his members were not on industrial action but were incapacitated and cannot afford transport fares among other basics to be at work. Tafirenyika made the remarks at…
Decades of Struggle and Hope, A Zimbabwean Youth Compendium.
On 16 October 2019, Youth Empowerment and Transformation Trust (YETT) launched the Decade of Struggle and Hope, a Zimbabwean Youth Compendium report. The youth situational compendium provided data that is essential in understanding the state of Zimbabwean youths’ struggles, hopes…
Citizens in Chipinge are appealing to wellwishers and authorities to setting up solar power plant or a backup generator at Chikore Hospital to ameliorate problems at the health centre due to incessant power cuts. Villagers in Chikore has said the…
Harare Show lost its lustre: Nightmare for business, entrepreneurs
THE majority of businesses and vendors at the Harare Agricultural Show that ended last week Saturday were left counting their losses due to depressed numbers of visitors who came to this year’s edition of the more than 100 years old…