Harare South youths get lifeline
Harare South youths have turned to income generating projects following a series of successful life skills training conducted by Restless Development, Silveira House and Hopley Can Change Initiative (HCCI) in a bid to eradicate robbery, prostitution, early child marriages and…
Harare city starts drawing water from Darwendale
The Harare City Council has started drawing water from Darwendale Dam, 15 km from Morton Jafray Water Works as it tries to finds stop-gap measures to the severe water situation in the capital. The city has been struggling to provide…
Women bear the brunt of health crisis
Women from high density suburbs continue to bear the brunt of the deteriorating health delivery system in Zimbabwe evidenced by an increase in number of women giving birth without medical supervision as a result of closure of many polyclinics in…
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…
Mataranyika makes history in students union
Twenty one year old Abiona Mataranyika emerged winner of the University of Zimbabwe Students Representative Council (SRC) elections becoming the first female president of the council. Mataranyika a French and Portuguese student beat her rival by a record number of…
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…
Sand blasters vow to remain put
Illegal sand blasters in Harare South wetland between Mvurachena and Eyestone have vowed to continue with their business despite being fined or the urgent need to preserve wetlands, saying it is their only source of income. In interview with Zimsentinel,…
Granary residents survive on selling poo
Residents in Mufakose and Granary Park are making use of discharged sewage waste for agricultural purposes which they are selling as manure for gardening purposes. ZimSentinel observed the development after a brief tour of the two locations in “Kwamazai”, where…