Harare (New Ziana) – The government on Thursday set aside a whopping ZW$76 billion in the 2023 national budget for the upcoming general elections, expected to be held around mid-next year. Presenting the budget in Parliament, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube said preparations for elections, such boundary delimitation, and voter registration, were already […]
THIS year’s edition of the LitFest International Literature Festival returns this week, featuring 60 festival participants from Zimbabwe, Benin, Ghana, South Africa, the UK and USA. In a year the Zimbabwe International Book Fair promised so much but delivered so little, many will look forward to the Literature Festival with great expectations. The great expectations […]
By Rutendo Mafumo Police in Tsholotsho have arrested a 17-year-old Form Three boy for allegedly raping a Form One student at Mpanedziba Secondary School in Tsholotsho . According to Matabeleland North acting Provincial Community Relations and Liaison Officer, Ass Inspector Christopher Mahohoma the incident happened on November 19 when the Form One girl had gone […]
Harare(New Ziana) – At least three million farmers will this year get farming inputs free of charge under the presidential input scheme, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Wednesday. Last year, the government provided inputs to 2.7 million farmers in communal, small-scale commercial, old resettlement and peri-urban farming areas for cereals, oil seeds and legumes. In […]