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Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has been named the best bank in Zimbabwe at the Old Mutual Zimbabwe sponsored Top Companies Survey Awards 2024 ceremony. The Top Companies Awards reward companies that demonstrated tangible growth in business volumes and generated positive, sustained net cashflows,

Churches Call for Rapid Rollout of GBV Courts

November 26, 2025

By Elishamai A. Ziumbwa The Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) has urged authorities to fast-track the establishment of specialised courts to handle gender-based violence (GBV) cases warning that abuse remains a deepening national crisis. In a statement marking the start of the 2025 16 Days of Activism

Holiday Inn Staff Acquitted in US$587k Fraud Scandal

November 26, 2025

Gender and Women's Rights

By Judith Nyuke Two accounts executives at Holiday Inn Hotel Mutare have been acquitted of defrauding their employer of nearly US$600,000 after the State acknowledged that the losses at the Africa Sun-run hotel were due to a flawed banking system. Munetsi Makoni, an accounts supervisor and Takura

Parliament Urged to Act as Child Marriage Laws Fail Girls Across Zimbabwe

author: Elia Ntali

The Women’s Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) has petitioned Parliament calling for an inquiry into the country’s failure to curb child marriage warning that thousands of girls remain unprotected despite strong laws on the books. The petition, presented today by the coalition represents more than 2 000

Entertainment

Jah Prayzah to Close Down Global Tour with Homecoming Show

Jah Prayzah By Elishamai A Ziumbwa Musician Jah Prayzah is set to conclude his widely acclaimed Ndini Mukudzei World Tour with a high-energy homecoming concert at the Harare International Convention Centre (HICC) on 29 November 2025. The finale, organised by Gateway Stream Media in partnership with JP Entertainment

Sunningdale Queens Celebrate Breakthrough Season After Narrowly Missing Top-Flight Promotion

author: Elia Ntali

Sunningdale Queens Netball Team are celebrating one of their most successful seasons to date after finishing second in the 24-team Harare Metropolitan Province Division 1 League—falling just short of promotion to the National League by a single position. The team’s remarkable campaign also saw head coach

ZimRights Raises Alarm on Rising Digital Abuse

By Shalom Shawurwa ZimRights has urged Zimbabweans to confront what it describes as an escalating crisis of online abuse targeting women and girls warning that digital spaces have become a new frontier for gender-based violence. In a statement to mark the International Day for the Elimination of

Poor Coordination Threatens Zimbabwe’s Gender Equality Efforts: Mutsvangwa

By Elishamai A. Ziumbwa The country risks slowing its progress on gender equality unless government institutions, civil society and development partners strengthen coordination in implementing national policies, Women Affairs Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has warned. Speaking at the launch of the National Gender Machinery Coordination Framework in Harare,

Mhona Pushes for Fair Maritime as Zim Backs Global Shipping Reforms