Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chairman Munashe Shava has reportedly left the miner, a position he held since his appointment in 2022. His departure marks a notable transition in the leadership of the organization, which plays a crucial role in the country's diamond mining sector. Shava's tenure
Scores of participants who attended the just ended Sex Worker Symposium held in Mazowe this week demanded for increased mobile outreach, peer-led interventions and supportive legal reforms to protect sex workers’ rights and health. This came after sex workers raised concerns of increased mistreatment, discrimination and
A Zimbabwean businessman has been arrested in Portugal in connection with a high-profile fuel fraud case involving more than a million litres of fuel meant for a government ministry, the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has confirmed. In a statement, ZRP spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said 43-year-old
By Admire Masuku Journalism is under pressure. Trust is falling. Fake news is rising. AI is reshaping newsrooms. Unethical practices, shifting audiences, and shrinking civic space are adding to the strain. Around the world, the need for strong, accountable journalism is urgent. But in smaller media markets,
A 29-year-old man from Chitungwiza has been sentenced to three years and eight months in prison after a dramatic robbery in which he held two women at knifepoint and made off with cash and mobile phones. Providence Shumba of Unit P, Seke, was convicted by Chitungwiza
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared war on the country’s growing drug and substance abuse crisis unveiling a high-level national mobilisation programme aimed at strengthening rehabilitation efforts and curbing the spread of addiction particularly among the youth. Speaking at the High-Level Resource Mobilization Meeting on Drug and
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in collaboration with the Government of Zimbabwe and key partners has launched its flagship 2025 State of World Population Report revealing a global decline in fertility rates driven not by personal choice but by mounting economic and social pressures. Titled
Local environmental advocates have called for stronger collaboration between private sector players and civil society in the stewardship of the country’s fragile wetlands ahead of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the Ramsar Convention (COP15) to be hosted in Victoria Falls host from July
Local grassroots nonprofit organisation, the Usawa Institute has been named one of the winners of the 2025 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) Prizes, a prestigious global honour recognising transformative uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs). The award was presented at the WSIS+20 High-Level
By Takudzwa Tondoya The Ministry of Environment, Climate and Wildlife has officially announced sweeping reforms to the country’s carbon trading framework through the gazetting of the Carbon Trading (General) Regulations, 2025 under Statutory Instrument 48 of 2025. The changes include the repeal of previous rules, the creation
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