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Women constitute 52% of Zimbabwe’s population, with over 80% living in rural areas and contributing 70% of agricultural labour. By Brenda Mazhambe Harare, Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe yesterday joined the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day of Rural Women, with the government reaffirming its commitment to advancing gender equality, economic empowerment, and digital…
By Dickson Bandera The 2025 Zimbabwe Tobacco Industry Awards held in Harare Friday night celebrated outstanding performance, innovation, and leadership across the nation’s multi-billion-dollar tobacco value chain, with Swan Valley Group emerging as one of the key winners. Zimbabwe is celebrating a historic milestone in tobacco production, having achieved record targets that brought in $1.2…
By Dickson Bandera The European Union (EU) has opened applications for young Zimbabweans to join the Team Europe Youth Sounding Board (YSB) for the 2026–2028 cohort, a flagship platform designed to give the country’s youth a stronger voice in shaping EU programmes and initiatives in Zimbabwe. The announcement was made by the EU Delegation to…
By Brenda Mazhambe Zimbabwe is moving closer to enacting the long-awaited Construction Contractors Act, a law designed to overhaul regulation of the country’s construction sector through the establishment of the Construction Contractors Authority. The push for the legislation comes amid a building boom, with large-scale housing projects and infrastructure development taking place across cities, peri-urban…
Story By Dickson BanderaInterviews & Images By Kennedy Madzianike The Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA)on Thursday told a compelling story of resilience, innovation, and sound governance at its Annual General Meeting (AGM) held in Harare, declaring that it had delivered on its mandate despite the crippling effects of the 2023/24 El Niño-induced drought. In a year…
By Khadija R. Salimini Industry and commerce players convened in Bulawayo yesterday for a high-level consultative workshop aimed at shaping the Zimbabwe National Industrial Development Policy II (ZNIDP 2), a strategic blueprint set to guide the country’s industrialisation agenda from 2026 to 2030. The meeting, which brought together representatives from Matabeleland South and Bulawayo, was…
By Washington Chikombingo The Rural Electrification Fund (REF) has moved to set the record straight following widespread social media claims that local catering company Eat n Lick was awarded a tender worth USD600,000. In a press statement issued this Friday, the REF dismissed the claims as false, misleading, and damaging to the Fund’s reputation, clarifying…
By Dickson Bandera Criminals are cashing in on desperate citizens by advertising fake loans and grants online, often posing as government officials on social media platforms. Unsuspecting people who respond to these adverts are tricked into paying so-called “administration fees” — only for the scammers to vanish without a trace once they collect the money….
By Dickson Bandera Businesses across various sectors are set to benefit from sweeping reforms aimed at reducing the burden of excessive levies, licences, fees, and permits that have long hindered the ease of doing business in Zimbabwe. While the country has opened up space for entrepreneurship through legal frameworks such as the Indigenisation and Economic…
By Julius Idrissa Manganda Zimbabwe’s flagship agricultural event returns to Harare this August, bigger in scope and ambition as it marks two major milestones — the 115th Zimbabwe Agricultural Show and the 130th anniversary of the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (ZAS). Taking place from August 26th to 30th under the theme “Building Bridges: Connecting Agriculture, Industry,…