THE United Kingdom this year extended about US$100 million in development aid to Zimbabwe and has pledged more funding following the formation of the inclusive Government.
The Ministry of Media, Information and Publicity has decried the inadequate funds allocated in the 2010 budget, saying the money was not enough to ensure that it fulfills its mandate as prescribed in the constitution and the Global Political Agreement.
PREMIERSHIP champions Gunners, who are boosting their squad for the African Champions League, have signed Shooting Stars defender Daniel Vheremu after beating Dynamos in the race to secure his signature.
PREMIER Soccer League club bosses have admitted they would need to be more committed and embrace the changes sweeping across the global game to ensure the domestic top-flight becomes a viable and professional entity
Civil servants will soon resume paying some of their medical aid contributions, returning to the traditional split seen up to the start of this year and the common position in the private sector.
United Kingdom-based dancehall master Chris Goldfinger says he is looking forward to visiting Zimbabwe and would want to identify talented artistes to work with.
ZIMBABWE is preparing to host its first international boxing tournament since May 2006 when newly crowned World Boxing Organisation African super middleweight champion Tineyi Mharidzo and Pan-African World Boxing Association heavyweight champion Thamsanqa Dube defend their titles.
Three suspected armed robbers who were targeting motorists coming from South Africa along the Harare-Masvingo Road have been arrested.
THE Warriors take on Rwanda in Nairobi today hoping for a change of fortunes and a place in the semi-finals of the 2009 Cosafa Senior Challenge Cup.
ZANU-PF'S Politburo yesterday endorsed the Presidium nominated by the party's 10 provinces ahead of the fifth National People's Congress that starts in Harare tomorrow.
Like a dream come true, Nigerian housemate Kevin was voted the winner of the Big Brother Revolution.
LINGUISTICS is the systematic study of language, and the result, according to Jean Aitchson in her book "Language Change: Progress or Decay?", is that it is a field of study whose expansion has been embraced by psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, anthropologists, teachers, speech therapists and many other disciplines.
Interfin Holdings Limited has taken over CFX Financial Services after CFX shareholders undersubscribed the group's US$10 million rights offer.
THOSE who craved but failed to meet the larger-than-life character of Mother Teresa and witness some of her great charity work can find solace in experiencing something parallel to the legendary mother's benevolence in what is happening in the Mutoko South constituency.
THE 2010 National Budget targets presented by the Minister of Finance Tendai Biti are in congruence with the targets of the Medium Term Plan 2010-2015, and is a vehicle for implementing the plan.
THE streamlining of Government agents operating at the country's border posts that was spelt out in the 2010 budget statement has been viewed as a step in the right direction towards regional integration through the establishment of one-stop border posts in the region.
PIRATES Swimming Club, inspired by 14-year-old James Lawson, won the Mashonaland Senior Champions Swimming Gala at Les Brown on Sunday.
The United Nations has launched a multi million dollar appeal to help Zimbabwe bolster health, education, sanitation and food security, with officials explaining that an alarming number of people are still set to face hunger next year.
A senior United Nations official today begins a three-day mission to Zimbabwe to assess the humanitarian situation and meet with Government officials, aid workers and donors to map out how the UN can support humanitarian and early recovery activities in the Southern African country over the next year.
Negotiators to the Global Political Agreement and the Sadc team appointed by South Africa's President Jacob Zuma are preparing a report for the bloc's Troika chairman President Armando Guebuza of Mozambique on the progress made by the inclusive Government.
Negotiators from ZANU PF and the MDC were expected to present a detailed report on the current state of talks between the parties to their principals on Monday.
BOTSWANA has been at the forefront of giving an African voice to anti-Zimbabwe rhetoric from the United States and European Union going to the extent of citing Zimbabwe, even in its state of the nation address.
DISAGREEMENTS between the three main parties to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) threaten the vital work being carried out by non-governmental organisations (NGOs). NGOs are engaged in an exercise to ensure critical agricultural inputs such as fertiliser and seed reach nearly three quarters of a million villagers throughout the country to avoid reliance on food aid.
Tati Town police last Thursday fined four Zimbabweans after bumping into them in an unventilated freight truck along the Francistown-Maun Road near the Orapa turn off.
Attempts to mend a rift within the national students union took a major step back when a former student was attacked and left for dead by a gang of unknown assailants. Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU) President Clever Bere, locked in a bitter fight with a faction led by former Vice President Brilliant Dube, says he was the target of Friday evening's attack on Benson Matsveruka.
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