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Matabeleland South men take up women's domestic roles: Report
MOST men in Matabeleland South have assumed the role of fetching water for domestic use, a task usually regarded as feminine, a recent research has established.A Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessm...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:44hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records rise in malnutrition
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has recorded a sharp increase in malnutrition cases in the past few months owing to a prolonged Covid-19-induced lockdown. This comes as at least2 0...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:34hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails vaccination programme
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwe's ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme, which is progressing well with the country having the eighth highest vaccination rate in Africa and third in the South...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:33hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
40% rural folk relies on unsafe water: Report
The government has been urged to provide free water treatment methods to 40% of the rural communities that are still dependent on surface and unprotected sources.This was revealed in the Zimba...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:07hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo has highest number of never married households heads
BULAWAYO has the highest number of heads of households who have never been married and the lowest percentage of couples living together.The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee ZimVAC (...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 16:39hrs | 2758 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo accounts for most child headed families
BULAWAYO has the highest number of child headed families across all urban centres in the country, resulting in wayward behaviour. The Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2020 ...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 505 | by Staff reporter
2,4m urban households food insecure: ZimVAC
APPROXIMATELY 2,4 million Zimbabweans in urban areas are struggling to meet their basic food needs, the latest report by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) has revealed.I...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:55hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt cuts off Covid-19 allowances
ABOUT 60 000 vulnerable urban families hard hit by the ravaging effects of Covid-19 last received cushion allowances from government in September 2020 as Treasury has no resources to finance the socia...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 08:11hrs | 5414 | by Staff reporter
Food distribution programme ends
GRAIN distribution to vulnerable households will be discontinued next month while the Government recalibrates the programme to target only households that fail to harvest adequate grain this season, P...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 12:26hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Concern over open defecation increase
MATABELELAND North and South provinces are failing to shed off the tag of having the highest number of people practising open defecation in the country, a latest ZimVAC report has revealed. Th...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
'Millions going hungry in Zimbabwe'
MILLIONS of Zimbabweans, especially those living in rural areas, are facing hunger and starvation, a new report by relief agencies says.The report by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Comm...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 21:33hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Food sovereignty in Zimbabwe is a human rights issue
With Covid 19 is ravaging and weighing heavily on the socio-economic well being of Zimbabwe, there is a far worse pandemic bedevilling the country in the form food insecurity and food injustice....Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 12:14hrs | 160 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Zimbabwe records surge in household aid
ZIMBABWE has recorded an increase in the number of households receiving food aid among other forms of support from non-governmental organisations (NGOs) as hunger and the harsh economic climate takes ...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:11hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe children malnourished as Covid-19 crisis deepens, says Steve Hanke
ECONOMISTS believe that food shortages and lockdowns have led to an acute rise in malnutrition cases among children in Zimbabwe. Data reveals that one in three children in the country are malnourished...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 06:01hrs | 327 | by Agencies
WFP seeks US$204m to feed hungry Zimbabweans
NEARLY half of Zimbabwe's population, including the urban poor face hunger by March this year, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday as it launched an appeal for an additional U...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:15hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South in need of health care facilities
ABOUT 25 percent of people in Matabeleland South are still forced to walk more than 10km to the nearest health care facility.The World Health Organisation recommends that health facilities sho...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:18hrs | 475 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to raise Covid-19 household payouts to $1,000
Government has increased the Covid-19 cash transfers to vulnerable households to ZWL1,000 (USD12) per month from a paltry ZWL300 (USD3,50). Government has further mulled its intention to ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 10:09hrs | 1651 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling groceries from SA new Covid-19 frontier
FOR most families in Zimbabwe, the days leading to month-end are a painful slog because the meagre salaries people earn do not last the distance.As soon as the funds run out, the rat race begi...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Hunger hits Zanu-PF stronghold
Hungry Buhera villagers are emptying their cattle pens as they are being forced to exchange their cattle for grain.This was said by several Zanu-PF councillors who spoke to The Mirror in inter...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:22hrs | 4003 | by Staff reporter
Corruption stifles economic growth
United States Agency for international development (USAid) country director, Stephanie Funk (SF), says failed economic policies and corruption, and not Western sanctions, are hindering Zimbabwe's econ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:13hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
America gives US$18 million Coronavirus funding to Zimbabwe
The United States Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has committed an additional $10 million in response to COVID-19. The funds will go to the World Food Progra...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 12:37hrs | 872 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Malinga calls for urgent food aid in Matabeleland North
A national food security watchdog has called for an urgent food aid intervention in the drought stricken Matabeleland North Province. Addressing journalist in Bulawayo on Friday, Eye on Food S...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:37hrs | 546 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe expecting a 17% increase in maize production
Zimbabwe is expecting to record an estimated 17% increase in maize production for the 2019/20 agricultural season, but the output is still short of the country’s national requirements.The so...Published: 06 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food situation gallops to alarming levels'
ZIMBABWE'S food crisis is expected to worsen and reach new lows by June this year, with about 4,3 million citizens expected to be food insecure.According to the Global Report on Food Crises fo...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:28hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Vendors most affected by lockdown - ZimVac report
Urban households involved in the informal sector like petty trade and vending are likely to be hard-hit by the 21-day lockdown declared by government to c...Published: 16 Apr 2020 at 00:41hrs | 811 | by Moyo Roy
Covid-19 Zim Lockdown: Gendered impacts, implications and effects on women and girls as primary caregivers
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a global challenge that affects our lives and our work. Zimbabwe is under a total lockdown for a period of 21 days from Monday 30th March 2020 as a precautionary and m...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 15:21hrs | 626 | by Alfred Towo
Parents of Zimbabwe school dropouts face jail
Parents in Zimbabwe could face up to two years in jail if they fail to send their children to school.The government has made education compulsory up to the age of 16 to stem rising school drop...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 11:08hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
'Lawyers still looking at Nssa report'
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza has been in her post for just over a year. During her tenure she has had to deal with various issues, including the current drought, the...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 376 | by Staff reporter
Starvation to hit Zimbabwe
Food security is a matter of strategic national importance. Issues of food security affect us all regardless of colour, Creed and political affiliation. The issue of food security caused migrati...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:42hrs | 3371 | by Nicholas Ncube
Food relief for urban poor
Government is working on providing food aid in urban areas to ensure the estimated 2,2 million food insecure people living in towns do not go hungry, with a pilot project on indentifying the vulnerabl...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 06:51hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins grain imports
Government has bought 20 000 tonnes of maize from Tanzania and is in active discussions with other countries in the region, particularly Zambia, as it moves to procure more than 1 million tonnes, it h...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt launches US$500 million food aid appeal
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with the World Food Programme (WFP) and other international development partners yesterday launched a revised humanitarian appeal of almost US$500 million to assist people in...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:29hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
59% of Zimbabwe rural population food insecure
At least 59% of the rural population will be food insecure at the peak of the consumption season, the latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC) livelihoods report has revealed....Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Households with HIV and Aids up
THE number of households with at least one member living with HIV and Aids has increased by 12 percent with the recently released Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee report showing that antire...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
More than half of households in Matebeleland using bush toilet
ZIMBABWEANS in Matebeleland North are still using the bush to relieve themselves, a 2019 Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVac) report has said.According to the report, Binga dis...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 08:03hrs | 496 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF sidelines villagers in food distribution
Zanu-PF leadership and traditional leaders are marginalising rural dwellers in dire need of food aid by distributing handouts along partisan lines, the latest Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) report has r...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:29hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Switzerland allocates US$1.1 million to Cyclone Idai appeal
Switzerland has allocated an additional CHF1 million (US$1.1 million) in humanitarian assistance following the UN and the Government of Zimbabwe's Flash Appeal that was launched at the end of February...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 22:28hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Heatwave threatens to slash harvests in drought-hit Zimbabwe
Despite a dry year, Sazini Moyo's maize crop had been pushing up tassels and she anticipated a decent harvest -- until her farm outside Bulawayo sweltered through a record five-day heatwave in late Fe...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 16:53hrs | 1609 | by Reuters
2,4m Zimbabweans food insecure as drought, rising costs bite
The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come....Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 451 | by IRIN
City dwellers to get food relief
Government will this year spread its food aid programme to vulnerable households in urban areas, as it moves to cushion residents against the fallout from El Nino-induced dry weather conditions, parti...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:45hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe is food secure'
GOVERNMENT still insists that Zimbabwe will be food secure this year, despite signs of drought already showing due to erratic rainfall patterns throughout the country.Labour and Social Welfare...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 622 | by Staff reporter
87% children in Zimbabwe malnourished
ABOUT 87 percent of children under the age of five years in Zimbabwe do not have access to the minimum required diet necessary for physical and mental development, statistics show.The Zimbabwe...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 07:52hrs | 289 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe interface rallies escalating human rights violations
Zimbabwe Peace Project has said numerous human rights violations have been propelled by presidential youth interface rallies.The organisation said students have been forced to attend rallies f...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 08:12hrs | 728 | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers' union seeks Mugabe intervention over fees
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has urged President Robert Mugabe to direct schools in the countryside to stop chasing away pupils over failure to pay tuition fees.Th...Published: 03 Aug 2017 at 08:36hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland South gets highest foreign remittances
MATABELELAND provinces received the highest amount in diaspora remittances last year, new figures show.Matabeleland South came top accounting for 31,4 percent followed by Matabeleland North wh...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Cash crisis biggest headache in Zimbabwe
THE prevailing cash challenges are the major problem affecting rural households in the country, the latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report has said.The 2017 Rural L...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:58hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe maize production up 286% from a low base
The 2016/17 agricultural season registered a 280 percent increase in average household maize production from the previous year, the latest Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) report r...Published: 27 Jul 2017 at 06:45hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Govt resumes maize distribution in Bulawayo
THE Government has resumed maize distribution in Bulawayo with beneficiaries getting their allocations dating back to March.The distribution of maize was suspended in February owing to transpo...Published: 19 Jun 2017 at 06:51hrs | | by Staf reporter
Southern Zimbabwe faces food crisis
PARTS of southern Zimbabwe could experience food shortages in the wake of cyclone Dineo whose downpour caused floods in the region, resulting in crop fields being either washed away or swamped....Published: 09 Mar 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
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