Anesushe Mamhute Chiredzi residents have expressed dissatisfaction with Chiredzi Town Council’s service delivery performance in view of the current cholera outbreak, with uncollected garbage and poorly-maintained public toilets being cited as examples of the local authority’s failures. The council’s Banana Market (pictured) is the sole vegetable informal market in the town, but residents complain that […]

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urgently called upon all Zimbabweans, including those in the diaspora, the international community, United Nations agencies, development and humanitarian partners, international financial institutions, churches, the private sector, and individuals, to “generously donate” in order to mitigate what he has termed a national disaster. This declaration comes after the 2023/2024 summer cropping […]

…several women demonstrate against ‘insensitive’ mine managers Upenyu Chaota A Bikita Minerals shiftman in the production department recently lost his pregnant wife to delivery complications after the mining company emphatically refused to release an ambulance to take her to Harare for emergency specialist care, EnviroPress can report. The 35-year-old Sukholuhle Gumede was wife to Alliston […]

EnviroPress Reporter Benefiting over 2,180 households in rural Zimbabwe, UNDP is partnering with the Ministry of Agriculture to implement ‘Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe with financial support from the Green Climate Fund. Rural provinces including Matabeleland South Province, Masvingo, and Manicaland will receive 21 solar-powered pivot-system irrigation schemes – using […]

Upenyu Chaota City of Masvingo will soon be producing commercial bio-methane gas from sewage and other bio-degradable materials after the local authority partnered the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) to find new use for digesters at the city’s sewage works. Bio-methane, also called renewable gas, is a combustible gas that is produced from biogas that has […]

Stanley Gutu Chibhi had also met Zanu PF provincial leaders in Masvingo where he was allegedly quizzed about the corruption in Bikita. Two senior exec­ut­ives at Bikita Rural Dis­trict Coun­cil (RDC) in Mas­vingo allegedly used a com­pany that they jointly-owned to siphon thou­sands of dol­lars from the local author­ity. However, one of the exec­ut­ives com­mit­ted […]

EnviroPress Reporter Dozens of families in Murape village on the old Nollen Farm are now fetching water for domestic use from an open gully (pictured) because Bikita Minerals closed off a deep protected well that had been their source of potable water for decades. Bikita Minerals claims that the well is located within their mining […]

Peter Makwanya Perfecting the art of resilience building needs to start with the local and inward focus before venturing into the unknown world of climate change adaptation. While collaboration and inclusion of international best practices is key and instrumental in adding value to building capacity to climate action and justice, it is vital that communities […]

…’improving accountability in natural resource governance key to sustainable green future’ Moses Ziyambi The lagging behind of Africa in terms of transitioning to cleaner sources of energy can be rectified by improving the governance of its vast transition minerals which can help power the continent’s future, it has been stated. This was said by researchers, […]

Zimbabwe’s government is struggling to reduce open defecation, a practice that poses serious health and environmental risks, despite its efforts to improve sanitation facilities. Minister of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Jenfan Muswere said Tuesday that open defecation has fallen slightly from 30% in 2020 to 28.6% in 2023, but it remains a challenge. He […]

Clayton Shereni The plunder of diamonds in Chiadzwa by government officials and security officials who work in collaboration with Chinese firms, the gold rush at Hwendedzo and the lithium rushes in Bikita, Goromonzi and Mberengwa may all amount to the resource curse that has come to characterize mining operations in Zimbabwe. With 80 percent of […]

Moses ZiyambiFamilies in the resettlement areas surrounding the iron mines in Manhize where Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) is building a steel manufacturing plant are resisting the slow but systematic evictions being effected by the company.Disco, which is a subsidiary of Chinese steel giant Tsingshan Holdings Group, is extracting iron ore in Manhize Range […]