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Tech

Comesa Launches Digital Yellow Card Mobile App

developer - February 8, 2023

COMESA Regional Third-Party Motor Vehicle Insurance (Yellow Card) Scheme has launched a Digital Yellow Card Mobile Application designed to provide access to real-time information...

Politics

Hichilema to Meet Mnangagwa Over Kariba Hydro

developer - January 10, 2023

Zambia President Hakainde Hichilema says he will engage his Zimbabwean counterpart, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in a private “family conversation” over the use and management of...

crime

Court Orders Zambian Man To Have Sex With 3 Women

developer - December 1, 2022

The Livingstone Local Court has ordered a 27-year-old man to try and sleep with three different women to ascertain if his ex-girlfriend cast a...

Agriculture

ZAMCOM delivers PIDACC endorsement letters to AfDB

Business Writer - November 19, 2021

Talkmore Gandiwa The Zambezi Watercourse Commission has delivered five endorsement letters to Africa Development Bank as part of the requirements needed to unlock funds that...

Economy

ZRA increases water for power generation

Business Writer - November 5, 2021

Talkmore Gandiwa The Zambezi River Authority has revised upwards the water volume for power generations at Lake Kariba to three billion cubic meters due the...

The re-shaping of the Plunge Pool is part of the Kariba Dam Rehabilitation Programme being undertaken at a cost of US$300m as part of sustaining the infrastructure

General News

ZRA assesses impact of the Zambezi Valley Development Fund

developer - September 17, 2021

Tadiwa Musiyiwa The Zambezi River Authority has started the process towards assessing the performance of the Zambezi Valley Development Fund on the Kariba Dam Rehabilitation...

Lockdown measures implemented to curtail the spread of the COVID-19 virus has seen countries across the world close their borders for non-commercial traveling forcing informal cross border traders to use illegal routes including the Spillway illegal crossing point a few metres away from the Beitbridge Border Post between Zimbabwe and South Africa

Data Watch

Relief for COVID-19 ruined informal cross border traders

Business Writer - September 14, 2021

Nhau Mangirazi & Sydney Kawadza The International Organization for Migrants is rolling out a programme targeted at supporting informal cross border traders who have been...

Companies

Water levels recede at Kariba but ZRA maintains water allocation for...

Business Writer - September 3, 2021

Staff Writer The Zambezi River Authority is maintaining the 42 Billion Cubic Meters (BCM) combined water allocation for power generation operations at Kariba despite water...

The Beitbridge Border Post continues to receive the largest number of human traffic in the SADC region with at least 40 percent of travelers in the region using the busy border post

General News

SADC treks Down South as Beitbridge hosts more travelers in the...

Business Writer - August 24, 2021

Sydney Kawadza More people are trekking to South Africa, ostensibly, in search of greener pastures, goods and services as the country continues to be a...

Almost 48 million people in Southern Africa are food insecure with the situation expected to worsen between November this and March 2021

Agriculture

48 million people food insecure – SADC

Business Writer - August 13, 2021

Sydney Kawadza At least 47.6 million people in Southern Africa are food insecure with rural food insecurity expected to peak between November 2021 and March...