Travel agents’ representative takes helm of Zimbabwe tourism council
by BERNARD CHIKETO KATHY Kathewela, a representative of the Association of Zimbabwe Travel Agents, was elected president of the Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe (TBCZ) at the industry body’s annual general meeting last Thursday, becoming the first agent to hold the post and its youngest leader to date.
NetOne Turns 30, Links Specialists with Rural Healthcare Facilities
by NORMA TSOPO FOR three decades, NetOne has been a utility of sorts, a state-backed giant tasked with keeping Zimbabweans talking.
The Fining Game
Has Zimbabwe’s tourism regulator discovered a new way to improve business and accountability or a new revenue stream through on-the-spot penalties? by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR AN industry that trades on warm welcomes and jaw-dropping beautiful landscapes, Zimbabwe’s tourism sector has always had a slightly edgy relationship with rules.
Manicaland Bets on Pine Resin to Douse Old Conflicts
by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR decades, the vast pine plantations of Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands have been a landscape of latent wealth and recurring loss.
RIVERS OF DEATH
Drowning toll rises as locals defy flood warnings in three tragic incidents by NORMA TSOPO DEADLY currents have claimed four lives in a grim 72-hour nightmare as locals play Russian roulette with mother nature’s fury – including a boy who clung to a cow’s tail to cross a flooded river.
Courting the diaspora: Zimbabwe’s tourism pitch to Atlanta
by BERNARD CHIKETO BARBARA Rwodzi, Zimbabwe’s tourism minister, took her investment roadshow to Atlanta recently. Her audience was not a gathering of American hoteliers or sovereign wealth funds, but a cluster of Zimbabwean expatriates.
Integrated immunization drive against HPV, Diphtheria-Tetanus
by NORMA TSOPO MINISTRY of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) will launch a five-day integrated vaccination campaign from June 15th to 19th 2026, targeting both the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) and Tetanus-Diphtheria (Td) vaccines at schoolchildren and out-of-school youth.
Zimbabwe’s first global biodiversity prize
The Save Valley Conservancy joins the Amazon and the Serengeti on the list of places the planet cannot lose by BERNARD CHIKETO ZIMBABWE has its first globally recognised Key Biodiversity Area.
Death at Bikita Minerals’ lithium mine
by BERNARD CHIKETO ANOTHER worker has died at Bikita Minerals, a lithium mine in eastern Zimbabwe. Two, in fact, over the same weekend.