Great Zimbabwe Times

By Mambume Rutendo A Youth led organisation that champions youth leadership participation gender equality and the health and rights of adolescence and young people My Age Zimbabwe in partnership with  Population Service Zimbabwe with the support from Embassy of Sweden in Zimbabwe has officially launched the 263 Youth Studio. The Studio will be broadly hosting programs that contributes to reaching out to its targeted audience through digital interventions like digital conversations, talk shows, documentaries, dialogues and street youths. Various organisations including Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council, Say What, and Ministry of Health and Child Care attended the event Population Services Zimbabwe director, Pester Siraha said that she hopes for the studio to be used in amplifying the young people’s voices. “The digital technology is a good platform to capitalise young people’s talents and the studio will bring a great potential to point out many challenges and solutions being fa

By Rutendo Mambume The Youth Business occurred at Masvingo Civic Centre on 11 November 2022 with the young exhibitors expressing optimism that the expo will provide them with diverse opportunities to help their business grow and expand. Organised by the Administrative Officer Youth Development and Empowerment department under Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation with the support of Masvingo City Council, the gathering was running under the theme, ”Revitalising And Empowering Youth in Business Across Value Chain” . The Administrative Officer Youth, Godwin Mazarire, who is the organizer of the event said that the expo was one of the measures taken inorder to empower the youth by facilitating a platform to network, showcase and market their products. ”Our youth should be cognisant of the fact that they are the majority of our population demography hence we cannot talk of economic development without involving them,” he said. The youth managed to interface with the critical playe

By Rutendo Mambume REAL estate mogul Goddard Dunira says Victoria Ranch Suburb will become a land full of the proverbial milk and honey. The well-known land developer who owns several lodges and shopping malls in Masvingo says he and others are trying to utilize space in the suburb in order to show the merits of developing land.  “We are trying to teach Zimbabweans on the value of real estate as opposed to most insurance schemes and policies so that we emancipate ourselves from economic slavery and economic inferiority,” he said. Dunira is managing Safaris and Fish Eagles lodges in Chivi and has constructed a shopping mall at Victoria Ranch known as Dunira G Mall.  He has electrified the mall which is now a bastion of activities especially during weekends when people congregate at the shopping complex.  Dunira G Mall boasts of beer halls, butcheries, supermarkets, food outlets and hardware centres. Shop space has been let out to happy small business owners who are pleased with high pat

By Angeline Zimbwani Mikiri  Masvingo Polytechnic College is moving with the times.  The college which held a colourful and well organised 28th graduation ceremony recently has adopted Education 5.0. This equips students with skills that empower them to provide innovative solutions to developmental challenges through transformative science and technology, and knowledge application that delivers goods and services. In his speech at the graduation ceremony, the Principal, Engineer  Callisto Muzongondi  highlighted that "It is our conviction as an institution that it is through collaborative research, innovation and industrialisation that we can meaningfully contribute to the countrys bid to attain a prosperous upper middle income economy status by 2030." Collaborative research can be defined as research involving coordination  between the researchers, institutions, organisations and communities. This coordination brings distinct expertise to a project. Innovation is the practic