Building and strengthening ecosystems of community-based philanthropic organisations

Since the Covid-19 pandemic, organisations in Southern Africa have been exposed to heightened uncertainty. The region has long dealt with the world’s highest rates of HIV and AIDS, unparalleled inequality, high youth unemployment, and the impacts...

SADC CALLS FOR INCREASED HIV DOMESTIC FUNDING

by LENAOctober 14, 2025October 14, 2025095 Share0 Maseru, Oct. 14—Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for increased domestic funding, HIV and Sexual Reproductive Health integration and youth involvement to accelerate progress...

Emeritus eyes over 10% growth

Emeritus managing director, Tarupiwa Tarupiwa told businessdigest that the firm remained optimistic despite the economic uncertainties. BUOYED by a strong performance in 2024, Emeritus Reinsurance is confident of achieving better results in 2025,...

‘General Hospital’ Dominates Daytime Emmys With Seven Wins, Including Top Drama Prize (FULL LIST)

They’re celebrating in Port Charles. ABC’s “General Hospital” dominated the 52nd Daytime Emmys, winning seven prizes on Friday night — including outstanding drama series. “GH” also picked up wins for lead actress in a daytime drama (Nancy Lee...

A coup in South Africa if Ramaphosa fires General Nhlanhla Mkwanazi

Botswana's President is deeply concerned about an imminent coup in South Africa. The revelations from General Nhlanhla Mkwanazi's commission - unpacking the rot in councils and government institutions - have serious repercussions not only for...

Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?

Step into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab in Cambridge, US, and the future feels a little closer. Glass cabinets display prototypes of weird and wonderful creations, from tiny desktop robots to a surrealist sculpture...

Natural World Heritage sites under growing threat, but bright spots remain

Botswana’s fertile Okavango Delta is one of the last remaining high-biodiversity ecosystems in the world, home to cheetahs, African wild dogs, baobab trees, crocodiles, termites and owls that catch fish. Roughly the size of the state of...

An 80-Year-Old Geza's October 17 Uprising Flopped Dismally

A day before the October 17 demonstrations, I wrote an article on Bulawayo24 appealing to youth across tribal divides to sit down-to save lives that could be carelessly lost. I made it clear: an uprising must have a visible leader. Geza, hiding...

Inside our university’s mission to pivot to research

The global challenges of today, from climate-fuelled floods, droughts and heatwaves to food insecurity and health disparities, are felt intensely in Africa. To tackle those, universities on the continent must strengthen their research and...

Highway overhaul to power trade, tourism and industry

Nqobile Bhebhe Zimpapers Business Hub REHABILITATION of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway, together with the proposed upgrade of the Beitbridge-Bulawayo road under a public-private partnership (PPP) model, is expected to accelerate economic...

The age and sex dynamics of heterosexual HIV transmission in Zambia: an HPTN 071 (PopART) phylogenetic and modelling study

The widespread rollout of HIV testing, antiretroviral treatment (ART), and voluntary medical male circumcision (VMMC) in combination prevention programmes has resulted in considerable declines in both AIDS deaths and new HIV infections (UNAIDS...

The Colombo Oval and I

BY S SKANDAKUMAR The majestic Oval scoreboard clock showed ten minutes to three on a Sunday afternoon when our final wicket fell. We had conceded first innings points by a small margin to Moors in a P. Sara Trophy encounter. The year was 1972 and...

Employer denies budget depletion for salary enhancement

The Court of Appeal will today hear arguments in a case brought by labour unions under the 5+1 cooperating unions banner, who are challenging an Industrial Court ruling that allowed the employer to implement its agreement with the Botswana Land...

Drew Barrymore Wins in an Upset Over Kelly Clarkson at 2025 Daytime Emmys

After five years of winning in at least one of her two categories, Kelly Clarkson was shut out at the 2025 Daytime Emmys. The awards were held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif., on Friday (Oct. 17). Mario Lopez hosted the show....

More households with children go hungry, even as food security index improves

More SA households with children went hungry in 2024 than in 2023 — even as the country’s latest food security index showed an improvement. The SA food security index 2025, which reflects last year’s data and was released to mark World Food Day,...

Karan Beef confirms second FMD case at Heidelberg feedlot

Karan Beef has confirmed a second case of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at its feedlot in Heidelberg, KwaZulu-Natal, detected on 1 October. Speaking to Farmer’s Weekly, Dr Dirk Verwoerd, feedlot veterinarian at Karan Beef, said the company...

New African Union Drug Strategy Takes Aim At Synthetic Drugs

The African Union has formally adopted a continent-wide drug strategy aimed at strengthening responses to the manufacture, trafficking and organised crime networks behind synthetic substances, the bloc announced on 10 September 2025. The “Gaborone...

CHIWENGA : STRAIGHT FROM CHITEPO SCHOOL OF IDEOLOGY

Vice-President and Zanu PF second secretary, Constantino Chiwenga, yesterday bravely rode a barrage of hostilities at the party’s annual people’s conference in Mutare, calling out corruption as a vice that has affected Zimbabwe. Chiwenga has been...

BLEEDING IN SILENCE

Qacha’s Nek, 0ct. 16 — Across Lesotho’s quiet hills, there is a silence that bleeds every month, unspoken, unseen and endured behind closed doors. For many girls, menstruation means missed school days. For girls and young women with disabilities,...

Chiwenga rides hostilities in Mutare

VICE-PRESIDENT and Zanu PF second secretary, Constantino Chiwenga VICE-PRESIDENT and Zanu PF second secretary, Constantino Chiwenga, yesterday bravely rode a barrage of hostilities at the party’s annual people’s conference in Mutare, calling out...