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In the IANA time zone database, Zimbabwe is given one zone in the file zone.tab – Africa/Harare."ZW" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.Data for Zimbabwe directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns marked with * are the columns from zone.tab itself: [4]
Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, [3] with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most common. Zimbabwe is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa. The region was long inhabited by the San, and was settled by Bantu peoples around 2000 years ago.
Central Africa Time or CAT, is a time zone used in central and southern Africa. Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+02:00 ), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time , Egypt Standard Time , Eastern European Time , Kaliningrad Time and Central European Summer Time .
TIL in 2023, Zimbabwe signed control over almost 20% of the country's land to Blue Carbon, an Emirati company, for $1.5 billion. The company seeks to conserve forests that might otherwise be ...
Due to the large size of the British company rule in Rhodesia, it meant Rhodesia observed three standards of time: UTC+01:30, +2:15 and +2:30; this was problematic for the railway system, so on 1 August 1899 the standard time zones UTC+02:30 was adopted nationwide, [10] consequently resulting in this being the first standard time in Africa.
Romania (standard time) The westernmost part, including Timişoara; Russia Kaliningrad Oblast; Lithuania (standard time) The westernmost part, including Klaipėda; Latvia (standard time) The westernmost part, including Liepāja; Estonia (standard time) The westernmost parts of the Saare and Hiiu counties. Finland (standard time)
In Zimbabwe's 2023 general election, 210 members of the National Assembly were elected to the National Assembly – one for each parliamentary constituency. The Constitution of Zimbabwe provides for a further 60 female members, representing a women's quota, as well as a further 10 youth members' quota, made up of 10 candidates aged 21–35, chosen by proportional representation based on the ...
English is spoken primarily in the cities, but less so in rural areas. Television news is broadcast in English, Shona and Ndebele though the local languages time slot falls out of prime viewing time, but radio broadcasts in English, Ndebele, Shona, Kalanga, Nambya, Venda, Suthu and Tonga. English, Ndebele and Shona are given far more airtime.