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Meet the Zimbabwean who paid R8m for a SA bull
Over the weekend, Zimbabwean farmer Collins Tafireyi paid R8 million for a single bull at an auction in Mpumalanga, suddenly bringing attention to his ambition to become one of Africa's biggest pedigr...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:18hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwean cattle rancher shatters auction records in South Africa
In a landmark event for the cattle ranching industry, Collins Tafireyi, a Zimbabwean cattle rancher, shattered auction records today by purchasing a prized Boran Stud bull for an unprecedented R8 mill...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 22:51hrs | 2276 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean farmer buys R1,8m ankole from Ramaphosa
Zimbabwean cattle breeder Collen Tafireyi stole the show at President Cyril Ramaphosa's Ntaba Nyoni cattle auction at his Phala Phala farm near Bela-Bela in Limpopo at the weekend, buying one of the S...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 08:44hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes return to beef export
ZIMBABWE is eager to regain its seat in the beef export sector and is banking on the resuscitation ot the Cold Storage Commission (CSC).Speaking at the launch of the Boran quarantine station a...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt kick-starts artificial insemination programme
THE country's beef and dairy industry is headed for a boom as Government has committed to an extensive livestock revitalisation programme, through a countrywide artificial insemination (AI) exercise t...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe revamping education system
THE Government is revamping the country's education system to ensure it meets the country's economic development needs, President Mnangagwa has said. In a speech read on his behalf by Higher a...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
3 reasons why the Gabon coup failed
Military coup drums continue to beat on the African continent in 2019. At 4:30am on January 7, Lieutenant Kelly Odong Obiang, leader of the Patriotic Youth Movement of the Gabonese Defence and Securit...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Martin R Rupiya
Matabeleland bull fetches $24 000
WHOEVER coined the idiom "laughing all the way to the bank" might have probably had one of Matabeleland region and the country's best cattle rancher and stud breeder, Dr Themba Dlodlo of Nguni Brahman...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bull sold for $24,000 at livestock auction
ZIMBABWE's annual premier breeding livestock auction, National Bull Sale, saw the price for the most expensive beast in the bulls category vault 195 percent to $24 000 up from the $8 400 recorded at l...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
30 killed in ethnic clashes in Kenya
Nairobi - Almost 30 people were killed in clashes between two ethnic groups in northern Kenya, local newspaper The Standard reported Saturday. The fighting continued on Saturday around th...Published: 07 Dec 2013 at 10:42hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean starlet earns 2013 Orsborn award in the US
For the second year in a row, a Bradley Soccer defender has claimed Bradley University's most prestigious athletic department award. Tapiwa Machingauta (Marondera, Zimbabwe/Prince Edward School...Published: 09 May 2013 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by Sports reporter
Nine people killed in Madagascar clashes
Antananarivo - Nine people were killed as police and gendarmes intervened after a gang of armed cattle thieves seized a thousand cattle in southern Madagascar, the gendarmerie said on Sunday.S...Published: 03 Sep 2012 at 03:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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