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Tensions rise at Ministry of Environment and Climate over alleged power struggle in Zimbabwe's carbon credits market
In a stunning development at the Ministry of Environment and Climate in Zimbabwe, daggers are being drawn over the lucrative carbon credits market, with billions at stake over the vast forests in the ...Published: 15 Apr 2024 at 17:08hrs | 89 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bees fend off illegal loggers
Tanaka Ngara (39), who lived in Watsomba village in Zimbabwe's Mutasa district, transformed his fortune through beekeeping, which also successfully helped safeguard his area's dwindling forests....Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pressure group takes ministry to ZMC
MATABELELAND Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has written to the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) complaining about the Environment and Tourism ministry's failure to release the national environmental...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Insiza communities face flash floods
THE Insiza Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has urged villagers to desist from building houses near Mayfair Dam in Insiza district in Matabeleland South to avoid being swept away when the dam spil...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's checkmate for Grace Mugabe
Government has invoked legal measures to protect the Mazowe Dam from a takeover by former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe, who has targeted the picturesque area 30km from Harare for inclusion in her spraw...Published: 26 Aug 2018 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt goes after borehole owners
Government is going after borehole and water wells owners who are defaulting on payments of levies for ground water extraction.According to the Water Act, all ground water is owned by governme...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 16:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tokwe Murkosi Dam renamed
GOVERNMENT is planning to rename Tokwe-Murkosi Dam to Tugwi-Mukosi, as its current name is adulterated Shona used by colonialists, a top official in the Environment, Water and Climate ministry has sai...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe 'disappointed' over US double standards
Donald Trump has made good on his election promise, and pulled the US out of the Paris Agreement. But Zimbabwe isn't excited about it, neither is it surprised by the US' double standards. In an interv...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Jeffrey Gogo
Zimbabwean minister takes South African Airways to court
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has come out in full support of Environment, Water and Climate minister, Oppah Muchinguri's lawsuit against South African Airways (SAA) seeking to compe...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Promises and lies, Mugabe at it again
President Robert Mugabe has intensified his un-official 2018 election campaign by promising to build 17 mini-hydro power stations in dams countrywide.Next year, he will be seeking another term...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Mary Charamba
No funds for Zambezi water project
TREASURY has not yet released the $10 million budgeted to kick-start the initial construction phase of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam, a major component of the long-awaited Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project ...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe roped into new Silk Road framework
Zimbabwe is among the top six African countries China has singled out for its external development programme, which will see Harare get further capital investments besides those the two nations have a...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 08:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt to go ahead with controversial export of live elephants
Harare - President Robert Mugabe's government said on Monday it is going ahead with controversial plans to export live elephants despite resistance from animal rights groups, the state ZBC broadcaste...Published: 09 Feb 2015 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We are still cleansing Zanu-PF,' says Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF national commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere says the ongoing "hullabaloos" in Zanu-PF are aimed at "cleansing" the revolutionary party of ill-driven, unbecoming elements.Speaking on the sid...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 12:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Climate Minister appoints new 8 member Parks board
ENVIRONMENT, Water and Climate Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has appointed an eight member board for Parks and Wildlife Management Authority.The board, chaired by businessman Alvin Ncube was tas...Published: 21 Jun 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinese miners leave trail of destruction in Mat South
ALTHOUGH the Environment, Water and Climate ministry has ordered the cessation of alluvial mining operations by Chinese companies in Matabeleland South following massive land degradation along major r...Published: 15 Dec 2013 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
NIEEB did not celebrate Kasukuwere's departure
THE National Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB) CEO Wilson Gwatiringa says there were no celebrations at the organisation prompted by the removal of Saviour Kasukuwere from the I...Published: 20 Sep 2013 at 09:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Joy as Kasukuwere is demoted
THE removal of Saviour Kasukuwere from the Indigenisation ministry torched celebrations at the National Indigenisation Economic Empowerment Board (NIEEB) by employees who detested his abrasive manage...Published: 13 Sep 2013 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We cannot be cheated any longer,' says Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has vowed to continue with his indigenisation policy of seizing the majority stake in foreign-owned firms.Addressing journalists after the swearing-in of his new cabin...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
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