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Twist in ex-deputy minister's trial
The trial of former Agriculture Deputy Minister Douglas Karoro took a dramatic turn on Friday after the investigating officer openly contradicted key aspects of the State's case during testimony befor...Published: 19 Jul 2025 at 09:07hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leadership accused of plotting against Karoro
ZANU-PF Mbire District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson, Takesure Chikwamba, has been accused of masterminding the arrest of former Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro over fertiliser t...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:28hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Karoro claims Zanu-PF rivals targeting him for successive election defeats
Former Deputy Minister of Agriculture Douglas Karoro has accused political rivals Takesure Chikwamba and Charles Mutukudzi of orchestrating allegations that he stole fertiliser from the Grain Marketin...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 06:52hrs | 766 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ministers' fraud case deferred
FORMER Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development deputy minister Douglas Karoro's fraud case was yesterday postponed again.Karoro, who is being charged along with his accompli...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-deputy minister Karoro trial kicks off
Former Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development deputy minister Douglas Karoro's trial kicked off at the Harare magistrates' court yesterday.He is being charged with Grain Ma...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to 'punish' dishonest cotton farmers
The government is taking action against cotton farmers who were provided with presidential inputs but failed to deliver their crops to the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) during the 2023 selling s...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:47hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF elbows Ex-Minister again
ZANU PF has blocked disgraced former deputy Agriculture Minister and Mbire legislator Douglas Karoro from submitting his nomination papers at the Bindura ...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 14:28hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Drama, heartbreak at Nomination Court
ACROSS the country's 10 provinces, aspiring legislators and councillors filed their nomination papers before the closing of the Nomination Courts at 4pm yesterday with drama and heartbreak in some are...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 31 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Minister's trial date set
Harare regional magistrate Mr Taurai Manuwere has set May 17 as the trial date for former Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Development Douglas Karoro and Grain Marketing Boar...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drug lord in Zanu-PF primary election contest
VIOLENCE mongers, drug lords, and shoddy characters were disqualified from standing for the ruling party in the forthcoming elections as Zanu-PF maintains high ethical standards with rerun polls set t...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 23 | by Mbuso Ndlovu
12 Zanu-PF MPs bite the dust in Mashonaland Central
PRELIMINARY results for the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections in Mashonaland Central indicate that 12 National House of Assembly candidates fell by the wayside in the primary elections held over th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries 'spell chaos'
A RUSHED ruling Zanu-PF party internal poll set for tomorrow could trigger waves of discontentment in the former liberation movement, insiders warned this week.They said the short notice to ho...Published: 17 Mar 2023 at 18:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-deputy minister's theft case in new twist
The state's case against former Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro on Thursday seemed to crumble after the prosecution's star witness exonerated him.Karoro is accused of stealing 700 b...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cotton farmers give Mnangagwa's Intwasa middle finger
Some cotton farmers who got free inputs from President's Emmerson Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza programme have chosen the most unorthodox way to pay back the Zimbabwean leader's presumed benevolence through s...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:15hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Karoro, Masaraure cases deferred to 2023
FORMER Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro's theft case and that of teachers' union leader Obert Masaraure, who faces a charge of obstructing the course of justice, have been postpone...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Witness nails fired deputy minister
THE trial of former Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro who was fired in June this year after being implicated in the theft of inputs sourced under the Presidential Inputs Scheme star...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Minister of Home Affairs promotes fraud suspect
Home Affairs Minister and ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province chairperson Kazembe Kazembe last week promoted Former Cottco boss Maxwell Njanj...Published: 12 Nov 2022 at 19:02hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers troop back
Zanu-PF stalwarts and ex-ministers in the current administration and late former President Robert Mugabe's government are plotting a political comeback after they were cleared by the politburo to cont...Published: 08 Oct 2022 at 21:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF vice chairman plots to expel party MPs
Politicians in ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province are now playing dirty politics in a bid to expel one another as factionalism within the party turns ug...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 22:27hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zacc probes Mayor Wadyajena
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched an investigation into a case involving cotton farming inputs which were stocked at a warehouse linked to Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF non-performers face axe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threatened to wield the axe on poorly performing Zanu-PF members and those deployed in government because they would cost the ruling party in the 2023 elections....Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Court orders code of conduct for VPs, ministers
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota yesterday ordered government to craft a law within 45 days stipulating the code of conduct for Vice-Presidents, ministers and deputy ministers.Mangota ma...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires Karoro
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has removed Deputy Minister of Agriculture Douglas Karoro from office after he was accused of stealing presidential inputs.In a statement Chief Secreta...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 17:43hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Fraud-accused Deputy Minister granted bail
AGRICULTURE deputy minister, Douglas Karoro has been granted ZW$50,000 bail and warned not to interfere with State witnesses.In giving his ruling, Harare Magistrate Stanford Mambanje said the ...Published: 23 May 2022 at 19:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Thieving' deputy minister spends weekend behind bars
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro will spend the weekend behind bars after he was denied bail yesterday in a case where he is facing charges of stealing presidential agricultural ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister Karoro remanded in custody
Court Reporter Agriculture deputy Minister Douglas Karoro today appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court on charges of fraudulently acquiring inputs, which were meant to benefit farmers in Mbire const...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Deputy minister arrested for inputs theft
Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Douglas Karoro was arrested last night on allegations of grabbing 700 bags of fertiliser, US$18 000 worth of maize seed a...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Karoro to spend weekend in remand
The Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Douglas Karoro will spend the weekend behind bars after his case was deferred to 23rd of May 2022.Karoro arri...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:19hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
WATCH: Karoro arriving at Harare magistrates court
Deputy Minister for Agriculture Douglas Karoro who is Mbire MP (Zanu PF) has been dragged to Harare magistrates courts in cuffs today.He was implicated by alleged accomplices who have since ap...Published: 21 May 2022 at 15:59hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Knives out for Minister Karoro
VILLAGERS in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central are breathing fire over Presidential inputs from which they were supposed to benefit but were allegedly swindled by their Member of Parliament Douglas ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 12:13hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe deputy minister in GMB theft scandal
DEPUTY Agriculture minister Douglas Karoro is embroiled in a scandal involving the alleged theft of a huge consignment of fertiliser from Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depot at Mushumbi in Mbire....Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Minister sucked in fertiliser scam
Lands deputy minister and Mbire Member of Parliament, Douglas Karoro, has been implicated in a presidential inputs scam after allegedly acquiring fertiliser from the government programme under the gui...Published: 11 May 2022 at 19:16hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt says Zimbabwe faces deadly famine
Deputy minister of agriculture, Douglas Karoro, has said the drought experienced during the 2021/22 farming season has adversely affected the country's food security situation.In a speec...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe won't apologise for land reforms'
THE successful agrarian reform that corrected land ownership imbalances remains irreversible as evidenced by the Second Republic's bankrolling beneficiaries' activities to help Zimbabwe regain its bre...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs reject proposed land policy
TRADITIONAL leaders have rejected the proposed land policy saying it does not reflect the country's cultural values as it sidelines chiefs who are the custodians of the land.The Ministry of La...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after unutilised farms
GOVERNMENT has said underutilised land will be repossessed and redistributed to people on the waiting list during the on-going land audit to flush out multiple farm owners.Farms allocated to i...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe's victory a bonus for the opposition
MDC Alliance supporters in Mashonaland Central are reportedly upbeat following the unconfirmed election victory of ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province ch...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 09:58hrs | 10 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe Kazembe in near fist fight
THERE was a near fist fight between Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and Lands Water and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro at during Zanu-PF inter-district meeting at Mahuwe Growth Point...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Matobo villagers construct own dam
VILLAGERS of Nathisa area in ward 16, Matobo district, have completed the construction of a dam, named Zenzeleni.Matobo Rural District Council (RDC) chief executive Elvis Sibanda described the...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:15hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Qualified farm managers for all A2 farms
All A2 fanners are now required to hire qualified farm managers Lands, Agriculture, Water, Fisheries and Rural Resettlement deputy minister Douglas Karoro revealed. Speaking at Penmure Researc...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt projects 10% growth in agric sector
GOVERNMENT has projected a 10% growth in the agricultural sector during the 2021/22 farming season, an official has said.Agriculture has been contributing 34% to Zimbabwe's gross domestic prod...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco production target raised to 300 million kgs
The new tobacco selling season opened yesterday with Government hoping that the industry cannot just survive at present levels but raise production to 300 million kilogrammes annually through the impl...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo dams were decommissioned owing to low water levels
THE Bulawayo City Council said it decommissioned its three supply dams due to dwindling water levels, contrary to reports that it was because of siltation.Early this year, council decommission...Published: 24 Sep 2020 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cities left with less than a year of water supply
WATER supplies in many cities and towns in the country are dwindling, while local authorities face additional challenges of shortages of chemicals and broken down pipes and pumps, Lands deputy ministe...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi under fire over truant ministers
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, who is also leader of government business in the House, was on Wednesday grilled by Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda for failing to commandeer fellow Ca...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Wheat farmers hit by power cuts
THE long hours of power cuts being implemented by Zesa has hit hard on the country's winter wheat farming with yields now expected to drastically go down.Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture,...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Wheat farmers hit by power cuts
THE long hours of power cuts being implemented by Zesa has hit hard on the country's winter wheat farming with yields now expected to drastically go down.Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture,...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe imports maize for drought stricken areas
AT least 720 000 metric tonnes of maize is being imported by Government to alleviate hunger in drought- stricken areas following high incidence of crop failure during the 2018-2019 agricultural season...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 11:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War Vets warn of unrest
Former freedom fighters are up in arms with government over the ongoing land downsizing programme as they warned of a national security risk if the matter is not handled with care. This comes ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has created equal opportunities, claims Minister
President Mnangagwa's administration has created an environment for equal access to economic opportunities between men and women since coming into power in November 2017, a senior Government official ...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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