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Chiyangwa farm battle turns nasty
More than 150 families at Old Citrus Farm, located on the outskirts of Chinhoyi, find themselves homeless after their homes and belongings were destroyed amid a contentious land ownership dispute. The...Published: 20 Oct 2024 at 12:20hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Of patriotism, Mahere and Zanu-PF's duplicity
NOW that the hubbub and furore over Fadzayi Mahere's submission at a recent UN summit in Geneva, Switzerland, has substantially died down, it is time for a sober, frank and honest reflection on whethe...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Spooks assault Chamisa's activist
A MEMBER of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zaka, Tafara Chimwaradze, was on Monday briefly abducted and assaulted by known Central Intelligence Organisation operatives while at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates farming equipment, bus to Solusi
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday donated an assortment of equipment that will help transform the Seventh Day Adventist-run Solusi University in Figtree, with the consignment including tractors with ploug...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister exposes vote-buying plot
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has unwittingly exposed Zanu-PF's plot to use State resources to buy votes ahead of next year's polls.Addressing villagers in the Chinyamukwakwa a...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar shortage bites
THE government will today give an update on contracts it suspended last month pending a pricing review as pressure mounts for it to honour its obligations.Last month, as part of measures to sa...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC lock horns in Bulilima
FIVE political parties are contesting in the Bulilima district by-elections for three vacant local government seats as they seek to test their popularity in Matabeleland South ahead of the 2023 electi...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 25 May 2022 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by John Mbizvo
ZANU-PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:05hrs | 10 | by John Mbizvo, Political Analyst
Zanu-PF MP protests abuse of agric inputs
ZANU-PF legislator for Magunje has taken Lands Minister Anxious Masuka over the continued abuse and mismanagement of farm inputs distributed to local farmers under government schemes.Speaking ...Published: 22 Feb 2021 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
What ZANU PF would do as an Opposition - PART 1
It was at the funeral gathering of the late MDC Alliance MP, Anna Muyambo (MHSRIP) where Job Sikhala noted that the MDC Alliance, despite its so called huge following and popularity, will still be elu...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Robert Sigauke, Political Commentator, Johannesburg
Zanu-PF member attacked in intra-party violence
ZANU-PF Manicaland provincial committee member, Moses Gutu was on Sunday evening attacked at his farm in Nyanga by suspected fellow party members as intra-party violence continues to rear its ugly hea...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Intra-party violence rocks Zanu-PF
ZANU PF Manicaland provincial committee member, Moses Gutu was on Sunday evening attacked at his farm in Nyanga by suspected fellow party members as intra-party violence continues to rear its ugly hea...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
War vets are worse than Zedera
The Secretary General of the former liberation fighters, Victor Matemadanda, is never short of coming with something ridiculous.What he smokes is a mystery .This time he is calling for a legislation t...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 19:16hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Best economic models that Zimbabwe government can adopt
Apparently we have the following challenges in our mainstream economy - Production levels are very low ( imports exceeding exports therefore balance of payments affected-&nbs...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 22:17hrs | 18 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Presidential Inputs sold in Zambia
UNSCRUPULOUS individuals in Binga District, Matabeleland North Province are allegedly crossing the Zambezi River to sell in Zambia farming inputs they received under the Presidential Inputs Scheme....Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 27 | by newZwire with The Source
Farm inputs prices skyrocket
The farming inputs such as fertilizer and maize seeds prices have escalated to unbearable levels as the farmers prepare for the farming season this year.The increases come at a time when the c...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 17:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Matibiri in trouble over $190 000
Police Deputy Commissioner-General, Innocent Matibiri, has been taken to court by Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a $190 000 farm inputs debt.Through its lawyers Muvingi and Mugadza, the tobacco ...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's army salary increase ploy to buy votes
THE decision by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to award salary increases to the security services sector a few weeks before this month's crucial election is a stark reminder of how far the ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Staff rpeorter
Zanu PF official denies villagers agricultural inputs for associating with MDC-T
A Zanu PF District Provincial Chairperson for Wedza is reported to have denied villagers farm inputs because they were MDC-T activists.This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Peace Project in its la...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Made managed Mugabe, Grace's farms'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa lampooned former Agriculture minister Joseph Made saying during his tenure he spent time managing former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's farms instead of inspecting...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Winning elections and yielding power needs political strategy
Politics has different dynamics and people should know that winning elections and yielding power is something different altogether. History has repeated itself that Morgan Tsvangirai commands a huge f...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 09:29hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zanu PF is rigging elections already with Moyo's 'connectedness' - MDC must be forced to see it
Zanu PF is already busy rigging the elections, there is no chance of opposition dislodging them from power. The only reason Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC friends will not give up the claim of winning ...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 23:24hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Chiwenga challenges farm inputs debt claim
Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga's divorced wife, Jocelyn Chiwenga, has challenged the $99 000 agricultural inputs debt she allegedly owes a local supplier.Jocely...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the verge of collapsing
Zimbabwe is experiencing economic turmoil probably because of lack of priorities and policy inconsistency. We have serious economic complications in this country because of failure to adhere to good e...Published: 24 Mar 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Open letter to Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF)
22 February 2017.Open letter to the leadership of Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF).Ref: In Defence of Dr Joshua Mqabuko KaNyongolo Nkomo.Dear Dr Churchill Guduza - De...Published: 22 Feb 2017 at 04:45hrs | 2 | by Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena
Daggers drawn against Mutodi
Learnmore Marikomo who is Energy Mutodi's political and business issues advisor and spokesperson has claimed that daggers have been drawn against his boss for allegedly insulting President Rober...Published: 07 Feb 2017 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe told to cut short his overseas holiday and return home
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has implored President Robert Mugabe to cut short his overseas holiday and return home to attend to the country's mounting economic crisis and threats of mass starv...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Provincial highlights of political instability in the country ahead of by elections
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has released provincial highlights of the March April period concerning the political instability in the country as the nations gears towards the June 10 by elections....Published: 18 May 2015 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's 5 grim realities
In the last three months there have been at least two articles by renowned academics outlining how Zimbabwe is either undergoing the 'politics of despair' or alternatively how our 'darkest hour ...Published: 26 Apr 2015 at 17:02hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha
Concerns over the centralized government system
MDC CHAIRMAN for Matabeleland South Pilate Ndebele has called for more dam construction in Matabeleland in order to counter drought which has always characterized the provinces indicating that this ye...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 07:17hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T, Zanu-PF activists clash over Mugabe farm inputs
Police last Thursday intervened and quelled a potentially riotous situation at Donsa business centre after MDC-T and Zanu PF supporters clashed over the distribution of inputs sourced under the Pr...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa calls on Made to resign
Mercurial Hurungwe West legislator, Temba Mliswa, last week tore once more into Joseph Made, the Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation, and Irrigation Development, saying he should immediately re...Published: 19 Feb 2015 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru friends targeted
Supporters of ousted vice president Joice Mujuru are now being targeted in ways previously used by the ruling Zanu-PF party only against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), according ...Published: 05 Feb 2015 at 08:24hrs | | by Sapa
Mujuru loyalists denied inputs
THE Zanu-PF factional fights have reportedly taken a nasty turn, with party members perceived to be sympathetic to ousted former Vice-President Joice Mujuru denied access to agricultural inputs so...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man runs over mother, commits suicide
IN an incident that has left villagers shell shocked, a man from Shurugwi resettlement area went berserk and ran over his mother before committing suicide by hanging following a misunderstanding with...Published: 11 Jan 2015 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
More expulsions loom in Zanu-PF
THE net is closing in on Zanu-PF officials suspected of corruption with party insiders saying those caught on the wrong side of the law would, apart from being prosecuted, lose both party and governme...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
Unity Day statement by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
Unity Day 2014: Critical point for reflection by progressives Unity Day on 22 December 2014, next Monday, is an opportune time to remind the country tha...Published: 20 Dec 2014 at 12:47hrs | | by Dr Dumiso Dabengwa
Zanu PF big wig sucked in farm inputs fraud
ZANU-PF Central Committee member Absolom Sikhosana was on Thursday detained overnight by angry farmers, while national director for youth affairs Tapiwa Zengeya was force-marched from the Willowva...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tobacco farmers should opt for other crops
On 14 October 2014 The NewsDay reported that the number of tobacco growers who registered for the 2015 agricultural season declined when compared to the number of farmers who registered last year ...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 07:58hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano
6000 households receive farm inputs in Mat South
MORE than 6 000households have received seed maize in Matabeleland South Province under the Presidential Inputs Scheme for the 2013-14 farming season, the provincial Grain Marketing Board (GMB) manage...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 15:47hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Politics in rural Zimbabwe: The Untold stories!
Politics in rural Zimbabwe is for the strong and those who have green horns.Having attended my aunt's funeral in the Midlands province,i managed to find a seat and listen to the villagers as they ...Published: 19 Jan 2013 at 21:23hrs | | by Conilious Toga
Gwanda: ZANU PF councilor selling donated maize seed
Villagers in the Gwanda South area of Matabeleland have reported that a war vet named Witness Sebata, who is also the councillor for ward 11, is selling maize seeds and fertilizer that are supposed to...Published: 07 Jan 2011 at 21:25hrs | 5 | by Byo24NEWS
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