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Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 890 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
Mugabe's son in-law demands US$500,000 divorce settlement
THE late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's son-in-law Simbarashe Mutsahuni Chikore has lifted the lid on how the family benefited from State largesse as he listed the family's riches in the cou...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:13hrs | 1867 | by Staff reporter
Ex-wife breaks into hubby's room steals
A 31-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe woman was dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday facing unlawful entry and theft charges at her ex-husband's house.Spiwe Chakasara pleaded not guilty to the ...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 11:45hrs | 1049 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU-PF chairman acquitted
ZANU-PF Mazowe chairperson for ward 21 who was accused of stealing seven bags of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer which were meant for Pfumvudza pr...Published: 15 Apr 2023 at 09:11hrs | 1373 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZANU PF vice chairman steals fertilizer
ZANU PF Mazowe chairperson for ward 21 allegedly stole seven bags of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer which were meant for Pfumvudza program.Brack Mazenge (63) was dragged to Concession magistrate ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 17:19hrs | 1057 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe embassy gets land from Senegal for production of white maize
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Senegal has been availed with more land to spearhead the production of white maize in a diplomatic show of food security initiatives that the continent is putting in place....Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 07:50hrs | 3719 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe govt projects are for Zanu-PF members only'
Zanu-PF'S Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Daniel Garwe has told party supporters that only those who believe in the ruling party's leadership will benefit from government programmes.Ad...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor 'steals' fertiliser
A Zanu-PF councillor in Buhera South, Manicaland province, is in the eye of a storm after villagers accused him of stealing fertiliser meant for distribution to villagers under the Presidential Inputs...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:35hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Village heads reject Presidential inputs
Village heads from ward 37 in Gutu Central have refused to receive 200 bags of Compound D fertiliser brought for distribution under the Presidential Inputs Scheme by the local councillor.The d...Published: 23 Jan 2023 at 05:46hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter
Causes of food inflation in Zimbabwe
The World Bank recently released a report of the countries hardest hit by food inflation in the world. Zimbabwe tops that list with food inflation of 353% in the month of August 2022, beating Lebanon ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:11hrs | 1347 | by Victor Bhoroma
Agronomist publishes a Shona version Tobacco farming handbook
Farmers can now read the technical advice on Tobacco growing in shona and improve their farming practices. This is after a shona handbook entitled '...Published: 11 Dec 2022 at 20:02hrs | 465 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's personalization of government programs divisive and counter-productive
So, now there is a 'Miners for ED' group!Another, in a long line of shady organizations that have mushroomed over the recent past – a...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 16:06hrs | 1536 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF councillor bludgeons CCC activist for demanding presidential farming inputs
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was Friday seriously injured following a machete attack by a local Zanu-PF ward councillor for demanding free Presidential farming inputs.The vi...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history
Zimbabwe says it is on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large part to efforts to overcome food supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine. But bush fires and impending ra...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 19:19hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Pair in court over fake fertiliser
TWO Harare men yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with fraud after they tried to sell fake fertiliser mixed with sand.Sean Joubert and Charles Gumbeze appeared before m...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | 407 | by Staff reporter
Sable Chemicals trying to displace farmers in Mnangagwa's backyard
Leading fertilizer producer Sable Chemicals has come under-fire for reportedly trying to displace resettled farmers in Kwekwe's Sherwood Block to pave way for citrus and dairy farming projects....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
'Operation no to accident victims theft'
A Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) blitz at Lundi Business Centre in Mwenezi led to the recovery of 7 000 litres of diesel and other goods including 550 kg of fertilizers, grocery items like...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:42hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway on Government radar
GOVERNMENT has shifted focus to rehabilitating and modernising the Beitbridge-Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway as the Second Republic continues accelerating infrastructural development.Yesterda...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:30hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Mazowe Villagers to receive USD $30K
More than 20 villagers who lost property at Arnold Farm in Mazowe after being evicted by former First Lady Grace Mugabe are set to receive US$30 000 in compensation.The villagers lost property...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 19:40hrs | 1036 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
Tobacco farmers to improve leaf quality
Senior agronomist Lazarus Gatawa has urged Tobacco farmers, with special reference to small-scale farmers who now constitute more than 90% of active tobacco farmers in the country to upgrade their lea...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 08:07hrs | 122 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Dubai Zimbabwe's second-largest gold market
THE United Arab Emirates (UAE) has consolidated its position as Zimbabwe's second-largest export destination as gold shipments to the region continue to grow, a new report by the country's statistical...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:24hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Grain middlemen and speculators fight GMAZ
Powerful grain traders and speculators who buy grain from state owned enterprises and resell it to millers at an exorbitant price are up in arms with the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe for cutt...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 09:32hrs | 981 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Villagers attack MP over fertilizer allocation
VILLAGERS in Murewa South constituency are up in arms with their legislator, Nyasha Masoka (Zanu-PF), accusing him of diverting fertiliser meant for them to his own use.They have taken to soci...Published: 28 May 2022 at 08:51hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
132% inflation no cause for 'panic', says Mthuli Ncube
Zimbabwe is taking steps to tackle an inflation rate that's jumped to 132% after its currency slumped, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said."We are instituting measures that every other country ...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | 2926 | by Staff reporter
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 | 998 | 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 | 1694 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Schools sport remains on hold
GOVERNMENT has said sporting activities in schools remain on hold in the coming few weeks due to a possible surge in Covid-19 cases associated with winter. In her post-Cabinet briefing yesterd...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:10hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
ActionAid writes to Mnangagwa over food prices
ACTIONAid Zimbabwe has written to President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding a solution to the skyrocketing food prices.The non-governmental organisation, with branches across Africa, also wrote t...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's trade deficit narrows
Zimbabwe recorded a sharp decline in trade deficit in January this year after exports surged modestly compared to the prior month, December 2021, official statistics show.In January 2022 Zimba...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
US blinks first on Russian sanctions
Washington has eased sanctions on Russian agricultural products, including fertilizers, placed on Moscow over the crisis in Ukraine. The move aims to protect US farmers from a shortage of chemical pro...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 14:32hrs | 2107 | by Staff reporter
Village heads steal Mnangagwa's fertilisers
VILLAGE HEADS in Mazowe were warned against stealing Presidential inputs by Mazowe District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) Tafadzwa Musarara after 10 bags of Amonium Nitrate fertilizers were stol...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 15:56hrs | 1117 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Village heads stealing presidential inputs
Zanu-PF Mazowe district co-ordinating committee (DCC) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has accused local village heads of stealing agricultural inputs sourced under the presidential inputs scheme, depriv...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:04hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open regional energy conference in Victoria Falls
THE 3rd International Renewable Energy Conference and Expo, which seeks to discuss among other issues, alternative energy such as green hydrogen towards a shift from usage of fossil fuels is underway ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:57hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MPs defend US$1.6bn Command Agric looting
Zanu-PF members of Parliament are defending the looting of US$1.6 billion under the Command Agriculture programme and are plotting to crucify vocal individuals, mainly from the opposition, they accuse...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:22hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Headwinds piling up for Zimbabwe
The United States Agency for International Development (USAid)'s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has warned of below average harvests this year and a shortlived i...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1031 | by Staf reporter
Zanu-PF factionalism splits Gutu ahead of polls
BATTLELINES have been drawn in Gutu West constituency in Masvingo province where councillor Mutonho Rwodzi is said to be eyeing the seat currently occupied by John Paradza in 2023 elections.Rw...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
How the West is plotting to exploit Africa
IF designs of global money are not stopped in their tracks, Africa is threatened with environmental degradation and nutritional poverty. If we, as Africans, do not begin to think deeply about what is ...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 480 | by Linda Apollo
Headache over soaring fertiliser prices
Ben Riensche, who farms 16 000 acres in Iowa, would be ecstatic to get US$80 per acre selling his corn.But it'll cost him US$240 an acre to feed the plants with nitrogen, triple what he's used...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Gold leads surge in Zimbabwe export earnings
ZIMBABWE'S gold export earnings improved by 44 percent between November and December last year to clock US$248,1 million after the country exported 4 417 kilogrammes of the yellow metal, official figu...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Police recover stolen Intwasa fertilizer
POLICE in Bulawayo have impounded a 10-tonne truck found laden with stolen Pfumvudza/Intwasa fertilizers, which were set for distribution to urban farmers in Emganwini constituency.This was co...Published: 16 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF forcing villagers to attend meetings'
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is reportedly forcing villagers to attend its meetings, as political tensions in the country rise ahead of the March 26 by-elections.This was revealed in the Zimbabwe ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:18hrs | 2008 | by Staff reporter
'Snub March 26 by-elections'
LITTLE-KNOWN opposition Zimbabwe Socio-Economic Democrats party (ZSD) yesterday called on all political parties to boycott the March by-elections saying they were poorly planned and costly.The...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF politburo meets
THE Zanu-PF politburo meets in Harare today as factionalism and indiscipline threaten to tear apart the already-fractured party.The party is still reeling from the effects of its recent divisi...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dishes out fertilizer ahead of by-elections
Zanu-PF's Mutare province on Thursday launched campaigns for the March by-elections, dishing out fertilizers to prospective voters.In Manicaland, there are two vacant seats in the National Ass...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:16hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Chief begs for another coup
In a daring move alien to Zimbabwean traditional leaders, Chief Murinye born Ephias Munodawafa who recently castigated the President Emmerson Mnangagwa administration for failing to deal with corrupti...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:32hrs | 4384 | by Staff reporter
Dangote still interested in investing in Zimbabwe
AFRICA'S richest person Aliko Dangote is still interested in investing in Zimbabwe and had planned to meet Zimbabwe authorities at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) recently held in Durban, South Af...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:53hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cracks whip on stream-bank farmers
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has warned against stream-bank cultivation and said it would slash crops planted on prohibited land in line with the city's by-laws.Stream-bank cultivation and ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:36hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Policy incentives to reindustrialization lacking
Zimbabwe aspires to create an upper middle income economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$65 billion by 2030. This vision is premised on the reindustrialization strategy where competitivenes...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:35hrs | 39 | by Victor Bhoroma
Man arrested for selling government's agricultural inputs
A Rushinga man was on Friday arrested for selling the government's agricultural inputs facilities at Mabvundudzi.Siyai Kakuruwo(43) is alleged to have sold fertilizer from the government's cotton ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 09:03hrs | 20 | by Alice Mangwanda
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