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From Mnangagwa's oil and soup dripping hands, to Chamisa's naivety
BESIDES pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 02 Jul 2020 at 18:26hrs | 1581 | by Robert Sigauke
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5145 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4363 | by Staff reporter
From Zanu's Oil and Soup Dripping Hands, to the Opposition's Naivety
Besides pulling down an outdated calendar and hanging up another on the wall each year in Zimbabwe, has anybody ever asked themselves if really we are going anywhere as a country? I say this with ever...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:54hrs | 4873 | by Robert Sigauke
Mnangagwa's govt fails to pay for subsidised mealie-meal
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe says that millers are struggling to stay afloat due to government’s failure to meet its subsidy obligations. GMAZ also said the lack of transparency...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 08:24hrs | 1507 | by Staff reporter
GMB blames millers for roller meal shortage
The Grain Marketing Board has blamed millers for the shortage of subsidised roller meal in shops. The mealie-meal which is selling for $70 in shops, has not been available for close to six wee...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga outlines operational challenges
Police manning roadblocks and securing quarantine centres need more protective equipment, transport and allowances for food, with quarantine centres needing more lights and fencing, Commissioner-Gener...Published: 17 Jun 2020 at 06:35hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP showers praise on Zanu-PF minister
MDC Alliance legislator for Mutasa Central, Trevor Saruwaka has accused some government officials of being 'captured' after they tried to block him from accessing 15 tonnes of rice on behalf of vulner...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 15:10hrs | 6639 | by newzimbabwe
Roller meal subsidy raised
To keep the retail price of roller meal at $70 for a 10kg bag, Government has raised the subsidy to $216,15 from the original $73,90 which will cushion millers against rising costs. Industry a...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:09hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's Davies Muhambi turns against Mnangagwa?
ZANU PF official and chairman of the Small to Medium Millers Association, has turned against the current set of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government implemented subsidy program....Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 16:25hrs | 3961 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dabengwa role in Kangai's arrest revealed
LATE former president Robert Mugabe allegedly protested against the arrest of former Agriculture minister Kumbirai Kangai as he pleaded with then Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa to order his rel...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:59hrs | 2456 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ doesn't buy black market forex,' claims Mangudya
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe does not deal in parallel markets, and none of its employees have been deployed to buy foreign currency on the streets, RBZ Governor Dr John Mangudya has said.He s...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 20:02hrs | 2351 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal price to remain unchanged
GOVERNMENT has increased the subsidy paid to millers to ensure that the price of mealie-meal remains unchanged in the face of increases in the prices of basic commodities, a development that is expect...Published: 02 Jun 2020 at 09:03hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Corruption not sanctions killing Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been grappling with corruption for years now, dating back from the Willovale Motor Scandal, GMB saga where the late former Minister Kumbirayi Kangai was involved.In 1994 War...Published: 31 May 2020 at 10:02hrs | 866 | by Leonard Koni
'Maize meal price won't change until monthend'
THE country's national maize reserves have dropped sharply and authorities have to ramp up imports to save citizens from starvation, Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:26hrs | 1043 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers raid Zimra deport
DARING armed robbers raided a Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) container depot in Bulawayo and went away with a consignment of 148 boxes of Broncleer, a cough mixture which was banned over abuse as ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:37hrs | 4047 | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal price politics exposed
The government of the Republic of Zimbabwe sat and instituted a price agreement with manufacturers of 6 basic commodities. This agreement was meant to ensure that the price of 6 basic commodities rema...Published: 06 May 2020 at 15:39hrs | 2482 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mealie-meal price hike looms
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) is reportedly left with maize stocks for only three days while the price of roller meal is set to increase after the parastatal hiked the price of maize by 77% last wee...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:51hrs | 844 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi orders social welfare to expedite food deliveries
Maize distribution to vulnerable people, especially in rural areas, must be expedited to ensure no one goes hungry, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said. He said it was important for Government to tak...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:36hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Small millers stop politics...people want mealie meal!
Goal 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals speaks to the need to End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture. Goal 2 seeks sustainable solutions to en...Published: 01 May 2020 at 09:06hrs | 1121 | by Mxiolisi Mathonsi
BREAKING: GMB defies Mnangagwa...increases price of maize
Information coming from Harare indicate that the Grain Marketing Board has defied President Emmerson Mnangagwa's declaration to reverse the prices of commodities to the 25th of March 2020. A h...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 12:09hrs | 4763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nkayi villagers on brink of starvation due to bad road network
Nkayi villagers in Matabeleland North province are threatened with starvation as the department of social welfare is failing to deliver maize to the district due to the bad state of Bulawayo-Nkayi roa...Published: 28 Apr 2020 at 10:40hrs | 1356 | by Staff reporter
GMB starts importing GMO maize for consumption in Zimbabwe
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has started importing genetically modified maize for consumption in the country. Addressing delegates at a Matabeleland North provincial taskforce meeting in Bu...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1250 | by Staff reporter
Council chairperson steals donated maize
MUZARABANI Rural District Council (MRDC) chairperson Ashton Chiweshe (40) who is also councillor for Ward 25 (ZANU PF) in Muzabarani together with his thr...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 19:05hrs | 1097 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Govt increases grain producer price
THE Government has reviewed upwards grains and soya bean producer prices for the 2020/21 marketing season in a bid to encourage farmers to deliver their produce to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB)....Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:50hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Cowdray Park councillor in mealie-meal storm
COWDRAY Park councillor Kidwell Mujuru has refuted allegations that he was diverting Government subsidised mealie-meal to the black market.Residents were left fuming last Monday after a truck ...Published: 12 Apr 2020 at 08:36hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
3 men arrested for stealing 1 000 Kg maize
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that three men have been arrested after stealing maize weighing more than one tone. In a report on Thursday, the police said on the 1st of April this...Published: 09 Apr 2020 at 16:33hrs | 1730 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo doesn't need Nelson Chamisa
Two days after former President Robert Mugabe fired Professor Jonathan Moyo, I received a meeting request from the former information and publicity minister. It was a crazy, unpredictable time....Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 11:49hrs | 6588 | by Tafi Mhaka
GMB stocks for lockdown
April allocations of drought relief grain are being moved into the depots by the Grain Marketing Board, which is working with the Department of Social Services to ensure that communities receive their...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:17hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
MDC MP accused of plotting to politicise the distribution of rice
MDC House of Assembly Member for Kariba constituency, John Rolland Houghton has been accused of plotting to politicise the distribution of rice allocated to his constituency by Government.It i...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 18:56hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is sucked into multi-million Zisco assets stripping
A fresh probe has revealed that the government facilitated a shady US$225 million deal meant to strip the comatose Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco) of its critical assets.The investigat...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 1102 | by Everson Mushava
Millers ditch roller meal for refined product
LOCAL millers are now prioritising production of refined mealie-meal in a bid to dodge Governments' roller-meal subsidy programme, The Sunday Mail Society has established.This is despite the f...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:28hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
GMB driver kills senior citizen
A speeding Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Harare deport driver allegedly hit a cyclist at the 8 kilometer peg along Mvurwi -Kanyemba highway on Sunday...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 20:31hrs | 2592 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF MP invests in new clinic
Gutu West Member of Parliament (MP) John Paradza is working with members of the Chavarove community in Ward 29 to turn a disused farmhouse to into a clinic.The house, which had been standing d...Published: 17 Mar 2020 at 13:27hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Command Agric mystery deepens
THE mystery over the US$840 million allegedly paid to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for Command Agriculture deepened yesterday with the company distancing itsel...Published: 10 Mar 2020 at 14:34hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
'Millers hoarding maize meal'
GRAIN millers are in the habit of hoarding government's subsidised maize meal to sell on the black market, a development that has led to serious shortages of the product, Parliament heard yesterday....Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:52hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe importing more grain to avert hunger
Government is importing grain to ensure everyone has enough food until the next harvest following two years of drought as a result of climate change. This was said by President Mnangagwa while...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
'Government diverts mealie meal to black market'
The government of Zimbabwe has been accused of channeling mealie meal through the Grain Marketing Board. Political analysts who spoke to this reporter said the suspension of the Grain Marketin...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 12:01hrs | 3229 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Getbucks loan book in mild growth
GETBUCKS MicroFinance Bank Limited (GMBL) says its loan book for the year ended June 30, 2019 increased to $7,5 million in the period under review from $4m in the previous year. ...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:53hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
GMB suspends Bulawayo managers
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has suspended the Belmont depot manager in Bulawayo together with his four subordinates for allegedly diverting subsidised mealie-meal and other Silo Foods Industries p...Published: 05 Mar 2020 at 05:41hrs | 519 | by Staff reporter
Fireworks as ZANU PF Politburo meets tomorrow
The Zanu PF Politburo heads into the first ordinary session of March 2020 faced with critical issues that are likely to determine the short term course of events. The Politburo is faced with critical ...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 15:27hrs | 5088 | by Peter Moyo
Subsidised roller meal price to go up again
GOVERNMENT is set to increase the price of subsidised roller meal following last week's review of the maize producer price from $4 000 to $6 958 per tonne. The imminent increase in the price o...Published: 03 Mar 2020 at 05:47hrs | 699 | by Staff reporter
GMB US$9 million saga a tip of the iceberg
THE ongoing Grain Marketing Board US$9 million saga, which has sucked in President Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa, may be just a tip of the iceberg considering how co...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 09:07hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
Net closes in on roller meal 'barons'
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has identified some of the culprits that are hoarding and selling grain and mealie-meal on the black market, and arrests are expected soon.There ...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:47hrs | 202 | by Staff reporter
Maize 'cartel boss' snubs Parly committee
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday snubbed the parliamentary portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture Water and Rural Resettlement when it visited hi...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 11:48hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Parliament to follow up on RBZ funds
Parliament will follow up on all companies that received foreign currency from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to promote accountability and transparency. This came out yesterday when the L...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 05:44hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
GMB, Musarara clash over 'missing' US$8 million
After months of continuous haggling, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) finally appeared in parliament on Tuesday along with Grain Marketing Board (GMB) officials. They appeared ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 16:41hrs | 926 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sucked into US$9m GMB saga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa have been sucked into a US$9 million saga for the rehabilitation of Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos fronted by millers, whi...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 07:14hrs | 2829 | by Staff reporter
Maize cartel 'boss' fails to account for US$27 million in Pairliament?
The Herald Herald Correspondent GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Mr Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday failed to account for US$27 million which the association received from the Reserve...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 05:50hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's maize meal coupon plan shred to pieces
Mthuli Ncube's plan to introduce mealie meal coupons has been shot down as endeavour that will not yiled any desired fruit in regards to the constant supply of affordable mealie meal.Speaking ...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 4234 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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