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GMB executive in court over $1 million fraud
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) non-executive board member, Basilio Sandamu yesterday appeared in court facing charges of swindling the parastatal of $1 040 000 and a potential $2,5 million in a botched l...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Silo blast exposes GMB can of worms
The recent explosion which killed six people at the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lions Den silos along the Harare-Chirundu Highway has exposed favouritism in the parastatal's employment policy and fail...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1967 | by Staff reporter
New cabinet should fight corruption
The new look ED's has brought new dawn to highly expecting Zimbabweans. The corrupt ministers who had been looting the government resources should be given a rest and one impression exhibited ...Published: 08 Sep 2018 at 08:15hrs | 359 | by Isaac Nkomah
NRZ sues GMB over $710,000 rental arrears
NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to compel the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) to pay $710 696 in rental arrears and another order to evict the parastatal...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 06:49hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
GMB blast kills 4 workers
At least four workers were killed, while three others were seriously injured after a massive explosion, whose cause is still unknown, rocked the Grain Marketing Board's Lions Den depot in Mashonaland ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
GMB explosion - One body recovered, three workers missing
One body has been recovered and three workers are missing after an explosion at the Grain Marketing Depot (GMB) Lions Den Depot this afternoon.The explosion resulted in fire in the control tow...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | 4804 | by Staff Reporter
$80 fine for thieving security guard
A SECURITY guard based at the Grain Marketing Board depot in Gwanda was arrested for stealing grocery items from his workplace.Thembelani Ncube (21) of Phakama Suburb was convicted on his own ...Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 06:47hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
Inputs distribution underway
The agricultural inputs distribution programme for this year is in full swing as Government moves to ensure that farmers receive necessary support on time for a successful farming season. ...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:15hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Accept poll results, says Chiwenga
CANDIDATES vying for political office in the harmonised elections set for Monday must accept the outcome of the polls as every race has a winner, Acting President Constantino Chiwenga has said....Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Mwananga's type of freedom
I am not surprised when someone from DRC, a country that is yet to hold free and democratic elections comments that Zimbabweans have too much freedom which is being abused. Mr observer, when o...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 19:23hrs | 1454 | by Isaac Nkomah
Mugabe says ousted Kwekwe Zanu PF MP was corrupt
THE battle for the heart of Kwekwe Central constituency has been drawn with Zanu PF's Kandros Mugabe, taking on MDC Alliance's Blessing Chebundo, seating MP Masango Matambanadzo (NPF) and Independent ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 10:36hrs | 2515 | by Staff Reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | 9370 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for swindling GMB $1m in botched deal
A DIRECTOR of Organs Resources Company, Korbs Korbie Mutandiro yesterday appeared before a Harare magistrate facing allegations of swindling the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) of over $1 million and a po...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 591 | by Staff reporter
Mat South to be turned into green belt, says Chiwenga
The Zanu-PF Government is working on programmes and projects meant to improve the people's lives and this includes the project to transform Beitbridge and its environs into a green belt.Vice P...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:23hrs | 322 | by Staff rpeorter
GMB forecasts decent deliveries
Farmers have delivered more than 47 136 tonnes of maize, 5 000 tonnes of soyabeans and 136 tonnes of small grains to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) within the first month of the marketing season, rai...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:16hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 31522 | by WikiLeaks
$500m for summer cropping season
CLOSE to half-a-billion dollars has been secured for the 2018/2019 summer cropping season, as Government works towards food security and ensuring that the country's agro-based economy gets back on the...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 08:32hrs | 370 | by Staff Reporter
Cop arrested for stealing
A 33-year-old Chinhoyi Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) officer was arrested for stealing a farmer's money from Grain Marketing Board (GMB) after using his vendor number.Sources close to investi...Published: 30 May 2018 at 19:03hrs | 1224 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt faces tough task in graft fight
THE government faced a herculean task to stamp out deep-rooted corruption and needed to do more than just establishing anti-corruption courts, experts have said.President Emmerson Mnangagwa ha...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
GMB general manager appointed irregularly: Parly
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture yesterday heard that the current Grain Marketing Board general manager, Rockie Mutenha, was appointed without board approval.This emerged a...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:58hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Joseph Made grilled
Parliament yesterday grilled former Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made on why he appointed Mr Rockie Mutenha as the Grain Marketing Board general manager whe...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Joseph Made grilled over key GMB appointment
Former Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Dr Joseph Made was today grilled over the appointment of Mr Rockie Mutenha Grain Marketing Board general manager when two other...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 17:24hrs | 3451 | by Staff reporter
Open Letter to Minister of Agriculture Honourable Perence Shiri
REF: Grievances over unpaid gain by Grain Marking Board (GMB) for last season Honourable Minister I am a poor farmer in Mashonaland Central province doi...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 11:50hrs | 1514 | by Macdonald Sithole
'GMB mansions' raise eyebrows
TWENTY-five upmarket houses constructed by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) pension fund in one of Harare's leafy suburbs four years ago remain unoccupied amid claims by the parastatal's former employe...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:54hrs | 589 | by Staff reporter
The President is fire fighting a fire they started
If one starts a fire and it grows into a bonfire then it will not be easy to extinguish it. This best illustrates how the big wigs in Zimbabwe started corruption and a few people understood the meanin...Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 07:17hrs | 774 | by Albewere Kadada
30-tonne truck in freak accident
A HAULAGE truck transporting a 30-tonne Grain Marketing Board (GMB) consignment from Bulawayo to Binga failed to ascend a steep slope and rolled back before landing on its side, blocking the Binga - K...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 08:00hrs | 939 | by Staff reporter
GMB bosses grilled over questionable appointments
FORMER Agriculture minister Joseph Made has been accused of authorising the payment of $70 000 to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) chairperson, Charles Chikaura and his deputy, Basilio Sandamu for working ...Published: 14 Mar 2018 at 05:38hrs | 290 | by Staff reporter
Parly queries GMB boss appointment
The appointment of Grain Marketing Board (GMB) General Manager Mr Rocky Mutenha ahead of Dr Millicent Mombeshora and Mr David Machingaidze who had the highest scores during the interviews came under t...Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 11:29hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Police boss sweats over impounded trucks
POLICE Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga, has approached the High Court seeking rescission of an order compelling the Zimbabwe Republic Police to pay $90 300 compensation to a haulage truck company...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 05:43hrs | 2270 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'freebies' spark riots
SCORES of Banket residents were injured in running battles with police last week after they demonstrated and threatened to beat up top Zanu-PF and Grain Marketing Board officials over the alleged part...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1458 | by Staff reporter
Prioritize development ahead of politics
Development is defined as a process that creates growth, progress, positive change or addition of economic, environmental, social and demographic components. It is also described as improvement of any...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 15:54hrs | 688 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
GMB supervisor beds truck drivers
GRAIN Marketing Board (GMB) Msasa dispatching supervisor is at loggerheads with her husband for allegedly turning her workplace into a love nest.Itai Zengeya, 39, is alleged to have fallen in ...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 09:29hrs | 4369 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tackles challenges facing economy
THE Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday tackled several challenges affecting the economy, with the issue of price stabilisation topping the agenda of intense deliberations that lasted for more than seven hour...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:25hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa can be derailed by economic woes
In the wake of Operation Restore Legacy, the ranks of the young, educated and angry is swelling.The economic boom they anticipated when they marched on that historic November 18 Saturday has r...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 09:58hrs | 2070 | by Staff reporter
Karoi mine workers go for 13 months without pay, down tools
KAROI - Over 200 workers at the Zimbabwe German Graphite Mine, trading as Lynx Mine, downed their tools on Friday demonstrating against non-payment of their salaries for the past 13 months....Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 07:54hrs | 1176 | by Staff Reporter
Mohadi leaves Beitbridge seat vacant
The parliamentary seat for Beitbridge which has been held by Kembo Mohadi for years today fell vacant after he was sworn in as Vice President.MDC- Alliance official Discent Collins Bajila said...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 12:20hrs | 4151 | by Stephen Jakes
Government to pay $840 million to grain farmers
TREASURY is expected to pay farmers $840,45 million by year end for a record 2,15 million tonnes of grain delivered to the Grain Marketing Board, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinama...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 10:02hrs | 823 | by Staff Reporter
Wheat output 275% up
Zimbabwe wheat production has risen by 275 percent owing to the successful command wheat programme, positioning output on course to reach the targeted 200 000 tonne mark.Wheat producers have d...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 07:27hrs | 785 | by Staff Reporter
Govt recovers 66% Command Agric loans
THE Government has so far recovered $47,7 million of the loans it issued under Command Agriculture Revolving Fund, which translates to 66 percent of its target of $72 million, while 10 000 farmers are...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:20hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
How Jonathan Moyo lost the plot, 'the fake gospel of Gaule'
AXED Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo turned against a majority of people who had assisted him in building his political career esp...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:31hrs | 2376 | by Mkhululi Sibanda
'Money supply growth to blame for forex premiums'
The mis-match between the supply and demand for foreign exchange, has led to the emergence of foreign exchange premiums in the market, Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has s...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:06hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Chombo's case continues to suck in more and more people
The ongoing trial of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo on corruption and fraud charges is likely to open a can of worms as it continues to suck in more and more people every week.Chombo ...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 12:24hrs | 9442 | by Staf reporter
'Zanu PF fooling the people'
A social commentator Tererai Terry Matara has said it was sad that the ruling Zanu PF is fooling people to believe that it has achieved a lot of things during its rule yet the citizens have suffered a...Published: 04 Nov 2017 at 15:24hrs | 3896 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF official in court over 'stolen' govt-sourced agric inputs
ZANU-PF's Hwange West women's league vice-chair Beauty Moyo yesterday appeared before Victoria Falls magistrate Rangarirai Gakanje facing allegations of stealing government-sourced agricultural inputs...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 04:49hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official arrested over inputs theft
HWANGE West Zanu-PF women's league vice-chair, Beauty Moyo, has been arrested for alleged theft of government-sourced agricultural inputs, which were supposed to have been distributed among needy vill...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 06:11hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Unknown Don Muvuti declared national hero
Veteran nationalist and former Zimbabwe Newspapers Group board member Don Kwaedza Muvuti who died on Wednesday last week at a Harare hospital has been declared a national hero.Muvuti (84) who ...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 04:54hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Failure of governance affects all communities, no one is spared
Once upon a time Zimbabwe used to boast of sound and well articulated economic policies where the poor citizens could afford to put a decent meal on their table.Zimbabwe's economy is no doubt ...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 11:30hrs | 529 | by Leonard Koni
Chihuri ordered to release 22 impounded maize trucks
POLICE Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has been ordered to immediately release 22 trucks of maize belonging to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) which were impounded at Chirundu border post in Ju...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 07:04hrs | 1176 | by Staff reporter
One million people in need of food aid in Zimbabwe
The number of people in need of food aid in the country has dropped to one million from four million last year, thanks to the success of Command Agriculture and the Presidential Input Scheme, an offic...Published: 20 Oct 2017 at 06:51hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Western farmers Consortium promoting climate change mitigation programmes in Zimbabwe
Western Farmers' Consortium is embarked in serious objectives to promote climate change and migratory farming practices and environmental sustainable farming systems.The consortium has invited...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 11:04hrs | 466 | by Stephen Jakes
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