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Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1658 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF forces teachers, nurses to buy party cards
Zanu-PF took it's intimidation tactics to a higher level following reports that the ruling party is forcing teachers and nurses to buy party cards in Masvingo province.Zaka district women boss...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
US$275m for new GMB silos
The GOVERNMENT plans to spend more than US$275 million over the next three years to construct new Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos, as well as renovate and modernise old ones countrywide to cater for...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:13hrs | 173 | 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 | 533 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official arrested
A former Zanu-PF youth leader was arrested and another man shot dead – both suspects after a Shurugwi mine was robbed of 400kg of crushed gold ore.Khumbulani Mpofu, 42, is being held with fi...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 15:52hrs | 2325 | by Staff reporter
Smallholder farmers to benefit from US$15 million loan
SMALLHOLDER farmers will soon benefit from a US$15 million loan obtained by the Government from the OPEC Fund for International Development.Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor ...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 01:02hrs | 538 | 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 | 822 | by Staff reporter
Intwasa abusers will go to jail, no fine option
Those selling or buying the agricultural inputs earmarked for the climate-proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme, Pfumvudza/Intwasa, will be sent to court where jail sentences can be imposed on conviction...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:50hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to decide district cropping patterns
GOVERNMENT says it will decide which crops farmers should plant in each district under the Presidential Inputs Scheme starting from this year.This was revealed by Agriculture minister Anxious ...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:26hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Esigodini fire victims identified
Police have released the names of the 10 victims who died while trying to extinguish a raging veld fire at Rodrose Farm, Esigodini yesterday.In a statement, national police spokesperson Assist...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:38hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Farmers should not pay for Presidential inputs
FARMERS are not expected to pay for the transportation of agricultural inputs under the Presidential Input Scheme as Government has already paid the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) for the service....Published: 06 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe expects record 380 000 tonnes wheat harvest
FARMERS have started harvesting the winter wheat crop and for the first time since wheat growing started in 1966, Zimbabwe expects to reach self-sufficiency with a harvest of 380 000 tonnes.Sp...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
School heads roped in in presidential inputs distribution
GOVERNMENT says it has roped in school headmasters to help in the distribution of agricultural inputs under the Presidential Inputs Scheme to curb corruption.The programme is this year targeti...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
David Muhambi in serious grain scandal
The Small to Medium Millers Association of Zimbabwe (SMMAZ) president David Muhambi has been accused of theft of trust property at Grain Marketing Board ( GMB) Nklumani.According to GMB offici...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 10:49hrs | 62 | by Paul Ndou
Above normal rainfall forecast
Most parts of Southern Africa are expected to have normal to above-normal rainfall in the coming summer cropping season, especially the southern and central areas, which include Zimbabwe.The l...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:01hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Chamica's activist 'abducted' following clashes with Zanu-PF members
SUSPECTED Zanu-PF thugs have allegedly attacked Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters in Wedza before abducting one activist identified as Tonderai Bhuka.CCC deputy spokesperson told ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 21:24hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland gets Intwasa inputs
FARMERS in Matabeleland are geared for the summer cropping season following the delivery of agricultural inputs for the 2022/2023 farming season under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme, p...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza inputs ready
Inputs for smallholder farmers under the Presidential Climate-Proofed Agriculture Programme or Pfumvudza/Intwasa have started being dispatched to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots countrywide, with f...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:41hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF DCC embarks on ED's campaign
ZANU PF Mazowe District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) has embarked on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign.DCC chairperson Tafadzwa ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 19:41hrs | 893 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Ian Smith was an archangel compared to Mnangagwa
No one must come to Matabeleland bragging that they fought in a war that brought about Zimbabwe independence. The Zimbabwe independence struggle produced the tribal Shona supremacist government that i...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:47hrs | 2401 | by Israel Dube
Another bread price hike looms
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for another bread price hike after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) increased the price of wheat by 30%, industry officials said yesterday.NewsDay understands that GMB ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Flour price goes up
THE price of bread is likely to go up after flour prices rose by 10% yesterday.This comes after the Grain Marketing Board increased its wheat prices to millers by 8% from $239 360 to $258 416 ...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:21hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets new record of planted winter wheat hectares
ZIMBABWE has this year set a new record of planted winter wheat hectares and farmers have been exempt from electricity load shedding, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica M...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 374 | by Staff reporter
'Exclusive USD pricing illegal'
PRICING of goods exclusively in US dollars remains completely illegal and businesses not accepting local currency payments for every product should stop the illegal practice forthwith or risk having t...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:18hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Magistrate jailed 3 years for abuse of office
BULAWAYO magistrate Stephen Ndlovu has been jailed three years for criminal abuse of office.Ndlovu (48) of Thorngrove in Bulawayo unlawfully issued a court order to release an exhibit held by ...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1016 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will have grain surplus
GOVERNMENT has declared that the country is not facing imminent hunger and is, instead, expecting a grain surplus of over 100 000 tonnes.Agriculture ministry secretary John Bhasera last week s...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
CCC's Biti claims GMB has run out of maize
ZIMBABWEANS are facing the risk of hunger as the Grain marketing Board (GMB) has run out of grain, Parliament heard on Tuesday.Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) and Harare East le...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:07hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
First Capital Bank accused of working with fraudsters
A scandal is hounding First Capital Bank after it was revealed that bank insiders are allegedly working with conmen to create fraudulent bank accounts. The red flags against First Capital were...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 09:28hrs | 4731 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe has enough maize claims Govt
GOVERNMENT yesterday insisted that the country had enough grain stocks amid fears of looming shortages.Government has also maintained that the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) remains the sole buye...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:38hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam now 66,2% complete
Construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam is now at 66,2 percent completion and the process to have it gazetted as a lake is underway as Government intensifies infrastructure development in the country i...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:28hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Govt approves US$90 incentive on early grain delivery
THE government has granted the Grain Marketing Board the greenlight to pay farmers an early delivery incentive of US$90 over and above the ZWL$75 000 per every tonne delivered.In its quest to ...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 23:32hrs | 545 | by Staff Reporter
Retail outlets ration basic commodities as Zimdollar weaken
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm says some wholesale and retail outlets are rationing scarce foodstuffs, as the Zimbabwe dollar continues to depreciate....Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:52hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Grain runs out in Zimbabwe?
MILLIONS of Zimbabweans will go hungry as the country faces a severe grain shortage.A poor rainfall season and hoarding of maize by farmers demanding payment in United States dollars have exac...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Police, soldiers to raid maize hoarders
GOVERNMENT has deployed soldiers and other state security organs to raid and seize grain from individuals, farmers and other players even at roadblocks and deliver it to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB...Published: 30 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 678 | by Staff reporter
'75% of parents in Zimbabwe can't afford school fees'
PARENTS and guardians can no longer afford paying school fees with only 26% able to meet education expenses for their children, the Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has said in its latest survey w...Published: 27 May 2022 at 06:44hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Maize farmers plead for a 50% USD payment
FARMERS are pleading with the Grain Marketing Board to raise to 50% United States dollar (USD) offer to maize farmers.Zimbabwe Farmers Union (ZFU) president Abdul Nyathi: "We welcome the...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:41hrs | 227 | 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 | 432 | 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 | 118 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Class IN itself versus Class FOR itself
US goose versus NED ganderTHERE is always more to write about than there is space to publish. Last week I had to drop two key matters, to allow myself to address in extenso what I sought to ra...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:53hrs | 57 | 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 | 771 | 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 | 713 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Basics run out of Zimbabwe shelves
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's recent economic pronouncements have reportedly triggered a shortage of most locally-manufactured basic commodities in most retail shops...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 5360 | by Staff reporter
Duty on basics lowered
Government has lowered duty for people with free funds to import basic groceries, as one of the measures to contain price rises of basic commodities triggered by manufacturers and importers that have ...Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 767 | 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 | 994 | 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 | 1687 | by Simbarashe Sithole
High mealie meal prices baffle consumers
THE RECENT increase in mealie meal prices by 50% has irked consumers across Zimbabwe who are saying it has become unaffordable due to poor incomes they are earning while most of them are not formally ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 2403 | by Stephen Jakes
Mealie-meal, wheat prices jump
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has reviewed upwards prices of mealie-meal and flour, following the increase of maize and wheat prices.The prices of mealie-meal and flour rece...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal price rockets; 10kg roller meal packet hits US$11
CONSUMERS have been dealt a hard blow after the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe's (GMAZ) increase the retail price of mealie meal by 50% Wednesday evening.Millers held an emergency meeti...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 22:10hrs | 1116 | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal, bread price hike looms
GRAIN millers held an emergency meeting Tuesday morning to consider another round of price increases for mealie meal and bread, NewZimbabwe.com can report.This comes after the Grain Marketing ...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 12:21hrs | 994 | by Staff reporter
Parts of Bulawayo's industrial areas goes without electricity
PARTS of Bulawayo's industrial areas today [Friday] went without electricity as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) embarked on critical maintenance work in the area...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:12hrs | 685 | by Staff Reporter
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