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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 | 1061 | 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 | 232 | 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 | 2580 | 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 | 603 | 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 | 1267 | 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 | 280 | 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 | 102 | 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 | 3219 | 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 | 895 | 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 | 517 | 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 | 5038 | 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 | 690 | 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 | 328 | 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 | 199 | 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 | 746 | 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 | 220 | 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 | 923 | 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 | 2821 | 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 | 506 | 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 | 4217 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Showdown as battle to control Mash Central spills into parliament
The political tussle over Mazowe West and supremacy in Mashonaland Central has reached a new level as Kazembe Kazembe has roped in Parliamentary Portfolio Committee to fight Tafadzwa Musarara Grain Mi...Published: 25 Feb 2020 at 06:54hrs | 502 | by Nicholas Ncube
Justice Wadyajena divides parliament?
The 33 member Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and rural resettlement is alleged to be divided on tribal, political and personal interest lines as it emerged tha...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 13:16hrs | 2288 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Taken over by monkeys and baboons'
It is not surprising that runaway former minister Saviour Kasukuwere should use Friday's absurd Mugabe Day to attack the regime which overthrew the former president. Predictably defending Mugabe, Kasu...Published: 24 Feb 2020 at 07:14hrs | 949 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Mangudya and Mthuli's economic policies failing as the RTGS tumbles
As the Zimbabwe's economy meltdown continues to hit the vulnerable people from both the urban and rural areas, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation has been put on a litmus test...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 07:42hrs | 4401 | by Leonard Koni
'Maize being smuggled to DRC from Zimbabwe'
LOCAL small-scale millers yesterday sensationally accused large milling companies of collecting subsidised maize from the Grain Marketing Board and smuggling it to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:49hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
Maize scam sucks in GMB executives
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were yesterday accused of allocating subsidised maize to millers who are allegedly diverting it to the black market and countries like the Democratic Repu...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:25hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1095 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
GMB executives implicated in grain scam
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) senior executives were today fingered in a maize subsidy abuse scam through allocation of grain to undeserving people who would divert it onto the black market and neighbou...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 620 | by Staff reporter
100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's legacy and Shona triumphalism: Zimbabwe's case for a two-state solution
ZIMBABWE, which was called Rhodesia before its attainment of independence in 1980, is a former British colony.Although there are over ten tribes that inhabit the country, Zimbabwe can neatly b...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 17:59hrs | 4725 | by George Mkhwanazi
Defending the Undefendable: The unending list of Zanu Pf apologists
When the Zanu PF Youth league members held a press conference to name and shame people linked to Zimbabwe's economic woes some applauded the move.These were youth leadership members who belong...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 14:02hrs | 2403 | by A Kadada
Maize meal 'cartel' boss evades MPs over US$27m RBZ payment
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairman Tafadzwa Musarara, accused of running a cartel by the Zanu-PF Youth League two weeks ago, on Tuesday ducked out of appearing before a parlia...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 10:40hrs | 2047 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to import 80 thousand tonnes monthly
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe(GMAZ) and its members are working on an import program targeting 80 000 metric tonnes monthly under the roller meal subsidy program.In a statement to ZBC ...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:04hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zacc corners GMB workers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has cornered officials at the Grain Marketing Board and discovered that some employees were allegedly channelling as much as 10 000, 20kg bags Government...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Zacc busts roller meal syndicate
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has busted a syndicate involving Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers who are allegedly hoarding mealie-meal for resale on the black market at extortionat...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 299 | by Bishop Lazarus
Anti-graft body swoops on Command Agric looters
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has begun swooping on farmers and companies that were repackaging inputs obtained from the Special Grain and Oil Seed programme - commonly known as Comma...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF headed for another split?
ZANU-PF Youth League deputy secretary Lewis Matutu allegedly walked out of a Politburo meeting held at the party's headquarters in Harare on Wednesday afternoon.According to journalist Hopewel...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:25hrs | 5119 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF disintegrating'
ZANU-PF Youth leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being the foot soldiers in a new plot to oust Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by a faction linked to Defense Minister...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 12:16hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sugar company Tongaat Hulett to harvest maize
THE harvesting of irrigated maize in Chiredzi grown by Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe in partnership with the Masvingo Development Trust (MDT) is set for next week.The two parties planted 327 hectare...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 07:16hrs | 1363 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges government to be in touch with communities
INFORMATION, Publicity & Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsavangwa said Cabinet on Tuesday held is first Cabinet meeting for the year 2020 in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa office...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:48hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as ZANU PF youths divide party
ZANU PF Youth leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being the foot soldiers in a new plot to oust Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by a faction linked to Defense Minister...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 13:19hrs | 3734 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe's maize supplies critically low'
NATIONAL maize supplies are critically low as a result of the poor 2019 harvest and limited ability for imports, USAid's food security arm has said.The poor 2018/19 season as a result of droug...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes GMB
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is set to investigate GMB senior management and sales representatives in Bulawayo after a taskforce that was formed to probe the shortage of mealie-meal ...Published: 02 Feb 2020 at 12:13hrs | 701 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe back to 2008 era, says MDC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has been accused of plunging the country back into the 2008 economic malaise as basic commodities are now in short supply and beyond the reach of many....Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1788 | by Staff reporter
GMB stocks depleted
ZIMBABWE's hunger situation has escalated to unsustainable levels as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) stocks have depleted.The chairman of the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Tafadzwa Mus...Published: 30 Jan 2020 at 09:44hrs | 1261 | by Staf reporter
Zanu-PF MP arrested
Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Sesame Constituency Gorden Chanda (41) and Ward 13 Councillor Georgina Chirongoma (34) have been arrested for allegedly extorting villagers and stealing food aid...Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:06hrs | 1189 | by Staff reporter
Millers maize imports start arriving
THE Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says maize bought using free funds has started arriving in the country with the association calling upon local cross border transporters to facilitate...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:03hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Unethical retailers face blacklisting
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) says it will blacklist its members that would be involved in side-marketing the roller meal from the Government's subsidy programme. Of late, conc...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:03hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
Roller meal taskforce set up
The availability of subsidised maize-meal is expected to improve following the establishment of a taskforce to ensure transparent and equitable distribution of the product. The taskforce will ...Published: 24 Jan 2020 at 01:01hrs | 514 | by Staff reporter
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