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Phase Two Matebeleland North roads rehab intensified
GOVERNMENT allocated more than $700 million to the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development for rehabilitation of a 3 000km road network under the Emergency Road Rehabilitation Programme (...Published: 22 hrs ago | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fundraises for national conference
THE ruling Zanu-PF party is rallying its members and stakeholders to provide financial resources and other items towards its forthcoming annual conference slated for this month in Mashonaland Central....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Over 5m Zimbabweans food insecure, claims WFP
OVER five million Zimbabweans in urban and rural communities are food insecure due to COVID-19-induced difficulties, the World Food Programme country director Francesca Alderman said yesterday....Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's estranged wife Marry could be amputated, court hears
Marry Mubaiwa is at a serious risk of having at least one of her arms amputated after failing to get the medical care she needs to treat her lymphoedema, a court heard on Tuesday.The Harare Ma...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:10hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court judge to testify in Mubaiwa case
SUPREME Court judge Justice George Chiweshe is expected to testify in a court hearing where Marry Mubaiwa allegedly misrepresented to him when he was Judge President that Vice President Constantino Ch...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Plan to stabilise bread flour prices
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) is in talks with Government to stabilise the prices and supplies of bread flour until the end of the year.Speaking in Bindura, GMAZ national ch...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:09hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Inputs distribution begins
Agriculture inputs to small holder farmers under the Presidential inputs scheme programme have been dispatched to Grain Marketing Board depots around the country and the distribution will commence soo...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe hijacks Dokora's function
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe's efforts to keep ZANU PF Mashonaland Central Province under his belt are under threat amid fierce competition from former Minister of Education, Lazarus Dokora....Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 08:43hrs | 2593 | by Shelton Muchena In Bindura
Major boost for Zanu-PF conference
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara yesterday donated 15 000kg of mealie-meal, 3 000kg of rice and 4 000 loaves of bread towards the Zanu-PF conference to be hel...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:34hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Rain-making ceremonies still relevant
Normal to above-normal rains received in Makonde District and the rest of Zimbabwe last season have raised debate.Traditionalists, Christians and scientists have divergent views on why the cou...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Sustainable reforms now key to foreign exchange market
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) recently announced that it is on course to clear the backlog of foreign exchange auction allotments which date back to as far as three months and amounting to about ...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:03hrs | 245 | by Victor Bhoroma
WATCH: Millers donate to ZANU-PF
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) today donated food in Bindura towards the annual ZANU PF Congress to be held this month.Speaking during the hand over GMAZ chairperson Tafadz...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 14:44hrs | 827 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Mnangagwa's State of the Nation address
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa delivered a State of the Nation Address and officially opened the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday. He tackled a wide r...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Wheat harvesting begins
Harvesting of wheat has begun, with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) designating 18 collection depots as the country expects a bumper harvest owing to minimum interruption of power supply by Zesa, whic...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:46hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Brace for bread price hike
GRAIN millers in Zimbabwe have warned that there might be a bread price hike due to a decline in global wheat supply after major producer countries were hit by drought.The Grain Millers Associ...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 1256 | by Staff reporter
CFI in deal to expand farmers' markets
CFI Holdings Limited has signed an agreement with the Federation of Young Farmers Clubs Zimbabwe (FYFCZ) to provide farmers with a market for their produce.The agreement is meant to reduce pos...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:53hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-linked businessman fails to turn around Zimglass
SLIGHTLY more than a decade ago, a drive along Portland Road in Gweru's heavy industrial sites would lead one to the glass-manufacturing giant — and one of the companies that made the Midlands capit...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1267 | by Staff reporter
Let's compile register of the dead in all our conflicts
January 1977 was the worst of the several months when I personally endured the ravages of the war for the emancipation of Zimbabwe from the toxic grip of rebel leader Ian Douglas Smith's Rhodesian Fro...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:15hrs | 93 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
GMB rebrands
Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has embarked on a rebranding exercise that will see it changing its image and mandate.The changes reflect the organisation's evolution from a predominantly grain st...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:07hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
Bread shortage looms
ZIMBABWE is facing a massive shortage of bread and possible price increase for the vital commodity occasioned by a massive decline in global wheat supply after major producer countries were heat by dr...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Imported wheat price increase by 16%
The price of imported wheat into Harare has increased by 16% amidst a decline in world supply of wheat Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) has said....Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 07:41hrs | 565 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Reserve Bank panics as exchange rates spiral
MONETARY authorities revised annual inflation targets upwards on Monday before lining up a sea of fresh policy proposals to government, as they scurried to stem a "worrisome" surge in parallel market ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | 2674 | by Staff reporter
Lands Ministry permanent secretary in messy farm ownership wrangle
LANDS, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement permanent secretary, John Basera has approached the High Court seeking to be joined in proceedings in which former Grain Marketing Board chi...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Ultimatum for defaulting farmers
Farmers financed under Command Agriculture have until November 30 to deliver their maize to the Grain Marketing Board or be blacklisted so they can not access any more Government-guaranteed loans and ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:10hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
NPF member defects to Zanu-PF
National Patriotic Front (NPF) parliamentary candidate for Mhangura constituency in the 2018 elections, Mr Peter Kadambe has defected to the ruling Zanu-PF party, becoming the latest of many people to...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Govt sets up farm mechanisation hubs
The GOVERNMENT has begun setting up provincial farm mechanisation hubs to provide tillage, harvesting and logistics support to farmers during the 2021/2022 summer cropping season.The Agricultu...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:34hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
ZITF reduced to Zanu-PF affair
AS if to confirm that this year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) was a Zanu-PF affair, the ruling party walked away with two best exhibitors' awards. Zimbabwe's ruling party, which first sho...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 10:53hrs | 1792 | by Staff Reporter
GMAZ speaks on Wheat pricing
The Grain Millers Association,in a statement,said,the recently announced producer price of wheat,which will see the commodity selling at ZW$55.517.69 per ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 15:29hrs | 781 | by Simbarashe Sithole / Tarisai Mudahondo
Why your song does not get any airplay!
ONE of the worst nightmares that artistes endure in the music business is among the following; being booed and choking on stage, producing a poor track or even worse, submitting your song and then not...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:04hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Zim govt shouldn't cry foul when given taste of its own bitter bullying medicine
I could not help laughing my head off, listening to some so-called political analysts - who were, in fact, nothing more than the ruling elite's shameless apologists and defenders - crying foul, on the...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:43hrs | 1929 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Farmers raise red flag over GMB 'loaders' fee
Some disgruntled farmers have claimed that they were being forced to employ temporary workers to offload maize at Grain marketing Board (GMB) depots.The casuals, as the temporary workers are c...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:52hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
Can sex, affect prostate cancer risk?
AS we continue to fight COVID-19 in Zimbabwe, let us bear in mind that we also need to raise awareness of prostate cancer.It's that time of the year again when everyone is busy preparing for t...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:29hrs | 1089 | by Michelle Madzudzo
Matabeland provinces start receiving Intwasa inputs
GOVERNMENT has started distributing farming inputs to Matabeleland provinces under the Intwasa/Pfumvudza programme before the onset of the rains expected to start next month. Government introd...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:10hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
All Zanu-PF provinces endorse Mnangagwa
ALL Zanu-PF provinces have endorsed President Mnangagwa as the ruling party's presidential candidate in 2023 elections in a major show of confidence in his leadership following the advent of the New D...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:08hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Chidavaenzi captures Mugabe's legacy in latest book
Title: Chasing The Wind ISBN: 978-0-7974-79594-6In November 2017, a "powerful wind" orchestrated by the military chased Zimbabwe's long-time ruler, the...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:45hrs | 162 | by Fungayi Sox
Zesa eases load shedding
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says there has been an improvement in the generation of power at Hwange Power Station which has seen easing of the load shedding ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:32hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
One of Hwange generators unit back on grid
One of Hwange Thermal Power Station's two largest boiler-turbine-generator units went back on the grid on Monday giving Zesa an extra 150MW and Zimbabweans can expect the ongoing load shedding to ease...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 2nd Republic of contradictions, inconsistencies
DEVELOPMENTS in the past few days and weeks have shown that those in charge of our so-called Second Republic are nothing more than a clueless bunch given to gross lies, glaring contradictions and emba...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:26hrs | 484 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Pastor survives an arson attack
Villagers from Enaleni area in Bubi ward 1 were left shell shocked after unknown assailants petrol bombed a local pastor's house.The pastor, Ephraim Ndlovu who is also the Habakkuk Trust Commu...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 12:12hrs | 1875 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt urged to increase intwasa acreage
SENATORS have pleaded with the Agriculture ministry to increase the land under the Pfumvudza/Intwasa programme from the current half an acre to at least one acre for all targeted farmers for improved ...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
IDs for 'forgotten citizens'
THE Registrar-General (RG's) office yesterday started issuing identity documents to the San community in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North, creating a sense of belonging among these almost forgotten citi...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to conduct cloud seeding should need arise
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has resources required to conduct cloud seeding during the 2021/22 rainfall season, should need arise. This comes as the MSD said there were still po...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF forces villagers to pay for war vets' welfare'
AS the country gears for 2023 elections and political tensions rise, a report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) highlights how traditional leaders and Zanu-PF activists are coercing villagers across...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1243 | by Staff reporter
'Con job' that cost Mnangagwa dearly
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's projected winter wheat harvest has been severely cut after the government failed to stop an invasion by quelea birds at his Kwekwe farm because authorities bought a wron...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:04hrs | 3376 | by Staff reporter
Another bumper harvest on the cards
MAIZE production for the forthcoming 2021/22 summer cropping season is projected to hit three million tonnes, an all-time record high, up by nearly a million tonnes compared to last season's bumper ha...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 117 | by Staff writer
Chamisa says Mnangagwa's machinery will not kill his MDC
THE spirit of the MDC will not die despite the sustained and determined efforts by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to destroy the movement, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said....Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:53hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says, 'We need a new direction: Every vote matters'
TWO decades ago, a diverse range of people and groups came together to build a glorious movement that would play a significant role in shaping the governance of our country.At the time, Zimbab...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:23hrs | 359 | by Nelson Chamisa
GMB deliveries surpass targets
THE Government said the 2021 traditional grains production has improved remarkably and some crops exceeded the highest ever tonnage since independence.Addressing journalists during a Post Cabi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:21hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails improving France-Zimbabwe relations
The presence of France's Ambassador to Zimbabwe Mr Laurent Chevallier at yesterday's commissioning of Phase 1 of the US$13 million Seed Co maize conditioning plant indicates the continued acceptance o...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo bars ban unvaccinated patrons
SOME beer drinking outlets in Bulawayo have started barring patrons not vaccinated against Covid-19 from entering their premises.Imbibers who spoke to NewZimbabwe.com said they have been denie...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 13:00hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
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