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Villagers cry foul over forced maize contributions to chiefs
Rural communities across Zimbabwe are up in arms after traditional leaders reportedly ordered each household to contribute buckets of maize to the chiefs' granaries under the guise of the cultural pra...Published: 30 Jul 2025 at 09:40hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Sanyatwe praises Tagwirei
Zimbabwe's Minister of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture, Anslem Sanyatwe, has commended businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei for his instrumental role in the implementation of the command agriculture sc...Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:25hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
What Is Independence Without Freedom? - UFP
Fellow Zimbabweans, our nation marks 45 years of independence, a moment that should be cause for pride, joy and celebration. But I come before you not by ...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 13:49hrs | 734 | by UFP
As patient as a farmer, help us to help the nation.
Even the famed bass fish, the sought-after red bream, and other aqua-marine life are in great danger of extinction as the white elephant Lilstock Dam has now been over-fished to supplement incomes. En...Published: 18 Dec 2024 at 22:20hrs | 457 | by Cde Mutandawachingama
Mnangagwa's farm blows away Masisi
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi was deeply impressed by President Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm, located near Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, describing it as the "Garden of Eden" due to its lush green fields of wh...Published: 19 Aug 2024 at 07:06hrs | 1586 | by Staff reporter
Government up to its usual shenanigans, again
In the latest act of the ongoing drama which I dub "Governmental Promises: A Comedy of Errors," our esteemed government has once again shocked and dismayed the nation with their predictable flair for ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:40hrs | 2 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
The maize crop is now on the brink of total loss
Lost in her zen and solitude, the old widow scanned the skies, her elderly eyesight failing her. But, no sign of rain. The skies seem to have put in place 'targeted sanctions' against some majority co...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:08hrs | 2 | by Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa to donate 2,25m road-runner chicks to 4 provinces
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to distribute 2,25 million four-week-old chicks to 225 000 households in Matabeleland North, South, the Midlands and Masvingo provinces in the next three years....Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe @42 where exactly did we go wrong?
It really pains me when I look at what my country has become today four decades into independence. We have regressed so much.I couldn't think that one day I would board a plane to a war torn c...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:40hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Journey to koBulawayo: Learning about a community through its material culture
WHEN a people settle at a place, there is interaction between them and the environment.Their minds, their worldview impact on the environment, its various aspects and, in the process, space is...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Pathisa Nyathi
We need at least five tractors complete with harrows
That cattle malady Thelerios has rebounded with never before seen determination. Again the few remnant livestock from the first wave are sacuumbing to this dreaded bovine pandemic. Never did w...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:52hrs | | by Tincuts Matepatepa
Title deeds for urban dwellers ready
THOUSANDS of urbanites will on Saturday be presented with title deeds as President Mnangagwa delivers on his promise to implement development that leaves no one and no place behind.The title d...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tells US to move with the times
INSTEAD of poking its nose in the country's democratic and electoral processes, the United States should take full advantage of the engagement and re-engagement drive extended by the Second Republic t...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's call to polls rattles opposition parties?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has proclaimed March 26 as the day for holding by-elections to fill vacant Parliament and council seats, a move welcomed by the country's major political parties.The Nomina...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Resettled farmers thriving in Zimbabwe
Gondai Bangidza seems to have struck gold as a resettled farmer in Zimbabwe's eastern Manicaland province.He brags about hiring full-time employees and seasonal workers at his farm.Ban...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Is Guvamatanga altogether there?
An observation made by my daughter, Dr Rumbi, when she was 27 years old has haunted me ever since. Dr Rumbi was preparing for her doctoral defence on governance, and she had returned from a research t...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Nehanda shrine under siege from illegal gold miners
SITUATED 30km north of Harare is an area of rocky hillsides overlooking the Mazowe River.The area boasts several botanical interests.However, Gomba, as the area is also known, is...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We need to repair our sick politics
AS strange as it might sound or seem, you can be sure there is an imbecile somewhere in our beloved teapot-shaped country that is very unhappy the weatherman is forecasting we might have a very good r...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:49hrs | 13 | by Bishop Lazi
Rename Botswana
Not all citizens of the country are Batswana. The name of the country celebrates tribalism before independence. Bakalanga were not called Batswana. I am not a Motswana - Dr Habaudi Hubona The name is ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 21:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
GMB primes for bumper harvest
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) will establish 1 800 mobile buying points countrywide by the end of this month as part of a cocktail of measures to ratchet up preparations for a record-breaking bumper...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pfumvudza is what the doctor ordered
This-PFumvudza programme, where ever the idea came from is what the doctor ordered. The rains are falling abundantly adding to the success story of the project. Wherever you go countrywide, the maize ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 22:05hrs | | by Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa declares drought national disaster
President Mnangagwa has declared the 2018/2019 El-Nino-induced drought a State of National Disaster, paving way for the launch of the Revised Zimbabwe Humanitarian Appeal yesterday by Government and t...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A bottle of cooking oil and sugar is all they need
Did Gogo Siboniso eat anything today, may be yes but maybe not since the aged do not go up the nearest anti hill to announce their predicament. Rather, they die silently pretending all is well with th...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:21hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Earthquake leaves Chipinge villagers in panic
The 5.5 magnitude earthquake in Chipinge has left villagers scared and in panic especially in the Beacon area, with less strong rural buildings being destroyed.The earthquake occurred at 07.40...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 15:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Surviving under sanctions 101
Cuba was under US economic embargoes for 50 years but managed to erect firewalls around its sovereignty . Zimbabwe needs to do the same - we have the brains and the capacity to do so. The mini...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 09:27hrs | 5 | by Never Maswerasei
'Gukurahundi haunting chiefs'
Chiefs last week resolved to set up a mechanism to resolve the long-standing grievances by people in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces emanating from the atrocities blamed on the North Korean-tr...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is just like Mugabe
IT has long been a public secret that Zimbabwe was open for socioeconomic policy change. Although President Emmerson Mnangagwa was inaugurated in November last year, the voice of the people is unanimo...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 08:42hrs | 2 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Baboon terror gang on robbery spree
VILLAGERS in Matopo and Gwanda are living under a reign of terror as kleptomaniac baboons are wreaking havoc in the mountainous areas.The primates are said to be in the habit of ambushing peop...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 22:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Operation to Restore Legacy
This column has been absent for nearly six weeks. There was just so much going on and the job to inform and represent views had to be done through other means. But we have a new Government in power no...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:18hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Mnangagwa wanted Tsvangirai's ministers, says Mutsvangwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa picked War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa as Information minister before hastily dropping his name after realising that the law only allowed him to appoint five no...Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mberengwa, a community ravaged by floods, restored to sanity
Oxfarm in Zimbabwe has reported that above normal rainfall, worsened by the effects of tropical Cyclone Dineo in March 2017, resulted in severe flooding and loss of infrastructure, affecting 36 distri...Published: 02 Oct 2017 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Wetland Protection turn drought prone community into climate smart village
The wetlands in Mberengwa have turned villages into climate smart area. According to Oxfam, the wetlands have benefited the villagers to some extent."We now have enough water flowing and food ...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 08:11hrs | 14 | by Stephen Jakes
Open letter to SA deputy minister of Police, Mr Bongani Mkongi
With all the respect due to Minister and all the Power that be, may I take this opportunity to humbly submit my views on Minister's statement made in recent days on Foreigners. Firstly may I ask the m...Published: 18 Jul 2017 at 19:56hrs | 7 | by David Magagula - MLF
Maize farmers duped in Mashonaland Central
Maize farmers in Mbire district Mashonaland Central province are crying foul after they were allegedly robbed of their maize before they harvested.Farmers who spoke to Bulawayo24.com said they...Published: 07 May 2017 at 12:50hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Command Agric harvesting starts
FIRST it was the good rains, then good support from Government and now the final good news - the summer crop is ready and on its way to the granaries.Harvesting of the summer crop has ...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 13:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Spectacle of Dead-mouse Mutasa
So it's true after all? That Tsvangirai's MDC benefited from Mai Mujuru and her late departed hero-husband, Chauya-Chauya's Mavambo project? So why was she denying it when this column made that revela...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 14:21hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Dineo caused widespread destruction
CYCLONE Dineo that was downgraded to a tropical storm before it hit the country on Friday has caused widespread destruction in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces leaving one person dead, hundreds...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilo worm outbreak threatens maize production
Despite the support by Command Agriculture in maize production a notorious worm identified as Chillo worm is attacking maize around Zimbabwe.Agritex official who preferred anonymity said over ...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 16:48hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
ZPP concerned over discrimination of citizens in food distribution
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said it is gravely concerned by the continued discrimination of other citizens in the distribution of food.The organisation said that is a clear violation of peo...Published: 20 Oct 2016 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T, ZimPF in recruitment drive
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that in August MDC-T and ZimPF are trying hard to grow their membership base especially in rural areas as they prepare for the 2018 general elections. Ironicall...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Poverty: Grassroots cry
With the economic and political crisis becoming near permanent over the past decade and half, and everything that should never happen to a country happening to be independent Zimbabwe especially the e...Published: 24 Aug 2016 at 15:27hrs | 6 | by Diana Bamala
ZACC should put its house in order now!
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is faced with a mammoth task to fight the corruption scourge, while it is are busy grappling and squabbling with its manpower internally at the expense o...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 07:56hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Corruption tearing apart our nation
The call by the ZANU-PF National Consultative Assembly members to decisively deal with corrupt party officials is long overdue process as the economy is drained mercilessly to the drying point by wick...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Mat North schools need food aide
SCHOOLS in Matabeleland North should ideally provide a meal per day for pupils in the province which is among the worst affected by hunger to create a conducive learning environment, an official has s...Published: 24 Apr 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Drought forces villagers to sell their livestock for a song
VILLAGERS in most parts of Binga are now selling their livestock for a song with goats going for as little as $5 while cattle are selling at around $100 as they seek to raise money to buy food. ...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 08:20hrs | | by Lackson Munkombwe
Zanu-PF: Stop kicking and start pulling, please
Some members of ZANU-PF have been seized with attacking each other using social media platforms like Twitter at the expense of pressing issues like the El Nino-induced droughtThe Exchequer...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 05:17hrs | 1 | by Nick Mangwana
Government workers salaries too little- Mahoko
MP Sarah Mahoko has lamented that government workers salaries were too little and asked the parliament to move for the deduction of members of the house in order to share the spoils with civil servant...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
I had to skip one key summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I thought there was no harm if I blessed myself with a break this week, coming as I am doing from a back-breaking schedule that has seen me go...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by CZ
Chief demands $600k for construction of his house from villagers
A storm is brewing between Chief Makoni of Rusape and his subjects following the traditional leader's directive to each household pay US$10 towards construction of his house.The Sunday Mail cl...Published: 10 May 2015 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
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