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Sugar stocks exceed national demand
Zimbabwe's leading sugar producers, Hippo Valley Estates and Triangle, have moved to allay fears of shortages and price hikes, assuring the nation that local sugar stocks are more than adequate to mee...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:25hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Tongaat Hulett to sell Zimbabwe operations in ZAR5.9 billion deal
South African agriculture and agri-processing giant, Tongaat Hulett Limited (THL), has announced its decision to offload its Zimbabwe operations to the Vision Group, a South African investment consort...Published: 29 Dec 2024 at 08:49hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
US$ shortages on official market crippling ZiG acceptability
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) warns that the ongoing US$ shortages on the official market could further undermine the ZiG currency, amid increasing calls for comprehensive reforms to ...Published: 12 Sep 2024 at 08:07hrs | 1879 | by Staff reporter
American Chamber of Commerce appoints Dudu Shinya as Executive Director
The American Chamber of Commerce in Zimbabwe (AmCham Zimbabwe) has announced the appointment of Duduzile Shinya as its new Executive Director. Duduzile is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of Zimb...Published: 12 Jun 2024 at 20:18hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Govt seeks to set up sugar mill
The government is preparing to establish a new sugar milling company in the Lowveld region after its unsuccessful attempt to purchase Tongaat Hulett, one of the country's major sugar estates. Tongaat ...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to cut sugar imports to avert collapse of local industry'
To safeguard local producers grappling with declining sales, it is advisable to halt sugar imports into Zimbabwe. Concerns have arisen that by March of next year, the country could find itself burdene...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hwange power plant output falls to 10%
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is at various stages of repairing four units at Hwange Power Station after a series of breakdowns led to a sharp drop in power supply, after output at the country's se...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 06:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Sugar shortage hits Zimbabwe
SOME parts of the country such as the capital, Harare, are experiencing shortages of sugar supplies at retail shops with the informal sector struggling to restock.A snap survey yesterday confirmed...Published: 20 Dec 2022 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politicians must not politicise development
CHIREDZI residents have urged elected officials and politicians to end polarisation and collectively focus on serving the community in a transparent and non-partisan manner.Speaking during a c...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:26hrs | 5 | by Alexio Rashirai
War veterans tell Chadzamira to quit post
CHIREDZI war veterans have called for the removal from office of minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira (pictured), accusing him of corruptly allocating land in the district to outsiders while...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blue chips shine in Africa
AT least five of Zimbabwe's biggest stock exchange-listed firms have made it to the list of Africa's best performing companies, defying storms stemming out of a two year old economic crisis, which was...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled sugarcane farmers meet Mnangagwa
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last Sunday met sugarcane farmers from Chiredzi at his Precabe Farm in Kwekwe to discuss challenges faced by the over 1 200 sugar growers who benefited from the land reform...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sugar exports surge 29%
ZIMBABWE'S sugar exports surged 29% during the full year ended March 2021, driven largely by demand in the east African country Kenya, a local sugar entity has revealed.In its financial result...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official defies Chiwenga
Zanu-PF Chiredzi district coordinating committee chairperson Siyaki Munhungei last Monday ordered the acting district development coordinator, Gift Machukele, to ignore a recent instruction by Vice-Pr...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga reverses corrupt sugarcane plot allocation
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials, their relatives and security agents who were corruptly allocated sugarcane plots in Chiredzi by minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira were last weekend ordered to su...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BAT rated best ZSE counter
BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT ) Zimbabwe has been rated the top counter on both the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)'s top 10 and 15 indexes for the second quarter of 2021.BAT's rating was announ...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:08hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Crocodile causes stir at Chiredzi Hospital
There was pandemonium at Chiredzi District Hospital today after a huge crocodile was spotted in a storm drain at the biggest health referral health institution in the Lowveld.The reptile...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Council splashes US$480k on chefs' cars
CHIREDZI Rural District Council (RDC) has pampered its six top executives with top-of-the-range Toyota Hilux GD-6 double-cab vehicles at a time service delivery has plunged to unprecedented levels....Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
IPPs now producing 135MW as ZERA cancels 8 licences
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) says only 19 independent power producers (IPPs) are operational from the 88, which have been licenced to date while eight licences were cancelled for fa...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 14:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Rushwaya gold could buy UniFreight, Zeco'
THE gold that underfire Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya allegedly tried to smuggle out of the country before running into an airport security trap about three weeks ago was e...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bhasikiti hacks lover to death
A Chiredzi sugar cane farmer is on the run after allegedly hacking to death his long-time girlfriend with a machete following an ugly row over alleged infidelity. Police in the sugar cane grow...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Idle power producers to lose licences
OVER 30 independent power producers (IPPs) with licences to generate up to 5 000MW, stare the prospect of losing the licences for continuously failing to resume operations, at a time the country is co...Published: 03 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villager eaten by crocodiles
A 40-YEAR-OLD Zvishavane man died over the weekend after he was devoured by crocodiles while on a fishing expedition in the Runde River.Tawanda Ranganai's body parts were discovered the follow...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Economic revival unstoppable, claims Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe is on an inexorable and unstoppable economic and political trajectory that will definitely lead to prosperity, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.The country, he said, is like a tr...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe energy projects fail to take off
OVER the last five years Zimbabwe's energy regulator has licensed more than 30 independent power producers (IPPs), but only eight of them have taken off and are currently operational.Zimbabwe ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aiden Mhere declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, has been declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up is Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimb...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 19:57hrs | 5 | by Agencies
Aiden Mhere declared Chartered Secretary of the Year
Hippo Valley Estates acting chief executive officer, Aiden Mhere, has been declared the 2017 Chartered Secretary of the Year. The runner-up is Posts and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimb...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:23hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Sugar firm in $45m tax storm
Zimbabwe Sugar Sales (ZSS) Ltd, a company that sells and distributes sugar on behalf of Hippo Valley Estates and Triangle Limited, has been caught up in a $45 million tax evasion storm. The Zi...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court clips Muchinguri's powers
THE High Court has outlawed the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Raw Water Tariffs) Regulations, Statutory Instrument (SI) 48 of 2016, which gave Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchin...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi summons Tongaat Hulett
Vice President Kembo Mohadi has summoned management at Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe for direct and frank negotiations to discuss challenges afflicting the industry.Tongaat is...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tongaat Huletts employees clash with resettled farmers
Over 200 Tongaat Huletts Zimbabwe employees here were last week involved in fierce clashes with scores of resettled sugarcane farmers who wanted to take over their houses at Hippo Valley Estates....Published: 30 May 2018 at 07:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
High Court slashes water tariffs
THE High Court has quashed the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Raw Water Tariffs) Statutory Instrument 48 of 2016, which hiked raw water charges for commercial agriculture from $9,45 to $12 per meg...Published: 14 May 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
South Africa pressures Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe's decision to stop the expropriation of Tongaat Hulett (Tongaat)'s sugarcane fields in the Lowveld was influenced by diplomatic pressure from South Africa's government, analyst...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 18:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major Zimbabwean sugarcane estate crumbling
Mkwasine, one of the major sugarcane estates is crumbling at the hands of new farmers who took over the land from Tongaat Hullet.The new sugarcane farmers themselves have said in separate inte...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 11:45hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
Tongaat hails Govt for banning illegal sugar imports
Tongaat Hullet's Hippo Valley Estates has hailed the Government for banning illegal sugar imports into Zimbabwe as these were going to have a serious negative impact on the local industry.This...Published: 18 Dec 2016 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SA's unrelenting grip on Zimbabqe economy
AS the South African high-level delegation descended on Harare last week for engagements with their Zimbabwean peers, a new set of statistics released by that country's department of trade and ind...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Pupil turned into a sex slave
A 50-YEAR-OLD woman in Chiredzi allegedly connived with her husband and turned her 14-year-old orphaned niece into a sex slave.Chiredzi regional magistrate Mrs Judith Zuyu on Tuesday heard...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 12:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can never run out of food - Zanu-PF Minister
Industry and Commerce Minister Mike Bimha reportedly said no food shortages will be experienced in the country contrary to social media reports circulating that basic commodities were becoming scarce ...Published: 12 Jun 2016 at 06:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tongaat Hulett fires 4 300 employees
GIANT sugar producer Tongaat Hulett has sacked thousands of contract workers barely two months after they embarked on a crippling month-long industrial action that disrupted local sugar supplies....Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt traffic cops in Chiredzi - WhatsApp update
Please note that Bulawayo24 does not edit WhatsApp updates. We publish them as sent by our readers and we do not disclose the sender's telephone number....Published: 26 Dec 2015 at 08:22hrs | | by Worried motorist
The story of Triangle Leadership Crisis?
Upon receiving the news that the place I like the most in Zimbabwe has been brought down by the company’s most devastating and daunting strike in recent years. Obviously for reasons of ...Published: 15 Dec 2015 at 11:20hrs | 4 | by Julius Matare
ZimRights host governmental and non-governmental stakeholders conference
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) on Friday, August 21, 2015, in the southern provincial capital, Masvingo, hosted governmental and non-governmental stakeholders at an interactive idea...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiredzi town tapes to run dry
Chiredzi residents must brace for dry tapes as Chiredzi Town Council has embarked on massive maintenance of its water system which is starts this week.Masvingo Mirror reported that Counc...Published: 22 Jun 2015 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
200 war vets arrested for invading a sugarcane estate
ABOUT 200 war veterans were arrested for invading Tongaat Hullets' sugarcane estates in Chiredzi between the last weekend and yesterday.The arrested war veterans are largely from the Tshangani...Published: 22 May 2014 at 07:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Two women seriously injured in buffalo attack
TWO women were seriously injured by a buffalo that attacked them while working in sugarcane fields in Hippo Valley Estates on Monday.Sheila Karima (53) and Ndaizivei Rukambe (39) are still ad...Published: 01 May 2014 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zim pastor 'anointed by TB Joshua' performs wonders
A Chiredzi pastor, who claims to have been anointed by popular Nigerian pastor TB Joshua, is making waves in the south-eastern Lowveld town where he is said to be performing breathtaking "miracles"...Published: 19 Jan 2014 at 18:29hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF orders Tongaat Hullet to immediately surrender plantations
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has ordered sugar cane growing giant Tongaat Hullet to immediately surrender over 6 000 hectares of cane plantations at Triangle that will be allocated to la...Published: 12 Sep 2013 at 05:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZSE: Industrials break the 215 ceiling as activity improves
The mainstream Industrials raced past the 215 barrier for the first time since dollarisation on Thursday amid improving activity on the floor with 14 counters managing gains out of the 31 that traded....Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 11:14hrs | 1 | by Business reporter
Zimbabwe Industrial shares fall
INDUSTRIAL shares on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange slid into the red on Friday, ending a two-day winning streak mostly on losses in OK Zimbabwe and DZHL.After trades, the mainstream index was do...Published: 24 Mar 2013 at 23:25hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tree crashes toddler to death
AN eight-month old baby from Chiredzi was killed on Monday and her mother seriously injured when a tree fell onto their house during a heavy thunder storm, police said. Masvingo provincial po...Published: 24 Jan 2013 at 21:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
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