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Another bumper agric season beckons
Normal to above normal rainfall is most likely during the next summer rains over most of SADC region, according to a seasonal forecast from the 25th Southern African Regional Climate Outlook Forum (SA...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Locusts invade Chilonga
VILLAGERS in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi have said that their small grain crops have been ravaged by locusts, leaving very little to fall back on.This development adds to their woes after go...Published: 12 May 2021 at 06:44hrs | 791 | by Staff reporter
Demystifying COVID-19 Vaccines: The Truth
We are consumed by the desire to herald the truth in the age of increased information and knowledge. For this reason, we would like to demystify some dangerous misinformation that is being peddled by ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 08:22hrs | 1536 | by Oliver Dube and Dr Stanley Maphosa
Zimbabwe braces for locusts threat
Resources have been mobilised to minimise the effects of any invasion of the African migratory locust from Botswana and Namibia where outbreaks have been reported. Shingirai Nyamutukwa, head o...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:46hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Locust outbreaks threaten food security in southern Africa
Immediate action can prevent disaster in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, and ZimbabweOutbreaks of African Migratory Locu...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 18:42hrs | 2127 | by FAOAfrica
Zimbabwe advised to ban any gatherings in the face of covid
When people take action to resolve some ills or inequalities in their life or in their society, this action is called A demonstration. It is taken by a mass group or collection of groups of people in ...Published: 17 Jul 2020 at 07:25hrs | 2294 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The girl child now leaving nothing to imagination
Are prophecies of yore now coming to the fore as per the Good Book? Signs of the end times appear to be in currency everywhere, does the Word not say so? Great swarms of locusts are ravenously...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 18:30hrs | 724 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Mnangagwa claims that his 'Vision 2030' is key to ending poverty
Vision 2030 addresses aspirations contained in Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063 aimed at eradicating poverty in Africa.This was said by President Mnangagwa in his speech while off...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 06:53hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa imposed Shona councillors causing tribal may ham in Bulawayo
On 15 September 2018, when more than 12 Shona councillors took office in the City of Bulawayo on the ticket of MDC Alliance MLO released a statement that partly read as follows: "hoi! to the people of...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 3967 | by Israel Dube
Bulawayo to drink sewage, face huge debt
Now that Bulawayo, the city that prides itself as the cleanest and well run metropolitan has fallen into the hands of those with the DNA of corruption, residents must brace for huge unpayable debt and...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 12:06hrs | 4213 | by Israel Dube
Can the Zimbabwe 'good coup' usher in democracy?
Zimbabwe is currently witnessing two very different political trajectories unfolding at the same time. In one; the coup leader is calling for economic transformation and in another; the coup governmen...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1069 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Ubuntu or hypocrisy? - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
President Mnangagwa is a smooth operator. How he was content to be Mugabe's flunkey for 40 years is a puzzle. But whatever you think of him, he is galvanising things.This is in sharp contrast ...Published: 07 Jan 2018 at 17:49hrs | 2575 | by ZimVigil
Mugabe says no short cut to leadership
THERE is no short cut to leadership of the people and Zanu-PF has no room for those who divert from the party's principles to fulfill self-serving interests, President Mugabe has said.He said ...Published: 09 Nov 2017 at 05:35hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa, Mujuru, Mutasa, Gumbo are still Zanu PF'
lets be focusedZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has warned that the disposed Vice Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Joice Mujuru and former party members Didymas Mutasa and Rug...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 06:57hrs | 10421 | by Stephen Jakes
With Love from the Mountains to Dick and Saviour
We are hearing echoes and encountering some bad dreams here in the mountains where we stay. I am talking about a place that is 500 kilometers from your place of capture commonly known as Bindura....Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 10:56hrs | 1126 | by Gugugu Magorira Zvishavane
Zimbabwe faces locust invasion
Zimbabwe faces a red locust invasion which further threatens maize and wheat yields as the country battles to control fall army worm that has ravaged crops. The red locusts are aggressive and ...Published: 15 Feb 2017 at 06:04hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Emergency conference on fall armyworm
Cereal crop-eating caterpillars have infested maize fields in Namibia, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. While pest identification is still being awaited in some countri...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 10:18hrs | 719 | by FAO
Fall armyworm outbreak a blow to prospects of recovery for southern Africa
New pest poses novel threat to region reeling from effects of consecutive droughts Harare - A fall armyworm out...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 13:29hrs | 499 | by FAO
Prof Jonathan Moyo the only true prophet
Zimbabwe is touted as having the most educated people in sub-Saharan Africa yet the country is so poor and lacks basic amenities that other countries enjoy, even those with more goats than people as H...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 17:27hrs | 5165 | by Jealousy Mawarire
Starvation lurks in Matabeleland south, lives in danger
GWANDA - SCORES OF children have succumbed to malnutrition in Gwanda South, Matabeleland South province as food stocks start running out from last year's harvests.This has seen most childr...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 06:24hrs | 2287 | by Staff Reporter
Lufthansa grounded as pilots strike over early retirement,
FRANKFURT - A three-day strike by pilots at Lufthansa over early retirement, which has grounded Germany's largest airline, shows no sign of ending early after management said there would be no fu...Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 22:11hrs | 3797 | by Staff Reporter
Today's Prosperity Gospel versus Jesus Christ's Prosperity Gospel
My years as a researcher have taken me through the school of hard knocks. Nevertheless, the journey has been intriguing in that it is laden with significant lessons of life. Of the lessons I hav...Published: 21 Oct 2013 at 16:08hrs | 2628 | by Learnmore Zhuze
Tsvangirai quashes coup threats
Zanu-PF leaders who contradict President Robert Mugabe's peace calls are a threat to national security, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday.Tsvangirai was addressing thousands of C...Published: 22 Apr 2013 at 06:48hrs | 3258 | by Staff reporter
Njelele not just a rain-making shrine
Njelele, one of the oldest and most revered religious shrines in the country, has been at the centre of controversy over the past few months.The place of worship, located in the Matobo Hills i...Published: 23 Sep 2012 at 11:36hrs | 2768 | by Hilary Mazinani
Meat producers should replace cattle with insects, scientists say Morgan Erickson-Davis
Scientists in the Netherlands have discovered that insects produce significantly less greenhouse gas per kilogram of meat than cattle or pigs. Their study, published in the online journal PLoS O...Published: 11 Jan 2011 at 19:08hrs | 1536 | by mongabay.com
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