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Bulawayo residents call for Ellen Ruparanganda to resign
Bulawayo pressure groups have stood in support of the local business community which has made several calls requesting that the Competition and Tarrif Commission be decentralised to cover Bulawayo. ...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 13:06hrs | 8985 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1389 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Free tillage for villagers
THE Government has come up with a tillage programme where tractors will be dispatched through the District Development Fund (DDF) to till at least one hectare per household to assist farmers whose dra...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:23hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Can new Zimdollar relieve the chronic cash crunch?
Gason Mukuvadzi, a lanky man with boyish looks, sits behind a makeshift desk in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo centre. An umbrella canvas shelters him from the blistering sun as he waits for customers looking t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says inputs scheme abusers will be punished
President Mnangagwa has warned farmers that abuse inputs being allocated by Government under the Command Agriculture programme and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme that they will be punished sev...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:30hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces mealie-meal shortage
ZIMBABWE faces mealie-meal shortages after government cut maize supplies to local millers by 40% citing funding constraints.Millers get maize from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) although gove...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Farmers face draught power challenge
AS the 2019/2020 cropping season gets underway, the Zimbabwe Farmers' Union (ZFU) says its members lack adequate draught power given the poor state of livestock following the severe drought experience...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:17hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's deputy chief secretary retires
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Mr Justin Mupamhanga has retired, having served in Government for 36 years. He told The Herald: "While I've retired as a civil servant, I've...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
Inflation out of control: Guvamatanga
Finance ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga has revealed that the government is not considering removing the 2% tax on mobile transactions despite criticism that it is fuelling inflation....Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:46hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions $600m cane project
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned a $600 million Kilimanjaro Sugar Cane project which is expected to create 2 000 jobs in the next one year.In a joint venture between Tongaat Hu...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:31hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube attempts a Houdini act
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube this week unveils his second National Budget statement in which he is expected to announce far-reaching interventions to soothe a natio...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:23hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Command Agric runners face audit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally and fuel mogul, Kuda Tagwireyi, is once again on the spotlight after Parliament recommended that a forensic audit should be done on the controversial Command Ag...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 1013 | by Staff reporter
Residents protest Zanu-PF's hijacking of food distribution
TSHABALALA residents on Thursday last week forced the abandonment of a maize distribution exercise as they protested the hijacking of the programme by Zanu-PF officials in the area, Southern Eye estab...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Residents and council workers clash over farming land
Hundreds of families in Glenview South are furious at some City of Harare workers for allegedly invading their small urban farming plots near Feroworks Paddocks.Senior citizens, 70-year-ol...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 16:51hrs | 1161 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo residents to get nutrition boost
People in Bulawayo's townships in Zimbabwe primarily survive on maize.Even so, the year 2019 has hit them particularly hard, with the drought drying up the supply of grain to the city....Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:53hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Farmers start dry planting
FARMERS, both commercial and rural have started preparations for this year's planting season with some engaging in dry planting.In an interview, Department of Crop and Livestock Matabeleland N...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Free food for 12 000 in Bulawayo
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has approved a pension payout of more than 200 percent that will be paid this month but backdated to October, Sunday News has established.Accordin...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 342 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy set to shrink 6,5%
Zimbabwe's economy is set to shrink by 6,5% this year – its first contraction in a decade — after a drought and power shortages, the Finance minister said yesterday.Power generation could ...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 229 | by Reuters
The Competition and Tarrif Commission snubs Bulawayo residents.
The Competition and Tarriff Commission has failed to heed the call by Bulawayo businesses to decentralize it's operations through opening a local office to effectively assist companies in the se...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 17:28hrs | 2184 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube rejects demands for US dollar-indexed salaries
The government has rejected a central demand by public sector workers to have their salaries indexed to the United States dollar.Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said his broke government could n...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 07:07hrs | 5109 | by Staff reporter
Biti approved funding of Command Agriculture he is bashing
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya last week produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-bound US$20 million agric equip arrives in Durban
A consignment of agricultural equipment worth US$20 million from US-based John Deere - which consists of 500 tractors, 200 pieces of machinery and 40 combine harvesters - has arrived in Durban, South ...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:53hrs | 1567 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed for torching mother's huts
A 46-year-old man from Chirumanzu who once hit the headlines after assaulting his mother for sleeping out, has been dragged to court for setting his mother's five huts on fire.Jacob Chinotawai...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:40hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya throws Chinamasa under the bus?
RESERVE Bank governor John Mangudya yesterday threw former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa under the bus after he refused to take responsibility for the US$3,2 billion Treasury Bills that were unla...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 10:53hrs | 4566 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya nails Biti
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:39hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya, Biti clash in Parliament
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday produced evidence in Parliament which suggests that former Finance Minister Tendai Biti approved the funding of Government's agricult...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 08:51hrs | 2196 | by Staff Reporter
Freely they were given freely they must give
Anointed pens for exams, anointed umbrellas, condoms, maize, bricks, cucumbers etc, the list is endless. The basic equation is money and more money. The Lord Jesus and his disciples never vend...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 16:24hrs | 249 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa.
National Foods expects 86% revenue growth
if the economic environment remains unstable by the year ending March 31, 2020, National Foods Holdings Limited (NFHL) expects an 84,6% revenue growth to $1,05 billion spurred by inflationary pressure...Published: 21 Oct 2019 at 07:41hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Questions arising from Treasury's strategy paper
THREE official documents published in recent weeks paint a different, but fundamentally depressing pictures of Zimbabwe's economy. All pose more questions than answers, leaving readers to ponder the m...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 782 | by Tony Hawkins
When hunger inhibits acquisition of knowledge
The young girl could hardly walk, her step was a blend of jaywalking and deathly staggering. To say she was sleep walking would be far fetched since she new the direction of the foot path. Her...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:56hrs | 101 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 14:18hrs | 561 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's govt re-engages Sakunda
THE government has again roped in controversial oil company, Sakunda Holdings, in the distribution of agricultural inputs to farmers under the Command Agriculture scheme after it poured in $2.8 billio...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 06:35hrs | 5005 | by newzimbabwe
This regime must desist from corruption in agriculture
Recent announcements by the government, that it would disburse $2.8 billion for the Command Agriculture and issuing some $300 million in Treasury bills is a serious cause for concern, judging by the m...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 14:34hrs | 647 | by Rusty Markham
'Lawyers still looking at Nssa report'
Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Sekai Nzenza has been in her post for just over a year. During her tenure she has had to deal with various issues, including the current drought, the...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:13hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe heading for a mass starvation?
There was one particular rumour that rocketed around the city of Harare this week.It was a scrap of information, shared on the streets and on social media, which speaks volumes about the despe...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 17:59hrs | 1202 | by John Sparks
Who is stoking the fires of stratospheric pricing of goods and services?
The high prices 'veld fire' needs more drastic measures to douse the flames that are threatening to consume the commoners. In this time of great 'financial drought' how many can afford to buy ...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 08:05hrs | 915 | by Thomas Murisa
Fake seed warning
FARMERS have been warned against buying counterfeit maize seed at a time when official seed shops have increased prices. The Ministry of Agriculture, Lands and Rural Settlement has said farmer...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 06:40hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Goromonzi gets facelift ahead of Zanu-PF conference
GOROMONZI is undergoing a massive facelift with different government departments and parastatals already on the ground ahead of Zanu PF annual conference to be held in December in the district....Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:06hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Bushiri develops Presidential ambitions?
Enlightened Christian Gathering leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri has declared that he has every right to stand as a President of Malawi if he wants to. Speaking at a press conference held in So...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 16:08hrs | 5582 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe doctors to defy government ultimatum to return to work
Striking doctors on Sunday vowed to press on with their job boycott, despite getting an ultimatum to return to work by Monday at 0800hrs.Doctors say the government's offer of a 60 percent sala...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 20:48hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Agric preps begin
Government will start moving agricultural inputs for Command Agriculture to several parts of the country this week as it pushes farmers to plant early to maximise on imminent rains.Logistical ...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:07hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Wake up! The rains are nigh
Politicians do not come as colourful as ex-Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko.But for Bishop Lazi, his colourfulness came from his colourlessness.The chap was just politically insipid a...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 15:02hrs | 62 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe now a country of glaring contradictions
ZIMBABWE, under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has now become a country of sickening contradictions.Last week, a visiting United Nations special rapporteur on human rights Clement Nyalessosi Voule issu...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:45hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths demands 40% of farming equipmwemt
ZANU PF Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Lewis Matutu says the youths are demanding 40% of the farming equipment that was promised to farmers by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during the State of the ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 11:07hrs | 730 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Treasury not writing off Command Agric debts
Government has no plans to write off Command Agriculture debts and expects beneficiaries of the facility to pay back dues. Command Agriculture is a cost recovery scheme that was introduced by Governme...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 06:32hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says economic saboteurs will not be tolerated
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says last week's manipulation of the exchange rate amounts to economic sabotage and must not be tolerated. President Mnangagwa said this during the State of the Nation Add...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 15:54hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Govt liberalises grain imports
GOVERNMENT has given the greenlight to individuals and corporates with free funds to import any quantities of grain into the country to complement Treasury efforts in ensuring adequate food reserves. ...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 06:34hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Command Agriculture facing financial challenges
LAST week, the Government of Zimbabwe announced that its Command Agriculture programme shall look to be financed by the banking sector. The country's planting season is already upon us. Field preparat...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:53hrs | 71 | by Chris Chenga
New funding model for Command Agriculture
GOVERNMENT has adopted a new funding model for Command Agriculture during the 2019/20 farming season which will see it providing guarantees with banks and the private sector funding the programme to u...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 06:39hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
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