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Mnangagwa praises his farming success
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken to congratulating himself for what he describes as an agricultural revolution at his Precabe Farm in Sherwood, Kwekwe. In a recent visit to the farm, Mnangagwa b...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 10:23hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man 'assisted' white farmers murder of 2 women in South Africa
Three men in South Africa are accused of killing two women and feeding their bodies to pigs on their farm in a case that has outraged the public.The men appeared in court Tuesday in the northe...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:11hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man survives deadly shooting in South Africa
The man who survived the deadly Limpopo shooting, where two women lost their lives at a farm, has recounted the harrowing experience when he escaped and left his wife gasping for life."The fir...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 12:51hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman killed, remains fed to pigs by a white farmer
A Zimbabwean woman and her friend were allegedly killed and their remains fed to pigs by a farmer in Limpopo province, South Africa, last week.The Zimbabwean woman, identified as 35-year-old L...Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 08:08hrs | 4846 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt scraps VAT on livestock sales
The Ministry of Finance, Economic Development, and Investment Promotion has proposed VAT exemptions on live animals to boost meat demand and support formal trade in the livestock sector. Last ...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:35hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime knows can't shoot people in front of regional leaders!
Why has the President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa regime, of late, intensified its crackdown on gatherings? What are they so terrified of?...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 05:11hrs | 439 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Historical background of forceful evictions of villagers of Gota of Sipolilo
The promulgation of land settlement Act of 1957 by Sir Godfrey Huggins’s government in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) witnessed the forceful evictions of Villagers from their ancestral land of Gota ar...Published: 14 Jul 2024 at 17:26hrs | 333 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Mnangagwa's govt bans cattle sales at household level
The government has immediately banned household cattle sales, urging farmers to use village business unit (VBU) auctions to curb the panic selling of animals caused by the recent El Nino-induced droug...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 06:40hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Foot-and-mouth disease hits Buhera, Chikomba
GOVERNMENT has prohibited the movement of livestock from Buhera district in Manicaland and Chikomba in Mashonaland East provinces following an outbreak of the foot-and-mouth disease.The Depart...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for major medical breakthrough
ZIMBABWE is earmarked for another major medical breakthrough as it is set to conduct a minimally invasive thoracic surgery today.The development is the first of its kind in the country and foc...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pan-Africanism is dead!
Twice, in as many weeks, I have heard Zimbabwe President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa speak on the need to preserve Pan-Africanism.Yesterday was the latest, as he attended a memorial service he...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 22:11hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Over 50 cattle destroyed for illegal movement
THE Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, and Rural Development is intensifying its call for farmers to refrain from illegally moving livestock without proper documentation. The co...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sangoma's US$30 000 wedding brings Harare to a standstill
SEKURU Tasvu's nuptials with his sweetheart Talent Qeliwe Mpofu last weekend were rare in more ways than one.Not only was it a spectacle to have a traditional healer opting to have a white wed...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Believing in ancestral spirits is a myth
At death the body and spirit or the material and immaterial separate. In African society the spirits of the dead, variously known in sub-Saharan Africa as amahlozi or amatongo (Zulu), Xhosa), balimo (...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:59hrs | 676 | by Dr Onesimus A. Ngundu
Zim teachers frog-marched to administer iron and folate supplements, Govt evasive
School teachers in Highglen District have raised red flag over alleged compulsory administration of iron and folate supplements amongst learners in schools without the presents of health officials or ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 08:18hrs | 9 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Only 22,2% urban households involved in urban agriculture
About 22.2% of households were involved in urban agriculture.This is revealed in the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) 2023 report which noted that therefore, the Government...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 17:43hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
Lupane varsity starts chicken artificial insemination project
LUPANE State University (LSU) has started a chicken artificial insemination project to improve indigenous breeds in the country with similar projects also being done with goats and pigs.The un...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Are Zanu-PF and ANC Siamese twins?
BIOLOGICAL Siamese twins, are those born conjoined to each other, usually at the chest, pelvis or backside. Their conjoinment, unfortunately, is not of their own making.This results from parti...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Mutemo Pisa
Illegally moved cattle to be destroyed
THE Matabeleland South Veterinary Department has been ordered to destroy six cattle that were illegally moved from Huntley, a January disease-infected area in Insiza to Avoca in the same district....Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries bring new vibe
Zanu-PF will print 23 million ballot papers for the revolutionary party's primary elections as a huge turnout is expected in the polls that have also attracted a record number of aspiring candidates w...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Underperforming ANC hell bent on stopping regime change in Zimbabwe; it's fiddler crab strategy
"South Africa has a Zimbabwe problem - and no one is willing to help it, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula as he called for an end to long-standing sanctions agains...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 07:33hrs | 8 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Zimbabweans are angry'
CIVIL society organisations (CSOs) have warned of simmering civil unrest due to unfettered corruption among President Emmerson Mnangagwa's lieutenants and cronies, after the country fared badly in Tra...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
If Zimbabwe youth were to emulate yesteryear generation there would be a liberation struggle against our new oppressors
When we were studying George Orwell's masterpiece, 'Animal Farm', during our Ordinary Level English Literature - there were always some gnawing questions standing out in my mind.Were these pig...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 14:41hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's personalization of government programs divisive and counter-productive
So, now there is a 'Miners for ED' group!Another, in a long line of shady organizations that have mushroomed over the recent past – a...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 16:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Chiwenga a great disappointment at health ministry'
Vice President, who also doubles as health minister, Constantino Chiwenga, has been challenged to turn around the country's disintegrating medical care.This comes at a time social media is awa...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'paranoid' measures roundly condemned
VARIOUS stakeholders and experts roundly condemned economic stabilisation measures introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "stop economic hitmen" from sabotaging his under-fire administration....Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's Pre-Elections Pact on Reforms is a pseudo pre-marital power sharing agreement- no reforms will be implemented
If I was in a position to do so, I would make reading George Orwell's book, Animal Farm compulsory reading for all Zimbabwe for two reasons:1) The book is an allegorised allu...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 21:46hrs | 7 | by Wilbert Mukori
Vet department kills six cattle moved without permit
Matabeleland South provincial veterinary director Dr Enart Mdlongwa last week ordered the killing of six cows that were moved without a permit from Figtree to Gwanda, in contravention to the law....Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farm workers jobless as Mpofu defies High Court
DOZENS of workers at Esidakeni Farm, located about 67km from Bulawayo, are said to have lost their jobs after Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu defied a court order to vacate the farm....Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Pink Pigs' feed millions of hungry 'independent' Zimbabwean citizens; they demand human rights & the rule of law on our behalf
They bite the hand that feeds them in the sense of the word. European countries from the west collect resources from their hard-won taxpayers and afford food aid to countries facing starvation and hun...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:55hrs | 9 | by Nomazulu Thata
ZANU PF regime's uncivilized and undiplomatic savage diatribes main impediment to international re-engagement
In any relationship and encounter on this planet, there are bound to be some disagreements and misunderstandings.Even in the animal kingdom, there is always conflict to be expected - whether i...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 09:41hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Entrepreneurs Betting on Maggots
Dressed in a blazer and tie, Josphat Nyika isn't an archetypal farmer. The deputy headmaster, fresh from teaching at the local primary school, dons a pair of plastic gloves and scoops up a swarm of cr...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:18hrs | 2 | by Vimbai Chinembiri
Sanctions collapsed Zimbabwe beef industry
THE country's famed beef industry collapsed at the turn of the millennium following the imposition of illegal sanctions by Western countries when the country embarked on the successful fast-track land...Published: 13 Oct 2021 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZRP lifts Zimbabwean flag very high
The first pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights (hereinafter UN Guiding Principles) underscores that the duty to protect human rights lies with the State.Assessment of police eff...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe police have achieved more in difficult times thanks to ED's choice of Matanga
The first pillar of the UN Guiding Principles on Human Rights (hereinafter UN Guiding Principles) underscores that the duty to protect human rights lies with the state. Assessment of police effectiven...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 07:31hrs | 8 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Zanu-PF only political party to embrace gays'
Zanu-PF is the only political party that managed to respond to concerns raised by the Gays and Lesbians Association of Zimbabwe (GALZ) in 2018.Ahead of the 2018 elections, GALZ approache...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 18:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pig producers struggle for maize supplies
SMALLHOLDER pig producers, accounting for 80% of the country's pig producers, are reportedly struggling to access maize as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has not availed an allocation for them, rende...Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministers attack war veterans chairman
Mashonaland Central Minister of provincial affairs Monica Mavhunga together with Minister of Home Affairs Kazembe Kazembe who is also the incumbent ZANU P...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 07:07hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Pathisa Nyathi, the forgetful man who reminds us about our heritage
"HELLO. I will be with you in a moment. I just want to finish this sentence," Pathisa Nyathi told a news crew that visited him at his home in Gwabalanda last week.Nyathi, who was seated in the...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Matemadanda fired for 'verbal diarrhoea decimating MDC A' - demand now is for credible opposition
"Zanu PF has relieved Victor Matemadanda from the political commissar post over incompetence and his verbal diarrhoea remarks on the decimation of the opposition MDC Alliance," reported Bulawayo24....Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Is there anything for Zimbabwe's presidium to be proud of, after turning country into a shameless charity case?
I honestly had all the intentions of attentively watching and following the live broadcast of the delivery, that arrived today at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, of an addit...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 17:17hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZCTU now wants national dialogue to end Zimbabwe's crisis
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has become the latest organisation to call for a comprehensive all-stakeholder dialogue to solve the country's multi-faceted crisis.ZCTU president ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF member fires gunshots in land grab
Mthwakazi Republic Party members remove the gate at Ntabazinduna Lodge which they seized from a Zanu-PF member, Flyod Ambrose, yesterdayTO gunshots were allegedly fired yesterday after Mth...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls mandatory COVID-19 vaccination
PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba says Zimbabwe could consider mandatory inoculation against COVID-19 following resistance from some sections of the population. Zimbabwe rolled out the...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 21:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt threatens more restrictions
GOVERNMENT yesterday warned citizens to brace for more movement restrictions in light of the highly fatal and fast-spreading South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, which now constitutes 61% of n...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 06:32hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe medical professionals not trained to administer COVID-19 jabs
MEDICAL professionals yesterday said they still had not been trained on how to administer the COVID-19 vaccines despite the country expecting its first batch today, a consignment of 200 000 doses of t...Published: 15 Feb 2021 at 18:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man earns a living by breeding flies
A BINDURA man is earning a living through breeding flies as animal feed at a time flies are associated with unhygienic practices and condemned for causing diseases such as cholera, typhoid, dysentery ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Why some drugs are tagged for Africa only
THE media has been awash with conspiracy theories on the vaccines that have been or are being rolled out to control Covid-19. In Africa a huge fraction of the population might hesitate, or eve...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:07hrs | | by Nevanji Madanhire
COVID-19 vaccine only for the chefs
GOVERNMENT yesterday revealed that it was failing to import enough vaccines for citizens, and would prioritise Cabinet ministers and senior government officials, Members of Parliament (MPs), the secur...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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