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Military rifle recovered from poachers
POACHERS cornered in a section of the vast Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge recently abandoned an AK-47 assault rifle traced back to the Zimbabwe National Army, police sources said at the weeken...Published: 6 hrs ago | 376 | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho official on forced leave
TSHOLOTSHO Rural District Council executive officer-in-charge of Natural Resources, Mr Simelisizwe Sibanda has been sent on forced leave, following his arrest and subsequent appearance in court, where...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 10:00hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 22673 | by Staff reporter
ZimParks chief brings sanity in the Fishing industry in Lake Kariba
Following decades of several cries by the new fishing generation that had been trying in the fishing business enterprise especially of matemba regards allocation of permits, the current Director Gener...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:24hrs | 726 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio Correspondent
US poll says NO to Botswana plans to hunt and cull elephants
As the Botswana government rumbles towards the lifting of the ban on hunting its famous wildlife, an authoritative poll in the United States, from which the second greatest number of foreign tourists ...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 08:58hrs | 1273 | by Don Pinnock
World security under US threat: Mathema
SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America and its allies are undermining the new dispensation's efforts of international community re-engagement, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday....Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:44hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Zambia joint commission on Defence and Security opens
Defence and War Veterans' Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and her counterpart from Zambia Mr Stephen Kampyongo are today expected to officially open the 32nd Session of the Zimbabwe Zambia Joint Per...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:55hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Gonarezhou to reintroduce rhinos
Gonarezhou National Park is set to reintroduce over 20 rhinoceros into the vast wildlife conservancy next year, after the last of the 200 rhinos that were kept in the park were gunned down by poachers...Published: 26 Mar 2019 at 06:28hrs | 735 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's ex-employee languishes in remand prison
FORMER Zanu-PF Victoria Falls mayor Sifiso Mpofu and two of his alleged accomplices are languishing in remand prison pending a High Court decision on their bail application, which they filed last week...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | 2256 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu's ex-employee arrested with 120kg of ivory?
A former mayor of Zimbabwe's tourist hotspot Victoria Falls was caught with nine elephant tusks weighing 120 kilogrammes and arrested with two other suspects, police said on Friday.Sifiso Mpof...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2548 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF ex-Mayor arrested over ivory dealings
Former Victoria falls Mayor Sifiso Mpofu and two others arrested for illegal possession of 8 pieces of ivory weighing 120kgs.Sifiso Mpofu was a former employee of ZANU PF Politiburo member&nbs...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 10:14hrs | 1624 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa expels North Koreans under UN pressure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has reportedly expelled from the country an unknown number of North Korean nationals of "questionable character", who were in partnership with a local tobacco...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:19hrs | 2274 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Chivero for national clean-up
President Emmerson Mnangagwa heads to the Lake Chivero environs tomorrow for next month's national clean-up campaign, a Cabinet minister has said.Speaking in Kariba after touring Chirundu Bord...Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:17hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Botswana proposes hunting and trade as elephant population declines.
The results of the recent and most extensive elephant population survey of Botswana estimates the country’s population at 126,000 elephants, a further decline from 131,600 reporte...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 10:55hrs | 1287 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Man to pay $1,000 for killing antelope
A 32-year-old Mwenezi poacher was last week ordered to pay $1 000 to Mujingwe Conservancy after he killed an antelope in the sanctuary. Orderly Ndlovu of Situpa Village under Chief Mazetese wa...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
The panacea for future hydro-political conflicts: You-Me-Us!
You, me and us, saving water! The old adage is clear that prevention is better than cure, and indeed saving is better than expending to beg tomorrow. You care, I care and we care, but our care is litt...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 23:05hrs | 280 | by Eugine Makaya (PhD)
Another poacher shot at Mazunga Ranch
A poacher was shot and wounded by national parks and wildife authority rangers during a fire exchange at Mazunga ranch some 60km west of Beitbridge town.It is understood that the many who was ...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 20:24hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Man jailed 18 years over animal trophies
A 60-YEAR-OLD Mushumbi man, who was facing five counts of illegal possession of lion claws, pangolin scales, a hippopotamus tooth, ivory and a small spotted genet's tail, all valued at $31 025, was la...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Poacher shot, jailed 2 years
Suspected poacher Life Shoko (29), from Kambanjo in Gokwe, who was intercepted and shot by rangers while poaching at the Bubye Valley Conservancy in Beitbridge last year, has been slapped with an effe...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 08:02hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Kariba tourists decline spurs Senate debate
Senators have called on central government to expeditiously provide financial resources for construction of a new airport in Kariba and upgrade its tourist facilities to international standards....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:15hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
'Declare Kariba an economic zone to boost tourism'
MASHONALAND West Senator Sikelela Gumpo (Zanu PF) has called on government to declare Kariba a special economic zone, saying the town has the potential to earn foreign currency, as well as open up emp...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:14hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Black Panther star Danai in Zimbabwe
Actress Danai Gurira, Zimbabwe's export to Hollywood has been unveiled as the face of a local anti-poaching campaign running under the theme "Poaching Steals From Us All". The Black Panther st...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1230 | by Staff reporter
National Geographic Traveller lists Zimbabwe in Top 10 'must-see' destinations
National Geographic Traveller, one of the world's leading travel magazines, has listed Zimbabwe as one of the 19 must see destinations in the world in 2019.Zimbabwe was placed at number nine, ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1134 | by African News Agency
Dodgy North Korean envoy still holed up in Harare
LOCAL wildlife conservationists are still watching the movements of North Korea's representative in Harare, Kim Chung Su, amid growing worries about his alleged involvement in poaching syndicates in t...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:35hrs | 1447 | by Staff reporter
Confusion over Botswana’s elephant population
Botswana’s parliament recently passed a motion considering lifting the ban on elephant trophy hunting, citing an increase in both the elephant population and human-elephant conflict (HEC) as their m...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 07:42hrs | 1272 | by Dr Louise de Waal
Moses Mzila and sons arrested in Zimbabwe
The 1893 MHRRM has been alerted that Moses Mzila Ndlovu and his two sons have been arrested by the Zimbabwean police today on trumped up charges of robbery at the Figtree Police station in Matebelelan...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 11:43hrs | 8859 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Zimbabwe female rangers denied UK visas
The UK's decision to deny visas for two pioneering female anti-poaching rangers to attend an awards ceremony has been criticised by organisers.Zimbabwean Nyaradzo Hoto risks her life every day...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | 2374 | by BBC
Poaching declines in Zimbabwe
There has been a marked decline in the number of elephants lost due to poaching this year owing to effective anti-poaching mechanisms.Statistics provided by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Man...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:37hrs | 193 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's daughter in anti-poaching film
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter Tariro is set to feature in an anti-poaching film under the Gonarezhou Film Project.This comes as a direct war on poaching - a vice that has hit game pa...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 17:08hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
Rhino poaching drop may mean we're running out of rhinos
A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being killed. Of concern, however, is what it leaves out....Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | 531 | by Janine Avery
Bulawayo mayor welcomes Kenyan environmental conservationist
Bulawayo mayor Solomon Madlala Mguni to day welcome the Kenyan national Jim Nyamu and his team who traversed Africa on foot from Nairobi raising awareness against poaching.Mguni said: "Today, ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 17:15hrs | 1499 | by Stephen Jkaes
ZimParks translocates 100 buffaloes to Hwange
ZIMBABWE Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has moved 100 buffaloes from Zambezi National Park to Sidinda in Hwange to boost tourism in the area.ZimParks western region manager...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive gorillas from DRC
THE Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) is soon expected to take delivery of okapi and gorilla breeds in a wildlife exchange programme with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 2169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe donates 10 rhinos to DRC
Zimbabwe has donated 10 white rhinos to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has said.According to the organisation, the dona...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 17:13hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Pair up for scattering oranges laced with cyanide in park
TWO Victoria Falls men have been dragged to court for allegedly throwing 68 cyanide-laced oranges in the Zambezi National Park.Mkhululi Nkomo (35) and Noel Mwembe (32) both from Mkhosana high-...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:54hrs | 725 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns Tongaat Hulett
President Mnangagwa last Friday warned Lowveld sugar producer Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe against resisting accommodation of more indigenous players in sugar cane farming as part of Government's empowerme...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army won't tolerate indiscipline'
SOLDIERS have been urged to maintain discipline and patriotism in safeguarding the gains of the country's Independence to ensure security and peace.Speaking at the Zimbabwe School of Infantry ...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks rangers, poachers in fierce shootout
Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) game rangers on Saturday night were engaged in a 30-minute shootout with a band of poachers who had gunned down an elephant bull in Hwange Nat...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | 550 | by Staff reporter
Warmonger's 'shoot-to-kill' policy revoked
The Botswana government has decided to withdraw military grade arms from its anti-poaching units on patrol along the country's borders.The move to recall what it called "arms of war" from the ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 17:26hrs | 2171 | by Southern Times
Prince Harry was ours: Beitbridge
UNITED KINGDOM Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle at the weekend beamed live across the world had another effect in a small town of Zimbabwe called Beitbridge.Lying some 12 600km along th...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | 2217 | by Staff reporter
MRP President summoned by Matobo youths
Mthwakazi Republic Party's National Executive Committee led by it's President Mqondisi Moyo who is also the party's Parliamentary candidate for Matobo North was summoned to Matobo North's Ward 16 by t...Published: 22 May 2018 at 15:51hrs | 1791 | by Stephen Jakes
Anti-poaching boost for Zimbabwe as Japan partners Zimparks
Japan has partnered the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority in its quest to curb the illegal killing if elephants.In a move that has been recommended by Convention on Internationa...Published: 21 May 2018 at 17:10hrs | 921 | by Simiso Mlevu
Man found in possession of ivory sentenced
A 43-year-old man from Mbire was slapped with an effective nine year and one month sentence for possessing ivory without a licence. Francis Mapfumo of Mapfumo village under Chief Chitsun...Published: 08 May 2018 at 23:43hrs | 988 | by Simbarashe Sithole
How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Mnangagwa
THE headline on the Herald could not have made it clearer: Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe.The newspaper, for 37 years the mouthpiece of Robert Mugabe's government, is now the voi...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 06:41hrs | 3802 | by Keith Somerville
How Grace Mugabe poaching claims benefit Zimbabwe's new president
The headline on the Zimbabwe Herald could not have made it clearer: "Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe."The newspaper, for 37 years the mouthpiece of Robert Mugabe's government, is now the ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 13:45hrs | 2879 | by Keith Somerville, University of Kent
FDI guru comes to Zimbabwe
Government is keen to learn from Rwanda's development model and yesterday the chief executive of the Rwanda Development Board, Ms Clare Akamanzi, arrived in Harare to share her country's experience at...Published: 11 Apr 2018 at 06:54hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Police tighten noose on Grace Mugabe
Police have intensified investigations into a case in which former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe allegedly smuggled ivory worth millions of dollars to underground foreign markets.Sources close t...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 06:42hrs | 2560 | by Staff reporter
Dictator Ian Khama steps down, hands over to Masisi
Khama has visited all of Botswana's 57 constituencies since December, bidding a long goodbye to a population of just 2.2 million after serving the constitutional maximum of 10 years in office....Published: 31 Mar 2018 at 10:55hrs | 5868 | by AFP
26-year-old polygamist nabbed for possession of ivory
A 26-year-old Mbire polygamist was arrested on Sunday for possessing an elephant tusk and a fake wooden ivory.James Shereni from Humbasha village under Chief Chitsungo in Mbire was trapped and...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 14:37hrs | 614 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Adios Cde Dr Amai Grace
Now that the local news wires are ablaze with how lewd Mrs Grace Mugabe conducted herself in front of the law, it becomes clear that to her and her family, the Constitution was just but one of those p...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 09:02hrs | 14014 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
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