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Mwenezi Mapfura/Marula-processor drives rural industrialisation, economy forward
Through current capacity utilisation, the Mwenezi Mapfura/Marula processing plant in Rutenga (Masvingo Province) has recorded an export and product demand surge in regional and international trade, wi...Published: 26 Feb 2025 at 19:26hrs | 654 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Rutenga
Overfishing depletes the Zambezi
Since quitting her post as a teacher about six years ago, 33-year-old Hazel Svinurai has made numerous break-of-dawn trips to the edges of the Zambezi River, about 500km from her home in Zimbabwe's se...Published: 31 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa food security claims raise dust
POLITICAL analysts have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of misleading the world at the Feed Africa Summit in Dakar, Senegal, early this week where he said Zimbabwe was food secure.They sa...Published: 28 Jan 2023 at 00:09hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Reviving the rural economy in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's rural economy plays a significant role in national food production, in alleviating extreme poverty and in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Zimbabwe National Stati...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:37hrs | 30 | by Victor Bhoroma
Tearing down barriers for the growth of African rural e-commerce
The rise and growth of e-commerce in the world and primarily in Africa has created a lot of business opportunities, not only in urban but also in rural areas. The good news is that there is undoubtedl...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 09:55hrs | 18 | by Josephine Wawira
African legislators draft 'model law' to strengthen Food Security and Nutrition in Africa
The Pan-African Parliamentary (PAP) Committee on Rural Economy, Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources recently came up with this draft model law on food security and nutrition in Africa whose...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:11hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
ED full speech at AU - UN summit in Vic Falls
STATEMENTBYHIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CDE E. D. MNANGAGWAATTHE INAUGURAL AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS WILDLIFE ECONOMY SUMMITVIC...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:56hrs | 10 | by President ED Mnangagwa
Hlabangana promises proactive leadership
Zimbabwe requires proactive leadership to keep problems at bay, instead of reacting to them, Republican Party of Zimbabwe (RPZ) leader Mr Kwanele Hlabangana has said. Mr Hlabangana, who i...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of bribing chiefs
Zimbabwe's main opposition party along with rights groups have accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of bribing chiefs with cars in exchange for votes.This comes after Mnangagwa splurged a fort...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 16:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kim Jong-un's New Year Address
Dear fellow countrymen and brave service personnel of the People's Army,Dear compatriots,Today, recollecting with great pleasure and pride and deep emotion the proud achievements we pe...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Kim Jong-un
We demand our full salaries - ARTUZ
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) is appalled by the government's lack of will to harness the scourging inflation and full scale economic collapse. We are left with...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 16:21hrs | | by ARTUZ
Scottish party likened to Zanu-PF
A Tory MP has accused the SNP of showing the "iron discipline" of Robert Mugabe's political party over its Brexit views.Kwasi Kwarteng compared the SNP to Zanu-PF in Zimbabwe for their staunch...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 08:45hrs | | by Jon Vale
Unpacking Chatham House 2016 Zimbabwe Report
ON Thursday September 8, 2016 the Director of the Africa Programme of the UK-based Think Tank Chatham House Mr Alex Vines was hosted by the US Institute of Peace (USIP) in Washington DC, for the p...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 23:48hrs | 2 | by Obi Egbuna Jr
Is Ujamaa a replication of Zambian humanism? - Part three
Traits in the philosophy of Ujamaa that could be solutions for Zimbabwe's diverse ethnic and race relations The philosophy of Ujamaa and the Zambi...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 20:50hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
DPRK stands on the side of justice
Dear comrades,Filled with the dignity and self-respect of being victors, who have set up a shining milestone in the history of the glorious Workers' Party of Korea and our country, we are greeting...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 05:18hrs | | by ONline
Zim economy elusive - Tapiwa Mashakada
Senior MDC-T official Tapiwa Mashakada has warned that the Zimbabwe economy has remained elusive despite all the spirited attempts to introduce fiscal and monitory measures to turnaround the economy....Published: 19 Oct 2015 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
We must push Zanu-PF for Political Reforms
China and Zimbabwe are comparative authoritarian and excessive bureaucratic comrades; both with a streak of dictatorial stranglehold on their citizens. In 1949, China had a highly extractive econo...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 22:07hrs | 2 | by Tendai Kwari
'No one will starve,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe has assured Zimbabweans in drought-stricken areas that Government would not let anyone starve as food relief will be availed to cushion them from hunger. The President's messa...Published: 18 May 2015 at 07:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a reminder of how critical for SA to get its land reforms right
On the surface, Alfred Mahlangu and his brothers look like a success story of post-apartheid South Africa. One year after the end of white rule in 1994 he and his siblings sought to forcibly reclaim l...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | | by Andrew England of the Financial Times
Let's blame it on the settlers
We must take full responsibility of our problems and have ministers in government who think beyond being driven in a Mercedes Benz.Don't you just love it! Ignatius Chombo, the minister of ...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Vince Musewe
A vision of an integrated Africa - Interview
Under-secretary-general Maged Abdelaziz, the special adviser to UN secretary-general and head of the Office of Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) and Dr. Ibrahim As...Published: 27 Dec 2013 at 15:59hrs | 1 | by Maged Abdelaziz and Ibrahim Mayaki
EcoCash transferring nearly $100 million monthly to rural areas
AT least $100 million monthly is being transferred from the country's urban centres to rural areas through Econet Wireless mobile money transfer EcoCash resulting in a significant impact on the rural ...Published: 03 Jan 2013 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
The Zimbabwe economy: new perspectives
The fascinating development over the last five years or so has been the emergence of a static and retrogressive first economy accompanied, surprisingly, by a somewhat resilient second economyI...Published: 14 Jul 2012 at 07:48hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Zuma quell fears of Zimbabwe-style land grabs
Land reform must be conducted within the confines of the Constitution, President Jacob Zuma says."Land reform is urgent but requires careful handling and consultation, and must be conducted w...Published: 27 Jun 2011 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Sapa
Land seizures mooted in South Africa for agri villages
THE dreaded e-word — expropriation — looms large in the South African government’s new draft land- tenure security policy, raising fears of d...Published: 13 Jan 2011 at 10:39hrs | | by Byo24News
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