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POSB starts selling Belarus tractors
People's Own Savings Bank (POSB), one of the financial institutions selected by the Government to facilitate the resale of Belarus tractors to Zimbabwean farmers, has announced that the equipment is n...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 17:28hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is never short of scammers
They came and beguiled nobles and laity by claiming gasoline was oozing out of a sacred rock formations somewhere in rural Chinhoyi. Innocent boulders were soaked in a deluge of diesel and people fell...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 12:07hrs | 1178 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe Warriors fail to break 10-year jinx
The 2024 season has come to a close with mixed fortunes for Zimbabwean football, and the Warriors have ended the year outside the FIFA top 100 for the tenth consecutive year. Zimbabwe's national team ...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:39hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Warriors hunt Indomitable Lions
The Warriors are set to take on Cameroon in a decisive Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) Group J qualifier today, with both teams having already secured their places for next year's tournament in Morocco....Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 08:51hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first indigenous pilot training academy opens
Central Air Transport Services (CATS), a private charter company operating from Charles Prince Airport in Harare and Victoria Falls International Airport, has made history by opening Zimbabwe's first ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:45hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages regional peers over drought
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is engaging his counterparts in Southern Africa, to explore collaborative ways aimed at tackling the effects of El Nino-induced drought.Some of the migratory measures that ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CCC in uncertain waters
WE are only a month into the new year, but it already feels like it has been long. The political year has started in earnest, lending credence to the counsel of political sages: A day is a very long t...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 10:02hrs | 2 | by Ntando Dumani
Matebeleland North has highest maternal mortality rate in Zimbabwe
DESPITE efforts by the Government to halve the maternal mortality rate as part of achieving development goals, more women continue to die while giving birth in Matebeleland North than in other provinc...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$400 000 cloud seeding programme takes off
IT'S a humid Friday afternoon and there are only two aircraft on the tarmac at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo that are about to take off. One of them is a commercia...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept issues heavy rains alert
HEAVY rains are expected across much of the country for the next seven days from today to Wednesday next week, the Meteorological Services Department forecasts, as the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone ...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 05:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland farmers welcome cloud seeding, heavy rains loom
FARMERS have welcomed the Government's cloud-seeding programme to induce more rains saying the intervention is critical as they are desperate to boost production amid an El Nino season that is charact...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:33hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Drought looms in southern Zimbabwe
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has issued a weather forecast for the 2023-24 farming season in Zimbabwe, predicting below-normal rainfall in some southern areas, with the possibility of ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets net wheat exporter status
GOVERNMENT has revised upwards the winter wheat production target of 85 000 hectares to 90 000 hectares as the country is positioning itself to be a net exporter of wheat in the region.To date...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts cloud seeding to augment rainfall
Zimbabwe has started cloud seeding in an effort to increase rainfall in the current summer season, an official said Friday.The country recently acquired the latest technology to aid in cloud s...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cloud seeding starts as crops suffer growing moisture stress
THE Meteorological Services Department has commenced cloud-seeding in order to encourage rainfall after crops, especially late-planted crops, are showing signs of growing moisture stress due to a prol...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$6,5m suit against Makandiwa flops
The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court ruling rejecting business couple - Mr Upenyu Mashangwa and his wife Blessing's $6,5 million lawsuits against United Family International Church (UFIC) leade...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to conduct cloud seeding should need arise
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has resources required to conduct cloud seeding during the 2021/22 rainfall season, should need arise. This comes as the MSD said there were still po...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Warriors drop one place on FIFA rankings
ZIMBABWE has moved one place down the ladder in the latest FIFA rankings.The Warriors are now ranked 108th in the world, according to the rankings released today. They also dropped two places ...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 15:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Holiday lessons at schools banned
Holiday lessons at schools banned Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa addresses a post-Cabinet media briefing in Harare yesterday while Chief Secretary t...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Aircraft mogul Hartnack arrested
BUSINESSMAN Adam James Hartnack, who owns Adamair (Pvt) Limited and Mr Bristle, a manufacturing firm located in Msasa, Harare, was yesterday arrested by the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on alle...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Govt official in planes tender storm
A senior civil servant who recommended that a cloud-seeding tender be awarded to a company with faulty planes unsuitable for the purpose has been arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex prophet preys on flock
A self-styled prophet who started a virtual church on WhatsApp has admitted bedding several female congregants who came to him for prayer and confided in him about problems they were having in their r...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 18:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to launch US$58m agric facility
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch a US$58 million farm mechanisation facility from Belarus, while another deal worth US$100 million would be signed by year-end. Belarusian ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fake abductions: New tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change agenda, which dates to two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, stymied the developmental agenda, lately making Zimbabwe a house...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Murema
Fake abduction: a new tool for regime change
Politics and the desire for power can be so consuming. The regime change ideological rhetoric which dates two decades ago, has been so vitriolic, so illocal and so ominous to the developmental agenda ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 10:58hrs | | by Emmanuel Murema
Prophet Makandiwa mansion raises eyebrows
A multi-million dollar mansion in Harare's plush Glen Lorne suburb believed to belong to Prophet Emanuel Makandiwa has set tongues wagging reviving debate allegations that some church leaders are reap...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe returns to Fifa World World Cup after 2018 ban
ZIMBABWE's Warriors are likely to avoid the preliminary round of the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifiers after Caf revealed they will be reverting to an old format based on Fifa rankings. The Warr...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
When is torrenting illegal?
Peer-to-peer sharing P2P (peer-to-peer) sharing is built upon the network of ‘peers’ that function both as clients and servers, allowing for a decentralised system of dat...Published: 29 May 2019 at 12:03hrs | 4 | by Staff Writer
Warriors await Afcon fate
The Warriors face the prospect of a tough Africa Cup of Nations finals Group after they were placed in pot 4 in the draw that will be conducted in Cairo this evening.Zimbabwe, ranked number 19...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors make preparations for 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
As the finals of the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) loom large, Zimba...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 16:33hrs | 12 | by Staff Writer
Warriors line up Bafana friendly
AS Zifa step up preparations for the Warriors ahead of the upcoming 2019 African Cup of Nations finals, several high-profile countries including South Africa's Bafana Bafana, Nigeria and Ivory Coast h...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors date Nigeria
THE ZIMBABWE senior men's football team are set to play the Super Eagles of Nigeria and two other high-profile teams in friendly matches as part of their Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals preparati...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 08:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Only witches celebrate death in the village
Only witches celebrate when there is death in the village, how can we describe those peddling falsehoods about the imagined resurgence of Cyclone Idai in Muzarabani and parts of Mazowe District? We ha...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 21:58hrs | 1 | by Thomas Murisa
Why I respect TB Joshua – Stanley Goreraza, Grace Mugabe's ex-husband
Stanley Goreraza, an officer in Zimbabwe's Air Force and the first husband of Zimbabwe's former first lady Grace Mugabe, has publicly lauded Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua. "The main...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 19:15hrs | 9 | by Beatrice Mahlonga
Cloud seeding commences countrywide
CLOUD seeding has commenced across the country, the Meteorological Services Department has said. Speaking in a telephone interview, a forecaster Mr Haanyadzisi Batisayi said seeding started in...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Prophet Makandiwa cleared over 'fake prophecies'
United Family International Church leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, who were being sued for US$6,5 million over alleged "fake prophecies" have been cleared of any wrongdoing. ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 16:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's farmers urge cloud seeding as drought withers crops
Zimbabwe farmers are urging authorities to undertake cloud seeding to ease an early-season drought that's hurting crops and destroying cattle pastures.The four-week dry spell has caused some f...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
'Mugabe seized my book on Tongogara's death'
FORMER President Robert Mugabe confiscated a book written by now Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri, detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (Zan...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:36hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe farmers call for cloud seeding
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union (ZCFU) has called on Government to consider cloud seeding in the wake of the unreliable rainfall patterns characterising 2018 /19 agricultural season. Some p...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:33hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Drought ravages Matebeleland South, Masvingo
LIVESTOCK farmers in Beitbridge, Gwanda and parts of Mwenezi districts have reported a marked deterioration in the health of their animals as drought tightens its grip on parts of Matebeleland South a...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$400 000 for cloud seeding
THE Meteorological Service Department will begin cloud seeding by month-end to help induce rains in a season expected to be blighted by the El Niño weather phenomenon.Government set aside $40...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga is not dying'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has revealed that he once considered throwing in the towel, but changed his mind after he was persuaded by his new boss.Last year Ch...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400 000 set aside for cloud seeding
GOVERNMENT has availed $400 000 to the Meteorological Services Department for cloud seeding to enhance chances of rain during the 2018/19 rainfall season. This follows prediction by weather ex...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu is an old serpent, canning, deceptive, conniving, sly and waiting to strike again
Listening to the debate which were ably conducted by Great Zimbabwe Debate and moderated by Gary Thomson was revealing and fascinating.I do not think anyone will deny the fact that Chris Mutsv...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 09:05hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Removing the political teeth of tyrannism
REMOVING THE POLITICAL TEETH OF TYRANNISM: Who among Zimbabwe political opposition coalitions shares a clear governance vision?...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:49hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
Nakamba doubtful for Cosafa
BELGIUM-based midfielder Marvelous Nakamba is doubtful for the 18th edition of the Cosafa Cup underway in South Africa due to injury.The tournament started on Sunday and will end on June 9....Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makandiwas fight back
UNITED Family International church (UFIC) founder, Emmanuel Makandiwa and his wife, Ruth, have objected to a fresh High Court bid by a Harare couple claiming $6,5 million from the clergy.The c...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Prophets' cry foul over radio ban
While Zimbabweans have hailed the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (Baz) for banning advertising of mushrooming church "prophets", those practising this trade feel betrayed.In a letter sent ...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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