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Govt yet to award the Gwayi-Shangani dam-Bulawayo pipeline tender
GOVERNMENT is yet to award a tender for the construction of the 260km Gwayi-Shangani dam-Bulawayo pipeline, an ambitious project that seeks to pipe water from the Zambezi River to the country's second...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Board of inquiry for helicopter crash
GOVERNMENT has set up a board of inquiry to investigate the cause of Friday's helicopter crash which killed two Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) pilots and a flight technician in Goromonzi, Mashonaland Eas...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns the death of helicopter accident victims
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) is in mourning after the horrific accident that claimed the lives of two pilots and an aircraft technician.The pilots who perished are Wing Commander Thomas Tin...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hydro-politics depriving Bulawayo and Matebeleland of water
MORE than a century ago in 1912, the people of Matebeleland and Bulawayo regions were promised that they will draw water from the Zambezi River, through the Matebeleland Zambezi Water Project (MZWP)....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 11:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC seeks constituency delimitation
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has called on Parliament to consider urgently de-linking constituency delimitation from the National Census to accommodate changes in settlement patterns in the...Published: 30 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tugwi-Mukosi: All that glitters is not gold
WHEN the 1,8 billion cubic metre Tugwi-Mukosi Dam, the largest inland water reservoir in the country, was completed in December 2016, many thought the perennial woes of the drought-prone Masvingo prov...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chingwizi ghost still haunts Bhasikiti in Mwenezi East
THE ghost of 18 000 Tokwe-Mukosi flood victims dumped in the inhabitable Chingwizi Ranch and unfairly treated by government lurks over former Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti ...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 07:34hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to meet opposition leaders
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said he will meet with opposition leaders soon, now that the nomination process is over and together they will commit to holding free, fair, credible and peaceful electio...Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 21:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masvingo mobilises 50 000 people for Mnangagwa's rally
THE Zanu-PF leadership in Masvingo has mobilised more than 50 000 people for President Mnangagwa's rally at Mucheke Stadium on Friday.Provincial chairman Ezra Chadzamira said the President's v...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe spends $80m on rice importation
ZIMBABWE expects to start commercial rice production in the next season or two as the country moves to cut annual rice importation expenditure of over $80 million, a senior Government official has sai...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Recalling the bungling and painful reality
THE recent announcement by the Government that Zimbabwe has joined Zambia and Botswana in the Kazungula Bridge project, belated though it is, is a coup de grace in international relations and co-opera...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Harare Airport upgrade to begin
Upgrade of the Harare International Airport, which is set to be renamed to Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport this week, is scheduled to commence following the conclusion of negotiations of a...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction gathers momentum
Construction work at Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North province has gathered momentum, with placement of concrete on the river bed already in progress, Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa)...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimAsset, a failed economic policy
Zim-Asset is an economic policy much celebrated in the political front but with nothing much to bring home from the economic perspective. Zimbabwe has crafted so many economic policies from the early ...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 11:59hrs | | by Blessing Machiva
Mugabes in Mahofa witchcraft storm
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial executive has distanced itself from elements trying to soil the image of the First Family by claiming that Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Shuvai Mahofa su...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
$300 million for small power stations in ZImbabwe
GOVERNMENT is intensifying efforts to boost electricity generation, with over US$151 million worth of new small hydropower projects lined up while US$154 million has been secured for the repowering of...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko buries the 'Iron Lady of Masvingo'
It was a majestic send-off for national heroine Masvingo Provincial Affairs Minister Senator Shuvai Ben Mahofa, a veteran politician, who was laid to rest before thousands of people at the National He...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Name Tokwe Mukosi Dam after Mugabe'
Tourism players should be able to market the $260 million Tokwe-Mukosi Dam in Chivi through attaching President Mugabe's name to the project so that its legacy lives to eternity, former Secretary for ...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim in rice production plans
Local firm Life Brand Agriculture Services plans to put 10 000 hectares of rice in Masvingo – a project set to showcase Tokwe-Mukosi Dam's humongous impact on farming.Zimbabwe imports over 9...Published: 06 Aug 2017 at 13:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tokwe Murkosi Dam renamed
GOVERNMENT is planning to rename Tokwe-Murkosi Dam to Tugwi-Mukosi, as its current name is adulterated Shona used by colonialists, a top official in the Environment, Water and Climate ministry has sai...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
In defence of Psychology Maziwisa
Last week a discussion forum was held in Harare featuring prominent youth leaders under the theme, "Zimbabwe: The Task At Hand - A View from Young Professionals".Among the speakers were lawyer...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Gwayi-Shangani Dam construction resumes
CONSTRUCTION work at the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North Province resumed on Monday following the release of $5 million towards the project by Treasury.Zimbabwe National Water Authori...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
LIVE: Masvingo Presidential Youth Interface Rally
PRESIDENT Mugabe this afternoon addresses thousands of Zanu-PF youths at Mucheke Stadium in the third leg of his nationwide Presidential Youth Interface Rallies. He has been to Mashonaland East and Ma...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 12:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex externalisation probe begins
Government has started investigations to identify individuals and companies involved in externalising foreign currency from Zimbabwe and in turn fuelling the current cash crisis, Finance and Economic ...Published: 29 Jun 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to unveil 20,000 stands for youths
President Mugabe is set to unveil nearly 20 000 free residential stands for youths in Masvingo when he undertakes the third leg of the Presidential Youth Interface meeting slated for Friday at the ope...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
No weather for old men, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I am unable to address you this week because of the inclement weather. I have no doubt that the British and their evil American cousins are playing ...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 17:51hrs | | by CZ
Kasukuwere's fate to be decided on Wednesday
THE Zanu-PF politburo is expected to meet on Wednesday to decide the fate of its underfire national commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, after Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda's team presented a report o...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe the odd one out at UN oceans summit
It is increasingly becoming undeniable that Zimbabwe is now in the clutches of a fully-fledged climate change scourge. The rains have been coming late, with their patterns unpredictable and often resu...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:47hrs | | by CNRG
Zanu-PF factions lock horns over '300 000' dualisation jobs
ZANU-PF factions in Masvingo have reportedly locked horns over control of the 300 000 jobs anticipated to be generated during the dualisation of the Harare-Beitbridge Highway.The ruling party'...Published: 08 Jun 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe arrives in New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday to attend the High-Level United Nations Conference on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, commonly known as the Oceans Conference.The...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt secures $37 million for Gwayi-Shangani Dam
THE construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North is set to resume after Government secured $37 million to clear arrears owed to the contractor and lay the ground for the beginning of t...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
ANC the toddler
AM I wrong? I have always thought the goal of opposition is to govern? And I haven't said the goal is to lead. To govern. You can lead anything, at any level, including leading a village co-operative....Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 11:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
LIVE: Mugabe 'is our life president', says Zanu-PF youth chair
Get the latest details as Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe kicks off a nationwide series of rallies to drum up support from youths ahead of the 2018 elections....Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 13:24hrs | | by Online
Mugabe, Zanu-PF takes full advantage of incumbency
ON this Thursday morning, something was certainly amiss.On a "normal" weekday, just after 0700 hours, traffic at the Mbudzi traffic circle would by that time long grinded to a halt.But...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chefs scramble for assets
Zanu-PF bigwigs are rubbing their hands in glee, ready to pounce on prime commercial land around Tokwe-Mukosi Dam in Masvingo in what could turn out to be yet another scandal benefiting the nouveau-ri...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Game changer or another Zanu-PF dummy?
IT is almost impossible to dispassionately describe the panorama. But elementary geography informs that some inestimable years ago, igneous rock lava inruded into this part of the world, resulting in ...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff writer
ZimAsset has surpassed 2 million jobs, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, last week we launched two key projects that fall under the infrastructural development cluster of our Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic...Published: 26 May 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by CZ
Promises and lies, Mugabe at it again
President Robert Mugabe has intensified his un-official 2018 election campaign by promising to build 17 mini-hydro power stations in dams countrywide.Next year, he will be seeking another term...Published: 22 May 2017 at 06:45hrs | | by Mary Charamba
Mugabe calls off politburo meeting
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday reportedly cancelled the Zanu-PF politburo meeting, initially scheduled for today, to entertain his guest, Lesotho's King Letsie III, who is in the country on a four-...Published: 17 May 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
And now for Command Economy
Government is introducing extensive economic reforms to replicate the massive production framework championed under Command Agriculture so that other key economic sectors like mining, infrastructu...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF differences are not divisions, says Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has said the ruling party was the undisputed dominant political party in the country, saying differences in opinion among members were healt...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
On Mugabe's lavish bash at a time of great suffering
President Robert Mugabe is soon to wine and dine with a potion of his supporters at a time the nation is reeling under myriad problems. Just like last year the lavish bash will be held at a ...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 09:25hrs | | by Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo
On Mugabe's lavish bash at a time of great suffering for the nation
President Robert Mugabe is soon to wine and dine with a potion of his supporters at a time the nation is reeling under myriad problems. Just like last year the lavish bash will be held at a time...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 19:32hrs | | by Nqobizitha Dumakude Khumalo
It's the Zimdollar, stupid!
Gentle reader, I think it is a sheer waste of national time to focus on the collapse of ZimPF, spectacular though that may be. There was nothing unexpected about ZimPF's dramatic finale, especiall...Published: 11 Feb 2017 at 20:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Bulawayo dams now 74% full
BULAWAYO's supply dams are now 74,4 percent full.According to the Bulawayo City Council, Insiza Dam was spilling while Upper Ncema was at 71,70 percent full and Mtshabezi at 79,49 percent full...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers get dam 50 years after it was proposed
Zimbabwe has reached the end of construction on its $260 million Tokwe-Mukosi Dam, a project first proposed about 50 years ago, which will supply water to sugar growers in the arid southern Masvingo....Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chingwizi victims fail to get food over IDs
Victims of the Tokwe-Mukosi floods who are in a transit camp at Chingwizi are saying that they are failing to get food aid from Government and NGOs' because they are required to produce national ident...Published: 18 Sep 2016 at 13:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Analysis of the Mid-term fiscal policy review statement
Statement by the MDC Shadow Minister of Finance, Dr Tapiwa MashakadaThe Mid-Year Fiscal Policy Review Statement is a bankrupt statement which is anchored on a bankrupt Zimasset policy do...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 11:31hrs | | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
Mujuru gets a rude awakening
Zimbabwe People First Leader Dr Joice Mujuru got a rude awakening at her maiden rally in Masvingo when she was forced to address an almost empty Mucheke Stadium as people in the country's oldest town ...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 07:13hrs | | by George Maponga
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