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FRAUD ALERT: Windmill warns public against illegal land sales
Windmill (Private) Limited has issued a stern warning to the public over fraudulent land sales involving its property, Lot FA Kinvara, measuring 65.2436 hectares, which is being illegally marketed as ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 712 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor arrested for stealing agricultural inputs
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has arrested a Zanu-PF councillor and a Karoi-based police officer on allegations of stealing presidential agricultural inputs and Agriculture Rural Deve...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:35hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Vagabond rapes female relative
A 24-year-old man from Banket, Givemore Mwanza, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the rape of a relative who was returning home from church. The sentence was handed down by a local magistra...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 07:33hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa allocated land meant for road, nothing will done to him
A commission investigating issues at the Harare City Council has been informed that controversial businessman Phillip Chiyangwa was allocated land in a prime suburb of the capital that was originally ...Published: 25 Aug 2024 at 11:21hrs | 10387 | by Staff reporter
Historical background of the town of Mvurwi formerly Umvukwes
Mvurwi is a prosperous farming town in Mashonaland Central province. The town is situated about hundred kilometers north of Harare along Kanyemba road, Mvurwi was formally known as Umvukwesi or (Mumug...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 20:02hrs | 303 | by Givestar Kamuzonde
Bulawayo councillor eyes council mine dump
BULAWAYO councillor Monica Lubimbi, her partner Sikhanyisiwe Nyathi and Belmac Investments (Pvt) Ltd are seeking permission from the local authority to collect mine dump sands from Paddock 40 Farm at ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Pair in court over fake fertiliser
TWO Harare men yesterday appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court charged with fraud after they tried to sell fake fertiliser mixed with sand.Sean Joubert and Charles Gumbeze appeared before m...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has propensity to fail
I AM thoroughly enjoying tutoring my son, in preparation for his Ordinary Level examinations - although, the task can be demanding, at times - nevertheless, the experience is quite fulfilling and a ne...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
IMF raises red flag on murky Command Agric
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has expressed concern over the limited levels of transparency and accountability on the country's agriculture import substitution programme, widely known as Comma...Published: 16 Apr 2022 at 20:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sakunda Holdings breaks silence on command agric TBs
OIL company Sakunda Holdings, which played the leading role in the implementation of the specialised maize production programme popularly known as command agriculture, has broken its silence over the ...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly clarifies Command Agriculture figures
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has said the Government extended about $1,1 billion to private sector participants in the Command Agriculture Programme instead of the falsely touted US$3,...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Treat each unvaccinated case on its merits, says PTUZ
THE Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) yesterday vowed that its members who are yet to be vaccinated will continue reporting for duty in defiance of a government directive that unvaccinated civil serva...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU vaccination challenge suffers body blow
THE High Court has struck off the roll of urgent cases an application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Union (ZCTU) in which the labour movement sought an order barring companies from demanding COVID...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU vaccines case hit snag
The High Court has struck off the roll with costs an urgent application by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), seeking to prohibit employers including Government from compelling unvaccinated...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 19:20hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
OK sends unvaccinted employees on unpaid leave
RETAIL giant, OK Zimbabwe, is sending its unvaccinated employees on forced unpaid leave and is reportedly banning staff members who have not yet received COVID-19 jabs from reporting for duty....Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Companies challenge ZCTU over unvaccinated workers
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s court challenge against compulsory vaccination of workers has suffered a major blow after government and several private entities cited as respondents di...Published: 25 Aug 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Employers adopt no jab, no entry policy
TAKING a cue from government, several companies in Zimbabwe are making proof of vaccination a prerequisite for employees to enter their premises in a bid to curb the spread of the novel virus....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex crisis hits fertilizer industry
LOCAL fertiliser producers have bemoaned the shortage of foreign currency which has hampered production, adding that the foreign currency auction system introduced by the central bank was failing to m...Published: 30 Apr 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FSG speaks on fertiliser deals
Farming inputs manufacturer, Fertiliser Seed Grain (FSG), this week said it has fulfilled its contractual obligations with the Government, dismissing recent claims that it was paid US$400 million with...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-minister, wife lose property
Former Lands minister Douglas Mombeshora and his wife Millicent are set to lose household property worth thousands of dollars after failing to pay back an undisclosed amount of money to a local bank....Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Food security, cornerstone of Zimbabwe economic growth
The rains which have been falling since Thursday signal the commencement of the 2018/19 farming season. It is now incumbent upon every able-bodied Zimbabwean to put their shoulder to the wheel and hel...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 14:03hrs | 9 | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe's US$800m forex reserve gap
Zimbabwe requires a foreign currency cover of US$1 billion, against current reserves of US$200 million and needs to further increase production to narrow the gap, an official has said.Ms Jesim...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Four Zimbabweans arrested for kidnapping in SA
Four Zimbabweans have been arrested in Ekurhuleni, South Africa on allegations of kidnapping. The four, conniving with a domestic helper kidnapped a baby who has been found safe and reunited w...Published: 05 May 2018 at 19:00hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
Externalisation: Mnangagwa gropes in the dark
GOVERNMENT will find it difficult to prosecute corporates and individuals it accuses of illegal externalisation of money as questions arise over the legal framework and the prosecutability of the offe...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 12:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fresh row over command agriculture
A ROW has erupted between parliament and Sakunda Holdings over a probe into the murky financing of government's command agriculture programme with the fuel supply firm attempting to block the inquiry ...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 11:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads for Mashonaland Central
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is heading to Mashonaland Central Province tomorrow where he is expected to tour Siyalima Farm in Guruve South.Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere lose farm property
FORTY-THREE head of cattle belonging to Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare ministry secretary Ngoni Masoka are set to go under the hammer today to pay off a debt he owes to the Zimbabwe Farmers...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Saidi a journalistic giant among midgets
Yesterday a legend of newspaper journalism in Zambia and Zimbabwe was laid to rest in the city of Kitwe, in the Republic of Zambia, where he died two days into the New Year last week while visiting....Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | 4 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Foreign currency shortage delays fertiliser production
About US$16 million is required for the production of the remaining consignment of Compound D fertilizer for the Command Agriculture Programme.Zimbabwe Fertilizer Company (ZFC) managing direct...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 22:56hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Musewe the truth is Mugabe is Don Quixote on 'pink face' charge to hide misrule
Comrade Vince Musewe set out to tell the President and the nation at large the truth as to why Africa and Zimbabwe in particular was in such a political and economic mess in his article "If the truth ...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 20:02hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Solar powered wireless access
Background Some time in March 2010 ,. the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) made an announcement t...Published: 30 Dec 2015 at 21:08hrs | 2 | by Robert Ndlovu
Kereke loses Range Rover over debt
Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke is likely to lose his Range Rover vehicle that is set to go under the hammer today for failing to settle a debt with a local company. The Zanu-PF MP's Rang...Published: 27 Nov 2015 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF UK consoles dumped workers
Zanu PF United Kingdom Chapter has consoled the over 20 000 workers who lost their jobs after the Supreme Court of July 17 ruled in favour of Zuva Petroleum granting the company permission to fire...Published: 17 Aug 2015 at 08:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
18,000 fired so far
EIGHTEEN thousand workers have so far been sacked by 48 companies countrywide since the July 17 Supreme Court ruling that authorised the dismissal of employees upon giving them a three-month notice....Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Minister ordered to pay $46 000 debt
The High Court has ordered Manicaland Provincial Minister Mandiitawepi Chimene to pay $46 000 debt to Windmill Private Limited for fertilizers, seeds and chemicals supplied by the firm in 20...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man threatens to shoot Deputy Sheriff
A debt-stricken Harare man Blessing Matsikenyere has threatened to shoot the Deputy Sheriff and his team while executing a court order.The Deputy Sheriff had gone to remove property at Number ...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free electricity for the Developing World (Matebele Power Project)
I am going to help you get free electricity in your rural home without paying a cent to Power Companies. Electricity is the power of God and no one has a right to charge you for the power of God. I am...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 01:16hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Analysis: Why Emmerson Mnangagwa will be the next President of Zimbabwe
COLOGNE- "When the crocodile smiles, be extra careful," so warns a Swahili proverb. Why should one be extra careful when this happens? Some say it's because the reptile is seeing a juicy meat....Published: 24 Sep 2014 at 04:44hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe imports over 50 000 metric tonnes of fertilizer
Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister Dr Davis Marapira said the country will soon take delivery of over 50 000 metric tonnes of imported fertiliser for distribution to...Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 04:16hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Fertiliser company drags Dr Kereke to court
WINDMILL Private Limited has taken businessman Dr Munyaradzi Kereke to the High Court for failing to pay for farming inputs worth US$103 457. Dr Kereke who operates Pamene Farm in Harare, received fer...Published: 20 Jun 2013 at 03:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe urged to replace imports with local produce
A Bassfisherman's ApproachACCORDING to recent statistics, the trade deficit between Zimbabwe and South Africa is US$530 million. Zimbabwe is importing goods worth US$3,2 billion from Sou...Published: 08 May 2013 at 03:47hrs | 1 | by Ben Chiganze
Fertiliser company sues senior Zanu-PF official over $24 000 debt
Fertiliser company Windmill has taken former ambassador to China Christopher Mutsvangwa to court after he allegedly failed to pay more than $24 000 for agriculutural inputs extended to him in a loan ...Published: 09 Apr 2013 at 03:20hrs | | by Court Reporter
CFI finds investor for Victoria Foods
CFI has secured an investor for its milling business Victoria Foods while there are discussions with a potential investor for one of the poultry arms, group CEO Steve Kuipa told the AGM this morning....Published: 27 Mar 2013 at 14:54hrs | | by Business reporter
Zim Govt to buy cotton from farmers
GOVERNMENT will soon intervene and buy cotton from farmers if the current price impasse between growers and merchants is not resolved.It has, however, not hinted on the prices it will offer f...Published: 27 May 2012 at 20:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
CFI Holdings Limited - Cautionary Statement
CFI Holdings Limited directors are advising shareholders to exercise caution in trading their shares as the company is currently engaged in discussions that may impact the value of the company's share...Published: 23 Jan 2012 at 06:32hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Top ten employers in Zimbabwe
CIVIL society organisations head the list of last year's top 10 best employers, according to a study carried out by Industrial Psychology Consultants (Pvt) Ltd.Plan Inte...Published: 17 Feb 2011 at 10:38hrs | 24 | by Byo24News
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