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Chiwenga pays tribute to Mnangagwa
THE national clean up exercise being done on the first Friday of each calendar month following a declaration by President Mnangagwa has heightened the country's levels of hygiene and cleanliness, Vice...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 00:53hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Marange villagers seek to protect diamonds
Villagers from the mining communities of Marange and Penhalonga have developed community protocols that seek to protect diamonds and gold found in their communities.Community members launched ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 13:11hrs | 769 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa Statement on National Tree-Planting day
Fellow Zimbabweans, This Saturday of December we have taken time to commemorate and be part of a national effort and indeed global duty to plant trees for the good of our environment, the eart...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | 2026 | by Nelson Chamisa, MDC President
Chamisa calls for stiffer penalties
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday called on Parliament to enact legislation to criminalise the destruction of wetlands and the indiscriminate cutting-down of trees.Speaking in Norton where h...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | 991 | by Staff reporter
South Africa in a fix over blood electricity
South Africa has come under fire over the Grand Inga Dam, a mammoth hydroelectric project, on the Congo River in the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).International Rivers, an NGO ded...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 11:19hrs | 2531 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa warns on manipulation of economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said his Government was aware and is gravely concerned by the manipulation of the economy by a group of people and some businesses aimed at destabilising the mar...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:13hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa caps 1719 graduands
Bindura University of Science Education (BUSE) Chancellor President Emmerson Mnangagwa capped 1719 graduates at the university's 17th graduation ceremony today.BUSE Vice-Chancellor Professor E...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 21:18hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Dr President Mnangagwa to cap 1 719 at Bindura university today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today cap 1 719 graduates at Bindura University of Science Education's 17th graduation ceremony in Bindura. The university, which has produced 11 756 graduates to date...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:32hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
French kiss for Mnangagwa reforms
The chief executive of the French government's development agency, Mr Rémy Rioux, says Paris is enhancing ties with Harare, and President Emmerson Mnangagwa is welcome to send a delegation to his cou...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:36hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
The circle of poison
The US continues to export pesticides, which are restricted in the US, to developing countries .In recent decades, harmful pesticides spread around the world's less developed nations have caused i...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:20hrs | 693 | by Erick aMtotoba
Corruption major hurdle to meeting development goals
THERE are many questions which require some answers for Zimbabwe pertaining to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) especially on whether Zimbabwe will achieve the targets of the 17...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | 74 | by David Mhlanga
Govt should speed up dam construction to avert illegal settlements
GOVERNMENT delays in the construction and completion of large dams has left a lot to be desired and in some cases this has allowed people to settle on planned dam sites.Observers have noted th...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Europeans are major smugglers of Southern African reptiles
The European Union is a major destination for illegally smuggled live snakes, lizards and tortoises from southern Africa, posing a serious threat to their conservation. Wealthy EU citizens are big col...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2093 | by Adam Cruise
Mugabe caps 2,423 graduands at NUST
The Chancellor for the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), President Robert Mugabe has caped 2 423 students at the institution which is edging towards its national mandate of being a...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 14:41hrs | 2012 | by Staff reporter
Elephants and mango crops saved in difficult rescue
Three bull elephants were saved from being shot and further damage to mango orchards averted after the bulls broke through the fences of a game reserve bordering the Kruger Park, raiding local farms a...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 11:22hrs | 1019 | by Adam Cruise
Building in Harare compromising water and sewer service delivery
The site of buildings in Harare Metropolitan Province has severely compromised water and sewer service delivery. Hon Psychology Maziwisa (MP Highfield West) sited his house No. 10607 Highfield...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 15:18hrs | 187 | by Community Water Alliance
What's choking Kariba?
In the previous instalment Laiton Kandawire looked at overfishing and how fisheries authorities in both Zimbabwe and Zambia agreed to impose a Full Moon non-fishing ban of at least seven days to comba...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 17:09hrs | 1577 | by Laiton Kandawire and Oliver Samboko
Sound legislation to regulate technologies needed to ensure biosafety - Dr. Mufandaedza
The golden question to be answered is, 'What is the purpose of having a biosafety and biosecurity regulatory framework in Zimbabwe?'."A sound legislation to regulate technologies to ensure the...Published: 22 Jul 2017 at 19:42hrs | 541 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Full moon – the Lake Kariba scenario
We are going to have a full moon on Thursday, 6th July 2017. Our hardworking fishermen are going to take a deserved 7-day break from their daily routine. The fish get a reprieve and hopefully they rep...Published: 04 Jul 2017 at 10:40hrs | 1625 | by Laiton Kandawire, a Patsaka Correspondent
Mugabe, Queen Elizabeth 'must sit down for tea'
The Zimbabwean minister for tourism has unveiled a blueprint for putting the country on the travel map, including a proposal that The Queen and Robert Mugabe should sit down for tea together...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:47hrs | 1799 | by Telegraph
More questions than answers as Kruger Park continues shooting buffalo
Confused explanations at a public meeting in Skukuza on Saturday are concerning stakeholders as the Kruger National Park forges ahead with its program of shooting buffalo as part of a sustainable offt...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:08hrs | 522 | by Adam Cruise
We can sell rhino horn says SA Environment Minister Edna Molewa
According to the Department of Environmental Affairs, the time has come to sell rhino horn. Speaking in a Parliamentary portfolio committee on Tuesday, Minister Edna Molewa said there had been a morit...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 20:13hrs | 287 | by Don Pinnock
WATCH: White family's traditional home in Zimbabwe
See how Allan Savory, and his wife Jody, live in Zimbabwe, in traditional thatch-roofed mud huts, entirely off-grid with solar cells, LED lanterns, and solar hot water heater. He also goes everywh...Published: 21 Feb 2017 at 08:53hrs | 58114 | by youtube
Marine experts say decision could wipe out SA's fish stocks
SA's top marine scientists are shocked by the Environmental Department's (DEA) recent decision to allow fishing in the Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) and have announced that they will be usin...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 10:30hrs | 253 | by Melissa Reitz
SA Public has no time to contest sale of lion bones
South Africa is about to permit the export of lion bones to produce fake tiger wine but has given the public almost no time to object. The permit will allow an annual export of 800 skeletons to Asia....Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 11:14hrs | 494 | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
Mzembi goes for big UN post
Africa will, for the first time in the 42-year history of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), put forward a candidate for the post of secretary-general when Dr Walter Mzembi formally launch...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 12:37hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
Sustainable agriculture deserves center stage in Marrakech
Agriculture, including forestry and fisheries, is the sector most threatened by climate change. At the same time, the agricultural sectors produce a fifth of the world's greenhouse gas emissions....Published: 16 Nov 2016 at 10:12hrs | 280 | by José Graziano da Silva Director-General, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Ensuring wildlife and livestock coexistence vital for international trade and environmental protection
Victoria Falls - Addressing disease issues that are a result of the coexistence of wildlife and livestock is important to the international trade of beef. Given the importance of both the livest...Published: 15 Nov 2016 at 13:17hrs | 588 | by FAO
DO or Die: deciding the pangolin's fate at COP17
As CITES COP17 gets underway the eyes of the conservation world are focused on Johannesburg, where the global wildlife conference is taking place. Running from 24 September to 5 October, with 181 coun...Published: 28 Sep 2016 at 09:11hrs | 421 | by Hazel Friedman
GEF SPG provides civil society grants for projects
The Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme (GEF SGP), implemented by UNDP, provides communities and civil society organizations grants to enable them to implement projectsIn a stat...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 05:14hrs | 1122 | by Stephen Jakes
Dirty Energy, dirty social economy- Africa is a Victim!
Zimbabwe like its peer republics in Southern, West, Eastern Africa is still ignorant and resistant in embracing new energy resources that are reliable and sustainable. There is limited attention prior...Published: 11 May 2016 at 10:46hrs | 2594 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Protect wetlands and protect lives!
In the sub-Saharan region of Africa, Wetlands are vast and have been playing a major role in the patterns of our climate , water ecosystems as well as eco-tourism. Industrial civilization , infrastruc...Published: 05 May 2016 at 12:51hrs | 2638 | by Mbizo Chirasha
UNICEF to fund sustainable energy projects
Stakeholders in the energy sector on Thursday held a breakfast meeting to interrogate issues relating to the promotion of green energy as exploitation of natural resources has led to loss of biodivers...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:11hrs | 1807 | by Staff Reporter
Fossils and oil barons - a tragedy in Africa!
Since the beginning of industrial revolution. Africa has been at the receiving end of the effects of bad energy culture and use. The introduction of automobile industries, production industries and th...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 14:41hrs | 2576 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Go for Clean Energy in Zimbabwe - with Solar civilization
Everyone who was born some years after and before independence and was born in both the villages , townships and cities understand how forests ended up cleared and how the wildlife has gone inst...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 10:40hrs | 3061 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Mugabe back from Singapore, did not get to India
President Robert Mugabe has arrived back home from Singapore where he had stopped over en-route to the World Culture Festival in India.Foreign Affairs Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi says it w...Published: 12 Mar 2016 at 16:13hrs | 3570 | by Staff reporter
AFR100 to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa
African countries have launched African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), a Pan-African, country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes by 203...Published: 07 Dec 2015 at 14:26hrs | 996 | by Andrew Mambondiyani in Paris, France
SA government and US hunters plotting future for SA's wildlife
American hunters and SA's Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) are meeting behind closed doors at a resort near Polokwane today to plan the future use of SA's wildlife. The four day conference of...Published: 10 Nov 2015 at 06:48hrs | 1049 | by Don Pinnock
Pro-govt media claims boast in Zimbabwe tourism
The Pro- Zanu PF government media, The Patriot Newspaper has claimed that tourism industry is continuing to shine at the time when what it callede international media's rubbishing of Zimbabwe and decl...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 09:40hrs | 2631 | by Staff Reporter
MEJA congratulates the New Minister of Water, Environment and Climate
Congradulating the New Minister of Water, Environment and ClimateMatabeleland Environmental Justice Association (MEJA) congradulates the newly sworn in Minister of Water, Environment and Clima...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 11:23hrs | 3589 | by MEJA
Is government doing enough to protect South Africa's biodiversity?
Globally environmental destruction is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Why then, the apparent complacency from government in the face of South Africa's biodiversity crisis? Threatene...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 17:38hrs | 4076 | by Melissa Reitz
Strategies of Combating Desertification in Matabeleland
(In commemoration of the 17 June 2015 World Day to Commemoration Desertification) Desertification is a major human rights, development, livelihoods...Published: 16 Jun 2015 at 18:57hrs | 4876 | by Khumbulani Maphosa
Zimbabwe to sell excess elephants
Zimbabwe will be selling off excess elephants to interested countries as it moves to protect biodiversity and minimise human-wildlife conflicts.The country has excess elephants estimated at ar...Published: 06 Jan 2015 at 14:27hrs | 2757 | by Staff reporter
US$30 billion economy can be grown in Vic Falls - Mzembi
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister Walter Mzembi says a US$30 billion economy can be grown in Victoria Falls with new infrastructure projects and other investments coming to the resort town....Published: 21 Dec 2014 at 07:48hrs | 3624 | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe Going Forward: Opportunities and Constraints'
Conference organized by Mass Public Opinion Institute (MPOI) and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS)Meikles Hotel, Harare, Thursday 23rd October 2014Cli...Published: 26 Oct 2014 at 23:10hrs | 5099 | by Dr. Strike Mkandla, Alternate Secretary General (ASG), ZAPU
Africa's trade under a cloud of changing climate
The devastating effects of climate change are already being felt across the planet, including in Africa. The 2011 drought-induced famine in the Horn of Africa affected more than 10 million peopl...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 07:24hrs | 956 | by Richard Munang and Jesica Andrews
ZAPU Devolution of Power Explained part 3 of 4
ZAPU devolved legislative regions have an abundant wealth of natural resources This is the third instalment of the four part series explaining the ZAPU devolution of power model. ZAPU devo...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 09:33hrs | 1882 | by Themba Mthethwa
Zim-EU relations thawing?
In a development that could indicate a further thawing of relations between Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU), the European Union Council on Tourism and Trade (ECTT) has unanimously awarded Zimbab...Published: 07 May 2014 at 15:47hrs | 240 | by Tawanda Musarurwa
The African Development Bank On 'Green Growth'
The African Development Bank's new policy acknowledges that to sustain economic growth in Africa, there is an urgent need to preserve and enhance the ecological capital that enriches such growth. ...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 08:22hrs | 1832 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Deadly alien grass spotted in Mat-south
Livestock in Matabeleland South is under siege from a poisonous alien grass, Lantana-camara, with a senior government official from the province calling for immediate intervention.Former Matab...Published: 18 Mar 2014 at 15:46hrs | 5910 | by Staff reporter
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