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Zimbabwe achieves record wheat harvest
Zimbabwe has achieved a record-breaking wheat harvest of over 560,000 tonnes for the 2024 season, surpassing last year's production of 467,905 tonnes. This marks the second consecutive year the countr...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 09:59hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Government to construct more small earth dams
Government through the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development plans to construct small earth dams across all the country’s eight catchment areas under the Catchm...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 17:17hrs | 4 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
A weird Presidency
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, the appointment of the Commander of the Defence Forces, General Philip Valerio Sibanda to the Zanu-PF politburo as an ex-officio member, (by vi...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:55hrs | 16 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa's bussed crowds going invade Mashonaland Central
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today heads to Centenary, Mashonaland Central Province, for a Star Rally that is expected to be another huge success, as Zanu PF continues to demonstrate its indomitable mobilisati...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 08:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Time ripe for Zimbabweans to restore its breadbasket status
I STRONGLY feel that the time is ripe to for us Zimbabweans to restore the country's breadbasket status and shun dependency completely.We have to develop the new farming skills to improve our ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Terrence Mwedzi
Mnangagwa vows to shake off basket case status
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is on course to regain the regional breadbasket status and his government remained committed to putting 350 000 hectares under irrigation.Writing in ...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe independence, freedom not for sale'
ZIMBABWE'S independence, freedom, democracy, sovereignty, patriotism, dignity and heritage are not for sale, President Mnangagwa has said.Addressing thousands of ruling Zanu-PF party supporter...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe won't apologise for land reforms'
THE successful agrarian reform that corrected land ownership imbalances remains irreversible as evidenced by the Second Republic's bankrolling beneficiaries' activities to help Zimbabwe regain its bre...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reaps rewards from 2nd Republic initiatives
The country has already started reaping rewards from the progressive initiatives by the Second Republic to move the country forward. Last year, Government moved closer to achieving its optimal agricul...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 12:50hrs | 1 | by Derick Tsimba
Mnangagwa launches new economic blueprint
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday launched the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1), which is anchored on economic growth and institutional reforms aimed at attaining an upper middle-income economy by 2...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We are our own saviours'
LOCALS, and not foreigners, are the only ones who can help to grow the economy and achieve a relatively prosperous society in the next decade as envisioned by President Mnangagwa's Vision 2030, LEAD p...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt warned against farm leases
The government should not allow newly-resettled farmers to sub-let their farms as this will promote corruption and inefficient use of land, analysts have said.Government recently granted farme...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sets aside $53 million for white farmers compensation
THE Government is working on compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was acquired under the land reform programme since 2000 with a budget of $53 million having been set aside to speed...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa admits to land reform errors
Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted that the haphazard land reform programme caused a serious dip in farm productivity.Zimbabwe went through a chaotic land redistribution in the early 2000s, which...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's fast-track land reform a great mistake'
AGRICULTURAL and Rural Development Authority (Arda) board chairman, Basil Nyabadza, has described former President Robert Mugabe's fast-track land reform programme as a "great mistake" which drove awa...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says millions in externalised funds flow back to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE will never be the same again as Government is addressing all challenges facing the nation with renewed effort and vigour, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.Addressing Zimbabweans res...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe defiant
There are upheavals twists and turns in the unfolding events of the Zimbabwe's political situation as the army took over the country led by the oldest leader in the world Cde Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:51hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Opposition can repeat 'Ghana's surprise victory,- argue Think Tank President - all nonsense
There is no doubt that Zimbabwe had the potential to be a free, just and prosperous nation when the country attained her independence in 1980. We have some of the best land and weather to grow all the...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 19:43hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's Command Agriculture violates law
Government is bypassing the State Procurement Board (SPB) in its implementation of the hyped Command Agriculture initiative in violation of the law, which requires that all projects worth US$10 000 or...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 15:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Grand' coalition will face grand defeat,' says Mugabe
The Zanu-PF First Secretary and President Robert Mugabe says the mooted ‘grand' coalition by opposition political parties will lead to a grand defeat as they continue chasing a mirage.The Pr...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 15:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mphoko hauled to court
BULAWAYO - Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has been hauled before the courts by villagers in Tshayile in Bubi, Matabeleland North, who are seeking to block the 76-year-old diplomat from extendin...Published: 09 Feb 2017 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Time to go: Open Letter to President Mugabe
It is with a heavy heart and a trampled soul that i write this letter to you Mr President. Our beloved country that you have presided over the last 36 years was once the breadbasket of Africa but has ...Published: 10 Nov 2016 at 12:49hrs | 5 | by Ali Naka
Street protests are an important first step but first of many even tougher to follow
Zimbabweans must not allowed themselves to be misled by those who see the street protests as all the nation needed to do to end Mugabe's reign of terror and have, in its place, economic prosperity and...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe to import maize till 2020
A UNITED Kingdom-based research group, BMI Research, has predicted that Zimbabwe will remain a net importer of maize until at least 2020, as the country battles to overcome serious challenges in the a...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - From bread basket to beg basket
THOSE of us who grew up in Rhodesia knew from an early age that the foundational pillars of the strength of the Rhodesian economy lay in agriculture, mining and manufacturing.So strong was Rho...Published: 29 Aug 2015 at 13:36hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Zimbabwe to restore its breadbasket status
Through the agricultural farming equipment that was financed by the Brazilian government recently, Zimbabwe has the opportunity to regain its status as the bread basket of Africa once again....Published: 28 May 2015 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Zanu-PF SA Statement on ANC Secretary General Statement on Zimbabwe
The comments about Zimbabwe attributed to the Secretary General of the African National Congress, Gwede Manthashe, while seeking divine intervention for his party from a church congregation in Par...Published: 16 Mar 2014 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by ZANU PF SA Secretary for Information and Publicity
Policies and promises of Zanu-PF, MDC
Zimbabweans are set to choose their next leader this week in an election that many fear will not be free and fair. Africa Check takes a look at what the main contesting parties (Robert Mugabe's Zanu-P...Published: 29 Jul 2013 at 12:21hrs | | by AfricaCheck
Prophet prophesies the return of a powerful Zim dollar
An Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) pastor, Dr Johannes Kgwarapi has prophesied the return of a powerful Zimbabwean currency.Dr Kgwarapi said this during the church's National Annual General Con...Published: 05 Sep 2012 at 11:24hrs | | by Matthews Estell
FAO pledges to support Zimbabwe regains its breadbasket status
Visiting Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director General, Dr Jose’ Graziano da Silva says his organisation is prepared to work with Zimbabwe in en...Published: 18 Jul 2012 at 03:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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