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Zim Vet targets 100k semen to boost national herd
In their efforts to increase national herd and improve genetics of local populations (cattle) through breeding, Zimbabwe Directorate of Veterinary Services' 2024 to 2025 upcoming bulling season is tar...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:09hrs | 222 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Cellphone thief bashed to death by three friends
Police in Inyathi have arrested three suspected murderers for allegedly assaulting and murdering a colleague over allegations of cellphone theft.The trio suspects; Kulekani Nyathi (25), Nkanyi...Published: 08 Feb 2024 at 22:16hrs | 1 | by Peter Matuka/Simbarashe Sithole
Traditional bare-knuckle fist tournament musangwe under way in Limpopo
The month-long traditional bare-knuckle fist tournament, a staple of the festive season, is currently under way at the Tshifudi cattle dip outside Thohoyandou in Limpopo. This annual tournament, which...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 18:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tick-borne diseases hit Matebeleland North
Matebeleland North has been hit by an outbreak of tick-borne diseases with veterinary authorities saying 276 cattle succumbed to the diseases from 525 cases recorded in the province since January....Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanla story on Salisbury fuel tanks is utter fiction
THERE has been a lot of confusion on the role ZIPRA played during the liberation struggle and a lot of twisting of facts related to certain operations that are perceived to have changed the course of ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 08:41hrs | 8 | by Barbatone Irvine Sibhona
Chiefs to fine farmers for not dipping cattle
TRADITIONAL leaders have been urged to penalise farmers who are not bringing their cattle for dipping as this is hindering Government's efforts to fight the January disease.In a speech read on...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Veterinary Services ropes in traditional leaders over dipping
THE Department of Veterinary Services has implored traditional leaders to assist in driving cattle dipping awareness campaigns in Hurungwe district to counter the growing threat of diseases....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dares public enterprises
Parastatals and State-owned enterprises have been challenged not to be drains on the Treasury but to pay dividends and propel growth of the economy through meaningful contribution to the country's Gro...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tick-borne disease ravages livestock
SCORES of families in Masvingo province are losing their livestock daily due to an outbreak of a tick-borne disease suspected to be January disease or theileriosis.Villagers who spoke to Stand...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Free tick grease scheme
THE tick grease programme launched last year under the Presidential Inputs Scheme to benefit one million households seems to be going on well, with many farmers collecting their share. But this noble ...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do something to save the rural herd
The rural herd is on a terrible decline, cattle succumbing to a plethora of both known and unknown livestock diseases. Most cattle pens are now nearly empty, with some now home to only two or ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 07:00hrs | | by Tondo
Polygamous man beheads wife, commits
A MAN from Dekezi area in Filabusi under Chief Sibasa went berserk beheading one of his three wives after he found her having sex with a local herdman.Zama Mafu, allegedly beheaded his wife wi...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 06:59hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi to launch Presidential Teak Grease Programme in Gwanda
A TOTAL of one million households are set to benefit under the Presidential Tick Grease Programme aimed at capacitating 4 000 dip tanks across the country.Under the same programme, the Governm...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 21:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is our only home
Gogo Chapo moved up and down the whole night checking on her sons Enock and John who were recuperating at their respective homes after a thorough beating by the settler forces. The cat had com...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:18hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
No cattle no cry,-PFumvunza will weather the storm
Do the health authorities and consumers at large know that bovine mortality is finding its way into towns and cities where it is sold as choice beef cuts? The disfunctionality of cattle dip ta...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:59hrs | | by Tondo
Father mistakenly gives infant poison
There was a tragic incident in Shamva after a 31-year-old father, Passmore Nicholas, allegedly accidentally fed his one-year-old son cattle dip chemical t...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 13:05hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
70% of Zimbabwe's dip-tanks malfunctional
AUDITOR-GENERAL Mildred Chiri has revealed that 70,77% of the country's cattle dip-tanks are dilapidated and need rehabilitation if livestock diseases are to be effectively curbed.Chiri reveal...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Velaphi Ncube's unheralded journey
ON Thursday, Misheck Ntunduzakovelaphi Velaphi Ncube was laid to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare following his declaration as a national hero.Born on 25 July 1937 in Matobo District...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:36hrs | 11 | by Pathisa Nyathi
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mvurwi farmers refuse to pay dipping levy
Majority of livestock farmers in Mvurwi are reluctant to pay the RTGS$2 per beast dipping fee. The levy is paid every year despite the area being affected by the deadly disease foot and mouth recently...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 11:15hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu PF rigged electoral victory is worse than a Pyrrhic - dog got hare's ticks and worse
You can tell the dog has a flea or tick problem by the frequency the poor creature scratches itself and the greater the vigour the greater the infestation! Rigging the recent elections was the easy bi...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:57hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Inspired by the Jacaranda, we won't give up
One of those things that linger in our minds even if we happen to be thousands of miles away from home, is the exquisite beauty of blooming Jacaranda trees especially in September and October, when ou...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 11:35hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Let them go home, they have failed!
Put simply, failure is the opposite of success. Owing to three long decades of gross misgovernance, our beloved country has been reduced to a monumental failure. Indeed, everything that could go w...Published: 17 Aug 2014 at 09:45hrs | | by Moses Chamboko
Ritual killing accusations, girl's family meets
THE family of the six-year-old girl who was allegedly poisoned with a cattle dipping chemical for ritual purposes at Silozwi village in Matobo District yesterday held a meeting during which they resol...Published: 30 Oct 2013 at 03:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Aunt used cattle dipping chemical to poison the little girl for rituals'
A STORM is brewing over the death of the six-year-old girl who was allegedly poisoned for ritual purposes at Silozwi village in Matobo District with some members of her family accusing the girl's aunt...Published: 29 Oct 2013 at 02:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Girl (6) killed by relatives for ritual purposes
Two men belonging to a Matobo family in Matabeleland South have been arrested with their female neighbour for allegedly poisoning their six-year-old niece for ritual purposes. Acting p...Published: 26 Oct 2013 at 05:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Most wanted criminal and leader of a six-member gang jailed for 31 years
Hurungwe's most wanted criminal and leader of a six-member gang that recently went on a crime spree, robbing schools and shops in and around Karoi, has been jailed for 31 years. Karoi Magistrate Mr ...Published: 09 Apr 2012 at 04:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe No Longer Has Friends, His Intellectuals Are Misfiring
A report yesterday in which Jonathan Moyo reportedly told the South African Minister of International Co-operation, Mai...Published: 07 Mar 2012 at 13:17hrs | 1 | by Makusha Mugabe | A Zimbabwean Journalist
Musangwe -The Mysterious Venda Combat
Like singing, fighting has always been an African tradition; Vhavenda tribe in South Africa has own fighting club tradition called Musangwe which dates back from 18 centuries about 300 year old...Published: 15 Dec 2010 at 16:56hrs | 71 | by Byo24
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