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Zimbabwe's first indigenous pilot training academy opens
Central Air Transport Services (CATS), a private charter company operating from Charles Prince Airport in Harare and Victoria Falls International Airport, has made history by opening Zimbabwe's first ...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:45hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages regional peers over drought
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is engaging his counterparts in Southern Africa, to explore collaborative ways aimed at tackling the effects of El Nino-induced drought.Some of the migratory measures that ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$400 000 cloud seeding programme takes off
IT'S a humid Friday afternoon and there are only two aircraft on the tarmac at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo that are about to take off. One of them is a commercia...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland farmers welcome cloud seeding, heavy rains loom
FARMERS have welcomed the Government's cloud-seeding programme to induce more rains saying the intervention is critical as they are desperate to boost production amid an El Nino season that is charact...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:33hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Drought looms in southern Zimbabwe
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has issued a weather forecast for the 2023-24 farming season in Zimbabwe, predicting below-normal rainfall in some southern areas, with the possibility of ...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:11hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe starts cloud seeding to augment rainfall
Zimbabwe has started cloud seeding in an effort to increase rainfall in the current summer season, an official said Friday.The country recently acquired the latest technology to aid in cloud s...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cloud seeding starts as crops suffer growing moisture stress
THE Meteorological Services Department has commenced cloud-seeding in order to encourage rainfall after crops, especially late-planted crops, are showing signs of growing moisture stress due to a prol...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to conduct cloud seeding should need arise
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has resources required to conduct cloud seeding during the 2021/22 rainfall season, should need arise. This comes as the MSD said there were still po...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Aircraft mogul Hartnack arrested
BUSINESSMAN Adam James Hartnack, who owns Adamair (Pvt) Limited and Mr Bristle, a manufacturing firm located in Msasa, Harare, was yesterday arrested by the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on alle...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stocks year's supply of ARVs
Zimbabwe has enough anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that will last the next 12 months after Government secured funding to procure the life-prolonging therapy, Parliament has heard. Health and Child Care M...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cloud seeding commences countrywide
CLOUD seeding has commenced across the country, the Meteorological Services Department has said. Speaking in a telephone interview, a forecaster Mr Haanyadzisi Batisayi said seeding started in...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's farmers urge cloud seeding as drought withers crops
Zimbabwe farmers are urging authorities to undertake cloud seeding to ease an early-season drought that's hurting crops and destroying cattle pastures.The four-week dry spell has caused some f...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 20:21hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
'Mugabe seized my book on Tongogara's death'
FORMER President Robert Mugabe confiscated a book written by now Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri, detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (Zan...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:36hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe farmers call for cloud seeding
Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union (ZCFU) has called on Government to consider cloud seeding in the wake of the unreliable rainfall patterns characterising 2018 /19 agricultural season. Some p...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:33hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
$400 000 for cloud seeding
THE Meteorological Service Department will begin cloud seeding by month-end to help induce rains in a season expected to be blighted by the El Niño weather phenomenon.Government set aside $40...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400 000 set aside for cloud seeding
GOVERNMENT has availed $400 000 to the Meteorological Services Department for cloud seeding to enhance chances of rain during the 2018/19 rainfall season. This follows prediction by weather ex...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
More rainfall expected in the next 10 days
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has predicted more rainfall in most parts of the country, with the rainy season expected to extend to May.Bulawayo provincial meteorological office...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Logistical issues delay cloud seeding
THE Meteorological Services Department (MSD) delayed commencing its cloud seeding programme, saying this was due to logistical issues and poor weather conditions.The programme, which was suppo...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get normal rains
ZIMBABWE is expected to receive normal rains during the 2017/18 season, with southern parts of the country expected to receive normal to below normal rains, a detailed local forecast from the Meteorol...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda's 90% youth in gold panning
An MP for Matabeleland South M. Khumalo has said 90% of Gwanda's youth are in gold panning and the opening of the Gwanda University will help ensure that youth get education on how they should p...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Rains expected to continue
RAINS are expected to continue across the country with some towns and cities likely to receive thundershowers, the Meteorological Services Department has said.The rains are the fruit the natio...Published: 19 Mar 2016 at 11:07hrs | | by Samantha Chigogo
Finance ministry unveils $300 000 for cloud seeding
ENVIRONMENT, WATER AND CLIMATE Minister Oppah Muchinguri has said Finance and Economic Development ministry this year availed $300 000 for cloud seeding as drought had seemed to be prevailing....Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:45hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zim poised for economic growth in 2016
To say 'Zimbabwe is in dire straits' is an insult to the Government which is making tangible efforts on a daily basis to resuscitate the economy. The period of economic hardships that the coun...Published: 26 Jan 2016 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Chido Chikuni
Heavy rains, floods expected next week
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of heavy rains with a potential for flash floods that are expected in most parts of the country from Monday to Thursday next week.In a s...Published: 25 Jan 2016 at 05:34hrs | | by Brenda Ziga
Zimbabwe begins cloud seeding
As the country continues to experience sporadic rainfall, the Meteorological Services Department has dispatched two planes in the northern and southern regions to begin its annual cloud seeding progra...Published: 21 Jan 2016 at 11:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
God is for everyone big or small
In Zimbabwe some people have developed a tendency in which they want to create an issue where there is none and end up getting away with it. A lot of them have developed a habit in which they see noth...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 11:49hrs | 1 | by John Mukumbo
Thunder showers to continue
The thunder showers hitting most parts of the country will continue for this week and farmers should seek advice from agricultural extension officers in their areas, the Meteorological Services Depart...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 05:38hrs | 2 | by Samantha Chigogo
Met department warns of prolonged dry spell
THE prevailing dry spell is projected to continue, with temperatures set to clock a record 43 degrees Celsius in some areas, the Meteorological Services Department has warned.The erratic rainf...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 06:03hrs | | by Auxilia Katongomara
Zanu-PF indaba must focus on economy
The Zanu-PF 15th National People's Conference began in earnest yesterday, with the revolutionary party holding its Politburo meeting in the capital while the Central Committee will meet tomorrow....Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 03:52hrs | | by Comment
As food crisis persists, Zimbabwe's dilemma escalates; to eat or not to eat GMOs
Eighty-year-old Gogo Mutimba from Chitora about 50 kilometres south of the border city of Mutare in Zimbabwe stares blankly at the clear October blistering afternoon sun.With a frown she r...Published: 04 Nov 2015 at 07:34hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiyani
Zimbabwe govt release $200k for cloud seeding
The government has released $200 000 for cloud seeding in the 2015-16 rain season.Farmers have also been called upon to utilise existing dams for irrigation purposes as rainfall patterns have ...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 21:03hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to buy cloud seeding aircraft
The Meteorological Department is mobilising funds to purchase a second aircraft for cloud seeding as Government intensifies measures to mitigate the effects of the climate change in light of below nor...Published: 04 Sep 2015 at 07:34hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Broke Government to import food - Mnangagwa
GOVERNMENT has resolved to import food due to looming drought caused by low rain but parliamentarians urged government to fully utilise $400 000 set aside for cloud seeding.Legislators said im...Published: 12 Mar 2015 at 06:00hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Met Dept seeks funds for cloud seeding
The Meteorological Services Department says Government should urgently release over $200 000 for cloud seeding during February and March as thousands of hectares of crops are under threat from a dry s...Published: 27 Jan 2015 at 15:19hrs | 1 | by Elita Chikwati
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