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Uproar over donkey milk imports
A Botswana-based company, TAKUWA Natural Products, is planning to export donkey milk to Zimbabwe, a proposal that has sparked controversy among consumer rights groups.TAKUWA Natural Products h...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
BCC to cull horses, as it runs out of pasture
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resolved to cull nearly two dozen of its horses citing overpopulation and lack of pastures, a development likely to anger animal rights activists.The cullin...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SPANA, BSPCA to assess the impact of the donkey skin trade in Botswana
SPANA Botswana and the Botswana Society for the Protection of Animals (BSPCA) will be holding a donkey skin trade conference on 10 July at the Travelodge Hotel, Gaborone. The conference aims to assess...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:55hrs | 13 | by Agency
Government says no to donkey abattoir
THE Government has vowed not to license the donkey abattoir in Bulawayo as slaughtering of the animals is unlawful in the country, an official said.Speaking at the Donkey Skin Trade Conference...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:02hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo donkey abattoir saga rages on
When Zimbabwean businessman Gareth Lumsden announced in October 2017 that he had set up a $150,000 donkey abattoir in Bulawayo, local animal welfare organisations protested that his proposed slaughter...Published: 26 May 2018 at 19:38hrs | 1 | by Oscar Nkala
South African Donkeys slaughtered for bogus Chinese medicine
South Africa is implicated in the supply of donkeys for Chinese medicine reveals a report released today, World Donkey Day. The Donkeys are slaughtered in great numbers for their skins and expor...Published: 08 May 2018 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Adam Cruise
Donkey abattoir: An investment that never was
LAST October, the news of a donkey abattoir opening here sent tongues wagging and elicited mixed feelings from a cross-section of society.It sounded bizarre to Zimbabweans, to whom donkey meat...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
68 donkeys to be slaughtered at Bulawayo abattoir
SIXTY EIGHT donkeys are expected to be put down at a proposed donkey abattoir in Bulawayo's Manningdale suburb and 10 of them were euthanised on Tuesday.The Zimbabwe National Society for the P...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Over 10 donkeys 'shot' at abattoir
THE Government will not license a donkey abattoir that is being built in Bulawayo.The Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services DLVS) made the announcement last week as the Zimbabwe Nati...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Councillors debate over donkey abattoir
Bulawayo City Councillors have embarked in a serious debate over the consideration of the opening of the donkey abattoir in the city in which they have reservations that the com[any was likely to have...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 06:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Embrace donkey meat business'
CROSS-BORDER Traders' Association (ZCBTA) president Killer Zivhu has urged his members to embrace donkey meat business and make maximum use of an abattoir recently constructed in Bulawayo by Battlefro...Published: 01 Nov 2017 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donkey abattoir owner hits back
Bulawayo businessman Garrith Lumsden has been in the eye of a storm after his plans to set up a donkey abattoir in the city were made public.Animal rights groups have come out strongly against...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Villagers resist donkey abattoir
FARMERS in Gwanda have told Parliament that they are against the commercial slaughter of donkeys, as that would deprive them of their major source of draught power.Chairperson of the Parliamen...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Abattoir will increase the commercial value of the donkey
The donkey abattoir saga is a snapshot of the kind of society Zimbabwe is. A society diseased with serious intolerance of those who are different from the majority. It also shows how we think with our...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by Ndaba Mloyi
Donkey abattoir blocked
THE Government has stopped the donkey abattoir in Umguza amid fears that the meat might be sold locally.A local company, Battlefront Investments is building a $150 000 donkey abattoir, the fir...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 14:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Donkey thefts up, abattoir blamed
SILOBELA and Zhombe villagers are living in fear of having their donkeys wiped out by thieves who are allegedly stocking up in anticipation of the opening of the $150 000 state-of-the-art donkey meat ...Published: 23 Oct 2017 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legal action against donkey abbatoir
ANIMAL welfare groups are working on instituting legal action to bar a Bulawayo businessman who set up the country's first donkey abattoir in Bulawayo from operating.Veterinarians for Animal W...Published: 22 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donkey abattoir raises police, govt concerns
THE Government and the police have expressed reservations on the opening of a donkey abattoir in Umguza amid fears that the meat might be sold locally.A local company, Battlefront Investments ...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 02:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is happy, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, following the success of the youth interface rallies that we are now winding up, I suggest we move to mothers' interface rallies, then to fathers' i...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:38hrs | | by CZ
'Nothing wrong with donkey abbatoir'
CONSERVATISTS say the non-existence of a law pertaining to the slaughtering of donkeys will lead to the extinction of the animal species in the country, once a donkey abattoir under construction in Bu...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Uproar over donkey abattoir
Animal conservationists are protesting the slaughtering of donkeys for commercial purposes following an announcement by a Bulawayo-based company that it has started building a $150 000 state-of-the-ar...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
MLF condemns opening of donkey abattoir in Bulawayo
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has condemned the opening of the donkey abattoir.The party said the opening of a donkey abattoir is nothing less than an insult and declaration of war by Battl...Published: 03 Oct 2017 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets up first donkey abattoir
A BULAWAYO-BASED company, Battlefront Investments has started constructing a $150 000 specialised state-of-the-art donkey abattoir that will have a capacity to dress more than 70 animals per day....Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 10:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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