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Zimbabwe businessman dies by suicide

A well-known Bulawayo businessman has died by suicide, sparking shock in the local community and raising concerns about mental health pressures faced by entrepreneurs.The man, whose name is being withheld at the request of his family, was …

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers warn of food shortages

Farmers' unions have warned that Zimbabwe may face food shortages despite forecasts of an early and above-normal rainy season.The Meteorological Services Department recently predicted that rains will begin earlier than usual, raising hopes…

Published: 02 Sep 2025 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa dangles US$2 billion loan facility

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled a US$1.98 billion loan facility to be rolled out over the next decade to help farmers boost productivity and withstand the impacts of climate change through an irrigation-focused package.The facili…

Published: 26 Aug 2025 at 07:49hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter

Woman in court for illegal abortion

A 30-year-old Bulawayo woman was on Thursday arraigned before the courts after she was allegedly caught trying to dump a foetus in a bushy area in Entumbane suburb.Rumbidzai Tanewe of Entumbane appeared before Western Commonage magistrate …

Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 16:19hrs | | by `

Zimbabwe to set up fund to compensate farmers

The Government is working on plans to establish a compensation fund for farmers who lose crops to wildlife, particularly elephants, Environment, Climate and Wildlife Minister Dr Evelyn Ndlovu has revealed.She was responding in Parliament t…

Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 16:19hrs | 8 | by `

Zimbabwe tobacco farmers demand indigenous tobacco policy

The government has been urged to develop an indigenous tobacco policy aimed at promoting production and supporting farmers who form the backbone of Zimbabwe's golden leaf sector.Speaking at a recent conference in Harare, Zimbabwe Progressi…

Published: 05 Aug 2025 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Cotton farmers earn over US$3 million

Zimbabwean cotton farmers have sold more than US$3 million worth of seed cotton to the Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) so far this season, with the state-run firm confirming it is paying growers entirely in foreign currency.Cottco acti…

Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:10hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter

Farmers urged to adopt cluster farming

Farmers in Mwenezi East, Masvingo province, have been encouraged to adopt cluster farming as a strategy to increase production, enhance food security, and generate export-ready surplus grain.This call was made during a community empowermen…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter

Climate change takes toll on tomato farmers

For decades, villagers in Madzivazvido, Gokwe North, have relied on tomato farming to sustain their families and communities. But climate change is rapidly eroding this once-reliable livelihood, as soaring temperatures, disappearing wetlan…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:10hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter

Black and White farmers rebuild Zimbabwe's agricultural ties

In a field rich with paprika plants near the heart of Zimbabwe, fourth-generation white farmer Daniel Burger and newcomer Miriam Mupambawashe - a black farmer who arrived with the land reforms of the early 2000s - stand side by side discus…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:51hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter

VFEX sees massive jump in Q1 turnover

The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) recorded a significant jump in trading activity during the first quarter of 2025, with market turnover reaching US$58.5 million â€” a 383 percent increase from US$12.11 million recorded in the same …

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:09hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter

Cotton farmers want immediate price talks

Zimbabwean cotton farmers are pressing the Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) to urgently initiate price negotiations for the 2025 marketing season, warning that any further delay could trigger widespread side marketing as harvesting be…

Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:08hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter

White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs

Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s.The then-51-year-old white commercial farme…

Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 814 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera

Farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures

A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe's land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal and said it wants to reopen negotiations with the government.The group has criticised…

Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:50hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe white former farmers start receiving compensation

The Government of Zimbabwe has begun compensating white former commercial farmers whose land was repossessed during the Land Reform Programme, marking a pivotal step in the country's efforts to resolve a decades-old issue and accelerate it…

Published: 10 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | | by Staff reporter

Farmers in Matabeleland optimistic after rains

Farmers across Matabeleland are optimistic about a promising 2024/25 farming season following consistent rains that have rejuvenated crops, with the Government projecting a bumper harvest of 3.2 million metric tonnes of grain.The wet spell…

Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:07hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers welcome pause in rains

Farmers in Ntabazinduna, Matabeleland North Province, have welcomed the temporary break in rainfall, as it allows them to apply much-needed chemicals to combat an outbreak of Fall Armyworm (FAW). The pest had begun wreaking havoc on crops …

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:42hrs | 672 | by Staff reporter

Farmers4ED provincial chairperson up for fraud

The Harare provincial chairperson for Zanu-PF affiliate Farmers4ED, Terai Mudzimukunze, was arraigned before the Harare Magistrates' Court on allegations of defrauding the City of Harare's chief building inspector in a failed farm deal. Mu…

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 07:05hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter

Matabeleland South farmers return to fields

Farmers in Matabeleland South province have taken advantage of above-average rains to cultivate 80% of the arable land in the region, following a severe drought that had devastating effects on livestock and crop production.The recent wet s…

Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:14hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe fails to pay white farmers who had land expropriated

White commercial growers in Zimbabwe said that the government has failed to pay part of $331 million in compensation to farmers for expropriating their land but reimbursed others who weren't part of the deal.In a joint letter to the financ…

Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 10:08hrs | 574 | by Staff reporter

Farmers, villagers live in fear as lion roams around

Farmers and villagers in Macheke, Mashonaland East province, have been restricted to their homes following reports of a fugitive lion that escaped from Nyanga and has been spotted in the area. The lion, which crossed the Mupfure River from…

Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:34hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers turn to maggots to survive drought

At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn.After multiple cholera outbreaks in the southern Afric…

Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:28hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter

Insiza joint venture farmers table proposal to build dam

INSPIRED by the desire to enhance water harvesting and boost climate-proofed food production, seven farmers from Insiza District in Matebeleland South have availed a combined 700 hectares of land for cultivating different crops under irrig…

Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's smallholder farmers migrate from maize

IN large parts of Africa, including Zimbabwe, maize is the main source of livelihood for smallholder farmers because it is a staple and cash crop.However, with the imminent threat of an El Nino-induced drought, the dependence on cereal cro…

Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe farmers advised to replant failed crops

DRY land farmers should consider replanting after their initial crop suffered from moisture stress due to the prolonged dry spell between November and December.Weather projections indicate that Zimbabwe will this season receive below-norma…

Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Hundreds of white farmers return to Zimbabwe in boost for agriculture

Family after family fled along this dirt road towards Harare as they were evicted from their farms by Zimbabwean war veterans.The road through the country's prime, red-soiled land was a front line in Robert Mugabe's policy of seizing white…

Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:39hrs | 4 | by Ben Farmer

Zimbabwe debt clearance tied to farmers' compensation and credible polls

THE African Development Bank has moved to fast-track Zimbabwe's $3.5 billion compensation to white farmers whose land was seized under former president Robert Mugabe's reforms. The bank is leading efforts to clear Zimbabwe's crippling debt…

Published: 22 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Zeenat Hansrod

Farmers defend raw sugar price increase

Small-scale sugarcane farmers, who supply 45 percent of raw sugar in Zimbabwe, have defended the new price of the commodity after Gold Star suspended production at its refinery in Harare this week citing high prices and unfavourable tradin…

Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's Agriculture Minister warns lazy farmers

AGRICULTURE Minister, Anxious Masuka, has called on farmers under-utilising land to consider joint ventures with investors or risk revocation of offer letters.Masuka, who was commenting on agricultural output for the coming 2023 season, sa…

Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Farmers need tractors, cattle have died

My rather heavy footsteps did not jolt the old farmer out of his deep thought, head rested on his bony knees, sort of mind comatose. The man was 'lost' in great thinking, pondering how he would tackle the fast approaching farming season. A…

Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 19:16hrs | 3 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

New farmers revel in land reform glory

ZIMBABWEAN farmers have shown a positive energy, desire and capability to restore the country to being the bread basket of the region as they revel in the success of the land reform programme which remains the biggest independence achievem…

Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Staff repoirter

Case against paying compensation to white farmers for land appropriation

OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.We are living in a time when the vestiges of white hegemony and entitlement are, at long last, being challenged almost on a daily basis all over the world. This is as it should be. In the words of Mar…

Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | 5 | by Cedric Steele

Farmers do not be a sitting duck to fraudsters

Harvest time is upon us, a time of plenty. Fraudsters are on the prowl looking for who to con, taking your agricultural produce without paying a dime for it. A colleague nearly lost a tonne of top-grade sugar beans to a con artist who clai…

Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa

White former farmers blame Zuma, Sadc for loss of farms in Zimbabwe

Last month the Gauteng High Court in Pretoria handed down judgement in a R2 billion damages claim against South Africa by 25 dispossessed Zimbabwean farmers, some of whom were South African citizens, arising from findings by the Constituti…

Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:29hrs | 11 | by Ben Freeth

Zimbabwe's recolonization complete with Mnangagwa land giveaway to Europeans

The Zimbabwe Government has decided it will give back retaken stolen land--to the white Europeans who stole it in the first place during the colonial era.2020 is indeed a strange year.It's beyond bizarre right now.In a time when a racial r…

Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:03hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

White farmers compensation gets murkier

Zimbabwe's ministers of Land and Finance issued a joint statement on the farm compensation issue on September 3, 2020, a month after the controversial signing of the Global Compensation Deed between the government and two farming organisat…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:01hrs | | by Ben Freeth

Bleak future for communal farmers

Communal and subsistence farmers in most parts of rural Zimbabwe are facing a bleak farming season due in two months as the military government has resorted to distributing seed and other inputs such as fertilizer and chemicals on party li…

Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 21:44hrs | 2 | by Makho Precious Moyo

Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?

In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zimbabwe's economy, and ruined relations …

Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 2 | by BBC

Perrance Shiri ejects A2 farmers from Tongaat houses

Lands minister Perrance Shiri has ejected new A2 sugarcane farmers who grabbed Tongaat Hulett houses and evicted company employees in the process, claiming they had five-year leases.In a letter addressed to Zanu PF legislator for Zaka Nort…

Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

News farmers are lazy, says Zanu-PF

Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial vice chairperson, Ailes Baloyi has savaged resettled farmers in the district for just sitting idle on the land without producing anything of value.Speaking during the Zanu-PF inter-district meeting at Tshovani S…

Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter

Impending drought: Farmers should plan carefully

The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) report released on 28 August 2018 showed that from October to December (OND) 2018 and January to March (JMF) 2019 periods will be characterised by "normal with a bias towards below normal" rainf…

Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota

Mnangagwa's lease somersault not enough

GOVERNMENT'S recent policy shift to grant the few remaining white farmers in Zimbabwe with 99-year land leases does not address the inherent structural flaws of the legal instrument, which still remains unbankable and untransferable, disco…

Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Tinashe Kairiza

Land rights in Zimbabwe, should farmers receive a symbolic $1

This article is part two of an article on current land rights in Zimbabwe. The first article was entitled: Rhodes' Estate Should Compensate White Farmers, Not Mugabe; this article deals with damages and how much should then be paid to the …

Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 16:51hrs | 31 | by Ken Sibanda

Open letter to all disposessed Zimbabwean farmers

The Issue of Compensation, the Compensation Steering Committee and the Valuation Consortium (Valcon) Dear All After 17 years, the compensation issue for jambanjad (taken over by force, often violently) commercial farms in Zimbabwe is back …

Published: 09 May 2017 at 16:35hrs | | by Ben Freeth

Farmers party in nite clubs leaving wives to sleep in bank queues over night

Many Tobacco farmers in Mvurwi, Mash-Central who are spending nights in bank queues are opting to leave their women standing in queues while they party in night clubs.The farmers who are getting maximum withdrawal limit of $100 to $150 pre…

Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 10:48hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Tobacco farmers deserve better prices

While there are claims that tobacco farming alleviates poverty in small scale farmers, some small scale seasonal farmers have remained poor even after being in the tobacco industry for many years.Misuse of funds and poor prices of the gold…

Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 15:30hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta

Tobacco farmers should insure their crop

Due to the possibility of fire and natural disasters, agriculture can be a risky enterprise, making it imperative for the farmer to have insurance covers to hedge themselves against total loss.Ironically, levels of insurance in the farming…

Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 14:35hrs | 2 | by Tendai Guta

Zimbabwe's white farmers once helped feed Africa

Martin Fletcher is former foreign editor of The Times and a foreign correspondent. Follow him at @mfletchertimes. His assignment in Zimbabwe was financed by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.Ben Freeth is anxious as we return to Moun…

Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Martin Fletcher

Farmers expect Chinamasa to scrap the tobacco levy

Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers' Union president Wonder Chabikwa said they expected Chinamasa to scrap the 1,5% tobacco levy, which he said was suffocating farmers.He said the budget must support agriculture to help in the revival of the econo…

Published: 20 Nov 2016 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter

Farmers win awards at Oatlands Irrigation Scheme

Some 12 farmers at Oatlands Irrigation Scheme in Ward 13 Masvingo Rural were last week awarded with various prizes after a weed management competition that saw them being pitted against each other.The farmers grew maize crop in February on…

Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter

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Zanu PF appoints new Director General

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