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Nust embarks on high impact projects
The National University of Science and Technology (Nust) has announced plans to launch three major high-impact projects as part of its strategy to achieve self-sustainability, fully utilize human reso...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:39hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Marapira distances self from kidnap storm
Zanu-PF information director Farai Marapira has distanced himself from allegations linking him to the reported abduction of environmental activist and farmer Nadia Vongai Mabvirakare.Mabviraka...Published: 11 Mar 2025 at 07:17hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Tycoon Marapira denies involvement in activist's disappearance
Zanu PF Director of Information, Farai Marapira, has refuted allegations linking him to the disappearance of environmental activist and farmer, Nadia Vongai Mabvirakare, demanding a public apology fro...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 13:24hrs | 1102 | by George Tshuma
Old Gwanda Road works to move 24 graves
A groundbreaking ceremony attended by Government ministers, traditional leaders, and community members has marked the official start of construction work on the Old Gwanda Road. The $110 million Publi...Published: 09 Feb 2025 at 11:23hrs | 228 | 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 m...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:28hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
War vets in trouble for invading farm
A group of war veterans from Mashonaland West are facing prosecution after invading a farm owned by the son of Zimbabwe's former ambassador to the United Nations Tirivafi Kangai.The former lib...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:42hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
University of Exeter graduate receives £270k for Zimbabwe farming project
A UNIVERSITY of Exeter graduate has secured more than £270,000 of funding for a regenerative agriculture project in Africa.Hugo Winkfield, who graduated in biological sciences from the univer...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 04:51hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells exiled Mandi Chimene to come back home
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has told exiled G40 politician Mandi Chimene to "come back home" after the former Zanu-PF rivals met in Mozambique Thursday through the facilitation of the neighbouring co...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 22:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ex-diplomat in court for fraud
ZIMBABWE'S former honorary consul to the United Arab Emirates, Shamiso Fred, appeared at the Harare Magistrates Court early this week charged with defrauding a group of women of US$193 000 after she a...Published: 11 Nov 2023 at 15:54hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Johane WeMasowe building a 3 000 seater double-storey facility in Bulawayo
Church yaBaba Johane WeMasowe in Bulawayo's Entumbane suburb is building a 3 000 seater double-storey facility, which is expected to be completed in the next five years.The church is celebrati...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:06hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa says 'Victory is the only option'
Zanu-PF Women's League national secretary for administration, Monica Mutsvangwa's campaign trail last week saw her addressing three oversubscribed rallies in Manicaland where she urged the electorate ...Published: 12 Aug 2023 at 08:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hands Matabeleland South youths 10ha plots
Ms Lilian Mhlanga (28) from Insiza District is among 60 youths from Matabeleland South Province who have been awarded permits for 10 hectare A2 plots under the Presidential 10-hectare Scheme, which se...Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Company refuses to fund BCC Botswana jaunt, loses tender
A BOTSWANA company had its expression of interest tender to do a dairy farming project at the Bulawayo City Council-owned farms - Aisleby and Goodhope - turned down after they declined to host an 18-m...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF extortionists milk Chinese firm
Former vice-president Kembo Mohadi's name was used by two Zanu-PF officials to extort US$110 000 from a Chinese company that wanted to open a gold mine in Matabeleland South, court records have reveal...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Government recruits 2 500 teachers
Government is in the process of recruiting 2 500 teachers and most of them will be deployed to rural areas where there is a critical shortage.This was revealed by Primary and Secondary Educati...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bosso mixes farming with soccer
WITH a vast amount of unused land at its sports club premises, Highlanders Football Club have decided to make productive use of a piece of the Clubhouse by setting up a greenhouse.Inotho Farm ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ZBC workers demand US$ salaries, land
ZIMBABWE Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) employees have appealed to government to pay half of their salaries in United States dollars to cushion them against the country's runaway inflation.ZBC...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 56 | by Staff Reporter
Sable Chemicals trying to displace farmers in Mnangagwa's backyard
Leading fertilizer producer Sable Chemicals has come under-fire for reportedly trying to displace resettled farmers in Kwekwe's Sherwood Block to pave way for citrus and dairy farming projects....Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 06:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
12 Matebeleland dams set for fisheries programme
MATEBELELAND fish farmers are set to benefit from the Government's fisheries programme after 12 dams from the region were targeted for the Presidential Fisheries Programme that will involve 50 000 far...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
My accuser begged to join our farming project before cheating us: former ZNA captain
The former Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Captain Solomon Ndlovu who had been jailed six years for theft of vehicle belonging to a businessman Osfael Mazibuko has said his accuser had begged to join the...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 14:52hrs | 29 | by Stephen Jakes
Farmers in Umzingwane bemoan lack of agricultural products outlets
FARMERS in Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South Province, have bemoaned lack of agricultural products outlets close to them, stating that they were parting with a lot of money travelling to get agr...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 10:57hrs | 56 | by Staff Reporter
Ex-ZNA captain counts losses after a 6-year incarceration
FORMER Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) captain and chaplain at Mbalabala Barracks, who was wrongly jailed for six years for theft of a vehicle belonging to businessman Osfael Mazibuko says his business c...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
NRZ pensioners' widows getting US$2 per month
OVER 70 widows of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ)'s late workers are living in abject poverty in Bulawayo earning a paltry $1 200 per month, an equivalent of US$2.After enquiring with ...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:46hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
80-year Mtshabezi dream comes to life
MTSHABEZI Irrigation Scheme in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, had been a pipe dream for over 80 years, but is now up and running, as has become the norm under the Second Republic.Last ye...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Matobo councillor, villagers clash over land
VILLAGERS in Ward 24, Matobo North in Matabeleland South are at loggerheads with their councillor for allocating land to a white man.The villagers told Southern Eye that they believe that thei...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 09:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's 36-year-old farming project crippled by water shortages
IT is now 36 years since the farming project was formed at the Luveve Gam Plantation and still there is no water infrastructure to irrigate the crop...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 14:03hrs | 21 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe diasporans in UAE eager to invest back home
President Mnangagwa yesterday engaged Zimbabweans based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) where he emphasised the need for all citizens to play a part in the socio-economic development of their countr...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Government intensifies allocation of land to youths
GOVERNMENT has intensified the allocation of land to youths under the 20 percent quota system to enable them to venture into various farming projects, the Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Wa...Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers start farming venture
THE First Lady Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa has extended her philanthropic work and empowerment initiatives to sex workers in Gweru where she donated farming inputs so that they could embark on farming pro...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe minister suffers farm setback
A HIGH Court judge has dismissed former Information minister Christopher Mushohwe's urgent application where he sought to regain control of Beverly Hills Estate, formerly Kondozi Farm.Mushohwe...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:16hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Agric loans hit $302m
Banks have loaned more to the agriculture sector this year than other sectors as they view it as a growth area that anchors the economy.The sector got 31 percent, or $302 million, of the total...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:12hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zacc investigating officer not fit to testify'
SUSPENDED Police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza claimed in court that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission's investigating officer Eric Chacha, was not fit to testify in his corruption related trial ...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints 3 Shangaan chiefs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has elevated three Shangaan headmen to chiefs in a move that has been described as a plot to douse the simmering tension between Zanu-PF and the Shangaan community....Published: 18 Aug 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Every Zimbabwean can be very rich without political inclination
I was going through my WhatsApp messages and my eyes were blinded by this message below. I felt it will be helpful to all of us if we are to read. I stole some of the advices.Many times I am c...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 13:30hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Umzingwane villagers cry foul over donors suspending food relief after crops failure due to water logging
In what might be described as donor syndrome, villagers in parts of Umzingwane district have cried foul that they are experiencing serious food shortage a...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 20:24hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Shun donor dependency: Govt
GOVERNMENT has urged citizens to shun donor dependency saying over-reliance on donors had led to infiltration by the country's detractors.Women Affairs, Community and Small and Medium Enterpri...Published: 07 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to douse Chilonga flames
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that no villagers should be displaced by an irrigation project to be implemented by government in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi. Last month, the State...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers decry eviction threats
After toiling in South Africa for four years without amassing any wealth, Richard (not real name) decided to come back to his rural home in Chilonga to venture into farming.During the 2019/202...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 07:03hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana has been accused of brandishin a gun while trying to evict some 70 families
Zimbabwe government spokesman Nick Ndavaningi Mangwana brandished a gun and told a defiant farmer to "leave peacefully" as he intensified his desperate push to evict some 70 families from a farm he re...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 12:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland converted into Mberengwa
The people of Matabeleland are up in arms with a ploy that is at an advanced stage to make part of Gwanda South be merged with Mberengwa. The person behind this gambit is a senior Zanu PF official who...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Sibangilizwe Moyo
Chilonga villagers plot resistance
CHILONGA villagers, whose impending eviction from their ancestral communal lands has caused a major outcry, have vowed to stay put, accusing government of toying with them.Some of the villager...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Executive must respect other arms of the State
A FUNCTIONING democracy must have clearly laid down separation of roles within the three arms of State - the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary.These three arms of the State exist in...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Govt should not worship capital
THE proposed relocation of Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district to pave way for a private farming project has attracted a lot of debate given that they are being moved from their ancestral land aga...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Chief Chiduku
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 18 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
Dulys, Farmec invest in Filabusi
TWO of Zimbabwe's biggest farm implements suppliers have joined the battle to save thousands of cattle facing starvation in Filabusi after last season's poor rains depleted pastures.Dulys and ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ex-merchandiser rises to become Deputy Mayor
BULAWAYO'S newly elected Deputy Mayor councillor Mlandu Ncube believes his passion for service delivery has seen him rising from being a merchandiser at a local supermarket to the top council post. ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shangaan leaders dare govt on evictions
DISGRUNTLED Shangaan community leaders in Chiredzi have challenged government to a duel if it insists on moving them from their ancestral land.Over 1 538 families in Chiredzi South and East ar...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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