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Goat Meat is in Short Supply in Zimbabwe: Sifiso Agbetorwoka
Sifiso Agbetorwoka, a well-known goat farmer in Zimbabwe and the owner of Bulembe Farm, recently hosted a Goat Breeding Masterclass at her farm. She highlighted the challenges facing goat farmers in Z...Published: 22 Jan 2025 at 10:14hrs | 1228 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Pedigree goat breeding boost for Matobo villagers
Matobo District, a semi-arid region with abundant acacia and mopane trees, has become an ideal area for commercial goat farming, particularly for breeding Boer, Savanna, and Kalahari goats. Th...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 10:31hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Man steals prisons' goat
A man from Beitbridge has been sentenced to nine months in jail for allegedly stealing a boer goat belonging to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS). Wellington Mukonde (39) p...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Memories of Christmas Joy: A 1983 Christmas in Rural Filabusi with Solomon Skuza's Banolila
In the soft glow of the Zimbabwean sun in 1983, a ten-year-old in rural Filabusi under Chief Maduna eagerly anticipated the most enchanting day of the year - Christmas. Rooted in tradition and surroun...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 15:34hrs | 33 | by Godlwayo Mahlabayithwale
Buy Zimbabwe campaign moves to China
The Government is planning to extend the Buy Zimbabwe campaign to China, with officials from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce set to visit the Asian country to explore market opportunities, parti...Published: 02 Nov 2023 at 05:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Revived CSC fast gaining traction
THE revived Cold Storage Company (CSC), now CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe, is fast gaining traction among stakeholders amid increasing business orders, as more players in the meat value chain utilise the...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:23hrs | 59 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa goat scheme ready to take off
THE first 30 000 goats under the Presidential Goat Scheme, which seeks to boost breeding stock and increase numbers and quality, will be distributed to provinces over the next two months.The p...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga shoots first beast in the resuscitation of CSC
THE revamped Cold Storage Company(CSC)-Boustead Beef factory, which resumed operations yesterday after 22 years of closure, will never be allowed to collapse again as its re-opening is anchored on ren...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rustler forced to eat raw goat meat
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a case in which law enforcement agents forced an elderly suspected cattle rustler to eat raw stolen goat meat.The incident allegedly occurre...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rural home turned into tourist hub
MOTIVATED by the desire to change the face of his rural home in Makakavhule, Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South, Mr Prison Ndou (46), has transformed his home into an outstanding and cost-effecti...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Villager excited over gains from goat meat project
For 60-year-old Soni Nkomalama of Sihlengeni Village in Ward 5 of Nkayi district, the direct goat meat marketing approach has been a game changer.Latest Zimbabwe Agricultural Growth Prog...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
2 brothers fatally assault meat vendor
TWO brothers appeared before a Mbare Magistrate on Wednesday charged with fatally assaulting a vendor following a dispute over the price of goat meat he was selling.Passmore (19) and Remember ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man killed over missing goat
POLICE in Chiweshe have launched a manhunt for three male villagers who allegedly bashed a suspected goat thief to death on Saturday.Denmore Taruvinga, Henry Chaparadza and Aluwis Chigure are ...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Suspected goat thief bashed to death
POLICE in Chiweshe are hunting for three male villagers who allegedly bashed a suspcted goat thief to death on Saturday Denm...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 00:49hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Qatar offers fresh market for Zimbabwe products
LOCAL exporters should take advantage of the direct flights between Zimbabwe and Qatar to tap into the US$25,8 billion Western Asian market. Early this month, Qatar Airways announced the introduction ...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean young farmers lead the charge in agriculture
Agriculture in Zimbabwe is on an upswing and young people are the driving force. For example, the country is set to harvest 2.8 million tons of maize this year, triple the 2020 harvest, and making it ...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 15:42hrs | 5 | by Audrey Simango
Mohadi want investors to exploit Beitbridge SEZ status
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has said there is a need to accelerate investment and industrialisation of Beitbridge Town in recognition of its rapid socio-economic growth in the last decade.He s...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Repositioning Bulawayo for the future
This week Bulawayo will celebrate its 125th annivesary amidst pleas and cries for the city to be restored to its former glory as the industrial hub of the country in the 60s and 70s. I would like to a...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:23hrs | 2 | by Dumisani O. Nkomo
Auxillia Mnangagwa: First Lady par excellence and philanthropist
The online news publication, Zimeye whose credibility is very questionable, did the unthinkable this week by taking a jibe on the First Lady, Amai Auxillia Mnangagwa through publishing a shoddily-done...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 08:15hrs | 2 | by Elijah Chihota
Cont Mhlanga enjoys village life
After achieving so much in the arts and having founded Amakhosi Cultural Centre, multi-award winner Cont Mhlanga has retired to his rural home of Lupane in Shabulani Village, Matabeleland.Over...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Top DJ goes broke?
Top Bulawayo wheel spinner DJ Liz (real name Sharmaine Waldman) has allegedly gone broke and resorted to selling isitshwala as a means of alternative survival.In a video posted by social...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Rustlers wreak havoc in Beitbridge
VILLAGERS from Mapayi and Dumba areas on the outskirts of Beitbridge have this year lost 39 cattle and 150 goats to cross-border livestock rustlers who are believed to be slaughtering and selling carc...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Businesses urged to take advantage of regional export opportunities
Zimbabwean businesses are failing to take advantage of export opportunities in the region, leaving South African companies to exploit them, ZimTrade acting chief executive Allan Majuru told the NMB Ex...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 10:43hrs | | by Agencies
4 steal 20 goats
IF you had braaied goat meat in the western suburbs of Bulawayo recently, chances are it could have been stolen in Nyamandlovu.Police arrested four men in connection with stealing 20 goats, th...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Justice Maphosa saved 'fugitive' Mnangagwa
It is midnight in a glamorous well-kept office building in the heart of a bright treading estate-like area. It could be anywhere - Zurich, Manchester, London, Bogota.But it is Pretoria, ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'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
Man bash sister for dishing him small goat meat portion
A 31-YEAR-OLD Bulilima man assaulted his two sisters and nine-year-old nephew after he was given a small portion of goat meat as he interpreted it as a sign of disrespect.Vusa Ndlovu of Thanda...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Eating hippo meat backfires in Binga
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has recorded nine cases of suspected human anthrax from the individuals who ate meat from dead hippos at Mlibizi in Binga.The ministry has been ca...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 15:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans I heard your cries - Tsvangirai
MDC-T President Tsvangirai's public statement to the people of Zimbabwe after his one-and-half months on a countrywide listening tour"I heard you"...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
As the Twitter Professora would say, handei tione!
IT has been a week of laughter and good political humour, not least because my party triumphed in Bikita West, but also because of the clotted reasoning and prose which this defeat wrought in lose...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Major boost for goat meat producers
Zimtrade is in the process of capacitating goat meat producers in Matabeleland South to become viable export entities. According to Trade Map, the global demand for goat meat has increased...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only now does Mutsvangwa condemns violence - mauled hyena still love goat meat
The lump rose in my throat to hear Mutsvangwa and Mujuru condemning Mugabe's increasingly bullish behaviour not because they were wrong to condemn the tyrant but at the sheer hypocrisy of the other tw...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 16:47hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mvhana dzeku Diaspora: women-headed-homes or desperadoes!
Dear Ms. Loveness Saurombe, Dear Sister,I watched your video or "you tube" on Nehanda Radio with absolute excitement. The topic exited me because of the experiences I had about a Zimbabwea...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 19:16hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Imbongi enchant Mphoko
PRAISE poets (imbongi) captivated the heart of Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko as they stole the show when he officially opened the National Culture Week celebrations on Saturday at Godlwayo Cultura...Published: 24 May 2016 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Detectives corner sex worker into giving out notorious thieves
Two notorious burglars have been jailed for 17 years in prison each and they should rue their immoral association with a Masvingo commercial sex worker.Masvingo Mirror reported that the burgla...Published: 21 Mar 2016 at 10:16hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe urged to export goats
Zimtrade has called on Zimbabwe to export goats as the global trade in the commodity has reached $372 million in seven years.Zimbabwe has not exported meat since the imposition of restrictions...Published: 28 Oct 2015 at 12:29hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
The goats that no 'sane' thief would steal
In most parts of Zimbabwe, goat meat is a delicacy that is often reserved for consumption during special occasions such as Christmas and other religious festivities.But since time immemorial, ...Published: 25 Oct 2015 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Child burning parents jailed
The abusive Raffingora couple that dipped an 8-year old girl's hand in boiling cooking oil as punishment over goat meat she had eaten without permission was handed a two year jail sentence each by Chi...Published: 29 May 2015 at 14:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thieves forced to eat raw goat meat including the skin
Five people caught stealing a goat were given a harsh punishment - forced to eat the raw meat including the skin.Four men aged 20 and a woman aged 37 were bust by residents after stealing a go...Published: 26 Jun 2013 at 08:50hrs | 1 | by Daily Sun
Goblin threatens to organise demonstration
AN angry and notorious goblin from Tokwana area in Plumtree has threatened to mobilise other goblins from the area for a public demonstration if villagers do not assist him locate members of "his" ...Published: 17 May 2013 at 11:03hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe lifts SA meat ban
The Zimbabwe Department of Livestock and Veterinary Services has lifted with immediate effect the suspension on the importation of cattle, sheep and goat meat as well as live animals from South Africa...Published: 08 Mar 2011 at 05:16hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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