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Mnangagwa commissions fruit juice plant
On Thursday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially inaugurated the Mutare Teachers College Fruit Juice and Water Processing Plant in Manicaland Province.The plant was constructed by Masvingo...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 15:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The creation of absolute poverty and suffering in post-colonial Zimbabwe
THERE is little doubt that the advent of Zimbabwe's independence in 1980 has paradoxically generated a new debate on the notion of freedom and justice, particularly from philosophical perspectives....Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:51hrs | | by Dr Admore Tshuma
Ramaphosa's R62m farmgate scandal puts spotlight on David Mabuza
The $4 million (about R62m) farmgate scandal, which threatens to cut short President Cyril Ramaphosa's presidency, has thrust his deputy David Mabuza into the spotlight as a possible replacement....Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 20:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zesa hammered for negligence in electrocution cases
Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), a subsidiary of Zesa Holdings, has been ordered to pay $23 805 to a Harare widow who lost her husband due to electrocution. ...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man dies after land developer chops down trees
HEARTBREAK hotel!An elderly man is said to have collapsed to his death after land developers who purchased a piece of land, which he had for long used as his orchard, cut down his fruit trees....Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa preserving Joshua Nkomo legacy?
AFTER a 17-year-long wait, Ekusileni Medical Centre, a brainchild of one of the founding fathers of the liberation, Dr Joshua Nkomo will finally open its doors thanks to the new administration led by ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Mnangagwa heads for Mashonaland Central
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is heading to Mashonaland Central Province tomorrow where he is expected to tour Siyalima Farm in Guruve South.Minister of State for Mashonaland Central Provincial Affairs ...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chimene denies fleeing #Zimbabwe, says she will be back on Wednesday from China
Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs, Mandi Chimene has denied fleeing Zimbabwe for China following the military coup that saw President Robert Mugabe being put under house arrest....Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 16:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Shamu lays into 'lazy' civil servants
MASHONALAND West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Webster Shamu has read the riot act to civil servants in the province, saying they should shape up and spearhead development in line with Pres...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe and wife snub solidarity march
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace stayed away from a solidarity march with the embattled first lady organised by a grouping of war veterans and Zanu PF supporters yesterday.H...Published: 31 Aug 2017 at 23:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Schweppes to invest $10m into fruit processing in Esigodini
SCHWEPPES Zimbabwe's Norton Based fruit processing subsidiary, Best Fruit Processors (BFP), says its board of directors has approved a $10 million investment to establish a similar operation at Esigod...Published: 17 Mar 2017 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
3,000 jobs at revamped tomato canning plant
A JOINT-VENTURE tomato and fruit processing investment between Schweppes Zimbabwe and the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority (Arda) is targeting to create at least 3,000 direct and indirect ...Published: 24 May 2016 at 06:42hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Man, 85, 'caught pants down raping' four-year-old niece
AN 85-year-old Gokomere man was allegedly caught pants down raping his four-year-old niece.The man who cannot be identified for ethical reasons but of Matova Village under Chief Zimuto area al...Published: 01 Apr 2016 at 10:24hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Granny sexually abused by a 3 metre python on a daily basis
A MARANGE granny's more than two decades ordeal of being sexually abused by a three-metre-long python on a daily basis finally ended recently following the killing of the reptile. The horrific incide...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 12:20hrs | | by Ray Bande
Hired killers targeted Mugabe
Forty years after the murder of Zanu Chair Herbert Chitepo, a functionary in Ian Smith's colonial establishment has revealed that the same assassin elimated Zapu's deputy chief Jason Ziyapapa Moyo - a...Published: 22 Mar 2015 at 09:49hrs | | by Morris Mkwate
Zimbabwean tables must serve what Zimbabwean farms produce
One riotous evening in the eighties, the late Dambudzo Marechera started his vivid address to a writers' indaba by what seemed a senseless, irreverent postulate: "We are a sexually active nation!"...Published: 14 Feb 2015 at 11:49hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Our spirit of resilience, says Tendai Biti
Wananchi, the goat month draws to an end and not many will shed tears to see the echoes of its ironic laughter.It has been a long month, with even longer scars and shadows of pain planted acro...Published: 03 Dec 2013 at 08:52hrs | | by Tendai Biti
A love letter to all Zimbabweans
NOVIOLET Bulawayo's exquisite debut novel, We Need New Names, has propelled its author into the limelight. Short-listed for the Man Booker prize (which it did not win), this globally relevant narrativ...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Liesl Jobson
Chipinge business community urges Govt to help establish processing plant
THE Chipinge business community has urged Government to consider establishing a processing plant in the district in order to tap and utilise various fruits abundant there.In an interview, Chip...Published: 15 Aug 2013 at 21:51hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Man beats up, sodomises juveniles for stealing guavas
A Chitungwiza man, 20, who beat up a juvenile and sodomised another as punishment for stealing guavas at his place was on Monday jailed for an effective seven years.Liberty Matswai caught th...Published: 17 Apr 2013 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Naked Live Zesa Power Cables Burn Grade 4 Pupil
On Thursday a ten-year old grade 4 pupil from Tomlison Primary School in Harare was severely burnt after falling into a ditch with naked Zesa power cables. The cables were left unsecured by w...Published: 29 Mar 2012 at 22:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
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