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Biti criticizes Zimbabwe's economic policies
Former finance minister Tendai Biti has strongly criticized the economic policies under the current administration, describing them as "fictitious" and blaming them for Zimbabwe's ongoing de-industria...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 12:34hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa engages regional peers over drought
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is engaging his counterparts in Southern Africa, to explore collaborative ways aimed at tackling the effects of El Nino-induced drought.Some of the migratory measures that ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 2 | 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 tha...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 05:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans warned about heatwave effects
HEALTH experts have warned of life-threatening illnesses, including deadly heat stroke due to the extreme temperatures being recorded in most parts of the country recently, as they urged members of th...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 05:06hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Yes, Mnangagwa is at UN COP 27 in Egypt to mourn about sanctions, photo opportunity and nothing else
Yes, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is in Egypt for UN COP27 Climate Summit. He will, no doubt, be accompanied by the usual high-powered delegation of hangers-on. He will complain of how sanctions are ...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 13:11hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa jets off to Egypt
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins fellow world leaders in the two-day Sharm El-Sheikh Climate Implementation Summit, the first part of the high-level segment for Heads of State and Government, here at t...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | 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
Azania Azania Azania! You are not an Island
Bulawayo - The first time I entered my primary school, 1988 at the assembly point after singing the national anthem, it was a mandatory to sing a song called Azania sympathising with our fellow contin...Published: 18 Jan 2022 at 19:48hrs | 17 | by Enos Denhere
High temperatures affect poultry production
The high temperatures felt throughout the country have been killing chickens in many backyard fowl runs in rural and urban areas. Many people have over the years started rearing broiler chicke...Published: 11 Nov 2021 at 06:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Isolated showers expected, says MSD
Isolated afternoon thundershowers are expected in areas along the main watershed, with localised heavier falls in some places, the Meteorological Services Department has said. This comes as th...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MSD warns of heat wave, thunderstorms
THE Meteorological Services Department has issued a heatwave warning, saying temperatures are set to further soar today before the country gets rains, starting with isolated thunderstoms in the southe...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:33hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
COP26: Mnangagwa tried too hard
THE Glasgow COP26 meeting in Scotland, United Kingdom, painted a grim picture about the environment and imminent dangers of climate change. However, besides Africa and the third world carrying the can...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 9 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Protect Girls From the Climate Change Scourge
Stakeholders advocating for climate change and girls' rights have called for urgent intervention in the fight against climate change.Sp...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 10:24hrs | 1 | by Shelton Muchena
'Zimbabwe, Mozambique worse affected by climate change'
ZIMBABWE and Mozambique are among the worst affected countries by climate change after Cyclone Idai in 2019 hit the two countries, resulting in loss of lives and infrastructure.This was reveal...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa
The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa
The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying t...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 14:13hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
Mnangagwa in Mt Pleasant for clean-up
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today head for Ashbrittle Shopping Centre in Mt Pleasant for this month's clean up exercise, as Government intensifies efforts to build sustainable environmental management an...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hundreds evacuated amid fears of Cyclone Idai induced dam burst in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean authorities began evacuating residents from the cyclone-hit town of Chimanimani on Sunday after flood waters weakened a dam wall.The area is among those hit by cyclone Idai, which h...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 18:46hrs | 2 | by dpa
Climate change: Africa confronts global warming
New IPCC report projects greater temperature increases in the region than elsewhere Record global greenhouse gas emissions are putting the world on a p...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 14:50hrs | 3 | by Dan Shepard
Zimbabwe rainy season coming to an end
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has forecasted that there will be no more substantial rains as the summer season comes to an end this month.With the bulk of the maize and other cr...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 10:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Herentals defies courts, litter Bulawayo streets
Lawsuits and calls from President Emmerson Mnangagwa for companies to be environmentally conscious have failed to stop the Herentals Group of Colleges and Schools from littering Bulawayo streets....Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to be arrested after elections?
Judging by on-line reaction, this column has only a handful of readers, but millions of critics! Which is what makes writing it worth every of my while. Week in, week out, you get fiery feedba...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Igomombe
Zimbabweans warned of dangerous 2-week heatwave
Zimbabweans have been warned to stay out of the sun amid warnings over scorching temperatures.Alerts have been issued over "extreme heat" in parts of the country as the mercury is predicted to...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Crop situation gets dire
Erratic rains and high temperatures being experienced countrywide have resulted in crops wilting, with farmers in some areas already counting losses as their maize is now a write off.The worst...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ALERT: High risk of hail expected in parts of SA
South African Weather Service (SAWS) says that there's a high risk of hail in parts of the country on Friday, 27 October - some of which may be damaging.SAWS says in a statement that on Friday...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe the odd one out at UN oceans summit
It is increasingly becoming undeniable that Zimbabwe is now in the clutches of a fully-fledged climate change scourge. The rains have been coming late, with their patterns unpredictable and often resu...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 10:47hrs | 2 | by CNRG
Mugabe arrives in New York
PRESIDENT Mugabe arrived here yesterday to attend the High-Level United Nations Conference on the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, commonly known as the Oceans Conference.The...Published: 05 Jun 2017 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nera demonstrations: paltry turnout number: Who is stupid to repeat that?
The citizens of Zimbabwe are learning quickly how politicians use them and abuse them: be it the ruling party Zanu PF and the opposition parties some of whom have even tasted power in the GNU. The maj...Published: 09 Apr 2017 at 18:00hrs | 3 | by Nomazulu Thata
Traditionalists predict rains, bumper harvest
TRADITIONALISTS have predicted that the country will receive normal to above normal rainfall in the 2016/2017 farming season, relying on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS), on the back of "success...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Record-breaking high temperatures predicted - Met Department
The Meteorological Services Department has today warned of near record-breaking high temperatures with some areas recording up to 43°C.The extreme hot conditions will persist up to Wednesday,...Published: 31 Oct 2016 at 13:48hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Water shortages strangle Zimbabwean townships
The smelling stench of stale urine, rot and disease pervades the smoke ridden, dust laden air of the Zimbabwean townships. In these dwellings the population is high, the demand for water is soaring,wh...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 17:08hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Effects of Climate Change, the Zimbabwe story
Society is usually ignorant when committing sin, sin that bring heinous and disastrous situations, when not averted in time. Zimbabwe like all other countries has created its own sins that resulted in...Published: 29 Aug 2016 at 23:14hrs | 4 | by Mbizo Chirasha
Find your identity in Christ
GREETINGS in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. A few months ago, we experienced a heat wave right here in Zimbabwe and a huge fuss was made about that. Now we are in winter and it has been one of the...Published: 17 Jul 2016 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Pastor Tinashe Zinyemba
When hunger is the king, poverty is the prince - We are the Elnino generation!
Zimbabwe is a nation not short of tragedy if not irony. Since 2000 which 16 years from now going backwards and 20 years after independence the country has faced a number of acute challenges that have ...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 14:35hrs | 3 | by Mbizo Chirasha
'God instructed me to unleash a heat wave,' says prophet
Prophet Ephias Chengeta of Family Worship Tabernacle International church in Harare has claimed that God instructed him to unleash a 'heat wave' during his Friday night crusade to save people that...Published: 07 Jun 2016 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fossils and oil barons - a tragedy in Africa!
Since the beginning of industrial revolution. Africa has been at the receiving end of the effects of bad energy culture and use. The introduction of automobile industries, production industries and th...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 14:41hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
Clean Water and Sanitation - What about women and girls in war zones?
For more than three decades Africa has been in serious war challenges due to various political, social and economic reasons. Many people have died in the whole war and cheap military drama. Have we ev...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:34hrs | 1 | by Mbizo Chirasha
The Cyclones and the staggering Economy!
Zimbabwe has adopted a hawker economy for the past decade and half. The economy has been staggering and fighting the waves of collapse since the year 1998.Clo...Published: 09 Apr 2016 at 19:43hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
End Climate War - with Climate Schools
Africa is known worldwide of conferencing, appointing ministers in already blotted cabinets and lack the principle in implementation of programs and issues at a stake....Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 18:28hrs | | by Mbizo Chirasha
'Zimbabwe lacks quality early disaster warning systems'
A LOW adaptive capacity and the absence of quality early warning systems have left Zimbabwe vulnerable to natural disasters, a Cabinet minister has said.Speaking at the 19th Southern Africa Re...Published: 30 Mar 2016 at 23:56hrs | | by Lawrence Chitumba
'Lake Kariba not drying up'
Although water levels at Lake Kariba are historically at their lowest, it is false and misleading for anyone to suggest that it is drying, Kariba District Administrator Amigo Mhlanga told the Daily Ne...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Water crisis strike Chingwizi villagers
The senator in the Chingwizi area where victims of the Tokwe Mukorsi dam evictions were settled, Justice Maluleke have told senate that the villagers are now facing serious water shortage as mos...Published: 09 Feb 2016 at 05:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Private grain millers to import 400k tonnes of maize
Private grain millers will import at least 400 000 tonnes of maize to complement Government's efforts to beef up the country's grain levels that are under threat due to this season's drought, it has e...Published: 30 Jan 2016 at 23:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
My mother is engaging in sex with a man who is too young for her
Hi Sis NoeMy ex-boyfriend wants me back but I am concerned he is just after sex because he has not told me he loves me. He just talks about the great sex we used to have and always talks dirty...Published: 24 Jan 2016 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by Sis Noe
Boy (11) dies due to heat wave in Botswana
In the week that three heat wave related deaths were recorded at Bamalete Lutheran hospital in Ramotswa, an 11-year old boy from Mopipi also added to the statistics after he collapsed and died under t...Published: 20 Jan 2016 at 12:07hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Sir Ketumile Masire recently lost 89 zebras
Former President Sir Ketumile Masire recently lost 89 zebras to the heat wave which hit most parts of the country.The zebras were part of the more than 300 animals kept at his Sekoma farm....Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Chickens die from heatwave
THE prolonged heat wave felt throughout the country over the past two months has culminated in increased broiler chicken mortalities at most backyard-run projects in urban areas.Most town and ...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 10:15hrs | 1 | by Noble Ncube
Heatwave hits Zimbabwe
Another series of high temperatures has hit the country with low-lying areas expected to record extreme temperatures between 33 and 42 degrees celcius. In a statement last week, the Meteorolog...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 03:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
There is no war with war veterans
I found it of grave importance to vehemently oppose the media blitz that sprung purporting the presence of bad blood between our First Lady, Dr Amai, and the war veterans.The whole notion of h...Published: 29 Nov 2015 at 13:14hrs | | by Ministry of Truth with Cde Jason Zhuwao
Kariba-bound flight cancelled due to extreme temperatures
Air Zimbabwe passengers travelled from Harare to Kariba by bus yesterday night after the airline cancelled the flight following extreme temperatures that exceeded 40 degrees Celcius.The plane ...Published: 28 Nov 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Nyemudzai Kakore
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