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Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.All along Zanu felt a false sense of achievement in...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 355 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
Belarus to establish bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe
Belarus is set to establish a bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe by December 2025, further cementing the growing ties between the two nations. This announcement was made by Mr Pearson Chigiji,...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:18hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economy to grow 6% in 2025
Zimbabwe's economy is projected to expand by six percent in 2025, bolstered by favorable rainfall conditions that are expected to boost agricultural productivity, Finance, Economic Development, and In...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:00hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Normal to above-normal rainfall still expected in ZImbabwe
Zimbabwe's Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has reaffirmed its forecast for normal to above-normal rainfall during this year's summer cropping season, despite reports suggesting a potential we...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:03hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt faces pressure to fix Matebeleland roads
Lawmakers representing Matebeleland are urging the government to address the longstanding issue of poor road infrastructure in the region, emphasizing that improving roads is crucial to alleviating th...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:58hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Water Witch Mine: Leading Zimbabwe's mining sector into the future
In the heart of Matabeleland North Province, a remarkable transformation is underway at the Water Witch Mine. Once emblematic of informal, small-scale mining, Water Witch now stands tall as a beacon o...Published: 20 May 2024 at 17:19hrs | 439 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zimbabwe army plays critical role in border control operations'
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has played a critical role in maintaining peace and security in Matebeleland provinces through border control operations, as well as combating stock theft, which were ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's clergy shirk charges of complicity in plunder
EMMERSON Dambudzo Mnangagwa was inaugurated last month for a second five-year term as Zimbabwe's president after being declared winner of the controversial Aug. 23 election that regional and internati...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:32hrs | 16 | by Cyril Zenda
Mnangagwa challenges his Cabinet
President Mnangagwa issued a challenge to the newly appointed Cabinet and public sector leadership, urging them to uphold the developmental progress achieved in the country during the First Term of th...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Did thousands die so that only a few enrich themselves from our minerals and land?
Having just woken up this Saturday morning, and turning on the television - I never expected to be greeted by such a heart-wrenching scene. There was a documentary narrating a harrowing ambush...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
We need tractors for profitable farming
The Belarus Zimbabwe Agricultural Mechanization Equipment Program has come at the right time. Kudos to His Excellency Comrade President ED Mnangagwa for a pro-people visionary leadership....Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by ThomasTondo Murisa
Lukashenko pushes for Zimbabwe - Mozambique economic ties
BELARUS President Alexander Lukashenko is exploring ways of forging economic ties with Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the agricultural sector.Lukashenko ended his three days long visit to Zimbabwe...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 07:28hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Causes of food inflation in Zimbabwe
The World Bank recently released a report of the countries hardest hit by food inflation in the world. Zimbabwe tops that list with food inflation of 353% in the month of August 2022, beating Lebanon ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:11hrs | 21 | by Victor Bhoroma
Food insecurity now a perennial threat
Zimbabwe is set to import 400 000 metric tonnes (MT) of Maize from Zambia and Malawi to be delivered this June to alleviate a food crisis in the country. This will cost the country at least US$120 mil...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Victor Bhoroma
We need at least five tractors complete with harrows
That cattle malady Thelerios has rebounded with never before seen determination. Again the few remnant livestock from the first wave are sacuumbing to this dreaded bovine pandemic. Never did w...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 11:52hrs | | by Tincuts Matepatepa
Policy incentives to reindustrialization lacking
Zimbabwe aspires to create an upper middle income economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$65 billion by 2030. This vision is premised on the reindustrialization strategy where competitivenes...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:35hrs | 17 | by Victor Bhoroma
Villagers lose cattle to livestock diseases
Most communal farmers in Chiweshe have lost cattle to a plethora of livestock diseases that have ravaged the area. Mashiri, Musonza, Chinehasha and Chideu Villages bore the brunt of the devastating bo...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:08hrs | | by Tondo Murisa Chinehasha
Import Substitution: A case for soya beans
For the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has produced an average of 56 000 metric tonnes (mt) of soya beans per year against national demand of 240 000 mt for food, animal feed and industrial consumption. In t...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 125 | by Victor Bhoroma
Wutawunashe in GMB Soya Bean inputs scam
Public Service Commission (PSC) Secretary, Ambassador Jonathan Wutawunashe has been fingered in a scam after he received Soya Bean inputs worth over $150 thousand and failed to plant the seed, TellZim...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 17:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Nature of Government deals must be made public!
We have so many deals, apparently, which Government of Zimbabwe, has signed with several countries, we have been briefed of MOUs, signed on behalf of the country, which have never been disclosed to th...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 12:05hrs | 5 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
FAO: Agriculture will make or break Africa's free trade
Transforming agri-food systems can unlock Africa's potential.The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) holds the potential to lift millions of people out of poverty and end chronic food...Published: 16 May 2021 at 07:36hrs | | by Abebe Haile-Gabriel
Zimbabwean agriculture recovery in motion
ZIMBABWE is an agrarian economy and has huge potential to produce enough for its people and surplus that can be exported to generate foreign currency. However, there is a puzzling divergence between i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | 3 | by Dr John Basera
Lessons Learnt from WaMagaisa's Farm Mechanisation Expose'
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted peoples' lives in an unimaginable way, unless you are Bill Gates who anticipated the scourge. This disruption has forced organisations and governments across the gl...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Edzai Zvobwo
'Pick n Pay at it again as TM Cowdry Park re-opens'
It has come to our attention that Pick N Pay Cowdry Park is set to re-open on the 5th of August 2019 and the company is not employing locals there.According to the information we have the comp...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Infrastructure, Education and Technology key for growth
In his book entitled, The Price of Inequality, revered economist, Joseph Stiglitz, contends that Government investments in infrastructure, education and technology form the basis of economic growth....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | 1 | by ViewsFromMatopos
Nothing for the poor in the anti-people budget
After the events of November 2017, then Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced a budget filled with sound bites in what he termed the "New Economic Order".The gullible gave him a standin...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 12:05hrs | | by Clr Jacob Mafume National Spokesperson
Farmvest.biz launches Zimbabwe's first equipment investment and sharing scheme dubbed 'Uber for tractors'
Farmvest.biz, Zimbabwe's first multi-faceted agricultural investment platform has launched an exciting new investment opportunity. For the first time ever, Zimbabweans both local and in the diaspora h...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 08:57hrs | 1 | by Michael Matope
A look at some top trends and advancements in the use of angle sensors today
Designers specialising in their application have always tried to look for different ways through which to expand the features and capabilities of angle sensors, and the angle position sensors of today...Published: 23 Jun 2018 at 14:07hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Kim Jong-un's New Year Address
Dear fellow countrymen and brave service personnel of the People's Army,Dear compatriots,Today, recollecting with great pleasure and pride and deep emotion the proud achievements we pe...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 15:26hrs | | by Kim Jong-un
Good budget but lacks clarity on fundamental reforms
We need to give credit where it deserves. On principle the budget was really good, inspiring but lacks clarity on fundamental reforms. Chinamasa highlighted several areas which needs urgent at...Published: 07 Dec 2017 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Tobacco farmers should be educated on e-marketing
The 2017 tobacco selling season kick-started on a very high note this week with high expectations that the golden leaf will ease the liquidity challenges the country is currently facing. Tobac...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 09:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai Guta
Andrei Molchan visits Zimbabwe
On September 21 - 23, 2016 the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to the Republic of South Africa and Republic of Zimbabwe, Andrei Molchan, is on a working vis...Published: 23 Sep 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by APO
Misplaced priorities: Mathebeleland is marginalized and abjectly poor
The seeking to restore a monarch in Mathebeleland never ceases to amaze most of us who come from the region. Is restoring a Khumalo clan indeed a priority for our region? What value is the King of Mat...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 16:32hrs | 4 | by Nomazulu Thata
Minister Made must resign due to incompetence - analyst
A Political commentator Vince Musewe has called for the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development Joseph Made for being incompetent. The call come aft...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 05:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: Adopting a one health approach to fighting antimicrobial resistance
Harare - Antimicrobials, including antibiotics, antifungal, antimalarial and antiviral drugs, play a very critical role in combating infectious diseases in both human and veterinary medicine. Howe...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Sithembile Siziba
Private sector importing maize- Minister Made
Agriculture, Mechanization and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made has said while the government continues to import maize for the nation, the private sector is also complementing the efforts ...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe is a representative democracy
Zimbabwe is a representative democracy in which national and community leadership is selected through use of the secret ballot box in periodic free and fair polls, in which all citizens participate ou...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 10:16hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
MP probes govt over its stance on GMB former workers camped at the company over pay
Zanu PF MP Ricky Nelson Mawere has demanded answers from the government as to what it intends doing to the former Grain Marketing Board workers who are camped at the parastatal's gates demanding their...Published: 21 Feb 2016 at 06:22hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Foot and mouth control strategy worked out
A key meeting to development of a national foot and mouth disease control strategy is set to be held in Bulawayo on Wednesday.Zimbabwe has experienced regular outbreaks of the disease in recen...Published: 16 Feb 2016 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Thobekile Zhou
Power outages suffocate already struggling remaining few industries' business
The goings are getting tough and tougher for Industries in Bulawayo and other parts of the country due to the advent of the current escalated electricity load shedding forcing the already struggling r...Published: 23 Oct 2015 at 07:30hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
No starvation as government undertakes drought relief
Coming from Masvingo province in general and Chiredzi district in particular makes one appreciate the importance of the government's intervention on drought relief. People have been suffering in that ...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 09:48hrs | | by John Mukumbo
'Mugabe steals from the poor'
The MDC-T organiser Abednico Bhebhe has said President Robert Mugabe is stealing from the poor people whom he has turned into slaves through abandoning the people's interests."We have been tur...Published: 13 Aug 2015 at 07:52hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe passes RBZ Debt Assumption Bill
President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Debt Assumption Bill which attracted heated debate in the National Assembly recently when opposition MPs demanded pu...Published: 05 Aug 2015 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to restore its breadbasket status
Through the agricultural farming equipment that was financed by the Brazilian government recently, Zimbabwe has the opportunity to regain its status as the bread basket of Africa once again....Published: 28 May 2015 at 09:34hrs | 2 | by Peacemaker Zano
Zanu-PF splashes $200 million on top brass
The ruling Zanu-PF has splashed over $200 million on imported state-of-the-art agricultural equipment including heavy-duty tractors for distribution to high-ranking party and government officials rese...Published: 01 Apr 2015 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF big wig sucked in farm inputs fraud
ZANU-PF Central Committee member Absolom Sikhosana was on Thursday detained overnight by angry farmers, while national director for youth affairs Tapiwa Zengeya was force-marched from the Willowva...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe headed for another drought
ZIMBABWE's agricultural output for the 2014/15 season is forecasted to drop amid a shortage of inputs among peasant farmers, who constitute more than 90 percent of the drought-prone country's farmers....Published: 26 Nov 2014 at 22:12hrs | 1 | by Regerai Pepukai
Community Share Trusts: 'So what?' attitude at play
Talk on Community Share Ownership Trusts has died away. And in the hope to re-awaken the once much talked about programme, Cde Robert Mugabe recently made the following statement, one more similar...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 14:06hrs | | by Zisunko Ndlovu
Tobacco farmers should opt for other crops
On 14 October 2014 The NewsDay reported that the number of tobacco growers who registered for the 2015 agricultural season declined when compared to the number of farmers who registered last year ...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
'Mujuru, Mnangagwa not presidential stuff,' says Mliswa
All those aspiring to take over from President Robert Mugabe are corrupt says Zanu-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman and Member of Parliament for Hurungwe, Temba Mliswa.Over the years, J...Published: 06 Aug 2014 at 20:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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