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Farm input abusers face blacklist
The government has introduced stringent new measures to curb the theft and abuse of agricultural inputs under the Presidential Input Scheme, as part of its ongoing efforts to improve food security and...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:03hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 3,2 million tonnes cereal harvest
The Zimbabwean government has announced an ambitious plan to increase cereal production to over 3.2 million metric tonnes in the 2024/2025 summer season, aiming to significantly surpass the 744,000 me...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 06:52hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Zambia is on the verge of being a one-party state
Zambia's former ruling parties have typically fared poorly after losing power. The United National Independence Party (UNIP) ruled for 27 years but gradually collapsed following its defeat in 1991. Th...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 21:11hrs | 12 | by Sishuwa Sishuwa
Western Diplomats blast Chamisa...call him incompetent or ZANU PF front
Senior journalist Hopewell Chin'ono has teared into Nelson Chamisa accusing his of a self-centered leadership style which has caused the Citizens Coalition for Change to suffer a still birth. ...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 12:56hrs | 11 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
This is our school, let peace abide here
'My school', our school, Chinehasha Primary School in Chiweshe, Mash Central needs help. Some of the teachers houses are a tragedy in waiting. Huge cracks so big peeping Toms can have a field day. ...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:31hrs | | by Mutanda Wachingama
Mnangagwa fuelling Zanu-PF tension
POLITICAL analysts have warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's increasing use of parallel campaign groups for himself which are outside Zanu-PF structures is stoking tension in the ruling party....Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa turns 79
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa today celebrates his 79th birthday with the dream of a better and greater Zimbabwe still his main mission. Since his inauguration in November 2017, Mnangagwa has remained ...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors frustration fuels Jonah Fabisch
GERMANY-BASED midfielder Jonah Fabisch says he has nothing, but fond memories of his experiences in the Warriors camp during last week's Fifa World Cup qualifiers despite his frustration at being made...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Damaged urban roads need urgent attention
Importance of roads Recently I read an article by my former employer, the World Bank. The article explains that roads are the arteries through which the economy pulses. By linking producer...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
Fare thee well comrade president
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the Zimbabwe African ...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
5 more contractors for road dualisation
Government has contracted five more companies to undertake the Harare-Beitbridge highway rehabilitation and its subsequent dualisation, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie M...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We are entrenching unity,' says Mnangagwa
Peace is an integral part of local cultural norms that could be used to forge national unity, which, in turn, is necessary to springboard the country to prosperity, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said y...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
The disconnect in electoral democracy
Every four years the world is drawn to watch in awe as the United States chooses their next president, even to the point of fanatically following the bi-partisan primary election races, prominent of w...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | | by Reason Wafawarova
Lack of truthful dialogue is hurting Mthuli Ncube
At any pivotal societal inflection point, wise nations have sought out to have structures of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Cases of these are as broadly traceable to South America, North Afri...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Chris Chenga
Mutumwa Mawere renews fight against ZANU PF
South Africa based business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere has renewed his 14 years fight against the government of ZANU PF that dispossessed him of his Shabanie Mashaba Mines in 2004 before issuing a wa...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:07hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa needs the best brains Zimbabwe can produce
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently in New York, United States of America, for the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Friday, he had an interview with CNN's Christi...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa is managing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory
"Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory," is an ironic reversal of a well-known idiom that sort of sums up MDC Alliance President Nelson Chamisa's election campaign so far....Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Jealousy Dutiro
Ubuntuism and Mnangagwa's new trajectory
STANLAKE Samkange, a historiographer, educator, journalist, author and African nationalist, sought to outline an African theory of knowledge in Ubuntuism or Hunuism (1980). He is widely credited for p...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:54hrs | 1 | by Limukani Ncube
Zimbabwe, Moza to discuss refugees repatriation
THE United Nations High Commission on Refugee (UNHCR) in conjunction with Zimbabwean and Mozambican Governments have set in motion plans to begin repatriation of Mozambican refugees to their native co...Published: 06 May 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ian Smith's Legacy of Violence & Nelson Chamisa
Many have made great attempts to understand what turned the peace-loving Zimbabwe people into a people unable to break a seemingly unending cycle of violence.Some have laid the blame rightly a...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 13:15hrs | | by Mike, Bulawayo
Mugabe a 'deeply conflicted zealot'
In 2017, the Daily Maverick published a series of articles based on Stuart Doran's monumental history of Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe, titled Kingdom, Power, Glory. In this major review of the book, form...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by David Owen, British politician
4 Horse Racing movies that you should watch
Horse racing may be one of the oldest equestrian performance sports in the world, but it still remains quite popular and maintains a relatively huge following even in our modern world of today. With p...Published: 03 Mar 2018 at 08:30hrs | 7 | by Staff Writer
Set your mind on God's will
The mind and heart of the church is now firmly set on earthly things. Her new gods are the stomach, sexual sin, false prophets, money, unholy desires and wickedness ! Many christians have set ...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 12:10hrs | 3 | by Tendai Tagarira
Masvingo executive dumps Mujuru
NATIONAL People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru's political star continues to fall with her entire Masvingo provincial executive resigning en-masse last week, citing several leadership irregularitie...Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Mnangagwa's inauguration speech in full
This is the Acceptance Speech delivered by President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa at his inauguration at the National Sports Stadium on November 24, 2017Zimbabwe bac...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by ED Mnangagwa
Learning to Trust and Obey
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations ... will speak, saying, Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land ... therefore he hath slain them in...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 14:21hrs | | by Mthulisi Ndlovu
Only be courageous
Joshua 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."In a time of political upheaval, and ...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 13:31hrs | | by Mthulisi Ndlovu
Italian agency unveils El Niño drought response project for Zimbabwe
Harare - The Italian Agency for Development Cooperation has unveiled Euro 1 million funding for an El Niño drought response project. The drought response project is being implemented by FAO, working ...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 16:20hrs | | by FAO
We are not South Africans
Denial or deceit: these are the two dominant impulses between which vexed life hovers. And vexations come both by way of agonising expectations, or by way of deep fears, especially fears of hazards on...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
USAID official visits Zimbabwe to assess drought crisis
Dina Esposito, Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), visited Zimbabwe this ...Published: 27 May 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Midzi death details latest with video
Former Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi, who was found dead in his car at Munandi Farm in Beatrice yesterday, could have committed suicide after a one-litre bottle of...Published: 10 Jun 2015 at 07:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe can unite Zimbabwe more effectively than anyone else'
The First Lady has the potential to be a really positive and productive force for uniting our country. If we can overcome the temptation and the emotional satisfaction of responding to t...Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 11:33hrs | | by ZUPA The Presidium
Erectile dysfunction: Every man's nightmare
At least 80 percent of men in Zimbabwe have suffered from erectile dysfunction (ED) at some point in their lives, and over 60 percent of them presently face the problem fairly often.The Men's ...Published: 07 Sep 2014 at 09:09hrs | | by Sharon Kavhu
Bosso, Dembare square off
THE BIG match hype culminates in reality when bitter rivals Highlanders and Dynamos cross daggers in what is expected to be a tightly contested Castle Lager Premier Soccer League reverse fixture at B...Published: 27 Oct 2013 at 05:16hrs | | by Sports reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF fiddling while oppositions regroups
Last week I broke with tradition. I sank my harsh fangs and canines into Zanu-PF, mauled it badly for some of its senseless rules, most of them crafted more to beguile and convict than to guide, more ...Published: 26 Oct 2013 at 08:08hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Harper Government supports economic growth in Morocco
OTTAWA, Canada - Agriculture and Agri-Food Minister, the Honourable Gerry Ritz, announced today, on behalf of the Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of International Development and Minister for L...Published: 22 Oct 2013 at 10:31hrs | | by APO
Hunger on the rise in Zimbabwe - report
Harare - Hunger is on the rise in Zimbabwe with a quarter of the rural population expected to need food assistance in early 2014. WFP is working with the government on a response that will gradu...Published: 03 Sep 2013 at 10:09hrs | | by WFP
When the village witch wails over a tender death
"IT is evident that our fears are being vindicated as there are blatant violations of the electoral law. We are worried about ZEC and we have lost our institutional respect despite our respect for ind...Published: 20 Jul 2013 at 08:03hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
In or out of power, Zanu-PF cannot be wished away
Dei kuri kwedu, taidei totoimba manhanga kutapira! Roughly translated, this Shona statement says: "If it was home, we all would have already sung praises to sweet pumpkins." Of course those who hail f...Published: 07 Apr 2013 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
30 die in rain related incidents since January
THIRTY people were killed in rain related incidents in January and more than 6 000 had their livelihoods affected by the heavy rains that pounded Zimbabwe, the Department of Civil Protection (DCP) has...Published: 02 Mar 2013 at 22:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Eating take away linked to asthma and eczema
New research from the University of Auckland in New Zealand and the University of Nottingham in the UK has linked eating fast food as much as three times a week may lead to asthma and eczema in childr...Published: 19 Jan 2013 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
When Zuma rides roughshod Zimbabwe's sovereignty
Zanu-PF has just completed its review of the Copac constitutional draft. Already, this exercise has raised acute anxieties in the two MDC formations; something good political players must always do to...Published: 18 Aug 2012 at 12:14hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Politics: Pasting labels, past logic
I am happy that lately, the management team for Copac has been making tremendous "progress" at their level. But the team is the pre-penulti­mate, the penultimate being the princip...Published: 08 Jul 2012 at 14:55hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
South Korea to castrate sex offenders
Seoul - South Korea plans to chemically castrate a sex offender convicted of repeated crimes against children, the country's first use of the punishment, officials said on Thursday.The 45-year...Published: 24 May 2012 at 12:27hrs | | by Sapa
Disunity - The pro-democracy movement jinx
In an article, "Is Zimbabwe Poised on a Liberal Path? The State and Prospects for Parties" Zimbabwe's top most pro-democracy scholar, the late Professor Masipula Sithole recites views of a certain ob...Published: 24 May 2012 at 07:18hrs | | by Gideon Chitanga
Living the Disciplined Life (Part 2)
Living the disciplined life does the following to you: Getting Your Priorities RightA disciplined person is wise to subordinate less important thing...Published: 21 Dec 2011 at 06:45hrs | | by Linda Diokpa
In Europe, it's time for Africa
Africa has literally the floor in this historic Swedish city, home to one of Europe's oldest universities. Over 1,500 scholars, experts and historians have descended here to dissect the meaning of the...Published: 18 Jun 2011 at 10:01hrs | | by Nare Msupatsila
Malawi farmers shifting to growing pulses
Farmers in Malawi are shifting from their traditional crops to grow pulses to meet the increasing demand in India.A Malawi businessman John Jimu Banda, who was in India to attend the CII-EXIM...Published: 03 Apr 2011 at 06:30hrs | | by Byo24News
Zanu PF: Keeping eye of the ball
MY piece last week on Libya has elicited quite a volume of responses, including, surprisingly, one from Costa Rica. I thank the writer for hearing me from so far away. Indeed, we must continue to buil...Published: 02 Apr 2011 at 12:30hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
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