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Zimbabwean farmers embrace AI
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is advancing agrifood systems through integration of effective digital technologies in Zimbabwe. Through the Fostering Digital Village...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:25hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Farmers urged to adopt cluster farming
Farmers in Mwenezi East, Masvingo province, have been encouraged to adopt cluster farming as a strategy to increase production, enhance food security, and generate export-ready surplus grain.T...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:04hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
Climate change takes toll on tomato farmers
For decades, villagers in Madzivazvido, Gokwe North, have relied on tomato farming to sustain their families and communities. But climate change is rapidly eroding this once-reliable livelihood, as so...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 11:10hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Chimombe, Mpofu's defence object to tendering of new documents
Lawyers representing businessmen Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe on Thursday protested in court after the prosecution attempted to introduce a crucial document in the ongoing trial over a controversial ...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 18:31hrs | 739 | by Staff reporter
China-aided agricultural demonstration village launched in Zimbabwe
A CHINA-aided agricultural demonstration village was officially launched last week in the Shamva District of Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe, to enhance agricultural productivity among rural fa...Published: 20 May 2025 at 10:24hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
White and black farmers still bear the scars of Zimbabwe's land grabs
Guy Watson-Smith felt hurt and betrayed when his 5,000-hectare (12,355-acre) farm in Beatrice, in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland East province, was violently invaded by three armed men in the early 2000s....Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:49hrs | 808 | by Farai Matiashe, Al Jazeera
Mpofu, Chimombe fraud trial deferred
The much-anticipated trial of business partners Moses Mpofu and Mike Chimombe, accused of misappropriating millions of dollars from Zimbabwe's Presidential Goat Pass-On Scheme, has been postponed to F...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 06:38hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Rural people need title deeds as well
Zimbabwe's largest demographic is its rural population, who have cultivated their land for generations, often for hundreds of years, without formal title deeds. Recently, the government announced plan...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:45hrs | 162 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe farmers turn to maggots to survive drought
At first, the suggestion to try farming maggots spooked Mari Choumumba and other farmers in Nyangambe, a region in southeastern Zimbabwe where drought wiped out the staple crop of corn.After m...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 07:28hrs | 1713 | by Staff reporter
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'I've no plan, I'm now poor,' says ZANU-PF Councillor
Jostinah Ndondo, a ZANU-PF councillor for ward 18 in Insiza has failed to comprehend losing over one hundred and fifty-four cattle this year, describing the incident as greatest climatic betrayal in t...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 20:30hrs | 1386 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Matabeleland North rural benefit from stock feed programme
USAID-funded programme Amalima Loko will introduce discounted stock feeds to Matabeleland North rural farmers to alleviate livestock deaths due to hunger....Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 09:51hrs | 220 | by Stephen Jakes
Cops face arrest for demanding cattle clearance fees
Police officers in Zimbabwe have been cautioned against charging farmers for cattle clearance, a practice that is illegal and contributes to the rise of stock theft. The warning was issued by Commissi...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 07:51hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
ZAS to complement rural farmers competitiveness
Over three hundred rural farmers drawn from Zimbabwe's ten provinces are amongst thousands who will benefit from training, cross breeding of ideas through interaction (networking), improved competitiv...Published: 08 Aug 2024 at 15:51hrs | 206 | by Gideon Madzikatidze | Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe govt to mobilise stockfeed for rural farms
The government has announced that it is actively seeking funding to provide stockfeed to rural farmers as the ongoing drought continues to devastate the national herd, leaving livestock struggling to ...Published: 31 Jul 2024 at 10:53hrs | 528 | by Staff reporter
'23 years of sanctions embolden Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE'S story is that of resilience, innovation, people-centred policies and the undying resolve to defeat illegal Western sanctions that have continued to pound the country for over 23 years....Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
30 dealers arrested for selling free seed, fertiliser
Dealers are going out to rural areas offering to buy farming inputs that were distributed for free to communal farmers by the government as fears of the much spoken about El-nino-induced drought...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:10hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa's Alienating 100 Page Manifesto
The Citizen Coalition for Change (CCC) lost in the 2023 electoral plebiscite, and as expected immediately rejected the results complaining the elections were "marred by vote suppression and egregious ...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 22:29hrs | 3 | by Dr Moses Moyo
UN to mobilise US$2,8 billion for Zimbabwe
The United Nations intends to mobilise US$2,8 billion by 2026 for various developmental programmes in Zimbabwe, as contained in the country's five-year economic blueprint, the National Development Str...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Nkulumane Complex: A sleeping giant
The Nkulumane Mall is named after Nkulumane who was King Mzilikazi's son. Nkulumane was born in Mhlahlandlela, near modern-day Pretoria in South Africa. Nkulumane was named after Kuruman, where Dr. Ro...Published: 08 Mar 2023 at 10:18hrs | 296 | by Mncedisi Nyathi
Mthuli Ncube splurges cash on teachers, farmers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday allocated the highest vote of ZW$631.3 billion to the education ministry in an attempt to appease restive teachers ahead of next year's general elections....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history
Zimbabwe says it is on the brink of its biggest wheat harvest in history, thanks in large part to efforts to overcome food supply problems caused by the war in Ukraine. But bush fires and impending ra...Published: 27 Oct 2022 at 19:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat roads' mischief
There is a popular Chinese proverb which goes: "if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first", and this is often quoted to explain some of the accelerated development taking place in the Asi...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Lovemore Chikova
Zanu-PF development trajectory step ahead
Zanu-PF is leaving no stone unturned in implementing people-centred policies meant to turn the country into a middle income economy by 2030.In the year 2021, the party continued to spearhead u...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's no go routes for Ngwena's motorcade.
I knew no politics by 1980 because I was still too young. I remember well in the early 1980s we used to read about Mugabe and Nkomo but this history made little sense to our young apolitical minds by ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:29hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
SABC blind to progress, Peter
A few days ago, I wandered into a Twitter discussion between Peter Ndoro and a gentleman called Selwyn Nkomo and various other people.The discussion I stumbled upon was about the apparent bias...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Stembile Mpofu
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 5 | by Zanda Shumba
Reviving the rural economy in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's rural economy plays a significant role in national food production, in alleviating extreme poverty and in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Zimbabwe National Stati...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:37hrs | 29 | by Victor Bhoroma
Money grows on trees - don't uproot them
Jennifer Handondo, a small-scale farmer of Choma district in southern Zambia, plants food crops such as maize mostly for her family's needs.Because of uncharacteristically high temperatures an...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by IPS
Mthuli Ncube widens tax-free threshold
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has reviewed upwards the tax-free threshold by 100 percent from $350 to $700, with immediate effect, in an effort to increase workers' ...Published: 03 Aug 2019 at 09:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's beef industry stampedes back to life
After more than a decade in limbo, beef farmers are back in business Zimbabwe's famed beef industry, which collapsed in the 2000s following outbreaks o...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:50hrs | 3 | by Ray Mwareya
Zimbabwe stranded with 29 000 elephants
Zimbabwe is failing to sell about 29 000 elephants and about 15 000 elephant tusks due to the strict control of the trade by the United Nations Convention on International Trade in Endangered Sp...Published: 10 May 2019 at 16:09hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Business opportunities in Zimbabwe that will make more millionaires in 2018
The term "millionaire" is taking on a new meaning in Zimbabweans abroad. It's no longer just about the size of your bank account; any shady politician, corrupt bureaucrat, or unscrupulous busi...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:41hrs | 12 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Villagers could soon use mobile phones to track cattle
Villagers from Murewa and Uzumba burst into laughter as a Cabinet minister told them that government anticipated the use of latest digital technology in herding cattle and doing some household chores ...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The tale of a jewel and a giant: Facts about revival of Zimbabwe's economy
The Country, Nation and Our WorldMany have talked, written and caricatured Zimbabwe as a country of educated but inept leaders. A country once a jewel of Africa brought down by corruption, greed a...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 17:35hrs | | by Vincent Gwarazimba
'Made managed Mugabe, Grace's farms'
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa lampooned former Agriculture minister Joseph Made saying during his tenure he spent time managing former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's farms instead of inspecting...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 06:50hrs | | 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
Donkey abattoir owner hits back
Bulawayo businessman Garrith Lumsden has been in the eye of a storm after his plans to set up a donkey abattoir in the city were made public.Animal rights groups have come out strongly against...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge suffers neglect, could have looked like Victoria Falls
THE dusty small town of Beitbridge now pins its hopes for development on the proposed one-stop border post (OSBP).Yet with all its attributes, the town could have done better.Beitbridg...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
EU targets Zimbabwe rural farmers
The European Union (EU) has given Zimbabwe $2,4 million to help farmers alleviate the impact of the lean season that peaked from January to March 2017.Once the bread-basket of the regi...Published: 15 Apr 2017 at 14:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A new Zimbabwe is possible
With only a few days to celebrate the Christmas holiday, only a few people will enjoy this holiday the majority of people are struggling to make ends meet and put a decent meal on the table and some h...Published: 20 Dec 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Mat'Land farmers to demonstrate against minister Zhanda
Livestock farmers in Matabeleland are planning to hold a demonstration against Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister responsible for livestock Paddy Zhanda who is widel...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 13:10hrs | 3 | by Thobekile Zhou
RBZ directs banks to give agriculture loans
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has instructed banks to ensure that 20 percent of their total loan portfolio must be channeled towards agriculture in a bold move meant to support the sector seen as the f...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:20hrs | | by Gabriel Masvora
Central bank to introduce agricultural funding policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe is developing an Agricultural and Rural Credit Policy to boost production while ensuring the country's self-sufficiency. This is also meant to increase exports.Ann...Published: 06 Feb 2016 at 09:26hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
Govt must honour rural farmers in GMB maize deals
Uzumba MP Simbaneuta Mudarikwa has challenged the government to honour the majority of farmers in the rural areas in terms of payment for their produce indicating that failure to do so was close to wi...Published: 11 Oct 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Build your wealth; learn to invest
If you had started saving £100 a month 5 years ago you would have £6,828.94 today in cash, all in your name. Another 5 years of this and you would have £15,592.93 - and on and on it goes.Co...Published: 25 Sep 2015 at 06:19hrs | | by Lucia Dube
Tsvangirai's speech on the occasion of the MDC-T's 16th anniversary celebrations
Morgan Tsvangirai's speech on the occasion of the MDC's 16th anniversary celebrations in Chivhu,Introduction: A personal tributeToday is a great day as the MDC family gathers here in Chivh...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 18:52hrs | 1 | by Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai
Britain gives Mugabe's Zimbabwe $72 million
Britain has given Zimbabwe $72m to help increase food production by rural farmers over the next four years, as the southern African country faces the prospect of poorer harvests this year due to i...Published: 19 Mar 2015 at 22:00hrs | | by Reuters
Silalatshani farmers expect good harvest this year
Silalatshani Irrigation farmers in Insiza South are this year expecting a good harvest after the area received good rains this season and after the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) slashed t...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Why Maleme is important
Maleme Farm in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe houses Shalom Christian Campsite and Ebenezer Agricultural Training College. Maleme Farm was given notice on the 19th of December 2014 to stop all operations...Published: 24 Feb 2015 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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