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Minister Masuka clueless
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration appears uncertain about how to fulfill former President Robert Mugabe's vision of transforming the Lowveld into a greenbelt, following the completion of t...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:49hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
President Lukashenko, be warned, Zimbabwe will never be a colony again!
Amongst all the hullabaloo, with the pomp and fanfare, surrounding the so-called 'historic' state visit by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to Zimbabwe - some of us are more wary of a leader ...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt reduces fuel prices
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ethanol blending up increased to 20% to kill injectors
Mandatory blending of ethanol in unleaded petrol has been increased from 10 percent to 20 percent at the end of this month to reduce fuel price increases on the global market and give a relief to ...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official defies Chiwenga
Zanu-PF Chiredzi district coordinating committee chairperson Siyaki Munhungei last Monday ordered the acting district development coordinator, Gift Machukele, to ignore a recent instruction by Vice-Pr...Published: 26 May 2021 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shangaans seek names reversal to restore identity
Traditional leaders and scholars from the VaTsonga tribe in Zimbabwe (also known as Shangaan) are demanding the reinstatement of names of local landmarks whose identities were controversially changed ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 22:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A leader has been born in Chiredzi West Constituency
Located in the Lowveld, Chiredzi West constituency is a product of vast sugarcane plantation owned by Tongaat multinational company which employs more than twenty five thousand employees."Chiredzi Wes...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 16:53hrs | 25 | by Khesani Mlilo
Sleepless nights for Zanu-PF in Chiredzi West
Incumbent Chiredzi West legislator, Darlington Chiwa, who automatically expelled himself from Zanu-PF by registering to contest as an independent after losing to Farai Musikavanhu in the primaries, is...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 15:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets ordered off Tongaat fields
Government has ordered a group of suspected war veterans, who illegally occupied sugarcane plots owned by Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe, to immediately vacate the land or face the full wrath of the law. The...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere blamed for chaos
Former ZANU-PF national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere has been accused of fomenting chaos within the ruling party structures in Chiredzi, where he allegedly created parallel structures in an ...Published: 21 Nov 2017 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hints at Cabinet shake-up
President Robert Mugabe has dropped the clearest hint that he might reshuffle his Cabinet anytime soon to weed out elements seen as fomenting discord in his government, the Daily News can report....Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bigwigs employ under-age workers'
ZANU-PF bigwigs, among them Cabinet ministers, who grabbed vast tracts of sugarcane plantations from Tongaat Hulett in the Lowveld were reportedly employing under-age workers, as cheap labour, Vice-Pr...Published: 01 Aug 2017 at 06:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Indian investors express interest in acquire land in Zimbabwe, Mnangagwa told
Some Indian investors have expressed interest to acquire land to establish a sugarcane plantation in Zimbabwe.This was said by India's ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Rungsung Masakui when ...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Green Fuel plans increased ethanol production
GREEN Fuel, a joint venture between ARDA and Macdom and Rating Investments is set to expand its sugarcane fields to increase ethanol production.ARDA chairman Basil Nyabadza said the company's ...Published: 22 Dec 2016 at 13:21hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe kicks out Zanu-PF bigwigs
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has ordered the withdrawal of offer letters for land owned by giant South African sugar producer Tongaat Hullet that was grabbed by Zanu-PF bigwigs and their relatives from...Published: 21 Nov 2016 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sex for land rife
Wedzerai Gwenzi from Chisumbanje asks with regret why his late father abandoned his family to join the liberation struggle.Gwenzi says while his father played his part in liberating the countr...Published: 01 May 2016 at 16:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
6 300 families face eviction from Chiredzi farm
ABOUT 300 families settled at Samba Ranch Farm in Chiredzi are facing eviction to pave way for businessman Moses Chingwena who was reportedly granted a High Court order to evict the families. ...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 09:49hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
300 families face eviction to pave way for businessman
ABOUT 300 families settled at Samba Ranch Farm in Chiredzi are facing eviction to pave way for businessman Mr Moses Chingwena who was reportedly granted a High Court order to evict the families....Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Walter Mswazie
Call for aid as 37 228 families face starvation in Chiredzi
Chiredzi District is faced with serious starvation as only 15 669 of the 52 897 households registered for food aid are receiving assistance through drought relief programs.This means that only...Published: 12 Apr 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff Reporter
For Mugabe uplifting Africans should begin at home
President Robert Mugabe's new role as African Union chairman drew significant international media attention.But when I was in Harare last week, much of the conversation from Zimbabweans and fr...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Daniel Bekele
Mugabe's govt accused of placing floods victims on forced labour
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused the government of using violence, harassment and the deliberate restriction of humanitarian aid to coerce an estimated 20 000 flood victims to resettle on tiny...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU Devolution of Power Explained part 3 of 4
ZAPU devolved legislative regions have an abundant wealth of natural resources This is the third instalment of the four part series explaining the ZAPU devolution of power model. ZAPU devo...Published: 06 Sep 2014 at 09:33hrs | | by Themba Mthethwa
Chisumbanje ethanol project set to re-open
CHISUMBANJE - The multimillion dollar ethanol project in Chisumbanje is set to re-open after villagers and the company agreed on a wide range of issues meant to avert social disaster in Chipinge....Published: 20 Jan 2013 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant closure blamed on sabotage
VILLAGERS in Chisumbanje have blamed the closure of the Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant on political bickering and underhand moves to sabotage the project.The US$600 million ...Published: 20 Aug 2012 at 20:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fidel Castro of Africa!
In the 1970s and 80s, Fidel Castro sent 350,000 Cuban soldiers, civilians and doctors to support the African liberation struggle, especially in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde,...Published: 24 Aug 2011 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Baffour Ankomah
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