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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 | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF legislator says govt is not serious
Zanu-PF legislator Darlington Chiwa, representing Chiredzi West, criticized the government's lack of commitment to supporting sugarcane farming despite declaring it a strategic crop. Speaking at an ev...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Concession sugarcane assailants in court
Six Concession sugarcane assailants who went viral on social media after allegedly beating a suspected thief were dragged to Concession magistrates courts yesterday.Hardlife Mananga, Luckson R...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 14:37hrs | 26 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa's ally takes control of ailing Tongaat Hulett
A CONSORTIUM led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Robert Gumede has taken control of financially troubled South Africa-headquartered sugar producer Tongaat Hulett.Tongaat Hulett, an agri...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 14:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Govt seeks to set up sugar mill
The government is preparing to establish a new sugar milling company in the Lowveld region after its unsuccessful attempt to purchase Tongaat Hulett, one of the country's major sugar estates. Tongaat ...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to cut sugar imports to avert collapse of local industry'
To safeguard local producers grappling with declining sales, it is advisable to halt sugar imports into Zimbabwe. Concerns have arisen that by March of next year, the country could find itself burdene...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man killed over maize plants, onions and sugarcane
A 79-year-old man was killed in Mvurwi on Friday after he was accused of uprooting some maize plants, onions and sugarcane from the assailant's garden.Police have since arrested Francisca Muto...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tropical storm Freddy on the rebound
Tropical storm Freddy, the longest-lived tropical cyclone on record which hit Madagascar, southern Mozambique and Zimbabwe in the third and fourth weeks of last month before returning to sea, is far f...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Farmers defend raw sugar price increase
Small-scale sugarcane farmers, who supply 45 percent of raw sugar in Zimbabwe, have defended the new price of the commodity after Gold Star suspended production at its refinery in Harare this week cit...Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | 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
Zanu-PF forces teachers, nurses to buy party cards
Zanu-PF took it's intimidation tactics to a higher level following reports that the ruling party is forcing teachers and nurses to buy party cards in Masvingo province.Zaka district women boss...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for political tolerance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called for political tolerance among politicians aspiring to contest in the 2023 harmonised elections.The President also said parliamentarians should swiftly atte...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles cane plots to youths
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has doled out sugarcane plots to Zanu-PF youths in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2023 polls.In past elections, the ruling party ha...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt defends Rautenbach's ethanol project
GOVERMENT has said it would defend business tycoon Billy Rauntenbach's ethanol project in Chisumbanje where Chipinge villagers have been objecting to the operations following a land dispute.Ra...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel 'settles' land disputes with villagers
Business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Green Fuel Private Limited claims to have settled its drawn-out land disputes with villagers in Chipinge South through parcelling out one-acre fields of irrigated la...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Woman jailed 12 years for indecent assault
A 27-YEAR-OLD Bulawayo woman has been sentenced to 12 years in prison on two counts of aggravated indecent assault.Moderate Tichavavamwe (27), who had challenges of conceiving, raped a 15-year...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has enough sugar
The Zimbabwe Sugar Association is aware of misleading reports in the media stating that there is a looming shortage of sugar in the country due to the suspension of production by Tongaat Hulett, the c...Published: 21 May 2022 at 18:27hrs | 7 | by M A Masunda
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 | | 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
Voter registration must intensify
THE Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (Cotrad) in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) held a series of voter education activities in Masvingo province through v...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:24hrs | | by Cotrad
'840 000 children drop out of school'
AN estimated 840 000 schoolchildren have quit school since 2020 following the outbreak of COVID-19, a United States embassy report on the 2021 state of human rights in Zimbabwe has shown.But g...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Oxford Business Group and Zimbabwe Sugar Association team up for latest focus report
Harare, April 2022: A new focus report, produced by Oxford Business Group (OBG) in partnership with the Zimbabwe Sugar Association, explores the positive impact that the African Continental Free Trade...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 12:21hrs | 9 | by Regional and Global Opportunities Beckon for Zimbabwe's Sugar Industry
Mnangagwa cancels Triangle land offer letters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has cancelled two offer letters issued by the ministry of Lands which would have facilitated the grabbing of over 5 000 hectares of prime land currently occupied by 2 600 ...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 21:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters stage demo against Chadzamira
Zanu-PF supporters in Masvingo Thursday staged a second demonstration against the Minister of State for Masvingo, Ezra Chadzamira accusing the top politician of engaging in corrupt activities....Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
High Court exposes rot in Masvingo land allocation
A HIGH Court judge has further exposed the corrupt allocation of land by senior government officials in Masvingo province after handing down a ruling on Wednesday dismissing an offer letter issued thi...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: Politics of sabotage in 'Jambanja'
The opening chapter of Eric Harrison's memoir, "Jambanja" (2006) is telling in that it places Zimbabwe in the context of the many sanctions the country had been exposed to, either by the United Nation...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:29hrs | 7 | by Elliot Ziwira
Inside Zimbabwean tycoon Billy Rautenbach's offshore family trust
Records from a massive offshore data leak have provided the most detailed account yet of buccaneering mining and fuel magnate Billy Rautenbach's family empire.It started with a marriage settle...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Daily Maverick
War veterans tell Chadzamira to quit post
CHIREDZI war veterans have called for the removal from office of minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira (pictured), accusing him of corruptly allocating land in the district to outsiders while...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faction stunned by Chadzamira's arrest
THE arrest of minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira earlier this week has left a faction aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa in shock, blaming the dramatic development on rivals aligned t...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:58hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZACC in another catch and release storm
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) was Monday caught up in yet another catch and release storm after its investigators pounced on Minister of State for Masvingo Province Ezra Chadzamira in...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe renews Tongaat Hullet's licence by 20 more years
GOVERNMENT has renewed Tongaat Hullet operations by another 20 years amid a deal to finalise granting of a 99-year lease to the company.The latest development will strengthen the project's sta...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 12:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Disgruntled sugarcane farmers meet Mnangagwa
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last Sunday met sugarcane farmers from Chiredzi at his Precabe Farm in Kwekwe to discuss challenges faced by the over 1 200 sugar growers who benefited from the land reform...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Court orders Tongaat, Rukatya to pay commercial farmer $US1,4m
HIGH Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora has ordered sugar producers Tongaat Hullet and businessman Isaac Rukatya, to pay US$1,4 million plus legal costs to a Chiredzi commercial farmer, Tony Renato...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Mauritius example on economic development
Mauritius is ranked by the World Economic Forum as the most competitive economy in Sub-Saharan Africa and high income country with a Gross National Income (GNI) per capita of US$12,740 (Sub-Saharan Af...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 08:48hrs | 1 | by Port Louis Riverfront, Mauritius
Man poisons girlfriend's well, maize-meal
A Guruve man is on the run after poisoning his girlfriend's well and bucket of maize-meal after she greeted her ex-boyfriend.Seven family members- five minors and two adults- ate the meal prep...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 18:20hrs | 1 | 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
Sugarcane farmers to fund Zanu-PF
The Commercial Sugarcane Farmers Association of Zimbabwe (CSFAZ) chairperson Addmore Hwarare has suggested a stop order facility for members of his organisation who mill their cane with Tongaat Hulett...Published: 22 May 2021 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyaradzo Funeral sued for releasing funeral claim funds to wrong client
CHIREDZIA well-known Chiredzi sugarcane farmer and war veteran, Boniface Mutemachani and Nyaradzo Funeral Services are in a nasty fight as the former claims the latter disbursed his reimbursement to t...Published: 20 May 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga reverses corrupt sugarcane plot allocation
SENIOR Zanu-PF officials, their relatives and security agents who were corruptly allocated sugarcane plots in Chiredzi by minister of State for Masvingo Ezra Chadzamira were last weekend ordered to su...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga anger forces Chiwenga to abort trip
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was last week forced to abort a trip to Chilonga communal lands, where over 12 000 villagers are facing eviction after angry traditional leaders told Masvingo provi...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:05hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to douse Chilonga flames
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has directed that no villagers should be displaced by an irrigation project to be implemented by government in the Chilonga area of Chiredzi. Last month, the State...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says no one will be displaced in Chilonga
No villager will be displaced from where they are settled by the planned Chilonga Irrigation Scheme in Chiredzi, whose aim is to develop and empower people in the drier region, Vice President Constant...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo approves Chiredzi TC, RDC budgets
The local authorities of Chiredzi both the Town Council and the Rural District Council's (RDC) 2021 budgets have been approved by the Minister of Local Government, National Housing and Public Works, J...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 14:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zacc investigates Chadzamira over land
FOLLOWING a story carried by The NewsHawks in January exposing the corrupt distribution of sugarcane plots by senior government officials in Chiredzi, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) ha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF functionaries invade protected farm
ZANU-PF Masvingo provincial officials have grabbed a massive flourishing ranch in Chiredzi owned by an Italian national and ring-fenced under a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masvingo greenbelt project gathers pace
MASVINGO Province is poised to become the breadbasket of the country as the masterplan to set in motion a greenbelt of more than 100 000 hectares of irrigable land gathers pace following abundant wate...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
Military chopper rescues marooned Chiredzi families
A MILITARY helicopter from Gweru yesterday rescued four people from two families, while four others are still missing after they were marooned along Mutirikwi River on Thursday.Information min...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Doctor stabs his 3 children to death
Tragedy hit the small sugar farming town of Mkwasine in Chiredzi last night when William Phiri, a medical doctor allegedly stabbed three of his children to death following a domestic dispute with his ...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
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