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We're coming for you: Mnangagwa warns financial sector sharks
GOVERNMENT is going to decisively deal with sharks in the financial sector who are profiteering at the expense of the public, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview ahead of the country...Published: 6 hrs ago | 430 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda commercialises amacimbi harvesting
GWANDA Rural District Council (RDC) is awaiting approval of draft by-laws aimed at commercialising the harvesting of mopane worms (amacimbi/madora) in the area, which would help generate revenue for t...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:52hrs | 900 | by Staff reporter
Crop hectarage increases by 23%
Farmers planted different crops on over 3,4 million hectares in the 2020/2021 agricultural season, driven by a good rainfall forecast, early distribution of inputs and capacitation of extension worker...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
So Bishop Lazi heard that his treatise on the proposed Patriot Bill, which is premised on giving sellouts and other quislings of hostile forces their just desserts, had riled the runaway fugitive Prof...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Bumper harvest to save US$200m
The forecast record maize harvest of 2,8 million tonnes and significant output of other crops such as soyabean, cotton and traditional grains could save the country more than US$200 million, which cou...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Lightning strike kills 19 cattle
Five families on the outskirts of Victoria Falls under Chief Mvuthu were left counting their losses after 19 cattle were killed by lightning during a heavy storm in the early hours of Saturday....Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 18:48hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Chirumanzi DDC faces suspension over food inputs
District Development Coordinator (DDC) for Chirumanzi Vafias Hlabati was suspended from his duties over alleged abuse of government food aid and inputs yesterday.He is alleged to have diverted...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 12:12hrs | 563 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Vusa Mkhaya opens up on life outside the studio
AUSTRIA-BASED Zimbabwean imbube crooner Vusa Mkhaya has been in the showbiz industry for several years as a member of Insingizi.This is the group that put him on the showbiz map since the rele...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
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 | 482 | by Dr John Basera
Chamisa blasted for failing to rein-in his kitchen cabinet
THE defection of top party executive, Lillian Timveos from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to the ruling Zanu PF has opened a can of worms, with party insiders claiming the young opposition leader...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:42hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
No one can stop winds of change
IN response to MDC Alliance defections open can of worms: The Zimbabwe democracy is based on freewill foundation. Nothing is wrong with that.The fact that former Kwekwe Central MP Blessing Che...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:30hrs | 410 | by Simon Barley
Chamisa's failure to rein in his 'toxic and divisive' SG has destroyed the party
THE defection of top party executive, Lillian Timveos from the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance to the ruling Zanu-PF has opened a can of worms, with party insiders claiming the young opposition leader...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:47hrs | 2861 | by Staff reporter
'Mohadi sexgate damaging Zimbabwe reputation'
POLITICAL analysts say government has a big task to mend the country's damaged reputation internationally following the sex allegations levelled against VicePresident Kembo Mohadi.Mohadi on We...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1020 | by Staff reporter
Why the colonial UK sanctioned Zimbabwe security chiefs
UNITED Kingdom ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson says the British government is not happy with President Emmerson Mnangagwa government's pace of reforms.Robinson (MR) told Alpha Media Ho...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:13hrs | 555 | by Ken Mufuka
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1285 | by Staff reporter
Fatal fight over amacimbi
A 44-year-old Bulawayo man died before admission to Mpilo Central Hospital after he was assaulted over amacimbi by two men in Old Pumula suburb. The late Mr Khumbula Homes Zulu suffered a swol...Published: 01 Feb 2021 at 05:34hrs | 1204 | by Staff reporter
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 1114 | by Staff reporter
Young agri-entrepreneur shines in rural Zimbabwe
While agriculture forms an integral part of Zimbabwe's economy, many young people still think of it as back-breaking labour that offers little economic benefit.However, things are slowly chang...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South under armyworm attack
FARMERS in Matabeleland South fear a reduced harvest following an outbreak of the fall armyworm that is causing massive damage to crops especially the late planted ones. The fall armyworm has ...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge poised for bumper harvest
BEITBRIDGE, which is one of Zimbabwe's most arid districts that has been often supported with food aid, is this year poised for a bumper harvest.The district is in agro-ecological region five,...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:29hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Gwaradzimba's death opens a can of worms
On the 15th January 2021 Zimbabwe lost another politician Ellen Gwaradzimba who was a Zimbabwean politician and Zanu-PF member. At the time of her death, she was Manicaland Provincial Affairs Mi...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 5639 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Rains improve availability of food in the Covid-19 era
COMMUNAL farmers in Gwanda say the summer season has come with a change of fortune in the food situation at a time when most families were facing challenges due to the Covid 19-induced lockdown....Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 14:05hrs | 536 | by ZBC News
More floods predicted
THE Civil Protection Unit (CPU) is on standby for evacuations in flood prone areas of the country after the Meteorological Service Department (MSD) warned that tropical cyclones and serious floods rem...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 07:49hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Insiza villagers angry with 'outsiders' exploiting macimbi
INSIZA villagers in Matabeleland South have complained over the exploitation of local resources such as amacimbi (mopane worms) and gold by people from outside the district who destroy vegetation....Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:00hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Suspended council boss back at work, embroiled in new scam
SUSPENDED Harare City Council Town Clerk Hosiah Chisango, who is facing criminal charges for alleged illegal sale of residential stands, has been embroiled in a fresh ZW$51 million (US$636 000) Covid-...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 07:51hrs | 1379 | by Staff reporter
Garbage piles grow in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO is sitting on a health time bomb as council continues to struggle to collect refuse from both residential areas and the city centre. The failure by Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to coll...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 08:06hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Armyworm outbreak hits Zimbabwe
An outbreak of the fall armyworm has been reported in various parts of the country with farmers being called upon to work with Agritex Officers to contain the devastating pests.Speaking during...Published: 03 Jan 2021 at 16:45hrs | 2356 | by Staff reporter
MDC-led council show true colours
THE year2020 will go down in the history of the MDC-led Harare City Council as the worst under its leadership. The year exposed existing massive corruption, land scams, leadership crisis, arre...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 277 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Mnangagwa approved firing of NetOne boss
THE NetOne board of directors this week sought President Emmerson Mnangagwa's approval to terminate the contract of the suspended chief executive officer Lazarus Muchenje, the Zim Morning Post reporte...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 05:31hrs | 2975 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean beetle makes a seasonal snack
Earnmore Chikavaza takes a mouthful of fried beetles and munches happily, downing the crunchy snack with a mouthful of water.He runs out of superlatives to sum up the benefits of a food that i...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 18:07hrs | 1111 | by AFP
New restaurant opens in Bulawayo
Check out this unique new establishment, The Good Place Restaurant, situated downtown of Bulawayo, offering a coterie of dishes that include western and traditional African menu.The restaurant...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:38hrs | 2363 | by Jamela
Rains raise hopes of bumper harvest
LOCAL farmers have started the summer season at a blistering pace and have already planted more than 80 percent of the targeted hectarage of maize, laying the foundation for a bumper harvest in the co...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Albert Ngulube an exceptional MP as communities are urged to guard to natural resources
RURAL communities should jealously guard against the plundering of their natural resources which they should use to improve their welfare. We only have ourselves to protect our own resources.T...Published: 07 Dec 2020 at 11:08hrs | 1093 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Rats cannot think beyond peanuts
AROUND this time in 2018, witty cynics, the majority of whom have happily found a convenient playground on social media platforms, were whining and whingeing that shortages of Coca-Cola which is a gen...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:47hrs | 139 | by Bishop Lazarus
Mnangagwa's security related ministries to gobble $61 billion
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Thursday allocated a combined $61.4 billion towards the three key security ministries while allocating just 5 kilogrammes of maize seed for poor and vulnerable households...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:04hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC plots to burn Zimbabwe Government buildings?
A LEAKED audio recording of a top MDC-Alliance official reveals stunning details of how the opposition party planned a wave of terror that involved burning Government buildings and faking abductions t...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya gold case opens can of worms
THE dramatic arrest and subsequent prosecution of suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lifted the lid on the cutthroat gold trafficking underworld dominated by t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:56hrs | 11815 | by Staff reporter
732 000 farmers receive inputs
MORE than 732 000 households have received seed under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme as the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) intensifies distribution of inputs ahead of the November 15 dead...Published: 18 Oct 2020 at 08:26hrs | 373 | by Staff Reporter
Car opens abductions can of worms
A leading Harare-based car rental company has been drawn into an abduction and torture saga involving a 22year-old university student ahead of the July 31 protests.Tawanda Muchehiwa, a Midland...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:11hrs | 5472 | by Staff reporter
Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones
Before the July 30 elections in 2018, MDC Alliance's swashbuckling and technophile public relations machine nourishingly fed us the optics of what we were told were the makings of a political tsunami ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 258 | by Staff reporter
MDC NEC member says party leadership is 'incompetent or compromised'
The Movement for Democratic Change leadership has been labelled incompetent or compromised by one of the party's NEC members. This follows his movie-style arrest on Friday in Tynwald where a truckload...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 19:58hrs | 1761 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala sold out to police by MDC Alliance members
THE arrest of MDC Alliance vice president Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, in Harare on Friday has opened a can of worms within the country's afflicted opposition, with accusations flying around furiously as to ho...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 19:43hrs | 8223 | by Staff reporter
Who sold out Sikhala? Accusations fly in within MDC
THE arrest of MDC Alliance vice president Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, in Harare on Friday has opened a can of worms within the country's afflicted opposition, with accusations flying around furiously as to ho...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:38hrs | 16531 | by Staff reporter
Presidential inputs distribution begins
Distribution of inputs under the Presidential Inputs Scheme for the summer cropping season has started with seed and fertilisers being delivered to Grain Marketing Board depots. Farmers are expected t...Published: 20 Aug 2020 at 07:14hrs | 216 | by Satff reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1169 | by Staff Reporter
Chihuri dossier exposes govt rot
EXILED former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has exposed how serving and former top government officials and service chiefs allegedly used their spouses as conduits to grab lucrative te...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:50hrs | 4425 | by Staff reporter
A skeletal cow 'knocking at the butcher's door'
They will stumble those who hurry, true to that saying, the tobacco farmers who rushed to the auction floors hoping to be the early birds catching the fattest worms are now regretting the decision. ...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 2115 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Same frog now in lipstick
IN more ways than one, courting love is similar to stalking prey.Although motivated by different designs, courting and stalking essentially entail stealthily winning an advantage in order ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 253 | by Bishop Lazi
The mafia was at work in the Nuanetsi Ranch
THE acquisition of Nuanetsi Ranch and its subsequent use as a base for the founding of the Development trust of Zimbabwe (DtZ) has an interesting historical link with the nationalist struggle for inde...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 08:46hrs | 631 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mujuru biography opens can of worms
The recently published biography of Solomon Mujuru really opened a can of worms as it really showed who he was and the effects of his alleged semi illiteracy. According to the former minister in Mugab...Published: 18 May 2020 at 20:05hrs | 6668 | by Phosiwe Ncube
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