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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 | 474 | by Dr John Basera
'Inflation will drop to 10% by December 2021' - not as long as Zimbabwe remains a Banana Republic
"The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday forecast annual inflation to plummet to less than 10% this year, driven by a good agricultural season, fiscal and financial sector stability," reported Bu...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 08:43hrs | 258 | by Nomusa Garikai
RBZ projects inflation fall
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday forecast annual inflation to plummet to less than 10% this year, driven by a good agricultural season, fiscal and financial sector stability.Zimbab...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:16hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
60% of Bulawayo companies close shop
THE labour movement, consumer rights groups, small enterprises and informal traders have lamented the continuous collapse of Bulawayo industries amid revelations that up to 60% of companies have close...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:04hrs | 811 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF official steals Pfumvudza inputs
Budiriro residents are up in arms against the Zanu Pf Harare provincial vice chairperson, Godwin Gomwe who allegedly swindled and looted pfumvudza inputs. which he misappropriated for self-enrichment....Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:28hrs | 1683 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Illegal immigrants struggle in the UK
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the UK jobs market has changed substantially, take a look at what this means for recruitment and occupational shortages, as well as serious implications for people's...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1045 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mthwakazi New Year message
New Year Greetings to all!As we leave the year 2020 behind and begin a new year journey in our struggle for freedom in Mthwakazi, it is important to reflect and highlight the obstacles that we...Published: 01 Jan 2021 at 19:39hrs | 963 | by Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
DDF tills fields in Matebeleland North
A 79-YEAR-OLD frail looking woman sheds tears of joy as she watches three tractors ploughing her one-hectare piece of land in Mahlabathini Village, Inyathi Matabeleland North. A widow, Mrs Pau...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:20hrs | 166 | by Blessings Chidakwa
Lessons Learnt from WaMagaisa's Farm Mechanisation Expose'
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted peoples' lives in an unimaginable way, unless you are Bill Gates who anticipated the scourge. This disruption has forced organisations and governments across the gl...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:11hrs | 1330 | by Edzai Zvobwo
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 | 2673 | by Victor Bhoroma
Africa's supply chain remains under pressure despite ease of lockdowns
The measures that countries have adopted around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have had an unprecedented effect on trade this year as a result of a unique combination of shocks to both...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to give youths land
Plans are underway for the opening up of land in natural region one, four and five where youths among others will be settled in estate farms and other planned programmes to boost food production, Vice...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:26hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
BCC intervenes in United Refineries hitch
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) is expected to resume operations at its factory on Monday following interventions by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to solve water supply challenges that forced the co...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
'We need more Zimdollar than US$'
UNITED Refineries Limited (URL) chief executive officer, Mr Busisa Moyo says the Bulawayo headquartered agro-processing company needs more of the local dollar to localise production of key raw materia...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:19hrs | 1146 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo sign board goes viral on social media
A Bulawayo sign board has gone viral on social media. The 'City of Kings' as Bulawayo in known, was once revered as the industrial heart of Zimbabwe and of Southern Africa to a greater extent. B...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 21102 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga claims 'development for all'
THE Government will ensure no community in Zimbabwe is left behind in development in line with the devolution thrust enunciated by President Mnangagwa. Under the Second Republic, theGovernment...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:47hrs | 615 | 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
Frozen chicken tests positive for Cornavirus
International media has reported that a sample of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil has tested positive for the deadly coronavirus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen.According to...Published: 14 Aug 2020 at 08:02hrs | 3518 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe commemorates World Breastfeeding week
Zimbabwe this week joined the rest of the world in commemorating the World Breastfeeding Week held during the first week of August each year.Officially launching the National World Breastfeedi...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 14:37hrs | 119 | by MoHCC Comms
Mnangagwa's wife sends special message to Zimbabwean women
Yesterday, Zimbabwe official launched its 2020 World Breastfeeding Week commemorations under the theme; Promoting breastfeeding for a Healthier Planet!As a mother, I am taking part in these co...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 10:30hrs | 2710 | by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa
White Compensation; How about ZAPU Properties?
The European colonialists dispossessed our forefather of their land through a bloody and barbaric grab which left them poverty stricken and marginalised. It beggars belief that the formerly dispossess...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 16:14hrs | 1206 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Fresh farm seizures soiling Zimbabwe's image?
THE ongoing seizures of mainly white-owned productive farms severely dent Zimbabwe's international image and cast aspersions on the country's reputation as an investment destination, Commercial Farmer...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 903 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
RBZ launches foreign exchange auction today
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)today replaces the interbank market with weekly foreign exchange auctions to determine the Zimbabwe dollar exchange rate with those in industry and commerce cautiousl...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry grabs farm from Mugabe's nephew
Former Olympic swimming gold medallist Kirsty Coventry has been implicated in the seizure of a property allocated by Zimbabwe's government to Robert Zhuwao, nephew of the late former president Robert ...Published: 08 Jun 2020 at 21:44hrs | 9244 | by Staff reporter
Vendors take refuge in online trade
Informal traders have embraced online business opportunities that came with the COVID-19 induced lockdown measures in Bulawayo. Informal traders say the lockdown has taught them to embrace Inf...Published: 26 May 2020 at 09:21hrs | 602 | by Stephen Jakes
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 242 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Parliament must prioritise food security
Eye on Food Security Zimbabwe has followed the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Agriculture and its proceedings with keen interest. Hon. Joanna Mamombe is a member of this Committee. We du...Published: 22 May 2020 at 18:28hrs | 639 | by Busani Malinga
Ban on second-hand clothes to be enforced
The ban on second-hand clothes imports must be strictly enforced after Cabinet was briefed on smuggling rackets in south-eastern Zimbabwe that could see more Covid-19 cases as a result. ...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:37hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe COVID-19 lockdown goes into Stage 2
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has extended the Covid-19-induced lockdown by a further 14 days and announced an $18 billion Economic Rescue and Stimulus Package to scale up production in all sectors of the econo...Published: 02 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco fetches US$4/kg on opening day
The 2020 tobacco marketing season opened yesterday, amid calls for farmers to draw lessons from the lucrative and successful tobacco industry and apply their skills towards production of other crops t...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 536 | by Staff reporter
The missing factor in Zimbabwe's 'cut and paste' response to Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic's impact continues to alter lives, livelihoods and futures. The number of confirmed cases and fatalities continues to rise. In Africa, 24 600 cases of Covid-19 have been ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:42hrs | 371 | by Brian Kagoro
Queen Elizabeth's husband makes a rare public statement
Queen Elizabeth's husband and Duke of Edinburgh Prince Philip has made a rare public statement thanking the health workers for working hard for the nation during the time when the United Kingdom is fa...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 19:25hrs | 3428 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's 4 decades of independence and the Agrarian reform law
Land reform formally began in 2002 under the disguise of taking back our land from white farmers and distribute it to the poor and landless Zimbabweans. The major beneficiaries weren't the general pop...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 09:15hrs | 189 | by Bigboy Sibanda
Sadc adopts cross border movement guidelines
The Southern African Development Community (Sadc) has adopted special guidelines to harmonise and facilitate the movement of critical goods and services across the region during the Covid-19 pandemic....Published: 08 Apr 2020 at 07:53hrs | 553 | by Staff reporter
South Africa Minister wants alcohol banned forever
South Africa's Minister of Police General Bheki Cele told South African media that he might want to indefinitely ban the sale of alcohol in the neighboring country. Cele is reported to h...Published: 06 Apr 2020 at 07:58hrs | 83713 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt shores up mealie-meal supplies
Government has shored up mealie-meal deliveries to ensure that households have adequate supplies of the staple.Also, some hospitals, including council and privately owned clinics, will tempora...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:24hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown and economic responses
ZIMBABWE went into lockdown on Monday over the Covid-19 pandemic that has seen the United States, at 164 387 cases (at the time of writing, Tuesday), becoming the country with the highest number of co...Published: 03 Apr 2020 at 08:50hrs | 146 | by Brett Chulu
Mnangagwa must emulate Ramaphosa on Covid-19 action
MDC top official David Coltart has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to emulate South African President Cyrial Ramaphosa on the actions he has taken to curb the spread of Covid 19.Coltart sai...Published: 25 Mar 2020 at 06:36hrs | 2180 | by Stephen Jakes
ZTA Embarks on game changing excellence initiative
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has started rolling our it's game changing service excellence initiative. The program has seen the organisation training operators in Bulawayo and sur...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 12:36hrs | 270 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zimbabwe Supreme Court ruling theft by conversion'
ADVOCACY group, the Sadc Tribunal Rights Watch (STRW) has called the recent Supreme Court ruling allowing for the settling of US debts incurred before February 22, 2019 in the local currency, theft....Published: 29 Jan 2020 at 07:33hrs | 2052 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stunted growth levels drop 5%
GOVERNMENT'S multi-sectoral approach to development is paying dividends with stunted growth levels dropping by five percent in the past five years, the Food and Nutrition Council (FNC) has revealed. ...Published: 28 Jan 2020 at 12:38hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: Supreme Court debt judgment is theft by conversion
Impact of judgment and failure to resolve the land issue SADC Tribunal Rights Watch is deeply concerned that the very foundations of the Zimbabwean econ...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 12:36hrs | 1887 | by SADC Tribunal Rights Watch
Does the people's land belong to the state or the government of the day
IN a recent article I attempted to explain the historical background of land ownership in this country, which was introduced by colonists and has since been inherited and accepted as the norm by today...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:15hrs | 418 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mohadi warns prison officers against ill-treating imates
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has warned Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Service (ZPCS) officers against ill-treating inmates, saying their conscience should be guided by the need to observe human rig...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 1850 | by Staff Reporter
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 228 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe needs political solutions to gain confidence and trust
AS Zimbabweans, we get too intelligent and over-complicate a situation for no reason. Many life solutions are practical, not intellectual. The government tried to change currency to securities, that i...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:46hrs | 295 | by Enos Denhere
Turn southern region into green belt, says Mohadi
VICE President Kembo Mohadi has said the southern region of the country could be turned into a green belt through establishing more water bodies and setting up vibrant irrigation schemes to ensure inc...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:41hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs political solutions to gain confidence and trust from the masses
As citizens of Zimbabwe, we get too intelligent and over complicate a situation for no reason. Many Life solutions are practical, not intellectual. The government tried to change currency to securitie...Published: 22 Oct 2019 at 21:32hrs | 738 | by Story from Enos Denhere Freelance Journalist
The future is tech, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa yesterday challenged the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) and other local universities to become centres of economic revival leveraging on technology. He said it was im...Published: 19 Oct 2019 at 07:01hrs | 2705 | by Staff reporter
African Religion and Governance in a changing world. Where thou goest native Africa!
It is my humble intention to speak to this paper in response to my learned brother Kenyan Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba's presentation to The All-Africa Religious Liberty 3rd Congress in...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 15:00hrs | 949 | by Reginald Nyathi
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