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'No economic reprieve without respect for property rights'
THE Southern African Development Community (Sadc) Tribunal Rights Watch has warned that Zimbabwe is likely to continue missing out on international lines of credit as long as it does not respect prope...Published: 8 hrs ago | 420 | by Staff reporter
Contentions over Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill
Hyde Chatyoka, a mining expert, has become the latest mining guru to speak out against the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill of 2015 which is currently before Parliament.The mining expert has ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 490 | by Daniel Itai
Commercial rabbit production in Zimbabwe set for a major boost as government approves imports of quality genetic pool
Raymeg Consultants Private Limited (Raymeg), a diversified Zimbabwean group, has received a permit to import hundreds of pure breed rabbits to help bolster commercial rabbit production in Zimbabwe, th...Published: 17 hrs ago | 642 | by Lloyd Mangoh
Mnangagwa describes sanctions as 'weapons of mass destruction'
THE West's sanctions on Zimbabwe are like "weapons of mass destruction" which are hurting ordinary people, with the potential to undermine the country's unity and peace, President Emmerson Mnangagwa h...Published: 20 hrs ago | 459 | by Staff reporter
Sadc pushes for removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe
THE Sadc region has once again called for the immediate lifting of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe on account of their adverse effects on ordinary citizens.This comes as the United States of Ame...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:19hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
President E.D, you need Strategic Thinkers around you!
I vividly recall Mugabe's last two gigantic rallies in 2017 where politicians fell over each other to bootlick the despot. The former ZANU PF youth leader Kudzai Chipanga openly told the gathering tha...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 07:40hrs | 566 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
75 cattle succumb to drought in Midlands
AT least 75 cattle have succumbed to drought in parts of the Midlands province in the past two months and farmers have been urged to de-stock and by supplements for the remaining beasts.Midlan...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 288 | by Leonard Koni
Unite to achieve brighter future, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the country is on a new path towards prosperity calling for unity of purpose among Zimbabweans as a brighter future depends on every individual. President Mn...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:19hrs | 315 | by Staff Reporter
Land deal eases government re-engagement efforts
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government's decision to compensate white former commercial farmers has eased the country's international engagement and re-engagement efforts...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 22:18hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Minister 'misleads' Parly committee
THE Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture has threatened to charge Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba with contempt of Parliament for providing contradictory statements over lan...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:54hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 253 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 488 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zicorba ushers the majority of Zimbabweans into commercial rabbit production
The Zimbabwe Commercial Rabbit Breeders Association (Zicorba) was mooted in June 2020 by a group of like-minded persons during a WhatsApp discussion, setting a stage for what has become household name...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:27hrs | 1243 | by Lloyd Mangoh
FAO hails govt over Mnangagwa's concept?
THE Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) has hailed government for adopting the-PFumvudza agricultural concept saying it would go a long way in ensuring food security at household level.Pf...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions meant to weaken Zimbabwe
ILLEGAL economic sanctions unilaterally imposed on Zimbabwe by Western nations are motivated by a desire to slowly weaken the nation, leaving the country vulnerable to poverty, droughts and epidemics ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 23:42hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC-A should give Zimbabwe a break
ON October 25, Zimbabwe will be walking tall, arm in arm with its regional partners in calling for the unconditional removal of illegal sanctions imposed on the country by Western nations that seek to...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2752 | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 961 | by Ranga Mataire
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 | 354 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF tell whites 'to shut up' on reforms - madness, hurting blacks not whites
One of the most offensive and exasperating things the white colonial oppressors did was to deny the blacks their voice and human dignity. In the workplace blacks were called "boyi" and were expected t...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 09:13hrs | 1312 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF calls for slavery reparations
Zanu-PF has joined the rest of the continent in calling for reparations from Western countries that enslaved and looted resources from Africa years ago.The clarion call comes as the Namibian G...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 20:30hrs | 1629 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tells West to 'Shut up'
ZANU-PF has told Western countries, especially Britain and United States, "to shut up" and stop pontificating about democracy and human rights, adding that Britain and the US's hands were historically...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1949 | by Staff reporter
Clergy predicts spike in land disputes
THE Zimbabwe Christian Alliance (ZCA) has warned of a looming spike in land ownership wrangles between landless Zimbabweans and white former commercial farmers after the government signed a US$3,5 bil...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industry demands complete reforms
ZIMBABWE'S industry has proposed a raft of far-reaching reforms to be incorporated in Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2021 national budget, including the abolishment of subsidies.In its propos...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 393 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer accused of embezzling US$200 000
A Harare lawyer yesterday appeared in court for allegedly misappropriating trust funds amounting to US$200 000. Ryan Baglow (35) of Matizanadzo and Warhurts Legal Practitioners allegedly used two name...Published: 14 Oct 2020 at 06:30hrs | 1005 | by Staff reorter
Agric perm sec faces contempt of Parly charges
PARLIAMENT has warned the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture John Basera against withholding critical information on the beneficiaries of government programmes, including command agric...Published: 13 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1224 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo 1983 Prophetic Letter to Mugabe
DR. JOSHUA M. NKOMO2 Stevenage RoadEast Ham E6 2WLLondon United Kingdom7th June 1983 Dear Robert,1. I write to you as a citizen of Zimbabwe and one of the leade...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 13:58hrs | 19820 | by Dr Joshua M Nkomo
President Mnangagwa what is our problem?
We are the second largest platinum producer in the world, we have gold reserves around the country, we have chrome, we have alluvial diamonds, we have best human resources skills, we have land and nat...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | 3912 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
FULL TEXT: Cyril Ramaphosa defends white farmers
Just over a week ago, Brendin Horner, a young farm manager in the Free State, was murdered in an appalling act of cruelty. His killing should anger and upset every one of us. ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 07:01hrs | 1843 | by Cyril Ramaphosa
Dulys, Farmec invest in Filabusi
TWO of Zimbabwe's biggest farm implements suppliers have joined the battle to save thousands of cattle facing starvation in Filabusi after last season's poor rains depleted pastures.Dulys and ...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told by USA, Nichols that Zimbabwe can rise again
THE United States of America (USA) has reiterated its desire to see President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government succeed in improving the lives of long-suffering Zimbabweans.Speaking to the...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:04hrs | 6159 | by Staff reporter
Let's support the Global Compensation Deed agreement, says Musikavhanu
Zanu-PF Chiredzi West Member of Parliament, Farai Musikavanhu, has come out gun blazing in full support of Government decision to sign the Global Compensation Deed (GCD) saying the move demonstrates t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:22hrs | 496 | by David Mwanza
Pfumvudza agricultural inputs are home
It was agric-fete or farming 'tombola' at Chinehasha Community shed as villagers exhibiting excitement and zealousness mingled and mixed to receive the 'Pfumvudza' farming inputs. The unrelent...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:24hrs | 70 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zanu-PF lauds govt on-PFumvudza programme
ZANU-PF has lauded Government for the "sterling preparations" for the 2020-2021 farming season, headlined by the-PFumvudza programme.Speaking at a weekly press briefing in Harare yesterday, th...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:02hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
All on course for agric season
MORE than 500 000 farmers registered under the Climate-Proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme have already received inputs for the forthcoming summer cropping season as the Government ramps up preparation...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:01hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
No cattle no cry,-PFumvunza will weather the storm
Do the health authorities and consumers at large know that bovine mortality is finding its way into towns and cities where it is sold as choice beef cuts? The disfunctionality of cattle dip ta...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:59hrs | 53 | by Tondo
LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa
The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 15 | by Enos Denhere
Farms deal 'complicates' Zimbabwe crisis
A LANDMARK deal recently inked between white former commercial farmers and the government of Zimbabwe will make it difficult for the country to repay debts, negotiate fresh lines of credit and ask for...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 08:13hrs | 5576 | by Staff Reporter
Africa must address its debt burden once the pandemic is under control - says World Bank Vice President
Carlos Felipe Jaramillo was recently appointed the World Bank's Vice President for the Latin America and the Caribbean Region. He was, until his recent appointment, the bank's country director for Ken...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 12:13hrs | 740 | by Raphael Obonyo
Mnangagwa's weird fight against corruption
THERE are some weird winds winds sweeping corruption in high places blowing across Zimbabwe since November 2017. No one can tell which direction the tornado will blow, but a pattern is emerging some p...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1555 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mnangagwa caps 447 HIT graduates
A total of 447 students at Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) graduated yesterday at a colourful ceremony in the presence of HIT Chancellor President Mnangagwa. The bulk of the students grad...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:17hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo says Zanu-PF, MDC turmoil emanating from 2017 coup
FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo believes the turmoil that rocks Zanu-PF and MDC currently was a direct result of the November 2017 military coup that dislodged long time Zi...Published: 09 Oct 2020 at 10:17hrs | 3681 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has lowest mobile money transaction limits in Africa
Zimbabwe has been singled out as one of the countries with a lowest daily mobile money transaction limits in Africa, a development seen as hindering the growth of the mobile money sector and hampering...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 17:12hrs | 531 | by Agencies
Banks shun Zimbabwe's dairy sector
FINANCIAL institutions are reluctant to advance loans to dairy farmers due to viability challenges afflicting the sector, government has said. Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:58hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
A country in 'crisis' cannot guarantee access to land
The term "crisis" is the latest buzzword in Zimbabwe meriting the attention of scholarly researches to establish if it is being used in the proper context. Opposition political parties are in overdriv...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 164 | by Pardon Muzavazi
Ramaphosa goes after Magashule
A warrant of arrest has been issued for ANC secretary-general Ace Magashule, Independent Media reliably learnt last night. The National Prosecuting Authority's warrant of arrest for Magashule ...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 06:51hrs | 3672 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles to pay for electricity imports, power cuts resurface
The resurfacing of power cuts across the country as the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) battles to meet national demand owing subdued production mainly at the Hwange...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 21:21hrs | 4030 | by Staff reporter
Bheki Cele calls for 'lawless' white farmers to be arrested
South Africa's police minister Bheki Cele has labelled actions by white farmers protesting outside the Senekal Magistrate's Court on Tuesday as "lawlessness", and has called for those found to have ta...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
White farmers burn police car in South Africa
A group of farmers stormed the Senekal Magistrate's Court building on Tuesday demanding that the suspects who are accused of killing a white farmer be handed over to them. According to picture...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 15:24hrs | 3484 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa reads riot act
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has ordered security arms to decisively deal with ritual murderers and those who betray their country by engaging in criminal activities for money.Addressing mourners at th...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:26hrs | 3182 | by Staff reporter
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