CHIWUNDURA – Voters across Chiwundura handed a sweeping victory to Zanu PF’s Brown Ndlovu in a National Assembly by-election marred by low turnout, high number of assisted voters and accusations of electoral roll irregularities. Ndlovu polled 9 426 votes, while his nearest rival, Takudzwa Guzete of NCA got 445 votes. Brighton Mudzviti of Free Zim…
HARARE – Zimbabwean farmers are expected to deliver 1 million tonnes of maize to the State grain agency by September, Davis Marapira, deputy Agriculture minister responsible for cropping has said. Marapira said the government-run Grain Marketing Board (GMB), which in the past has struggled to pay for maize, was now paying farmers upon delivery. He…
HARARE – The Senate has ratified a $20 million agreement between Zimbabwe and Kuwait to develop the Zhove Irrigation Project in Beitbridge. Acting Finance and Economic Development minister Joseph Made tabled the loan agreement for ratification in the Senate last week. He said the loan agreement was entered into between government and the Kuwait Fund…
HARARE – Rising rates of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) are threatening to derail decades of progress against the contagious disease, experts said yesterday, with the country grappling with lack of health facilities to treat the superbug. TB kills more people each year than any other infectious disease, including HIV and Aids. Currently, there are about…
HARARE – Tendai Biti’s opposition PDP party is complaining that President Robert Mugabe’s sons’ debauchery and wild partying are being funded with taxpayer dollars. This comes after the two boys — Robert Junior and Chatunga Bellarmine — have been evicted from a luxury apartment at The Regent apartment hotel, in Morningside, Sandton that they were…
HARARE – Zimbabwean businesses are seeing tumbling output because of an acute dollar shortage that has forced banks to delay processing payments for imports of spare parts and supplies, a KPMG poll found. This comes as cash in circulation has dwindled to 1,4 percent of total deposits in the banking sector, according Reserve Bank of…
HARARE – Our reporter Jeffrey Muvundusi chats with new Gweru mayor Charles Chikozho. Below are excerpts of the interview. Q: It’s about four months now since you took over the mayoral post, how has it been so far? A: It is not business as usual since I took over because of various challenges ranging from…
HARARE – In a bid to stem the factional fights spiralling out of control in his party, President Robert Mugabe barred his quarrelling cadres from using social media to air their views. In spite of the ban, more and more of his officials have fallen in love with social media, principally Twitter and Facebook. A…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) — a non-profit organisation — operating a national campaign to get more non-commercial radio stations approved, is seeing its dream getting dashed. The non-profit organisation and other press freedom groups seeking to diversify media ownership, scored a victory when President Robert Mugabe signed into law a…
HARARE – Agriculture has always been the mainstay of Zimbabwe’s economy, with crops like tobacco, cotton and maize proving to be major foreign currency earners as well as citizens’ livelihoods. However, over the years, tobacco and cotton farmers have been crying foul as a result of the behaviour of buyers during the respective crops’ selling…
