MUTARE – Zimbabwe is only left with about two commercial coffee farmers on 300 hectares, down from 145 who were farming over 7 600 hectares before 2004. Zimbabwe Coffee Mill director Johane Jori told the Eastern News in an exclusive interview that the two are complemented by 400 smallholder farmers on 77 hectares. There were…
Govt to launch village ICT centres MUTARE – Government plans to set up more community information centres (CICs), particularly in rural Manicaland, with at least 40 containerised ones on the cards, as part of efforts to provide e-government services. Most of the centres will be at post offices. Speaking on the side-lines of a tour…
HARARE – A 54-YEAR-OLD man has been convicted of physical abuse after he bashed his 53-year-old wife for harvesting pumpkin leaves against his advice. Charles Sigauke, of Yeovil Extension, was convicted after a full trial by magistrate Lazarus Murendo. He awaits sentencing. [GoogleAd] He was charged with contravening Section (3) (1) as read with Section…
HARARE – Harare City Council (HCC) has been ordered to stop demolishing any more structures from Eyrestone Farm. According to the order issued by High Court Judge Justice Edith Mushore, it argued that the demolitions were unlawful. The interdict comes after Harare South Housing Apex Cooperative Society had approached the High Court seeking an order…
HARARE – Dendera musician Suluman Chimbetu yesterday escaped jail by a whisker after he was sentenced to a five-month wholly suspended prison term on condition that he settles his $4 400 maintenance arrears by February 15. Chimbetu’s lawyer Cornwell Mutevhe said his client was prepared to deposit $300 and would make efforts to clear the…
HARARE – Harare magistrate Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa will today make a determination on ex-Zanu PF youth leader Kudzanai Chipanga’s application to have his bail conditions relaxed to allow him to attend to his farm business in Makoni in Manicaland. Chipanga is being charged with publishing falsehoods after he read out a speech denigrating vice president Constantino…
HARARE – While President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government has been making corrections on most disastrous policies former president Robert Mugabe was pursuing, his next call should be to bring order on the farms where most resettled farmers have been unable to fully utilise the land for economic prosperity. Zimbabwe is predominantly an agro-based economy and as…
HARARE – The rains which fell in most parts of the country on Monday must have come as a relief to farmers across Zimbabwe as they injected some bit of hope in an increasingly hopeless population. Things were looking bad, really bad in previous weeks. Crops in most parts of the country were experiencing severe…
EDITOR — Motorists and commuters who use Seke Road in and out of Harare city centre had a nightmare yesterday morning after a haulage truck failed to heed the 4-metre clearance requirement at the Flyover Bridge. As a result, the container — which the truck was carrying — got hooked by the bridge above it…
MUTARE – Zimbabwe has made history by becoming one of the few countries in southern Africa to launch a national blueprint on the access and use of radio frequency spectrum resources. ITC minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who launched the first edition of the Zimbabwe National Frequency Allocation Plan, code named ZNFAP, in Mutare on Tuesday underlined…
