March 2018

HARARE – At a time when farmers in most parts of the country are rubbing their hands with glee in anticipation of a bumper harvest, villagers in Muzarabani are seeking at least 15 tonnes of maize seed to plant. This comes after crops in the low Zambezi basin have been written off due to a…

HARARE – The Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe (Misa Zimbabwe) has invited the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to help break a deadlock over the lack of progress in media reforms  ahead of key mid-year general elections. Misa-Zimbabwe said five years after the African Union Election Observation Mission made recommendations on improving the state…

HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa is heading to Ivory Coast for the Africa CEO Forum as he ramps up efforts to lure foreign investment. A lot of attention will focus on Zimbabwe’s new president, who deposed long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, who was the world’s oldest leader until the military intervened in November last year. Mnangagwa…

HARARE – Two Grain Marketing Board (GMB) board members are in the eye of a storm for demanding $70 000 from Treasury for the 18 months they took up management posts at the grain utility. GMB board chairperson Charles Chikaura and his deputy Basilio Sandamu told the parliamentary portfolio committee on Lands, Agriculture and Rural…

HARARE – The Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has said 10 out of 12 silos at the country’s leading grain trade institution which had crumbled under years of neglect have now been refurbished. The national granary, which is owed $81 million by Treasury and posted a mortifying loss of over $208 million last year, did not…

HARARE – Former Mines and Mining Development minister Walter Chidakwa has been suspended from Zanu PF for allegedly plotting the ouster of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, marking the beginning of his end in the ruling party. “You are hereby served with a Prohibition Order for 14 days, you should cease forthwith carrying out any party activities,”…

HARARE – Six more Chitungwiza Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) councillors were acquitted on Monday after a Tribunal found them not guilty. According to Marufu Mandevere, the city fathers’ lawyer, the Tribunal failed to prove that Chido Mangana, Darlington Musonza, Mavis Mazenge, Francis Mutambakutongwa, Musekiwa Ruzvidzo and Tichaona Muchakwa were guilty of any offence. This…

HARARE – The parliamentary portfolio committee on Mines and Energy, will today tour Murowa Diamond and Shabanie Mashava Mine (SMM) on a fact-finding mission. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, committee chairperson Temba Mliswa said the reasons for the visit is to compare the operations of Murowa and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC). “We received…