Researchers have warned that crops such as maize, rice, sugar cane, sorghum, beet, tomato, potato, cotton and pasture grasses worldwide are at serious risk from fall armyworm (Faw) infestation if efficient measures are not taken. [GoogleAd] A recent study by Exeter University and the Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International in the UK has reported that…
Environmentalists in Mutare have raised a red flag over the use of loose soil to fill potholes arguing that it was worsening the conditions of roads by choking drains and increasing road surface run-off. Moses Chimedza, a local environmentalist and director of Sustainable Environmental Conservation Trust (Sect) said the practice was not only costly due to…
Government will soon roll out an extensive cattle Artificial Insemination (AI) programme aimed at improving the quality of the country’s livestock as well as increasing the national herd, a Cabinet minister has said. Lands minister Perrance Shiri said this in a speech read on his behalf by the principal director in the department of Crop and…
The anticipated opening of the Ekusileni Hospital in Bulawayo, a brainchild of the much-loved late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, has hit yet another snag after government failed to meet the project investor in India as had been scheduled. This comes as the Indian investor, Sharda Group of Institutions (SGI), had started staff recruitments in preparation for…
South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa was expected in the country last night for the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission, which kicked off in Harare last week and he is expected to open new business lines for Zimbabwe. Ramaphosa, who leads the continent’s second largest economy is today expected to grace the Bi-National Commission…
Former Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) board chairperson Albert Mugabe was hauled before the courts yesterday for allegedly approving a $300 000 loan facility without the organisation’s approval. Albert Mugabe, 41, appeared before Harare provincial magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti charged with criminal abuse of duty as a public officer. He was released on $500 bail and ordered…
Rehabilitation of Marlborough Sewage Pump is set to be completed soon as pump sets are already being installed. According to council’s environmental management committee minutes, the rehabilitation is part of the Zimfund Phase 2 projects funded under the African Development Bank (AFDB). Harare has seven sewage pump stations namely Avonlea, Borrowdale Brooke, Bradfield in Hopley, Budiriro,…
The State has objected to the separation of former Mines minister Walter Chidakwa and Civil Service Commission permanent secretary Francis Pedzana Gudyanga’s trials in a case they are alleged to have misappropriated $29 000 in board sitting allowances. Gudyanga’s lawyer Norman Mugiya had requested for the separation after the High Court issued an interdict for…
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Potraz) director-general Gift Kallisto Machengete’s $1,4 million graft trial failed to kick off yesterday after he advised the court that he would be attending a conference in Victoria Falls. The matter was subsequently set for March 18 and 19 for trial. “The accused person is representing the State at a conference…
Former Victoria Falls mayor Sifiso Mpofu, arrested in an evening raid last week and found in possession of raw ivory, was over the weekend remanded in custody. Mpofu, 42 who was also found in possession of a loaded pistol tucked in his waistband was arrested alongside two of his accomplices Milton Sibindi, 47 and Phathiso Sibindi,…
