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© UNITED Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has completed the rehabilitation of 15 irrigation schemes in Masvingo Province under a multi-million dollar facility supported by the European Union.    [GoogleAd] According to FAO, the project is meant to address challenges around irrigation development and improving the country’s food security.  The organisation’s representative, Alain Onibon,…

© Supplementary budgets being applied for by local authorities are a reflection of the country’s worsening economy, resident associations and economists contend. [GoogleAd] Some of the local authorities that have so far gone the supplementary budget route are Harare, Kwekwe, Chitungwiza, Kariba, Ruwa, Kadoma and Bulawayo. More are likely to follow suit.Economist Moses Chundu said…

© THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has officially notified Harare council that it would no longer release foreign currency (forex) for them to buy water chemicals and that the council has to compete on the interbank market for hard currency. [GoogleAd] Harare City Council (HCC) mayor Herbert Gomba told the Daily News on Sunday…

© MDC has started a process to choose members that will constitute the party’s top leadership after successfully conducting its elective congress which ended in Gweru early this week. In a statement, the party’s communications department said the nomination process started on Thursday in the country’s 10 provinces, which are expected to elect five members…

© MILLERS have reviewed upwards prices of their products by 35 percent with effect from today, owing to the continuous changing economic situations in the country. In a memo to its members, the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (Gmaz) chairperson,  Tafadzwa Musarara said the new prices are taking into consideration the cost of fuel and…

© PROPHETIC Healing Deliverance Ministries (PHD) founder and self-proclaimed prophet Walter Magaya and his wife, Tendai, have opted for an out of court settlement to repay a US$23 million to Homelink (Finance Private) Limited in a desperate bid to save their Waterfalls guest house. [GoogleAd] The couple had tendered Stand numbers 167 and 168 of…

© FOUR Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officers who stand accused of stealing inmates’ rations worth more than $7 000 before stage managing a break in to cover their tracks have been summoned to court to stand trial. Rukudzo Konje, Rodha Mawadze, Avellino Muchawa and Margaret Chikwature who were all stationed at Harare Central…

© THE Lands Ministry has issued a notice for the withdraw of a farm belonging to former Mashonaland East provincial minister Simbaneuta Mudarikwa. Lands minister Perrance Shiri said government was repossessing the farm because Mudarikwa has another one issued by the same authority. [GoogleAd] “Notice is hereby given that the ministry of lands, Agriculture, Water,…

© THE Zimbabwe Sugar Association (ZSA) says it has noted with grave concern that there has been an abnormal surge in demand for sugar throughout the country as a result of speculative activities. This has resulted in panic buying and artificial shortages of the commodity. [GoogleAd] “This has resulted in panic buying by customers. The…

© HWANGE Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) has started preparations for the 47th Kamandama Mine disaster commemorations. Rugare Dhobbie, HCCL’s corporate affairs manager, said the company will host a golf tournament and a memorial service at the colliery on June 5 and June 6 respectively in memory of those who lost their lives during the disaster….