By Rutendo Ngara FARMERS say they will be forced to sell their produce to informal grain buyers as the 2023 marketing season starts due to low prices being offered by the Grain Marketing Board (GMB), which is the sole buying agent. This comes as Zimbabwe is expected to produce a bumper harvest of 3.1 million…
By Yvonne Ncube THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) wants Zesa to decentralise power supplies to the local authority’s water pumping stations and save its water pipes from further damage due to rolling power cuts. Like most parts of the country, Bulawayo is experiencing punishing daily power cuts lasting for up to 15 hours affecting both…
NOT even the current and startling ‘gold mafia’ allegations could put a damper on the attendance and energy witnessed at Zanu PF’s primaries at the weekend, which the ruling party seemingly used as a show of force to the opposition ahead of this year’s crunch national elections. This comes after Zanu PF held one of…
By Ketty Nyoni ZIMBABWE is expected to produce a bumper 3,1 million metric tonnes of maize this year — the country’s main food staple — which is a surplus of 800 000 metric tonnes of the nation’s cereal grain needs. This comes hot on the heels of the country harvesting a record wheat crop of…
AT LEAST six Zanu PF members died while 18 others were seriously injured in Buhera when a truck they were travelling in was involved in a head-on accident with another vehicle along the Murambinda-Betera road in Manicaland province on Saturday. National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident when the party members were…
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC), in partnership with donors, has procured water trucks to supply water to residents most of whom have gone for almost a month without tap water. This comes after the city has been receiving only between eight and 10 hours of power supply, resulting in a significant drop in water supplies….
A HARARE woman has been arraigned before a Harare magistrate’s court after she allegedly forged documents in a bid to get a piece of her late male companion’s estate. Tokozani Mazvimbakupa Dhliwayo, 58, appeared before Harare magistrate Evelyn Mashavakure last week facing fraud charges. However, she was released on free bail and is set to…
WHILE the first episode of Al Jazeera’s probes into alleged rampant money laundering and gold smuggling in Zimbabwe has been hugely damaging, what has come out so far will not necessarily sway voters in this year’s crunch polls. So say independent political analysts who spoke to the Daily News On Sunday yesterday, in the wake…
By Ketty Nyoni THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on the government and other stakeholders to commit more financial resources to fight and end tuberculosis (TB). TB is a disease caused by a bacterium; “mycobacterium tuberculosis”, which usually attacks the lungs, but can also attack any part of the body, including kidney, spine, and…
PARLIAMENT has summoned Transport minister Felix Mhona to appear before the National Assembly and explain on the expansion of the 533km Mutare-Plumtree highway. The highway links Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana, Zambia and the DRC. On a question of national importance last week, Dangamvura-Chikanga legislator Prosper Mutseyami said Zimbabwe had challenges regard linking the three countries…
