MORE than 60 000 hectares of land have been lost due to veld fires in the Midlands province since the onset of the fire season this year. Environmental Management Authority (Ema) spokesperson for the province, Oswald Ndlovu said most farmers have not constructed fireguards owing to the increase in incidences. “A total of 63 483.86…
Melisa Chatikobo PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said local farmers should take agriculture as a business and embrace value-addition for Zimbabwe to regain its status as a breadbasket on the continent. This comes as Zimbabwe is aiming to achieve an agriculture industry valued at US$8,5 billion by 2025. Following years of under-performing due to droughts and a…
THE government will not show any mercy to people and companies caught up in parallel foreign currency activities and wants to have dealt decisively with the resurgent black market by the end of this year, Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has said. Speaking at the ongoing Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (ZAS) in Harare yesterday, the powerful VP…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last night appointed Bulilima proportional representation legislator Evelyn Ndlovu, pictured, as the new minister of Primary and Secondary Education, taking over from Cain Mathema who is reportedly ill. Mathema was appointed a minister without portfolio in Mnangagwa’s office. In a statement, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said the…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured, has challenged Zimbabweans in the diaspora to invest back home since his administration has been able to steer the local economy towards steady waters. Following years of economic ruin under the late long-time ruler Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s economy is now showing signs of recovery Latest month-on-month inflation figures now stand at…
Melisa Chatikobo VICE President Constantino Chiwenga says rural and small-scale farmers must be involved in agricultural transformation programmes if the country is to achieve a US$8,5 billion farming industry by 2025. This comes as the country has managed to record a bumper harvest in the just-ended 2020-21 agriculture season after many years of poor harvests…
THE current violence rocking the ruling Zanu PF has spilled into the courts following the arraignment of the party’s Harare Province vice chairperson Godwin Gomwe for allegedly physically attacking chairperson Godwills Masimirembwa. Gomwe is facing allegations of assault after he allegedly stormed the party’s provincial headquarters fuming that he was being sidelined from attending the…
WHILE the church continues to push for inclusive national talks, clerics will not join the expanded Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) platform as they say that this is inappropriate for their “apolitical” position. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, church leaders instead urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to create a more suitable platform that will enhance national dialogue as…
THE government is escalating its push to stem the resurgent foreign currency parallel market, including publicising the names of people who are allegedly involved in illegal forex activities and ordering banks to freeze their accounts. The governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), John Mangudya, said yesterday that the central bank’s Financial Intelligence Unit…
THE government yesterday said Zimbabwe’s new Covid-19 cases continue to be recorded at schools which are turning out to be super spreaders. This comes as the country has recorded 129 919 confirmed cases and 4 607 deaths since the virulent pandemic was first recorded here in March 2020. Speaking during a post-Cabinet media briefing in…
