ZIMBABWE is spending US$800 million annually on grain imports, deputy Agriculture minister Vangelis Haritatos has said. Speaking in the Senate recently, Haritatos said the country adopted the Pfumvudza programme as a measure to address the problems of low productivity. “Because of the low productivity and low production, the country has become a perennial net…
By Sindiso Mhlophe and Blessings Mashaya PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday that he would not seek outside intervention to hold dialogue with the opposition and other interest groups in the country, the Daily News reports. At the same time, a group led by former American diplomats implored South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and his ruling…
AS ZIMBABWE bids to end years of food imports, bullish agriculture experts said yesterday that it was possible for the country to regain its lost “bread basket of Africa” status if authorities implemented policies that would increase production on farms, the Daily News reports. Speaking at the unveiling of the second edition of the Zimbabwe…
THE battle for the MDC presidency begins in earnest in a fortnight with the party receiving nominations of candidates aspiring to challenge interim leader Thokozani Khupe, at an extra-ordinary congress. This comes as the Supreme Court directed that the party holds the congress that had been scheduled for July 31, but was put on hold…
ZIMBABWE is losing 33 hectares of forest owing to the excessive use of wood for fuel amid intermittent electricity supplies, National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda said yesterday. Speaking during a virtual workshop on capacity building and policy dialogue with Sadc parliamentarians responsible for gender and renewable energy, Mudenda said most rural women in Zimbabwe…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has deployed Zanu PF bigwigs in three provinces that are being ravaged by ugly infighting ahead of the party’s District Co-ordinating Committee (DCC) elections. Zanu PF national political commissar, Victor Matemadanda, pictured, confirmed to the Daily News yesterday that the former liberation movement was probing the chaos consuming some of its provinces,…
SOUTH Africa is opening its borders to the world from the beginning of next month as the country moves to level 1, restoring most of the country’s economic activity from midnight on Sunday. President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Wednesday night the curfew will stay in place but will start at midnight and end at 4am,…
THE War Veterans Pressure Group is challenging in the High Court a US$3,5 billion deal that will result in the government paying compensation to white former commercial farmers who lost their land during the country’s agrarian reform at the turn of the millennium. The ex-combatants want the court to suspend the Global Compensation Deed sealed…
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on governments across the globe, including Zimbabwe, to address persistent threats to the health and safety of patients, the Daily News reports. This comes as Zimbabwe recently announced a new health restructuring strategy in a bid to resuscitate the country’s health sector which had been bedevilled by striking…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday renewed his calls for national dialogue after meeting Catholic bishops and other clerics in Harare, as he bids to end the country’s decades-old myriad challenges,” the Daily News reports. At the same time, Mnangagwa also hailed his party’s engagement with South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) — which recently dispatched…
