Govt urged to craft policy on contract farming

Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter
Zanu-PF legislator Cde Paddy Zhanda yesterday urged Government to craft a holistic policy on contract farming and dispelled notions in some quarters that issuing title deeds to reset­tled farmers would address funding challenges in the sector. Cde Zhanda is House of Assembly representative for Goromonzi North and also chairs

Roy Matiki burial today

Sports Reporter
ROY MATIKI, The Sunday Mail sports reporter who died in Harare on Sunday, will be buried at Warren Hills this morning. Matiki, 35, succumbed to a brain tumour at his home in Budiriro. He will be buried at 10am this morning.  Yesterday, the Zimbabwe National Soccer Supporters Association led the chorus of condolence

Mabika feels the pain of dog bite

Augustine Hwata Sports Reporter
So confident were Dynamos of winning the league championship that they had already printed T-Shirts for the celebrations even before their match against Hardbody at Ascot on Sunday. Dynamos players and officials came into the match wearing T-shirts labeled — 2012 League Champions. To them the presentation

Pasuwa revels in glory

Petros Kausiyo Deputy Sports Editor
DYNAMOS coach Callisto Pasuwa, basking in the glory of his best Premiership title to date, has attributed their success story to unity, discipline and stability at the club but revealed he was surprised by the tough challenge they received from bitter rivals Highlanders. After surviving an in-house storm, in which he was on the

Highlanders a happy family

Eddie Chikamhi Sports Reporter
WHEN the end of their campaign came, and reality dawned on them that their challenge had failed, Highlanders were a happy family at Gwanzura on Sunday.
They might have not won the championship this season, but Highlanders deserve a round of applause for the way they turned the season into an exciting battle

Goals for science crucial post-2015

Nick Ishmael Perkins
The UN Secretary-General’s high-level panel on life after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) — the Post-2015 Development Agenda — held its second meeting in London at the beginning of November. It’s a reminder that the time has come for all of us to plan our futures in line with the proposed Sustainable

DeMbare in 19th heaven

Senior Sports Editor
DYNAMOS touched the heavens by piling on their highest points tally, in a championship-winning season, to win their fourth photo-finish and provide a fitting climax to one of the greatest battles for the Premiership title. The Glamour Boys won a championship duel that ended in deadlock for the fourth time in 19 years,

God reveals all to His prophets

Pastor Takura Rukwati
Prophets are known as those selected individuals who are moved by nothing, but by the Spirit of God. The main reason why prophets are said to be responsible for administering the events characterising the calendar of God is that they are the ones who first hear it directly from God and then after them having prayed for

Unity important in harnessing diamonds for the nation

Tichaona Zindoga
Last week, on November 14, doing a review of the inaugural Zimbabwe Diamond Conference which was held on Monday and Tuesday, this writer expressed distress at how Zimbabwe had not shown unity of purpose at such a crucial indaba. Hosting such a landmark conference would have presented an opportunity for

When justice died in the US

John Pilger
In 1999, I travelled to Iraq with Denis Halliday who had resigned as assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations rather than enforce a punitive UN embargo on Iraq. Devised and policed by the United States and Britain, the extreme suffering caused by these “sanctions” included, according to Unicef, the deaths of half

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