adminAllied Timbers seeks private partnership
Business Reporter STATE-owned Allied Timbers Zimbabwe is looking to team up with private investors to build up its harvesting capacity as it seeks to meet growing demand for timber products.
Develop maize value chain
Conrad Mwanawashe Bumper Harvest ZIMBABWE has vast tracts of arable land which must be put to use all year round. One way that Zimbabwe could ensure that all the arable…
FAO to spend millions of dollars in fight against fall armyworm
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to spend millions of dollars acquiring specialised trap kits to control the spread of the fall armyworm, an invasive…
DDF needs $4m for roads
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau The District Development Fund (DDF) needs at least $4 million to rehabilitate and regravel roads damaged by incessant rains in Mashonaland West province. This comes amid reports that…
Zim safe from Renamo — Army
From George Maponga in Masvingo The country is safe from incursions by RENAMO bandits from Mozambique despite sporadic attacks between that country’s Government forces and the rebels, the Zimbabwe National…
Marx: Timekeeper of the oppressed
Stanely Mushava Literature Today When we gather around Karl Marx to size up the elites, we think of the patron saint of socialism as a hardened ideologue with a mane…
Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta dies
Wiliam Grimes Correspondent Buchi Emecheta, a British-based Nigerian writer who, in “Second-Class Citizen”, “The Joys of Motherhood” and other novels, gave voice to African women struggling to reconcile traditional roles…
JM Busha track, field triangular series begin
Ellina Mhlanga Sports Reporter THE JM Busha Track and Field triangular series took off yesterday at the National Sports Stadium B Arena with over 400 athletes participating in the first leg. The…
Doma nomadic way of life at risk
Freedom Mupanedemo For centuries, the Doma people in yonder north of Zimbabwe hunted and gathered along the mighty Zambezi River and Mwanzamutanda Mountains, east of Chapoto communal lands in Kanyemba…
The extraordinary life of Malcolm X
Christopher Farai Charamba The Reader For most Zimbabweans, the date February 21 is instantly associated with President Robert Mugabe as it was the day on which he was born. Some…