adminNew committee for wheat contract farming
The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has appointed a technical committee to spearhead winter wheat contract farming for the next three years. The National Wheat Contract Farming Committee (NWCFC) is a private sector response mechanism to pleas by Government for industry to support contracting farming.
Padenga donates vehicles, houses to Nyana Camp
Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has handed over to employees patrol vehicles and 16 semi-detached staff houses at Nyanyana Camp, replacing small, dilapidated houses built in the 1960s.
Dollar nears one-week low
The dollar held near a one-week low against its rivals yesterday as currency markets waited for testimony from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that might give a further boost to risk appetite.
Tugwi-Mukosi hydro power plant work poised to start
Government has expressed optimism that work on the planned 15-megawatt Tugwi-Mukosi hydro power plant will start soon with the project developer now finalising feasibility studies for the project at Zimbabwe’s largest inland dam.
Don’t waste time fighting: Kazembe
ZANU-PF Mashonaland Central provincial chairperson Cde Kazembe Kazembe has warned party members against wasting time fighting at the expense of economic development.
MDC-Alliance’s nihilism, a futile role in Vision 2030
THE importance and necessity of ideology in modern politics is to enable an organised institution to speak with clarity, confidence and propose its values to the electorate in a fashion that is persuasive and equally actionable.
ITUC boss arrested, awaits deportation
The secretary general of the African Regional Organisation of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Kwasi Adu-Amankwah, was arrested yesterday pending deportation to Ghana for violating the country’s laws. According to reports, Adu-Amankwah arrived in the country yesterday for an ‘‘international solidarity meeting with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions’’.
ZimCoke set to invest at Ziscosteel
Michael Magoronga Midlands Correspondent ZimCoke (Pvt) Limited, a company which took over a coke making plant at Ziscosteel, is set to invest about $75 million into Hwange Colliery’s coke division.…
No Zim man resurrected in SA
GOVERNMENT yesterday dismissed claims that a Zimbabwean man was “resurrected” by a controversial pastor in South Africa as his body was being brought home, saying no repatriation papers had been processed to support the claims.
‘Battlefields response was swift’
Government has refuted claims that it reacted slowly to the Battlefields mine disaster saying its team was on the ground a few hours after the incident was reported.