Govt sees 100 days of sweet progress
Government met and in some instances exceeded set milestones for 64 percent (58 projects) of the 91 embarked on and targeted for implementation under the Second Republic’s 100-day cycle programme, a progress report from the Office of the President and Cabinet says.
Agric show kicks off
THE 109th edition of the six-day Zimbabwe Agricultural Show (ZAS) opens in Harare tomorrow with the major highlights being a conference seeking to promote local products, another one for agri-businesses as well as a discussion on power and energy.
Three serious accidents, no scratch
MURAMBINDA Growth Point, which is located in Buhera, Manicaland, is one of the country’s fastest growing urban centres.
The sprawling settlement, which is working towards attaining town status, is one of the two designated urban areas in Buhera district, the other one being Birchenough Bridge.
Glo Diamond’s boxing dream
A UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean woman with a vast boxing network that includes links with former world heavyweight champions Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield wants to use her influence to boost the sport in the country.
Continuous learning, experimenting important for livestock farmers
Mhlupheki Dube I VISITED a farm on the environs of Plumtree town and one thing that came out is that successful farmers are those who are willing to continuously learn…
Lobola as a life issue
SOME readers believe lobola will never lose its significance in Africa.
They consider it a sacrosanct practice that is highly regarded as a must whenever a man intends to take a wife for himself.
Battle of the Cities
This past week, it was business as usual for Caps United as coach Lloyd Chitembwe presided over what could be his last training session with the Harare Giants.
Chitembwe chose to be diplomatic in his responses and could neither confirm nor deny his reported departure.
Academics in new crop production method
LOCAL academics have modified an agricultural technique to grow crops with little or no soil, a method that has the capability of saving up to 20 times more water compared to the conventional planting that uses soil.
The technique – hydroponics – which is popular in China and Europe, has since been modified by students at the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) to meet local climatic conditions.
SRC outlines demands on football
THE Sport and Recreation Commission believe they have sufficient reasons to convince Fifa to come on board and disband the beleaguered Zifa board.
In their correspondence to Fifa secretary-general Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura last week, the sports regulatory body detailed Zifa’s alleged transgressions, which they feel warrants Fifa’s intervention.
How we stopped Rhodesian kidnappings in Botswana
IN the past weeks our Assistant Editor Mkhululi Sibanda (MS) has been talking to former Zapu senior intelligence officer, Cde Macleod Tshawe, who served in the party’s intelligence unit as…



