42 years of an evolving agric landscape – 1980 to 2022

FOR 90 years (1890-1980), Zimbabwe’s prime agricultural land was controlled by a few white settler farmers who monopolised core agricultural institutions – research, extension, credit and marketing to chiefly cater for their interests as commercial farmers.

Why Zimbabwe is failing to produce good football coaches

ZIMBABWE has been blessed with an array of great football talent from the 1970s to the current ones. 

Maisvorewa honoured in US

US-based Zimbabwean athlete Vimbayi Maisvorewa has been named the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference Women’s Track Athlete of the Week for her outstanding performance at the Rock Chalk Classic at Lawrence in Kansas last Saturday. 

Mbudziyadhura turns new leaf in life

Renowned comedian Blessing Chimhowa, popularly known as Mbudziyadhura from the drama series “Gringo”, says he is now a born again Christian and has stopped drinking alcohol and philandering.

From pulpit to studio, PBM relishes glory

Prophetess Beaullah Machiri knew from a tender age that besides priesthood, music was also her calling.

BAT sees volumes up in first quarter

British American Tobacco (BAT) says export volumes increased by a weighty 163 percent in the first quarter to March 31, 2022 largely driven by cut rag and leaf tobacco shipments.

Profiling the ZSE Top Ten Index Constituents: Simbisa Brands Limited

In this week’s column, the ZSE is profiling Simbisa Brands Limited as a constituent of the ZSE Top 10 Index. Prices and capitalisation figures are as at 3 May 2022.  

‘No child labour on cane plantations’

Sugarcane farmers in the Lowveld have reaffirmed their commitment against child labour, saying the community could deal with people who tried to use children to work as labourers in cane plantations.

Police probe Mutare accident

POLICE have launched investigations into an incident in which four people including a learner died, while eight others were injured when a Toyota Hiace commuter omnibus burst its left tyre and overturned after passing through a police checkpoint along the Vumba-Mutare Road in Mutare yesterday morning.

Police officers in court for receiving bribes

FIVE traffic police officers from a Hatfield roadblock appeared in court yesterday on allegations of seeking and receiving bribes from illegal kombis and mushikashikas plying Harare roads during the ongoing blitz.

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