Melisa Chatikobo THE Zimbabwe Agriculture Growth Programme (ZAPG) is lobbying the government to increase the producer price of milk to cushion dairy farmers who are in danger of running out of business. In the September issue Livestock Policy Tracker titled, “Pricing Under the Dairy Value Chain”, ZAPG said Zimbabwe’s milk retail price is too low…
THE government says it is killing two birds with one stone by taking drastic measures to address the national housing backlog, which will also in turn attend to infrastructure deficiencies in the tourism industry. Speaking during the launch of the National Real Estate Day in Harare at the weekend, Justice ministry permanent secretary Virginia Mabhiza…
IT APPEARS as if it’s not raining at the moment but pouring for the beleaguered widow of the late former president Robert Mugabe, Grace.Apparently dogged by poor health and still fighting in the courts to stop the remains of her husband from being exhumed from the courtyard of the family’s rural home at Kutama Village…
By Melisa Chatikobo Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA) is going to establish aggregation centres across the country that will help farmers store and package their horticulture products. This comes as the government has introduced a Presidential Rural Horticulture Transformation Plan programme for the 2021/22 agriculture season.Under the scheme, authorities are targeting 2.3 million households which will…
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two suspects who have been on the run for the past few weeks after they allegedly teamed up and fatally hit a man in Nkulumane suburb. The two, Sydney Siyamwi, 23, and Recent Mukatawa, 26, allegedly assaulted Sabelo Gumbo with bricks until he fell unconscious. Seven days later, Gumbo reportedly succumbed…
AS THE 2023 harmonised elections are fast-approaching, political temperature in the country is reaching boiling point with reports of political violence, both inter and intra party, rising. Main political parties — Zanu PF and the MDC Alliance — have been accusing each other of fanning and perpetrating violence.The MDC Alliance last Monday claimed Zanu PF…
NELSON Chamisa, has hinted to his followers that he has a new name for his party, after opposition leader Douglas Mwonzora recently declared that the MDC-T will participate in future elections as the MDC Alliance. “You know that my brother (President Emmerson) Mnangagwa wanted to decimate our party using his proxies who are now claiming our…
THE Zimbabwe Passenger Company (Zupco) yesterday increased bus fares for all of its urban routes, leaving those who rely on the service lamenting that it would now be unaffordable. Commuters will now have to pay $80 up from $60 for a trip between 21 and 30 km on coaches, while those boarding Zupco kombis on…
THE government is confident that its Agriculture Recovery Plan (ARP) will help eliminate hunger and propel Zimbabwe to achieve an upper middle-class economy by 2030. The ARP is a government initiative spearheaded by the Agriculture ministry that aims to restore the country’s status as the breadbasket of the region by providing climate-proof inputs through the…
A HARARE magistrate has called for the doctor who examined Vice President Constantino Chiwenga’s estranged wife Marry, pictured, to be brought back to court to testify again whether she is fit to stand trial. Government medical expert Simukai Percy Machawira examined Marry and earlier this week endorsed that she was physically fit to stand trial…
