14 Tugwi-Mukosi Dam projects for Masvingo

14 Tugwi-Mukosi Dam projects for Masvingo   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Walter Mswazie recently in Chivi GOVERNMENT has identified 14 areas of investment to be exploited at the Tugwi-Mukosi Dam in Masvingo province with a detailed framework of how the projects would be implemented having already been done, a senior Government official has said. Speaking on …

Heavy rains cause nationwide destruction

Heavy rains cause nationwide destruction   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Andile Tshuma, Chronicle Reporter HEAVY rains accompanied by strong winds have left a trail of destruction across the country, the Civil Protection Unit (CPU), said yesterday. In an interview, CPU director Mr Nathan Nkomo said most low lying areas across the country’s 10 provinces were affected …

Quartet found with 96kg ivory

Quartet found with 96kg ivory   19/2/2019 The Chronicle Esinathy Sibanda, Chronicle Reporter FOUR suspected poachers were arrested at Cross Dete Business Centre in Hwange District and elephant tusks weighing 96 kilogrammes were recovered from them. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) rangers and the police who were conducting patrols along the Mabale-Hwange road …

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers

Mnangagwa launches crackdown on illegally settled farm occupiers eDuzeNet 18/2/2019 Hundreds of families have been left homeless after the government launched a crackdown on people who illegally settled on various farms countrywide. In Umguza, just outside Bulawayo, some 240 families at Stoncroft Farm had homesteads torched by the owner of the farm which they occupied …

Zimbabwe maize harvest forecast at 900 000t

Zimbabwe maize harvest forecast at 900 000t eDuzeNet 18/2/2019 ZIMBABWE expects to harvest 900 000 tonnes of maize this year. This is an upward revision from the 800 000 tonnes initially forecast but is below the 1.8 million tonnes, the country consumes on an annual basis. Initially, Zimbabwe had projected to harvest around 800,000 tonnes …

2,4m Zimbos food insecure as drought, rising costs bite

2,4m Zimbos food insecure as drought, rising costs bite – NewsDay Zimbabwe   18/2/2019 The 150% fuel price hike that sparked mass public unrest across Zimbabwe last month sent the cost of living skyrocketing: the price of bread nearly doubled in a week.Worse is likely to come. Combined with poor harvests, political unrest, eroded salaries, …

Matabeleland runs out of rabies vaccine

Matabeleland runs out of rabies vaccines – NewsDay Zimbabwe   18/2/2019 BY RICHARD MUPONDE MATABELELAND region has been hard hit by a shortage of rabies vaccines amid reports that most cases of dog bites in the region were by canines that had not been vaccinated, putting people’s lives at risk. Matabeleland South provincial medical officer …

Matabeleland runs out of rabies vaccines

Matabeleland runs out of rabies vaccines – NewsDay Zimbabwe   18/2/2019 BY RICHARD MUPONDE MATABELELAND region has been hard hit by a shortage of rabies vaccines amid reports that most cases of dog bites in the region were by canines that had not been vaccinated, putting people’s lives at risk. Matabeleland South provincial medical officer …

Beralus investors visit Kanyemba

Beralus investors visit Kanyemba   `18/2/2019 The Herald Fungai Lupande Mash Central Bureau A team of investors from Belarus is interested in developing 10 000 hectares of land in the Kanyemba area, Mbire District, for agriculture production, provincial administrator Mr Cosmos Chiringa has said. The team visited Kanyemba a fortnight ago. The visit was precipitated …

Time to look outside Cites should ivory pitch fail again

Time to look outside Cites should ivory pitch fail again   18/2/2019 The Herald Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story Zimbabwe cannot be faulted for trying to make the Cites see reason, a commodity that apparently is now at a premium within the global watchdog for endangered animal species. Well, at least as far as noble requests …