Zimbabwe power cuts worsen after plant shutdown

Zimbabwe power cuts worsen after plant shutdownhttp://af.reuters.com/ Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:05am GMT HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwe’s state power utility ZESA Holdings has extended electricity cuts after a complete loss of generation at the Hwange thermal plant, the company said in a statement on Saturday. Most urban areas have for the past week experienced prolonged …

Sunday Opinion: Planning ahead crucial for grain imports

Sunday Opinion: Planning ahead crucial for grain importshttp://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:42 THERE have been calls for government to start importing 500 000 tonnes of grain as it is obvious that this season has been disastrous. The Minister of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development has acknowledged the grain shortage and has called for an …

Business Council of Zimbabwe Response to SI 21/2010

  31 Josiah Chinamano Avenue. P.O. Box 374 Harare, Zimbabwe Tel: +263-4-251490/6 Email: kmatare@czi.co.zw 18 February 2010 The Prime Minister Republic of Zimbabwe Right Honourable M R Tsvangirai Munhumutapa Building Samora Machel Avenue Harare Dear Sir Business Council of Zimbabwe (BCZ) Response to Statutory Instrument 21 of 2010 As you know, the BCZ is made …

Livestock easy target for cross-border smuggling

Livestock easy target for cross-border smugglers http://www.sowetan.co.za  18 February 2010 Chester Makana  THE increasing theft of livestock is adversely affecting communal farmers, the Masisi Livestock Forum said yesterday.  The forum says rustlers are smuggling the stolen animals to Zimbabwe and Mozambique, .  President of the forum Sunday Mpofu was commenting after smugglers stole 20 cattle at Masisi …

Zimbabwe’s Controversial Indigenisation Regulations Dropped

Zimbabwe’s Controversial Indigenisation Regulations Dropped http://news.radiovop.com/  16/02/2010 22:35:00  Harare, February 17, 2010 – Zimbabwe’s Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister, Saviour Kasukuwere has backed down from implementing his controversial indigenisation regulations gazetted two weeks ago as pressure mounted on Zimbabwe to review the legislation which was widely feared it would scare away investors.  The regulations, which …

We had no need for land – resettled Zimbabwe peasants confess

We had no need for land – resettled Zimbabwe peasants confess http://www.zimdaily.com  By CHAKWANDA MANGEPA  Published: Thursday 18 February 2010  HARARE – Beneficiaries of the chaotic land reform programme have confessed that their participation in the land grab exercise was a result of greed to merely snatch the farm houses from the white community and not …

Nine die of diarrhoea in Mwenezi

 The Herald – 17 January 2010 Nine die of diarrhoea in Mwenezi  Health officials investigating eight cholera-related cases in the area  From George Maponga in MASVINGO  NINE people have died of severe diarrhoea caused by suspected food poisoning in different parts of Mwenezi District, while health officials are investigating eight cholera-related cases in the area.  …

Conservation strategy to save Africa’s big cats teaches old dogs new tricks

Conservation strategy to save Africa’s big cats teaches old dogs new tricks http://www.theglobeandmail.com  GEOFFREY YORK  MOLOPO RIVER, SOUTH AFRICA – From Tuesday’s Globe and Mail Published on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 12:00AM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2010 3:20AM EST  gyork@globeandmail.com  In a vast wilderness of thorn trees and grasslands on the edge of …

SA moots new land policy

SA moots new land policy http://www.zimonline.co.za  by Own Correspondent Tuesday 16 February 2010  JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government on Monday said it plans to introduce a new draft policy on land tenure this year aimed at quickening the country’s snail-paced transfer of land to landless black people.  Thousands of poor blacks are still waiting for the …

Tsvangirai Says Zimbabwe Food Situation Critical

Tsvangirai Says Zimbabwe Food Situation Critical http://news.radiovop.com  16/02/2010 06:35:00  Harare, February 16, 2010 – Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Zimbabwe is drawing an urgent drought mitigation plan as the country’s food situation has reached “catastrophic” levels with most parts of the country having received below normal rainfall.  “I’m sure we are already faced with a …