Drought parches four Zimbabwean provinces, devastating harvest hopes

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Drought Parches Four Zimbabwean Provinces, Devastating Harvest Hopes http://www.voanews.com Relief agencies have started systematically assessing the crop situation in Zimbabwe and will soon issue a comprehensive report on the resumption of food assistance programs, sources said Gibbs Dube | Washington  11 March 2011 Agricultural experts and food officials say maize crops in the Zimbabwean provinces of Matabeleland South …

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We can’t feed the nation – “new” farmers confess

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We can’t feed nation – “new” farmers confess http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ Written by Fungi KwarambaSaturday, 12 March 2011 13:29 HARARE – Farmers who benefited from President Robert Mugabe’s chaotic and corrupt land “reform” programme, which was ostensibly meant to empower disadvantaged blacks, have confessed that they do not have the capacity to feed the nation. The farmers, under their umbrella …

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ZESA pledges uninterrupted power supplies to farmers

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ZESA pledges uninterrupted power supplies to farmers http://www.financialgazette.co.zw/ Friday, 11 March 2011 12:57 Tabitha Mutenga, Staff ReporterZIMBABWE’S power utility ZESA Holdings, which has previously been accused of sabotaging the country’s wheat production, has pledged uninterrupted power supplies to wheat farmers who are targeting an output of 67 500 tonnes this year. The winter cropping season will require at …

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Govt will pay up – Kasukuwere

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Govt will pay up – Kasukuwere http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Ngoni ChanakiraFriday, 11 March 2011 17:26 HARARE – In a major twist of events, which has been strongly welcomed by the business community, the Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation, and Economic Empowerment, Savior Kasukuwere (pictured), said the government will now pay for its stake in foreign-owned firms, instead of …

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Harare policy confusion, squabbles deepen

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Harare policy confusion, squabbles deepen http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Edward Jones     Friday 11 March 2011 HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday the cabinet had not yet decided the minimum local ownership levels for foreign companies under the government’s indigenisation plans, in a sharp rebuke of a minister who said a day earlier a sovereign wealth fund would be …

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Devious anti-sanctions campaign

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Eric Bloch: Devious anti-sanctions campaign http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 11 March 2011 13:26 IT was Sir Walter Scott, the renowned author who lived from 1771 to 1832, who said: “O what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to  deceive!”  Although that was written more than two centuries ago, it is still apt, as evidenced by the  …

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GDP must reach US$15bn before Zimdollar returns

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GDP must reach US$15bn before Zimdollar returns http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ Friday, 11 March 2011 09:48 Bernard Mpofu FINANCE minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe has to grow its economy to US$15 billion and bolster its current account position before bringing back the now redundant local currency. This task for government, which is targeting a Gross Domestic Product of US$9 billion by …

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NGOs abandon irrigation plans

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NGOs abandon irrigation plans http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk Written by Lovejoy SakalaThursday, 10 March 2011 06:30 CHIMANIMANI – Interference in the operation of irrigation schemes by Zanu (PF) in has forced many Non Governmental Organization (NGO)s here to withdraw their support for local villagers.A number of NGOs such as Plan Zimbabwe have been supporting irrigation nitiatives in the province, but Zanu …

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