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Man fined $500 for not wearing mask 6/5/2020 The Herald Victor Maphosa Herald Correspondent DEFYING Government’s directive on wearing face masks yesterday proved costly for a Harare man who was fined $500. The Government recently announced that the wearing of masks was now a legal requirement. In terms of new health regulations gazetted on …
Tobacco deliveries increase, prices firm Herald 6/5/2020 TIMB auction floors Elita Chikwati Senior Reporter The volume of flue-cured tobacco being delivered to the floors continues to increase as prices firm. By day three of the opening of the 2020 marketing season, farmers had sold 694 496 kilogrammes of tobacco worth US$1,6 million with contact …
Fuel prices fall Herald 6/5/2020 Mr Eddington Mazambani Herald Reporter THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) yesterday reduced the price of petrol and diesel by 77 cents and 68 cents respectively owing to a fall in Free on Board (FOB) prices and the revised duty regime. Zera said the new prices would see a …
Covid-19 testing rules relaxed – Second-hand clothes ban tightened Chronicle 6/5/2020 Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter GOVERNMENT has allowed companies to reopen without mandatory Covid-19 testing of employees as stipulated in terms of Statutory Instrument 99 of 2020 and has tightened measures to enforce the ban on importation of second hand clothes. Information, Publicity and …
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Pair fined $500 for maize theft NewsDay 4/5/2020 Two Bindura men were on Friday fined $500 or alternatively a 30-day jail term for stealing green maize cobs from a local commercial farm. BY SIMBARASHE SITHOLE Dadirai Zindonde (23) and Gladis Siburinyu(22) were sentenced on their own plea of guilty when they appeared before magistrate …
Speed up maize distribution: Mohadi Herald 5/5/2020 Vice President Mohadi Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Maize distribution to vulnerable people, especially in rural areas, must be expedited to ensure no one goes hungry, Vice President Kembo Mohadi has said. He said it was important for Government to take care of citizens, especially those affected by …
Farmers must treat cattle rearing like business Herald 5/5/2020 Running cattle operations in a self-sustaining way will help in reducing losses Obert Chifamba Agric-Insight THOUSANDS, if not millions of cattle farmers countrywide, spent the better part of 2018 and 2019 battling to contain rampaging tick-borne diseases that left most of them without even a single …
Govt to review wheat prices Herald 4/5/2020 Deputy Minister Karoro Andrew Muvishi Mashonaland East Correspondent The producer price of wheat will be reviewed to cover high production costs incurred by farmers, a Government official has said. Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Deputy Minister Douglas Karoro at a field day in Goromonzi last week said Government …
Product dumping worries dairy farmers Herald 4/5/2020 Business Reporter The Zimbabwe Association of Dairy Farmers has expressed concern that stockpiling of milk and milk-based products across the world, could result in product dumping from developed markets at the expense of viability of local players. The dairy farmers’ representative body national chairman Mr Kudzai Chirima, …
Wearing masks now legal requirement Herald 4/5/2020 Dr Moyo Herald Reporter Wearing masks in public places is legally required from today in terms of new public health regulations gazetted on Saturday and those who fail to wear them when they leave home can be arrested. But the masks can be improvised in terms of …