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Challenges In Mobilising Agric Funding For 2015/16 Season 20 Aug 2015 Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa Peter Gambara THE Minister of Finance Patrick Chinamasa recently announced, in his 2015 Mid Term Fiscal Policy, that the country will need US$1,7 billion for the 2015/16 summer season. This money is expected to come from different sources that …
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Bogus army, police officers nabbed for robbery August 22, 2015 Crime & Courts Snr Asst Comm Charamba Freeman Razemba Crime ReporterThree suspected armed robbers who were masquerading as police and army officers have been arrested in Zaka and Chiredzi after committing a spate of robberies. The three — Energy Jonasi (20), Knowledge Jonasi (23) and Matron …
Tobacco industry moves to reverse crop’s ecological footprint August 24, 2015 Business The Sustainable Afforestation Association targets to plant up to 30 000ha (or 4 000ha-5 000ha each year) of the fast-growing gum tree in seven years Jeffrey Gogo Climate StoryThe Sustainable Afforestation Association (SAA) has spent $3,7 million planting nearly 4 000 hectares of eucalyptus …
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SPB stalling solar power stations: Mbiriri August 24, 2015 Business Tendai Sahondo Business CorrespondentThe State Procurement Board (SPB) is stifling progress on the planned establishment of three solar power stations that will pump an additional 300MW onto the national grid, secretary of Energy and Power Development, Partson Mbiriri has said. Mr Mbiriri said the procurement process has …
Agric show roars into life August 24, 2015 Local News Elita Chikwati Agriculture ReporterLivestock exhibition at the 105th Harare Agricultural will go ahead despite the outbreak of foot and mouth disease in some parts of the country and African swine fever in Mt Darwin. There were no cattle at the Midlands Show last week owing to the …
Zim turns to South America for grain imports August 24, 2015 Business Grain Millers’ Association of Zimbabwe chairman Tafadzwa Musarara responds to questions from the floor while permanent secretary in Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko’s office Thabani Ndlovu listens at a Bulawayo hotel last week during the Zimbabwe Food Conference and Expo Business EditorZIMBABWE plans to import …
Elephants hunting quota set at 500 August 22, 2015 Local News Elephants at a pool in the Hwange National park recently Prosper Ndlovu Business EditorZIMBABWE has the capacity to remove an average of 500 elephants worth more than $30 million per year through export or trophy hunting quotas allocated through the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority …
Zambia in crisis as Kariba dries up by Business Reporter | Sunday, Aug 23, 2015 | 310 views THE last time Munandi Siatambika remembers Lake Kariba being this empty was 20 years ago. kariba dam hydro electric As the world’s largest man-made reservoir dries, the economic fortunes of Zambia continue to fall. “The situation is quite serious, …
Zim poised for agricultural major take-off by Lincoln Towindo | Sunday, Aug 23, 2015 | 983 views Installation of irrigation equipment sourced under Brazil’s More Food for Africa Programme has begun in various parts of Zimbabwe and will be complete before summer cropping. More land needs to be put under irrigation Around 80 irrigation schemes – eight …
Countrywide electricity disconnections loom by Debra Matabvu | Sunday, Aug 23, 2015 | 900 views Zesa will this week embark on a nationwide exercise to cut power supplies to thousands of consumers owing the parastatal amounts above US$500 despite previous assurances that the debts would be settled through part deductions from prepaid electricity recharge tokens. ELECTRICAL …