Eric Bloch: Policy shift key to economic recovery

Eric Bloch: Policy shift key to economic recovery http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ December 14, 2012 in Opinion ZIMBABWE has irrefutable potential to have a thriving economy of such magnitude that poverty amongst its populace would be virtually non-existent. Column By Eric Bloch It could have one of the most vibrant economies in Africa, with employment for almost all desirous of …

Save Conservancy: Traditional leaders speak out

Save Conservancy: Traditional leaders speak out http://www.herald.co.zw Thursday, 13 December 2012 00:00 Lloyd Gumbo recently in Save Valley Traditional leaders in and around the Save Valley Conservancy have vowed to scuttle the Germans’ plan to translocate animals from the conservancy to Gonarezhou Trans-Frontier Park. This followed reports that the German government was planning to fund the translocation …

Rangers kill poachers, recover weapons of war

Rangers kill poachers, recover weapons of war http://www.herald.co.zw/ Wednesday, 12 December 2012 00:00 Isdore Guvamombe Features Editor National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority rangers have killed two elephant poachers in the Dande Safari Area in Mbire north of Guruve and recovered weapons, among them mortar bombs. Motor bombs are weapons of war and it is yet to …

World Bank Technical Team in Bid To Revive Zimbabwe’s Economy

World Bank Technical Team in Bid To Revive Zimbabwe’s Economy http://www.voazimbabwe.com 12.12.2012 A techinical team assembled by the World Bank has produced a report aimed at turning around zimbabwe’s troubled economy. The report which focuses on agriculture, manufacturing and mining was released in harare today. However, the world bank’s lending program in zimbabwe is inactive due to arrears …

Resolutions of conference

Resolutions of ZANU PF conference http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/ 11.12.12 We publish here the full resolutions of the just-ended Zanu-PF 13th Annual National People’s Conference Preamble The Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front held its 13th Annual National People’s Conference in Gweru, Midlands Province at the Gweru Convention and Exhibition Centre from 5th-9th December 2012. The conference was officially opened by …

Communique on Extraordinary SADC Summit

Communique on Extraordinary SADC Summit http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk 11.12.12 1. The Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held in Dar es Salaam, United Republic of Tanzania from 7 – 8 December 2012. 2. Summit was attended by the following Heads of State and Government and or their representatives: DRC: …

Poacher shot dead, 2 rifles seized

Poacher shot dead, 2 rifles seized http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 10/12/2012 00:00:00by Staff Reporter GAME rangers shot and killed a suspected poacher at Kazungula National Park on Saturday – the second fatal confrontation in a month, police said on Monday. Four other poachers escaped in the early morning raid on their camp in the Matetsi Unit Six area, a subdivision of …

Party admits millions owed to displaced farmers

ZANU PF admits millions owed to displaced farmers http://www.swradioafrica.com By Alex Bell10 December 2012 ZANU PF has admitted that it does have an obligation to pay compensation to farmers forced off their properties in the land grab campaign, also admitting it illegally seized many farms. This was revealed in a Central Committee report tabled before the ZANU …

Climate change: Farmers must reinvent

Climate change: Farmers must reinvent http://www.thestandard.co.zw December 9, 2012 in Environment, Opinion No longer can farmers employ the same agricultural techniques they used a decade ago and expect to reap as much as they might have back then. Column by Chipo Masara Farmers in Zimbabwe have not been spared from the effects of changes, mostly climatic, that …

Govt to unbundle ZESA

Govt to unbundle ZESA http://www.financialgazette.co.zw/ Friday, 07 December 2012 11:46 Phillimon MhlangaGOVERNMENT is this month expected to unbundle ZESA Holdings into three separate entities, The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets can report.The move is meant to clean up a huge debt on the power utility’s balance sheet and create a level playing field for independent power producers …