Farmers Count Loses as Drought Takes Toll on Livestock

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Farmers Count Loses as Drought Takes Toll on Livestock http://www.voazimbabwe.com Ntungamili Nkomo03.12.2012 WASHINGTON DC — Communal farmers in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland region say the drought currently ravaging much of the country is reaching alarming proportions and is killing thousands of livestock and wild animals. Pastures and water sources have dwindled due to poor rainfall, and farmers say they fear …

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China top tobacco buyers list

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China top tobacco buyers list http://www.herald.co.zw/ Monday, 03 December 2012 00:00 Agriculture ReporterChina has continued to top the tobacco buyers’ list since last year with 52, 8 million kilogrammes so far exported to the world’s largest market. Last year during the same period, according to the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board, China had bought 51, 3 million …

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Zimbabwe should wake up to reality

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Editor’s desk:Zimbabwe should wake up to reality http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ December 2, 2012 in EditorialDriving down highways and dirt roads in southern Zimbabwe, one cannot miss the smell of death emanating from the parched veld. Scrawny animals — donkeys and cattle — feebly try to hold on to dear life but their corrugated torsos are testimony to the lost war …

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A different battle

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A different battle   http://www.theage.com.au       Date December 1, 2012 In southern Africa, where elephants and rhinos are being slaughtered in huge numbers, former Australian servicemanDamien Mander has set up a private army to take on the poachers. He talks tactics with Nikki Barrowclough.   Eco warriors … Damien Mander puts International Anti-Poaching …

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Wild animals wreak havoc on cane farmers

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Wild animals wreak havoc on cane farmers http://www.herald.co.zw Saturday, 01 December 2012 00:00 From George Maponga in MasvingoMarauding wild animals have destroyed nearly 1000 hectares of sugar cane at Mkwasine Estates and surrounding areas in Chiredzi, severely crippling operations of hundreds of resettled farmers in the area. Wild animals such as elephants, buffaloes, baboons and monkeys from …

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Demand Chinese Shares – Mliswa

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Demand Chinese Shares – Mliswa http://www.thezimbabwemail.net By Clemence Manyukwe 4 hours 17 minutes ago ZIMBABWEANS should demand shareholding in all Chinese firms as part of the country’s empowerment law which stipulates that all foreign-owned companies should cede 51 percent of their stakes to locals, the Zimbabwe Economic and Empowerment Council (ZEEC) has said.ZEEC president, Temba Mliswa, says it …

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Conference centre built on stolen land

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Zanu PF conference centre built on stolen land http://www.theindependent.co.zw/ November 30, 2012 in News ZANU PF’s controversial US$6,5 million conference facility –– dubbed the “Hall of Shame” ––being built in Gweru ahead of the party’s annual conference next week is reportedly being constructed on stolen farmland with the evicted owner set to take legal action. Report by Elias …

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Mash West secretary’s farm grabbed

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MDC Mash West secretary’s farm grabbed http://www.dailynews.co.zw Tuesday, 27 November 2012 09:47HARARE – A Zanu PF councillor in Hurungwe East has grabbed a farm from a resettled farmer ostensibly because he backs Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC. Zanu PF councillor for ward 3 Eddy Ndlovu on Sunday gave the farmer John Clever Dindiwe one week ultimatum to vacate …

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Chief Urges Zanu (PF) Leaders To Use Indigenisation Policy To Buy Votes

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Chief Urges Zanu (PF) Leaders To Use Indigenisation Policy To Buy Votes http://www.radiovop.com Masvingo, November 26, 2012 – The President of the Chief’s Council, Chief Fortune Charumbira has ordered traditional leaders and Zanu (PF) leadership here to buy votes from villagers using funds acquired from the indigenisation programme’s community ownership scheme so that President Robert Mugabe retains power in …

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Flood warning as heavy rains pound country

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Flood warning as heavy rains pound country http://www.newzimbabwe.com/ 25/11/2012 00:00:00by Staff Reporter HEAVY rains pounded parts of Zimbabwe on Sunday – including the parched south – as the Met Services Department issued a nationwide alert for flash floods, heavy winds and hailstorms. The Met said the heavy rainfall, brought by a cloud system moving eastwards from Botswana, would …

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