Commercial Farmers' Union of Zimbabwe
Zim to begin selling tobacco http://www.zimonline.co.za/ by Own Correspondent Tuesday 14 February 2012 HARARE – Zimbabwe’s tobacco selling season opens tomorrow with at least 150 million kilogrammes expected to be sold this year up from 132.5 million kilogrammes sold last year, in yet another sign of recovery in the farming sector after a decade of decline blamed on …
Kariba Dam Wall On Zimbabwe Side Risk Collapsing:Mangoma http://www.radiovop.com Harare, February 13, 2012 – The dam wall on the Zimbabwean side on one of the world biggest dams, Kariba is weak and requires urgent repairs to prevent the wall from collapsing, Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma said Monday. Mangoma who was presenting the state of the …
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Mangoma taken to task http://www.dailynews.co.zw/ By Gift Phiri, Senior WriterTuesday, 14 February 2012 14:58 HARARE – Mines and Energy parliamentary portfolio committee chairman Edward Chindori-Chininga yesterday took Energy minister Elton Mangoma to task for allowing his permanent secretary to continue defaulting on an electricity bill of more than $30 000 that he accrued at his home. The allegation …
Zimbabwe’s debt-crippled power utility plans to get tough http://news.monstersandcritics.com Feb 14, 2012, 15:18 GMT Harare – Threatened with being cut off from electricity imports from its neighbours for non-payment, Zimbabwe’s state-owned power utility said on Tuesday it would cut off hundreds of top politicians and civil servants who refuse to pay their bills. The move comes after Energy …
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Zimbabwe power imports at risk http://mg.co.za/ HARARE, ZIMBABWE – Feb 13 2012 18:14 Zimbabwe’s energy minister warned on Monday that the country risks losing electricity imports from its major supplier if it fails to pay a $90-million debt to Mozambique’s Hydro Cabora Bassa dam. “That is one debt that we have got to service because if we …
Police Thump War Veterans http://www.radiovop.com Masvingo, February 12, 2012 – Armed riot police gave veterans of the liberation war a comprehensive thumping this week after they had pushed their luck a step ahead by trying to invade farms owned by black Zimbabweans along Masvingo-Mutare highway. Self-styled war veteran Francis Zimuto popularly known as Black Jesus had earlier last week …
Court Evicts Mohadi from “His” Plot http://www.radiovop.com/ Bulawayo, February 12, 2012- High Court Judge Justice Lawrence Kamocha has ordered co- Home Affairs minister, Kembo Mohadi’s wife Tambudzani Mohadi and son Campbell to vacate a Beitbridge farm owned by four villagers they occupied illegally. Four villagers Given Mbedzi, Alfheli Nare, Kumbirai Ncube and Sorofia Ndou, who are the applicants, had …
‘Mugabes barring us from farm, not state’ http://www.timeslive.co.za HENDRICKS CHIZHANJE | 12 February, 2012 20:05 More than 1000 families face eviction from a farm in Mashonaland Central to create room for the expansion of farming ventures allegedly sponsored by President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace. The families moved to the farm during the land-grab exercise. The …
‘Black Jesus’ tastes own medicine http://www.thestandard.co.zw/ Saturday, 11 February 2012 19:36 MASVINGO — When he became the first person in Zimbabwe to invade a white-owned commercial farm that precipitated the violent land grab in 2000, Francis Zimuto aka Black Jesus faced the easiest of all tasks.He even staged a one-man march from Masvingo to Harare carrying a …
Anti-Corruption Commission Probes Abuse of Farming Inputs http://www.voanews.com/ 09 February 2012 At least seven GMB officials, including Hwange depot manager Magugu Ndebele, were arrested recently in Matabeleland region following the looting of 30 tonnes of agricultural inputs and 81 tonnes of processed grain in Bulawayo and Binga, Matabeleland North Gibbs Dube | Washington Zimbabwe’s Anti-Corruption Commission has deployed …
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