Zimbabwe Situation

Agriculture Reporter THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TI Agriculture Reporter THE Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) is training farmers to use sustainable practices for tobacco production amid growing calls by the Framework Convention Tobacco Control (FCTC) for growers to adopt ecologically responsive methods. Speaking on the backdrop of such training in Murehwa recently, […] …
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Court Reporter TRANSPORTER Alphonse Mushanawani, who was jailed for eight years and had his commuter omnibus forfeited to the State after being convicted of dealing and possessing 710kg of dagga in 2019  has been acquitted by the Supreme Court. Mushanawani, who was jointly convicted along with Brighton Dinha, was set free after the Supreme Court […] …
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Fungai Lupande Mashonaland Central Bureau A man from Manhenga in Bindura axed his love rival to death after accusing him of breaking up his marriage before hanging himself. Lovemore Mutonya separated from his wife in 2021 following an infidelity allegation involving a married man, Onias Mafadzavana (47). Acting Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Sergeant Major Samuel […] …
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Farirai Machivenyika Senior Reporter   Parliament’s 2023 pre-budget seminar started this morning at Harare International Conference Centre (HICC). The seminar, which is traditionally held in Victoria Falls, is underway in Harare as a cost-cutting measure. Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda urged Parliament to come up with measures to improve domestic resource mobilisation. […] …
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National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi Crime Reporter Police have offered a US$5 000 reward as part of the intensified manhunt for the 10 outstanding armed robbers of the gang of 13 who were recently involved in a shoot-out with security guards before stealing nearly 10kg of gold in Bulawayo early this month as […] …
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Prosper Dembedza Herald Correspondent Builder George Katsimberis on trial for allegedly defrauding a property company of close to US$1 million in a joint venture for cluster houses in Harare’s upmarket Borrowdale on Tuesday paused because Katsimberis wanted to explain why he believed two constitutional rights had been infringed, but could not do so this week […] …
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Herald Reporter Businessman Farai Matsika has now run out of any possible legal routes in his battle with his uncle Moses Chingwena for a share of Croco Motors after the Supreme Court rejected a series of applications for condonation of a late appeal, for postponement, for a larger appeal bench and for referral to the […] …
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Source: Human rights abuses resurface in Chiadzwa -Newsday Zimbabwe Human rights abuses have resurfaced in the volatile Marange diamond fields in Chiadzwa, Manicaland province, jolting government to dispatch high-ranking officials and State security agents to ease tensions. A highly secretive security indaba was held in Harare last week where Marange villagers, civil society organisations and […] …
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Source: MRP tears into Chief’s Gukurahundi manual – #Asakhe – CITE  MRP president Mqondisi Moyo The Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has criticized the diction used in crafting the chiefs’ manual on Gukurahundi Community Engagement Processes claiming that it minimized the victims’ experiences of the genocide. The chiefs created Volume 2 of the Manual on Community […] …
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Source: NGO accused of cashing in on desperate residents – #Asakhe – CITE Thousands of people in and around Bulawayo fear they may have been duped by a local Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) consortium that goes around communities luring participants by promising them jobs, food vouchers, and monthly relief funds if they part with a small […] …
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