Victoria Falls anti poaching unit catches ivory dealers
VFAPU scouts with some of the wire snares they have removed. The ivory dealers, all Victoria Falls residents, were caught in January last year with nearly 10kg of elephant tusks during undercover...
View Article2015 Mana game count report
The Mana Pools Game Count took place on the 26th and 27th September. The census had a total of 119 voluntary participants in 21 teams divided into 18 transect teams and 3 static teams. Though the...
View ArticleCombating Climate Change in Zimbabwe
A woman watches her cow die in the drought-stricken Chisumbanje area. This year we have had an exceptional El Nino with high sea temperatures in the northern Pacific Ocean and we have watched as week...
View ArticleIs history repeating itself
Oral and written evidence helped me get a glimpse of some of the least manipulated historic moments in the build up of what we now call Zimbabwe. And it is out of these narratives that I am just going...
View ArticleZimbabwe: Stranded in Stasis
Zimbabwe is floundering, with little sign of meaningful reform and sustainable, broad-based recovery. Political uncertainty and economic insecurity have worsened; the Zimbabwe African National Union –...
View ArticleDoes land reform increase resilience to drought?
“As production has become more constrained due to declining field areas and reduced land quality and local storage levels have become more limited due to shifts in cropping patterns and greater crop...
View ArticleZim after Bob: Plotting and planning
Mugabe should have resigned a long time ago … Didymus Mutasa First, there was a mysterious break-in at the office of his vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, a frontrunner to succeed Mugabe, who turned...
View ArticleMufakose 2 High wins St.Johns chess festival
The team won all its five games, but escaped from the jaws of defeat against Mabvuku the defending champions who failed to defend their title which they won last year. The two teams met in the fourth...
View ArticleSuccession war likely ‘long and painful’
Succession rivals … Grace Mugabe and vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa “Mugabe’s birthday,” a state-run newspaper proclaimed this month, “is like that of Jesus Christ.” But when Mugabe — the world’s...
View ArticleBanks scramble to escape US fines
Banking sector sources in Zimbabwe said banks were scrambling for a way out of potential fines by the US. Zimbabwe is host to international banks, such as Standard Bank, Standard Chartered, Barclays,...
View ArticleConCourt throws out fired journos’ case
Led the hearing … Deputy Chief Justice Luke Malaba Former ANZ journalists had filed last year contesting as unconstitutional their dismissal from work that same year. ANZ are publishers of The Daily...
View ArticleBanned Gukurahundi exhibition now in SA
Freedom of artistic expression … One of the instalations which angered the authorities Bulawayo based visual artist, Owen Maseko, got into trouble with the state after he stage the exhibition titled...
View ArticleIMF Says new financing for Zimbabwe remains ‘A Long Process’
International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Christine LaGarde. Asked in an exclusive interview with VOA Studio 7 for Zimbabwe if the IMF was ready to give Harare fresh funding, Beddies said,...
View ArticleMining is riven with violence and business is complicit
An open-pit gold mine in Central African Republic. Companies often fail to ask questions and identify warning signs in their supply chain that might warrant further investigation and action....
View ArticleBiti cheers as bashed war vets gather
The new gathering comes as the opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) led by former finance minister Tendai Biti commended the ex-fighters for finally “aligning themselves with the broader masses...
View ArticleZim operates in state of disaster
It also feature an article on recommended minimum standards for food aid distribution, among other issues, as the El Nino-induced drought continues and three million people stare starvation in the...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s key economic enablers
Vince Musewe PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs This week we deal with the agricultural sector as the key driver of economic revival, food security and job creation. Agriculture remains one...
View ArticleIMF and World Bank re-engagement must be principled
As we rightly declare in the Mandel Declaration of 2014 that we believe Zimbabwe’s discussions with the IMF, World Bank and other creditors on the question of debt should be concluded soon to allow...
View ArticleIs Mujuru really changed
ZIMBABWE People First (ZPF) leader Joice Mujuru Dear Editor, There was obvious excitement among the group that gathered to witness the official launch of the Zimbabwe People First party. It is health...
View ArticleZim PA blows $370k UK firm cash on luxuries
Jailed … Jean Tugwete Jean Tugwete has appeared in court and was jailed for three and a half years. Tugwete, 41, lied her way into a job working for the Chief Executive of London marketing firm...
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