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Tawanda Mangoma in Chiredzi Minister of State for Masvingo Provincial Affairs Ezra Chadzamira has urged luminaries, corporates and Government to pool resources for the construction of a state-of-the-art maternity ward at Chiredzi District Hospital and to rehabilitate the local polyclinic. Addressing journalists after touring medical facilities in the sugar growing town on Tuesday, Minister Chadzamira […]
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Runesu Gwidi Masvingo Correspondent Government has started an artificial insemination programme to boost livestock production, a Cabinet minister has said. Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Professor Amon Murwira recently advised the business community here that Government was working on a number of initiatives to boost the national herd. He said some […]
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Tawanda Mangoma in Chiredzi The Cotton Company of Zimbabwe (Cottco) has awarded Mr Ranganai Muzivirwa with a tractor, farm trailer and a three-disc plough all worth over $100 000 for being the best “white gold” farmer during last year’s cropping season. Mr Muzivirwa of Ward 27 in Chiredzi West Constituency beat 400 000 other cotton […]
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Runesu Gwidi in MASVINGO Government has reaffirmed its commitment to address accommodation challenges at tertiary institutions by building hostels to cater for an estimated 130 000 college and universities. The deputy principal director in the Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Mr Cuthbert Butete said recently that according to a survey […]
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Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau TRAVELLERS who entered the country through Beitbridge Border Post during the just ended festive season increased to 381 520 from 345 987 last year. The assistant regional immigration officer in charge of Beitbridge, Mr Nqobile Ncube attributed the surge in entries to the confidence travellers had with the level of efficiency […]
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George Maponga Masvingo Bureau The Zimbabwe Sugar Sales (ZSS) board has agreed to sell sugar to small traders on credit, in a development that is expected to significantly empower small businesses, while increasing penetration of the commodity on the local market. Only a few big wholesalers and selected firms are getting the commodity on credit […]
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Walter Mswazie Masvingo Correspondent Masvingo City Council is working on completing the upgrading of the water reticulation facilities at Bushemead to improve the access of potable and clean water by residents and businesses in the city, an official has said. The Mayor, Councillor Collen Maboke, yesterday said they were working on modalities to get a […]
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Walter Mswazie in Masvingo Tailors here have been cashing-in on the back to school rush with most recording brisk business since Friday last week. A lot of parents made a last minute rush to buy uniforms for their children, ahead of the opening day yesterday. A survey by our news crew in Masvingo showed that […]
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Government and its development partners have been urged to provide more than 100 tents to temporarily shelter scores of families across Mwenezi West that were left homeless by destructive winds last week.
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MASVINGO residents have raised concern over the non-utilisation of the $300 000 road levy collected by council last year to service the city’s damaged roads.
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Two police officers deployed at Beitbridge have been arrested for allegedly extorting over R5 000 from a suspected illegal fuel dealer they found buying the commodity from a haulage truck driver recently.
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ZANU-PF National Secretary for the Youth League Cde Pupurai Togarepi has implored Government to expedite the establishment of more Vocational Training Centres (VTCs) countrywide.
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FIFTY-THREE people cheated death when the Inter-Africa bus they were travelling in experienced brake failure, veered off the road and overturned as the driver attempted to stop at a police roadblock at the 10km peg along the Masvingo-Zvishavane road around midday on Wednesday last week.
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Beitbridge East legislator Cde Albert Nguluvhe has urged Government and its partners to increase support to the local district referral hospital to improve service delivery, considering it also caters for the regional transit population.
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Crops here are wilting due to moisture stress as a result of erratic rains.
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