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Conrad Mupesa Mashonaland West Bureau THERE is a huge drive to rally farmers in Mashonaland West to produce fresh food for export markets, targeting nations such as the United Arab Emirates. Dubai, being a largely desert country, imports a lot of agricultural produce, and farmers in Mashonaland West are now planning to boost production and […]
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Michael Tome Business Reporter The foreign exchange auctions have disbursed over US$3,2 billion to productive sectors since they opened in 2020, a development that resulted in the growth of local industry’s capacity utilisation to 56,62 percent in 2021. Addressing participants at the currency indaba of the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) yesterday, Finance and Economic Development […]
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George Maponga in Masvingo PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today preside over the ground breaking ceremony of a US$300 million spodumene project at Bikita Minerals that will ramp up lithium production and extend the life of Zimbabwe’s oldest mine. A Chinese firm, Sino Mine, acquired Bikita Minerals and is injecting funds to increase lithium output while extending […]
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Thupeyo Muleya, Beitbridge Bureau Stakeholders have commended the Government for rolling out massive housing projects in Beitbridge that will ease accommodation woes that have perennially affected its workers deployed to the country’s busiest inland port of entry. A total of 220 houses are being built some 3km east of the town as part of the […]
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Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter OIL and gas exploration firm, Invictus Energy, has announced the process of bringing the Exalo #202 rig from Tanzania to the Mukuyu-1 well site in Zimbabwe has commenced. The rig will be used by the company to drill the first of its Muzarabani two-well exploration programme in Cabora Bassa basin. […]
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Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter THE global tourism sector recorded a 182 percent year-on-year increase in the first quarter of the year welcoming an estimated 117 million international visitors compared to 41 million in the comparable period in 2021. Following the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic which was first detected in China in December 2019, […]
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Africa Moyo in VICTORIA FALLS MINERS say the creation of a conducive operating environment has boosted their operations, with notable growth in sub-sectors such as gold, platinum, diamonds and platinum. This came out during the official opening of the Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe Annual Conference here, where President Mnangagwa was the guest of honour. […]
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Herald Reporters Corporates should be able to adopt green open spaces with backing from local authorities as a way of discouraging mushrooming of illegal dumpsites and areas of overgrown grass and vegetation, President Mnangagwa said yesterday on the June national clean-up day. The President made the call in a speech read on his behalf by […]
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George Maponga in Masvingo Communities in and around Rutenga Growth point in Mwenezi this year reaped huge cash dividends from the marula or mapfura fruit ubiquitous in the arid district after they sold a record 1 100 tonnes of the fruit that is a key raw material for a processing and beneficiation plant commissioned by […]
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Leonard Ncube and Robin Muchetu in HWANGE THE Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) must not interfere with domestic trade, sovereignty of states and their rights to sustainable use of wildlife as enshrined in their national policies, African Ministers responsible for Environment, Wildlife and Tourism, have said. They […]
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Africa Moyo Deputy News Editor THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company is now highly profitable after a period when it was loss-making having upgraded its mining technology to improve diamonds quality. This year the mine expects to produce almost a tonne of diamonds. The company’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr Mark Mabhudhu, said yesterday that poor mining […]
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Kudzanai Sharara in DAVOS, Switzerland African leaders should concentrate on making sure the continent is food secure since it has capacity to do so and cannot continue to rely on the international community, President Mnangagwa said here yesterday. The world is currently grappling with food challenges in the form of either critical shortages or rising […]
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Mukudzei Chingwere recently in JAKARTA, Indonesia Indonesia is eager to see the expediting of investment negotiations with Zimbabwe so that the desired deals immediately take-off, Indonesian Vice President Ma’ruf Amin said this week. After meeting Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on the sidelines of the recent Water, Sanitation and Hygiene, Sector Ministers Meeting held in Jakarta […]
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Bulawayo Bureau Villagers from Mpofu in Lupane, Matabeleland North never thought one day they would contribute to national food security largely due to poor soils in the area. Lupane district is largely sandy and for years the community had to rely on Government handouts following recurring droughts. Even this year, most villagers did not get […]
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Kudzaishe Muhamba Herald Reporter The Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) has received eight more borehole drilling rigs, 20 tractors and excavators to support communities across the country as the Government’s order of 50 borehole rigs continues being delivered. The equipment, which was handed over by Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Resettlement Minister Dr Anxious […]