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Land barons are reported by Domboshawa residents to have emerged in their area and are allegedly intimidating villagers to give up their communal land holdings and then subdivide these and parcel out stands for money, with the whole process illegal and not following any of the rules of converting rural …

Mashonaland Central is the leading province on dam stocking with eight dams so far, recent updates on the programme have revealed. Other stocked dams are in Mashonaland West and East, Midlands and Masvingo Provinces. The advent of the 2022/23 rainy season has seen a spike in the number of dams …

President Mnangagwa has said concerted efforts and not finger-pointing will go a long way in mitigating the impact of climate change. Speaking during a high-level engagement on Africa’s resilience to climate change hosted by his Botswana counterpart President Masisi on the sidelines of the Cop27 conference, President Mnangagwa said the …

THE government and the Marange community are set to collide during this week’s visit by officials from the World Diamond Council (WDC) at a time human rights abuses and the looting of diamonds in the area are escalating. The WDC’s visit to Marange on Tuesday is part of an exercise …

Under pressure from unions, the government on Monday scrapped its controversial plan to pay performance-based bonuses to civil servants, a departure from the past practice of paying a uniform 13th cheque to public sector workers. The decision came during a National Joint Negotiating Council meeting bringing together government and public …

COP27 is the 27th Conference of the Parties (countries) that signed up to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The convention was established at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, and has been ratified by 198 countries. They agreed to stabilise the production of greenhouse gases in order to …

By Bindura Bureau Very few are families that support the girl child to continue with her education after being impregnated at school going age. Usually, it would be the end of her education journey. Exacerbated by the current economic situation, this trend is now very common in Zimbabwe and the …

A research study has ranked the main factors which hinder youths who abuse crystal meth from accessing treatment services, with stigma and privacy issues the most common.  Crystal meth is a strong and highly addictive illicit drug which gives a hallucinatory effect to users. As consumption of the dangerous drug …

By Richard Kawazi A six-month-old baby survived after a lightning bolt struck its mother at Guttingwood farm in Bindura yesterday, Nhau/Indaba has heard. Reports say Vigilance Mushore (19) of Trespasses Farm was fatally struck by the bolt at around 2pm while in the company of her six-month-old baby and her …

The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Sunday scrubbed the launch of a rocket that would have taken Zimbabwe’s first satellite into obit. Zimbabwe, Uganda and Japan are sending small CubeSats into low-earth obit – the first for the African countries. NASA said the attempted launch of …