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By Joel Mandaza One of the biggest victories for Parliament last year was how it exposed the government`s Command Agriculture as an opaque resource looting scheme thinly veiled as a food security strategy. The fact that as much as US$3billion was looted through the scheme came to public knowledge when the Tendai Biti led Public Accounts Committee conducted …
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By Joel Mandaza 2019 gave Zimbabwe a stern reminder of how climate change is now a reality. Cyclone Idai displaced more than a thousand and killed hundreds in Chimanimani. One of the most devastating occurrences in the country’s history, Cyclone Idai remains a headache to the country, nine months later. People are still living in …
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By Joel Mandaza 2019 gave Zimbabwe a stern reminder of how climate change is now a reality. Cyclone Idai displaced more than a thousand and killed hundreds in Chimanimani. One of the most devastating occurrences in the country’s history, Cyclone Idai remains a headache to the country, nine months later. People are still living in …
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Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has asked Parliament to explain why Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena is given special treatment in Parliament adding that the youthful flamboyant legislator has never read a report from the Agriculture Committee on his own as he is always absent. Speaking in the National Assembly recently, Honourable Mliswa said it appears …
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By Staff Reporter Zimbabwe Fertiliser Company (ZFC) says they were denied the opportunity to participate in the Presidential Input Scheme despite being owned 50% by the government of Zimbabwe. Due to challenges in the economy, the government has become the largest buyer of fertiliser in the country through its various agricultural schemes such as Command …
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By Daniel Chigundu Binga North legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda says Parliament of Zimbabwe has no power to enforce discipline on corrupt Ministers and government officials whom it would have exposed through its oversight function. Honourable Sibanda’s revelation comes on the back of numerous complaints from members of the public who have been accusing Parliament of …
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By Wisdom Mumera The government says the US$3billion that is alleged by the Public Accounts Committee to have been swindled under the Command Agriculture Program is just a mere administrative error. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday during the Question and Answer session, Agriculture, Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Perence Shiri said his Ministry …
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Chipinge farmer Richard Le Vieux, director of Farfell Coffee Estate (Private) Limited, is engaged in a land dispute with Remembrance Mbudzana. Le Vieux is in the business of exporting coffee, avocados and macadamia nuts but Mbudzana claims he was alloc…
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