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Preparations for the 2020/21 farming season are in dire state with most farmers yet to complete land preparation and sourcing of inputs due to high costs and lack of access to capital, 263Chat Business has established. Despite weather…

High court judge Owen Tagu has struck off the court roll, on a technicality, an urgent appeal filed by Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) to stop coal mining in Hwange National Park. In his judgment Tagu, struck of the court…

The organisers of ZimThrive have announced that the event will now take place in December 2021. In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the month-long event, which was initially set for April of this year, was postponed as a result of…

Danielle Stanisic, Griffith University and Johnson Mak, Griffith University More than 28 million people around the world have now contracted COVID-19, and more than 900,000 people have died. Research groups across the globe are rightly…

BancABC Zimbabwe, the local banking subsidiary of Pan African group, Atlas Mara has today launched the City Hopper Service, a smart local remittance service which allows customers to send foreign currency between cities throughout Zimbabwe…

President Emmerson Mnangagwa Wednesday told opposition members to forget meeting special envoys sent by other countries, particularly, those who come to meet government or Zanu PF leadership as they are exclusively his visitors. This…

Diversified group, TSL Limited suffered a sharp drop in tobacco volume at its auction floors during the quarter ending 31 July 2020 due to chaotic marketing season preparations within the industry. However, firmer tobacco prices for the…

Internationally-acclaimed and award-winning novelist and filmmaker Tsitsi Dangarembga has been shortlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize for Fiction for her latest literary work, The Mournable Body.The shortlist, which also includes Diane…

National Blood Service Zimbabwe (NBSZ) has partnered Facebook to create an innovative feature that will see blood donors signing up to get notifications when blood centres near them require urgent donations to bolster the national bank.…

MUTARE- Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with local parliamentarians and a civic society player, to push for strategies and drafting of policies to fight against corruption.…