Alien armyworms invade Southern Africa after worst drought in more than 35 years ravaged crops and sent food prices soaring.

Alien armyworms invade Southern Africa after worst drought in more than 35 years ravaged crops and sent food prices soaring.

  Harare — After Soutern Africa’s worst drought in more than 35 years ravaged crops and sent food prices soaring, farmers are battling a new crisis: alien armyworms. Godwin Mukenani Mwiya first noticed caterpillars chewing through his corn field south of Lusaka, Zambia’s capital, near the end of December. Two weeks later, he’d lost half his crop to the pest that’s already invaded more than 10% of farms in the country and spread to Zimbabwe…

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Third Force is courting prominent businesspersons to to stand as its presidential candidate.- Temba Mliswa

Third Force is courting prominent businesspersons to to stand as its presidential candidate.- Temba Mliswa

  INDEPENDENT Norton MP Temba Mliswa yesterday upped the stakes in the 2018 presidential elections when he announced that his formation of independents under the banner Third Force is courting some prominent businesspersons to come and stand as its presidential candidate. Mliswa said the current opposition leadership was suspicious of former Zanu PF members, thus, further damaging the prospects of a grand coalition of opposition forces against President Robert Mugabe in the watershed poll. “Our…

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‘Zanu-pf will win the Bikita West by-election this Saturday because opposition coalitions are not effective on the electoral field’.-Temba Mliswa

‘Zanu-pf will win the Bikita West by-election this Saturday because opposition coalitions are not effective on the electoral field’.-Temba Mliswa

Norton independent legislator Mr Temba Mliswa yesterday tipped zanu-pf to win the Bikita West by-election this Saturday.   Mr Mliswa won the Norton seat as an independent candidate last year.   Addressing a Press conference in Harare, Mr Mliswa said opposition coalitions were not effective on the electoral field.   “You cannot win an election without a component of zanu-pf,” he said. “zanu-pf is the ruling party and for the coalition to think, even if…

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BREAKING NEWS: Government says it cannot afford to pay civil servant bonuses and can’t issue bonus dates because its broke

BREAKING NEWS: Government says it cannot afford  to pay civil servant bonuses and can’t issue bonus dates because its broke

Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister Prisca Mupfumira yesterday told The Chronicle that she would meet the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya on January 25 to discuss the way forward on the issue of bonuses. “The Government doesn’t have money at the moment. This makes it difficult for us to announce dates. We don’t want to make promises that we’ll not be…

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Spot fines become a huge cash cow for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after raising US$59 million in a year

Spot fines become a huge cash cow for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after raising US$59 million  in a year

. Spot fines are increasingly becoming a huge cash cow for the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) amid revelations the force collects about $59 million a year. Home Affairs permanent secretary, Melusi Matshiya, yesterday made the revelations, as he defended the retention of fees by various departments under his ministry, including the police, Registrar-General’s Office, Immigration and other departments, saying all the money they collected was properly accounted for. Matshiya was addressing members of the Parliamentary…

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(ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira files a US$2 million defamation lawsuit against Mabvuku-Tafara MP, James Maridadi

(ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira  files a US$2 million defamation lawsuit against Mabvuku-Tafara MP, James Maridadi

  INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira has filed a $2 million defamation lawsuit against Mabvuku-Tafara MP, James Maridadi, claiming the opposition legislator defamed him in an article published in the Daily News in May last year. This follows the publication of an opinion piece by Maridadi, titled A chip off the old block, which referred to widely-circulating allegations at the time that Mandiwanzira had forced the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of…

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A JILTED Murewa man, who deserted family in 2014 to South Africa, returned this month and strangled his wife, for allegedly dating other men

Isaac Dindingwe, of Chigaramasimbe village in Murewa, is alleged to have handed himself over at Musami Police Station. He allegedly committed the heinous offence on January 4 at a farm in Juru. The customarily-married couple had three children together before Dindingwe deserted the family, police sources said. It is alleged that on the fateful day, the now-deceased Pindura met Dindingwe at the Fourth Street bus terminus in Harare and they hired a taxi, which dropped…

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‘Almost half of Mbare-Sunningdale boreholes, have contamibated water, unfit for human consumption’-Harare City Council health director Dr Prosper Chonzi

‘Almost half of Mbare-Sunningdale boreholes, have contamibated water, unfit for human consumption’-Harare City Council health director Dr Prosper Chonzi

  Almost half of Mbare-Sunningdale boreholes in Harare have contaminated water that is not fit for human consumption, a city health official has said. Briefing Minister of Health and Child Care Dr David Parirenyatwa, and Minister of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing Saviour Kasukuwere during a tour of Mbare yesterday, to assess the extent of the typhoid outbreak, Harare City Council health director Dr Prosper Chonzi said residents are consuming this contaminated water…

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PUPILS to start learning foreign languages including Portuguese, Mandarin and Swahili from Form One as per new curriculum

PUPILS to start learning foreign languages including Portuguese, Mandarin and Swahili from Form One as per new curriculum

. PUPILS will start learning foreign languages including Portuguese, Mandarin and Swahili from Form One in line with the new curriculum. According to the new curriculum, the development will prepare learners for life and work in a globalised environment. It says some of the languages to be taught at secondary school are Portuguese, Mandarin and Swahili. “The Curriculum Framework sets out the trust of the new curriculum that takes into account the local socio-economic imperatives…

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BULAWAYO, Four armed men kill SDA church-run Pelandaba Primary School guard steal two laptops and US$200

BULAWAYO, Four armed men kill  SDA church-run Pelandaba Primary School guard steal two laptops and US$200

A SECURITY guard at the Seventh Day Adventist church-run Pelandaba Primary School in Bulawayo died after he was savagely attacked by four armed robbers during a raid in which two laptops and cash amounting to $200 were stolen early yesterday morning. Buton Skalongo died on admission to Mpilo Central Hospital while his colleague Mr Vusa Tshuma survived the attack. Four men broke into the school and church, which are located on the same premises, at…

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