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By George Maponga The Civil Protection Unit (CPU) has shelved the relocation of thousands of families affected by floods in Masvingo last month as most of them are reluctant to leave their ancestral land. Thousands of families, particularly in Chivi, Bikita, Zaka, Mwenezi and Chiredzi districts were left homeless after Cyclone Dineo-induced floods destroyed homes […]
By Andrew Mambondiyani | Reuters | After two consecutive seasons of drought, heavy rains finally promise a good harvest in most parts of Zimbabwe’s Manicaland province. But farmers now face a new challenge: washed-out roads that will make it difficult to get their crops to market. As harvesting time for tobacco, maize and other […]
By Helen Kadirire The hard-pressed Zimbabwe government has revised upwards its floods relief appeal to $188 million from $100 million, as the situation of affected victims gets direr. While acting president Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday made a plea for the extra $88 million, it was not immediately clear how much has been mobilised so far, though […]
By Farayi Machamire The Transport ministry has engaged the army to assist in the reconstruction of bridges washed away by rampaging floods, Parliament has been told. This comes as torrential rains have swept away five bridges along major highways across the country. The destroyed bridges include Nkankezi along Zvishavane-Mbalabala road in Matabeleland South, Jeka Bridge […]
By Helen Kadirire Zimbabwe faces an early winter as temperatures are gradually decreasing, the Meteorological Services Department (Met) said yesterday. The department’s public weather services head, Tich Zinyemba, said “even though it is early days yet, there continues to be a palpable cooling in morning temperatures, indicative of the gradual transition from summer to winter”. […]
A Zimbabwean woman is rebuilding her life after miraculously surviving floods by hanging onto a tree for more than six hours, with her two month old baby strapped on her back. The floods are the result of torrential rains induced by cyclone Dineo which hit parts of the Southern African country two weeks ago. After […]
By Farayi Machamire There was much disappointment among many Zimbabweans when it emerged at the weekend that President Robert Mugabe had donated — of all things — biscuits and non-essential snacks to Cyclone Dineo victims in Tsholotsho who recently lost everything they had to floods. Mugabe’s eye-brow raising gifts came into the public domain after Higher […]
By Mutsa Murenje In Zimbabwe and most parts of Africa, crocodilian leaders are found across the political divide and the same applies to passive citizens who blindly follow their unscrupulous and hypocritical leaders even when it’s patently clear they are being led towards a political and economic abyss. In the case of Zimbabwe, this is […]
A bridge which has spanned the Nkankezi River in the heart of the Zvishavane-Bulawayo highway for decades has been swept away by rampaging flood waters unleashed by Cyclone Dineo. The huge blocks which made up the bridge were washed downstream over the weekend — with witnesses reporting that the greater part of the bridge was […]
Moved by a comment that the country’s most influential newspaper wrote in its edition of yesterday, regarding how Zanu PF is honouring him on his birthday, President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanked the popular daily for its “good message”. In the editorial, Zimbabwe’s leading newspaper encouraged those organising the 21st February Movement celebrations to stop hosting […]