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ED says Zim is food secure. UN, gvt agencies say the opposite
By Tatenda Chitagu President Emmerson Mnangagwa has claimed that Zimbabwe is food secure and wheat sufficient. “In Zimbabwe, we had the problem of food insecurity and we said, how much food do we want in a year to feed our nation and the figure we got was two million tonnes of grain. So we said,…
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Irvine’s not taking new contract farmers at the moment
By Tatenda Chitagu A poster trending on WhatsApp groups insinuates that leading chickens producer, Irvine’s Zimbabwe (IZIM), is looking for new contract farmers. Under the contract farming scheme, IZIM provides the chicks, transport; feed, vaccines; cleaning chemicals, technical expertise and later buys the birds while the farmer just provides the fowl runs, land and labour-something…
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Yes, the university gate was only for ED
By Tatenda Chitagu MASVINGO- A report on WhatsApp claimed students were barred from using the Great Zimbabwe University entrance on graduation day recently. ZimTracker fact checked the story and discovered that the report was true. As claimed on WhatsApp, the main road to the institution of higher learning was sealed off and only reserved for…
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Zimbabwe fails to honour Abuja Declaration on health budget
By Tatenda Chitagu In 2001, the African Union (AU) member states signed the Abuja Declaration, thereby pledging to allocate at least 15% of their national budgets each year to improving their healthcare systems. According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), countries such as Rwanda, Malawi, Madagascar, Togo and Zambia have managed to reach this target.…
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Some quick facts you need to know about Mimosa Mine operations
By Tatenda Chitagu Mimosa Mining Company, Zimbabwe’s oldest platinum mining operation domiciled in the Midlands province near Zvishavane town, does not only mine platinum. The mine sits on the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe, a remarkable geological feature rich in Platinum Group of Metals (PGMs) that extends more than 550 kilometers across the centre of the…
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ED and his ministers lied about Tugwi plan
By Tatenda Chitagu “HERE in Masvingo, we have the Tugwi Mukosi Dam which will help our agriculture and tourism sector. We want villagers displaced by the dam construction to benefit from the water, so we will create irrigation schemes where they will grow sugarcane.” That was President Emmerson Mnangagwa in June 2018 speaking at a…
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