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Zimbabwe will not allow the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to protect its own seed industry because right now it has developed a hybrid seed maize variety that is capable of yielding up to 18 tonnes per hectare.

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Britain is incensed that its aid money was used by the Zimbabwean government although investigations have revealed that the money was properly used and for the intended project.

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A Bulawayo legislator said it was deplorable that Zimbabwe, which was once the breadbasket of the Southern African region, is now importing maize from Zambia on some “eat now and pay later scheme”.

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Farmers have stopped growing maize because the Grain Marketing Board takes up to two years to pay them, the Member of Parliament for Hurungwe West Temba Mliswa said. Besides, the farmers get a lower price that the government pays to import maize.

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Zimbabwe academic and writer Blessing-Miles Tendi today said the threat by Britain to topple Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, whether real or not, pushed the military to support the Zimbabwean president.

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President Robert Mugabe has put his neck on the line this time. He has put the implementation of the government’s economic recovery programme- the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation- under his office which means that he will have no one but himself to blame if the programme fails.

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Zimbabwe is currently facing acute power shortages because the government has not invested in any power generation projects since independence, Mabvuku-Tafara Member of Parliament James Maridadi said.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union- Patriotic Front has been peddling the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainable Socio-Economic Transformation (Zim Asset)- its economic blue print for 2013-2018- as the answer to the country’s economic woes. What is it?

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People building houses in a cemetery- Local Government Deputy Minister Joel Biggie Matiza said the government exercise to demolish illegal structures was not a heartless exercise. It was meant to bring back some order as it Hatcliffe, Harare, for example, people were building houses in a cemetery. He said the United Nations Development Programme is willing to assist in the sanitisation programme in which his ministry is demolishing illegal structures in Chitungwiza and Seke. The exercise coming soon after the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front victory in July is reminiscent of the 2005 demolition codenamed Murambatsvina which also followed another resounding victory by ZANU-PF. Matiza said the exercise was not “a heartless exercise in which people will have their houses demolished with properties inside but it is a well planned programme in which those affected will be given ample time to move to land allocated to them”.

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Electricity in Zimbabwe is so cheap that this is the only country in the world where people are still using power to prepare tripe, mazondo and trotters, the Member of Parliament for Chegutu West Dexter Nduna said last week.

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