Stanslous Ruvengo CHIVI – The Development Aid from People to People (DAPP), working in close cooperation with Chivi District Council, has introduced an affordable tsotso stove which utilizes little wood for fuel. For its part, DAPP provides equipment for women to construct the fuel-efficient stoves which has been proven to be effective in reducing deforestation, […]

Moses Ziyambi The Food and Agriculture Organization on June 11, 2024, hosted the Green Jobs for Rural Youth Employment (GJ4RYE) learning event in Harare. Themed Youth in Agrifoods Systems – Green Skilling for Green Jobs was meant to share lessons and best practices emerging from the project which is funded by the Korea International Cooperation […]

EnviroPress Reporter The Bikita Minerals new spodumene plant (pictured) which was commissioned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on 29 November, 2023, has been closed on the orders of the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) and other arms of the state allegedly for wanton violation of many environmental rules, and for many other compliance violations. The massive spodume […]

Anesushe Mamhute Chiredzi Town Council is making some efforts to clean up the environment following negative media reports focusing on the local authority’s apparent neglect of the matter. Residents have in recent days castigated the council for not putting its priorities right, and for turning a blind eye to uncollected garbage and disintegrating public toilets. […]

…several women demonstrate against ‘insensitive’ mine managers Upenyu Chaota A Bikita Minerals shiftman in the production department recently lost his pregnant wife to delivery complications after the mining company emphatically refused to release an ambulance to take her to Harare for emergency specialist care, EnviroPress can report. The 35-year-old Sukholuhle Gumede was wife to Alliston […]

EnviroPress Reporter Benefiting over 2,180 households in rural Zimbabwe, UNDP is partnering with the Ministry of Agriculture to implement ‘Building Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agricultural Livelihoods in Southern Zimbabwe with financial support from the Green Climate Fund. Rural provinces including Matabeleland South Province, Masvingo, and Manicaland will receive 21 solar-powered pivot-system irrigation schemes – using […]

Upenyu Chaota City of Masvingo will soon be producing commercial bio-methane gas from sewage and other bio-degradable materials after the local authority partnered the Zimbabwe Open University (ZOU) to find new use for digesters at the city’s sewage works. Bio-methane, also called renewable gas, is a combustible gas that is produced from biogas that has […]

Clayton Shereni The plunder of diamonds in Chiadzwa by government officials and security officials who work in collaboration with Chinese firms, the gold rush at Hwendedzo and the lithium rushes in Bikita, Goromonzi and Mberengwa may all amount to the resource curse that has come to characterize mining operations in Zimbabwe. With 80 percent of […]

Moses ZiyambiIn a patriarchal society, the business of selling car parts, especially engines and gearboxes, is ordinarily a preserve for men, but one young woman in Masvingo has defied the odds and went on to dominate the field.Growing up in Masvingo, Primrose Chirongoma had a humble upbringing, and she most probably never imagined making the […]

Samson Cader A local community based organisation, Centre for Gender and Community Development in Zimbabwe (CGCDZ) and its partner communities in Masvingo province are introducing innovative agricultural practices that promote land and livestock management.The stakeholders believe that the movable kraal concept and the holistic land and livestock management can address some long-standing conservation challenges in […]

Moses Ziyambi Fledgling Pan-African car manufacturer Mureza Auto is already envisioning its place in a greener auto future as the industry trudges away from internal combustion engines towards electrical vehicles, EnviroPress can report. The car maker has for several times postponed the launch of its groundbreaking brands including the much publicized Prim8 edition ostensibly to […]

Moses Ziyambi ‘After my business collapsed – I accepted defeat, I knew I h’d done everything in my power to make it work. I knew that the collapse of my business had nothing to do with me but rather – whatever had taken place had everything to do with the environment I was operating in’ […]