gravel extraction along the Harare-Beitbridge Road

Upenyu Chaota The 847.5 hectare Mushandike Irrigation Scheme has helped over 565 community members drawn from 11 villages adapt to changing climate since its establishment in 1986. The irrigation scheme, whose water is supplied by Mushandike Dam, is one of the most successful of the few irrigation schemes in Masvingo province. Being in ecological region […]

Upenyu Chaota Zimbabwe’s commitment to cut carbon emissions by at least 40 percent by year 2050 will be achieved through many initiatives including the funding of cleaner energy sources such as the 5 Megawatt Great Zimbabwe Hydro Project housed at Lake Mutirikwi. Works on the mini-hydro power plant began in March this year with the […]

Moses Ziyambi The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) yesterday launched the Property and Mining Rights Research findings which provide an analysis for the regulatory regime of one of the most critical areas of the country’s economy. The study was conducted under the Strengthening Extractive and Natural Resources Sector Transparency and Accountability through Community Action and […]

Mary Mundeya The 2020 Tusk Wildlife Ranger of the year, Amos Gwema has embarked on an education programme to encourage pupils in wildlife-rich communities to develop interest in conservation. In an interview with EnviroPress, Gwema narrated how the wildlife education initiative came into existence and its importance to Zimbabwe’s conservation efforts. “Without the buy-in of […]

Moses Ziyambi An irrigation scheme which stopped working 14 years ago and which was resuscitated with support from Southern Alliance for Indigenous Resources (SAFIRE) in partnership with Oxfam, University of Zimbabwe (UZ) and the Swedish Meteorological Hydrological Services (SMHI) has weaned many villages off their dependence on food aid. Resuscitation of the Mutunha Irrigation Scheme […]

Moses Ziyambi Wire gauzes covering inlets into a storm water drain which was built by Fossil Contracting along Simon Mazorodze Avenue in Masvingo have collapsed hardly a month after the company completed the job, EnviroPress can report. Some motorists have put rocks around the gapping holes to warn other of the dangers of falling into […]

…nobody held to account as obscure company awarded tender, disappears with huge sum of money Moses Ziyambi City of Masvingo lost US$137 000 in an apparently fraudulent procurement deal involving a tender that was awarded to a dubious Norton-based company to supply 545 drums of bitumen. The company accepted payment and then promptly disappeared from […]

ECC Champion Villagers in Mkanganwi and Mazungunye areas have petitioned Bikita RDC over the expansion of Mushanduri business centre which has encroached into a wetland from which a stream which feeds into a bigger river develops. The wetland feeds Mukumbo stream which in turn feeds into Mujiche River, a major water source for surrounding villages […]

…blames Zinwa for failing to specify leasing costs Moses Ziyambi A German company which expressed interest to develop a floating solar system over Lake Mutirikwi is frantically trying to salvage the deal which it claims got bogged down in a maze of internal and external red tape. Responding to emailed questions from EnviroPress, Droege Energy […]

ECC Champion Zimbabwe’s appetite for development is currently manifesting in some big mining projects that are being implemented in the quest for an upper middle income economy by 2030, but all that progress largely marginalizes concerns for the environment. As part of the drive towards that vision, President Emmerson Mnangagwa in 2019 launched a strategic […]

…Mandiwanzira’s doomed infrastructure sharing idea a lost conservation opportunity Moses Ziyambi When the then Minister of Information and Communication Technology and Courier Services, Supa Mandiwanzira pushed his idea of ‘infrastructure sharing’ to the country’s three mobile network operators, he came under serious criticism for lacking rationale. While Mandiwanzira’s obsessive arguments on infrastructure sharing were largely […]