Zimbabwe Sees Tobacco Future Despite Anti-Smoking Campaigns
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Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe, Africa s largest tobacco producer, are pinning their economic hopes on the addictive plant. Despite anti-smoking campaigns ahead of the World Health Organization s No Tobacco Day (on May 31), farmers say the crop is one of their biggest earners. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Murehwa district, Zimbabwe. VOA Khmer s Sisovann Pin narrates.
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By Tafadzwa Muranganwa
Three years ago, three university students were at the cusp of their journalism careers, looking forward to starting their journeys in newsrooms in Zimbabwe. However, they met with unforeseen roadblocks.
Nicole Kurebwasweka couldn’t get placement for the industrial attachment unit of her journalism course at the University of Zimbabwe. The production department of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation turned her down, saying they had a preference for male producers.
“A senior manager told me that the department was reserved for men and advised me to host children’s programmes instead,” Kurebwasweka told
AWiM News.
Rose Gwandu, who was also looking for industrial attachment, couldn’t find a newsroom that cared about the issues that affect women. She found that most media houses were male-dominated, favoured hard news and barely paid attention to the gender lens.
Tobacco sales open in Bindura
Mash Central Bureau
Tobacco sales open today at the Bindura Tobacco auction floor today, with 5 million kilograms expected from the 3 082 farmers the firm contracted in Mashonaland Central.
Bindura Tobacco general manager, Mr Blessing Mudzamba, promised firm prices and an efficient payment system.
Last season, the company bought 0,6 million kilograms of tobacco after it opened the floor in Bindura to decentralise operations from Harare and next farming season, the company plans to double the tobacco hectarage to 6 000 with an expected production of up to 9 million kilograms.
“We are ready for the tobacco selling season and all the preparations have been made. Our staff members are on the ground. We started receiving tobacco bales on Tuesday and we are expecting to start the buying season today with more than 700 bales,” he said.
By John Cassim
Harare: A Goromonzi village head named Nichodemus Dzvete who was on the 30th of December 2020 convicted of a sexual offence against an eight-year-old minor, absconded community service, sources have revealed.
Dzvete, who was ordered to perform 245 hours of community service at Bosha Clinic, stopped serving his sentence abruptly amid interference by the local Headman Dzvete, also believed to be his brother.
Provincial Magistrate Chiedza Gatsi sentenced Dzvete to 12 months’ imprisonment of which 7 months were “wholly suspended unless the accused preforms 245 hours of community service at Bosha Clinic near Bora growth point”.
However, the Headman Dzvete, whose name was given as Edmore Mungoni, approached the Matron at Bosha Clinic in January and allegedly misrepresented by word of mouth, that an appeal had been lodged with the High Court, and that his cousin (the accused) was no longer supposed to perform community service.
Zimbabwe: Goromonzi Village Head Absconds Community Service
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By John Cassim
Harare A Goromonzi village head named Nichodemus Dzvete who was on the 30th of December 2020 convicted of a sexual offence against an eight-year-old minor, absconded community service, sources have revealed.
Dzvete, who was ordered to perform 245 hours of community service at Bosha Clinic, stopped serving his sentence abruptly amid interference by the local Headman Dzvete, also believed to be his brother.
Provincial Magistrate Chiedza Gatsi sentenced Dzvete to 12 months’ imprisonment of which 7 months were “wholly suspended unless the accused preforms 245 hours of community service at Bosha Clinic near Bora growth point”.