Mashonaland West

By June 2023, David Whitehead should be up and running again

For nearly 50 years since its founding in the 1950s, David Whitehead Textiles (DWT) commanded all it surveyed. It supplied…

Education 5.0: CUT is a cut above other universities in Zimbabwe

Mashonaland West Province likes to call itself “Mash Best”, the best province in the country. One of the “best” success…

Chinhoyi University is unmatchable in animal feed … It’s Education 5.0 at its practical best

The Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) manufactures the best vitamin mineral block lick for animals, both domestic and game. There…

Gwebi College gets a new life under Second Republic

At Kilometre 27 on the Harare-Chinhoyi Road is the Gwebi College of Agriculture, “the first fully residential institution of higher…

Gwebi College, an appeal for help

Daniel Mukozho is the general manager of Palmline Investments, a private company that has entered into a PPP (public-private partnership)…

The benefits of industrial hemp fibre…. It busts the myths about cannabis

This article is reproduced by courtesy of Sewport.com   Hemp fabric has been recognised as a source of extraordinarily tensile…
‘I left my job as  bank manager,  to become a  farmer and I’m  not regretting it’

‘I left my job as bank manager, to become a farmer and I’m not regretting it’

At 37 years old, Lincoln Chirinda is one of the youngest successful farmers in Mashonaland West Province. He left his…

Kariba People’s Market

Thanks to devolution, we now have ‘our office’, the Kariba People’s Market, but . . . When the government, through…

Chegutu, where black and white farmers are working together for the future of citrus

Once upon a time, the Chegutu area of the Mashonaland West Province was home to a huge citrus industry. But…

‘We are not leaving Zimbabwe’… AVC managers are happy with Chegutu location

On our tour of the Chegutu-based Agric Value Chain (AVC) company, we talked to Zacharia Mupachike, AVC’s supply chain manager,…