It had initially promised finance of US$80 million but the Agriculture and Farm Mechanisation Minister Joseph Made persuaded it to inject an additional $112 mn...
These include Tara Farm acquired by Agriculture Minister Joseph Mtakwese Made; Nyamanda Farm (Indigenisation Minister Francis Nhema AC Vol 55 No 9 Scramble for the top); Nyamazura Farm (Chinamasa); Rise Holm Farm (ex-Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa now Chairman ZESA Holdings); Shigwiri Farm (Ignatius Chombo Local Government); Young Farm (Obert Mpofu Transport); and BW Farm (Walter Mzembi Tourism)...
The image had a certain topicality as the media had recently fingered the Minister of Agriculture Joseph Made for forcing the cash-strapped Grain Marketing Board to pay top whack for his weevil-invested maize delivery...
Joseph Made the veteran Agriculture Minister and foe of the commercial farmers keeps his portfolio and is set to preside over yet another season of food shortages although his new deputy Paddy Zhanda has business experience and may moderate some of Made's wilder schemes...
Vol 6 (AAC) No 2 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Outraged Agriculture Minister Joseph Made ordered the Grain Marketing Board to recall the maize to be repackaged into bags emblazoned with Mugabe’s likeness...
With the exception of Didymus Mutasa ZANU-PF’s pontifex maximus the entire regional hierarchy was swept out of Parliament with Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made securing their berths only by presidential appointment...
Faced with another poor harvest Agriculture Minister Joseph Made complains that it is the fault of sanctions that new farmers have not got the capital to farm properly...
Supporters of Mnangagwa newly appointed Minister of Defence make up almost half of Mugabe's cabinet appointments: Joseph Made (Agriculture) Ignatious Chombo (Local Government) Lt...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 8 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
China is already one of the largest buyers of Zimbabwean tobacco and the proposal has support from Minister of Agriculture and Mechanisation Joseph Made...
Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa the party's chief negotiator was beaten; so were Women's League leader Oppah Muchinguri; Water Minister Munacho Mutezo; longest-serving ZANU-PF Politburo member Kumbirai Kangai; War Veterans' leader Joseph Chinotimba; Transport Minister Christopher Mushowe; and Agricultural Mechanisation Minister Joseph Made...