Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers make last deliveries as auction season ends

STORY: Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers make last deliveries as auction season ends DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:38 LOCATION: Harare CATEGORY: ECONOMY SHOTLIST: 1. various of trucks carrying tobacco bales and farmers sitting at the back of a truck 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (Shona): TAFADZWA MUGWAGWA, Tobacco farmer 3. various of farmers offloading tobacco bales 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Shona): DOROTHY CHIGWEDEDZA, Tobacco farmer 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Shona): SHEPHERD CHIGUVARE, Tobacco farmer STORYLINE: Early morning on the last day of Zimbabwe's tobacco auction season, trucks carrying tobacco bales waited to offload the crop at the Tobacco Auction Floors in the capital Harare. On the waiting bays, the farmers, who had braved the mid-winter chilly morning could be seen anxiously waiting for their crop to finally go under the hummer before the curtain came down on the season. "This season was okay, although not as good as last year," said Tafadzwa Mugwagwa, a small-scale farmer from Rusape, a farming region southeast of H

New Zealanders celebrate Matariki as public holiday for first time

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MID-WINTER SKI MEET

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