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Masiyiwa joins Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Board
THE Gates Foundation is adding four new members to its board of trustees: its CEO Mark Suzman; Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa; Thomas Tierney, the co-founder of Bridgespan Group, one of the no...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 18:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zesa owed $15bn by customers'
State power utility ZESA Holdings is owed a staggering $15 billion by both individuals and commercial and industrial clients, executive chairman Dr Sydney Gata said on Friday last week.Dr Gata...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:19hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Deputy Minister demand evidence on $15 billion externalization
Deputy Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Mike Madiro has demanded evidence to those who claim that some people were responsible for the externalization of $15 billion which former Preside...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe greets a real new dawn after years of uncertainty
Even with the remaining challenges, there are tangible signs that things are set to improveWe are now into the eighth month of the new dispensation in Zimbabwe but what, if anything, has chang...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 15:01hrs | | by Patrick Colegrave
Dare to dream- of 'bullet' trains the MDC Alliance way
There's a reason the "bullet train" train is a predictable pre-election teaser: it's an irresistible idea.With an expansion of rail networks, especially inter-city rail, we could expect the fo...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Mnangagwa plots to rig on an industrial scale, says Jonathan Moyo
Former Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has said that Mnangagwa's candidacy on July 30 is illegitimate not only because he's a product of a military coup but also because he was the brutal chie...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 14:13hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Sibanda's real views coming back to bite Chamisa
The thing about social media is that your views are preserved for eternity. Once you have shared your thoughts, they are there, in the cloud, for evermore. Sure, you can delete old posts that you may ...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Innocent Dube
'Zim will not recover missing $15bn diamonds revenue'
THE Mines Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Thursday ruled that it would be difficult for Zimbabwe to recover its missing diamond revenues from some of the people implicated in the scam. The commit...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Continue to probe Mugabe, Mpofu over $15bn'
PARLIAMENT yesterday recommended that the forthcoming ninth Parliament should continue to investigate claims by former President Robert Mugabe that $15 billion worth of diamond revenue went missing....Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to spill the $15bn beans in Parly tomorrow?
Former President Robert Mugabe is expected to give oral evidence tomorrow before a parliamentary portfolio committee on diamond leakages at Chiadzwa, which he indicated in 2016 as pegged at $15 billio...Published: 22 May 2018 at 10:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa takes missing $15bn crusade to Mugabe's mansion
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has resolved to meet former President Robert Mugabe at his private home instead of dragging him to Parliament to answer questions on the missi...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Grilling of Mugabe over Zim diamond corruption delayed
Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe will not appear before a parliament committee this week to answer questions on multi-billion-dollar corruption in the diamond industry after the hearing was pos...Published: 08 May 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by AFP
$15bn missing diamonds revenues, Mugabe clarifies
WHILE parliament is intensely probing the alleged syphoning of US$15 billion in diamond revenues, the person who first spoke about it in public, former president Robert Mugabe, says the figure has no ...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa to summon Mugabe over diamond mining
A committee of lawmakers in Zimbabwe is to summon former president Robert Mugabe to testify at a probe into lost revenue from diamond mining, a legislator said on Tuesday.The lawmakers plan to...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 16:17hrs | | by AFP
$15bn diamond saga deepens
FORMER secretary for mines, Francis Gudyanga yesterday claimed that there were powerful forces controlling the diamond mining sector, saying he had received unspecified threats from people he declined...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn diamond inquiry opens can of worms
THE current investigation on the missing $15 billion diamond revenue by the Temba Mliswa- led Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy has revealed serious corruption by top government bi...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Big companies turned down Mnangagwa amnesty
The Zimbabwean government accused auditing firm Ernst and Young, Unilever South East Africa and Boc Gases Zimbabwe of externalising $35000 (R418070), $315000 and $55000 respectively.The compan...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 09:20hrs | | by Business Report
Diamond miners to account for missing $15bn
DIAMOND miners from various parts of the country have been summoned to appear before the Mines and Energy Parliamentary Portfolio Committee today, to account for the country's missing $15 billion diam...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Only Chamisa can be an instrument of change'
At a time frustration at Zimbabwe's political class is running high, Nelson Chamisa (NC) who has emerged as the MDC's presidential candidate is hoping to tap into a desire for wholesale change in the ...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'An old person cannot be an instrument of change,' says ageist Chamisa
HARARE - At a time frustration at Zimbabwe's political class is running high, Nelson Chamisa (NC) who has emerged as the MDC's presidential candidate is hoping to tap into a desire for wholesale chang...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Diamond revenue to date not anywhere near $15bn'
THE Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has revealed that the country has to date sold diamonds worth $2,4 billion as calls become louder for investigations into the alleged $15 billion ...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu Parly probe over missing $15bn postponed
Parliament has postponed the hearing of Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu summoned to answer to the controversy surrounding the missing diamond revenue estimated at a staggering $15 billion. P...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance apologises for Chamisa $15bn lie
The MDC Alliance was on Wednesday reportedly forced to apologise to the United States government over claims by its acting leader Nelson Chamisa that President Donald Trump pledged a $15 billion bailo...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
The $15bn diamond saga cannot be wished away
Last week, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa did a pathetic job of defending the indefensible.During debate in the National Assembly on the National Budget, he tried to dismiss former preside...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond looters rubbishes $15bn Zimbabwe diamond theft reports
Claims by former president Robert Mugabe that the country lost $15 billion worth of diamond revenue were divorced from the actual facts on the ground, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa told the Natio...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Global Advocacy trip by the MDC Alliance delegation: A big achievement and a strategic move
1.We wish to acknowledge the interest generated by the trip to the US and that it is fundamental that there be adequate communication to clear the myths. The MDC understands the importance of accounta...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 12:12hrs | | by Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti
Mnangagwa urged to leave no stone unturned in recovering $15bn
OPPOSITION parties have welcomed calls by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for persons, who externalised money to return the loot within three months, saying the government must leave no stone unturned in...Published: 30 Nov 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Things will remain the same in #Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa is sceptical that things will be different should President Robert Mugabe be ousted.She said the reason for this past week's stand-off was becaus...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe allies hit out at Gen Chiwenga
Allies of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe have warned the military chief against meddling in politics.Gen Constantino Chiwenga had said the army was prepared to intervene to end purges with...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 15:48hrs | | by BBC
We have a clueless Opposition Movement in Zimbabwe that's all!
The only problem we have in Zimbabwe is that we have an inept if not clueless opposition movement who give Zanu pf too much lee-way by agreeing on almost everything which comes out of the mouth of Zan...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 10:20hrs | 3 | by Umzukulu Ka Sitsha
How Zimbabwe squandered its diamond riches
Just a year before its citizens couldn't find basic food items in their stores in 2007 and were literally starving, Zimbabwe made the largest diamond find in recent history. The Marange fields were so...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 10:12hrs | | by Shannon Ebrahim
Vice President demands missing $15 billion diamond report
The missing $15 billion said to be missing from diamond revenue is haunting the country as it is 'almost like a bad spirit or an evil spirit', MDC-T Vice President Nelson Chamisa has said.Cham...Published: 11 May 2017 at 09:10hrs | | by Alice Dube
Robert Mugabe sleeping on duty: Where is the US$15 Billion?- ZimFirst
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has questioned President Robert Mugabe as to where the $15 billion he claimed disappeared sometime last year during his interview with the ZBC.Mugabe told the na...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 06:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe lied, says aide
President Robert Mugabe lied about the alleged theft of diamonds worth $15 billion from Chiadzwa mines to justify the forced merger of mining companies, a shadowy state media columnist claimed yesterd...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 06:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe lied on stolen $15b diamonds, George Charamba says
President Robert Mugabe's spokesperson George Charamba has made sensational disclosure that Mugabe 'lied' to the nation that $15 billion worth of diamonds were stolen.Early last year, Mugabe m...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 12:06hrs | | by Alice Dube
Jonathan Moyo stop dabbling in Zanu-PF succession politics
In history and to the outsider, Zimbabwe has always been a fabulous illusion. An Ophir. An El Dorado, a home to the Queen of Sheba. If the wishes of early European "pathfinders" were horses, Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Jan 2017 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe's govt begins hunt for missing $15 billion
MINES and Mining Development deputy minister Fred Moyo has revealed that the government is undertaking an audit to put closure to the missing $15 billion in diamond revenues.President Robe...Published: 24 Nov 2016 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn was 'not looted only mispriced' Chinamasa tells BBC HardTalk
"Zanu-PF remains a very solid, cohesive formidable political force in Zimbabwe," Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa told Zeina Badawi on the BBC programme Hardtalk. Zanu-PF is imploding...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 19:28hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Maridadi raps govt for failure to account for $15bn and planning to built mining college
Tafara Mabvuku MP james Maridadi (MDC-T) has rapped the government over its plans to build a mining college at the time when it fails to account for the $15 billion raised from the diamonds sale in Ch...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 08:47hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Urgent Letter to Robert and Bona Mugabe
Dear Robert and Bona I have obviously been watching you since my childhood, primarily because though am now a father with teen kids, you are the only President that I know. Zambians that are my age no...Published: 10 Jun 2016 at 18:17hrs | | by John Mutiziri
Rio Tinto defends Zimbabwe diamond sale
Rio Tinto defended its decision to sell a 78% stake in Murowa Diamonds and Sengwa Colliery to RZ Murowa Holdings - a transaction that has been criticised by the Zimbabwean government amid possible dea...Published: 25 May 2016 at 08:07hrs | | by miningmx
Emptiness is MDC-T's bond-age!
So much has been said about the proposed introduction of bond notes by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. A fortnight ago, RBZ chief John Mangudya announced that the central bank would inject more bond cur...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T completes cluster rallies in Midlands North
MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said his party completed its round of cluster rallies in the Midlands North Province with an emphatic rally in Ngezi, Kadoma on Monday.He said thes...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe: Politics of Crowds
The generous ones put it at 10 000. The modest ones put it at 2 000. The niggard ones put it at 800. And all claimed to be reading from the same crowd which the MDC-T is alleged to have mustered in th...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 11:26hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Tsvangirai is shallow, no message for demonstrators - Manheru
MDC -T leader Morgan Tsvangirai had no tangible message to offer during Thursday's demonstration but chose to trumpet the number game.Herald columnist Nathanial Manheru said Tsvangirai attempt...Published: 16 Apr 2016 at 10:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mujuru part of missing $15bn, claims Jonathan Moyo
Zanu PF trusted spin-doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has made sensational claims linking former vice president Joice Mujuru to the missing $15 billion diamond revenue.Moyo suggested on his twit...Published: 15 Apr 2016 at 16:52hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Old clueless Mugabe must go demo successful
The MDC-T march calling for President Robert Mugabe to go and return of the missing $15 billion has been successful with thousands of people attending the march.The protesting crowed dis...Published: 14 Apr 2016 at 14:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T mass protest to go ahead, to paint Harare red
The MDCT demonstration and March Against Poverty and Corruption set for tomorrow the 14th of April, in Harare is going ahead. We urge all people coming to the demonstration to wear their party reg...Published: 13 Apr 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Douglas Mwonzora
Time to change from our dogmatist approach
"Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest" Maya Angelou. The resonance of wise words by Maya Angelou allow for applic...Published: 10 Apr 2016 at 17:30hrs | | by Tanaka Karanda
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