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Tribute to Solomon Bundo the great man of God
Mukoma Solo as I fondly call him was a man of valour, valliant soldier of Christ, symbol of unity, pillar, in all virtues, embodiment of love. Little did I know that November 2020 would be our estrang...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1112 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
ZPC surpasses Q2 production target
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has surpassed its production target for the second quarter to 30 June 2021 by 11,2 percent, generating 2,162 Gigawatts per hour against the targeted 1, 944GWh....Published: 14 hrs ago | 499 | by Staff reporter
Methembe Ndlovu appointed women's coach in USA
Highlanders legend and former coach Methembe Ndlovu has been appointed associate head coach of a United States based women soccer side Claremont-Mudd-Scripps whose head coach is another former Bosso c...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1401 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Economic Forecast H2 2021
Zimbabwe's economy is largely expected to register modest growth in 2021 buoyed by a bumper harvest in agriculture, partial dollarization and declining inflation, growth in export earnings and increas...Published: 15 hrs ago | 251 | by Victor Bhoroma
Eradicating extreme poverty critically essential
The World Bank Economic Update on Zimbabwe released in June 2021 contains some worrying trends on the increase in extreme poverty in the country. The report points that the number of extremely poor re...Published: 15 hrs ago | 133 | by Victor Bhoroma
Katai back from Olympics
TEENAGE swimmer Donata Katai has arrived back home after giving a good account of herself at the ongoing 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.The 17-year old arrived at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Inte...Published: 21 hrs ago | 650 | by Staff reporter
Kariba plunge pool reshaping delayed
The completion of work to reshape the plunge pool at Kariba Dam has been delayed because of unforeseen geology affecting the foundations for the required coffer dam, according to the Zambezi River Aut...Published: 21 hrs ago | 228 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe approves Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine
THE Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe has authorised the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine with effect from 25 July 2021. It becomes the first Western vaccine approved for use ag...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 13:46hrs | 2105 | by Staff Reporter
'Civil servants wage bill Mthuli's headache'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will tomorrow deliver his mid-term fiscal policy review statement amid growing budgetary demands at a time when the country's tax base is shrinking, and the economy sever...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:43hrs | 1032 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets to raise US$140m
President Mnangagwa has appointed a resource mobilisation committee to raise funds for the party's activities including preparing for the 2023 elections. This comes as pollsters have predicted a Zanu-...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:36hrs | 62 | by Staff reporter
'Entrepreneurship, no politics, will solve our problems' insist Masiyiwa - rubbish, solution is good governance
"Masiyiwa challenges entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities" screamed the headline. When you are rich, Strive Masiyiwa, is filthy rich and so when he speaks even the rich and powerful si...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 20:06hrs | 1263 | by Nomusa Garikai
How safe are Covid19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1264 | by Etiwel Mutero
Goodwood Cup: Previous winners and 2021 favourites
Glorious Goodwood returns to Sussex with the opening day, boasting a highly anticipated race in the Goodwood Cup. The festival opens with its most prestigious start, where Stradivarius aims to continu...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 19:46hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe annual inflation slows down to 56,37%
ZIMBABWE'S annual inflation for the month of July 2021 slowed down to 56,37 percent, latest data show.The decline, which reflects a 50,27 percentage points from the June 2021 figures of 106,64...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 18:02hrs | 1133 | by Staff reporter
State makes U-turn in Mnangagwa name-dropping con-artist
THE State yesterday made a U-turn and filed an application for the revocation of its consent after it allowed bail to a 33-year-old Harare con-artist who dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 3584 | by Staff reporter
Zapu postpones congress, again
THE opposition Zapu has further postponed its elective congress to October this year because of the COVID-19-induced lockdowns and the need for all their delegates to be fully vaccinated before the el...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
How safe are Covid-19 Vaccines?
I first heard of it in January 2020 that there was a viral disease which was killing people in China. I didn't take it seriously . I thought it was going to be a Chinese disease which was going ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 22:54hrs | 1418 | by Etiwel Mutero
Fact-checking Biti's corruption speech
Opposition MDC Alliance vice president and former finance minister Tendai Biti gave an online speech on corruption in Zimbabwe on July 18, 2021.Here, we check key claims from Biti's address:...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 19:35hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's sister, Minister feud over farm escalates
THE feud between Mashonaland Central Provincial Minister Monica Mavhunga and the former First Lady, Grace Mugabe's sister, Rosemary Chidhakwa has escalated after the minister counter-sued the latter a...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:15hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
81 people escape from covid-19 isolation centre
A total of 81 people, among them 29 who were Covid-19 positive, escaped from the Beitbridge Quarantine, Isolation and Transit centre last week under unclear circumstances.The group included 71...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:13hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt to take delivery of 6,5 million more vaccines
Government has already paid for 6,5 million more Covid-19 vaccines, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube revealed yesterday while receiving one million others purchased fro...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:12hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss issued threats to Sipho Malunga before farm grab
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Gatsha Mazithulela tried with no success to force his way into the ownership structure of Kershelmar Farm in Nyamandlovu, Matabeleland North, jointly owned...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 16:12hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa challenges entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities
Pan-African businessman and billionaire entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa, who is also the African Union's Special Envoy in the fight against COVID, talks about how he led the creation of the Africa Medica...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 08:34hrs | 1643 | by Agencies
'Inflation a Zimbabwe regime change tool'
AFTER two decades of blaming sanctions imposed by the West for its failure on the economic front, the Zanu-PF government has found a new scapegoat - inflation - describing the scourge as enemy-enginee...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1983 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 infections spiral in two weeks
ZIMBABWE recorded the highest number of Covid-19 infections and deaths in the last two weeks since the advent of the virus in March last year despite awareness campaigns being rolled out to discourage...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:37hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes delivery of 1 million more jabs
Zimbabwe yesterday took delivery of one million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines purchased from China, taking the total number of vaccines brought into the country so far to over five million. With a target ...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 06:35hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Half Zimbabwe's population now extremely poor
ALMoSt half of Zimbabwe's population has become extremely poor because of the impact of Covid-19 and the economic contraction, a new survey has shown.the 2020 Rapid Poverty Income Consumption ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:23hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Zim students' battle to get internship
NGQABUTHO Mhlophe spends his days at home, burrowing around the internet in search of a marketing internship.A second-year student at the National University of Science and Technology, he need...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:21hrs | 1072 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sugar giant clinches Coca-Cola deal
THE aggressively rebounding sugar manufacturing conglomerate, starafrica corporation Limited, says it plans to scale up its African ambition after clinching a landmark deal to export into The Coca-Col...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:19hrs | 1414 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry elected as IOC full member
Loga stays onZDRAVKO Logarusic is staying on as Warriors coach for the 2022 World Cup qualifiers despite calls for his sacking.This is the decision of the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:18hrs | 489 | by Michael Kariati
Kirsty Coventry elected as IOC full member
AFTER serving as a member of the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Athletes, Commission since 2013 and a member of its executive board since 2018, Zimbabwe's Sports minister and twotime Olympic ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:17hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Mukanya drafts 'retirement' plan
CHIMURENGA musician Thomas "Mukanya" Mapfumo says he is setting up an arts and culture centre in Domboshava on the outskirts of Harare as part of his departure from the mainstream music industry, whic...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:14hrs | 2529 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean models catwalk for penury
LOCAL model Nomazulu Patience Gumbo has not yet received the prize she was promised two years ago after walking away with the Miss Zuri Africa — Zimbabwe crown at a tightly-contested pageant held at...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:13hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Bosso chairman in passionate plea for financial assistance
HIGHLANDERS chairman, Johnfat Sibanda has endorsed the appeal to members, supporters as well as well-wishers to assist the club so as to meet its financial obligations.Bosso are racing against...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:05hrs | 90 | by Staff reporter
No to factional mudslinging…Discipline comrades discipline!
My 54 political toddler years which are founded 'On the Shoulders of Struggle' signify a journey of robust African revolutionary tutelage which has been vastly enabled by those national paternal and m...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:04hrs | 61 | by Obert Moses Mpofu
ZACC guns for US$7bn assets illicitly siphoned out of the country
An estimated US$7 billion worth of assets were illicitly siphoned out of the country through corruption and money laundering and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now ratcheting up mea...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
'No vaccination, no by-elections'
ZIMBABWE will only hold by-elections if the country vaccinates about 10 million people, representing 60% of the population required to reach herd immunity, Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said. ...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Con-artist drops Mnangagwa's name in US$488 000 fraud case
A 33-YEAR-OLD Harare con-artist dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa's name in a fraud case involving close to half a million United States dollars.The woman, Eustine Charambira (33), duped a ...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:24hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe documents citizens in foreign lands
ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry claims it has begun a process of documenting the number of fellow citizens residing in foreign lands.There is no exact number of Zimbabweans in foreign land...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:21hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa rallies Team Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has rallied Team Zimbabwe competing at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and said he is proud to see young swimmer Donata Katai leading as one of the flag bearers at the world's biggest...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:17hrs | 262 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe, Matanga sued $8m for murder
HOME AFFAIRS Minister Kazembe Kazembe and Police Commissioner-General, Godwin Matanga have been slapped with an $8,5 million lawsuit by a widow of a man who was allegedly murdered by police officers w...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 18:06hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
Ministers and CIOs named in farm grab
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) deputy director-general Gatsha Mazithule la, Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka and Matabeleland North Minister of State Richard Moyo have been dragged to the ...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:06hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
SA unrest cuts off Zimbabwe supply chains
THE manufacturing sector is in disarray following violent clashes in South Africa in recent weeks, which have affected the supply of critical raw materials.The Confederation of Zimbabwe Indust...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:01hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe firms fret over Mozambique crisis
ZIMBABWE'S industries have warned that a deadly insurgency roiling neighbouring Mozambique has emerged as the greatest threat to power and fuel imports that could further hurt Harare's fragile economy...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:57hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Companies struggle to raise US$2 billion
ZIMBABWE'S manufacturing companies have struggled to raise about US$2 billion in fresh capital to drive production back to pre-crisis levels, industry data indicated this week, as executives warned th...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 08:53hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Zimra loses tax case against fuel company
The High Court has suspended a garnish order which the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) issued against a Bulawayo-based fuel company to recover more than $2.3 million plus over US$800 000 in tax obl...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:05hrs | 816 | by Staff reporter
Global Compensation Fund mobilised …despite COVID-19 threatening the process
Government has managed to mobilise funds to pay the former white farm owners (FFOs) as agreed under the Global Compensation Agreement (GCA), despite COVID-19 pandemic slowing down the process....Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 16:04hrs | 92 | by Business Reporter
MDC T's security department infiltrated
MDC-Alliance has reportedly infiltrated the MDC-T's security department and has dangled some dollars to the security personnel who are currently guarding the Morgan Richard Tsvangirai House (MRTH) as ...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 15:42hrs | 1076 | by Staff Reporter
Vashandiri Vashe: A Zhombe musical group rocking national gospel charts
ZHOMBE hardly makes it to national news headlines. Since the days of Learnmore Jongwe who died nearly 20 years ago, it's rare to find a Zhombe story on radio or in national newspapers unless it's to d...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 10:23hrs | 1038 | by Felix Chiroro
As COVID-19 spreads, Zimbabweans rush to get a jab
Simanga Musarurwa, a 57-year old mother of six, was reluctant about getting a COVID-19 vaccine. But then, tragedy struck nearby."My neighbour and some people I know from my neighbourhood got i...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:29hrs | 1259 | by Staff reporter
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