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Ghana orders foreigners to exit gold market by April 30
Ghana has ordered foreigners to exit its gold trading market by the end of the month, a new government body said on Monday, as the West African country looks to streamline gold purchases from small-sc...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:33hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank widens blitz on defiant business
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced an expanded blitz targeting businesses across the country that are refusing to comply with government directives on the use of the multicurrency system...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 11:42hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Prophet jailed 30 years for sucking men's private parts
A self-proclaimed Mount Darwin prophet has been sent to jail after he sucked nine different men's private parts in the name of exorcism.Shepherd Maribha (25) was jailed by Bindura regional mag...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 22:03hrs | 1324 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Bindura
Surviving armed robber nabbed
The now deceased Kudzanai Zuze's friend Whisky Tennis (34) who was his accomplice while trying to rob a Concession miner was finally nabbed yesterday.Zuze was fatally shot by the miner Chinai ...Published: 05 Dec 2024 at 13:49hrs | 1632 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Glendale
Drama: Murder suspect escapes from hospital
There was drama in Concession yesterday where a murder suspect fled from the hospital after discovering that he had killed a friend during a beer binge....Published: 15 Nov 2024 at 10:57hrs | 2775 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Man killed in brutal attack over beer in Zimbabwe
Mazowe, Zimbabwe - A tragic incident unfolded in Eskbank, Mazowe, on November 13, 2023, when a man was brutally murdered during a dispute over beer.According to Acting Mashonaland Central poli...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 18:43hrs | 714 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Armed robber shot dead
A suspected armed robber was shot dead by a Concession based miner yesterday.The now deceased Kudzanai Zuze (35) was in company o...Published: 13 Nov 2024 at 05:47hrs | 5415 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Concession
Shona, 14 other African languages added on Google's services
Google Speech, in partnership with the research team based at the AI Research Center in Accra, Ghana, has announced the launch of Voice Search, talk-to-type on Gboard and voice input on Translate for ...Published: 01 Nov 2024 at 06:51hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Incriminating evidence against suspected SA hitmen
The trial of five South African-based individuals accused of kidnapping and assaulting Zimbabwean businessman Oliver Tendai Chipindu continued in Harare, with a digital forensic expert testifying. ...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:41hrs | 180 | by Staff reporgter
Zimbabwe must copy China's Common Prosperity development model
ZIMBABWE has always regarded China as a friend and there is a need for the southern African investment-starved nation to copy the Asian giant country's common prosperity development model, which has s...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:46hrs | 105 | by Silas Nkala
Zambia to import electricity from Zimbabwe and SA
Zambia announced Thursday it will import electricity from neighbouring South Africa and Zimbabwe as drought slashes hydropower output, leading to blackouts of up to 16 hours a day.The state-ow...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 18:30hrs | 234 | by AFP
Zimbabwe police decimate notorious armed robbery gang
A gang of suspected armed robbers who were behind the widely publicised J and P Security robbery, among other movie-style thefts, are now behind bars after they implicated each other one after another...Published: 21 Jul 2024 at 13:32hrs | 2320 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe General's remarks raise alarm
Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe's recent statements, asserting "command voting" by the military and declaring perpetual rule for Zanu-PF, have ignited significant alarm and condemnation. T...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 13:16hrs | 9 | by Staff reportyer
RBZ scraps bank charges for low-cost accounts
IN a move meant to encourage a culture of banking, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced the scrapping of bank charges for low-cost accounts.Presenting his first Monetary Policy Sta...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's structured currency launch on Friday
IN a bid to address currency volatility and exchange rate-driven inflation badly battering the economy amid arbitrage, the Zimbabwean government will next week launch a "structured currency" which the...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 20:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo fails to utilise Zinara funds
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) failed to utilise $2,3 billion in road rehabilitation funds from the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) yet the local authority is struggling to repair the city...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash overturns loss into profit
EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited (EHZL), a FINTECH company, successfully transformed its financial performance, turning a loss into a profit of ZWL$130.19 million after tax for the half-year ending A...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe headed for mono currency,' says Mthuli Ncube
The enactment of Statutory Instrument 218 of 2023 was driven by market chaos, including banks' reluctance to lend in both ZWL and US$. The new regulation effectively extends the use of the multiple cu...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe retailers index prices in USD
The foreign currency exchange rate system implemented by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) mandates that prices must be displayed in both local currency and foreign currency. Retailers are required t...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 05:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporte
Zimbabwe gazettes use of US dollar to 2030
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended the authorization for the use of the US dollar as the official currency until 2030, effectively pushing the initial deadline by an additional five years. ...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 18:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs ignore Chamisa directive to disengage?
The Zimbabwe presidential spokesperson, George Charamba has alleged that Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislatures who were withdrawn from Parliament by its leader Nelson Chamisa this morning a...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 15:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Property owners given ultimatum
HWANGE Local Board (HLB) has issued an ultimatum to property owners to pay their bills or risk their properties being attached.HLB spokesperson Dumisani Nsingo said the local authority was owe...Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
LIVE UPDATE: Voting kicks off
Voting has started in Zimbabwe's second general elections since a coup in 2017 that deposed the late ruler Robert Mugabe. Send us your update from your area on WhatsApp +27621817536Joi...Published: 23 Aug 2023 at 08:10hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resorts to blatant disinformation?
The Zimbabwean government has now resorted to blatant disinformation, deception and lies to counter main opposition CCC leader Nelson Chamisa's tidal wave of support sweeping across the country ahead ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 08:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to surpass wheat output
Zimbabwe is optimistic that this year's winter wheat production will surpass last year's yield of 375 000 tonnes following various interventions implemented by Government and the private sector to bol...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Anti-riot police disrupt CCC media address outside ZEC offices
Truncheon wielding anti-riot police on Monday ordered Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) officials to stop addressing journalists just outside the perimeter wall of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission'...Published: 29 May 2023 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in spotlight over the massive Nssa corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has presented its forensic audit which unearths corruption and names individuals implicated in the pensions fund's latest scandals to the Office of the Pr...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aspiring candidate granted $300,000 bail
Zanu-PF Makoni West aspiring candidate, Moses Ruwona, was released on $300 000 bail yesterday in a case where he faces fraud charges involving US$500 000.He spent two weeks in remand pri...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF MP spends weekend in jail over money laundering
Zanu-PF Makoni West constituency aspiring candidate Moses Ruwona will spend the weekend behind bars after Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje postponed his bail ruling to tomorrow.Ruw...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:33hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Access Forex loses US$260K while 'laundering' money
HARARE - Financial services firm Access Forex was accused of money laundering in court on Thursday after it emerged the company hired an aspiring Zanu PF MP to make huge foreign payments on its behalf...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 12:32hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter
Bail ruling for aspiring Zanu-PF MP set for tomorrow
Harare regional magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanje will tomorrow deliver ruling in a bail application by Zanu-PF aspiring Member of Parliament for Makoni West Moses Ruwona and his accomplice Macmillan Ch...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 17:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF MP locked up for fraud, money laundering
Moses Ruwona, an aspiring Zanu-PF candidate who defeated ICT minister Jenfan Muswere in the recently held party primary elections before being disqualified, has been locked up on allegations of fraud ...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 16:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
11 000 pass through Beitbridge as Easter traffic doubles
THE number of travellers into the country this Easter Holiday has doubled following the relaxation of Covid-19 travel restrictions with Beitbridge Border Post handling more than 11 000 arrivals ...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cannabis production doubles in Zimbabwe
THE production of industrial hemp doubled to more than 40 tonnes last year, with the country exporting about five tonnes to Switzerland.The number of players registered with the Agricultural M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister forced to reverse his corrupt mansion deal
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima could be forced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa or top officials to reverse his corrupt US$400 000 upmarket house purchase deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima is caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, involving the National Social Security Autho...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:41hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Malema threatens to reclaim hijacked flats in Hillbrow
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Sello Julius Malema has threatened to take over all the hijacked buildings in Johannesburg and to clean up the town accusing people who stay there of land damage. ...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Cyril Ramaphosa accepts David Mabuza resignation letter
South Africa Vice President David Dabede Mabuza has for the first time told South Africans that he has tendered his resignation to President Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa in a bid to pave way for ANC Deput...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 17:50hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's CCC grabs land worth US$5m
LAND worth millions of United States dollars was parcelled among Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) councillors and management at the Harare City Council with the corruption also sucking in legislato...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's wife released following brief detention
JAILED CCC legislator Job Sikhala's wife Ellen has been released following her detention by police, Tuesday.She was arrested earlier for an alleged traffic offense while on her way to visit he...Published: 20 Sep 2022 at 18:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime now agrees with Smith when he said, 'democracy isn't the counting of heads like sheep'!
As I was studying ZEC spokesperson, Jasper Mangwana, struggle and stutter in his faltered attempts at justifying the exorbitant and extortionary fees recently announced by the country's electoral comm...Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 15:52hrs | 3 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF takes Zimbabwe 360° back to Rhodesia - country ripe for new wave of nationalism and liberation struggle!
There is a popular saying, "nothing under the sun is completely new" - as, with the planets, solar systems, galaxies, and the universe, everything simply goes round and round in circles, and repeating...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 10:04hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's Chief Fortune Charumbira elected President of Pan African Parliament
Zimbabwe's Chief Fortune Charumbira has been elected new President of the African Parliament.The African legislative arm of the African Union is holding an ordinary session at its South Africa...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 20:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
6 Zimbabweans arrested for abducting Indian man in South Africa
Six Zimbabweans have been arrested for kidnapping an Indian man Mannan Abdul in Pretoria An operation conducted by the SAPS rescued the man from his abductors. According to South African media...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 12:38hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Charamba speaks on plot to oust Mnangagwa reports
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has disputed reports that there is a faction of ZANU PF that seeks to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa and replace him with Vice President Constantino Chiw...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 11:37hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'I was paid US$75 000 by Americans to assault Chief Serima' Former MDC-T Minister says
Former MDC-T Deputy Minister of Youth Tongai Matutu has alleged that he was paid US$75 000 to assault one Chief Serima in 2010 by the United States of America Embassy in a bid to project Zimbabwe as a...Published: 05 May 2022 at 15:48hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Hakainde Hichilema speaks on American Army base in Zambia
Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema has broken the silence over the controversial setting up of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) office in the neighbouring country. Writing on Twitt...Published: 05 May 2022 at 10:33hrs | 13 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe banks start willing buyer- wiling seller forex trade
LOCAL banks have started showing indicative rates for the willing-buyer willing-seller foreign currency trading system announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe early last week.Following a mee...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
ZEC refuses to be audited by Chiri over public funds
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), which is always accused of electoral fraud and subverting the people's will, while undermining democracy; especially ahead of the critical 2023 general electio...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money heist at CSC pension fund
THE Cold Storage Company (CSC)'s pension fund has been rocked by a scandal involving some former top executives, who are allegedly implicated in the spiriting away of millions of United States dollars...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 12:11hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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