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Mnangagwa snubs Joe Biden's US-Africa summit
ZIMBABWE will, for the first time in two decades, participate at the US-Africa Summit starting next Tuesday.President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be represented by Foreign Affairs minister Frederi...Published: 6 hrs ago | 646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 24 500km road network to be revamped by 2025
THIS week Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) business reporter, Freeman Makopa caught up with Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Felix Mhona (FM) to discuss updates in the progress of crucial i...Published: 6 hrs ago | 138 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister, foreigners in messy fight over mine
MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has been entangled at the centre of a vicious fight with international investors over vast lithium claims in Mutoko, Mashonaland East.Alt...Published: 6 hrs ago | 525 | by Staff reporter
Buyanga bailed but remains in jail on new charges
Frank Buyanga was Friday released from a South African prison where he has been held for over a month but his freedom was immediately curtailed by new charges which were slapped on the property tycoon...Published: 6 hrs ago | 256 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police move to raid Tetrad Bank directors
THE Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Asset Forfeiture Unit has obtained a warrant of search and seizure against Tetrad Investment Bank (TIB) management and directors in a case of fraud and mone...Published: 6 hrs ago | 395 | by Staff reporter
‘Startups with diverse founders up-skilled on how to attract investors’
A Venture capital workshop was organized by the US Embassy in partnership with Eight2Five Innovation Hub. The hub has consistently moved towards supportin...Published: 7 hrs ago | 31 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Marist Brothers wins Old Mutual High School Quiz Competition
Marist Brothers High School reigned supreme at the Old Mutual High School Quiz competition, fending off stiff competition from Zengeza High 1 to land the top prize at a two day event held in Harare on...Published: 14 hrs ago | 639 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
How high-level corruption at ZESA plunged Zimbabwe into darkness!
The reason Zimbabwe is suffering by daily 20-hour electricity cuts is not necessarily due to antiquated equipment, neither can it ever be a so-called 'growing economy' - but, had everything to do with...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1266 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa outlines US$4.3 billion plan to end energy crisis
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa has mocked the Zanu-PF led government for failing to roll out a contingent blueprint to deal with power outages while outlining a f...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Pro-Mnangagwa group slams ZEC
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission (ZEC)'s recently published delimitation preliminary report continues to scare Zanu-PF, as a shadowy affiliate has castigated the report demanding a redo of the exercise....Published: 18 hrs ago | 696 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mock Mnangagwa over election promises as blackouts worsen
The announcement by the Zambezi River Authority, which runs the Kariba Dam, that Zimbabwe had used up its share of the water in the world's largest man-made reservoir sounded a death knell to an alrea...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2025 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora says confident his party will win 2023 elections
OPPOSITION MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has claimed the party will shrug off a disappointing show in this year's by-elections to punch above its weight and win next year's presidential elections....Published: 18 hrs ago | 527 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF piles pressure on Zec
Zanu-PF Mashonaland East provincial chairperson Daniel Garwe has castigated the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for a skewed delimitation exercise.Addressing party supporters at a mobilisa...Published: 18 hrs ago | 620 | by Staff reporter
Beware of fake livestock vaccines, govt warns
THE Department of Veterinary Services has warned farmers not to buy livestock vaccines from unlicensed dealers, saying most of their products were fake.The department's chief director, Josphat...Published: 18 hrs ago | 117 | by Staff reporter
'Mwonzora never intimidated anyone'
MDC Alliance leader Douglas Mwonzora yesterday said he never intimidated any presidential hopeful intending to challenge him at the party's elective congress set for December 18."No one was st...Published: 18 hrs ago | 154 | by Staff reporter
Power blackout disrupts UZ exam
UNIVERSITY of Zimbabwe (UZ) students wrote part one of their examinations in the dark after power suddenly went off at the institution amid the unrelenting countrywide power crisis.The power c...Published: 18 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clears forex allotment backlog
THE forex allotment backlog worth millions of dollars from the first 93 auctions on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s foreign currency auction has been cleared, deputy governor Innocent Matshe has ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 140 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala a habitual offender
Empty vessels make a lot of noise. CCC interim vice national chairperson, Job Sikhala, has of late been making unfounded claims about the country's judiciary as being captured.This is stemming...Published: 18 hrs ago | 274 | by Zivanai Dhewa
Mnangagwa attends colourful Mbasogo inauguration
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was among high profile dignitaries from several countries who joined thousands of local people here yesterday to witness the inauguration of Equatorial Guinea President, Teodoro Ob...Published: 18 hrs ago | 242 | by Staff reporter
FULL LIST: Massive wealth looted by Cottco bosses revealed
The Prosecutor General has gone tough on corruption accused COTTCO marketing and business development manager Maxmore Njani and sought an order to go on a massive repossession of the grand loot held b...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 11:09hrs | 3493 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chipo Mutasa steps down as TelOne boss
TelOne managing director Chipo Mutasa is set to step down from her post at the end of this month after steering the ship for a decade.Mutasa leaves TelOne after completing her two five-year te...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:43hrs | 2068 | by Staff reporter
High Court allows seizure of Cottco boss' property worth millions of USD
THE High Court has granted the Prosecutor General approval to seize property worth tens of millions of US dollars' worth allegedly owned by Cotton Company of Zimbabwe's (COTTCO) corruption-accused bos...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 2152 | by Staff reporter
Delimitation report rattles Zanu-PF
TWO shadowy Zanu-PF groups have trashed a Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) preliminary delimitation report showing the ruling party losing some rural wards to urban constituencies that are widely b...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1937 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's bid to have magistrate removed from case fails
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Job Sikhala, who is being accused of inciting public violence, had his application for recusal of the magistrate presiding over his case dismissed....Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Southern African power crisis stems from post-liberation history
THE electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post-liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerabl...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 546 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe unemployment, education system not directly linked
IN the Wednesday edition of NewsDay we carried a story in which some of our college student leaders were frothing at the mouth over the failure by many of the students to get employment soon after gra...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
'70% of Zimbabweans have no access to clean water'
ABOUT 70,3% of Zimbabweans have no access to clean water, prompting such development partners as ActionAid to drill solar-powered boreholes in some parts of the country, government has revealed....Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs push for wealth tax
LEGISLATORS have urged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to introduce a wealth tax to increase the country's revenue base and bolster social safety nets.Contributing to debate on the Finance Bill ...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:08hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to host Africa justice indaba
ZIMBABWE has won a bid to host the 7th Conference of Constitutional Jurisdictions of Africa (CJCA) congress in 2024 after Gabon and Mozambique withdrew from the race.In a statement, the Judici...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
15 Chikurubi inmates graduate as foresters
FIXED telecommunications company, TelOne has helped 15 Chikurubi inmates acquire agricultural skills, which it hopes will assist them re-integrate into society after being released from prison....Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Form 1 places
Government has said there are adequate Form One places to absorb all pupils that wrote the Grade Seven public examinations this year.The announcement comes as parents and guardians have starte...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:07hrs | 369 | by Staff reporter
Water infrastructure vandalism worries Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has expressed serious concern over rampant vandalism of key infrastructure at Epping Forest and Rochester Aquifer in Nyamandlovu, a development which continues to negatively affect...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, South Africa soccer legends clash set for next year
PREPARATIONS for a clash pitting Warriors legends and Bafana Bafana legends have gathered momentum with Jonathan Mashingaidze who is part of the organising committee revealing the encounter is schedul...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
New by-law for Bulawayo crafted
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has crafted a new by-law that bans free advertising on the city's public spaces with offenders facing three months imprisonment or a fine.However, according to ...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:06hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Things not looking good for Chamisa's CCC
The events that are taking place within CCC coupled with the party's defeat by Zanu-PF in the by-elections held in Binga, Gweru and Mberengwa over the weekend show that things are falling apart in the...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1614 | by Mukachana Hanyani
Zanu-PF sets rules, guidelines for affiliate organisations
ORGANISATIONS affiliated to Zanu-PF must be guided by the revolutionary party's values and ethos, the party's Secretary for the Commissariat, Mike Bimha, has said.Speaking after a meeting that...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Karo Mining's US$4,2bn Zimbabwe platinum project takes off
The Karo Mining Holdings (KMH), a Zimbabwean platinum group metal (PGMs) miner undertaking a US$4,2 billion project in Mhondoro, has commenced operations with the first ore expected in the processing ...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:04hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Even a five year old can tell that Mnangagwa has failed!
I remember when my son was still a little child, in the early 2000s, whereby we had to give him millions of Zimbabwe dollars to buy sweets and 'freezits' ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:24hrs | 791 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's CCC is a Twitter party of celebrity influencers and shadowy regime change outfits
As MDC-T President, Nelson Chamisa was MDC-A 2018 candidate. MDC-A won 63 Parly seats. In 2019 he became MDC-A President. In 2020 he lost MDC-T presidency in court; @DMwonzora recalled some MDC-...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:18hrs | 840 | by @ProfJNMoyo
Why CCC MPs defied Chamisa and took the US$40,000 loan
ON Tuesday 6 December 2022 the Citizens Coalition for Change Parliamentary Caucus converged in Harare where among other things they discussed critical national issues affecting the citizens of Zimbabw...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:17hrs | 1265 | by Prosper Mutseyami
Chamisa's MPs dig in, defend US$40,000 loan
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislators have defended their move to accept controversial US$40,000 loans from Parliament, days after party president Nelson Chami...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:15hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Kupukile Mlambo appointed chief executive of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Kupukile Mlambo, who holds a PhD in economics from Gothenburg University in Sweden, has been appointed chief executive of the US$100m Sovereign Wealth F...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:14hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean parliamentary delegation calls on India
NEW DELHI, India - A Parliamentary Delegation from Zimbabwe led by Speaker of the Parliament of Zimbabwe, Advocate Jacob Francis Nzwidamilimo Mudenda, cal...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 18:56hrs | 206 | by APO
Glamping Adventures head awarded for fostering inclusive rural tourism and conservation
Johannesburg - Gugu Sithole, CEO of Glamping Adventures was recognized with two awards for leading her organisation with conservation strategies that turn the focus on host rural communities within to...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 14:53hrs | 207 | by Agencies
What l Learnt From Spain vs Morocco
1. Don't Let Your Poor Strike force Undermine Your Resilient Defence.Although Mocco eventually won the game, the strike force couldn't capitalise on the...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 09:07hrs | 1422 | by Mthokozisi Gwizi
Africa's Funding Councils Meet for Impact
Participating councils of the Science Granting Councils Initiative in Sub-Saharan Africa (SGCI) deliberated on progress, focus and initiatives to advance research and innovation since the SGCI was est...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 09:04hrs | 158 | by NRF
Dutch investor seeks Mnangagwa's intervention over US$8m botched venture with Zimbabwe partner
Director of Dutch-based investor Euro LPG BV Omar Abdallah, has sought the intervention of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the Sheriff failed to act on a High Court order overturning a controversia...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mum and son 'proud' volunteers at FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022
A mother and son from Zimbabwe are part of the 20,000-strong volunteer team at the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™.Rufaro Makambira-Chindalo is supporting operations at the Main Media Centre, whi...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 876 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa red flags magistrates and judges
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed concern over judicial officers who hand down controversially lenient sentences to rapists and armed robbers.He said the judiciary ...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Lustful man rapes sister-in-law
A 40-YEAR-old Chinhoyi man has been jailed 15 years for raping young sister to his brother's wife out of lust.Luckson Petros of Village 20, Chikuti, pleaded not guilty to rape when he appeared...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 1342 | by Staff reporter
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