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AirZim receives new Boeing 777 from Malaysia
AIR ZIMBABWE has received a new plane Boeing B777 in a development that is part of the government's ongoing plans to resuscitate the airline. Three more planes are set to arrive in the following weeks...Published: 7 hrs ago | 1647 | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe to get delivery of Boeing 777 tomorrow
Air Zimbabwe will take delivery of one of the Boeing 777-200 aircraft acquired from Malaysia on Monday, almost four years after the deal was negotiated.Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza is...Published: 19 Jan 2020 at 14:13hrs | 7815 | by Staff reporter
British govt issues travel warning to Zimbabwe
The British government on Friday issued a travel warning to Zimbabwe citing possible political upheavals and regional flight services disruptions.A ...Published: 18 Jan 2020 at 08:43hrs | 13537 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lures China direct flights
The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) is lobbying for a direct flight from China to Zimbabwe as it seeks to attract more tourists from the Asian giant. ZTA said the absence of a direct flight b...Published: 24 Dec 2019 at 06:01hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
'Air Zimbabwe to relaunch in 2020 with 5 planes'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says Air Zimbabwe will take off in earnest in 2020, with five planes.Ncube also told the National Assembly that Treasury was also going to assume the airline's to...Published: 13 Dec 2019 at 08:04hrs | 1069 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe aviation industry faces stiff competition
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has identified growing regional competition and aged infrastructure as part of the factors deterring the aviation industry's envisaged growth and develo...Published: 11 Dec 2019 at 06:29hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gains flights momentum
BULAWAYO is strategically positioned to attract more international flights, which is good for luring increased investment into the city and the surrounding regions. Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Intern...Published: 09 Dec 2019 at 06:54hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe's Mbuya Nehanda is back
THE country's airliner, Air Zimbabwe, has said the aircraft it expects to introduce later this month is not a new acquisition but one of the planes that had been grounded. The struggling airli...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:11hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Flights disrupted in Zimbabwe due to 'operational limitations'
Zimbabweans finally got access to new low-denomination currency on Tuesday that authorities hope will end chronic cash shortages, but banks maintained an existing weekly withdrawal limit of $20, frust...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 20:23hrs | 644 | by Staff reporter
New plane for Air ZImbabwe
AIR Zimbabwe is expecting delivery of a new plane in the next three weeks, a development that will see it introducing evening domestic flights to Victoria Falls. The flag carrier has been usin...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1035 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Flight Radar shows movement in the Zimbabwe airspace
Social media is awash with reports that a go-slow strike by air traffic controllers caused travelling chaos on Monday morning with planes unable to take-off or land at Zimbabwean airports.Howe...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 11:39hrs | 7782 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's civil aviation infrastructure needs heavy rehabilitation
ZIMBABWE'S civil aviation infrastructure needs heavy rehabilitation and regular maintenance if the southern African nation is to attract international airlines and grow the tourism industry, African B...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs solution to board failures
Due to the prevalence of company failures, there is now a need to establish how directors of listed, public companies and parastatals companies are selected to reduce the high rate of company and boar...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:47hrs | 75 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
AfDB advises government on Air Zimbabwe
INSOLVENT national flag carrier Air Zimbabwe must focus its efforts on optimising routes to reduce operating costs and replace aging, high cost planes used on domestic routes with smaller planes that ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:39hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
JETGATE: 'Mnangagwa uses luxury jet to loot diamonds and foreign currency'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa seemingly sensing his imminent boot from power, is allegedly involved in grand looting of the country's scarce foreign currency coffers and resources using his chain of hi...Published: 22 Nov 2019 at 07:37hrs | 13568 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Air Zimbabwe struggles to fly
Air Zimbabwe is flying one plane, with the other two grounded due to regulatory issues. Air Zimbabwe acting chief executive, Mr Joseph Makonise, yesterday said the airline was expecting to res...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:28hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to resume European routes
Air Zimbabwe was soon going to resume European routes such as a direct route to the UK it has been revealed.Speaking at the Aviation Stakeholders Breakfast Meeting in Harare today, Air Zimbabw...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 20:37hrs | 3559 | by Staff reporter
3 airlines interested in flying to Zimbabwe
Prospects of Zimbabwe's aviation industry remain bright as three international airlines have registered interest in servicing the destination. CAAZ acting director-general Margaret Mantiziba t...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 18:06hrs | 3062 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo: Charges wont shed light into the ZimAirways scandal
Joram Gumbo, the former Transport minister, has been arrested for his actions around the Zimbabwe Airways controversy. But it tells a story of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's feeble anti-corruption dri...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:40hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo 'defrauded State of US$3,7 million'
Zimbabwe's Presidential Affairs Minister Joram Gumbo, who was arrested on Monday, allegedly prejudiced Government of US$3,7 million. According to a charge sheet, Gumbo's alleged shady deals in...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 18:53hrs | 3560 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Joram Gumbo arrested
Former Transport Minister Joram Gumbo was arrested on Monday accused of corruption involving a US$70 million deal to acquire four planes from Malaysian Airlines.The planes were sold to Zimbabw...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 11:33hrs | 9658 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to receive two Malaysian planes
BELEAGUERED national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe will soon take delivery of two aircrafts bought under a controversial arrangement that at the time reportedly involved now Minister in the Office of the...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 856 | by newzimbabwe
Air Zimbabwe starts billing in forex
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe has announced that it has started billing foreigners in foreign currency with immediate effect.However, locals, the company said, will continue to be billed in l...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe in R1,4m payment plan for impounded plane
TROUBLED flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)'s only aircraft, a Boeing 767-200 long-haul jet, impounded by the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) last week at OR Tambo International Airport, was o...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:47hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Changing currency like changing diapers will not improve Zimbabwe's ailing economy
Zimbabwe will be introducing a new currency in two weeks time but will that introduction of this new currency going to be a panacea to the current economic doldrums and quagmire or the country needs r...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 17:44hrs | 2287 | by Leonard Koni
Air Zimbabwe resumes SA flight after settling debt
South Africa has reinstated permission for Zimbabwe's national airline to fly into Johannesburg after the company was banned from using SA airports over unpaid fees.State-owned Air Zimbabwe's ...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 11:51hrs | 2333 | by AFP
Impounded Air Zimbabwe plane released
A team of negotiators dispatched to South Africa by Air Zimbabwe, has brokered a deal that saw the release of the Boeing 767-200 yesterday which had been impounded by the Airports Company of South Afr...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
Politics should play a second role
In most countries across the world, citizens work collectively towards national development, delivering excellent economic progress and thereby ensuring that every citizen has at least a decent standa...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 14:12hrs | 313 | by Edwin T Kamanda
Air Zimbabwe's ONLY plane seized in Johannesburg over debt
Air Zimbabwe's only serviceable plane has been impounded by the Airports Company of South Africa (ACSA) over an unpaid debt.The plane was seized at OR Tambo International Airport on Wednesday,...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:52hrs | 486 | by ZimLive
BREAKING: South Africa bans Air Zimbabwe from using its airports
Reports coming from Harare indicate that the national airline Air Zimbabwe has been barred from using any of the South Africa's airports until some amounts that it owes to the Airports Company South A...Published: 24 Oct 2019 at 19:05hrs | 12124 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In-house politics cost Zimbabwe's Gems
Zimbabwe's senior netball team, the "Gems" started off their campaign of the 2019 African Netball Championships on a low note. Yesterday they lost their opening game to the She Cranes of Uganda, 60 - ...Published: 20 Oct 2019 at 23:39hrs | 994 | by Daniel Itai at the Bellville Velodrome in Cape Town
Zimbabwe still to get Embraer operating manual
GOVERNMENT has engaged Embraer over delays in releasing crucial operating manuals for its Embraer ERJ145, six months after taking delivery of the aircraft from the manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Independe...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:28hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe using antiquated software
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) is using sub-standard business and aviation software instead of recommended enterprise tools owing to the airline's failure to pay service providers, the Zimbabwe Independent can...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 05:25hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe failing to attract an investor
INSOLVENT flag carrier Air Zimbabwe is failing to attract an investor, 11 months after government invited bids from potential suitors to take over the embattled entity, the Zimbabwe Independent can re...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:07hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
China - Zimbabwe's 40-year relations
ON May 15 1981, former president Robert Mugabe - then Zimbabwe's prime minister - held a meeting with legendary Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, China, which could have changed Zimbabwe's cour...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
Court reserves Air Zimbabwe judgment
Air Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd will have to wait a little longer to know its fate after the Supreme Court yesterday reserved judgment in a matter in which the airline is challenging the Labour Court ruling co...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 06:32hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Remembering Robert Mugabe; A personal encounter
Robert Mugabe came and left. Him and I met at Changara's house in Warren Park, Harare, downhill and only a stone's throw away from the National Heroes Acre.He had come to pay belated c...Published: 22 Sep 2019 at 08:55hrs | 1279 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Mugabe The Legacy
Born 21 February 1924 in Kutama Zvimba to Bona a catechist and Gabriel a carpenter no one would have thought that such a humble family would raise up an astute Pan-Africanist, Robert Gabriel Mugabe....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 15:33hrs | 1082 | by Daniel Itai
Low domestic tourism volumes worry Zimbabwe Parly
INCREASED marketing and educational campaigns are needed to boost domestic tourism in Zimbabwe, which remains lowest despite huge potential, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infr...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 07:32hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Malaysia clears Air Zimbabwe aircraft
A MALAYSIAN firm has cleared the release of two aircraft acquired by Air Zimbabwe, with delivery of the first one expected soon, a senior Government official has revealed. Transport and Infras...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 05:53hrs | 635 | by Staff reporter
$13 million upgrade for Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport
THE construction of a new air traffic control tower and a fire station at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo will commence soon at a cost of $13 million. Civil Aviation...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe back in the skies
AIR Zimbabwe's Boeing 767, which developed a technical fault on Friday in Bulawayo, is back in the skies after engineers solved the problem. It resumed flights on Sunday evening when it starte...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe apologises for flights disruption
Air Zimbabwe's only plane servicing the Harare-Bulawayo route has since Friday been grounded due to a technical fault resulting in disruption of its services. Air Zimbabwe yesterday issu...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe plane develops technical fault
An Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) Boeing 767 developed a technical fault yesterday in Bulawayo and threw passengers' travelling plans into disarray as a number of routes it was supposed to cover were cancelled...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 12:43hrs | 3338 | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe plane grounded over manual
MORIBUND airline Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) has not yet obtained the crucial operating manual for its Embraer ERJ145, four months after taking delivery of the aircraft from the manufacturer, the Zimbabwe I...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 20:23hrs | 5581 | by Staff reporter
Corruption has more devastating effects compared to Western sanctions
Money siphoned from government institutions through corruption was enough to cater for Zimbabwe's humanitarian aid appeal and more, the European Union has said.This comes after government rece...Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 236 | by newzimbabwe
fastjet Zimbabwe receives approval for additional frequencies
fastjet Zimbabwe, a low-cost airline, has received approval from the government to operate flights to new regional routes, civil aviation authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) Joshua Mqabuko International Airp...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1311 | by Staff reporter
More flights for Bulawayo
THE Government has increased flight frequencies for low-cost airline, Fastjet Zimbabwe, in a move which will play a huge part in improving connectivity and growing of the country's economy.Civ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:42hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Radio presenters get a feel of SA broadcasting
FORMER CapitalkFM station manager Napoleon "Napster" Nyanhi's Radio Presenters Masterclass initiative launched last year has started paying off for young local broadcasters who recently went on a tour...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:26hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
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