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Britain warns its citizens in Zimbabwe
Since 14 January 2019 there has been widespread disruption, including violent protests, in many areas of the capital Harare and the cities of Bulawayo, Kadoma, Mutare, and Marondera. Many shops and ot...Published: 20 hrs ago | 5791 | by UK gov
AirZim suspends flights
National airline, Air Zimbabwe has suspended flights up to mid-month due to maintenance works being carried out on its only functioning plane. The airline, which has largely been operating onl...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:34hrs | 2605 | by Staff Reporter
From Great Zimbabwe to Zimbabwe Ruins with Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa
With great good hope Zimbabweans of all polical affiliation, race, colour and creed poured-out onto the streets, led by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, to tell Mugabe of The Enough of the journey from Th...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1840 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Linda Masarira takes minister Fortune Chasi head on
MDC-T National Spokesperson Linda Masarira has taken Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Advocate Fortune Chasi over a number of issues including increase in transport fare and crumb...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 12:18hrs | 4221 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's ministers fail 2018 ratings
As Zimbabweans waved goodbye to 2018 yesterday, and awaited with much trepidation the dawn of the new year, in the light of the country's deepening economic woes, the Daily News - as per its rich annu...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe's 'Mbuya Nehanda' grounded for maintenance
Air Zimbabwe yesterday grounded Mbuya Nehanda, a Boeing 737-200ER, for mandatory maintenance expected to last over a month. The airline has largely been operating two serviceable aircraft and whenever...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:04hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Govt commits to clearing IATA debt
Treasury has reassured tourism industry officials and the board of airlines representatives, its commitment to clear the US$150 million International Air Transport Association (IATA) debt following di...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 16:52hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube accuse Chamisa's MPs of being dishonest
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday accused opposition MPs of being dishonest by insisting that people are not happy with the 2% levy on electronic transactions, claiming the new tax has widely be...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 06:34hrs | 1604 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airways loses second plane over delayed payments
Zimbabwe Airways has lost a second plane which has been sold by Malaysia Airlines after the Zimbabwe government failed to keep up with payments.Zimbabwe Airways, which was formed in secret by ...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 07:39hrs | 3336 | by ZimLive
Mugabe son-in-law trial deferred to January
THE trial of former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law failed to start last Friday after the defence said they were served with state papers late.Simba Chikore is facing unlawful detention c...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 11:01hrs | 1204 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt goes shopping for aircraft
GOVERNMENT has dispatched five aviation experts to Texas, the United States of America, where they are understood to be inspecting three Embraer E145 aircraft purchased by national airliner, Air Zimba...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Air Zimbabwe leaves passenger bags in South Africa
There was panic among Air Zimbabwe passengers who flew from South Africa to Zimbabwe when the airline left all passenger bags in South Africa amidst revelations that the ariline did not pay some requi...Published: 15 Dec 2018 at 09:05hrs | 5934 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa is failing Zimbabwe
After a false start which was characterised by the catch phrase "The New Dispensation!" coming along with fresh cabinet faces, many Zimbabweans believed Mugabe's ghost had finally left us. However, it...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 09:14hrs | 9463 | by Frazer Muzondo, MDC UK and ROHR ZIM
AirZim planes are death traps?
Air Zimbabwe planes have no functioning oxygen masks inside their planes, it has been alleged.A prominent medical doctor from Bulawayo who declined to be named for professional reasons n...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 09:39hrs | 3165 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti wants private jet for Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe must consider buying President Emmerson Mnangagwa a jet since the cost of his foreign trips on chartered planes was too high as compared to his predecessor Robert Mugabe, former Finance minis...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 11:36hrs | 15628 | by Staf reporter
Govt backs Air Zimbabwe reconstruction plan
The government has backed a reconstruction plan for the national airline, Air Zimbabwe, after a creditors meeting on Thursday ruled out possibilities of liquidating the parastatal.For an airli...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 17:50hrs | 1419 | by Staff Reporter
Parliament calls for clarity on Zimbabwe Airways ownership
Parliament says government should clarify the ownership of Zimbabwe Airways (Zim Airways) before it is merged with struggling national airline Air Zimbabwe (AirZim)."Air Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 16:02hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open up Zimbabwe airspace
There is need to expeditiously revive Air Zimbabwe as part of Government's ongoing efforts to overhaul the transport infrastructure sector and liberalise airspace in line with the decision made by the...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1355 | by Staff reporter
Newly-acquired Zimbabwe Boeing 'sold to US firm for spare parts'
One of the Boeing aircraft recently bought by Zimbabwe for a new state airline has been sold to a US firm for spare parts, a newspaper has claimed.Zimbabwe is reported to have acquired four Bo...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 10:32hrs | 1879 | by Staff reporter
From land-locked to land-linked economy
This week I share my thoughts on changing Zimbabwe from being a land-locked country into a land-linked economy.This subject, among other things, addresses country and regional infrastructural ...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:06hrs | 304 | by President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
Saturday with Stanley Dube: Mnangagwa is Mugabe's old leftover fart
November 18; Zimbabweans marched and on November 21 the nonagenarian despot Robert Mugabe resigned after pressure from the military and from ZANU PF. Surely chickens had come home to roost...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 13:31hrs | 1349 | by Stanley Dube
Air Zimbabwe revival timeline set
Air Zimbabwe administrator Reggie Saruchera, has said they expect the revival of the national airliner to come full circle by May 30, 2019. Saruchera, a managing partner at Grant Thornton and ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:02hrs | 688 | by Staff reporter
'Zim Airways not part of Air Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe Airways is a completely different and autonomous entity from Air Zimbabwe and is therefore not part of the reconstruction process, Ministry of Transport of Infrastructure Development Ac...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airways loses one plane over delayed payment
Zimbabwe Airways, the controversial new state-owned airline being built with the help of aircraft retired by Malaysian Airways has lost one of the four Boeing 777-2H6(ER) aircraft that it had targeted...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 11:15hrs | 2472 | by zimlive
Christopher Mutsvangwa, the Mhofus and the PPI
I was in Harare responding to the Zimbabwe is Open for Business call by the President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa and stayed at the Cresta Lodge. For a man from Mhandamabwe, this was one of the mo...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 13:30hrs | 4862 | by Sam Wezhira
Skeletons tumble as MPs begin investigation
FORMER Mines deputy minister Freddie Moyo has become the latest politician to be linked to the demise of Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL), a development that left the lives of thousands of famil...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:54hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
The most treasonous act you can do for your country is to support Zanu PF
If you support Zanu, you will be helping future Zimbabwean children to become perpetual slaves of other Nations while armed thieves in Zanu exponentiate their wealth.Imagine a country where yo...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 17:19hrs | 4399 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mutumwa Mawere renews fight against ZANU PF
South Africa based business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere has renewed his 14 years fight against the government of ZANU PF that dispossessed him of his Shabanie Mashaba Mines in 2004 before issuing a wa...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:07hrs | 4034 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Air Zimbabwe - ZimAirways merger talks collapse
MERGER talks between flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) and the dodgy Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) to create a merged state-run airline have collapsed after a nominee shareholder demanded to be paid ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe rot exposed
An audit report on the operations of the Air Zimbabwe (Private) Limited has unearthed massive unaccounted leakages of funds that could have prejudiced the parastatal of millions of dollars.Acc...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 13:37hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba calls ZANU PF leaders mad
Embattled whistleblower Wiiliam Mutumanje (Acie Lumumba) has blasted ZANU PF government over its management of the national Airline, Air Zimbabwe. Said Lumumba, "I do not understand my party Z...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:59hrs | 7323 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Air Zimbabwe - The World's Most Dangerous Airline?
Aviation blogger Sam Chui's journey around the world reviewing airlines took him to Zimbabwe.Chui discovered a very Zimbabwean tradition: "burning money". By changing his valuable United State...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:58hrs | 3117 | by youtube
Mnangagwa likens himself to Margaret Thatcher
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has equated himself and his rise to power as equivalent to that of the late British Premier Margaret Thatcher who was popularly know as The Iron Lady. Writing...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 15:48hrs | 2763 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Industrial action against Mthuli Ncube looming
Air Zimbabwe has been allowed by the cabinet of President ED Mnangagwa to charge its clients (especially diasporas) in foreign currency. The confused minister in charge of Air Zimbabwe Joel Biggie Mat...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 11:50hrs | 3440 | by Don Chigumba
Govt invites troubled Air Zimbabwe bids
GOVERNMENT has invited bids for the troubled national airline, Air Zimbabwe, as it pushes ahead with privatisation of its loss-making parastatals.The airline owes creditors $341 million and wa...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe flights tender for a B767-200ER aircraft
GOVERNMENT will this week float a tender for Air Zimbabwe seeking an investor to turnaround the fortunes of the troubled national airline.Of late, Air Zimbabwe has been struggling to service i...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 1532 | by Staff reporter
'Diasporans should pay for Air Zimbabwe services in US$'
CABINET has resolved that Zimbabweans living in the diaspora should pay for Air Zimbabwe services in United States dollars, Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has sa...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1404 | by Staff reporter
Govt seeks investor for Air Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT will this week float a tender for Air Zimbabwe seeking an investor to turnaround the fortunes of the troubled national airline. Speaking at the just ended 2019 pre-budget seminar in...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:26hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Zinara officials use personal bank accounts for business
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) and National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) were using personal bank accounts for employees outside Harare to administer cash transact...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:00hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son-in-law's freedom bid flops
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law unsuccessfully challenged his continued remand Wednesday after being told he was to be jointly charged with a former Air Zimbabwe security guard.Sim...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 19:14hrs | 9489 | by newzimbabwe
Full list of Ministers arrested by Mnangagwa
On Wednesday, the Harare magistrate courts was flooded with high ranking ZANU PF linked officials who were coming for routine remand on charges relating to corruption. Some of the accused who tu...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 13:10hrs | 18511 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa dumps Air Zimbabwe for luxury Swiss jet
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again ditched the struggling national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe and opted to fly to Guinea aboard a luxurious jet operated by Comlux - headquartered in Switzerla...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:05hrs | 2273 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo Zimbabwe's poster boy of sleaze
As ZANU-PF's long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in government sin...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | 638 | by newZWire
Fresh plan to save Air Zimbabwe
Government's ambitions to save AirZim intensified last week as it invoked the Reconstruction of State-Indebted Insolvent Companies Act to ring fence the airline's assets and work out a repayment plan....Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Cabinet: The skeletons are tumbling
The last time a Zimbabwean Cabinet minister publicly claimed that his hands were clean, he got rapped on the knuckles with handcuffs and thrown into the cooler for his efforts. Another minister has ju...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 7620 | by Tawanda Majoni
Tendai Biti always has something to say
The Daily News on Sunday's Pauline Hurungudo sits down for a wide-ranging interview with former Finance minister Tendai Biti, who is also the deputy national chairperson for the MDC, about the state o...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:19hrs | 1457 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo must leave office and face justice
The man at the centre of the jerry can madness is actually worse than revealed by his opinions on fuel containers. While his expressions on jerry cans were reflective of his unfitness to hold public o...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 18:01hrs | 4839 | by MDC Communications
Air Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe Airways merge
DEBT-RIDDEN Air Zimbabwe's new administrator Grant Thornton has been assigned the task of merging Air Zimbabwe and controversial carrier Zimbabwe Airways within the next six months.Transport m...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:42hrs | 1431 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resuscitation begins
The resuscitation of Air Zimbabwe has started in earnest following the commencement of work by a Government appointed administrator to superintend over the national airline's revival, a Cabinet Minist...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:12hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
Joram Gumbo denies any wrongdoing at Zinara
Former Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joram Gumbo has denied any wrongdoing in corporate governance malpractices that dogged the Zimbabwe National Road Administration during his...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
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