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Zimbabwe says man who sent out airport bomb warning on e-mail arrested
Zimbabwe's presidency on Monday confirmed the arrest of a 26-year-old South African man alleged to be the sender of an email which caused travel chaos last Friday, including forcing President Emmerson...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe declares 'heightened alert'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa aborted landing at Victoria Falls International Airport on Friday and his private jet returned to Harare after authorities were warned of a "credible bomb or firearm threa...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 19:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe boss bullish after shock return
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) acting chief executive officer (CEO) Edmund Makona this week opened up about his plan for the troubled carrier, saying a massive revamp would be underway soon to save the busines...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Airzim plans to resuscitate London route
Air Zimbabwe is expecting delivery of a new plane at the end of this month, while plans to resuscitate the London route are already underway following the clearance of the International Air Transport ...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 23:53hrs | 28 | 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: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe grounded by jet fuel shortage
TROUBLED national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), has grounded its planes because of jet fuel shortages, a development which could result in flight schedule disruptions.In a statement Thu...Published: 12 May 2022 at 20:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Dramatic new twists and turns in Mnangagwa's fresh lawsuit
THE convoluted case about accountability and the rule of law in which a Harare man Tichaona Mupasiri has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appo...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to take delivery of new aircraft
Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) will take delivery of new aircraft during the first quarter of this year, enabling it to launch additional regional flights as well as a new intercontinental route, an official h...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa taken to court
A HARARE man has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of Patrick Chinamasa as director and chairman of the embattled Air Zimbabwe argu...Published: 22 Dec 2021 at 04:50hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Fresh upheavals rock Air Zimbabwe
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) acting chief executive officer Joseph Makonise left the airline in a surprise top-chair reshuffle this week, according to an internal communication obtained by the Zimbabwe Indep...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 20:08hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe to join league of Afrca's viable airlines
Air Zimbabwe will join the league of viable airlines in Africa over the next year as Government steps up efforts to have the airline firmly in the skies.Responding to questions regarding its d...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe says administrators rescued the insolvent airline
AIR Zimbabwe administrators Grant Thornton, whose term of office came to an end last week when government appointed a six-member board, saved the airline from litigious creditors and set the troubled ...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe resuscitation scandal explodes
EFFORTS to resuscitate the troubled national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), are effectively dead in the water after the exposition by the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) of a systemati...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 10:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
President's Office elbows out Air Zimbabwe administrator
THE Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has been implicated in the raging Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) mess after it emerged senior officials there orchestrated the ousting of administrator Reggie Saru...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe debt assumption promotes corruption
ZIMBABWEAN taxpayers continue to be burdened by debt from parastatals which are riddled with mismanagement and corruption, with the latest being the assumption of Air Zimbabwe's huge debt, as governme...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$137m loss sinks run-down Air Zimbabwe
NATIONAL flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), chalked over a US$137 million loss in four successive years which helped sink the airline deep into the abyss under the yoke of corporate malfeasance, inc...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe admin tables a fresh revival plan
ADMINISTRATORS of Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) have persuaded government to roll out a foreign currency funding model under which industries would be directed to deploy United States dollars into the broke a...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:03hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Ex-AirZim workers reject Zimdollar payouts
Former Air Zimbabwe workers have vowed to fight against the payment of their salary arrears in local currency at a rate of US$1: ZW$1, arguing that the move is unconstitutional.The 300 ex-work...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Raw deal for Air Zimbabwe creditors
HUNDREDS of Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) creditors, including over 300 ex-workers will be paid various debts accrued by the airline before it plunged into administration in Zimbabwe dollars at a rate of US$1...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator lays out debt settlement plan
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) has sent out debt settlement agreement proposals to its multitudes of creditors, including over 300 former workers axed as the troubled airline slipped into turbulence in the pas...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reinstated Air Zimbabwe workers sent on forced unpaid leave
REINSTATED Air Zimbabwe workers have now been sent on forced unpaid leave and are demanding that the airline, technically insolvent and under administration, immediately withdraws these orders, which ...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe reinstates 300 fired workers
AIR ZIMBABWE has reinstated over 300 workers it fired five years ago after the Supreme Court ruled early this month that the mass dismissals via three months' termination notices were slipshod and uph...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe slapped with $100m wage bill
AT least 300 workers fired by Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) five years ago, who have won a long-drawn legal battle to return to work, say they are owed $100 million in outstanding salaries by the struggling a...Published: 29 Dec 2020 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe administrator under fire accused of 'gross incompetence'
AIR Zimbabwe administrator Reggie Saruchera has come under pressure to relinquish his role due to "gross maladministration, incompetence, mismanagement and wrongful and illegal deprivation" of salarie...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Air Zimbabwe lacks capacity to reinstate fired workers'
A recent Supreme Court victory by about 200 former Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) employees in a class action lawsuit to the effect that they be reinstated after being sacked five years ago may have been an ex...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe loses Supreme Court appeal
THE Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by Air Zimbabwe challenging a ruling by the Labour Court ordering it to reinstate over 300 workers whose contracts were unlawfully terminated without notice b...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:44hrs | 1 | 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 | 5 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
South JetOne demands US$50m for planes' software from Air Zimbabwe
THE two Airbus A320 planes at the centre of a wrangle between Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) and an Isle of Man company, South JetOne Ltd, were leased to the troubled airline with the latter demanding a US$50 ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe gets fresh hope for international flights
STRUGGLING flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) might regain its wings to fly internationally after a Netherlands-based company, Knighthood Capital (Knighthood), recently tabled an offer to partner the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube slams debt takeover practice
Government may not take over the debts of State-owned entities such as Air Zimbabwe and Zisco, touted as critical to make them more attractive to investors, after Finance and Economic Development Mini...Published: 27 Jun 2019 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe stashes US$5m in UK
INSOLVENT flag carrier Air Zimbabwe Private Limited (AirZim) is still active in the United Kingdom (UK) under the same name, with financial records showing that the moribund airline has £4 million (U...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe legacy debts spook investors
GOVERNMENT'S delay in moving on the Air Zimbabwe's US$381 million debt assumption plan continues to weaken the airline's chances of courting new partners, an official has said.Grant Thornton, ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt takes over Air Zimbabwe's $300m debt
The government is expected to finalise the takeover of more than $300 million in debts owed to creditors by struggling national airline, Air Zimbabwe, by June.Transport and Infrastructure Deve...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 12 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mnangagwa's profligacy an antithesis of austerity mantra
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under the spotlight for his profligate spending on foreign trips whose value to the country is yet to be justified by a government that has been touting the "aust...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe reduces prices
The National Airline Air Zimbabwe has announced discounted rates on selected routes to celebrate reaching a milestone of 5 000 followers on Twitter."We're on 5000 followers on our Twitter plat...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government responds to Air Zimbabwe's collapse
The government has announced that it is pinning its hopes on the Administrators of Air Zimbabwe who are working on a reconstruction exercise for the struggling airline.This was revealed by the...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 12:05hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe aviation in slow, but positive climb
LAST week, the local skies welcomed the arrival of the restructured fellow southern African carrier, Air Tanzania.The airline re-launched flights to Harare after close to two decades of no dir...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:28hrs | 2 | by Benjamin Manzini
Air Zimbabwe moves in to curb arbitrage
Financially-troubled national airline Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) has instructed its travel agents to start charging in foreign currency for passengers flying into the country as the company seeks to turnar...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 15:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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 | | by Staff Reporter
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 | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | 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 | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Be wary of the ways of the crocodile, Cdes!
MANY of you appear to be convinced about this nonsense that I am now warming up to my tormentors. Do I look like the type of person who flip-flops on matters of principle? I will never compromise on w...Published: 30 Sep 2018 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by CZ
Confusion rocks Air Zimbabwe debt plan
GRANT Thornton is in the dark over its alleged "appointment" as the caretaker administrator of troubled national airline Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) after the sacking of the board early this month, escalati...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 13:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe depleted fleet causes flights delay
THE national flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, which is tottering on the brink of collapse, has on two occasions delayed its Bulawayo flights after one of its aircrafts hit a bird during take-off, resulting...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to reintroduce China flights
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) plans to reintroduce flights to China as it battles to rebuild its operations following years of poor performance.Runesu Kwaramba, the parastatal's marketing and planning...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
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