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Air Zimbabwe missing in action
AIR Zimbabwe, which faces a myriad of problems ranging from mounting debts, ageing aircraft, government interference and poor management, has become a pale shadow of itself as it is failing to make a ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires US$4,5m aviation equipment
The Aviation Ground Services (AGS) has acquired US$4,5 million new passenger handling equipment that is expected to improve efficiency and quality of passenger handling services at Zimbabwe's five&nbs...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe planes unaccounted for
ACTING Auditor-General Rheah Kujinga has exposed the rot at Air Zimbabwe which includes financial books that are in a shambles as well as the failure by the national airline to account for the number ...Published: 31 Oct 2023 at 16:27hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe acquires 18 copters from Russia
ZIMBABWE yesterday took delivery of 18 brand new helicopters from Russia that will go towards emergency air medical services, law enforcement and tourism, as the efforts at engagement and re-engagemen...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:41hrs | 1 | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Eswatini Air flies into Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe of Friday welcomed Eswatini Air's maiden flight into the country with the jet landing at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport at 11:50 am.Eswatini Air, which is under Royal...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fastjet receives aircraft for local flights
FASTJET Zimbabwe has received the first of three Embraer 120, 30-seater aircrafts that will ply the Harare to Hwange and Harare to Kariba routes.The arrival of the aircraft is part of the ...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:22hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military shops for arms in Pakistan
A HIGH-POWERED delegation of military officers led by Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) Air Vice Marshall Biltim Chingono was in Pakistan this month to inspect modern aircraft and armaments during a d...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 18:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe optimistic of IATA re-admission
THE country's national airline, Air Zimbabwe, is optimistic of being re-admitted into the International Air Transport Association (IATA) as Government has cleared 90 percent of its debt to the interna...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:29hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe seeks suitors for long-haul aircraft
AIR Zimbabwe, the country's State-owned carrier, is courting potential takers to lease out its long-haul aircraft, as part of efforts by the national airline to consolidate its revenue base as it emer...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
China sanctions Pelosi over Taiwan trip
Beijing said Friday it will cancel phone calls between regional military commanders, defense meetings, talks on maritime safety and on climate change. It also said it would end cooperation with the U....Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 17:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
German airline flies into Vic Falls
GERMAN airline, Eurowings Discover, yesterday flew its maiden flight from Frankfurt to Victoria Falls, becoming the first direct passenger flight between Zimbabwe and Europe since Air Zimbabwe discont...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to buy new planes next year
TREASURY will support flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, to recapitalise through acquisition of new planes and expand its routes in 2022 under the airline's six-year strategic turn-around plan.The pl...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:21hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Alarm as private aircrafts sneak in, out of Zimbabwe undetected
PRIVATE aircraft have been sneaking in and out of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM) International Airport and other Zimbabwean flight ports without detection due to poor air traffic control, investigati...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe primed for rebound
Air Zimbabwe administrators handed over control of the business back to management on Thursday, with a robust six-year strategic plan most likely to see the State-owned airline reclaim its status as a...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:35hrs | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
Every Zimbabwean can be very rich without political inclination
I was going through my WhatsApp messages and my eyes were blinded by this message below. I felt it will be helpful to all of us if we are to read. I stole some of the advices.Many times I am c...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 13:30hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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
Zimbabwe's unmonitored airstrips to be closed
Unmonitored airstrips will be closed, while a new radar control system to monitor aircraft flying in the country's airspace will soon be installed amid concerns some aeroplanes have become conduits to...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe, South Jet fight over planes
TROUBLED Air Zimbabwe is involved in a tug of war with Isle of Man company South Jet One Ltd over the ownership of two Airbus A320 aircrafts which the state entity claims it was given as a donation in...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:57hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government speaks on missing planes
The permanent secretary in the ministry of transport and infrastructural development Engineer Amos Marawa has rubbished recent media reports alleging that three Air Zimbabwe's MA 60 aircrafts were mis...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
3 planes disappear at Air Zimbabwe
The national Airline Air Zimbabwe has failed to account for 3 planes the Daily News on Sunday has reported. The aircrafts which have disappeared are MA60.The Auditor General Mildred Ch...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 11:58hrs | 16 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More heads to roll at parastatals
PUBLIC officials in State-owned enterprises (SOEs) and Government departments might soon face the music after the Auditor-General, Mrs Mildred Chiri, uncovered continued dereliction of duty and deep-s...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZETDC exposed on transformer purchases
THE Zimbabwe Electricity and Distribution Company, a subsidiary of the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority, has not taken delivery of transformers it paid US$4,9 million for nine years ago, the Audi...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is one giant crime scene!
Presently, a newspaper headline reports a ticketing scam by over a hundred Zupco conductors which prejudiced the company of thousands of dollars; fast-tracking the demise of a public transport project...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 22:29hrs | | by Washington Nyasha Gwarada
Masisi promises to quit as Botswana's showdown looms
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi will quit if, under his watch, the Botswana Democratic Party does not perform well in the upcoming elections.Masisi, who said this while on a state visit t...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 18:19hrs | | by City Press
Govt clips civil servants' wings
Government has started to change laws that govern civil servants, including clipping their political wings so that they may be apolitical as required by the Constitution.Briefing journalists a...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
CAAZ, NHS resign to losing $68,8m to Air Zimbabwe
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) and the National Handling Services (NHS) are resigned to the possibility of losing $68,8 million dollars the two companies were owed by Air Zimbabwe whe...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe awaits Russian investors
Like many African countries, Zimbabwe's economy needs sustainable resuscitation. On his mid-January official working visit to Moscow, President Emmerson Mnangagwa told Sputnik News Agency (SNA) in an ...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Zimbabwe drone operators to apply for operating licences
Drone operators are now required to register their aircrafts with Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz), the Daily News can report.The drones fall under the multi-rotor regulations that ...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1 | 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 | | by Staff reporter
$400 000 for cloud seeding
THE Meteorological Service Department will begin cloud seeding by month-end to help induce rains in a season expected to be blighted by the El Niño weather phenomenon.Government set aside $40...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400 000 set aside for cloud seeding
GOVERNMENT has availed $400 000 to the Meteorological Services Department for cloud seeding to enhance chances of rain during the 2018/19 rainfall season. This follows prediction by weather ex...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Daunting task awaits Mnangagwa's new Cabinet
WITH Zimbabwe in serious economic woes, announcement of the new Cabinet was obviously a keenly awaited event. Tongues had for some time been wagging, posturing on a number of possibilities, ranging fr...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mliswa calls for procurement of Presidential jet for Mnangagwa's trips
Norton MP elect Temba Mliswa has called for the procurement of a private jet that can be used by President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his small delegation trips to avoid using large aircrafts when smal...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a military oligarchy, not a democracy
Ask this. Why did Robert Mugabe rule Zimbabwe for 37 years? How did Morgan Tsvangirai end up a powerless Prime Minister after defeating Robert Mugabe in the presidential elections of 2008 with at leas...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 17:16hrs | 1 | by Kuda Bhejana
Zipra's plan after downing Rhodesian Viscounts
Last week, Comrade Agrippah Gava (born 1956) narrated how he left Tekwane High School with a group of 34 other students to join the liberation struggle in 1976. He narrated how he went for military tr...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
$153 million Mugabe airport upgrade begins
President Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned the $153 million Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport upgrading and rehabilitation project, as Government modernises the country's infrastructure to m...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's planes ready to fly
Government says one of the four long haul planes acquired from Malaysia, the Boeing 777-200ER, has no mechanical problems and was only taken back to Kuala Lumpur for routine maintenance, which is a pr...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
FlyAfrica given 90 days to sort out its operating status
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has given Fly Africa 90 days to sort out its operating status or risk revocation of their licence, documents at hand suggest.The airline which g...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's national 'air crime'
When we read of criminal syndicates of the western world, we always envision Al Capone and the Italian Mafia as the apex of organised crime.In Zimbabwe, the mafia is our inept selfish governme...Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Villagers relive horrific battle
FOR 88-year-old Mrs Bhikhayeli Moyo (nee Dube), reliving the events of February 1979 is like recalling a gruesome scene from a horror movie, as it is the day her village of Ratanyana in Kezi ran red w...Published: 20 May 2018 at 09:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
RGM to be removed from Zimbabwe Airways
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said the political plates affixed to the planes - Mugabe (RGM), President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) and former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko (PM) were just t...Published: 11 May 2018 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Mugabe's son-in-law
TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo yesterday insisted former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore had no shareholding in Zimbabwe Airways which he said was wholly government-owned.Gu...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, Gumbo self-enrichment plan exposed
TRANSPORT minister Jorum Gumbo and his Finance counterpart Patrick Chinamasa have been stopped dead in their tracks by exposure of their self-enriching plan to shut down flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (Air...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gumbo defends Zimbabwe Airways deal
As Zimbabweans continue to ask questions on the murky Zimbabwe Airways deal, which for long was said to be a private project until last week when government announced that it was the owner of the airl...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Air Zimbabwe feels the heat
AIR ZIMBABWE, whose management has been publicly attacked by Government for mismanagement, says it will be on the road to recovery once it has fully implemented its strategic turnaround plan to be rol...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is really a cursed country
Last week, citizens witnessed the height of comic performances from two whole senior Cabinet ministers.To begin with, it was Transport minister Joram Gumbo who - in an attempt to explain the a...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
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