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Mnangagwa was supposed to be in crashed chopper
The Zimbabwean government has confirmed that the helicopter which crash-landed at an airstrip in Masvingo on Sunday was initially meant to transport President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The President, who wa...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:34hrs | 1956 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe national park to get 3 new airstrips
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority is set to enhance connectivity in Matusadona National Park by opening three new airstrips at Tashinga, Fothergill, and Kanjedza. This development a...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:01hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Falcon Air introduces regular flights to Kariba
Falcon Air has launched regular flights into Kariba and Matusadonha National Park, a move that has been positively received by local operators. Using a 12-seater Cessna F406 Caravan, Falcon Air will f...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:41hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
How ZPRA, ZANLA were allocated camps in Entumbane
WE round-up our interview with former freedom fighter Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd) Alson Masilinge Muleya. Lt-Col (Rtd) Muleya who trained as a regular officer cadet at the Zambian Military Academy in Koh...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bussing supporters to Matebeleland North star rally tomorrow
President Mnangagwa headlines a star rally in Nkayi, Matebeleland North Province, tomorrow as Zanu-PF continues to prove its popularity and huge following among voters.The rally, the sixth one...Published: 29 Jul 2023 at 07:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Falcon College pegs fees at $11 million
UPMARKET Falcon College has pegged its second term fees at a staggering US$10,588.79 just as University of Zimbabwe (UZ) students celebrate a High Court judgement barring the institution from hiking t...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:37hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Government to start upgrading Nkayi Airstrip
GOVERNMENT will next month start upgrading Nkayi Airstrip in Matabeleland North Province with $40 million already set aside for the project as the Second Republic continues to roll out key infrastruct...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back in Binga today
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will be in Binga, Matabeleland North, today to officially commission and handover the Binga-Kariba fishing rigs to the local community in a bold empowerment intervention that is ex...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa visits Matebeleland
DEVOLUTION being spearheaded by President Mnangagwa continues to bear fruits in Matebeleland North as evidenced by implementation of key developmental economic projects in the province, a ratification...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland projects get priority in 2022 budget
GOVERNMENT continues to drive the development of Matabeleland with the 2022 National Budget Statement presented yesterday in Parliament by Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli N...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 08:43hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
$30bn for DDF roads rehab
GOVERNMENT has set its sights on accelerating infrastructure projects, including upgrading roads, airports and drilling of boreholes at a cost of about $30 billion.Through the District Develop...Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:23hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean designs 2022 Commonwealth Games Baton
UNITED Kingdom-based Zimbabwean artist Laura Nyahuye has designed a rare 2022 Commonwealth Games Baton that will carry the Queen Elizabeth II's message to athletes from the 72-member nations in a 269-...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
New flights to ignite Kariba tourism
TOURISM in Kariba is set to boost following the move by Crispy Fresh to resuscitate flights into the resort town and airstrips within the basin.The resumption of flights followed a seven year ...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Airstrip rehabilitation to boost Binga tourism
GOVERNMENT has started rehabilitating Binga airstrip and others countrywide, a move aimed at improving accessibility, especially in tourism areas so that they contribute to the national economy. ...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:03hrs | 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
Beitbridge investor to introduce commercial flights
TOPPICK Investments, which has invested US$2,5 million in Makhado, Beitbridge, has approached the Government for authorisation to spruce up the district airstrip and introduce commercial flights betwe...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga assesses main airports
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Care Minister, has declared the country's three main airports ready to start operating, marking a significant step in reopening the ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga assesses main airports
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga, who is also Health and Child Care Minister, has declared the country's three main airports ready to start operating, marking a significant step in reopening the ec...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Binga airstrip set for $4m upgrade
The government through the District Development Fund (DDF) is set to embark on a $4 million upgrade of the Binga airstrip to improve accessibility of the destination in line with the current drive to ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 15:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Botswana Defence Forces foiled coup attempt against Masisi?
The Commander of Botswana Defence Force Lt. General Placid Segokgo last week deployed military assets including armoured tanks and personnel in key strategic in anticipation of a coup against Presiden...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 12 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
Mnangagwa fears Matabeleland restoration: no one will baby sit him in Matabeleland
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand". These words of wisdom are attributed to Jesus Christ himself.Zimbabwe is one such Kingdom trying to find balance on shaky t...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 08:02hrs | 2 | by Israel Dube
How Mugabe survived assassination in Gutu
Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Cde Kenny Ridzai, makes stunning revelations about their confrontation with the British authorities after they had been sent as the advance team for...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 15:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Paying price of underestimating 'EDiots'
The tragedy which happened in Harare this week was not only completely unconscionable, but most preventable.The State, on the one hand, should not have unleashed soldiers on the streets, resul...Published: 03 Aug 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Chamisa's theatre will end in defeat
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Mr Nelson Chamisa, has been entertaining observers since he launched his campaign on March 4, promising to build airports in rural areas and spaghetti highways and...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe 'desperately tried to reappoint Mnangagwa'
An aide to former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has revealed how generals warned him to step aside as protests against him grew, or face being "lynched" like Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.Massi...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by AFP
14 elephants found dead
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is investigating a matter of 14 elephants found dead on Friday in Victoria Falls,13 of which were killed 9 months ago.Sources close to investigations allege ...Published: 20 Nov 2017 at 11:18hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
T.B Joshua: Christianity needs a human face
On a recent visit to Latin America, I was shocked by the responses I got from locals each time I introduced myself as a Nigerian. Among the eight countries I visited in the past five years, there was ...Published: 13 Nov 2017 at 11:07hrs | | by Akintola Olawunmi
Falcon College airstrip temporarily suspended
ONE of the country's elite and prestigious schools, Falcon College, has indicated that its airstrip is currently not available to be used by anyone wanting to take off or land on it.The Headma...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Nhari-Badza rebellion was always coming
Comrade Kenny Constantine Mabuya, whose Chimurenga name was Kenny Ridzai (born 1952), was deployed to the war front in Rhodesia in 1972. He fought many battles and was at one time mistaken for a sello...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 23:39hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million pula compound for Ian Khama, Journalists 'detained, threatened'
Gaborone - Three journalists who tried to get a closer look at Botswana President Ian Khama's holiday home last week were allegedly detained and threatened by plain clothes security agents, accord...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 05:38hrs | | by Agencies
The voices of former farm workers
The growth of a nation must be measured by the degree at which it enlarge the capabilities and enrich the lives of all peoples. Consumption must be shared; it must strengthen social growth and facilit...Published: 15 Jan 2017 at 14:37hrs | | by Kudakwashe Chakabva
The State of the Dream: The voices of former farm workers
The growth of a nation must be measured by the degree at which it enlarge the capabilities and enrich the lives of all peoples. Consumption must be shared; it must strengthen social growth and facilit...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 16:22hrs | 1 | by Kudakwashe Chakabva - Director, Zimbabwe Dream Project
Italian spies sneak into Zimbabwe
FIVE Italians, known for operating in political hotbeds such as Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq and Libya recently sneaked into the country pretending to be eye specialists on a mission to provide eye sp...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa Border Post construction gathers momentum
PLANS to set up a border post in Mutasa District have intensified following the recent tender by the tea planting and processing company, Eastern Highlands Plantation Limited to construct a bridge and...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Ngoni Dapira
Military to monitor 450 private airstrips
Zimbabwe Parliament is set to probe 540 private airstrips which are suspected of being used to smuggle out animal trophies and mineral.About 350 private aircrafts are registered in the country...Published: 27 Sep 2015 at 14:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Huge snake brakes ambulance
A huge python has made itself at home in an ambulance's engine near the Kruger National Park,in South Africa and paramedics can't go anywhere until the snake leaves."I have given the sna...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 09:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Robert Mugabe is the Mobutu of our time
This article appeared in Spectator (London) on March 18, 2008.Nice shoes,' said a young Zimbabwean looking wistfully at my $40 Nike tennis shoes th...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Marian L. Tupy
Pastor T.B Joshua runs a nation in a country
Amazed. Amazed. Pastor Temitope Balogun Joshua amazed me. I was part of a delegation that visited him two days into the newyear, on the platform of the human rights community. Our mission was to f...Published: 10 Jan 2015 at 12:07hrs | | by Adewale Adeoye
Cimas introduces air ambulance service
Cimas Medical Aid Society has introduced a critical care emergency air ambulance to airlift patients locally and regionally to an appropriate medical facility.Cimas Emergency Air Rescue Se...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
China begins secret underground airbase construction in Zimbabwe - Report
COLOGNE/ HARARE - China has now reportedly began construction work of a state of the art underground military airbase, in the diamond rich Marange fields in eastern Zimbabwe, The Telescope News r...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 06:27hrs | 28 | by Itai Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Zimbabwe at high risk of Ebola outbreak
Zimbabwe is prone to an Ebola outbreak despite precautionary measures authorities have taken, as scores of foreigners and locals move freely in and out of the country through 51 illegal crossing point...Published: 31 Aug 2014 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Helicopter crash still shrouded in mystery
THERE were more questions than answers yesterday as investigations to establish what really transpired at Doddieburn Farm near West Nicholson where a helicopter was buried after crashing, continued....Published: 22 May 2014 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Sifundiso Ndlovu
Bravery in the DRC, A Zimbabwean fighter pilot recounts
FIGHTING a war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, thousands of miles away from their homeland and sharing trenches with unpredictable allies who crossed the floor in the heat of the storm, Zimbabwea...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 13:01hrs | 11 | by Tawanda Kanhema
China to set up military airbase in Zimbabwe?
China is reportedly scheming to set up a military airbase in Zimbabwe's controversial Marange diamond fields of Manicaland province, as Beijing and Harare ratchet up military cooperation and closer t...Published: 17 Feb 2014 at 12:56hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Mary-kate Kahari
De Beers deny looting Zim diamonds
COLOGNE- Diamond mining giant, De Beers, has vehemently denied alleged mass looting of diamonds, in Zimbabwe's Marange fields, believed to be containing the world's richest alluvial deposits. The ...Published: 05 Feb 2014 at 12:34hrs | | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
More details avail on Gwanda helicopter crash
Details on this morning's helicopter crash in Gwanda keep trickling in.Latest information coming from the site...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 13:07hrs | 10 | by Moyo Roy
Update on Gwanda Helicopter crash
It is confirmed that there was one person on board the ill fated flight and the person did not survive the accident. The chopper is believed to have left from Gwanda airstrip 10 minutes ...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 07:36hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Breaking News: Helicopter crashes in Gwanda
A helicopter has just crashed at Mopane Business Centre 5km from Gwanda Town on the Bulawayo Beitbridge Highway. The private chopper believed to be owned by a commercial farmer who also run...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 07:39hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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