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Zimbabweans use gold-backed ZiG to pay for 40% of transactions
Zimbabweans are using the nation's gold-backed currency for 40% of payments compared with 20% when it first started in April, Finance Permanent Secretary George Guvamatanga said.The ZiG - an a...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 07:26hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
NRZ, Beitbridge Bulawayo Railwayink open access deal
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has signed an open access agreement with its subsidiary, Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway (BBR), to enhance rail capacity and expedite deliveries by allowing private...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 07:47hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
IMF calls Zimbabwe's switch to ZiG an 'important' step
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has commended Zimbabwe's recent adoption of a new gold-backed currency, known as ZiG, viewing it as a positive development. This marks the IMF's first substantive...Published: 24 May 2024 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Biden calls Putin a 'crazy son of a b***h'
The President of the United States, Joe Biden called his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, as "crazy son of a bitch" during a fundraising event held this Wednesday, 21st, in California. "We...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 16:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 armed robbers jailed 12 years each
A BEITBRIDGE magistrate has jailed four men to 12 years in prison each for armed robbery.Regional magistrate Innocent Bepura said armed robbers were a menace to society when he sentenced Tawan...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 04:54hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chief Stauze urges councillors to take off political jackets
BEITBRIDGE senior traditional leader Chief Stauze has urged the newly elected councillors of both the rural district council and the municipality to take off political jackets and focus on providing p...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 07:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Zimbabwe needs healing
THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has just released its extensive election manifesto outlining its vision for transforming Zimbabwe if elected into power.The 100...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC manifesto: Great in theory, tricky in practice
The 100-page manifesto covers a broad range of issues from economic reforms social services to governance.THE Nelson Chamisa-led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has just released its...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Flurry of court cases casts shadow on August 23 polls
A string of court cases challenging processes leading to the August 23 elections has raised the spectre of Zimbabwe holding another disputed poll with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's challengers compla...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expands empire in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of the First Family and his close allies, who include former State Security minister Owen Ncube, have amassed significant wealth in the form of immovable property...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnagagwa's son and Mrs Tagwirei added to US sanctions list
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwea...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reports
Cimas iGo half-marathon raises awareness of men's health issues
Cimas Health Group is marking Men's Health Awareness Month by offering Cimas members prostate cancer screening at all its clinics throughout November, broadcasting a prostate cancer talk show on Frida...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 09:14hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Another shadowy ED grouping surfaces
Zanu-PF yesterday ordered a shadowy group calling itself Health Ambassadors for Economic Development (ED) to abort its inaugural Press conference in Harare, but the organisation later got permission t...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC scoffs at formation of copycat opposition
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere says her party will lose no sleep over the formation of a copycat opposition she dismissed as a Zanu-PF plant to confuse voters ahead of...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 20:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK firm discovers nickel in Bulawayo
United Kingdom-based Galileo Resources has announced the discovery of potential nickel targets at its Bulawayo gold project following the recently conducted airborne geophysical survey on its two excl...Published: 01 Sep 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Yellow ‘fever' fast turning into despair
Just a few weeks down the line, the euphoria is fast dying down.The yellow fever is fast turning into despair.Zimbabweans being the creative lot that they are have turned CCC into "Cha...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Major Action Mandingo (Retired)
Bulawayo lawyer exposes fake CCC party
PROMINENT Bulawayo lawyer Tavengwa Hara has again distanced himself from the shadowy Citizens Convergence for Change after he was listed as the party's lawyer in a fight for the CCC abbreviation....Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC project exposes Chamisa's poor political pedigree
For the past week the adherence of the MDC faction led by Nelson Chamisa, some interested distant watchers and anti-Government elements have been head over heels in excitement.This follows Cha...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa faces fresh court battle over new party name, colour
NEWLY formed Citizens Coalition for Change led by firebrand politician, Nelson Chamisa faces a legal hurdle over the party's abbreviation "CCC" and a yellow colour theme.This follows an outcry...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:24hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Citizens Convergence for Change writes to ZEC over Chamisa's CCC
THE 'unkown' Citizens Convergence for Change (CCC) has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) complaining that Nelson Chamisa's Citizens Coalition for Change party is using their abbreviat...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) - Nothing new to behold
ON Monday, Mr Nelson Chamisa, the former MDC-Alliance leader formed a "new" party the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) after throwing in the towel in the battle for the control of the MDC-T party, ...Published: 27 Jan 2022 at 04:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Online Gambling Vs. eSports: Key Differences
Technology affects everything, how we spend leisure time. The internet unlocked new entertainment opportunities. That includes esports and online gambling. But before you choose an activity, you shoul...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | 11 | by Staff writer
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zec fuels Chamisa, Mwonzora fight
THE fight to wrest the Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance party name and symbols by the MDC-T with the intention to use them in the forthcoming elections will be determined by which faction will file its...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:45hrs | | by Rowai
151 children, 16 wives, still counting
Mbire man, Misheck Nyandoro, has fathered 151 children with 16 wives and he is still counting. "Mine is a project. This polygamy is a project that I have undertaken since 1983 and will end wit...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets new Covid-19 mortality daily record with 70 deaths
Zimbabwe has set a new Covid-19 mortality daily record with 70 deaths reported on Monday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 1,075. Caseload now at 31,646.Zimbabwe breached wha...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 21:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'If you want war, we are ready for it' Charamba warns teachers
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has warned teachers that if they continue associating with the American Embassy in Zimbabwe they will be treated as enemies and political opponents. C...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 09:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Khupe, Mwonzora face legal, political minefield
MDC-T leader Thokozani Khupe and her ally Douglas Mwonzora face a legal and political minefield following the crackdown against MDC Alliance legislators and councillors as part of their turf war again...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 11:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suspended Choppies CEO responds to 'unfair and biased' forensic & legal reports
Legal and forensic reports into Choppies Enterprises Limited, circulated to shareholders via Botswana's X-News and the Johannesburg Stock Exchange News Service (SENS) are unfair and biased – and app...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Regime change!' is a desirable consequence of free elections and not a dirty phrase
The level of ignorance and foolishness with which important issues are being presented by my fellow Zimbabweans makes one cringe with shame."Some of us were not surprised because there was rea...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 14:00hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Regime change!' is a desirable consequence of free elections and not a dirty phrase
The level of ignorance and foolishness with which important issues are being presented by my fellow Zimbabweans makes one cringe with shame."Some of us were not surprised because there was rea...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 12:28hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Revisiting the Beitbridge-Harare highway
The state of the Beitbridge-Harare (A4) Highway is now a cause for concern as the number of human fatalities grows by each day due to deadly accidents in the narrow strip that links Zimbabwe and South...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 08:06hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Slot Volatility - What is It?
Players new to online casino entertainment often read about the volatility of a slot without understanding what exactly the term refers to. This is simply because most reviews or statistic sites offer...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa's 'Smart cities' concept plucked from MDC manifesto'
THE MDC has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration "stole" the opposition party's smart cities concept and factored it into his recently-launched national clean-up campaign which h...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Train derails in Bulawayo
A train derailed near Cement Siding in Bulawayo on Saturday.A locomotive pulling another went off the railway tracks and under unclear circumstances, and they both overturned.The crew ...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 08:50hrs | | by zimlive
Beitbridge - Masvingo highway closed
THE highway between Beitbridge and Masvingo will be temporarily closed today to allow for repairs on the railway line following an accident likely to cost Beitbridge-Bulawayo Railway (BBR) millions of...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 2 | by newZwire with The Source
Derailed goods train still at crash site
The Beitbridge Bulawayo Railway Company (BBR) is still working on modalities to remove its crashed goods train and repair the damaged track at the rail-road crossing in the border town.It is D...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 11:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
NRZ train derails
A NATIONAL Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train derailed between Hwange and Victoria Falls on Sunday night as a result of broken rail caused by excessive temperatures. Hundreds of rail p...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health minister a medical impostor
HEALTH minister Obadiah Moyo is neither a qualified medical doctor nor a fellow of various international elite societies as stated on his curriculum vitae posted by Chitungwiza Central Hospital (CCH),...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barclays Zimbabwe name change comes into effect
BARCLAYS Bank of Zimbabwe Limited shareholders have approved the change of the name of the company to First Capital Bank Limited effective today, on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange. The decision w...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Barclays Bank Zimbabwe changes name to First Capital Bank
Barclays Bank Zimbabwe, which was acquired by Malawian banking group First Merchant Bank Capital Holdings, is notifying the public that they will be undergoing a name change effective from next Monday...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 10:46hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa talks up devolution
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged to institute provincial councils sooner rather than later in line with the provisions of the country's Constitution as well as his government's thrust on devol...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
High Court blocks splinter group from using church name, buildings§
THE High Court has blocked a breakaway group involved in the United Pentecostal Church in Zimbabwe (UPCZ) leadership wrangle from using the church name and buildings as well as interrupting services a...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa seeks Khupe disqualification
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has vowed to "do everything possible" to force the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to reverse its decision to accept his arch-nemesis ...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wants Khupe blocked
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has a written a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscillah Chigumba, seeking to bar the Thokozani Khupe-led camp from using the party's symbols...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZSD Press Statement - appeal to SADC observers to judge Zimbabwe elections truthfully and follow own advice
Executive Summary Our appeal to Zimbabwe election observers is simple: please judge whether these elections are free, fair and credible as you would wis...Published: 21 May 2018 at 21:56hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mugabe coup brings Mbare back to life
Like many ordinary Zimbabweans right now, Joy Mviro is adamant that things have changed for the better."We can now talk openly," she tells me confidently, as we stand outside the Edith Opperma...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by The Guardian
WATCH: Air Zimbabwe overbooking chaos
Air Zimbabwe left passengers stranded after the flight was overbooked.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXjBBrgGc1w...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 21:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: 'Ndebele King' Bulelani addressing fans in Bulawayo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl8lW7k8fjghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbBrEiLRY2Ihttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvjNVTzTo0A...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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