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Cyclone Chido wreaks havoc, Zimbabwe braces for Impact
Cyclone Chido, one of the strongest storms to hit Southern Africa in recent years, has caused widespread devastation in Mauritius, Madagascar, Mayotte, and Mozambique. The powerful cyclone, which made...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 04:38hrs | 3224 | by Staff reporter
Hailstorm hits Bulawayo as Cyclone Chido looms
Bulawayo was battered by a fierce hailstorm yesterday evening, with strong winds, lightning, and balls of ice carpeting the streets and open spaces. The storm, which lasted approximately 20 minutes be...Published: 15 Dec 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1666 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's gold-backed ZiG extends rare advance against dollar
Zimbabwe's gold-backed currency, which has been battered on foreign exchange markets since its April debut, rose against the dollar for a second day on the back of tighter monetary policy.The ...Published: 06 Nov 2024 at 07:04hrs | 805 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga steers clear of the Mnangagwa-2030 mantra
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Friday deftly avoided being stampeded into blind endorsement of the "2030 Mnangagwa" mantra which has vigorously been parroted by some party activists who want P...Published: 26 Oct 2024 at 12:58hrs | 1802 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, central bank deliver damp squibs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) has come under heavy criticism from leading economists, who say it lacked concrete solutions to arrest the nation's spiraling e...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Biden tells President Trump to 'get a life' and 'help these people'
The US president has criticized his predecessor's rhetoric about the recent hurricanes which have battered the nationUS President Joe Biden has lashed out at his predecessor, Donald Trump, whe...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 17:22hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
Mpilo 'fake doctor's' troubled past resurfaces
The drama surrounding Taurai Prosper Vanhuvaone, also known as Prosper Mpofu, continues to unravel after the 29-year-old was arrested for the second time at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo on Monda...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 17:19hrs | 1815 | by Staff reporter
Shops dump ZiG official rate for two-tier pricing system
Just like other Zimbabwean currencies introduced since the year 2000, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency is already showing signs of instability barely half a year after its introduction, with many shop...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 13:51hrs | 9582 | by Staff reporter
Are your friends damaging your health? Five signs they might be
There's no doubt we love our friends. Many of them we'll have grown up with, known for decades and been through thick and thin with. Others we may have developed over more recent times, connecting...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 13:29hrs | 683 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF violence changes Gutu man's life forever
He was an energetic man, running his own life and fending for his family. He loved and embraced the supposed freedom brought by the country's liberators hence multi-partyism was just one of those frui...Published: 12 Aug 2024 at 15:40hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1844 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Sheep on a high: Flock feasts on cannabis after extreme weather
In a truly bizarre twist of fate, a flock of sheep in Greece found themselves feeling a bit too "ewe-phoric" after munching on a crop of weed!Wildfires, heatwaves, and flooding had left the po...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 09:05hrs | 859 | by Staff Reporter
'Ideologically bankrupt' Ramaphosa's ANC in a governance tailspin
To suggest that the 2024 electoral outcome has fundamentally altered how parties relate to one another post-election would be an understatement.Never has the party with a majority of votes fou...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Sipho Seepe
Zimbabwe authorities mix charm with force to shore up ZiG
THE introduction of the world's newest currency in April inspired a reggae artist to record a song praising the ZiG, or Zimbabwe Gold.The catchy tune, titled "Zig Mari," received generous play...Published: 27 May 2024 at 09:56hrs | 4 | by Associated Press
Mthuli Ncube summoned over ZiG
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been summoned to Parliament to explain how the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency introduced on Friday will work.Legislators also want Ncube to amend the Finance Ac...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new currency requires bold measures to succeed
JOHN Mushayavanhu, the new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, yesterday put his head on the block declaring that "not under my watch" will the apex stray from its core functions as he launched a...Published: 06 Apr 2024 at 08:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank summons Bank CEOs
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has summoned chief executives of key financial institutions, specifically banks, for a meeting tomorrow morning ahead of the much-anticipated launch of a new currenc...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to medicinal herbs
PEOPLE are flooding traditional herbal markets, as prices of prescription drugs spike and the public health delivery system deteriorates at an alarming rate under pressures from a relentless economic ...Published: 24 Mar 2024 at 18:15hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Why a farmer is riding from Zimbabwe to Windhoek on a horse
When Ben Freeth headed west on horseback from the derelict Mount Carmel farm near Chegutu in Zimbabwe on 28 November, he had to lay low. For about 800km, Freeth avoided roads and stuck to the bush, fo...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 20:05hrs | 7 | by GroundUp
Zimbabwe central bank accumulates almost a ton of gold reserves
Zimbabwe's central bank accumulated 793 kilograms (25,000 ounces) of gold reserves since introducing a law that compels mining companies to pay part of their royalties using the metal.The rese...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Wife killer nabbed after three years on the run
IT is never advisable to take the law into your hands when someone has wronged you as that might leave you regretting eternally.Additionally, the long arm of the law always has a way of catchi...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean hotels fully booked for Christmas and New Year holidays
Tourism and hospitality players say hotels countrywide are fully booked for Christmas and New Year holidays, with a notable increase in tourist arrivals in different resort places.Zimbabwe's t...Published: 28 Dec 2023 at 11:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt misses US$12bn mining target
LEADING economists and mining industry experts warned this week the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development was manipulating data to give an impression that its ambitious US$12 billion target will be...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa shocked by Mnangagwa's silence
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) President Nelson Chamisa has expressed astonishment at the government's silence regarding an increase in politically motivated violence, particularly targeting CCC ...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 09:38hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Man battered for dating 'married' woman
LOVE can be sweet, and it can also turn sour. While Lungisani Mpofu (22) of Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb was enjoying himself boozing in the suburb near the terminus he invited his lover No...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police brutality exposed
Three members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) special constabulary details are facing severe criticism for allegedly beating a suspect to death inside the holding cells at Banket Police Station....Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa, Zimbabwe in behind the scenes talks
The South African government and the governing ANC under President Cyril Ramaphosa are engaged in new secret talks with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's freshly-minted administration to resol...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Next Zimbabwe President faces uphill task
ZIMBABWE is facing a host of pressing challenges that voters dearly want the next president to address. Persistently high inflation, elevated interest rates, and a slumping and volatile Zimbabwe dolla...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Jonathan Munemo
Zimbabwe now 'worse than under Mugabe'?
UNDER the long and cruel reign of Robert Mugabe, a lot of very bad things happened.But it's not clear that anyone was stoned to death for opposing him or his cronies.On Thursday this w...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora should plan for post-Zanu-PF era
LAST week Wednesday was yet another heart-breaking day for me as I made my way through Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport to catch my flight.Many people, who came to greet me at the a...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Mnangagwa to commission new Mugabe International Airport terminal tomorrow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will officially commission the Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM) International Airport terminal tomorrow, the Airports Company of Zimbabwe (ACZ) has said.Government inje...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 14:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Highway robbers cause havoc in Zimbabwe
FORTY-FIVE-year-old Jonas Kabasa is among several truck drivers whose dislike for passing through Zimbabwe on long-distance trips is all too apparent.He drives trucks from South Africa to Zamb...Published: 01 Jul 2023 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fixes roads to polling stations in rural strongholds
Zimbabwe's government says it has launched a blitz to grade roads and grant easy access to polling stations by voters in Zanu PF's stronghold rural areas ahead of high stakes elections due 23 August t...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo exposes Zimbabwe media capture?
Zimbabwean former MP and Information minister Jonathan Moyo, a professor of politics, has joined the raging debate involving local publisher Trevor Ncube, chairman of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), and h...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son in-law is a major shareholder at Trevor Ncube's AMH
The attached video clip below is interesting with important revelations from Trevor Ncube about himself, AMH and Gerald Mlotshwa. Three such revelations stand out:First, while Ncube and AMH ha...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 18:48hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
A critical review of Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia documentary
APRIL, famously characterised as "the cruellest month" by distinguished poet and literary critic TS Eliot in his critically acclaimed essay "The Wasteland" - not because its first day celebrates fools...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:07hrs | 4 | by Jonathan Moyo
Anger mounts in Zimbabwe as prices rocket
ZIMBABWE'S currency further crashed this week, precipitating waves of basic commodity price hikes, which were slammed by consumer watchdogs.In a survey, the Zimbabwe Independent found that man...Published: 19 May 2023 at 20:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala's conviction rocks Zimbabwe opposition and civil society
THE conviction of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s Zengeza West legislator Job Sikhala on Wednesday has rocked the opposition and civil society, with critics saying it showed an intensifying crac...Published: 04 May 2023 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Yet another dark day in a Zimbabwe court
Job Sikhala - the Zengeza West Member of Parliament who has been in jail without bail since June 2022 in unprecedented pre-trial detention - has been convicted by Harare Magistrate Marehwanazvo of obs...Published: 03 May 2023 at 22:06hrs | | by Jonathan MOyo
Corruption tarnishing Zimbabwe's image
ON April 18, 2023, Zimbabweans from all walks of life thronged different venues across the country to celebrate Independence Day.The day is a milestone in the history of the country as it acco...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
How the gold mafia scandal will affect Mnangagwa
The Al Jazeera investigative unit last week served the second episode of a four-part documentary, Gold Mafia, that makes interesting— albeit unsurprising — watching.The exposés have spawn...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Al Jazeera must be onto something big
THE first of a four-part documentary by international news channel Al Jazeera titled Gold Mafia: The Laundry Service has kicked up so much dust that it is now quite possible for many people to complet...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Underperforming ANC hell bent on stopping regime change in Zimbabwe; it's fiddler crab strategy
"South Africa has a Zimbabwe problem - and no one is willing to help it, said African National Congress (ANC) secretary-general Fikile Mbalula as he called for an end to long-standing sanctions agains...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 07:33hrs | 9 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe cuts ties with Western PR firms
ZIMBABWE has terminated the services of consultancy firms which were engaged more than three years ago to help thaw diplomatic relations with the United States as Harare changes tack to break over two...Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman batters husband with granite pestle and mortar as he slept on sofa
A mum of three battered her husband with a pestle and mortar as he slept on a sofa 'because she wrongly believed he wanted to kill her'.Angelina Moya, who was suffering from delusional thought...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 05:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Belarus deals help bust Zimbabwe sanctions
A STRING of bilateral agreements that were signed between Zimbabwe and Belarus this week and in 2019, have helped the country bust sanctions not only in the agriculture sector which is on the rebound,...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans danced when Mugabe fell, now life is worse than ever
For Jasmine Toffa, the hardest moment of her life was not being beaten black and blue by regime thugs. It came when the Zimbabwean MP appeared in parliament after surgery, broken hands in plaster, and...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Christina Lamb for The Sunday Times (UK)
Zimbabwe govt turns to banks to fund roads rehabilitation
ZIMBABWE'S roads administrator said this week it had kicked off processes to draft in banks to bolster its capacity to fund rehabilitation of the country's crumbling road network.In an intervi...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 11:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa complicit in brutalisation of Zimbabweans
Of late, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has been making a lot of noise over supposed "sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe".He has used every opportunity to speak to both his local audience ...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:50hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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