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Afreximbank to inject US$1bn into Zimbabwe economy
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has announced a substantial financial commitment of US$1 billion to support Zimbabwe's economic growth, with funds allocated to various sectors in both the...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:21hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Dudu to perform at Diplomatic Charity Bazaar
This Saturday, renowned jazz singer Dudu Manhenga will take the stage at the Diplomatic Charity Bazaar, hosted by the Diplomatic Spouses Association (DSA) at Old Georgians Sports Club in Mt Pleasant, ...Published: 22 Oct 2024 at 14:19hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Bosso, Bikita Minerals share spoils
Highlanders 1-1 Bikita MineralsAn Evans Katema strike early in the second half ensured that Bikita Minerals secured a point with a 1-1 draw against Highlanders on Sunday afternoon. The hosts, High...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa
A CARE company serving NHS patients has been charging migrant workers from Africa thousands of pounds to work in the United Kingdom when the cost of a visa is only a few hundred pounds, The Guardian h...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
JZ High School continues with 100% A-level pass rate
SITUATED in Gwanda District in the sprawling Matebeleland South Province, Jason Ziyaphapha (JZ) Moyo High School is not only named after a revolutionary luminary whose legacy cannot be bloated, but th...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:35hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Man threatens to bewitch girlfriend
A jealous boyfriend is in trouble after he was dragged to court for threatening to bewitch his girlfriend before severely assaulting her in a jealous affair.Benedict Dube appeared before Plumt...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 19:59hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
US diplomat outlines an ambitious vision for Zimbabwe
BOTTOM LINE- The US Embassy in Harare has identified the potential for Zimbabwe to become a growth hub for Southern Africa.- This is a curious conclusion to draw given the fact that Zi...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 18:33hrs | 11 | by Michael Walsh
Operators hike fares as holiday traffic surges
MAJOR bus termini, depots and popular hiking spots in Bulawayo were yesterday a hive of activity as bustling crowds of people jostled to catch buses to travel to various destinations ahead of Christma...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:04hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF candidate punched, faints
Zanu-PF aspiring councillor for Mazowe ward 30, Benedict Kanda, fainted at a recent party event after he was punched on his privates.The matter came to light at Concession Magistrates Courts y...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF councillor faints after bashing at rally
ZANU PF aspiring councillor for Mazowe ward 26 Benedict Kanda popularly known as Wandiona was allegedly hit on his private parts and fainted at a party ra...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:23hrs | 6 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nigerian billionaire's US$1 billion Zimbabwean mining deals stall
NIGERIAN oil and gas billionaire Benedict Peters' massive investment plans to shell out over US$1 billion into a local platinum mining project and more into lithium, iron ore, tin, gold and rare earth...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 13:54hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says global capital safe in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday invited investors from the United States and the rest of the world to partner with the Government in unlocking vast investment opportunities across economic value chains,...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 06:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to meet with Bravura over delayed platinum project
The Zimbabwean government will meet with Bravura Holdings Ltd., a company owned by Nigerian billionaire Benedict Peters, over delays to a platinum project in the southern African country, the deputy m...Published: 05 Jul 2023 at 09:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa receives Afreximbank award
STRIVE Masiyiwa, the founder and chairperson of the Econet Group and Cassava Technologies, has expressed his appreciation at the recognition he received at the Afreximbank's Pan-African Business and D...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 18:21hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
RBZ backs Pan-African payment, settlement system
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has thrown weight behind the Pan-African Payment and Settlement System, a cross-border, financial market infrastructure enabling payment system...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man forges wife's signature to facilitate divorce
A CHITUNGWIZA man was last week arraigned before Harare magistrate, Dennis Mangosi for allegedly forging his wife's signature on divorce papers.Travolta Reginald Tonderai Chitongo (29) was ord...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
King Mswati III arrives in Zimbabwe for State visit
King Mswati III of the Kingdom of Eswatini arrives in the country on Tuesday for an official State visit, which begins on Thursday, where he is expected to hold talks with President Mnangagwa....Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
King Mswati heads to Victoria Falls
TWO more heads of state, King Mswati III of Eswatini and Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema have confirmed their attendance at the Transform Africa Summit (TAS) in Victoria Falls next week.T...Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 15:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Catholic priest under probe for harassing teachers, corruption
A Catholic resident priest at St Benedict High School, Fr Innocent Mangwiro is at loggerheads with the mission's authority and is now under investigation over allegations of misconduct, corrupt tenden...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 08:56hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Former Pope Benedict XVI dies at 95
Former Pope Benedict XVI has died at his Vatican residence.He was 95.His successor Pope Francis confirmed the death through a statemet....Published: 31 Dec 2022 at 15:28hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF heavyweights displace settlers
A Zanu-PF MP, a top government official and a business mogul with links to the ruling party are accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu under controversial circumstances.One of...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as Zanu-PF heavyweights displace settlers
A Zanu-PF MP, a top government official and a business mogul with links to the ruling party are accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu under controversial circumstances.One of...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites African finance houses for talks
ZIMBABWE is ready to tap into available financial services provided by the Africa Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to bolster its industrial transformation ...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$250m injection in new platinum mine
Bravura Consortium, which is owned by Nigerian billionaire Mr Benedict Peters, is finalising resource exploration at its claims in Selous, Mashonaland West province, where it is set to invest US$250 m...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afreximbank Zimbabwe trade centre on cards
AFRICAN Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Bank has taken the first step to establish a trade centre in Zimbabwe which will cater for the southern African region.This comes at a time when the co...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Schools third term opens
IT was a hive of activity for boarders across the country yesterday as they returned to their schools for the third term that starts today.Pupils and a representative of national school heads ...Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Imports substitution at Bulawayo Factory Shells
AS people building modern homes moved to aluminium window frames from steel ones, Mr Innocent Mlalazi of Bulawayo's Mahatshula suburb saw that as an entrepreneurial opportunity as the product was bein...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Catholic Bishop
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa joined the Munyanyi family and the Catholic family in the country in mourning the passing on of prominent Bishop Emeritus Martin Munyanyi.Bishop Munyanyi died last Sunday a...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends platinum levy
THE Government has suspended the 5 percent levy on raw platinum exports after miners lobbied the Treasury for its removal citing its detrimental impact on operations and the commitment by industry pla...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Banks: If gold rusts, what will iron do?
Native Commissioner Oates, I presume!LORD Jonathan Oates' ambition is becoming a latter-day colonial Native Commissioner.Too late chum, both by age and history! Still both don't deter ...Published: 14 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 3 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Super-sub rescues United
Mashonaland Central division two side Mvurwi United had to be rescued by their super substitute Tadiwanashe "Jowa" Sithole who assisted in an equalizing goal against Centenary based Zambezi Valley thi...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 22:19hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa: When the snake bites the charmer
Staring the abyssVery slowly but definitely quite surely, the world is drifting towards a scary nuclear abyss. The conflict in Eastern Europe now has all the makings of a major superpo...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | | by jamwanda
'Nelson Chamisa wants elections postponed for 7 years' Charamba says
CCC President Nelson Chamisa wants elections in Zimbabwe to be postponed for 7 years, Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says. Writing on his weekly Saturday column in the state-owned H...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 09:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Blocked funds choke NMB
NMBZ Holdings Limited (NMB) registered US$13,4 million debt because of blocked funds with the central bank which it owes to various line of credit providers, it has been revealed.NMB's financi...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NMB hails economic stabilisation initiatives
LISTED financial services concern, NMB Bank Limited has hailed economic stabilisation efforts employed by monetary authorities saying such efforts have gone a long way to reduce year on year inflation...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Britain and the USA gave Putin the idea of invasion, by doing this in Iraq, Libya, Serbia etc
In the long-ago summer of 2010, I found myself in the beautiful harbour of Sevastopol, surveying the rival fleets of Russia and Ukraine as they rode at anchor in the lovely Crimean sunshine. O...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 08:45hrs | 11 | by Peter Hitchens
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
The sad story of Zimbabweans in SA
MOLTEN anger rolled through him as he beheld what was left of his small grocery enterprise.Windows were shattered, the door vandalised and several grocery items missing while the remaining few...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Afreximbank sets up regional HQ in Zimbabwe
Government through the Ministry of Local Government and Public Works and National Housing, on Friday availed land for the construction of a US$100 million Afreximbank Africa Trade Centre (AATC) and re...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
US$4 billion mystery in Afreximbank, Zimbabwe deals
SHARP differences emerged between Zimbabwean authorities and the Africa Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) on Friday over the value of loans extended by the regional lender to Harare.During a ...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:02hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints legend dies
ZIMBABWE Saints legend Shacky Toindepi Nyathi has died.He was 58.Nyathi collapsed and died at his Mzilikazi home in Bulawayo on Sunday.His best friend and former teammate Godfr...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power outages new blow to recovery
LOCAL businesses, still reeling from the devastating effects of Covid-19 lockdowns, have suffered yet another blow following a load shedding schedule by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distr...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get 5m doses from AU facility
Zimbabwe should soon start receiving initial shipments of its 5 million share of the 400 million doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine secured for Africa by the African Union (AU), the African Vacc...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa challenges entrepreneurs to solve problems in their communities
Pan-African businessman and billionaire entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa, who is also the African Union's Special Envoy in the fight against COVID, talks about how he led the creation of the Africa Medica...Published: 26 Jul 2021 at 08:34hrs | | by Agencies
Eswathini burns an attack on Africanism
The events in eSwatini formally Swaziland is indeed knee shaking. There is an onslaught to the only remaining absolute monarchy in the world. The events reminds me of Lybia. Sea is must look across to...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:46hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
World Bank, African Union's COVID vaccine task force, all set to deploy vaccines to 400 million Africans
World Bank President David Malpass, and his senior management team, comprised of Dr Axel van Trotsenburg and Dr Makhtar Diop, have met with the African Union's COVID-19 Vaccine Acquisition Task Team (...Published: 15 Jun 2021 at 16:05hrs | 12 | by Agencies
Govt blocks Zanu-PF supporters' eviction
GOVERNMENT has blocked controversial tycoon Billy Rautenbach from evicting thousands of Zanu-PF supporters he accuses of illegally settling on his land in Harare's Aspindale area.Harare Metrop...Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa speaks on his role in getting Africa's 400 million vaccine doses
African Union Special Envoy for COVID-19 and Pan-African businessman Strive Masiyiwa has spoken on the role he played in helping put together an agreement signed early this week for Johnson & John...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 07:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Writer
US$70m for Beitbridge upgrade
THE African Export-Import Bank (AfreximBank) has approved a US$70 million facility to fund the upgrading of the Beitbridge Border Post to enhance smooth trade in Southern Africa. Situated in M...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Supervisor bashed for terminating worker's contract
Eureka gold mine supervisor Ruben Mangure (50) was bashed by an employee Benedict Manyika (45) who failed to stomach a employment contract term...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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