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Rethinking the global village
ZIMBABWE at the turn of the century lived true to the meaning of global village.Its citizens were migrating all over the world, setting up bases and immersing themselves in cosmopolitan capita...Published: 23 Aug 2025 at 14:54hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
'ANC of Ramaphosaon the verge of collapse'
Embattled ANC NEC member Senzo Mchunu has warned that the ANC is on the verge of collapse, saying a serious intervention is needed to save it.Speaking at Machobeni in Ngwavuma in northern KwaZ...Published: 17 Aug 2025 at 20:26hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
ZimParks offers US$2,000 reward for lion poachers
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has announced a reward of US$2,000 for any information leading to the arrest of those responsible for the poaching of three lions in Hwa...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 11:24hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
3 lions beheaded in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) has launched an investigation into a disturbing case of poaching after the bodies of three lions were discovered beheaded in Hwange Nati...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 07:57hrs | 839 | by Staff reporter
On the Money: How Old Mutual is empowering Zimbabwe's farmers
As the Zimbabwe Agricultural Show kicks off under the theme "Cultivating Prosperity. Growing Business. Innovation for Change. Nurturing our Future," a critical component of this year's event is the fi...Published: 29 Aug 2024 at 15:55hrs | 262 | by Staff Reporter
Victoria Falls lodge named among Southern Africa's best
Victoria Falls continues to stand out as the preferred destination, with Matetsi Victoria Falls Lodge, situated on the banks of the Zambezi River, ranking as the seventh-best resort in Southern Africa...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches ZimAfro T10
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday said the hosting of the historic Zim Afro T10 on Zimbabwean soil for the first time was a step in the right direction as it fits into Government's thrust to remodel the s...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Fastjet launches new domestic routes
ZIMBABWE'S fastjet has expanded its domestic route network by launching additional flights to Kariba and Hwange National Park.With the addition of these routes, the airline will now be flying ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Highlanders edges Black Rhinos
Highlanders 1 - 0 Black RhinosHighlanders recorded their first victory of the season after edging Black Rhinos 1-0 at National Sports Stadium.HIGHLANDERS were too ordinary and, in some instan...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
All set for the 21st Old Mutual NAMA awards
The stage is set for the 21st National Arts Merit Awards (NAMA) powered by Old Mutual Zimbabwe tomorrow at the Harare International Conference Centre, with the organisers aiming to provide a unique ex...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 22:01hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Woman killed in Beitbridge bus accident
ONE woman died on the spot, while six others were injured on Monday evening after a Harare bound MB bus they were travelling in hit a stray cow about 78 kilometres away from Beitbridge.Officer...Published: 26 May 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Discontinue trophy hunting imports ban bill to save African wildlife'
A leading SADC Safari hunting company that has so far spent over US$367 000.00 to support wildlife conservation and socio-economic development in Tanzania has appealed to the British Government to dis...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 32 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
'Don't cause Zambian wildlife loss' British govt told
The President for Zambia National Community Resources Board Association(ZNCRBA)Mr George Tembo said that the British Government's recent announcement to ban international trophy hunting impo...Published: 06 Jan 2022 at 15:15hrs | 304 | by Emmanuel Koro
SADC rural communities demand win-win benefits from international hunting
Once considered to be voiceless and almost powerless, southern African hunting communities are increasingly becoming powerful and are now demanding win-win benefits from international hunting by remov...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 08:07hrs | 33 | by Emmanuel Koro Johannesburg
Covid-19 protocols remain in force
Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by chairman of the Ministers' National Committee, Vice President and M...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls experience charms American executives
VICTORIA Falls is a must-visit basket of attraction and leisure. That is how 10 American executives summed up their three days and two nights at one of the worlds' prime tourist resorts. They came, th...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mr President so far so good
With my heavy heart I wish to congratulate HE President ED for a job well done following myriad of measures mitigating hyperinflation which has gone to extremes. Thank you so much HE and the finance m...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Benny Gudo
ED full speech at AU - UN summit in Vic Falls
STATEMENTBYHIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF ZIMBABWE CDE E. D. MNANGAGWAATTHE INAUGURAL AFRICAN UNION-UNITED NATIONS WILDLIFE ECONOMY SUMMITVIC...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:56hrs | 10 | by President ED Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa wants to work with America
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed he is longing to work with the United States of America among other countries in the world. Mnangagwa who was addressing the US-Africa Summit in Maput...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 18:17hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Selmor 'anointed' by Mtukudzi'
SELMOR Mtukudzi's mother, Melody Murape, last week said she was confident that her daughter will be able to keep her late father's music legacy alive following a superb performance alongside her siste...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 13:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt goes for broke to lure tech tourists to Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe ICT bosses are pulling out all the stops to use a networking event for tech entrepreneurs and investors here to market its tourist hotspot, Victoria Falls, in a bid to boost the number of vis...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 12:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe human wonder lost its glow
It does not seem that long ago when I grew up and worked in a country whose deepest pride was not just its world-acclaimed Victoria Falls, its Big Five and awesome wilderness experience, its intriguin...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2 | by Zii Masiye
Mnangagwa backs push for permanent Zimbabwe UN Security Council seat
Zimbabwe can win one of five UN Security Council seats up for election in the next two years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman has said, although analysts doubted the southern African country ...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | 7 | by Israel Dube
National Geographic Traveller lists Zimbabwe in Top 10 'must-see' destinations
National Geographic Traveller, one of the world's leading travel magazines, has listed Zimbabwe as one of the 19 must see destinations in the world in 2019.Zimbabwe was placed at number nine, ...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | 2 | by African News Agency
Zimbabwe named in Lonely Planet's top destinations for 2019
ZIMBABWE has been named one of the best countries in the world to visit in Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2019.The highly an...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 17:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe State Universities must also open for business: Part II
The first installment on subject above, acknowledged the provincial economy concept being emphasized in the devolution agenda of the second republic and called for a leadership of state universities, ...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Enock Jonathan
A classical example of a pot telling the kettle: 'how black!' who will be counted in the Trump Era
Be it Mnangagwa giving Donald Trump land in abundance in Victoria Falls or Chamisa dreaming of Las Vegas in Victoria Falls, it is just tasteless. Now when Chamisa ridicules Mnangagwa about his golf co...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 19:44hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa offers Trump Victoria Falls golf course
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday disclosed that he dangled an offer of land in the picturesque Victoria Falls to United States President Donald Trump to build a golf course.Mnangagwa, wh...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 07:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Prince Harry was ours: Beitbridge
UNITED KINGDOM Prince Harry's wedding to Meghan Markle at the weekend beamed live across the world had another effect in a small town of Zimbabwe called Beitbridge.Lying some 12 600km along th...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
8 things you should know before you go to Zimbabwe
Unless you have been living under a rock, you know there have been political changes afoot in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe is out and there's a new president...Published: 15 May 2018 at 13:51hrs | 16 | by Lynn Houghton
Royal Air Maroc introduce Harare, Maputo flights
Moroccan national carrier, Royal Air Maroc (RAM), has announced plans to launch flights to five other East African cities only two years after it began its Casablanca-Nairobi operations.Countr...Published: 02 May 2018 at 13:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, back from the brink
Three weeks ago a young elephant wound her trunk around my arm and began – politely, elegantly, insistently – to pull my hand into her mouth and suck the salt sweat off my fingers. It was the happ...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Katherine Rundell
Govt to refurbish Hwange National Airport
GOVERNMENT is planning to refurbish the underutilised Hwange National Park Airport into an international facility with some investors already showing interest in the project, a Cabinet Minister has sa...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prof Jonathan Moyo: From pedigree political scientist to high profile political witch!
The man who once and severally gave Zimbabwean retired president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, a most thorny political bed! The political scientist who once belonged to the stable of The Big Five intellectu...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 14:17hrs | | by Reginald Thababi Gola
Zanu-PF protects invaders, blasts EU
The Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial leadership has resolved to let the more than 15 000 settlers in the Save Valley Conservancy stay put, saying evicting them with general elections around the corner woul...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 06:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Macheso dumps his 2017 album release plans
Virtuoso Alick Macheso has dumped his 2017 album release plans, and The Sunday Mail Society can reveal that it is because the King of Sungura believes what he has worked on so far is simply not good e...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF criticised for politicising beerhall reopening
THE Zanu PF-controlled Chiredzi Town Council has come under fire from MDC-T and Chiredzi United Residents' Association for politicising the reopening of a popular beerhall, Chigarapasi, and prematurel...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 05:50hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Chiredzi's Chigarapasi bar finally opens
CHIREDZI - The biggest and controversial beerhall in the country, will finally open it's doors to revellers tomorrow (Friday 08 2017, after the town council has closed it for almost two years, citing ...Published: 07 Sep 2017 at 19:39hrs | 6 | by Staff Reporter
What you need to know before your embark on your safari adventure
Embarking on a Safari Adventure is a once in a lifetime endeavour. The wildlife found in Tanzania is majestic and beautiful. It's no wonder that so many people dedicate their lives to documenting it -...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
American Organisation Partners the Collin Nyabadza Children's Voice Charitable Trust
A United States of America based organization, the S.E.L.F. Project partnered a local organization, the Collin Nyabadza Children's Voice Charitable Trust (CNCVCT) to help three rural schools in Bubi D...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Germans take control of Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou
GOVERNMENT has surrendered management of the Gonarezhou National Park to a German based-firm, Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), after failing to contain rampant poaching which was threatening to wip...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Poaching and budget crises spur dehorning move in Africa's 'rhino conservation cradle'
IT would have been unthinkable just a few years ago that rhinos would be dehorned for their own protection in a park as large and famous as the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal.The 96&n...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 17:38hrs | 3 | by Tony Carnie
The Messi and Ronaldo of Zimbabwean music
Jah Prayzah and Winky D have high profile gigs in Harare and Bulawayo respectively this weekend. Both will share the stage with South Africans: Jah Prayzah with Mafikizolo on Friday at the HIC...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Queen Elizabeth 'must sit down for tea'
The Zimbabwean minister for tourism has unveiled a blueprint for putting the country on the travel map, including a proposal that The Queen and Robert Mugabe should sit down for tea together...Published: 05 Apr 2017 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Telegraph
Pravin Gordhan needs to put up or shut up on 100% black-owned bank
Hamza Farooqui and Salim Essa's Vardospan has filed court papers calling on Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan to either put up or shut up on the acquisition of Habib Bank.If the acquisition ...Published: 29 Mar 2017 at 14:03hrs | | by Vardospan.
Why Khama Billiat may not play in England
For almost its entire duration, last Sunday's frenetic clash between Algeria and Zimbabwe seemed to boil down to a shoot-out between the Desert Foxes' destroyer in chief, Riyad Mahrez and the Warr...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkomo's 'Revolutionary house' carries countless memories
OVER the protracted struggle to liberate the country from the shackles of white minority rule, the late Vice President Dr Joshua Nkomo went through thick and thin.At his house located in Pelan...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:30hrs | 18 | by Yoliswa Dube
Mtukudzi loses his lustre
The country's harsh economic situation has forced the legendary music icon Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi to settle for cheap, less-prominent gigs alongside lowly ranked musicians, it has emerged.Tuku...Published: 29 May 2016 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Macheso set for Bulawayo
Up-and-coming contemporary jazz musician Sam Dondo and his Impala Subway Crooners will be in Bulawayo later this month to launch Dondo's debut album, Dyara Minamato.The album launch will also ...Published: 19 May 2016 at 06:29hrs | | by Showbiz Reporter
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