Search / Bon
Infrastructure financing key for Zim's economy
Infrastructure is the backbone of economies throughout the universe. An efficient and well-maintained infrastructure is critical in sustaining an economy.Infrastructure is considered a key com...Published: 24 mins ago | 7 | by Dephine Mazambani
Zanu-PF dangles carrot to rural voters
TOP Zanu-PF and Lands ministry officials are reportedly promising to roll out irrigation projects and other agricultural inputs in several parts of the country, particularly drought-prone rural areas,...Published: 28 mins ago | 76 | by Staff reporter
Zimra justifies board fees
THE 9 percent jump in fees and allowances for Zimbabwe Revenue Authority board members for the year to December 31 last year, has been attributed to the high number of meetings held to tackle pressing...Published: 41 mins ago | 24 | by Staff reporter
Zimra surpasses target
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) performed beyond expectations in the first half of 2018 after gross collections hit $2,41 billion against the budgeted $2,10 billion, driven by excise duty, net ...Published: 44 mins ago | 19 | by Staff reporter
Citizens now live in fear due to Zanu PF mobile messages - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has said it recorded reports of terrified citizens based on two main issues."The first main source of fear are the messages that voters received on their mobiles ask...Published: 24 hrs ago | 726 | by Stephen Jakes
Black market rates hit 100% ceiling, why and how?
PARALLEL market rates have finally hit 100% when using EcoCash or bank transfers to buy the greenback, the first time they have reached such a rate since dollarisation and the main question now is how...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3412 | by Staff reporter
Bosso set for EGM
THE constitutional review update is likely to gobble most of the time at Highlanders' mid-season extraordinary general meeting to be held at the clubhouse on Sunday.Highlanders' bona fide memb...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:33hrs | 168 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe inflation rate hits 2,91%
Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation for June gained 0,20 percentage points to 2,91 from 2,71 percent in May, latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) show. "This ...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:32hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Inside Chamisa's winter of discontent
On Monday we woke up to a screaming headline in an opposition-leaning newspaper that told us that the MDC-Alliance had given the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission an ultimatum of 24 hours to address...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:24hrs | 313 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Will Mnangagwa defy odds on 30 July?
Zimbabwe is heading for harmonised polls on 30 July to elect a substantive president following a coup that toppled nonagenarian leader R.G Mugabe last November. ED took over on interim basis to finish...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 16:44hrs | 1135 | by Benny Gudo
Congratulations to France
A multiracial, multicultural and multiethnic France lifted the World Cup at the Russia 2018 Soccer bonanza. Amid much pomp and fanfare, the streets of Paris and other French towns reverberated with jo...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 16:36hrs | 325 | by Thomas Murisa
Zimra board pockets $300,000
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board members made rich pickings from fees and allowances last year after pocketing a combined $292 582 last year, representing a 9 percent rise from the prior year....Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 14:39hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
A certain Dr Charles Kangai's errors on his analysis of the late Kumbirai Kangai
There is an opinion circulating online purported to have been written by a certain Dr. Charles Kangai. The opinion is attacking the former president R.G. Mugabe while exonerating known corrupt people ...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 09:52hrs | 736 | by Don Chigumba
Man gets 17 years behind bars for murder over 20c
A mine worker in Inyathi who struck a patron with a stone at a bar in a dispute over 20 cents has been sentenced to 17 years in jail for murder.Foreman Mangena (42) of Badala Village 3 in Inya...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:37hrs | 1056 | by Srtaff Reporter
Mugabe freely resigned, rules Chief Justice Luke Malaba
FORMER President of Zimbabwe Mr Robert Mugabe freely and voluntarily stepped down from power and the assumption of office by his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa was done in terms of the law, Chief Justice L...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 07:16hrs | 3373 | by Chibaba che Bikita
Zanu-PF official initiates Makorokoza graveyard invasion
An aspiring ZANU PF aspiring councillor in Mazowe South ward 28 Joshua Nyamuziwa has been fingered in the invasion of a grave site by a group of illegal miners at Mazowe Mine, Mashonaland Centra...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 06:45hrs | 675 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Prophet Makandiwa 'mansion' up for auction
A MANSION at the centre of a US$6,5 million lawsuit filed by businessman Upenyu Mashangwa against United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa is set to be auctioned....Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 16:16hrs | 5027 | by Staff reporter
RBZ increases cash injections to $150m
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the central bank has increased the foreign currency injections into the economy by 50% to $150 million a month to ease forex shortages.This...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1556 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gives 24-hour ultimatum
THE MDC-T and MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has threatened to mobilise the opposition party's supporters to picket at the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) head office starting tomorrow until J...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 3876 | by Staff reporter
UK stockbroker to woo FDI to Zimbabwe
The Securities and Exchanges Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has licensed a new strockbrocking firm, Morgan & Co, owned by British investors and two indigenous partners, which has pledged to influen...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:49hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's rally blessed by rain
MDC-Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday promised to make Zimbabwe a $46 billion economy over the next five years if he wins the July 30 harmonised elections. Addressing...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:41hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Why army warning is omnious
Army press conferences are rare and ominous events in Zimbabwe. When the army calls a press conference in Zimbabwe, it is a serious matter and you better sit up and listen. When they did in November l...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 18:20hrs | 4650 | by Siphosami Malunga
Strive Masiyiwa bailed Mugabe's govt out
Telecommunications mogul Strive Masiyiwa says he assisted the government to buy grain at a time when the country was facing food shortagesIn conversation with CNBC Africa's Wole Famurewa as a ...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 17:00hrs | 2476 | by Staff reporter
Postal votes scam and the forgotten postman
Too many cooks spoil the broth. That's true, of course, but once in a while, it takes only one cook to do that, breaking the utensils and burning down the kitchen too. The Zimbabwe Electoral Commissio...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:55hrs | 174 | by Tawanda Majoni
$400m for roads rehabilitation
GOVERNMENT is working towards raising US$300 million from bonds issued by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road repairs across the country.Separately, US$100 million has...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 16:48hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
The rally was marked by football tournament at Siganda centre
Mthwakazi Republic Party today held a rally at Siganda in Bubi constituency. The rally was marked by football tournament at Siganda centre.Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo said the event which...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 10:36hrs | 1557 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa sticks by Grace Mugabe
MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa's alleged dalliances with the former First Family is understood to be making partners in the coalition uneasy and there are now real fears that he is planning to dit...Published: 15 Jul 2018 at 10:12hrs | 3893 | by Staff Reporter
Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe set to frustrate eager investors
A European investor's phone rings in a Harare restaurant and it's good news: an $80 million construction deal has been agreed with the Zimbabwean government.All that's needed now is a central ...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:53hrs | 1373 | by TimesLive
'Eating bacon is as deadly as smoking'
A RESEARCH department within the World Health Organisation (WHO) has announced that the consumption of bacon is as deadly as smoking and can lead to colorectal cancer.According to WHO, a repor...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:41hrs | 1181 | by Staff reporter
Madinda hopes to end losing streak
HIGHLANDERS will be seeking to end their three-game losing streak when they take on Castle Lager Premier Soccer League debutants Herentals in a lunch time kick-off at Barbourfields Stadium tomorrow....Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:39hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa: don't play with fire in a village so full of thatched roundavels
Where I come from you don't begrudge a child for darning clay into a mighty 'bull'. That is called creative play, for clay hurts no living being, and does not add one beast more into the kraal. So you...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 11:33hrs | 320 | by Igomombe
Bulawayo 'serial killer' tells court he was sent by Lucifer to kill
BULAWAYO "serial killer" Tongai Jindu (27) has told the Bulawayo High Court that he was sent by the devil to kill two of his victims and threatened to unleash the evil spirit on prosecutors.Pr...Published: 14 Jul 2018 at 05:47hrs | 4641 | by Staff Reporter
1893 MHRRM steps up its Gukurahundi Genocide Demo Campaigns
The 1893 MHRRM-UK Chapter is stepping up its Demos in the United Kingdom against the Zimbabwean government and its on-going genocidal pogrom against Matebeleland. It has once more scheduled a Demo out...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 20:46hrs | 1008 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM's Secretary for Information and Publicity
Ray Goba's dismissal shows 'No Tolerance' is not just a slogan
This cannot have been an easy decision. Prosecutor General Advocate Ray Goba has not been in the job long. He was well respected by his peers and the President alike. But friendship and hi...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 18:32hrs | 2423 | by Mike Tawanda
'I will make all residents needs a priority'
The independent candidate for ward 10 in Entumbane Bulawayo Edmonic Max Mkandla has revealed a host of plans which he intend to do for the ward among them that he will make young people a priority and...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 14:06hrs | 250 | by Stephen Jakes
Police conduct illegal - Mthwakazi Republic Party
Mthwakazi Republic Party says it has come to their attention as the party that there was an attempt by the Zimbabwe Republic Police yesterday at Ross Camp police station in Bulawayo to rig elections, ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:58hrs | 2470 | by Stephen Jakes
Delta revenue jumps 40%
DELTA Corporation Limited has reported a 40% increase in revenue as a result of an upsurge in all its beverage categories which was driven by higher consumer demand during the first quarter of the yea...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:15hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Disturbing Harare Demo! Pastor and Advocate Chamisa is surrounded by mob shouting HURE, to Justice Priscilla Chigumba
The Pastor and Advocate Chamisa finds it right and fitting to be surrounded by a mob shouting obscenities on Justice Priscilla Chigumba. The entire mob is for Chamisa a means to his ambitious ends. If...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 3668 | by Nomazulu Thata
Cheating injiva's wife kills love child
AN allegedly cheating injiva's wife from Tsholotsho fell pregnant while her husband was in South Africa and allegedly strangled her new born baby then kept its body in a bucket in her bedroom for two ...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: The old cheating the young?
Today, the 11th of July 2018 thousands of opposition supporters took to the streets of Harare to register their displeasure on the conduct of our country's electoral body ZEC, few days before the high...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 11:39hrs | 1473 | by Benny Gudo
'Bond notes are here to stay'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya says the country's surrogate currency, the bond note, will be around for the foreseeable future.Zimbabwe introduced bond notes in 2016 to ease a...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 10:33hrs | 2122 | by Staff reporter
The voice of the people is NOT the voice of God
Over the past seven months, ever since the military coup that ousted former Zimbabwe dictator Robert Gabriel Mugabe in November last year, the country has been inundated with several slogans and mantr...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:43hrs | 1373 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean teen falls to his death from Sydney Tower
MATES and family members have paid tribute to a "funny, caring" teenager who fell to his death from Sydney Tower on Sunday.Hip hop fan Leonard Nherera, 18, from Moorebank in Sydney's southwest...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 09:04hrs | 1579 | by Agencies
UK investor eyes CSC
THE Cold Storage Company (CSC) has identified a United Kingdom-based investor set to inject $100 million into Zimbabwe's largest beef processing firm.The ailing State-owned entity, which requi...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | 521 | by Staff rpeorter
Continuous importation of forex fuels Zimbabwe blackmarket
ANALYSTS agree that the continuous importation of hard cash into the economy will not improve the prevailing cash shortages in the country, but further fuel the parallel market.This comes as R...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1321 | by Staff rpeorter
Streak, ZC reach settlement
ZIMBABWE Cricket and lawyers representing former coach Heath Streak and two others have reached a settlement for the payment of dues owed to the group in a landmark development that brings to an end t...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 06:59hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Women's League receive cars
Zanu-PF has handed over ten vehicles to the Women's League for campaigning and other logistics during and after the 2018 harmonised elections.Zanu-PF chairwomen from the country's ten province...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 21:10hrs | 2481 | by Staff reporter
Violence runs in the MDC Alliance's DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is defined as "a thread-like chain of nucleotides carrying the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organi...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 15:55hrs | 871 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa to launch satellite technology agency
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is today set to launch the Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (Zingsa) and tomorrow officiate at the groundbreaking ceremony of the Beitbridge modernisation pro...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:15hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to visit Beitbridge Border Post tomorrow
President Mnangagwa will tomorrow visit Beitbridge Border Post for a groundbreaking ceremony to begin works on the mordernisation of the country's and sadc's busiest inland port as part of Government'...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | 737 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
