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Zimbabwe Exemption Permits court challenge, Whites are fond of slavery
THE news that the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has taken our government to court to overturn the termination of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs), while infuriating, should not come as a surprise...Published: 2 hrs ago | 389 | by Mogomotsi Mogodiri
Zimbabwean and SA professor clash over hard-hitting reviews of each other's books
A battle of professors has erupted between Zimbabwe's University of Oxford-based Associate Professor Blessing Miles-Tendi and Professor David B. Moore of the University of Johannesburg, who has some Z...Published: 23 hrs ago | 2301 | by Staff reporter
Zimra seizes trucks, fuel over duty
A fuel dealer in Chiredzi was recently busted by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), which impounded two trucks laden with over 46 000 litres of petrol believed to have been smuggled through Beitb...Published: 24 hrs ago | 678 | by Staff reporter
161 arrested in anti-crime border operation
The Department of Immigration's Regional Compliance and Enforcement Unit has intensified operations at the Beitbridge Border Post to prevent illegal migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa....Published: 24 hrs ago | 262 | by Staff reporter
Road rehab ignites hope in Manama
FOR villagers in Manama, the rehabilitation of the Guyu-Manama Road in Gwanda District is the beginning of endless possibilities.With a good road network, villagers believe more investors will...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 410 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police to revise border operation
ZIMBABWE's Joint Operations Command (JOC) is reviewing its operation code-named "No To Cross-border Crime" amid mixed feelings from stakeholders.The operation was launched on January 5, 2021 t...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:04hrs | 1422 | by Staff reporter
SA army tells Afrikaner rights organisation to back off border areas
THE South African National Defence Force (SANDF) has told AfriForum that safeguarding and patrolling the country's borders is its responsibility and not for "any other non-State groupings or groups"....Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:01hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
Africa's food security relies on climate smart agriculture
THERE has not been a more demanding time for Africa to adopt modern agriculture methods than now. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, food security in Africa is threatened at all levels and farming ...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:59hrs | 120 | by The Exchange
Police caution politicians over hate speech ahead of 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has cautioned politicians against using inflammatory language or hate speech that incite violence and polarize the country ahead of the 2023 elections, The Standard ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:29hrs | 340 | by Staff reporter
South Africa blow for foreigners, Dudula wins
AS South Africa readies itself to face a legal fight over Zimbabwean Work Permits, the Employment and Labour Minister, Thulas Nxesi is pressing ahead with the National Labour Migration Policy (NLMP) a...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:27hrs | 3030 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is on irreversible forward march
ZIMBABWE is experiencing increased inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) projects in most provinces, at a time when the world is grappling with multiple economic challenges.This indicates...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:22hrs | 1866 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec clears air on forex exam fees
SCHOOLS that are pegging examination fees exclusively in foreign currency are flouting regulations set by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 3358 | by Staff Reporter
Makeshift border footbridge demolished
Another makeshift bridge that was being used by smugglers and border jumpers to cross into Zimbabwe and South Africa, has been destroyed by the National Security Task Force (NTF) to curb illegal activ...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
Cattle rustling riles Botswana, Zimbabwe
CONTINUED cattle rustling activities along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border are baffling and riling authorities despite intensive joint police operations to curb the vice.Recently the two countrie...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:48hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash partners PayPal
EcoCash has partnered PayPay to facilitate international remittances to Zimbabwe through its existing partnership with global cross-border remittance giant Thunes."Leveraging our Hub partnersh...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:46hrs | 500 | by Staff reporter
Fears expressed over Zimbabwe Extension Permit cancellation
Zimbabwean expatriates are scrambling to apply for a visa to continue living in South Africa after their Zimbabwe Extension Permits (ZEP) expired in December.If they are unsuccessful, in some ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 09:02hrs | 2851 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi warns Mnangagwa
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa against ignoring their calls for secession, insisting they are prepared for a fight over the matter.Mthwakazi is the ...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 5066 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border users toast to improved efficiencies
Users of Beitbridge Border Post, principally truck drivers and cross-border traders, are excited that the automation of arguably the largest and busiest border in Southern Africa, has considerably red...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
Motswana fuel smuggler arrested in Zimbabwe
BOTSWANA police have foiled a bid by a Motswana to smuggle 1 450 litres of petrol into Zimbabwe.Police in Tshesebe recovered the fuel from the suspect along the Botswana-Zimbabwe border....Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:48hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
South Africa dismisses Afrikaner nationalists border patrol claims
South Africa's Home Affairs department has dismissed claims by lobby group South Africa's Home Affairs that it is patrolling the border between the neighbouring country and Zimbabwe at Musina in Limpo...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 10:47hrs | 431 | by Staff reporter
Bogus cop pockets R500 bribe from buses for 15 months
A Beitbridge man has been arrested for masquerading as a security officer for one year and three months, collecting bribes ranging from R300 to R500 from buses in the border town.Gabriel Chire...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:14hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Oil, gas equipment lands in Zimbabwe this week
INVICTUS Energy, the Australian firm exploring oil and gas in Muzarabani and Mbire districts of Mashonaland Central, north of Zimbabwe, expects the first batch of key pieces of the exploration drillin...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
We must prepare for the coming 'war'
From tomorrow until Wednesday, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will be mourning Patrice Lumumba - the country's first democratically elected prime minister - who was slain 61 years ago in the g...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 318 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwean Exemption Permits holders' choice: Restart in a broken country or live undocumented in SA
THREE Zimbabweans who held Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEPs), which the South African government has now scrapped, share their anxiety and anguish as they face deportation, uprooting their lives and...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:42hrs | 2134 | by Staff reporter
Zambia-bound truck spills 35 tonnes of sulphur
A Zambia-bound truck laden with 35 tonnes of sulphur overturned and caught fire at the 311km peg along the Harare-Chirundu Highway, near Tsetse checkpoint in Hurungwe District with preliminary investi...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 08:32hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge man stores 220 litres of urine in room
IN a bizarre incident in Beitbridge town, a shipping agent has been storing 220 litres of his urine in bottles in a rented house in Dulivhadzimo high-density suburb.The man (whose name has bee...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:40hrs | 1060 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe does not have foreign constituencies'
ZIMBABWE has 210 electoral constituencies and none of them is located outside the country's physical boarders, justice legal and parliamentary affairs minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said.He was ...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 18:20hrs | 929 | by Staff reporter
Dembare striker set for SA trial
BUSTLING striker Tinashe Makanda is set to become the latest Dynamos player to try his luck across the borders after he was invited for assessment by an unnamed South African side.Makanda, who...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo joins Green Cities initiative
A GREEN Cities initiative, led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and soon to be rolled out in Bulawayo, is expected to assist the city deal with its water challenges, mayor Solomon Mguni ...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Zimra border officers probed for building mansions, flats in Harare
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 742 | by Staff reporter
Zimra flags Beitbridge as corruption hotspot
BEITBRIDGE Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry, has been identified as the country's major corruption hot spot, with some Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials under investi...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
186 000 arrested for bribery, smuggling
MORE than 186 600 people have been arrested countrywide on the three targeted crackdowns against cross-border crimes, bribing police and operating in machete gangs.The suspects have been arres...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi says Joshua Nkomo was partly to blame for Gukurahundi genocide
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) has said late Vice President Joshua Nkomo's decision to turn down an chance at splitting Zimbabwe into two, on tribal lines, is partly to blame for the murder of som...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Mayor hails new Hwange passport office
VICTORIA Falls mayor Somvelo Dlamini has welcomed the establishment of a passport office in Hwange saying it would bring relief to the region.The Hwange passport office was officially co...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Rural home turned into tourist hub
MOTIVATED by the desire to change the face of his rural home in Makakavhule, Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South, Mr Prison Ndou (46), has transformed his home into an outstanding and cost-effecti...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:40hrs | 577 | by Staff reporter
Maj-Gen Bhebe burial today
A MEMORIAL service for national hero Major-General (Retired) Sydney Bhebe was held in Harare yesterday ahead of his burial at the National Heroes Acre today.Speaking at the church service held...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 06:39hrs | 246 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Khumbula reaches for aerospace dreams in the US
Born in a maize field in Zimbabwe, Samuel Khumbula never dreamed he would come to the United States. The son of the seventh wife of a polygamous patriarch, he grew up poor, sleeping on the ground in a...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:07hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South official dies
THE ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women's League.Mpofu, who passed on Friday wa...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Afrikaner nationalists to patrol Musina border in with sniffer dogs
The ultra-right-wing Afrikaner organisation, AfriForum, has announced it has launched a new initiative to patrol with sniffer dogs at the porous South Africa-Zimbabwe border in Limpopo's Musina area....Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:23hrs | 1948 | by Staff reporter
Zimra official jailed 30 months for aiding smugglers
A 20-year-old Beitbridge border post Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) sealing officer has been jailed for an effective 30 months for facilitating the smuggling of an assortment of alcohol beverages ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Top of the range vehicle smuggling in region rises
Some criminals in the region are targeting and stealing top-of-the-range vehicles before smuggling them into neighbouring countries, including Zimbabwe, where forged documents are manufactured before ...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:15hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Business Network statement on Zimbabwe-Malawi maize deal
Zimbabwe and Malawi are one , United by a common history and a shared future. From the time of the Federation we have been one and we will continue to be one. Several Malawians are now part of...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 09:37hrs | 3219 | by Sindiso Mazibisa
UK Rwanda asylum-seeker flight cancelled after European court ruling
A first flight carrying asylum seekers to Rwanda as part of a controversial UK policy was cancelled on Tuesday, in an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government.The number ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 769 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mourns Maj Gen (Rtd) Bhebhe
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has mourned the death of Retired (Rtd) Major General Sydney Bhebhe saying it is saddening that Zimbabwe is losing revolutionary cadres who joined the Second Chimurenga/Umvukela....Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
New Beitbridge fire station complete
GOVERNMENT in partnership with the Zimborders Consortium has completed constructing a new fire station in Beitbridge to address the perennial fire and emergency rescue services deficiencies in the bor...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:31hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes 22 cases of unexplained wealth
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is investigating 22 cases of unexplained wealth involving externalisation of more than US$22 million. In a statement, ZACC said it was closely wo...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:30hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa, Geingob discussed 'Phalaphalagate' - report
A JUNE 2020 report compiled by Namibia's former head of the police's criminal investigations directorate, commissioner Nelius Becker, indicates that presidents Hage Geingob and Cyril Ramaphosa were in...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 18:17hrs | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post upgrading project to up-skill employees
The ongoing civil works to modernise the Beitbridge border post will not only give a facelift to the town's infrastructure but will upskill at least 1 600 Zimbabweans, an official has said.The...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 17:19hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pro whites group launch project to help secure South Africa's Beitbridge border
Afrikaner rights organisation, AfriForum has launched a new project to help secure South Africa's borders, this comes after South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed vigilante groups to oper...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime unmitigated failures, and yes, Smith was far much better!
I do not even understand what the whole debate is all about, because there are some matters that are undeniable and can not be contested!For starters, we never had to fetch our water for domes...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 07:09hrs | 1377 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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