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Botswana lifts cross border travel restrictions
Botswana announced yesterday that it is re-opening some of its borders to passenger traffic from December 1. This comes a few weeks after Zimbabwe's Cabinet approved the gradual re-opening of its land...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:02hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Residents want border opened
A WASTE of time.That's how cross-border transporters, traders and the mayor of Beitbridge have described the continued closure of the border.Zimbabwe and South Africa shut land borders...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:51hrs | 1282 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 scare as borders reopen
THE Government has dispatched a team of experts to inspect all borders and ports of entry ahead of the opening of the facilities next week to assess the state of preparedness in the wake of rising Cov...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:43hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Mambo dynasty to construct monuments for late Kings
THE Mambo dynasty has set in motion plans to construct monuments at the burial sites of its founding fathers, inclusive of the founding king of the Lozwi/Rozvi empire, Changamire Dombo.The lea...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:40hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diaspora remittances up 45% due to lockdowns
Zimbabwe's central bank governor said on Thursday official remittances from the diaspora were up 45% during the January-September period from last year at $657.7 million as COVID-19 lockdowns forced p...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 19:26hrs | 747 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's ex-manager back in court
The late former President Robert Mugabe is posthumously set to square off with his ex-general manager, Stanley Nhari, after the Supreme Court rolled the matter back to the High Court for the issue of ...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:43hrs | 1758 | by Staff Reporter
2017 coup targeted 'criminals around Mugabe' and now it's payback time - we are but mice to these Zanu PF thugs
Three years ago at 04.00 hours local time on 15th November 2017 Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) spokesman, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, addressed the nation and the world at large, live on Zimbabwe Broad...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 20:50hrs | 470 | by Nomusa Garikai
Govt injects $1 billion into Gwayi-Shangani Dam project
GOVERNMENT has since the beginning of last year injected more than $1 billion towards the Gwayi-Shangani Dam in Matabeleland North as the Second Republic under President Mnangagwa steps up efforts to ...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 634 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders call for massive COVID-19 tests
ZIMBABWE Cross-Border Traders Association (ZCBA) president Killer Zivhu has called for massive testing for COVID-19 at the country's entry points saying his members could die in large numbers if such ...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:32hrs | 1164 | by Staff reporter
What 'crisis' in a low crime Zimbabwe?
Despite the misleading and destructive narrative that there is a crisis in Zimbabwe, the country's crime rate has remained relatively low. Most countries in Africa and the entire world at large, are g...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:20hrs | 395 | by Pardon Muzawazi
Bushiri had five passports
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi has revealed that the controversial self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary had five passports each that were issued by Malawi. Briefi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:19hrs | 3960 | by Staff reporter
'Border jumpers fuel spike in COVID-19 cases'
THE Department of Immigration has reduced its staffing levels at border posts to curb the spread of COVID-19 amid a rise in the number of travellers using illegal entry points to dodge scrutiny at the...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:03hrs | 1636 | by Staff Reporter
Ginimbi buried with a fortune
LIVING in a multimillion-dollar mansion, driving expensive cars and flashing money, the late socialite and businessman Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure went on to be buried with a fortune in Nyamande villag...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 11422 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga assesses situation before reopening borders
GOVERNMENT is monitoring the situation on the ground before reopening of the country's borders for human traffic in two weeks as saving lives remains top of its agenda in view of Covid-19 threats, Vic...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:44hrs | 4551 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders to collect Covid-19 certificates at border
Cross-border traders who usually spend days travelling by road, will be tested for Covid-19 in their respective areas and then collect results from a doctor in the border area they will be using, to e...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:42hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
Terrorist threat to region - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
President Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will help Mozambique in its struggle against Islamic terrorists in the north of the country. The Mozambiquan government has appealed for international assistance ...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:44hrs | 1936 | by ZimVigil
Alarm over city Covid-19 deaths
BULAWAYO could be headed for another lockdown as health experts and government fear a deadly second wave of the Covid-19 outbreak following a surge in confirmed cases and deaths in the city in recent ...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:23hrs | 537 | by Staff reporter
Govt blames Covid-19 spike on border jumpers
The government has blamed the spike in Covid-19 cases in Bulawayo to illegal immigrants as fears of a second wave of the outbreak of the respiratory disease in Zimbabwe grow.Health and Child C...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:19hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Call on govt to expedite whistleblower law
ANTI-CORRupTION watchdog Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) has said the government should expeditiously enact legislation that protects whistleblowers, who lift the lid on massive corruption c...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:40hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Treasury records $5.39 billion deficit in July
Government incurred a deficit of $549.95 million in the seven months to July, missing a targeted surplus of $2.02 billion after higher expenses mainly due to the payment of Covid-19 risk allowances to...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 14:03hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border buses defy regulations
CHAOS continues to reign supreme at the Beitbridge Border Post as more cross-border buses continue to arrive without clearance from the Zimbabwe Embassy in South Africa. Last week the embassy ...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:34hrs | 2196 | by Staff reporter
Non-monetary incentives the way to go
The face-off between government and its workers over salaries has protracted to a magnitude that it's now threatening the realisation of the national vision.The new political dispensation comm...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 15:20hrs | 2017 | by Petros Manyuchwa
Africa's supply chain remains under pressure despite ease of lockdowns
The measures that countries have adopted around the world in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have had an unprecedented effect on trade this year as a result of a unique combination of shocks to both...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe politicians bank on Biden presidency
ZIMBABWE'S warring political leaders yesterday fell over each other in expressing their readiness to work with United States (US) President-elect Joe Biden, hoping to mend relations between Harare and...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 2897 | by Staff reporter
Judge wants bail system reviewed
Legal changes are necessary to ensure criminals on bail who lose their appeal in a higher court do appear back in the lower court for their sentence to be effected, High Court judge Justice Pisirayi K...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 674 | by Staff reporter
Shaya is the Godfather of football, says Peter Ndlovu
LEGENDARY former Zimbabwe Warriors captain cum Mamelodi Sundowns team manager Peter Ndlovu has said former Dynamos star George "Mastermind" Shaya's contribution to football must not be underesti...Published: 07 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 3916 | by Sports Reporter
Botswana to reopen land borders on December 1
Botswana's government on Friday said it was re-opening its borders to visitors after months of lockdown restrictions following the coronavirus outbreak.President Mogkweetsi Masisi, in a statem...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:10hrs | 1652 | by Staff reporter
Cross border traders cry foul
The Covid -19 pandemic negatively affected the day to day activities of women in Zimbabwe's informal cross border operations. Speaking during an interface workshop at the Zimbabwe Women Bureau...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Forbes Border Post imports decline by 40%
Forbes Border Post has recorded a 40% decline in cargo imports to a daily average of 200 this year from 330 in 2018, statistics from the Mutare Dry Port show. The current figure grew from low daily vo...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 21:31hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
CSOs angry over border policing failures
CIVIC organisations in the country yesterday expressed fury over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government's failure to police border areas, where there is rampant smuggling of minerals.In a j...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border buses chaos
THE movement of cross-border buses transporting Zimbabweans returning from South Africa will with effect from tomorrow be first cleared by the Zimbabwe Embassy in the neighbouring country. The...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:23hrs | 3584 | by Staff reporter
Zimra finally clears stranded travellers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff in Beitbridge have finally processed the customs procedures for 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses whom they had refused to clear on S...Published: 03 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 483 | by Staff writer
Zimbabweans stranded at Beitbridge
The refusal by Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) staff at Beitbridge to handle bus passengers yesterday saw 366 Zimbabweans returning from South Africa in 12 buses stranded at Beitbridge Border Post,...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 16:28hrs | 3811 | by Staff reporter
Border reopening poser for Mnangagwa
On Tuesday, Cabinet announced the phased reopening of land borders, starting with the country's main ports of entry - Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda and Forbes.Howe...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 18:17hrs | 9009 | by Staff reporter
Investment Agency lures diaspora investors into VFEX
THE Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency (ZIDA) says the diaspora community and potential international investors could ride on the newly established Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) to harvest ...Published: 01 Nov 2020 at 07:49hrs | 484 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and COVID-19
DRESSED in a mini-skirt and blouse, Esther Kamupunga stood in semi-darkness waiting for men looking for sex the latest Zimbabwean to lose her job in a deepening economic crisis, worsened by the new co...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1354 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo men arrested for guns smuggling
POLICE in Beitbridge have arrested two Bulawayo men for allegedly smuggling into the country seven signal pistols, over 1800 units of Broncleer through an illegal crossing point along the Limpopo rive...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:10hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa implores business produce more goods at affordable prices
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored business to capitalise on the country's stabilising economy and produce more goods at affordable prices for ordinary Zimbabweans.Speaking at the unvei...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:08hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimra intensifies audits
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has intensified audits as part of efforts to plug revenue leakages on Zimbabwe's ports of entry amid indications the economy is losing billions annually through ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | 3598 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo urban train returns
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will on Monday resume urban commuter train services in Bulawayo with residents paying $16 per trip. According to the parastatal, the CityCowdray Park ro...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 05:53hrs | 580 | by Staff reporter
Senditoo becomes cheapest money remittance service after slashing all fees
Senditoo has cut its remittance fees meaning that all customers who send money to Zimbabwe will not be charged for their transactions. This will make the money transfer company one of the cheapest mon...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3525 | by Loma Media
Sanctions unpacked
As the nation, region and continent come together to mark 25 October as an anti- sanctions day it becometh expedient that I add my voice to the matter at hand. It is said knowledge is power and indeed...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 08:03hrs | 2283 | by Prof Blessing Kasiyamhuru
Mnangagwa moves to muzzle critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government yesterday announced plans to tighten screws on critics, including banning civil society from staging anti-government protests at international fora and "unaut...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1180 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Beitbridge border post on 1 December 2020
Government announced Tuesday that it intends to phase the re-opening of Beitbridge, Plumtree, Victoria Falls, Chirundu, Nyamapanda, and Forbes border posts from 1 December.Zimbabwe which is us...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 18:54hrs | 9876 | by Staff reporter
State-of-the-art Covid-19 equipment for Mpilo, UBH
FOUR central hospitals including Mpilo and United Bulawayo Hospitals are set to receive state-of-the-art equipment including intensive care unit (ICU) monitors and emergency ventilators to help fight ...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:08hrs | 296 | by Staff reporter
'Measures to insulate Zimdollar against erosion sustainable'
Measures put in place to insulate the local currency against erosion are sustainable beyond the lockdown, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has said, despite the reopeni...Published: 26 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 1314 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy to grow 4,2pc in 2021: IMF
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), this week revealed Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year and grow 4,2 percent from a decline of 10,2 percent forecast for 2020. The world body's pred...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:23hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, judiciary heavily compromised?
The way most of our judges are keen to try their cases in the press and on twitter shows that they angling for a a public interview for their promotion. As a result they disobey the Chief Justice and ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 12:48hrs | 4453 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 532 | by Emmanuel Koro
Beitbridge border post not ready for reopening, says Zimbabwe govt
GOVERNMENT officials at Beitbridge at the weekend said the border post was not yet ready for fully-fledged reopening and recommended a staggered process fearing seas of lockdown-weary crossborder shop...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:26hrs | 12432 | by Staff reporter
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