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Chiwenga urges diamond value-addition to boost Zimbabwe exports
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has stressed the importance of value addition in Zimbabwe's diamond industry as a means to maximise export earnings and enhance the sector's contribution to the nat...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:40hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's name gets trucker in trouble
A truck driver, Cosmas Kazuzu, faces serious legal troubles after allegedly threatening Douglas Zimbango, the chief executive officer of the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), demanding the...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:23hrs | 3070 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe health authorities monitoring Mpox contacts after 2 cases
Health authorities in Zimbabwe are closely monitoring the contacts of two individuals who recently tested positive for Mpox, a viral infection that has spread globally from equatorial forests in Afric...Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 07:39hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt says there Is no need to panic over Mpox
The Zimbabwean government has sought to allay public anxiety following the confirmation of two isolated cases of Mpox disease, which were reported for the first time in the country on Sunday. With com...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 08:35hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confirms 2 cases of imported Mpox
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has confirmed that Zimbabwe now has two confirmed cases of Mpox (formerly known as Monkeypox). One case has been reported in Harare, and another in Mberengwa. Bot...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 16:46hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ups Mpox surveillance
The Zimbabwean government has ramped up surveillance efforts at the country's borders in response to the rising threat of Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, which has recently been declared a public h...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
How a drunk American envoy outed a CIA operative undercover in Zimbabwe
It reads like a script from a B-grade spy movie, but a new disclosure sheds light into the world of US intelligence in Africa. According to US documents, an American government official in Harare may ...Published: 28 Aug 2024 at 12:49hrs | 2702 | by Staff reporter
Mpox threat jolts Zimbabwe govt into action
The Zimbabwean government has responded swiftly to the recent outbreak of the Mpox virus in various African countries, including non-endemic regions, by strengthening its disease surveillance systems....Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 06:44hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Africa declares Mpox public health emergency amid surge in cases and deaths
Africa's top health authority, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), has declared an outbreak of mpox a public health emerge...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 06:44hrs | 491 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe holds 7th rank in global rough diamond production
Zimbabwe has maintained its seventh position in global rough diamond production according to the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme. Despite facing sanctions and strict trading rules in major US a...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 15:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe appoints tainted Mpofu
TRUST, confidence and credibility of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been put at stake after the new central bank governor John Mushayavanhu appointed tainted banker Morris Bekezela Mpofu as hi...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:54hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Community share ownership trust CEO faces arrest
TRADITIONAL leaders, villagers and other stakeholders have called for the arrest Chiadzwa Community Share Ownership Trust (CCSOT) Chief executive officer Hardwork Mukwada over charges of abuse of fund...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must not exempt state entities from scrutiny
GOVERNANCE watchdogs has demanded that President Emmerson Mnangagwa discard his gazetted General Notice 164B of 2024 which exempts 21 key state entities from complying with the Public Procurement and ...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 20:03hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Sadc leaders meet over cholera
Sadc will today hold a virtual extraordinary summit of Heads of State and Government to discuss the cholera outbreak in the region.In a statement, the Sadc Secretariat said the extraordinary s...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean children hardest hit by cholera outbreaks
In Zambia, schooling is being disrupted; in Zimbabwe, children are hardest hit; and in Malawi, health services are compromised by widespread cholera outbreaks.Meanwhile, only three countries i...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean diamonds not as valuable as widely believed
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has disclosed that local diamonds, primarily found in Manicaland Province, do not possess the widely assumed high value, with approximately 75% of...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bad leadership behind Zimbabwe's impoverishment
FORMER Finance minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Tendai Biti has blamed poor political leadership and a shambolic mineral resource governance strategy for the stagnation in Zimbabwe's...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's biggest diamond miner shifts sales to Dubai auctions
ZIMBABWE'S biggest diamond producer has shifted almost all of its sales to Dubai, targeting cutters, polishers and traders and eliminating middlemen.Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co. has aucti...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
CDC seeks owners of unclaimed ZSE shares
Chengetedzai Depository Company (CDC) says it is seeking to identify the owners of millions of dollars worth of unclaimed shares held in its Central Securities Depository (CSD).CDC is a digita...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiadzwa community, govt and ZCDC smoke peace pipe
GOVERNMENT and the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) have backed down from a protracted confrontation with the Chiadzwa community over a contentious proposal to invest US$400 million in...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions mongers return to ZITF
THE UK and US are keen on working with Zimbabwe as they are exhibiting at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) for the first time in many years.Both countries hailed the Second Republi...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe conducts a cholera simulation exercise to improve readiness and response
KADOMA - To improve capacities for adequate prevention, readiness, early detection and timely response to cholera at community level, the Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC) conducted a cholera ...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 11:03hrs | | by APO
Corrupt US$400m deal morphs into political fix
The controversial deal to get state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) to acquire a 33% shareholding in Great Dyke Investment (GDI) for US$400 million has taken a political turn, wit...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to scale up diamond cutting, polishing industry
MINES and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has said the country is targeting seven million carats this year as the country plans to scale up the diamond cutting and polishing industry....Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC CEO suspension opens can of worms
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer (CEO) Mark Mabhudhu was suspended on Monday for reportedly stalling the corrupt purchase of Kuvimba Mining House (KMH)'s 33% sh...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 19:34hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | | by Staff rteporter
Zimbabwe confident of producing 6m carats next year
Zimbabwe is confident it will produce six million carats and generate US$1 billion from the diamond industry next year in line with set targets, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mystery buyer Zimbabwe of diamonds outed
THE Zimbabwean government has reportedly given preference to Belarusian diamond buyers to snap-up the gems under unclear circumstances.This comes at a time when the country's state-run mining ...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets sights on UN Security Council seat
ZIMBABWE has presented its candidacy for an African rotational slot as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2027-2028, and now awaits the authorisation of the African Unio...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Biti tells Guvamatanga to 'shut up'
FORMER finance minister, Tendai Biti, has told off current treasury permanent secretary, George Guvamatanga, after he claimed civil servants are better paid now that they were during the government of...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs 'blocking' parastatal reforms
CONCERTED efforts by Treasury to push for key parastatal reform and privatisation of the loss-making entities have been frustrated by some hawkish cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats, who have fo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
US$20m externalised in Zimbabwe diamond sales
MORE than US$20 million was illegally moved out of the country's borders in murky deals involving blacklisted diamond dealer Jamal Ahmed in an opaque sale of one million carats of diamonds from the Mi...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's diamond sector to surpass US$1bn target
Zimbabwe's diamond sector is on course to exceed the targeted US$1 billion contribution backed by exceptional performance by mining companies such as the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZMDC)....Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Novak Djokovic snubs US ATP Masters 1000 tournaments
Novak Djokovic will not be allowed to compete at the Indian Wells and Miami ATP Masters 1000 tournaments this month after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definitively ruled that he cann...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Joe Biden receives warm welcome from Congress, for now!
United States President Joseph Biden has a unique advantage over his rivals. He believes in nothing. He will say whatever is needed at the time as long as he stays in power. The proof of his methodolo...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:30hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Africa benefit from China's Health Silk Road
LAST week, China announced that it will give Zimbabwe 10 million doses of Covid-19, as part of the 1 billion doses pledged by Beijing to African countries at last year's Forum on China-Africa Co-opera...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 08:50hrs | | by Albert Chavhunduka
Power play rocks Zimra
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board was allegedly pressured by Treasury to appoint Morris Mpofu as acting commissioner-general, a move which was quickly reversed last week by the government i...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's donated computers lying idle 12 years later
AT LEAST 100 computers donated by the late deposed president, Robert Mugabe, to Arda Transau secondary school in 2010 are still lying idle due to lack of electricity at the institution, NewZimbabwe.co...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
In Nkayi, pregnant women deliver in the dark
Lilian Mdlongwa, 19, a first-time mother from Manomano village, recalls how she almost lost her baby when she went into labour at Nkayi district hospital a month ago, when there was complete shutdown ...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:06hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mpofu fired from Zimra after just 48 hours
FORMER Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Mining Corporation chief executive officer Morris Mpofu has been disconcertingly axed as Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) commissioner general within 48 hours of...Published: 07 Jan 2022 at 19:36hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Video shows man directly hit by thunderbolt
CCTV footage in Jakarta, Indonesia has captured a security guard who luckily survived a direct hit by lightning, according to local media.The 35-year-old, working as a guard for a company deal...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
US lifts restrictions on Zimbabwe
THE restrictions were implemented to slow the spread of the omicron variant in the United States, and they applied to South Africa – where omicron was first detected – as well as Botswana, Eswatin...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:18hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Tax incentives rip off Zimbabwe'
A LEADING resources watchdog has piled pressure on government to disclose the value of potential revenues it forfeits due to special tax incentives offered to attract investment.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:13hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe happy to assume World Kimberley Process post
Zimbabwe says it is greatly honoured to have been elected vice chair for the World Kimberley Process for 2022, at a time when local diamond production is scaling new records.The election was d...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:51hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'US, Zimbabwe fights not affecting citizens'
THE United States says it will continue to support the country with humanitarian aid in several key areas including the health sector despite political disagreements with the Harare regime of Presiden...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa to open 10 mega data facilities
Liquid Intelligent Technologies has opened its fifth mega data center in South Africa, as it doubles down on its continental leadership in the growing data centers sector, where it is targeting to bui...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 21:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russian fertiliser producer opens base in Zimbabwe
UNITED Fertiliser Company Limited (UFCL), a Russian firm with a global footprint, has opened a branch in Zimbabwe.The latest development comes at a time when the Government, under the Second R...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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