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Mutapa blocks ZCDC diamond sale
Zimbabwe's state-owned diamond miner, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), has been plunged into a deeper financial crisis after its sole shareholder, the Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF), ve...Published: 16 hrs ago | 130 | by Staff reporter
ZBC appoints Sugar Chagonda as new CEO
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has appointed veteran corporate communications executive Sugar Chagonda as its new Chief Executive Officer, the national broadcaster's board announced yeste...Published: 04 Aug 2025 at 11:59hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Marange communities protest ZCDC retrenchments
Communities in Zimbabwe's diamond-rich Marange fields have launched a rare protest against the state-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), demanding an immediate halt to a retrenchment e...Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 13:06hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces malaria crisis
Zimbabwe is grappling with a sharp and alarming rise in malaria cases, with nearly 112,000 suspected infections and over 300 deaths reported in the first half of 2025 alone - a surge that has sparked ...Published: 31 Jul 2025 at 08:15hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Police disrupt Smart City ground-breaking ceremony
A highly anticipated groundbreaking ceremony for the proposed Maqhoba Chef De Grand Smart City in Bulawayo ended in chaos last Thursday after police abruptly shut down the event, citing unresolved lan...Published: 28 Jul 2025 at 08:45hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Chiadzwa diamond panner jailed for 2 years
A 41-year-old man has been sentenced to two years in prison after being convicted of illegally prospecting for minerals in the diamond-rich Chiyadzwa area, the National Prosecuting Authority of Zimbab...Published: 23 Jul 2025 at 17:49hrs | 627 | by Staff reporter
ZCDC to sue contractor over failed borehole project
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is preparing to take legal action against Diamond Base Company, a contractor hired to drill 20 boreholes in Chiadzwa, after the US$100,000 project fail...Published: 18 Jul 2025 at 14:45hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
State diamond firm lays off hundreds to avoid collapse
Zimbabwe's state-controlled diamond miner, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), has launched a major retrenchment exercise in a desperate bid to stave off collapse, following a brutal cra...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:08hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe conducts second joint external evaluation
Zimbabwe recently completed its second Joint External Evaluation (JEE), a critical assessment of the country's capacity to prevent, detect, and respond to public health threats under the International...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:50hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Health Director's corruption case flops
The much-anticipated trial of Portia Manangazira, Health Director responsible for planning, coordination, and management of health programs at the Ministry of Health and Child Care, once again failed ...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 08:02hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes major step in disease outbreak detection
Zimbabwe has taken a decisive step towards enhancing its ability to detect and respond to public health threats with the launch of its National Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) Guidelines on Thursday. T...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 16:53hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
State gem miner pushes ahead with hazardous mining facility
The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has commenced operations at a high-risk deep diamond processing facility in Chiadzwa, despite internal warnings flagging serious safety failures that p...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:23hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Right THC Gummies in 2025
THC gummies have been gaining traction over the past few years. Users have been taking advantage of them to help them with a wide range of issues, from insomnia to chronic pain and more. Gummies are a...Published: 21 May 2025 at 20:22hrs | 197 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe steps up domestic HIV/Aids funding drive
The Government of Zimbabwe is intensifying efforts to mobilize domestic resources to sustain HIV and AIDS prevention programs following significant cuts in international funding, Health and Child Care...Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:22hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
ALROSA to double investment in Zimbabwe's diamond sector
ALROSA, the world's largest diamond producer by output, has announced plans to double its initial investment in its joint venture with the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), in a move that ...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:20hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Health ministry in budget quandary
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has called for a supplementary budget to mitigate the impact of the withdrawal of United States funding, particularly towards HIV and Aids programmes. The funding...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 06:18hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF feverish defence of Chinese looting proves Zimbabwe now a colony!
A few days ago, renowned economist and former member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee, Eddie Cross, made some interesting revelations. He claimed that there are ...Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 16:20hrs | 1343 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 120 | 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 | 3076 | 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 | 235 | 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 | 168 | 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 | 1105 | 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 | 132 | 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 | 2716 | 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 | 394 | 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 | 510 | 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 | 23 | 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 | 134 | 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 | 29 | 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 | 63 | 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 | 3 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 23 | 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 | 6 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 20 | 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 | 8 | 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 | 14 | 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 | 20 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 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 | 11 | 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 | 13 | 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 | 2 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
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