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South Africa's big business wants spaza shop economy?
Major businesses across South Africa are looking to capitalise on the country's booming informal economy, with many companies licking their lips at an opportunity worth hundreds of billions of rands....Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:04hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
Gappah's properties worth $18k attached over Mahere defamation
Renowned author Petina Gappah has had her property seized by bailiffs after losing a defamation lawsuit filed by lawyer Fadzayi Mahere. Gappah was ordered to pay US$18,000 in damages after a series of...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:18hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for repatriation of Zimbabwe skulls from British museums
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has renewed calls for the repatriation of the remains of Chimurenga war heroes from Britain, emphasizing the need for their interment in "a dignified manner." This stateme...Published: 05 Nov 2024 at 08:27hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Gweru airport project stalls
Plans by the Gweru City Council to transform its aerodrome into a fully operational airport have hit a snag, with delays at the Deeds Office cited as the primary obstacle. This revelation emerged duri...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec upgrades examinations security
As Zimbabwe prepares for the commencement of Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations this month, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has introduced enhanced security measures aimed at pre...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:37hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean student seeks funding for Aerospace Engineering studies in UK
Sijabuliso Hilton Sibanda, a 19-year-old Zimbabwean student is seeking £130 000 funding for Aerospace Engineering studies after he was accepted into the University of Manchester.Sibanda who a...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 17:51hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
Fintechs fly planes of cash into Zimbabwe
At least once a month - and sometimes as often as three times a week - a private plane lands in a secure part of Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on the outskirts of the Zimbabwean capital,...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 17:11hrs | 6713 | by Staff reporter
Cold Monday morning for DA, FF+, ACDP, BOSA as Dr John Hlophe elected to JSC
Several parties in the new governing coalition firmly supported Hlophe's nomination, while the Inkatha Freedom Party stayed on the fence.The National Assembly on Tuesday designated John Hlophe...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 12:53hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Oppenheimer, Soros exerting undue influence to prevent Hlophe's ascension
In a contentious development, a coalition of civil society movements has raised objections regarding the appointment of Judge John Hlophe to the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).The issue has...Published: 07 Jul 2024 at 19:18hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Warriors faces Chipolopolo in Cosafa draw
Following two disappointing defeats in the Fifa World Cup qualifiers against Lesotho and South Africa, the Zimbabwean national football team, known as the Warriors, will seek redemption at the upcomin...Published: 15 Jun 2024 at 12:12hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to open passport offices in US, UK and Zambia
The Cabinet recently approved the Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage's Integrated Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Systems Strategy, which aims to computerize government depa...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:03hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe demands major reductions on $19.2bn debt
Zimbabwe has asked its creditors for significant debt reductions on its $19.2 billion internal and external debt, Bloomberg reported on May 30, citing Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube."We will be...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo hijacks US$40m corrupt ZEC deal
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other high-profile government officials, corruptly got a windfall from a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Petina Gappah retracts defamatory statements against Mahere
Lawyer and author Petina Gappah has retracted defamatory statements made against Fadzayi Mahere, concluding a prolonged legal battle.In 2018, Gappah accused Mahere of gaining admission to the ...Published: 27 May 2024 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Good vibes for Warriors
THE Warriors are hoping to round off the international break with a win after it kicked off their preparations for the second phase of the Group C Fifa World Cup qualifiers with a bang, beating Zambia...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Gappah needs mental help,' says Judge
Zimbabwean High Court Justice Joseph Mafusire says local lawyer Petina Gappah needs "psychological intervention" - mental assistance - amid her unrestrained scandalous attacks on the judge and the jud...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK-based Warriors in Malawi hunt
ENGLAND-BASED Tawanda Maswanhise and Macaulay Bonne were late yesterday expected to join the rest of the Warriors' squad in Malawi for the four-team tournament as they face Zambia in the opening match...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
American economist wants Professor Mthuli Ncube to resign
American economist Steve Hanke has called for Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to step down and acknowledge his failure in addressing Zimbabwe's economic woes.Hanke's remarks come in light of Zim...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 elite schools in soup for withholding exam results
TWO Zimbabwean elite schools - Lomagundi College in Chinhoyi and Gateway High School in Harare - have been taken to court for withholding students' results over outstanding fees.The two affect...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 17:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec boss speaks on Cambridge examinations
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) can stand its ground against any other examination board and is still internationally recognised even by some of the elite universities, chairperson o...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 04:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warns schools withholding results
THE November 2023 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) Ordinary Level results were released yesterday with the Government warning that schools withholding results from candidates with school ...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Form 1 girl passes Cambridge O Level exams
A Form One learner at Atlantic Academy in Harare, Shalom Zingwe, took the Cambridge O Level exams last year aged only 14 and scored three A grades in Computer Science, Accounting and Economics with Bs...Published: 23 Jan 2024 at 04:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe students shine in Cambridge exams
Zimbabwean students who sat the internationally acclaimed Cambridge Examinations recorded a very high pass rate in 2023, Advanced Level results released this week have shown, with parents excited abou...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:45hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to adopt Zimsec model
IN a sign of the growing international respect for the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC), the South African government has requested that its students be examined by the body with the two ...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 07:00hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Jeys Marabini to share stage with Freddy Gwala in the UK
ORGANISERS of the Rhythms of Southern Africa: A Musical Journey tour have unveiled venues for shows that will be held in the United Kingdom.The shows are set to be headlined by Zimbabwe jazz m...Published: 29 Oct 2023 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Is the Permanent Secretary living in Mars?
A few days ago in the state paper, The Chronicle, appeared an article related to the massive hike in fees at our local universities.There was a public outcry over the fees pegged in US dollars...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by AT Kadada
Massive blow to Mthuli Ncube's bid to widen political ambitions
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has abandoned his neutral technocrat tag and is now fully embedded in Zanu-PF, but his bid to grow his political clout suffered after he was defeated in the Cowdry Park c...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife honoured in UK, lifts global award
ANGEL of Hope Foundation patron First Lady Dr Auxillia Mnangagwa was yesterday presented with the 2023 Global Education Leadership Award by Cambridge International Education Conference and a shield by...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's battle to topple Mnangagwa
ON 23 August 2023, Zimbabweans return to the polls to elect members of local councils, the national assembly, and a president. As a country with a hyper-presidentialist system, voting will largely be ...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:28hrs | 8 | by Simukai Tinhu
Mnangagwa's cost-of-living nightmare terribly deepens
NINE weeks before Zimbabwe's general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a moment of truth as the imploding economy plunges the country into its third hyperinflation in 15 years amid rising ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwig dies
One of Zimbabwe's security establishment bigwigs, who defined an era in his field from Rhodesia to post-colonial Zimbabwe amid a record of brutality and terror, David Daniel "Dan" Stannard, later clos...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:35hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube spends big in Parly seat bid
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is spending big in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park constituency where he will be seeking votes to become a Member of Parliament in the forthcoming elections.Ncube is loos...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prof Mthuli Ncube is smart!
Mthuli Ncube is a renowned economist and the current Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Zimbabwe. Since his appointment in 2018, he has been instrumental in implementing necessary macro-econ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 10:26hrs | | by Teddy Ncube
Mthuli Ncube abandons technocrat tag
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has abandoned his public image as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's poster boy technocratic cabinet minister after throwing his hat in the ring ahead of the Zanu-PF primary ...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | | by Jamwanda
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 13 | by Stephen Bates
Surely, why study 10 subjects at school as if unsure of one's goals in life?
The ZIMSEC Ordinary Level results are out - and, already we are hearing of those outrageous numbers of subjects passed by single candidates. This inevitably leads to the usual debate - is it r...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 16:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimsec clarifies guidelines for learners from South Africa
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has laid down the technicalities that will be considered for absorbing learners coming from outside the country into the country's education system....Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Undocumented Zimbabwean children struggle to find schools in SA
It is 10:00, and 9-year-old Michael is begging at a set of traffic lights in Johannesburg. Most children his age are back at school after the holidays. But Michael is undocumented.He has not b...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe looks to public to provide solar power amid energy crisis
BULAWAYO: As lingering droughts hit southern Africa's hydropower dams, Zimbabwe faces growing electricity shortages – but connecting individuals and businesses that have installed private solar pane...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 05:51hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
This & that with Mal'phosa: What a disaster
Do rich people always have to brag every chance they get? For instance, he owns a construction company and bullies everyone to agree that he works hard. We know who works hard, and for peanuts. It's a...Published: 08 Jan 2023 at 19:37hrs | | by Clerk Ndlovu
If Zimbabwe youth were to emulate yesteryear generation there would be a liberation struggle against our new oppressors
When we were studying George Orwell's masterpiece, 'Animal Farm', during our Ordinary Level English Literature - there were always some gnawing questions standing out in my mind.Were these pig...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 14:41hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
590 exam cheats nabbed: Zimsec
NEARLY 590 suspects were caught cheating while sitting for November 2022 Ordinary and Advanced Level final examinations, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has said.This was aft...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Does Zimbabwe need the Commonwealth?
ZIMBABWE joined the Commonwealth in 1980 after gaining independence from Britain - in what appeared to be a major victory for the Commonwealth. Twenty-three years down the road, Zimbabwe quit the Comm...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:11hrs | 2 | by Vusi Nyamazana
SasaiRemit rewards its customers, launches consumer promotion for sending money from SA to Zimbabwe
Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 November 2022 - SasaiRemit, one of Africa's leading digital money transfer providers and a business of Cassava Technologies,...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 15:57hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Handy tips for private school owners
Part 1Make sure you register your school with the ministry and examination boardYour board should include some educationistsYo...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 08:53hrs | 5 | by Cambridge Language Coach
UK can't find Nehanda's skull
London's Natural History Museum and Cambridge University have said that they are ready to co-operate with Zimbabwe to return human remains that were taken in the colonial era.The fresh stateme...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff rporter
Mthuli Ncube transforms from technocrat to political player
IF ever there was any doubt, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has fully abandoned his posture as a neutral technocrat after being elected a Zanu-PF central committee member last weekend.The centr...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Heroes Acre expansion approved
The National Heroes Acre will be expanded with 104 graves to be added to take its carrying capacity to 299.Cabinet yesterday approved the proposed architectural designs for the Phase 2 of the ...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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