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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 | 149 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni
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
CIO raises alarm over illicit army gold mining
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has raised serious national security fears over an illicit gold mining operation run by an army-owned company, Rusununguk...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner threatens workers over strike
DIAMOND miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, has threatened to dismiss workers who go on strike in protest over poor salaries and working conditions.In a memorandum dated May 31 addressed to mi...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:17hrs | 2 | 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 | 12 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions choking Zimbabwe: Myth or reality?
"African politics is dogged by crises of legitimacy, monetised politics and corruption, personalised leadership, and lastly the sit-tight syndrome" notes the African Exponent. During an electoral seas...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Zvikomborero Sibanda
Kazembe, Matanga taken to court
POLICE Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga and Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe have been sued over their arbitrary ban on a demonstration against the looting of diamonds in Marange and failure b...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Why army was deployed in oil-drilling precincts of the Zambezi Valley
FEARS of a Mozambican Cabo Delgado-style Islamic insurgency in the northern Zambezi Valley where the Zimbabwean government and an Australian Securities Exchange-listed Invictus Energy are engaged in o...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Illegal diamond dealer robbed of US$10,000
ARMED robbers raided an illegal diamond buyer at Marange diamond fields last Friday and robbed him of US$10 000 and a vehicle at gunpoint after dangling pieces of diamonds to the unsuspecting diamond ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Wadyajena shockingly arrogant'
POLITICAL analyst Ibbo Mandaza has described Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena as "arrogant" after he dared the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to confiscate all h...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa did not consult on Mabenge hero status'
CONFERMENT of national heroes status on the late Retired Brigadier General Benjamin Mabenge by President Emmerson Mnangagwa was a given as the struggle veteran was " a real soldier in the pedigree of ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa assures Junta their looting rights are safe - expect zero changes from 'Change Champion in Chief'
Ignorance is a curse worse than death! The dead are not tormented by anything whereas the ignorant are forever blundering from pillar to post; excited, it does not take much to get this lot excited, o...Published: 20 May 2022 at 10:20hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Rushwaya emerges in the thick of shady Zimbabwe military dealings
FOR long, Martin Rushwaya was the military's point man in its multi-million-dollar commercial ventures, as the permanent secretary in the Defence ministry from 2009 until 2019.In April 2019, P...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Villagers displaced by diamond mines should fight for their rights'
A legal expert with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has urged communities in resource rich areas where they are sometimes displaced from, to actively defend their basic rights. Speaking duri...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Gukurahundi is number one conflict'
THE National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) yesterday said Gukurahundi is the "top conflict" that it is aiming to resolve while distancing itself from sentiments made by one of its commiss...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 11:57hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Zanu PF - ZNA bond in unbreakable' said Chinamasa - rubbish, 2017 broke it and since feared another
Zimbabwe is not the first and only country to gain her independence and sovereignty after a bitter armed struggle; many other nations have in Africa, Asia, North and South America, etc. have had a sim...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:32hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chiadzwa spiritualist kidnapped
CHIADZWA spiritualist and exhumer Matthew Mundondo was allegedly kidnapped by his three relatives and a friend, who burnt his belongings worth US$8 000 claiming that he was mentally ill.Mundon...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabes' diamond, ivory deals exposed
FRESH startling details have emerged indicating how the late former President Robert Mugabe and his family worked with extop parastatal and security bosses to ship high-grade diamonds and ivory out of...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
China-Zimbabwe relations: A marriage not worthy?
A MARRIAGE built on rocks does not last. The Lome Agreement of 1975 between European Economic Community and African Caribbean and Pacific countries is a typical example to China-Zimbabwe relations tha...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Christine Rumbidzai Matinanga
JOC assesses border security
THE National Joint Operations Command (JOC) met in Beitbridge yesterday and committed to beefing up borderline security to control rampant smuggling of goods and irregular migration which peaks during...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in a crisis
A crisis where the government deployed the army, rolled tanks into the streets and killed innocent unarmed civilians at 45°angle and a commission of enquiry instituted but no one is held accountable....Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
'Zimbabwe's money laundering threat, vulnerability risk ranked medium'
Zimbabwe lost an average $900 million per year between 2014 and 2018 to money laundering but the country's money laundering threat was assessed to be medium, according to the Financial Intelligence Un...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Anjin corruption and meddling in Zimbabwe's affairs are not China's foreign policy' - nonsense, they are the core pillars
China and Russia are the two countries that have played a major role in many African countries' fight for independence. It is a historic fact that most of these African countries have since found that...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 20:28hrs | 10 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chinese firm eyes 5-star hotel
ANHUI Foreign Economic Construction Group Co Ltd (Afecc) is looking to invest in a five-star hotel in Zimbabwe, but that would depend on whether they will get back their money.The group has in...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU-PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology, but those parties remain teaser bulls, nothing more. The party works in ve...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
ZANU PF getting ready for 2023 elections
ZANU PF is like a sleeping giant which is often teased by smaller political parties which have no political ideology. The Party works in very mysterious ways to such an extent that when people think i...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 14:34hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Famous ghosts that saved lives
Though stories of the dead returning from the afterlife to involve themselves in the affairs of the living are as old as humanity, they still send chills down many people's spines.When terrify...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Chara
'China funded Chiwenga's coup'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that China funded the bloody November 2017 coup after President Robert Mugabe barred Chinese firm Anjin from operating in Chiadzwa where there were reportedly...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 21:37hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dr Kurotwi's comment on Ncube's piece in the Bulawayo24
Before outlining my comment in full, I want to straighten the incorrect position taken by Ncube when he accuses me for having singled out Obert Mpofu as corrupt.A historical narrative would as...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 10:02hrs | 7 | by Dr. Lovemore Kurotwi
Obert Mpofu brushes off graft charges
Obert Mpofu, under pressure to vacate his Zanu-PF secretary for administration post over corruption allegations, has said he won't be stopped from reporting for work by anyone as a graft inquiry gets ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF: The thief screaming robber
Zanu-PF youths have decided to name and shame corrupt individuals within the party made news in past days .Not to be left out was Simon K Moyo promising the nation that the President has decided to ha...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 23:21hrs | 1 | by AT Kadada
Is Obert Mpofu corrupt?
The nation and the world have been made to believe that Obert Mpofu is corrupt, evil and arrogant. All this is the proud achievement of one man in particular Lovemore Kurotwi.The Kurotwi - Mpo...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 11:17hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZNA used loot-all-you-want platinum concession to secure $500m loan - proof junta resolve to hang on
Last week RBZ Governor, Dr John Mangudya, and Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, were thrilled to announce that the country secured a $500 million loan. The loan would end the shortages of fuel...Published: 23 May 2019 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
China refuses to give Mnangagwa US$5 Billion
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has refused to honour a USD$5 Billion loan that was requested by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. He further...Published: 13 May 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Movie-style diamond mine robbery in Zimbabwe
AN armed gang of robbers, suspected to comprise members of Zimbabwe security forces and some artisanal miners, raided the Chiadzwa diamond fields on Sunday night and got away with tonnes of precious o...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
The curse of Murowa diamonds
Dear Editor, We recently learnt through your informative publication the likelihood of Zimbabwe Diamonds being discussed and categorized as " conflict diamonds " during the forthcoming UN plen...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 05:58hrs | 5 | by Deprived Murowa Ward Community
Of old folktales ...
A story has been told of how an old man came back to Zimbabwe rich from 'Mzansi' after years of sojourn in the streets of Johannesburg .He started a business in Zim but the business could not be susta...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 08:55hrs | | by AT Kadada
Pressure to block sale of Zimbabwe diamonds
AN alliance of international civil society organisations affiliated to the Kimberly Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) has urged the grouping of diamond-trading nations to classify Zimbabwe's gemston...Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 06:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mortgages diamonds to Botswana
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government could be mortgaging the country's diamond deposits to Botswana, which has offered the struggling economy a US$500 million bailout backed by diamonds and a fur...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 20:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Alrosa strike joint diamonds deal
GOVERNMENT will be partnering leading Russian diamond producer Alrosa Diamond Company (Alrosa) in the extraction and processing of gemstones from numerous deposits which have been confirmed across the...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
40 suspended over diamonds theft
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has suspended 40 employees in an intense crackdown meant to halt rampant diamond theft at Chiadzwa, The Manica Post can reveal.Employees from d...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa kick-starts 2019 reengagement offensive
President Emmerson Mnangagwa kick-starts his 2019 engagement and reengagement and economic diplomacy offensive with visits to four European countries next week and the Davos World Economic Forum meeti...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths warn 'fence-sitting' ministers
THE Zanu-PF Manicaland Youth League says it is fully behind the national executive's call for the dismissal of Cabinet ministers, permanent secretaries and other civil servants who are not fully rally...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government lacks competent P.R and proper research
From my own assessment and analysis it is important as an academic to make such recommendations and submissions basing on factual writings and credible information to improve the performance of govern...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 12:06hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Accountability is a key tool of Governance
In the donor community, one of the major requirement is accountability and proper management of resources. In the development world, there is what we call, Monitoring process and evaluation and projec...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:38hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zim government lacks competent P.R and proper research
From my own assessment and analysis it is important as an academic to make such recommendations and submissions basing on factual writings and credible information to improve the performance of govern...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:31hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Need transparency' to end diamond looting, urge Global Witness - ED's answer, Voto fraudulento continua!
"The discovery of huge deposits of diamonds in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in the mid-2000s came at a time when Zimbabwe was facing crises on multiple fronts," said Global Witness in its recent report....Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:25hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
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