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New US$100m Parly building nears completion
ZIMBABWE'S imposing new Parliament building, perched on top of Mt Hampden north of Harare, is almost complete, with work progressing well despite Covid-19-induced challenges.Construction of th...Published: 3 hrs ago | 415 | by Staff reporter
Gold rush spawns fresh displacements
THOUSANDS of Domboshawa villagers on the outskirts of Harare face imminent displacement to accommodate a clique of gold miners with strong links to the ruling Zanu PF party and top government official...Published: 12 hrs ago | 468 | by Staff reporter
Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence
I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened th...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1312 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces
ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China's Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1028 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt urged urged to respect people's rights
DISPLACEMENT of villagers from their ancestral land to pave way for corporate activities is increasingly becoming one of the major human rights violations in the country, the Zimbabwe Human Rights Ass...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 21:29hrs | 225 | by Staff reporter
Villagers living in fear of eviction
MUTOKO'S Karimazondo and Chingamuka villagers are living in fear after "some" Chinese officials informed them that they would be relocated to pave way for mining operations.The community membe...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 269 | by Zela
'Investing in Zimbabwe open to all'
ZIMBABWE does not discriminate against any form of investment and companies wishing to invest in the country should make hay while the sun shines as the Second Republic remains open for business with ...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Villagers make way for billion dollar Chinese project
"Instead of joy and fulfilment, the fortunes sitting in the bowels of our fathers' land have brought misfortunes upon us," 78-year-old Chokutaura Chananda said ruefully.Chananda is among hundr...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner rehabilitates roads
A newly-rehabilitated gold mine in the Simona communal area which is on the border between Mazowe and Bindura is changing the lives of at least 9 000 villagers after it sponsored the rehabilitation of...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:38hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's contested legacy far from settled
TWO years after the death of former president Robert Mugabe, there remains no consensus regarding his legacy, with conflicting perceptions of the liberator-turned-despot dominating debate whenever his...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:40hrs | 793 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of abetting 'new colonialism'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was accused of abetting a "new colonialism" by the MDC Alliance on Thursday over reports that Chinese miners are evicting entire villages in Mutoko and Uzumba in search of...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:47hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner brings life to Bindura
FOR 27 years, the residents of Simona struggled to access medical facilities and markets for their farm produce in nearby Bindura due to the appalling state of the roads.But in just two months...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 827 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1722 | by Staff reporter
Consider local firms for road project
WHILE we are preoccupied with the noise from the political parties as 2023 nears, the Chinese are quietly tightening their grip on Zimbabwe by grabbing mining claims and every mountain to extract blac...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 168 | by Taona Chauya
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, says Mnangagwa
Detractors will never break the spirit of Zimbabweans, as the Second Republic continues on its journey to build the economy through provision of transport services and other infrastructural developmen...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:50hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Treasury loses $112 billion to dodgy crony tax exemptions
TREASURY, always in financial dire straits, lost about ZW$112 billion in potential revenue last year (approximately US$1.3 billion on the official exchange rate) through tax expenditures consisting of...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:52hrs | 292 | by Staff reporter
Govt snubs cheaper donor-funded jabs
IN an eyebrow-raising development, the Zimbabwean government, battling the Covid-19 pandemic, has been purchasing expensive Chinese vaccines while overlooking doses supplied at cheaper prices under th...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:32hrs | 914 | by Staff reporter
'It's wrong for Chinese miner to evict villagers'
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has described the planned eviction of Kaseke villagers in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, by a Chinese mining company as illegal.Heijin Mining C...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:29hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwewide construction, upgrade of bus terminuses
Shelters at bus terminuses countrywide will be repaired, replaced or installed before the next rains as part of a Government programme to upgrade urban public transport President Mnangagwa announced y...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:16hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF pin hope on Chinese and Russian vaccination
Zanu PF Midlands provincial secretary for information and publicity Cornelius Mupereri thanked the government for relying on Chinese or Russian vaccines during the Kwekwe district restructuring exerci...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 15:02hrs | 439 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Gweru councillors in trouble for attending Mwonzora meeting
AT least 11 Gweru urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors who last week attended a meeting chaired by MDC-T secretary for local government Faith Musarurwa Kamutsungira have expell...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2304 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Hichilema plot to annihilate Africa old guard revealed - 'Chawanzwa usaudza Chamisa, idare rinorira nohusiku'
It was natural for then Zambia opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema (HH) to meet and hobnob with a fellow opposition leader like Nelson Chamisa. But now that HH is the President of Zambia his relation...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 07:02hrs | 5651 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mnangagwa sheds crocodile tears over Mugabe'
Political analysts have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a hypocrite after the Zanu-PF leader praised the late former President Robert Mugabe a few years after celebrating his ouster in a Nov...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 2258 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC probes mass defections
THE MDC Alliance says it is investigating the defection of 11 of its Gweru councillors to the rival MDC-T last week.Media reports indicated that at least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural Di...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:28hrs | 2589 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance; UPND plot against ruling parties in Africa exposed
The opposition MDC-Alliance and the recently elected UPND of Zambia, have reportedly developed a plan to annihilate all long-standing ruling parties, especially former Liberation Movements in Africa b...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 09:37hrs | 5779 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe, China exchange notes
Reforms being undertaken by Zimbabwe are aimed at increasing national economic competitiveness, productivity, foreign direct investment inflows, technology transfers and acquaintance with Chinese busi...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 06:07hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner arrested in Zimbabwe
A CHINESE miner, Liu Chong, was yesterday arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) detectives for illegally conducting mining activities in the protected Mavhuradona Wilderness in Muzara...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:40hrs | 1947 | by Staff reporter
The lessons from Zambia
I have just celebrated my 77th birthday and have settled on two proud new titles. I have now added a new title to my repertoire. I was given the title of mukoma at the Manica Post. Governor Josiah Hun...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:03hrs | 338 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Chamisa's 11 councillors defect to Mwonzora's MDC-T
AT least 11 Gweru Urban and four Vungu Rural District MDC Alliance councillors have defected to the MDC-T party led by Douglas Mwonzora, Southern Eye reported.The councillors who left the Nels...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | 1656 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa put drug dealers on notice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has put drug dealers on notice after nudging judges and magistrates to mete harsh custodial sentences on them in order to curb drug and substance abuse.He said dru...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 19:42hrs | 419 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is sinking in Chinese debt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa admitted on Wednesday that Zimbabwe is choking under Chinese debt, but said the southern African country would continue looking up to the Asian giant for bailout because o...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:55hrs | 7103 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zanu-PF youth commissar Tsenengamu launches new political party
Former Zanu-PF Youth League political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu on Tuesday announced the launch of a new political party, with himself as interim leader.The Front for Economic Emancipation ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 21:37hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Uzumba villagers block Chinese miner
Villagers in ward 14 (Nhakiwa), Uzumba constituency are against the proposed granite mining project by a Chinese company Heijin and have since written to the Mines and Mining Development ministry thro...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:27hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to tour Mugabe airport expansion project
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to tour the ongoing expansion of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport today as part of the Second Republic infrastructure development programme and in line w...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 06:21hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa removed Chiwenga from army to prevent another coup - Book
The book that President Emmerson Mnangagwa colourfully endorsed recently claims he removed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from the army to avoid another military coup.'A Life of Sacrifice...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:19hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Chris Mutsvangwa's Presidential ambitions exposed
Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa tried to convince the former Zimbabwe National Army General Edzai Chimonyo to support...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 10:14hrs | 7801 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Book exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
Z1MBABWEAN-born associate professor at the University of Oxford, Miles Tendi has poked holes into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography and exposed the widening rift between the Zanu-PF leader and ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:59hrs | 5941 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe no longer has friends but reduced to a pathetic needy country desperate for acceptance
Indeed, in politics and geopolitics, it is said there are no permanent friends, or enemies, but permanent interests - nonetheless, there are countries, whose reputation on the world stage has been so ...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 09:10hrs | 1802 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinese miners in black granite frenzy
A CHINESE mining company, Heijin, is pushing to evict hundreds of villagers in Murehwa, Mashonaland East province, after it was given a special mining grant to extract black granite on densely populat...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:34hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
CMED acquires electric cars from China
Zimbabwe is starting to embrace electric cars with the Government, through the Central Mechanical Equipment Department (CMED) buying six electric vehicles from a Chinese company. Some of the c...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 753 | by Staff reporter
UDA leader Shumba promises economic success if elected President in 2023
The United Democratic Alliance (UDA) leader Daniel Shumba has promised Zimbabwe's great economic success if they elect him President in the 2023 elections.He revealed that a number of citizens...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 13:50hrs | 608 | by Stephen Jakes
What is the plan B? Chamisa mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano
Chamisa's MDC-Alliance mistakes Zanu-PF with men and women from Ruwadzano who stage religious competitions and graciously win or lose in God's name. I will repeat, Chamisa underestimates Zanu-PF. We e...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:48hrs | 3095 | by Nomazulu Thata
US$1 billion steel plant ready for take off
SEVERAL arms of Government in the Midlands Province say they are ready to smoothen the way for the birth of the US$1 billion Mvuma steel plant expected to be commissioned next year.Set to be A...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:48hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Chinese employer strangles worker
A CHINESE employer, He Chisheng Mike of Yakuts Investment in Matopo, Matabeleland South province, is accused of strangling his employee before dismissing him from work.Some of the workers told...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:30hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - What lessons can be drawn from the Zambian elections
The Zambian election has come and gone and Zimbabweans what lessons can be drawn from it. Well, to begin with Zambia got its independence in 1964 from the United Kingdom, with Kenneth Kaunda as its fi...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 09:28hrs | 1663 | by Lloyd Msipa
Unpatriotic, corrupt Zimbabwe govt sells country to China in exchange of 'tang'
"We have turned east, where the sun rises and given our back to the West, where the sun sets," Mugabe told a crowd at National Sports Stadium in 2005. This was a swift shift from one coloniser to anot...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:59hrs | 2175 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe achievers awards spread to China
ORGANISERS of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards (ZAA) have spread their tentacles to Asia with the Chinese version of the brand set to be virtually launched on October 2.ZAA China joins the intern...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:19hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
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