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Illegal lithium exports undermine Zimbabwe's mineral wealth
In 2023, Peter, a truck driver, approached a border checkpoint between Zimbabwe and Mozambique carrying a sealed container he believed held chrome, a mineral listed on the shipment paperwork. Having t...Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 09:00hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Residents slam prepaid water meters plan
Harare residents have strongly opposed the government's plan to roll out prepaid water meters in the capital, saying the move will do little to resolve the city's deepening water crisis and instead ri...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 08:00hrs | 159 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son tasered man for 'not greeting him with respect'
Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, son of the late former president Robert Mugabe, faces growing legal troubles following an alleged assault on a truck driver using a taser stun gun at Iron Mask Farm in Mazo...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:33hrs | 683 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner in Zimbabwe grave rights abuses storm
The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) has called on the Zimbabwean government to urgently intervene and halt alleged human rights abuses being committed by a Chinese-linked mining company ...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:14hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
No water from the tap. They're asked to pay a tax anyway
HARARE, ZIMBABWE - The cholera outbreak that swept through Zimbabwe in 2008-2009 killed more than 4,000 people and sickened nearly 100,000. Parts of Harare and its surrounding suburbs were especially ...Published: 02 Jul 2025 at 10:02hrs | 448 | by Linda Mujuru, GPJ Zimbabwe
Warrant of arrest for Shawashi Agri boss
A warrant of arrest has been issued against Shawashi Agri Private Limited managing director, Lillian Nyamasoka, after she failed to appear in court to answer to serious fraud allegations involving ove...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 18:35hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
6 employees arrested after robbing manager in salary dispute
Six former employees of Ryagri Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd have been arrested after allegedly assaulting their manager and stealing US$10,000 in a violent dispute over unpaid salaries.The incident occu...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 09:00hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Harare company director dupes Chinese investors
A local businesswoman, Lilian Nyamasoka, is now a fugitive from justice after a Harare magistrate issued a warrant for her arrest on Thursday for failing to appear in court to answer to two counts of ...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:03hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Harare company director dupes Chinese investors
A local businesswoman, Lilian Nyamasoka, is now a fugitive from justice after a Harare magistrate issued a warrant for her arrest on Thursday for failing to appear in court to answer to two counts of ...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:03hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Chinese-funded project power Zimbabwe
The Chinese-funded expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station, specifically Units 7 and 8, emerged as the main source of energy supply for Zimbabwe in 2024, according to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory ...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 14:42hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Lithium rush a crossroads for Zimbabwe's future
Africa, which holds significant estimated shares of the world's total reserves of bauxite (24%), cobalt (49.4%), copper (7%), graphite (21%), lithium (6%), manganese (43%), nickel (4.2%) and rare eart...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 10:27hrs | 316 | by Sikhululekile Mashingaidze and Stephen Buchanan-Clarke
Looting spree, as fire razes Harare shopping mall
HARARE - Several businesses have recorded over a million loss when fire gutted one of shopping complexes in Harare's shopping malls along Leopold Takawira street.Eyewitnesses allege that the f...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 12:36hrs | 1967 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
China philosophy against imposing values
China seeks mutual learning and exchange among civilizations rather than cultural dominance, a Chinese history professor has emphasized during a lecture to Zimbabwean senior journalists. Xie Jun, from...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:14hrs | 66 | by Staff reporter
Employee brutally attacked by Chinese over NSSA injury claim
An employee at Chinese-operated Huaman Investments (Private) Limited has accused company management of violently assaulting him and fellow workers after they sought assistance from the National Social...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 09:10hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean communities raise alarm over lithium mining impacts
As global demand for lithium surges to power electric vehicles and household solar batteries, the scramble for Zimbabwe's rich lithium deposits is exposing deep-rooted tensions between economic intere...Published: 19 Jun 2025 at 07:09hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to repair all traffic lights by year-end
Gweru City Council Mayor Martin Chivhoko has announced ambitious plans to install new traffic lights and refurbish malfunctioning ones at all intersections in the city's central business district (CBD...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 15:08hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
The ZANU-PF–Britain alliance is a self-serving bond that never served the people
The political theatre designed to deceive Zimbabweans seems never-ending.A few days ago, senior Zimbabwean officials and British nationals gathered in Harare to celebrate King Charles III's bi...Published: 13 Jun 2025 at 14:24hrs | 670 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
IPPs unveil 16 000MW power project in Zimbabwe
Private players are spearheading over 16,000 megawatts (MW) worth of power generation projects across Zimbabwe to help ease the country's worsening electricity shortage, Intensive Energy Users Group (...Published: 06 Jun 2025 at 12:06hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter
New twist to Fools Mine saga
A legal storm is unfolding at Fools Investments (Pvt) Ltd, with corporate rescue practitioner Dumisani Dube raising alarm over alleged interference by a Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) offi...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:26hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe veteran pilot killed in Gweru jet crash
A senior Air Force of Zimbabwe pilot died on Friday after his Chengdu J-7/F-7 fighter jet crashed in the Carafoc area of Gweru, eyewitnesses and military sources have confirmed.Retired Squadro...Published: 30 May 2025 at 16:29hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt brokers EU power deals as blackouts unsettle economy
The Zimbabwean government is actively facilitating partnerships between local independent power producers (IPPs) and European Union (EU) investors to secure much-needed funding for critical energy pro...Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
South Africa in talks with Zimbabwe, Zambia to run Grand Inga transmission line
South Africa's Minister for Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, announced on Tuesday that his country is engaging in discussions with Zambia and Zimbabwe regarding the potential routing ...Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:03hrs | 697 | by `
Chinese miners wreak havoc in Mberengwa, Filabusi
Relations between local communities - including low-level employees, villagers, and chiefs - and Chinese nationals working in mining operations have sharply deteriorated in the Dolo and Filabusi areas...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 70 | by Staff reporter
Journalists barred from Mnangagwa's cookout
Journalists from various media outlets were on Sunday barred from fully covering the national cookout competitions hosted by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in Beitbridge.Reporters said Mnangagw...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes major strides in reviving steel industry
Zimbabwe is steadily reclaiming its position as a regional steel industry leader after the recent shipment of nearly 100 tonnes of steel products by the newly commissioned Dinson Iron and Steel Compan...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:23hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
'Spiritual Spectacles' prophet in another court no-show
Prophet Tapiwa Freddy has once again failed to appear in court in an ongoing legal dispute with Craft Properties (Pvt) Ltd over a residential plot in Kadoma. Since the case began on February 7, 2025, ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 08:16hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
Chinese company fined for under-declaring workers to NSSA
Mining firm Jiangxi Risheng Pvt Ltd has been convicted for under-declaring its workforce to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), resulting in a financial prejudice to the state amounting to ...Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:58hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Chinese families choosing an African education
In 2018, while I was conducting fieldwork in Zimbabwe, I met a Chinese man who shared a surprising story. One night, he heard his 4-year-old daughter sleep-talking in English. The next day he called h...Published: 26 May 2025 at 07:56hrs | 39 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner rehabilitates BCC roads
Haulin Quarry Mine, a Chinese-owned mining company operating in Pumula, Bulawayo, has joined forces with local construction company ZADA to rehabilitate some of the city's most damaged roads. The init...Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 343 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm ordered to demolish wall built on Railway tracks
A Chinese-owned company that recently acquired land along Tilbury Road in Harare has been forced to tear down part of a perimeter wall it erected across disused railway tracks after city officials dec...Published: 21 May 2025 at 11:14hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
China-aided agricultural demonstration village launched in Zimbabwe
A CHINA-aided agricultural demonstration village was officially launched last week in the Shamva District of Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe, to enhance agricultural productivity among rural fa...Published: 20 May 2025 at 10:24hrs | 381 | by Staff reporter
NRZ clarifies viral security wall built over rail line in Harare
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has issued a statement clarifying the origins and context of a security wall built across a railway track in the Willowvale industrial area of Harare, after ima...Published: 19 May 2025 at 14:42hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF chef loses fortune in toned down water deal
A controversial US$138 million contract awarded to Helcraw Electrical Projects, a company owned by Zanu PF legislator Farai Jere, for the development of Harare's water infrastructure has been signific...Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:03hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
China donates US$16 million in food aid to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe received US$16 million in emergency food assistance from China in 2023 to cushion vulnerable communities from the impact of the El Niño-induced drought, Chinese Ambassador Zhou Ding revealed...Published: 17 May 2025 at 14:00hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa offers Lukashenko minerals
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended an invitation to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to explore Zimbabwe's vast mineral wealth, as part of efforts to revive the country's struggling ec...Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:44hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
Gold sinks as trade talks, easing tensions impact haven demand
Gold fell as its haven status was impacted by signs of progress in trade talks between the US and China, along with some relief to geopolitical tensions.Bullion fell as much as 1,8 percent in ...Published: 13 May 2025 at 09:54hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Whi-Zim's cement plant progressing well in Zimbabwe
Construction of a multi-million-dollar cement manufacturing plant by Chinese firm Whi-Zim on the outskirts of Magunje Growth Point is progressing smoothly, with commissioning scheduled for June 2025, ...Published: 10 May 2025 at 20:48hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
UZ suspends union leaders, again
The University of Zimbabwe (UZ) has reignited tensions with its academic staff after issuing fresh suspension letters to leaders of the Association of University Teachers (AUT), just days after liftin...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:45hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa heads to Moscow for 80th Victory Day commemorations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has departed for Moscow, Russia, to participate in the 80th anniversary celebrations of Victory Day, marking eight decades since Nazi Germany's surrender to the Soviet Uni...Published: 07 May 2025 at 21:02hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
ZESA warns of 'increased load shedding' after Hwange fault
Zimbabweans are facing intensified electricity blackouts after the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) announced a significant drop in power generation due to a fault at the Hwange Power Stat...Published: 05 May 2025 at 13:43hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Lupane methane gas project set to begin operations in Q2 2025
The Lupane Methane Gas (LMG) Project is expected to commence operations in the second quarter of 2025, according to the project's executive chairperson, Thabani Hove.Hove revealed that the pro...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:12hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Chinese duo acquitted in attempted murder storm
Two Chinese nationals, Hui Xiang and Zhao Yunfeng, who were accused of attempted murder, walked free yesterday after the Harare Magistrates' Court acquitted them at the close of the State case....Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:06hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe becomes 5th largest avocado producer in Africa
Zimbabwe has emerged as Africa's fifth-largest producer of avocados, following a 164 percent surge in production over the past six years, thanks to increased investments from both government and the p...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 07:05hrs | 351 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trade fair exhibitors seek to expand cooperation with China
A DIVERSE range of African exhibitors at this year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) have expressed a strong interest in expanding business partnerships with China, the world's second-largest...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:44hrs | 128 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF delegation back from China with optimism for investment
A high-level ZANU-PF delegation has returned from a successful week-long exchange programme in China, expressing optimism about the potential for increased investments from the Far East. The visit, wh...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:17hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
China says US should revoke unilateral tariffs, denies talks
China demanded that the US revokes all unilateral tariffs and denied there were talks on reaching a trade deal, maintaining a defiant stance despite President Donald Trump's recent easing of criticism...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:05hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Botswana's Boko is right: any president who wants to remain in power for more than 10 years has failed
The truth, although unpalatable at times, shall set us free.When Botswana's President Duma Boko recently declared that any president who desires to hold on to power beyond ten years is "instan...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 14:19hrs | 550 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
China reaffirms commitment to Zimbabwe's industrialisation agenda
Chinese ambassador Zhou Ding has reiterated his country's strong commitment to supporting Zimbabwe's industrialisation and sustainable development agenda, as economic ties between the two nations cont...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:27hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Huayou Cobalt bets on Arcadia Lithium Mine
Chinese battery manufacturing giant Huayou Cobalt is intensifying its focus on Zimbabwe's Arcadia Lithium Mine, as it pushes forward with a lithium sulfate project aimed at significantly reducing prod...Published: 25 Apr 2025 at 07:23hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to address Bulawayo de-industrialisation
Former Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo, has urged the Zimbabwean government to urgently address the ongoing de-industrialisation of Bulawayo, warning that the city's transformation from an indust...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
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