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NGOs plot to unsettle Zimbabwe exposed
Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) under the auspices of Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC), which have become fretful over the proposed Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment, have hatched ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 68 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on fake nationalism
ZIMBABWEANS should remain vigilant against a new wave of fake nationalism designed to discourage African countries from dealing with investors that are not from the West, which is using all means poss...Published: 3 hrs ago | 103 | by Staff reporter
Masuka in court over US$94 000 loan
AGRICULTURE Minister Anxious Masuka has allegedly failed to pay back a US$94 000 loan advanced to him five years ago in the form of tobacco farming inputs.A Chinese tobacco contracting firm Ti...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | 529 | by Staff reporter
US, CCC and local journalists gang up to foment chaos
The US government through its Harare embassy has started sponsoring local journalists to write more negative stories about Zimbabwe, at the same time undermining Chinese investments to create national...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:19hrs | 545 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
African Mining Sector Set for Strong Growth in 2022
Johannesburg - 16 May 2022 - With mining companies currently enjoying high prices, exceptional production performance and robust supply chains, the mining team from Stanbic Bank's parent company, Stan...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:52hrs | 392 | by Mark Buncombe, Head of Mining and Metals at Standard Bank Group
Mugabe Airport 'now a human trafficking hub'
"A lot of things happen here at the airport. It all depends on the money on offer," an immigration official at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport said.In October 2021, Roselyn Dun...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1728 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 3004 | by Staff reporter
Nightshifts at Lake Gwayi Shangani
CONTRACTORS at Lake Gwayi Shangani are now working night shifts to ensure the construction of the dam wall is completed next month.Construction work at the Lake Gwayi Shangani dam wall and ear...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:43hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scorecard after 4 years
THIS week had two special days - Workers Day and Press Freedom Day - they both had muted celebrations. Something has changed, the economy is not working and the two are now holidays threatened by exti...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 1506 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Residents raise alarm over pole in road
BEITBRIDGE town residents have raised alarm following the construction of a road on an electricity line where one pole has been left in the middle of the road.In separate interviews, the resid...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's New Parliament building 100pc complete
WORK at the new Parliament building in Mount Hampden on the outskirts of Harare is now complete, with furnishings for offices and chambers done.Presently, what is outstanding are ancillary wor...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm to breathe life into Zimbabwe steel sector
THE chief executive officer (CEO) of Tsingshan Investments Zimbabwe revealed this week how his firm has located immense opportunities in Zimbabwe, where it plans to weave around a string of corporate ...Published: 06 May 2022 at 19:26hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa claims Chinese investments will stabilise the Zimdollar
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa claims Chinese investments will help stabilise the Zimbabwean dollar and revive the economy.Speaking at a Medical and Dental Private Practitioners o...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:57hrs | 2378 | by Staff reporter
Most times, only 'solution' to Zimbabwe's myriad of problems is simply a completely new leadership!
Yesterday (May 3, 2022), when I was attentively listening to the deputy information minister, Kindness Paradza, addressing a World Press Freedom Day gathering in Bulawayo, there was a statement he mad...Published: 04 May 2022 at 12:26hrs | 526 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
China deployed Surface-to- Air Missiles (SAM) in Zimbabwe?
China has reportedly deployed and installed new generation of surface-to- air missiles (SAM) in Zimbabwe, Team pachedu has alleged. Pachedu was responding to an outcry by Zimbabwe over the ope...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 14:38hrs | 20355 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Temba Mliswa defends Hopewell Chin'ono
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa defended opposition aligned journalist Hopewell Chin'ono after reports came out that he had allegedly hijacked a goat breeding program that was meant to ...Published: 28 Apr 2022 at 14:58hrs | 4496 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinese health project benefits two million Zimbabweans
ABOUT two million Zimbabweans have benefited from a maternal, newborn and child health (MNCH) project sponsored China Aid.Currently, the country's health delivery system is a shamble due to a ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
Zdamwu raps govt over lithium deals
The Zimbabwe Diamonds and Allied Mineral Workers Union (Zdamwu) has rapped the government for allowing the deals which are seeing the nation losing large ...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 11:21hrs | 1017 | by Stephen Jakes
Mineworkers still suffering after 42 years of independence
ZIMBABWE mine workers are still suffering and subjected to slavery 42 years after the country gained independence.This is said by the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 12:39hrs | 1017 | by Stephen Jakes
Chinese firm to set up plant for Gwayi-Shangani pipeline
CHINESE company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, will soon set up a plant in Bulawayo to manufacture pipes for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam pipeline.Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 709 | by Staff reporter
Zapu in mourning
ZAPU says it will not be celebrating Independence Day on Monday, but will be mourning the loss of lives before and after independence.This year's 42nd independence celebrations will be held in...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:35hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Love for the ghetto lands Chinese national in soup
A 21-YEAR-OLD Chinese national was last week fined $10 000 and ordered to leave the country for contravening the Immigration Act.Li Changfeng appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Gamuchirai Gor...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:32hrs | 1253 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Lux exposed - The disturbing picture behind the masks of the man heading Operation Dudula
Nhlanhla "Lux" Mohlauhi (also Dlamini) has been churning up anti-foreigner sentiment and bursting into people's homes like a vigilante, instilling fear and panic in refugee and immigrant communities....Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 10:41hrs | 8337 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo water woes persist despite rains
Blessing Moyo, a resident of Bulawayo's Gwabalanda suburb, is a worried man as he relives the 2020 diarrhoea outbreak that hit Luveve and other surrounding suburbs.The diarrhoea outbreak, blam...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:14hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Policy flip flops impede platinum deals
INVESTMENT into Zimbabwe's platinum sector has been held back by unpredictable policies, a leading resource campaigner said this week.Claude Kabemba, executive director at Southern African Res...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:59hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Action, not rhetoric, Sir
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, if truth be told, Zimbabwe ought not have been in a persistent vegetative state. She was the jewel of Africa at independence in 1980. Yet, eve...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 379 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Mnangagwa blames 'NATO expansion' for Russia's invasion of Ukraine
In his first public comments over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said it was a "robust" response by President Vladmir Putin to "provocation" by NATO, a military alliance of...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 08:27hrs | 2352 | by Staff reporter
Lithium: Chinese lead scramble for Zimbabwe assets
CHINESE firms have invested over US$570 million in Zimbabwe's lithium mines since the last quarter of 2021, as the rush for Zimbabwe's resource escalates.It is not only the Chinese who have st...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Russia-Ukraine conflict wake up call
THE Russia and Ukraine conflict, which has spawned a surge in global food prices and disruption of world markets and supply chains, has been a wake-up call for Zimbabwe on the need to ensure food secu...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:28hrs | 552 | by Staff reporter
Chinese defend projects in Zimbabwe
A top Chinese business representative has blamed the rampant violation of Zimbabwean investment laws by some of his compatriots on language barriers.Speaking at a panel discussion in Harare on...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:17hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Naysayers will be buried in own ignorance
For Bishop Lazi and his ilk, today - Palm Sunday - marks the beginning of Holy Week.It is a sacred period that commemorates Jesus Christ's ‘triumphal entry' into Jerusalem for the Passover w...Published: 10 Apr 2022 at 08:08hrs | 84 | by Bishop Lazi
Europe cannot beat a bitterly cold winter through fire from faggots
They can't make fire from faggotsAS I write, for the short month of conflict in Eastern Europe, global food prices have risen by an average 17 percent.Energy costs have gone through th...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:19hrs | 134 | by @ Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe's new Chinese funded Parly building complete, awaits validation
The new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, about 25 kilometers north west of the capital, is now complete with the Chinese contractor putting final touches outside the structure, a Cabinet Minister sa...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to draw US$145 million IMF funds
SOME US$145 million from the US$960 million Special Drawing Rights released by the International Monetary Fund last year to cushion member States against the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic will be d...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:24hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF will never surrender power, says Obert Mpofu
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has vowed that it will never surrender power to opposition parties, saying it will "rule for a very long time".This was disclosed yesterday by Zanu-PF secretary for ad...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:51hrs | 3254 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube grilled over vaccines
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured) was yesterday grilled by Parliament over the country's preference of Chinese COVID-19 vaccines over a wide variety of approved jabs wh...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:48hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt reviews primary, secondary curriculum
GOVERNMENT yesterday launched a review of the 2015 curriculum framework for the Primary and Secondary Education ministry following the end of its seven-year circle which was marred by several challeng...Published: 05 Apr 2022 at 06:47hrs | 713 | by Staff reporter
Deputy Sheriff fired
Divorce orders obtained fraudulently by some greedy men with a view to stripping their spouses in the Diaspora of matrimonial property, are now on the increase amid reports that a Deputy Sheriff was r...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 06:56hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
RioZim's coal power project seeks other backing after China's U-turn
A Zimbabwean company that had been banking on Chinese financing to build a major coal-fired power plant says it is now looking for alternative backers as China pulls back on funding such projects over...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 09:01hrs | 512 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 might end this year: WHO
THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the COVID-19 pandemic might end this year provided that countries make concerted efforts to vaccinate their populations and implement other lifesaving meas...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:49hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter
China opposes sanctions for good reasons
One month after the Ukraine crisis broke out, China and an increasing number of like-minded nations, particularly developing countries, have voiced objection to unilateral sanctions by United States-l...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | 250 | by Zhang Yunbi
A golden gift from the political gods
If next year's watershed elections needed any divination, then the just-ended by-elections were the divine bones cast by a bone-thrower to provide a reading of the future.Well, they are a gold...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:27hrs | 79 | by Bishop Lazi
Lithium rush takes Zimbabwe by storm
Three Chinese energy firms have snapped up controlling equity in Zimbabwean lithium mines over the past four months, as the world's biggest electric vehicles market takes a strategic position in Afric...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:17hrs | 708 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland group petitions Parly over villagers' displacements
A MATEBELELAND human rights group has petitioned Parliament to probe ongoing displacement of villagers in the region without compensation to pave way for mining operations.The Matabeleland Ins...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:37hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Who is behind the biohazard threat in Ukraine?
From the very beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the United States has unleashed a massive campaign to accuse Moscow of all sorts of crimes.Protecting the civilian population...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:30hrs | 501 | by Staff reporter
Is he the young man?
I have lost touch with my Zipra brother Melusi Nkomo. The last time I heard about him, he was doing some lofty business at the International Graduate Centre in Geneva, Switzerland."Robert Muga...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:29hrs | 867 | by Kenneth Mafuka
Matebeleland group petitions Parly over villagers' displacements
A MATEBELELAND human rights group has petitioned Parliament to probe ongoing displacement of villagers in the region without compensation to pave way for mining operations.The Matabeleland Ins...Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 06:52hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo hotels, lodges fully booked for ZITF
ALL major hotels and lodges in Bulawayo are now fully booked ahead of this years' edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) scheduled to run from April 26 to 31, industry players said....Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 334 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe's new Parly building almost complete
World-class equipment and furniture has been installed at the state-of-the-art new Parliament building in Mount Hampden, which is now 95 percent complete.Of the six floors, work remains only o...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:40hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Mining sector key to Zim economy: Zimcodd
The mining sector is a key sector for Zimbabwe as it contributes about 60% to annual export receipts and at least 14% to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).This was revealed by the Zimbabwe Coalitio...Published: 16 Mar 2022 at 11:30hrs | 251 | by Stephen Jakes
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