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Ginimbi to 'tour' Australia
The arts and entertainment scene definitely has royalty whether for good or bad reasons and the media seems to always feed from that fodder willingly and with such a keen and voracious appetite they s...Published: 1 hr ago | 80 | by Staff reporter
Caps United avert player strike over unpaid dues
HARARE giants Caps United insist the situation in their camp is under control following a threat by players to boycott their pre-season training over unpaid dues. Caps United vice-president, N...Published: 1 hr ago | 31 | by Staff reporter
RBZ sets rate of 2.50 for devalued RTGS dollars
Zimbabwe's new currency is expected to begin trading at around 2.5 to the U.S. dollar, Central Bank Governor John Mangudya said on Friday, a significant devaluation as the regulator attempts to stem c...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2422 | by Reuters
NetOne demands top-four finish
MOBILE network company NetOne has given Harare football giants Caps United a target of a top-four finish as one of the conditions before the consummation of a new partnership ahead of the start of the...Published: 15 hrs ago | 371 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banking sector stable, but assets quality deteriorates
ZIMBABWE'S banking sector remained generally stable and adequately capitalised during the year ended December 2018, but the quality of assets deteriorated as reflected by the increase in the average n...Published: 15 hrs ago | 89 | by Staff reporter
Banking sector profits jump 61%
ZIMBABWE's banking sector has recorded a 61 percent jump in aggregate profits to $390 million for the year ended 31 December 2018 when compared to $242 million in 2017, according to the Reserve Bank o...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:34hrs | 876 | by Staff repprter
Mnangagwa launches technology centre
President Mnangagwa yesterday launched the India-Africa Incubation Centre in Harare which he described as a key conduit that will drive the modernisation and industrialisation of the economy. ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri responds to sexual abuse allegations
Enlightened Christian Gathering Church led by Prophet Shepherd Bushiri Civil rights has responded to allegations by civil rights movement #NotInMyName which has criticized Bushiri, leader of tak...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 13:24hrs | 2992 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ingwebu Breweries caught in the eye of a storm
The Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)-run Ingwebu Breweries has been caught in a storm after failing to furnish its contractors who are running tenders of transporting the opaque beer w...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1714 | by Mandla Ndlovu
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums
African religion comprises of witches, satanists, spiritualists, spirit mediums, healers, kings and queens. While Christianity remains as that or those institutions preaching, teaching and prophesying...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 14:50hrs | 2227 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Mnangagwa and his love for expensive jets
At a time when Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is implementing austerity measures that have only brought more suffering to ordinary Zimbabweans, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is behaving as if he is from...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:45hrs | 5285 | by Benjamin Manzini
Farm evictions loom in Midlands
Government has issued 500 eviction letters to flush out people who illegally resettled themselves on commercial farms thereby disrupting production and causing massive land degradation in the Midlands...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:01hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel marking will deter smuggling
Energy and Power Development Minister Joram Gumbo says his ministry has requested funding, potentially several millions of dollars from Treasury, to start fuel marking to curtail illegal activit...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
German Methods can work in Zimbabwe
After World War II, in 1945 Germany was divided into two with the United States, Great Britain, and France occupying the western portion of Germany and the Soviet Union occupying eastern Germany. Its ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 23:02hrs | 1795 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Redefining the role of government in an economy
The Zimbabwean economy has over the years been largely dominated by the government as the law maker, the regulator, business owner (competitor/supplier), consumer, financier and tax collector at the s...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 22:55hrs | 221 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe maize harvest forecast at 900 000t
ZIMBABWE expects to harvest 900 000 tonnes of maize this year. This is an upward revision from the 800 000 tonnes initially forecast but is below the 1.8 million tonnes, the country consumes on an ann...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:40hrs | 1772 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri's private jet attached
Self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri's multimillion-rand private jet has been attached by the Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) - part of the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) - amid allegations that...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:32hrs | 8297 | by news24
Joy, anger as trapped miners are rescued
A visibly shaken Thinkmore Madimutse was the first survivor to be retrieved from a flooded shaft at Silver Moon mine yesterday four days after disaster struck in the gold-rich Battlefields area....Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Solar energy is the future: Masiyiwa
Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa says mini-power grids based on solar energy are the solution to Africa's energy problem.Masiyiwa made the prediction at a global conference of investors in Abu D...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 639 | by Staff reporter
Skyz Metro hit by resignations
A restructuring exercise at Bulawayo's first commercial radio station - Sykz Metro FM - has resulted in the departure of two popular presenters amid indications that more employees will ditch the broa...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:00hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
Haddon and Sly suspends workers
ONE of Bulawayo's oldest supermarkets, Haddon and Sly Supermarket has suspended 52 workers with immediate effect for participating in what it called an illegal job action last year, it has been establ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:54hrs | 556 | by Staff reporter
Ways Winky D & Gemma Griffiths (Mu garden) song should educate ZANU PF/MDC
At one point in time, USA, Japan, India (apart from African) were once colonized just like Zimbabwe. However, despite colonization, these countries never blamed their colonizers for their current prob...Published: 16 Feb 2019 at 20:59hrs | 2177 | by Don Chigumba
'Is Mnangagwa's govt pro-poor or Queen B?'
MDC legislators on Wednesday grilled Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi over the effects of government's austerity measures while bigwigs are living an extravagant life...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:42hrs | 1910 | by Staff reporter
Banks plunge into fresh crisis
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) shot down an urgent request by commercial banks to raise interest rates and transaction charges at a crisis meeting held in Harare last week, arguing the move would ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:35hrs | 3017 | by Staff reporter
Fears of imminent maize meal price increases
1. Fears of imminent maize meal price increases have been extensively speculated in both the main stream and social media. This has, to a large extent, Fueled panic buying with some unscrupulous retai...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1088 | by GMAZ
Frantic talks fail to unlock NRZ logjam
A SERIES of meetings this week aimed at ending the stalemate in the finalisation of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal failed to break the deadlock among the ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya, Chivayo cornered
Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries leader Walter Magaya has been summoned by the police for allegedly evading $22 million tax, while Wicknell Chivayo appeared in court yesterday for al...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1235 | by Staff reporter
Maitengwe border post road in deplorable state
The road that leads to Maitengwe Border post in Plumtree is in a sorry state despite the border being an economic hub for the town, Parliament has heard.Maitengwe Border Post, located in Matab...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 16:39hrs | 2179 | by cite.org
5G transforming tech
5G, which stands for "fifth generation," is an upcoming standard for mobile telecommunications service that promises to be significantly faster than today's 4G technology. It will allow users to brows...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | 685 | by Enos Denhere
TV rights income plummets for local clubs
DESPITE television rights being one of the biggest earners in football worldwide, Castle Lager Premier Soccer League clubs had to take a huge cut last year after their agreement with broadcaster, Supe...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:52hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri, Magaya and the gospel of prosperity
IT was perhaps the most striking picture that came from the spectacle that accompanied Shepherd Bushiri's appearance at the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court last week.It was the pictur...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 1505 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's skulduggery will not blight Mnangagwa's reform agenda
The usual opposition cynics are employing all manner of tactics to blight the impact of reforms being implemented by President Mnangagwa.However, as is the case with any skulduggery antics, th...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:46hrs | 240 | by Lovemore Ranga Mataire
Mthuli Ncube engages US over reforms, Zidera
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to leave for the United States of America next month to apprise that country's government officials on positive developments the...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:42hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Government finalising land audit
AGRICULTURE deputy minister Douglas Karoro told Parliament on Thursday that government plans to wrap up its nationwide land use audit next month and, thereafter, redistribute idle land to needy farmer...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:14hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Butcheries sell infected meat
A RARE tick-borne disease (atheileriosis) is killing cattle at an alarming rate in Mutare district with some unscrupulous elements reportedly selling the carcases to butchery operators at give away pr...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 11:07hrs | 2342 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's worst British nightmare
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's quest to re-engage the international community suffered a severe blow this week after his key Western backer Britain expressed support for additional European sanctions ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:53hrs | 3476 | by Staff reporter
Babongile Sikhonjwa leaves Skyz Metro FM
Radio personality and Socialite Babongile Sikhonjwa is leaving Bulawayo's only commercial radio station Skyz Metro FM after close to three of being part of the initiative.Sikhonjwa was anchori...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 10:36hrs | 2288 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's government set to redistribute land to all
In a new development, the government has announced that it would repossess all idle land and redistribute it to deserving farmers irrespective of their race and colour.Douglas Karoro, the Depu...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | 3419 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economic revival: none but ourselves
"Government must create jobs for us, we want our hospitals to be top notch medical facilities, we want to eat what we want anytime, there is no bread on the shelves, all our roads should be tarred, ha...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 10:25hrs | 938 | by Elijah Chihota
Ingwebu franchises its beer outlets
INGWEBU Breweries plans to franchise all its beer retailing outlets and focus on manufacturing and distribution of traditional beer, a development which could increase the company's revenue by at leas...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | 684 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet approves parastatal reforms
CABINET yesterday approved a litany of measures meant to strengthen under-performing parastatals such as Air Zimbabwe, the Grain Marketing Board and Zesa Holdings.Addressing journalists soon a...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Barry Roux to lead Bushiri defence team
Embattled prophet Shepherd Bushiri has acquired the services of top defence advocate Barry Roux, the Sowetan newspaper reported yesterday. According to the publication, Roux is expected to def...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Bushiri and wife granted R200 000 bail
Enlightened Christian Gathering leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Prophetess Mary Bushiri were granted a bail of R100 000 each on Wednesday by a Pretoria magistrate at the Specialised...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:28hrs | 3411 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Beitbridge gets rid of car shells
Beitbridge Municipality has partnered with a private company to rid the transit town and its environs of numerous abandoned vehicles and shells.A public notice posted by the local authority la...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:43hrs | 1165 | by Staff reporter
Farmers bay for Chief Njelele's blood
MEMBERS of the Chemagora Small-Scale Commercial Farmers' Union in Gokwe are baying for Chief Misheck Njelele's blood a few days after the alleged murder of their member, George Jongwe, by illegal sett...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1183 | by Staff reporter
Man murders sex worker
A Bikita man allegedly fatally stabbed a commercial sex worker with an Okapi knife at Nyika Growth Point last week after a dispute at her house. Leonard Gwari (24) of Duma Location, Nyika, all...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:58hrs | 3574 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri's bail application postponed
South Africa-based leader of the Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) Church Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary who were arrested last Friday appeared in the Pretoria Specialised Commercial C...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:21hrs | 1182 | by News agencies
Is RBZ shifting position?
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has given its clearest hint to date that the country is slowly re-dollarising after upgrading the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform to include the United St...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 15:09hrs | 10142 | by Pauline Hurungudo
Bushiri to appear in court
Enlightened Christian Gathering (ECG) leader Prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife is today expected to appear at the Pretoria Special Commercial Crimes Court following their arrest in Rustenburg on F...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 13:20hrs | 1658 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to seize Bushiri's assets including luxury cars, private jet
Not only are the preacher and his wife facing fraud and money-laundering charges, but their assets are also up for seizureAs controversial "prophet" Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary fight fo...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 15304 | by City Press
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