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Zimbabwe's second-largest city at risk of running dry by year-end
The taps in Zimbabwe's second-biggest city may run dry by the end of this year.Already, residents of Bulawayo have had to cope without piped water for at least five-and-a-half days a week and ...Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 09:55hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Magistrates' Court requires US$3.84 million funding boost
The completion of the new Gwanda Magistrates' Court Complex, which will house Zimbabwe's sixth High Court, requires a further US$3.84 million to reach completion, according to a senior government offi...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 06:31hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Partitioning of city buildings divides Bulawayo councillors
The Bulawayo City Council has raised concerns about the increasing trend of partitioning city centre buildings into mini-complexes for small and medium business operators. This unregulated growth is s...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 11:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Rejuvenating the Real Estate Market in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe: Strategies for Development and Competitiveness
Chief Real Estate Officer, Integrated Properties Zimbabwe, a nation with a storied history and a vibrant yet tumultuous economy, faces multifaceted chal...Published: 19 May 2024 at 20:58hrs | 30 | by Dr Bekithemba Mpofu
Chamisa deploys Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to SADC countries
Nelson Chamisa has deployed Jameson Timba and Gladys Hlatshwayo to selected Sadc countries, starting with South Africa, with a Hail Mary assignment to convince key leaders in the region that he won la...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 19:37hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
BCC to seal off illegal pick-up points
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it will tighten traffic laws and raid motorists who pick and drop passengers at illegal points around the city.This was revealed in the latest council minu...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 07:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Lukashenko joins Zimbabwe lithium rush
BELARUSIAN President Alexander Lukashenko this week travelled 7 982 kilometres, the distance by air from his capital Minsk to Harare, in his first sub-Saharan visit to meet President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associate biggest winner in Zimbabwe-Belarus deals
ZIMBABWE'S honorary consul to Belarus Alexander Zingman, a close associate to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his counterpart Alexander Lukashenko, was the biggest winner in trade agreements signed t...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Lukashenko's eagerness for Mnangagwa to win elections casts serious doubts over credibility of deals signed!
Normally, when a national leader visits another country, he is expected - on account of common decency, respect and statesmanship - to keep clear of his hosts' domestic politics. It would have...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 12:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Alexander Lukashenko warns Mnangagwa
VISITING Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko told his ally President Emmerson Mnangagwa to work extremely hard to win this year's elections which he said will not be a stroll in the park for the Za...Published: 01 Feb 2023 at 07:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
US$275m for new GMB silos
The GOVERNMENT plans to spend more than US$275 million over the next three years to construct new Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos, as well as renovate and modernise old ones countrywide to cater for...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt cartels shouldn't hold nation at ransom but be held to account!
It was really strange reading a report - whereby, Fossil Group, threatened to retrench over 2,000 workers - ostensibly, in response to its, and its proprietor Obey Chimuka's recent placement on the US...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 23:23hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF has been in power for 42 years so let's not pretend as if we've new government!
I am always flabbergasted when listening to senior government officials in their attempts at convincing the citizenry that development cannot be expected to occur overnight, as the country was being b...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 12:43hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine is having problems with American weapons
Debate has been raging about problems around the deployment of American armored vehicles in Ukraine.We are talking about MaxxPro armored vehicles that were recently delivered in the interests ...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's #NationalShutDown continues today
South Africa's national shut down will continue today and has spread to other parts of the country.Yesterday, truck and taxi drivers blocked various roads in Mbombela and the surrounding areas...Published: 07 Jul 2022 at 08:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
When a govt needs media to help highlight its achievements then it has nothing to show!
When I was still a young lad, there was a television advertisement that I used to enjoy a lot.If my memory serves me right, it was by the now comatose state-run Cold Storage Commission (CSC) -...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:37hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Harare implements Operation Murambatsvina II
The Harare Metropolitan Province has established a taskforce comprising of Zimbabwe Republic Police, City of Harare, Chitungwiza Municipality, Ruwa Local Board and Epworth Local Board to demolis...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 17:05hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa condemns superiority complexes
AS the continent celebrates Africa Day today, President Mnangagwa has condemned injustices, superiority complexes, and xenophobic elements dogging the world.In a pre-recorded speech to mark Af...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can't pride itself on economic growth built on sub-standard products
It is always delightful news learning of the resurgence of our local productive sector - which not only translates into most-needed employment for the millions of jobless Zimbabweans, but also economi...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 20:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwean man pleads guilty to multiple counts of murder, robbery, rape, extortion
A 27-year-old Zimbabwean man, Wellington Kachidza, dubbed the Pretoria "serial killer" in South Africa has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of extortion, murder, robbery with aggravating circumstance...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conference lacked strategic imperatives for economic growth
THE Zanu-PF conference is of strategic importance due to its potential of providing simultaneous and sequential signal on the general direction or economic trajectory of the country. It is also not fa...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Rautenbach enjoys Zanu-PF links
MULLER Conrad "Billy" Rautenbach is one of the most controversial business moguls in Zimbabwe, with several legal challenges against him and his company Green Fuel. Rautenbach, who is into vast mining...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:35hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt COVID-19 response driven by ignorance and ego than logic and science
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to make global headlines, and issues of how to respond to it - most particularly, faced with restive populations divided between those who want to be vaccinated, and...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 17:27hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When Zimbabwean leaders are so fearful of their own citizens, it's not the nation's fault, but the leaders themselves
One thing that most of us in Zimbabwe grew up being bewildered with, was always watching on the daily main news bulletin, the president moving around completely surrounded by bodyguards - actually, he...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 07:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If Zim govt calls Dendairy's displacement of people from their ancestral land 'investment', so can we say Rhodes was an 'investo
To say I was shocked by the lame, disingenuous, and shamefully ridiculous attempts by the Zimbabwe government to sanitize the septic, cruel, and repulsive displacement of over 12,000 Chilonga villager...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 12:23hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe lockdown fatigue kicks in
The Herald Herald Reporters More people and vehicles are flouting Covid-19 lockdown rules as evidenced by a flurry of movements in residential areas and the Harare central business district. Manufactu...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 fears in prisons
SAFETY questions over the way inmates are treated in prisons came to the fore yesterday after lawyers representing Jacob Mafume told the court that the suspended Harare mayor had started exhibiting sy...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Presumptive tax triggers storm
ZIMBABWE's informal businesses, making up about 60% of the country's economy, say government missed the point when it moved to impose a monthly presumptive tax on small-to-medium scale enterprises (SM...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Commissioners to investigate Obert Mpofu named
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has constituted a Commission of Inquiry to investigate Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu and other individuals fingered in corrupt dealings by the ZANU-PF Y...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 20:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Grand plan, gukurahundi, the Unity Accord 1987 - A program of invasion
This is a follow up of my Press Release released on 3rd July 2019. The focus today is Gukurahundi; its origins, meaning, and its role in the unprecedented influx of the Shona community in every part o...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by King Mzilikazi II
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chasi hits the ground running
NEWLY-appointed Energy and Power Development Minister Advocate Fortune Chasi has hit the ground running, and is already exploring a number of options including electricity trade-offs with Mozambique t...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to engage RBZ on fuel, electricity shortages
GOVERNMENT remains committed to solving fuel and electricity shortages through engaging the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on long term financial mechanisms, Energy and Power Development Minister Fort...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chasi speaks on electricity, fuel
Government remains committed to solving fuel and electricity shortages through engaging the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on long-term financial mechanisms, Energy and Power Development Minister Fort...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwanda to have new CBD
GWANDA Town Council has set aside land for a new central business district (CBD) and industrial stands along the Beitbridge–Bulawayo Road, in an effort to lure investors.The local authority ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to announce more PGM investors
Government will, in the next few weeks, announce at least two more investors that are expected to deploy huge foreign capital in the country's platinum sector as scores of local and foreign investors ...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
A look at Zimbabwe's property market
Even though the Zimbabwean property market faces many challenges, it has always been characterised by a high demand and a corresponding low supply – ensuring that the market has always been very act...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commander declared national hero
The late Brigadier General Emilio Munemo, a former commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade which is accused of carrying out a genocide in Matabeleland in the 1980s, has been declared a national hero....Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi commander dies
Brigadier General Emile Munemo, a former commander of the notorious Fifth Brigade which is accused of carrying out a genocide in Matabeleland in the 1980s, has died.Munemo, the father of polit...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabweans among top property buyers in SA
In spite of a crippling foreign currency crisis ravaging the Zimbabwean economy, locals are finding the hard currency to buy real estate in South Africa.Interestingly, when it comes to splurgi...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Fin24
Mujuru family divided over property
Former VP Joice Mujuru is at loggerheads with her stepchildren over a Borrowdale house, while the offspring of the late retired general Solomon want to have a share of. This emerged at a ...Published: 22 May 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge City: A perennial mirage or reality?
Sustainable urban development is one of the top priorities for many governments worldwide. The transformation of social, economic, cultural and political structures in society are some of the key fact...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo prisons release 662 inmates
A total of 699 prisoners have been freed from Bulawayo, Hwange, Victoria Falls prisons following the Presidential amnesty, amid calls for society to accept them.The prisoners who were serving ...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA construction firm eyes Matabeleland venture
A South Africa-based Zimbabwe-owned construction firm, ALW Team Investments (Private) Limited has expressed interest at channelling most of its investment into the country especially in the Matabelela...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Nkomo develops greywater system to aid crisis
Cape Town - A third-year civil engineering student at the University of Cape Town, Nkosinathi Nkomo, was unable to register in 2017 due to lack of funds. To raise funds, he decided to apply some of th...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:12hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Read books of basic economics, Bimha's investigation of denial won't help
ZANU-PF's failure to take responsibility of the current crisis will only serve to worsen the situation. In an attempt to shift the blame to externals a misdiagnosis of the situation is bound to happen...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 11:00hrs | 4 | by Jacob Mafume, PDP Spokesperson
Bulawayo's latest affordable stands gets cheaper
New player in housing sector brings down price of houses and standsCome and be part of the City ON A RISE. A development of more than 1000 stands in Bulawayo North. Hopeville is moving q...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 16:09hrs | 8 | by Hopeville
'We should be enlightened enough to see past clans, tribes' - Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda
For some days now, I have observed from the side lines as events unfolded online that seemed to confirm my worst fears and worsen every time I logged on. I am currently on a fact-finding mission to as...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 12:52hrs | | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
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