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Zimbabwe-Zambia scramble to revive US$5bn power project
More than three decades after it was first proposed, the Batoka Gorge Hydropower Project is back in the spotlight as Zimbabwe and Zambia renew efforts to revive the long-stalled US$5 billion energy ve...Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:22hrs | 3854 | 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 | 698 | by `
DR Congo offers $5m bounties for rebel leaders
The Democratic Republic of Congo government has offered a reward of $5m (£4m) for help arresting three leaders of a rebel group which has seized much of the east of the country this year.Corn...Published: 10 Mar 2025 at 10:46hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Rwanda-backed rebels occupy a 2nd major city in Congo's mineral-rich east
Rwanda-backed rebels have occupied a second major city in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the government said Sunday, as M23 rebels confirmed they were in the city to restore order after it was abandoned ...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 10:56hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Hail King Nero: Impotence as strength
Hail King Nero, The First and Last!"There shall be a leader and Change Champion-in-Chief (Advocate Nelson Chamisa) who shall be the Administrator and President tasked by the citizens to champi...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:42hrs | 17 | by @Jamwanda on Saturday
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 6 | by Ian Beddowes
South Africa in a fix over blood electricity
South Africa has come under fire over the Grand Inga Dam, a mammoth hydroelectric project, on the Congo River in the western Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).International Rivers, an NGO ded...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 11:19hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Recalling the bungling and painful reality
THE recent announcement by the Government that Zimbabwe has joined Zambia and Botswana in the Kazungula Bridge project, belated though it is, is a coup de grace in international relations and co-opera...Published: 20 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Mugabe lonely on his birthday
In our series of letters from Africa, we consider the fate of ousted president Robert Mugabe as he celebrates his 94th birthday.A famous quote by Machiavelli advises politicians: "It is better...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 06:27hrs | 2 | by Brian Hungwe
Mugabe feeling 'unloved' on his 94th birthday
Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe considers the fate of ousted President Robert Mugabe as he celebrates his 94th birthday.A famous quote by Machiavelli advises politicians: "...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 12:13hrs | 2 | by BBC - Brian Hungwe
Power trading will drive electricity landscape
Power trading agreements between countries that possess excess power generating capacity and those battling supply shortages will be a dominant theme in the electricity markets of south-central Africa...Published: 30 May 2016 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Boat accident claims 30 in DRC
KINSHASA - At least 30 people died when an overcrowded boat hit a rock and sank on the Congo river (Democratic Republic of Congo), sparking riots in which angry youths on the rampage set fire t...Published: 27 Dec 2014 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede is also an alien
The insistence by Tobaiwa Mudede the Registrar General that people whose origins are countries such as Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique are aliens is very regrettable, unfortunate as well as misplaced. I...Published: 27 Jun 2013 at 15:05hrs | 9 | by Mosimani Mudziwepasi
Zimbabwe's initiatives to boost the power situation
PRESS RELEASEIn view of the current challenges besetting the efficient supply of power nationwide and the need to enhance the financial position of the electricity utilities, the Ministry of ...Published: 05 May 2013 at 08:09hrs | 2 | by Mangoma
Minister Elton Mangoma Speech to Parliament on Power Cuts
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT TO PARLIAMENT BY HON E. S. MANGOMA, MINISTER OF ENERGY AND POWER DEVELOPMENT ON THE MEASURES TO BE TAKEN INORDER TO IMPROVE THE POWER SITUATION...Published: 12 Jul 2012 at 13:36hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Africa's vanishing Lake Chad puts 30 million lives at risk
As you approach the Lake Chad basin from Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria, the evidence of despair is telling. The air is dusty, the wind is fierce and unrelenting, the plants are wilting and t...Published: 14 May 2012 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Ahmad Salkida
White settlers never stole any land from Africans
This interesting article was extracted from timeslive as it it. It goes like, Black Africans never owned any land. Any form of formal ownership is a Western concept. ...Published: 11 Jul 2011 at 14:41hrs | | by Herman Griessel
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