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The politics of Zimbabwe's land reform: winners and losers
The political debates about the rights and wrongs of Zimbabwe's land reform continue to occupy many.The tired, old obsession about how the land was taken and the associated focus on so-called ...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 16:34hrs | 1 | by Ian Scoones
Neville Mutsvangwa delivers inspiring speech at Founders Awards Gala
In a powerful address at the prestigious Founders Awards Gala, Neville Mutsvangwa, Chairman of Mumba Money Africa, urged young people across Africa to come together and work towards enhancing intra-Af...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 11:16hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
US sanctions mongers target SA
PROPONENTS of the illegal economic sanctions on Zimbabwe and United States lawmakers with a penchant for sponsoring regime change and chaos in Africa are at it again - this time targeting South Africa...Published: 14 Jun 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA chrome tycoon 'pays millions' to Zanu-PF chefs
A FIRM controlled by one of South Africa's richest tycoons suspiciously moved millions of United States dollars to politically connected Zimbabwean companies and powerful individuals, about five years...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Haruzivishe takes Sikhala's case to British Parliament
EXILED opposition activist Makomborero Haruzivishe took the matter of Job Sikhala's prolonged political imprisonment to the British Parliament on 19 April 2023, hoping to increase international awaren...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 20:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Obama was 'fundraising phenomenon' but nothing compared to Mnangagwa's US$ 240 startup, thanks to Gold Mafia
When elections costs in an impoverished nation like Zimbabwe are comparable and even exceed those in a very rich nation like United States of America; you can be sure of one thing the Zimbabwe electio...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:51hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
UAE refuses to extradite Gupta brothers to South Africa
South Africa said on Friday it had learned with "shock and dismay" that the United Arab Emirates had turned down its request to extradite two brothers accused of orchestrating industrial-scale corrupt...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 09:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in desperate need of national leaders not Mafia bosses and gang leaders!
It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excrucia...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:17hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
UAE prince sets up Zimbabwe's FlyStream Airlines
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) prince, who arrived in Zimbabwe last month scouting for investment opportunities has established a new airline, Standardbusiness was told Friday.Prince Sultan Khal...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Billionaire targets Zimbabwe aviation, real estate business
Prince Sultan Khalil Ibrahim Albalishi, the billionaire founder and chief executive officer of Dubai-based Rind Properties, disclosed Thursday that he was targeting deals in Zimbabwe's real estate and...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo: are Matabeles co-owners of Zimbabwe?
It is of utimost importance for Matabeles to comprehend the true meaning of deceptive catchy phrases coined by the dubious Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe and ZANUPF since the days of the Zim...Published: 08 May 2022 at 12:33hrs | 9 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked 10th and US$100m richer
Africa's billionaires are richer than they have been in years, despite the global pandemic. As a group, the continent's 18 billionaires are worth an estimated $84.9 billion - a 15% increase from twelv...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to wow business tycoons in UK
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will this week host potential business investors in Glasgow, Scotland in a bid to unlock foreign direct investment (FDI) for Zimbabwe.An invitation sent out to del...Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 07:28hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
ZDERA framed to harm Zimbabwe
ON December 21, 2001, the then United States of America president, Mr George Bush, signed into law the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, marking the imposition of a set of economic sanctio...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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
Mthuli, Mangudya target Innscor over iIllegal forex rates
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and Finance Minister are investigating Innscor and other companies using illegal exchange rates of as high as US$1: $200.This follows a public outcry Wednesd...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 18:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs must be held to account
AFTER ripping Zimbabwe's economy apart last year, the COVID–19 pandemic spilled into 2021, infecting people and taking lives at an unprecedented scale.While this was bad enough, a new phenom...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who owns South Africa?
FORMER South African President Jacob Zuma did not bring the Guptas to South Africa. His folly was allowing the Guptas to be bigger than the Oppenheimers.Atul settled in Johannesburg and sold s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | | by New York Times
America feels threatened by successful Africans
Africa takes pride when a son or daughter of the soil flourish within and beyond the continent. Of late, successful entrepreneurs...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 08:35hrs | | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Foreign capital will never build Zimbabwe
LOVE it or hate it, the success of the Command Agriculture programme should force local banks to revise the long-held view of tying loans to collateral.If they identify bona fide indigenous pe...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 22:36hrs | | by Terence Mukupe
GMB primes for bumper harvest
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) will establish 1 800 mobile buying points countrywide by the end of this month as part of a cocktail of measures to ratchet up preparations for a record-breaking bumper...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ probes shady tycoons and firms
THE Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) - an arm of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) - has opened a fresh investigation into firms and individuals who are using shelf companies to siphon money from th...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe sanctions now outdated, says Mugabe coup announcer
Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe are outdated and should be removed as they benefit neither Zimbabwe nor the United States of America, the authors of the hostile policy, Foreign Affairs and International...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fuel price hike a step in some direction
With the unending queues and the bond crashing against the dollar, the Energy ministry has once again raised fuel prices to stem the so-called 'under-recoveries' of oil companies. According to the lat...Published: 26 May 2019 at 08:12hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC congress: Redefining the people's agenda
This weekend the MDC will hold its elective congress in Gweru, Midlands province, under the theme Defining a new course for Zimbabwe. This is the 5th congress we are holding since February 1999, when ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Mnangagwa goes after dirty Zimbabwean tycoons
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has launched a fresh crackdown against all powerful people stand accused of amassing wealth irregularly.It is reported that a comprehensive list of ta...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
We must flash out all the sloths
Hairdressers of Natpharm head honchos must understandably be worried since they might not be seeing their clients anytime soon, especially after they received quite the "hairdryer treatment" last week...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Can Zimbabwe manage to de-dollarize
The Zimbabwean government has indicated that a local currency will be introduced in the next 12 months in a move widely believed to be a precursor to joining the Common Monitory Area (CMA), also refer...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:18hrs | 7 | by Victor Bhoroma
Can Zimbabwe manage to de-dollarise?
THE Zimbabwean government has indicated that a local currency will be introduced in the next 12 months in a move widely believed to be a precursor to joining the Common Monetary Area (CMA), also refer...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:08hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa pays price for broken promises
Influential Americans have expressed disappointment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government for failing to live up to their promises that were made when the country's former leader, Rober...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - EU dialogue resumes
Zimbabwe and the European Union are set to resume dialogue this month as part of re-engagement efforts the new dispensation led by President Mnangagwa is undertaking, Foreign Affairs and International...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jecha for Mwonzora
In a typical 'give a dog a bad name and let him hang' the MDC, its leader, Nelson Chamisa in particular, is running scared and throwing all sorts of spanners at that party's Secretary General Douglas ...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Jasper Hloka
Zimbabwe - Missed opportunity after missed opportunity
The best opportunity was presented after the demise of Robert Mugabe. This was a golden opportunity to start afresh and bring a semblance of democracy and simultaneously revive the economy. November, ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Sibusisiwe Tshuma
Mnangagwa must act on reforms, promote democracy
newsdayZimbabwe, a land of unparalleled beauty and infinite potential, is again under democratic and economic siege. Armed men are removing residents from their homes. Unknown assailants have burnt th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zim-US embassy besieged as Zimbabweans mourn legendary jazz icon at home!
As Zimbabweans from all walks of life, at home and abroad, are grieving the loss of legendary jazz musician and icon Dr. Oliver Mtukudzi (MHSRIP), Zimbabwe's diaspora living in the United States of Am...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 12:36hrs | | by Advocate Walter Nyabadza
US senators blast Mnangagwa's govt
United States senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons - who are both members of Washington's influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee - have blasted the government over the heavy handedness of the s...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army deployed to Bulawayo streets
Government has deployed the much-dreaded Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) in the city as part of its desperate move to contain the civil unrest that was fast getting out of hand.All roads leading ...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
US wants Mnangagwa to restore internet
Senators Chris Coons and Cory Booker urged the Zimbabwean government to respect the rights of protesters and restore access to social media, internet and telephone services, ...Published: 16 Jan 2019 at 13:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Political studies 101 on how Zanu failed itself, the country, and the masses
Politically I wonder if it is the morning, afternoon and evening in Zimbabwe, to Africa and, to the Diaspora community who watch yet emotionally as tangled in as anyone at home. The Christmas message ...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mnangagwa's diplomatic offensive off the rails
LAST week's damning testimonies in the United States senate on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe have thrown President Emmerson Mnangagwa's international re-engagement agenda off balance, as Wash...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe I want
What is the truth? What does it set you free from? The Webster's Dictionary definition below says what the word truth means: "truth: being in accord with fact or reality." Thus, the truth sets you fre...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Mthuli Ncube calls for political reforms
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has urged the government to be receptive to the reform demands of the opposition and Western powers - as this will enable Zimbabwe to access help from overseas companies ...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
National wisdom, honest optimism can rescue Zimbabwe
FELLOW Zimbabweans, it is almost November again. Are you getting this novemberish sense of déjà vu? Remember November 2017? It was the best of times and the worst of times.This November, pro...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by Brian Kagoro
Mnangagwa expects better US-Zim relations despite Zidera
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo says he expects Zimbabwe's relations with the United States to improve under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, despite the latter extending sanction...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
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