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US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Cannabis production doubles in Zimbabwe
THE production of industrial hemp doubled to more than 40 tonnes last year, with the country exporting about five tonnes to Switzerland.The number of players registered with the Agricultural M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 148 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya warns against forex loans
In a situation where there is little foreign currency in the market despite the banking sector having US$2,5 billion in nostro deposits, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya has warned agai...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 06:37hrs | 3652 | by Staff Reporter
2 Zimbabwe High Court judges facing removal from the bench for unprofessional conduct
Two High Court judges are facing removal from the bench for unprofessional conduct, ZimLive revealed.Justice Martin Makonese of the Bulawayo High Court and Justice Webster Chinamora of the Har...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 08:32hrs | 1758 | by Staff reporter
Scud to be revived
LISTED beverages producer, Delta Corporation Limited has said it is planning to revive its Scud beer brand to cover supply gaps on the market."There are ongoing efforts to optimise the availab...Published: 20 Jan 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Econet among Africa's top 250 companies
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and EcoCash Holdings Zimbabwe Limited have been named among Africa's top 250 companies by the African Business magazine.Every Year the African Business top 2...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 16:21hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Police exchange fire with robbers at tollgate
Seven armed robbers who allegedly stole about 400 kgs of pregnant carbons, cellphones and cash amounting to US$250 at Ansh Red mine in Shurugwi on Thursday, were arrested at Flamingo tollgate on Frida...Published: 26 Dec 2022 at 10:50hrs | 3506 | by Tarisai Mudahondo / Simbarashe Sithole
Machete wielding robbers pounce on Delta employee
Three unknown machete wielding robbers allegedly pounced on Delta employee and robbed him of his wallet which contained identity documents and US$300....Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 07:17hrs | 827 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Four die in bus accident
Four people died in a road accident that occurred today at the 40km peg along Bulawayo-Beitbridge from Gwanda when the bus was travelling in collided with two vehicles.Witnesses confirmed the ...Published: 18 Dec 2022 at 17:29hrs | 2775 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Musona crowned PSL king
And last night, Walter Musona capped a memorable season with FC Platinum after he was crowned Soccer Star of the Year at a glittering ceremony held at the Newlands Country Club in Harare last night....Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:11hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Delta, BOOST Innovation in support of SDGs
DELTA Corporation Limited in collaboration with the BOOST Fellowship have introduced a Social Innovation Competition which will run under the name Delta - BOOST Social Responsibility Programme (Make A...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 12:12hrs | 215 | by Staff Writer
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | 980 | by Staff reporter
Innscor invests in beer plant
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed Innscor Africa Holdings has invested close to US$70 million into a beer manufacturing plant under its Buffalo Brewing Company (Buffalo) with more funds expected to be in...Published: 11 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 964 | by Staff reporter
John Tallach reigns supreme at high schools quiz
JOHN Tallach High school from Matabeleland North province, came out tops in the inaugural Capital Markets high schools quiz competition held in Harare yesterday.The quiz show was organised by ...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:42hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Castle Lager National braai fest bounces back
Get tastebuds and friends ready for the biggest braai in Zimbabwe as the annual Castle Lager national braai day returns on October 22.Organisers, Delta Beverages are yet to announce the venue ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:45hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's capital markets collapse
DELTA Corporation CEO Matlhogonolo Valela has given graphic details about the frustrations that local firms have been enduring in accessing capital due to the country's difficult business environment....Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:21hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Delta Beverages faces MPs grilling over beer levy
DELTA Beverages bosses are facing a Parliamentary grilling over beer levy remittances to local authorities amid fears some were capitalising on lack of proper accounting systems to unlawfully under-re...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:19hrs | 433 | by Staff reporter
Production costs, competition strain Ingwebu
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking's beverages producer, Ingwebu Breweries, says rising costs of production coupled with increasing competition strained its earnings, which saw profit dropping ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Lager beer production seen up 11%
DELTA Beverages says its lager beer portfolio is performing ahead of prior year, with a target to produce more than two million hectolitres this year, up 11% compared to prior year.Last year, ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Delta unveils new Chibuku banana flavour
DELTA Beverages yesterday launched a new Chibuku opaque beer brand with a banana flavour.The beer, Chibuku Super Banana Flavour variant is brewed with the same traditional taste profile as its...Published: 23 Jun 2022 at 06:45hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Delta subsidiaries in revenue fix
BEVERAGES manufacturer Delta Corporation Limited says the volatility of the exchange rate-driven inflation is pressuring its operational costs and hurting the revenue generation capabilities of its fo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:55hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Delta loses multimillion rand appeal
THE Supreme Court has confirmed as legitimate, a multi-million dollar agreement in which a South African conglomerate, Blakey Plastics Investments, signed a contract to supply plastic products to Delt...Published: 31 May 2022 at 06:26hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic chips in for life-saving bridge construction
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe was part of a stellar team of stakeholders led by Rotary Club of Harare City, who chipped in with assistance in cash or kind during the construction of the Shavanhowe foot bridge...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:57hrs | 1451 | by Agencies
Two die in stampede at Castle Tankard
TWO people died on Saturday night in a stampede at the Borrowdale Race Course in Harare during the Castle Tankard musical show.The pair, Thomas Maarira (44) and Emilia Makoga (43), both of Hat...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:03hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo, Matabeleland in 7-hour blackout
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Zetdc) Western region yesterday disrupted electricity supplies to some parts of Bulawayo, Matabeleland North and South affecting operati...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:34hrs | 1340 | by Staff reporter
Man claims bottled drink contaminated
A HARARE man has demanded an independent laboratory test for the contents of a soft drink he recently bought from Coca-Cola, a subsidiary of Delta Beverages.Edmore Singo says the drink was not...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:36hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hits 5 million first Covid-19 jabs
ZIMBABWE passed the five million mark for first doses of Covid-19 vaccination last week with the record breaking blitz now in progress seeing more than 1,39 million doses administered in the last two ...Published: 04 Apr 2022 at 07:11hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls fuel levy cuts
Zimbabwe has hinted it may further reduce fuel levies to stymie a sustained spike in the domestic price of petroleum products after global prices soared on market uncertainty due to the conflict betwe...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Delta launch Sable Lager
DELTA Beverages have committed to partner with the Zimbabwe Rugby Union following the launch of a new beer — Sable Lager. Speaking during the launch on Friday evening, Delta Lagers Marketing...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Student shares bed with giant snake
FEAR gripped students of Novena University, Ogume Delta State, in Nigeria, after a python invaded a female hostel in the school.The python was found early morning on the bed of an unnamed fema...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:14hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2958 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Omicron survives longer on plastic surfaces and skin
The two most recent major variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus have proven to be more infectious than their predecessors.Experts increasingly agree that the virus spreads primarily through the air...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Men 'find' used condoms in Scud
SIX Karoi men were left shocked when they discovered used condoms at the bottom of a sorghum beer container, popularly known as a ‘scud', on Wednesday last week.Garikayi Musakambeva, Sheppar...Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:27hrs | 2032 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's lawyer piles pressure on High Court judge
Advocate Thabani Mpofu is piling pressure on embattled Zimbabwean High Court judge Justice Webster Chinamora, who is facing a series of accusations ranging from conflict of interest, judicial miscondu...Published: 23 Jan 2022 at 20:40hrs | 2309 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts threaten growth targets
Players in the manufacturing industry and mining sector have warned that continued power cuts could derail first quarter 2022 economic growth targets due to lost production time.This follows a...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:28hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Chibuku Super drives Delta Q3 performance
CHIBUKU Super spurred Delta Corporation's third-quarter performance, after the product contributed 77 percent to total sorghum beer sales volumes in the nine months to December 2021.Sorghum be...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:28hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends leave at home
President Mnangagwa is now on his annual leave, taking a break after implementing crucial activities at both Government and party level.In a statement yesterday, Chief Secretary to the Office ...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
CBZ tops blocked funds list
CBZ Bank has the highest amount (US$424 million) out of 580 companies with funds that could not be repatriated from the country - commonly known as blocked funds - latest official figures show....Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 05:57hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
Rains a blessing, roads a disaster
Waterlogging and potholes have made driving a nightmare in Bulawayo, while tyre traders are reporting brisk business.Bulawayo resident Mr Thamsanqa Sibanda was driving his vehicle along Intemb...Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Econet decries erratic power supply
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has bemoaned erratic power supply in the country, saying this was negatively affecting service delivery while adding to the telecoms giant's operational costs.Zimbabwe...Published: 04 Jan 2022 at 05:56hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
13 Covid 19 deaths on Day One of 2022
COVID-19 claimed 13 lives on the first day of the year, while 269 were hospitalised as of December 31 countrywide.On New Year's Day Zimbabwe had recorded a total of 214 214 confirmed cases, in...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
2021 marks four wasted years under Cyril Ramaphosa
Concluding his tour of four African countries in Dakar, President Cyril Ramaphosa told reporters that challenges faced by his administration in 2021 "combined to create just a catastrophic year"....Published: 01 Jan 2022 at 14:16hrs | 2008 | by Professor Sipho Seepe
Covid-19 kills 14 people on Christmas day
FOURTEEN people succumbed to Covid-19 and 277 others were hospitalised on Christmas Day across the country.Zimbabwe had by last Saturday recorded 203 746 confirmed Covid-19 cases, including 15...Published: 28 Dec 2021 at 07:05hrs | 86 | by Staff reporter
US lifts restrictions on Zimbabwe
THE restrictions were implemented to slow the spread of the omicron variant in the United States, and they applied to South Africa – where omicron was first detected – as well as Botswana, Eswatin...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:18hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Delta vows to meet increased demand
DELTA Beverages yesterday said it had enough capacity to meet demand during the festive season despite a recent shortage of some of its products on shop shelves.The beverage maker admitted ear...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:26hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Speculation rife as Zimbabwe records spike in cases of rare flu
Genomic sequencing is needed to avoid speculation of a new variant following a spike in rare flu cases in Zimbabwe, health experts have said.This comes as Zimbabwe is recording an increase in ...Published: 23 Dec 2021 at 05:36hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Shortage of beverages hits Bulawayo
BULAWAYO has been hit by a shortage of beverages, with retailers saying they have failed to restock for weeks after placing orders with Delta Beverages.Retailers said the beverage manufacturer...Published: 21 Dec 2021 at 06:14hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
WHO red flags Zimbabwe flu bug
A TOP World Health Organisation (WHO) official has red-flagged Zimbabwe over the possibility of a new variant circulating in the country following the outbreak of an unexplained flu bug.Health...Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:42hrs | 4548 | by Staff reporter
Vigilance paramount as 4th wave sweeps
ALL indications are that we are faced with a fourth and possibly deadly wave of the Covid-19 with disastrous consequences for both the national economy and human life. Official statistics point to a s...Published: 05 Dec 2021 at 06:07hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Female passenger caught breastfeeding cat during flight
A woman on a recent Delta Airlines flight allegedly began to breastfeed her pet cat mid-flight and refused to stop after getting caught.The incident allegedly happened during a recent trip onb...Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 21:42hrs | 239 | by Staff Reporter
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