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State diamond firm lays off hundreds to avoid collapse
Zimbabwe's state-controlled diamond miner, the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), has launched a major retrenchment exercise in a desperate bid to stave off collapse, following a brutal cra...Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:08hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's liberation was the greatest farce of all time
The truth can be a bitter pill to swallow, but it needs to be taken if we are to heal our nation.Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, celebrated as a triumph over colonial oppression when independe...Published: 25 Feb 2025 at 21:11hrs | 1162 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU-PF feverish defence of Chinese looting proves Zimbabwe now a colony!
A few days ago, renowned economist and former member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee, Eddie Cross, made some interesting revelations. He claimed that there are ...Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 16:20hrs | 1343 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If ZANU-PF regime cracked down on gold smugglers as they do small businesses, Zimbabwe would prosper
This morning, while in town, I had a fascinating encounter with a lady entrepreneur who owns a small clothing business. After recognizing me as the author of articles she regularly reads, she ...Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 08:33hrs | 479 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
85 000 Chinese nationals now living in Zimbabwe
I was astonished to hear the other day that there are now over 85 000 Chinese nationals living in Zimbabwe. I questioned this estimate and was told no, its real. What on earth are they doing here? The...Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 19:15hrs | 930 | by Eddie Cross
Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The curse of diamonds: How Zimbabwe's wealth is failing its people
I was listening this morning as the Minister of Mines, Winston Chitando, boasted over Zimbabwe's increasing diamond production. Indeed, Zimbabwe's diamond industry has long been touted as a be...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 15:09hrs | 962 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni
US$1m stolen from Namibian bank was paid to Mugabe's pilot
A total of N$18,8 million (US$1m) stolen from SME Bank was transferred to and laundered by former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe's pilot and confidant Robert Mhlanga.This is according to c...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 16:18hrs | 8435 | by Staff reporter
Simba Rushwaya dies
Zimbabwean veteran sports journalist Simba Rushwaya has passed away at 49 from colon cancer at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare. A distinguished figure in Zimbabwean sports journalism, Rushwaya...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 12:35hrs | 2647 | by Staff reporter
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 49 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwean diamonds not as valuable as widely believed
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has disclosed that local diamonds, primarily found in Manicaland Province, do not possess the widely assumed high value, with approximately 75% of...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:32hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens Cecil John Rhodes' grave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has threatened to "take action" if the British failed to claim the remains of Cecil John Rhodes buried at Matobo in Matebeleland South province.He made the remarks...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
We have neglected Manicaland for too long Mr President Sir
On the 24th of June 2023, the President and First secretary of Zanu-PF, Cde ED Mnangagwa, will launch the Zanu PF campaign foundation upon which this year’s election bid will be built upon in Chipin...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Chinese miner threatens workers over strike
DIAMOND miner, Anjin Investments (Pvt) Ltd, has threatened to dismiss workers who go on strike in protest over poor salaries and working conditions.In a memorandum dated May 31 addressed to mi...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime sees lithium as Zimbabwe's get-out-of-jail card
High demand for minerals in lithium, driven by ion batteries for electric vehicles and other green technologies, may be Zimbabwe's sanctions get-out-of-jail card — or a get-rich-quick card for Zanu-...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to scale up diamond cutting, polishing industry
MINES and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has said the country is targeting seven million carats this year as the country plans to scale up the diamond cutting and polishing industry....Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Court releases Vast Resources' diamonds
VAST Resources (Vast) says the High Court of Zimbabwe has ordered the release of its 129 400 carats of rough diamonds, which have been in the custody of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) since 2010....Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:20hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's diamonds sold for a song
Zimbabwe often sells its diamonds below market prices as they are not sought for and are even explicitly banned by major jewellery retailers for ethical reasons," ReportZIMBABWE is allegedly s...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Villagers, army officers in violent clashes
VILLAGERS in the Chiadzwa area of Manicaland province this week clashed with soldiers and police officers manning the Marange diamond fields.The confrontation erupted at Chingome Business Cent...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Illegal diamond dealer robbed of US$10,000
ARMED robbers raided an illegal diamond buyer at Marange diamond fields last Friday and robbed him of US$10 000 and a vehicle at gunpoint after dangling pieces of diamonds to the unsuspecting diamond ...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A case for Zimbabwe defence forces
DEFENCE and War Veterans Affairs minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri made very disturbing comments this week on the situation in our army barracks where hunger has apparently set up base.C...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Human rights abuses resurface in Chiadzwa
Human rights abuses have resurfaced in the volatile Marange diamond fields in Chiadzwa, Manicaland province, jolting government to dispatch high-ranking officials and State security agents to ease ten...Published: 21 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Wadyajena shockingly arrogant'
POLITICAL analyst Ibbo Mandaza has described Zanu-PF Gokwe-Nembudziya legislator Justice Mayor Wadyajena as "arrogant" after he dared the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) to confiscate all h...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns to UN over gem ban
ZIMBABWE'S ruling Zanu-PF and 16 fringe opposition parties under the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) have requested the United Nations (UN) to help it resume international trade in diamonds, the Zim...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 08:07hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya emerges in the thick of shady Zimbabwe military dealings
FOR long, Martin Rushwaya was the military's point man in its multi-million-dollar commercial ventures, as the permanent secretary in the Defence ministry from 2009 until 2019.In April 2019, P...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean diamonds producer expands into Botswana
VAST Resources says its acquisition of Gem Diamonds Botswana (GDB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of London headquartered Gem Diamonds, aligns with its longer-term strategy to "maximise and crystallise" t...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:52hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Govt defends disputed Dinde mining project
GOVERNMENT has defended the disputed Chinese coal mining project in Dinde, Hwange district, Matabeleland North province, and threatened to arrest villagers blocking the project.Zanu-PF Dinde a...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
JOC assesses border security
THE National Joint Operations Command (JOC) met in Beitbridge yesterday and committed to beefing up borderline security to control rampant smuggling of goods and irregular migration which peaks during...Published: 12 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's difficult path to healing
ASS graves keep cropping up in Zimbabwe.The killings of civilians date back years, but wounds remain. The hurdle to healing is the government, experts say.The trauma persists even in t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:23hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Type 2 diamonds to anchor Zimbabwe's US$12 billion industry
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would anchor its US$12 billion mining industry economy on a rare and more expensive type two diamond set to be mined in its Malipati Diamond Projects in Matabeleland South...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
CSOs angry over border policing failures
CIVIC organisations in the country yesterday expressed fury over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government's failure to police border areas, where there is rampant smuggling of minerals.In a j...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prioritise locals over Chinese contractors for the benefit of Zim economy
Kenyan law professor Patrick Lumumba gets animated when he talks about China's rising influence on the African continent where governments get blinded by their fraternal ties with the Communist Party ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 10:51hrs | 7 | by Anthony Matutu
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 7 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Chinese firm eyes 5-star hotel
ANHUI Foreign Economic Construction Group Co Ltd (Afecc) is looking to invest in a five-star hotel in Zimbabwe, but that would depend on whether they will get back their money.The group has in...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe turns to nuclear enrichment, with help from Russia
TROUBLED by a recurring electricity crisis, Zimbabwe agreed terms with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment in a bid to begin generation, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo revealed this...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | 7 | by newzimbabwe
NPRC reduced to a lobby group fails to put closure on human rights violations
The National Peace and Reconciliation Commission has been reduced to a mere lobby group as some people within the Junta led government continue to meddle in the business of the Commission that is mean...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | | by Makho Precious Moyo
Famous ghosts that saved lives
Though stories of the dead returning from the afterlife to involve themselves in the affairs of the living are as old as humanity, they still send chills down many people's spines.When terrify...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Tendai Chara
'China funded Chiwenga's coup'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that China funded the bloody November 2017 coup after President Robert Mugabe barred Chinese firm Anjin from operating in Chiadzwa where there were reportedly...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 21:37hrs | 17 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Obert Mpofu brushes off graft charges
Obert Mpofu, under pressure to vacate his Zanu-PF secretary for administration post over corruption allegations, has said he won't be stopped from reporting for work by anyone as a graft inquiry gets ...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Is Obert Mpofu corrupt?
The nation and the world have been made to believe that Obert Mpofu is corrupt, evil and arrogant. All this is the proud achievement of one man in particular Lovemore Kurotwi.The Kurotwi - Mpo...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 11:17hrs | 3 | by Nicholas Ncube
Minister blasts diamond barons
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba yesterday blasted individuals who were accumulating wealth through corrupt deals in the diamond sector.She made the remarks at the Zimb...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZNA used loot-all-you-want platinum concession to secure $500m loan - proof junta resolve to hang on
Last week RBZ Governor, Dr John Mangudya, and Finance Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, were thrilled to announce that the country secured a $500 million loan. The loan would end the shortages of fuel...Published: 23 May 2019 at 18:29hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
China refuses to give Mnangagwa US$5 Billion
National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has refused to honour a USD$5 Billion loan that was requested by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government. He further...Published: 13 May 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's deployment of State security criticised
LOCALS in Marange and Chimanimani are up in arms with government over its deployment of State agents manning diamond fields as reports of abuses continue.Headman Ngorima recently told a Stakeh...Published: 05 May 2019 at 17:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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