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Ramaphosa demands lifting of sanction - crying shame, one so powerful is hopelessly wrong
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political mess and there are many who have taken to shouting "Don't panic! Don't panic!" only to help spread the panic!"Ideally, the key thing is to establi...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1416 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
SA has 3 weeks to process permits for Zimbabweans
The processing and dispatching of exemption permits for Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa should be completed in the next two to three weeks, the South African Ministry of Home Affairs ha...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1735 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to set up battery manufacturing factories
Minister July Moyo says Zimbabwe is going to set up battery manufacturing factories in the Midlands Province as part of lithium beneficiation efforts, ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1734 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa's Post Cabinet media briefing - Full statement
The Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Monica Mutsvangwa addressed a Post Cabinet media briefing in the Cabinet room at Munhumutapa Building today.Mutsvangwa highligh...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2086 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax threatens mines operations
THE mining sector survey says the 2% transactional tax imposed last month has resulted in price increases across the value chain, which, if not reviewed, would lead to suspension of operations by some...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:00hrs | 954 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa set to finish off Obert Mpofu
Hwange-based Zambezi Gas, a coal mining company, has appealed to the Temba Mliswa-led parliamentary panel to intervene so that it can get its land, which was allegedly grabbed by Zanu-PF administratio...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 12:41hrs | 4083 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe ripe for investment'
DEVELOPING markets investment bank, Exotix Capital Limited says Zimbabwe under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's leadership is ripe for investment with potential investors now looking at the country with...Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
Greed, graft major undoings for Zimbabwe
Over the years, the Zanu-PF leadership has taken the country and its citizens down a bottomless pit where recovery is proving very difficult.Since independence from the British in 1980, when t...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 11:52hrs | 1266 | by Staff reporter
Diamond exploration starts along highway
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has intensified diamond mining by spreading its tentacles from Chiadzwa to Murazvu Village A adjacent to Wengezi, along the Mutare-Masvingo highway, wh...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:58hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds output increases
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company has recorded a 54 percent jump in after Government extended US$80 million to recapitalise the company.ZCDC was created by Government under Special Gra...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 07:32hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Lift sanctions, Zimbabwe has change enough 'to scold ED' - but not to stop him rigging elections
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political trouble and there many reasons why this is so. One of these many reasons; the country is cursed with an unusually large army of corrupt and incompetent vi...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:34hrs | 1168 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
China denies deploying 4k at Chiadzwa diamond fields
THE Chinese government is exasperated at criticism by "smart" Zimbabweans who do not appreciate what the Asian economic behemoth is doing in the country.Acting Chinese envoy Zhao Baogang on Th...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:48hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi involved in an accident before being arrested
Businessman Genius Kadungure was arrested on Thursday just hours after he was involved in an accident near Domboshava.Kadungure was grabbed by detectives as he left the Harare Magistrates Cour...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 7296 | by ZimLive
African govts fight 'conflict diamonds' resolution
AFRICAN governments led by South Africa are fighting tooth and nail to stop the passing of a resolution by the Kimberly Process to expand the definition of "conflict diamonds", it has been learnt....Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 06:01hrs | 1010 | by Staff reporter
'I have Thatcher's iron lady resolve,' says ED - rigged election for iron grip on power, must prise free
"WHEN Margaret Thatcher was elected UK prime minister in 1979, she recognised that piecemeal change would not be sufficient to tackle the problems of labour unrest, rampant inflation and economic stag...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:05hrs | 1372 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
War Vets recall Chris Mutsvangwa?
Reports reaching us are that Mashonaland Province chapter of the War Veterans association have met and official passed a Vote of no confidence on embattled War Vets Chairperson Ambassador Cristoph...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 08:14hrs | 7177 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030. This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 210 | by Emerson D. Mnangagwa
WATCH: Mnangagwa approves 11 projects worth $5.3 billion
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet circulated for the information of Cabinet a list of eleven projects which have been approved by His Excellency the President for immediate impleme...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 16:21hrs | 3876 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Anjin employees petition court over terminal benefits
Chinese miner Anjin's former employees have petitioned the High Court seeking leave to execute judgment pending appeal after the diamond miners obtained an order thwarting the attachment of its proper...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:13hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
'Allow community to benefit from diamonds'
MANICALAND Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba has alleged looting of diamonds by previous miners at Chiadzwa diamond fields and challenged the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC), ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 06:05hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
30 Chinese investors Zimbabwe bound
A high powered delegation of over 30 Chinese investors from Anhui Province is expected in the country tomorrow to explore the vast investment opportunities available in the various sectors of the econ...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 848 | by Staff reporter
Panic as Mnangagwa targets cash barons' bank accounts
BOGUS businesspersons operating briefcase companies that fed on government tender manipulation and kickbacks to amass wealth are reportedly in panic mode after the State said it would use the Zimbabwe...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 8690 | by Staff reporter
Kimberley Process chair asked to suspend diamond exports from Israel
During a round-table meeting in the EU Parliament in Brussels the EU chair of the Kimberley Process, Hilda Hardeman and chair of the KP Civil Society Coalition (CSC), Shamiso Mtisi, were urged to susp...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 12:09hrs | 374 | by Sean Clinton
'ED stepping up fight against graft' Mangwana praised - praise as contrived as fight itself
Nick Mangwana has worked hard as a Zanu-PF apologist and was recently rewarded with the appointment as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Media, Publicity and Broadcasting Services. The post was h...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | 270 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Economic Dialogue: Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030.This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabili...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:29hrs | 65 | by HE Emmerson D Mnangagwa
Double standards by Rio Zim
DearRio Tonto Zimbabwe particularly Murowa Diamonds has a policy whereby prospective employees are subjected to serious vetting including police clearance and anyone with a criminal record is ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:22hrs | 322 | by Concerned Zvishavane Residents
Time to value add, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed an indaba on how Zimbabwe should develop value chains for the country's mining and agriculture sectors with a view to advancing the twin objectives of moderni...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Marange diamond comes under the spotlight in Brussels
Human rights abuses in Marange and plans by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) to rope in artisanal miners risk putting the country on the agenda of the Kimberley Process Certification S...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:15hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Court stops Chimanimani farmers eviction
THE High Court has stopped the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) from evicting Chimanimani families, who were facing imminent displacement from their banana farms.The...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:11hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Grand theft: How diamonds were looted in Marange
In June 2006, one of the world's largest alluvial diamond deposits was discovered at Marange in eastern Zimbabwe. Estimated to yield between US1 to 1.7 billion dollars per annum, the revenue from thes...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 13:59hrs | 3528 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's 'Black Gold', no rush plus capital wagging State's tail
THE government of Zimbabwe held a Press conference at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially announced that a private company, Invictus, had made oil and gas discoveries in Muzarabani district. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 351 | by Takura Zhangazha
Hold Mnangagwa's govt to account on mega deals, says Mudenda
SPEAKER of Parliament, Jacob Mudenda has urged government to fight inertia, whereby deals worth billions of dollars are signed every time, but not implemented on time or never."Let us fight th...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:06hrs | 2429 | by Staff reporter
War Vets target Perence Shiri?
A citizen journalist from Mashonaland Central who got in touch with Bulawayo24 has reported that War Veterans in four administrative provinces of Zimbabwe have allegedly informally resolved to push fo...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 10:38hrs | 6258 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Diamond buyers shun Zimbabwe
Top diamond buyers across the world are shunning Zimbabwe due to delays emanating from a fight between the MMCZ and ZCDC for control of the marketing of the country's precious stones. This has...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to announce diamond policy
MINES minister Winston Chitando says he expects to announce a diamond policy later this month, which will also regularise the operations of the State-owned Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC)...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:28hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
Perence Shiri to replace Mutsvangwa as war vets leader?
A citizen journalist from Mashonaland Central who got in touch with Bulawayo24 has reported that War Veterans in four administrative provinces of Zimbabwe have allegedly informally resolved to push fo...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 19:44hrs | 9757 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bus accident victims' families seek $2,2m compensation
NINE surviving spouses and three guardians of the June 2017 horror accident involving a King Lion bus along the Harare-Chirundu Highway have filed a $2,2 million compensation lawsuit from the bus comp...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 1469 | by Staff reporter
A dismissal that changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
The band played on. Feverishly. Madly. Deafening sounds and wet, clammy bodies gyrating against each other in lustful, prodigal passions. Zimbabwe was enthralled by a mad political spectacle. It was t...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:57hrs | 4591 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Masisi openly attacks Ian Khama in an unprecedented clash
Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi has used his first state-of-the-nation address to openly attack his predecessor Ian Khama in an unprecedented clash in a country that prides itself on stability....Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 17:12hrs | 5464 | by AFP
'ZCDC security staff looting diamonds'
ZIMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) security officials have been implicated in cases of diamond looting in Chiadzwa after they allegedly formed syndicates with illegal miners.This was...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1911 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should take advantage of Intra-African Trade Fair'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said Zimbabwe should take advantage of the upcoming Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) set for next month in Egypt to improve export market diversification and tap...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Mines secretary, ZCDC boss face contempt of Parliament charges
MINES ministry secretary Onesimo Moyo and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) chief executive officer Morris Mpofu are facing contempt of Parliament charges for ordering witnesses not to atte...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 164 | by Staff reporter
Lumumba Saga takes new twist....War vets bay for Mutsvangwa's blood
Following the leaking of an Audio in which whistle blower Acie Lumumba is confessing that he was given US$40 000 by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa to do a hatchet job against Kuda Tagwirei, the Zim...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 08:40hrs | 15730 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube told to get his 2% tax from diamond looters
VILLAGERS in Marange villagers have fiercely rebuffed the 2% electronic payments tax recently introduced by finance minister Mthuli Ncube saying the treasury chief must, alternatively, hunt down billi...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 3921 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's wealth exposed
Robert Mugabe has always been a well-kept secret with no one knowing exactly how much the Mugabes are worth. The only snippets has been the $1.35m diamond ring bought for Grace's wedding anniver...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 14:46hrs | 45097 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jailed Mnangagwa ally to walk free
South African businessman Zunaid Moti, who has been locked up in a prison in Munich, Germany, for two months after he was arrested on the strength of an international warrant of arrest, could walk fre...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1151 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe diamond output to shatter records'
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company is expected to smash production records as it guns for a three million carat haul this year, driven by US$100 million invested in operations over the last two...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:41hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa will not survive economic meltdown,' says Chamisa
Movement For Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance president Nelson Chamisa has labelled the two percent tax on every electronically-transacted dollar an unabashed robbery of the masses.The Ministr...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 16:11hrs | 9126 | by Staff reporter
Maguwu claims spike in human rights abuses
THE Centre for Natural Resource and Governance (CNRG) has claimed massive harassment of its staff by police and intelligence officials, but vowed to continue exposing gross human rights abuses of peop...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:59hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Desperate Mnangagwa exposed after premature oil announcement
Invictus' rebuttal of oil discovery claims is not only an embarrassment on the person of Mnangagwa but exposes the insatiable appetite to score cheap political points by the current regime.The...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 13:54hrs | 5117 | by Jacob Mafume, MDC National Spokesperson
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