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Minister Raj Modi's liquor outlet closed amid smuggling clampdown
The Zimbabwean government has shut down a liquor outlet owned by Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce, Raj Modi, in Bulawayo as part of a nationwide operation targeting smuggled goods. The closure...Published: 16 Dec 2024 at 15:20hrs | 2107 | by Staff reporter
South Africa to deploy drones to strengthen Beitbridge border?
South Africa has announced plans to introduce drones under its Border Management Authority (BMA) to monitor and secure its borders, which have long been criticized as “porous." The move is aimed at ...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:55hrs | 466 | by Staff reporter
Seasonal spike in smuggling and illegal crossings along Limpopo river
Communities along the Limpopo River, near Musina on the border between South Africa and Zimbabwe, are witnessing a seasonal surge in illegal crossings and smuggling as the riverbed dries. This phenome...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:53hrs | 116 | by Staff reporter
Major crackdown on smuggling launched
A multi-agency operation targeting small businesses and cross-border transporters involved in smuggling and unethical practices has led to the impounding of dozens of vehicles, including buses and hau...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:49hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique shoe dealers flood Zimbabwe
In the bustling streets of Marondera's central business district, a 23-year-old Mozambican national, Moses Ferinando, makes his way through the crowd, an array of shoes - mostly sneakers - strapped to...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:04hrs | 2728 | by Staff reporter
UK ready to fight Russia in Eastern Europe
Britain's armed forces would be ready to fight their Russian counterparts "tonight" if Vladimir Putin invades another Eastern European nation, a top U.K. military chief said Thursday."If the B...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 16:46hrs | 2109 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on course to break winter wheat production record
Zimbabwe is poised to set a new winter wheat production record, with farmers having already harvested over 490,000 tonnes this season, a milestone that highlights the nation's agricultural revival in ...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:06hrs | 231 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo man arrested for flying a drone without a licence
Bulawayo police have arrested a 32-year-old man from Newton West for illegally operating a drone near a local lodge. The incident occurred on October 23, 2024, when police officers stationed on guard ...Published: 28 Oct 2024 at 12:18hrs | 1545 | by Staff reporter
China opposes coercive measures against developing countries
China on Tuesday represented 28 Global South countries and delivered a joint statement at the United Nations opposing unilateral coercive measures and urging countries imposing them to "immediately an...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 15:52hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Drone hits Netanyahu's home?
A drone has been "launched towards" the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the coastal town of Caesarea, his office has said."The prime minister and his wife wer...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 13:10hrs | 2576 | by Staff reporter
Zimra goes after smugglers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has ramped up its efforts to combat the ongoing smuggling of goods into the country, amid growing concerns over the prevalence of the illegal practice. Despite a...Published: 12 Oct 2024 at 11:17hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
UK jets failed to shoot down Iranian missiles
The BBC understands that British military jets did not shoot down any Iranian ballistic missiles fired overnight. Nor did the Royal Navy Destroyer, HMS Duncan, fire any of her Sea Viper missiles....Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 17:17hrs | 2127 | by Staff reporter
Nyasha Magadhi: A Trailblazer in Zimbabwe's Mining Industry
Born: May 29, 2000 Occupation: Mining Entrepreneur, Consultant, Youth Advocate Founder: WeMine Zimbabwe, Ore Min...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 17:09hrs | 1547 | by Simbarashe Sithole
20 of the 31 US Abrams tanks supplied to Kiev have been destroyed
Military Watch estimates that 20 of the 31 units supplied to Kiev have been destroyed, badly damaged or capturedThe rate at which Ukraine is losing US-supplied Abrams M1 main battle tanks has ...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 16:25hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's CAAZ licenses 400 drone pilots
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has licensed over 400 drone pilots and certified more than 15 companies for the use of drone technology across various sectors. These certifications ref...Published: 08 Sep 2024 at 09:27hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to achieve targeted metric tonnes of winter wheat
The government has announced that Zimbabwe is on track to meet its goal of producing 600,000 metric tonnes of winter wheat by the end of the 2024/25 season, a crucial step in its pursuit of food secur...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 17:12hrs | 472 | by Staff reporter
Zimra bemoans Chirundu border porosity
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has expressed concerns over significant revenue losses due to the porosity of Chirundu Border Post, a key crossing point between Zimbabwe and Zambia. The border,...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 08:38hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Zambia border jumping spikes
The illegal movement of immigrants between Zambia and Zimbabwe has increased due to the receding water levels in the Zambezi River, a result of the ongoing drought caused by the El Niño weather patte...Published: 12 Aug 2024 at 14:06hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Zimra warehouses full of smuggled goods
State warehouses at Beitbridge Border Post are overflowing with intercepted goods as security officials continue to crackdown on smugglers along the border.The use of drones, commercial and ba...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:31hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
NRZ drones expose coal thieves
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has seen positive results from its investment in drones, leading to the arrest of four women for extracting coal along train tracks. NRZ security person...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:35hrs | 281 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Agricultural Society ups security for this year's edition
The Zimbabwe Agricultural Society (ZAS) says it has put steps to increase surveillance, enhance security and streamline efficiency during this year's exhibition to try and curb potential of theft, inc...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 14:44hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe integrates drones into aviation system
The Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has fully implemented the 2018 regulations to safely integrate drone technology into the country's aviation system. This ensures innovative drone use wi...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:50hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The death of coalitions
To drag out or not to drag Biden!What a disaster for the Democrats in United States elections!With little foresight or care, Democrats pitted a dead-man-come-to-life by the name of Joe...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:16hrs | 2 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
BCC warns against connecting private water sources to city system
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has cautioned residents not to connect water tanks and boreholes to the council system as it may be difficult to trace water contamination. This comes as the local ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine not allowed to attack Kremlin with US-supplied missiles
Washington has not authorized Ukraine to use US-supplied missiles to attack targets deep inside Russia, including Moscow, President Joe Biden has said. His comments came after the US permitted Kiev to...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 17:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drones to be deployed at Plumtree, Victoria Falls border posts
The Government is set to deploy drones at the Plumtree Border Post, followed by Victoria Falls, in an effort to curb smuggling and enhance security at ports of entry. This initiative aims to boost rev...Published: 02 Jun 2024 at 09:05hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Drones help ZIMRA clamp down on smuggling
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) says there is significant progress in reducing smuggling through undesignated entry points using drone technology.ZIMRA introduced drones in January 2024...Published: 28 May 2024 at 17:14hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Iranian president confirmed dead in helicopter crash
Iranian state media have confirmed that President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday in the northwestern province of East Azerbaijan. His entire entourage, including Fore...Published: 20 May 2024 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'You see skeletons' - the deadly migrant Limpopo crossing
The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant. They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.Now, her...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police bust mbanje smuggling racket
THE police intercepted a contraband of mbanje (dagga) and illegal cough syrups that was being smuggled into the country via the Beitbridge Border Post.The value of the illicit drugs which were...Published: 05 Apr 2024 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA authorities launch 'Operation Vala Umgodi' along the Limpopo River
THE smuggling of goods between Zimbabwe and South Africa has become a perennial headache forcing authorities in both countries to tighten screws on crime and at times running collaborative operations....Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 16:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's search for missing Australian tourist intensifies
ZIMBABWEAN authorities have intensified the search of an Australian tourist who went missing in Victoria Falls on Friday.Victoria Falls National Park, home to one of the world's seven wonders,...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Australian tourist has gone missing in Victoria Falls
A search operation involving the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is underway in Victoria Falls after a 67-year-old Australian tourist has...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to adopt Dubai's AI systems?
President Mnangagwa, who is here for the World Governments Summit, was yesterday charmed by artificial intelligence systems that assign police patrols across Dubai without human intervention, and vowe...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube wants PPPs in stadiums revamp
FINANCE, Economic Development and Investment Promotions minister Mthuli Ncube has urged private players to come on board to help revamp stadiums. Ncube said private players could come on board under t...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drones and fast cargo scanners deployed at the Beitbridge Border Post
Drones and fast cargo scanners have been deployed by the Government at the Beitbridge Border Post as it intensifies the use of modern technologies to curb invasive leakages and smuggling through ports...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's digital borders to go online in first quarter
ZIMBABWE will start the full implementation of the digitalised border concept this first quarter with a target of transforming all ports of entry into electronic gates by the end of the year.O...Published: 08 Jan 2024 at 05:31hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
to have unmanned border posts by next year?
Zimbabwe is set to become the first country apart from Dubai to have an unmanned border post by the end of next year, which will see travellers entering and exiting the country using their e-passports...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Police smash car smuggling ring
POLICE in Matebeleland South have smashed a well-orchestrated smuggling syndicate at Plumtree Border Post and recovered five smuggled Honda Fit vehicles, including some an assortment of goods illegall...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brighton Mutebuka blocked by Hopewell Chin'ono throws bricks at Petina Gappah
1. As many of you are aware, today I was blocked on Twitter by Hopewell.2. He cited several reasons for blocking me, such as allegations that I had "gossiped" and in that "gossip", I had said ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 06:02hrs | 18 | by Brighton Mutebuka
10 entrepreneurs make innovation challenge final list
Ten budding young entrepreneurs have made it through to the incubation stage of the third edition of the Value Creation Challenge, after a record 533 applicants this year, organisers said.This...Published: 08 Nov 2023 at 14:20hrs | 17 | by Paul Ndou
Ngidlaliswe amatope mina?
Reading Edward GibbonWhere is God bakithi?Edward Gibbon is no writer for easy readers. Yet he is so important to Britain's governing myth. No wonder why every British-born Prime Minist...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:21hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
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 | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt blames sanctions for army's poor state
GOVERNMENT has said the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) are wobbling due to a combination of underfunding and sanctions imposed by the West.In a speech to commemorate the Defence Forces Day at t...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners fuel Zimbabwe's wildlife illicit financial flows
It was business as usual for Mgcini Ncube when he was caught by detectives while skinning an impala deep inside Victoria Falls' Zambezi National Park.Ncube (37) had set up a temporary structur...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Voice Of America journalist arrested over unlicensed drone in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe Republic Police has detained Voice Of America journalist Columbus Mavhunga over an incident involving a drone.The police confirmed that investigations are being conducted in connectio...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 19:38hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF bussing supporters a smokescreen for rigging'
INCUMBENT President and Zanu-PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa's obsession with bussed crowds to his rallies is part of a well-orchestrated plan to claim popularity and cover up possible rigging, it has be...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF 'deploys drones' to spy on Chamisa's CCC
THE ruling Zanu-PF party yesterday "deployed drones" to spy on the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) campaign launch in Gweru as the August 23 polls campaign heats up.President Em...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Iran, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions are a fallacy
SO, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Zimbabwe for a visit.That was good news; well, for me at least, because I believe this was an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Raisi, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions can never cripple a country!
So, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is in Zimbabwe for a visit. That is good news! Well, for me, at least this is an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of those gover...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:05hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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