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Zimbabwean truck driver dies in SA fatal accident
A tragic accident on the N1 road near Colensburg has claimed the life of 43-year-old driver Leon Munhukwaye, who was operating a truck when the incident occurred approximately 30 kilometers from Colen...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:49hrs | 906 | by Staff reporter
RwandAir suspends Harare - Cape Town flights
Zimbabweans have lost one of their few alternative options for flying directly from Harare to Cape Town as RwandAir has announced the suspension of all flights to the South African city. The airline's...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 15:43hrs | 7386 | by Staff reporter
Zim-SA cultural heritages to transform tourism and trade
Zimbabwe (Bulawayo) and South Africa (KwaZulu Natal) will benefit from their cultural heritage and related exchange programmes which are set to be synthes...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 21:40hrs | 273 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Guvamatanga faces scrutiny over South African properties
George Guvamatanga, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, is under investigation following revelations of his extensive property portfolio in South Africa. This development has raised si...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:25hrs | 10042 | by Staff reporter
UK care firm charged workers from Africa thousands more than cost of visa
A CARE company serving NHS patients has been charging migrant workers from Africa thousands of pounds to work in the United Kingdom when the cost of a visa is only a few hundred pounds, The Guardian h...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 04:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe gets second Embraer ERJ145 aircraft
Air Zimbabwe has received its second Embraer ERJ145 aircraft, increasing its operational fleet to three planes. The new aircraft was unveiled at the Robert Mugabe International Airport in Harare, with...Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA court hears how diesel consignment from British oil company to Zimbabwe 'disappeared'
British oil company BP claimed to have exported a consignment of diesel to Zimbabwe in 2019 - but the fuel never arrived.A case brought by the South African Revenue Service (Sars) in a South A...Published: 17 Jan 2024 at 05:09hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's house negroes
THERE was once a fire at the slave master mansion and the house negro was heard wailing: "Our house is on fire!" much to the astonishment of the field negroes.This small anecdote flashed and r...Published: 23 Dec 2023 at 10:21hrs | 11 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zapu promises to grow economy by US$80bn in poll manifesto
The Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) has outlined plans to build a US$80 billion economy in the next 20 years if voted into power in next month's elections.The opposition which is not fi...Published: 18 Jul 2023 at 21:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Shaka Zulu is back in pop culture
SHAKA kaSenzangakhona is universally recognised as the founder of what would become known as the "Zulu nation".He ruled from about 1817 until he was assassinated by his half-brothers in 1828....Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Valee Music courts DJ Tira
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)-BASED Zimbabwean Afro-pop songbird Valee Music has roped in the services of South African DJ, record producer and kwaito artiste DJ Tira on Ng'cabanga Ngawe (Thinking about You), h...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
No arrests on AKA murder yet
Still no arrests in AKA murder investigation but ‘there is progress' says South Africa police minister, Bheki CelePolice Minister Cele, says significant progress has been made into the murde...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born Italian rugby star recounts farm invasions horror
Sebastian Negri still remembers the gunshots. A staccato volley piercing the still Zimbabwean night. He was eight years old when a violent gang of war veterans came to seize his family farm. Around th...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jah Prayzah mourns AKA
Musician Mukudzei "Jah Prayzah" Mukombe has mourned South African rapper Kiernon AKA Forbes who was shot dead last night in Durban."Nev...Published: 11 Feb 2023 at 06:12hrs | 7 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Harare backs Moscow
WINDS of a renewed Cold War between the United States and Russia - thunderously manifesting itself in Ukraine through iron and blood - swept across the southern African region this week as Russian For...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 19:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Popular South African musician Mapintsha dies aged 40
Mampintsha, gqom musician and husband of Babes Wodumo, has died.The 40-year-old star died on Saturday morning.West Ink Records manager Sbu Ncube confirmed the news to Ts...Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ramapho$a Dollar Gate: The truth and the lie$
'Rumours are carried by haters, spread by fools and accepted by idiots' - Ziad K. Abdelnour.I am not in the habit of arguing with idiots because I know they will drag me to their level and bea...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 18:44hrs | 12 | by Mzilikazi Wa Afrika
Mnangagwa meets another Dubai investors delegation
A three-member delegation from one of the largest marine terminal operators in the world, DP World owned by the government of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), who are in Zimbabwe to set up log...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA business group unhappy with rise of Zimbabwean expats
THE appointment of Sitholizwe Mdlalose as chief executive of South Africa's telecoms giant Vodacom has triggered xenophobic reactions after the country's Black Business Council (BBC) demanded that loc...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:13hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean drivers fear being targeted by a xenophobic groups in SA
"I prayed for them to let me live because some who found themselves in similar circumstances, were reported dead," says Richard Mudhara, a Zimbabwean truck driver working in Johannesburg.He wa...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:35hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
South Africa hospital denies Zimbabwean man access to dialysis machine
Journalist Zenzele Ndebele has reported that a relative of his has been denied access to a dialysis machine by a South African hospital after being told he is a foreigner. "I have a relative a...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 18:24hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa mourns SA flood victims
President Mnangagwa yesterday sent a message of condolence to South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa following the death of over 300 people due to floods that hit KwaZulu-Natal province.In a s...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Efficient public transport system crucial'
The ongoing modernisation of the economy and increase in productivity requires an efficient public transport system as enunciated in the National Development Strategy 1 (NDS1).This was said by...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Dangote still interested in investing in Zimbabwe
AFRICA'S richest person Aliko Dangote is still interested in investing in Zimbabwe and had planned to meet Zimbabwe authorities at the Intra-African Trade Fair (IATF) recently held in Durban, South Af...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:53hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jets off to SA for Trade Fair
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa left Harare Monday for Durban in South Africa to attend the Inter Africa Trade Fair (IATF) in Durban, South Africa.Early this month, Mnangagwa and an entourage of ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 18:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The slow death of key liberation movements in Southern Africa
SOUTH Africa's governing party, the African National Congress (ANC) - the continent's oldest liberation movement - has for the first time since the 1994 democratic elections - dropped below 50% in loc...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
More Zupco buses coming in time for festive season
Another batch of 100 new buses is being offloaded in Durban and will soon arrive to boost the Zupco fleet in time for the festive season while the company works on its next step in rail services - the...Published: 09 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
More buses for Zupco arrive
Public transport continues to grow with the latest batch of 50 new Golden Dragon buses from China passing through Beitbridge at the weekend to join the Zupco fleet and the new train service linking ce...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean referees appointed for international assignments
ZIMBABWEAN football referees will be busy this month after receiving appointments to officiate in international matches on the continent. Referees on the Fifa panel were appointed to handle ma...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa deploy soldiers to SABC offices to prop up propaganda machine?
The SABC has confirmed that members of the South African National Defence Force have been deployed at its offices in Auckland Park, Johannesburg and in Durban.The deployment of the soldie...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa deploys military tanks in KwaMashu a first after the end of apartheid
South African National Defence Force tanks are starting to roll into areas in KwaZulu-Natal province.This deployment forms part of Operation PROSPER, which started on 12 July with the deployme...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-pres...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabweans survive South Africa's anti-immigrant drive?
South Africa's strong and extensive ties with Zimbabwe are buckling under the strain of COVID-19 economic challenges and migration. The nearly 500 undocumented migrants arrested on a daily basis tryin...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 13:29hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
SA Home Affairs, DA denounce violence against foreigners
South Africa's Home Affairs Department and that country's main opposition political party, the Democratic Alliance (DA) on Friday denounced the violence by some locals targeting foreign nationals in D...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean appointed director of Africa at Sony Music UK
NEWLY-APPOINTED director of Africa at Sony Music UK, Taponeswa Mavunga says she is proud of Zimbabwean artistes who market the country's talent through collaborations with other African artistes. ...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Airlink reconnects Zimbabwe and South Africa
Airlink, the privately-owned regional airline, will reconnect Zimbabwe and South Africa when it resumes scheduled passenger services from 05 October. This follows the lifting of travel restric...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors off to Nigeria
THE ZIMBABWE Warriors yesterday set off for the second leg of the Afcon preparations when they flew to Nigeria for their high-profile international match against the Super Eagles at Stephen Keshi Stad...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors star on the verge of Ligue 1 switch
WARRIORS star Marshall Munetsi has struck gold after agreeing to join French topflight side Stade Reims at the beginning of next season, while Belgian side Zulte Waregem have also tabled an offer for ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Warriors send off
A send off ceremony for the Zimbabwe senior national football team, the Warriors, was held last night at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) ahead of their Thursday departure for the COS...Published: 28 May 2019 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cosafa bursts into life
COSAFA president Philip Chiyangwa officially opened this year's edition of the senior men's tournament in Durban, South Africa yesterday with a pledge to continue making the regional tournament a key ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zifa begs Costa not to quit
THE Warriors technical team, led by Sunday Chidzambga, are pursuing Costa Nhamoinesu with the hope of persuading him to reverse his decision to quit international football so that he can be part of th...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Warriors in dilemma
Warriors coach Sunday Chidzambga is this week expected to name two separate squads for the Cosafa Cup tournament and the friendly match against Nigeria following the scheduling of the friendly match a...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspended, fined for failing to host Cosafa
Zimbabwe has been suspended from COSAFA and fined US$50 000 for failure to honour an agreement to host the 2019 COSAFA Cup.Zimbabwe failed to host this year's regional tournament set for May 2...Published: 01 May 2019 at 17:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo takes rebranding campaign to Durban
Bulawayo Publicity Association (BPA) has been given the opportunity to market the City of Kings and Queens and the country at large in South Africa after it was invited to exhibit at Africa’s Travel...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Coltart and Jonathan Moyo clash over xenophobia
Former Cabinet Ministers Professor Jonathan Moyo and David Coltart have clashed over statements by South Africa's Julius Malema condemning xenophobic attacks against Africans in the neighbouring count...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 10:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube in new attempt to get SA loans
Fresh from being politely denied a bailout by SA's government just a fortnight ago, Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube said he had approached private investors in SA to inject funds into his cou...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:57hrs | | by Business Live
Zimbabwean driver battles for life after fresh SA xenophobic attacks
A ZIMBABWEAN truck driver is battling for life at a hospital in Durban, KwaZulu Natal province in South Africa after he was caught up in suspected fresh xenophobic attacks in the neighbouring country....Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 die in fresh SA xenophobic attacks after Ramaphisa threat
SUSPECTED fresh xenophobic attacks in South Africa have resurfaced in some parts of Limpopo province and Durban in KwaZulu Natal, leaving three people dead and several houses burnt to ashes. T...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's reason for using expensive jets revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a name for himself as a lover of expensive jets which he uses to travel within and outside the country. In January he hired an expensive jet on a round trip to Eu...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bulawayo cremation machine impounded by SA authorities
Tax authorities in South Africa have seized a crematorium machine from Japan headed for Bulawayo in a payment dispute, according to the city council. The machine is used in the disposal of a d...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 13:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
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