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Director in court for US$120,000 fraud
Miccokays Enterprises (Private) Limited director, Gamuchirai Grant Machakaire, appeared in court on Saturday facing charges of defrauding Zakir H. Motola Investments (Pvt) Ltd of US$120,000 in a faile...Published: 14 Oct 2024 at 08:08hrs | 331 | by Staff reporter
Chemist Siziba dies
Zimbabwean local businessman Chemist Siziba who was one of the pioneers in the mobile telecommunications industry has died.He was 77.Siziba died of kidney failure at Parirenyatwa Hospi...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:05hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$400 000 cloud seeding programme takes off
IT'S a humid Friday afternoon and there are only two aircraft on the tarmac at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport in Bulawayo that are about to take off. One of them is a commercia...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:14hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tourists flock to Kariba for the famous bream
LAKE Kariba is arguably one of Africa's best, and prettiest spots to execute fishing expeditions.Over 40 different fish species call the lake home from shoals of Kapenta to the fighting Tiger ...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
National Foods hires Sikandar Raza as brand ambassador
National Foods has engaged Chevron's star, Sikandar Raza as the brand ambassador for their new range of cereal products.The Pearlenta Nutri-Active range comprises a wide array of breakfast cer...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC MP 'sells' expired products
MDC MP for Makoni Central has been arraigned before the courts for allegedly selling expired food products at his shop in Chivhu.David Tekeshe (56) resides at 270 Rhodes Chivhu and is the owne...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 14:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed Sikhala and Sithole curiously mum on CCC 'solidarity'
INCARCERATED opposition legislators, Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole have paid homage to fellow legislators, who were fighting for their release.The pair was, however, suspiciously silent on m...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African companies gets a flake over eGodini delays
RESIDENTS of Bulawayo have demanded immediate cancellation of contracts given to two South African companies, citing delays by one while the other has been accused of usurping council.Terracot...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 20:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Bosso players take blame for pathetic run
ALTHOUGH the buck stops with the coach and the gaffer takes the flake when results don't come, Highlanders' skipper and goalkeeper Ariel Sibanda says players are equally to blame for Bosso's faltering...Published: 06 May 2022 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mama's peanut butter maker injects US$1,5m, lifts award
LEADING agro-processor, Associated Foods of Zimbabwe (AFZ,) which scooped the Most Improved Manufacturer for the Year 2021 gong at the Buy Zimbabwe 2021 awards held last week, will establish groundnut...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:58hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
ZDERA framed to harm Zimbabwe
ON December 21, 2001, the then United States of America president, Mr George Bush, signed into law the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, marking the imposition of a set of economic sanctio...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
IMF SDR release puts Biti in his place
IN April 2021, the International Monetary Fund's Catastrophe Containment and Relief Trust (CCRT) granted debt relief to the 28 poorest and most vulnerable countries hit by catastrophic natural disaste...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
'MDC got more than US$10m to defend Western interests'
It is beyond debate that for the past decades or so, Zimbabwe has been reeling under the disastrous and debilitating effects of illegal sanctions that were imposed against the country by some powerful...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:44hrs | 4 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
Unmasking sanctions promoters
Many had hoped that the coming of a new administration led by President Donald Trump in America was going to usher in a fresh foreign policy trajectory. This deduction was wrong. Let me ...Published: 19 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | | by Ranga Mataire
Being Chief Felix Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni
Chief Ndiweni from Ntabazinduna is easily one of the newsmakers for 2019.The traditional leader, who has on many occasions angered President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government with his sharp crit...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by The Sunday Times
Biti, the new US ally, wither away Chamisa
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Principal, now one of the Co- Vice Presidents, Tendai Biti, has on several times, been embroiled in controversies that have been working against Zimbabwe's nationa...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Anesu Pedzisayi
Biti's new US ally, whither Chamisa?
Opposition MDC-Alliance co-vice president, Tendai Biti, has on several times, been embroiled in controversies that have been working against Zimbabwe's national interests in futile attempts to get int...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Tatenda Gono
Accountability, Trust will Determine Success of President's Reform Agenda
In the late morning of August 1, 2018, I was in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office with then United States Senator Jeff Flake, one of the sponsors of the Zimbabwean Democracy and Economic Recovery ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 21:43hrs | | by Brian A. Nichols
MDC, an alliance of fissures
Almost a year after the 2018 harmonised elections, the embattled MDC party continues to hit a brick wall in its efforts to be a united party.Before the unfortunate death of MDC founder, Morgan...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 19:23hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Zimbabwe sanctions now outdated, says Mugabe coup announcer
Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe are outdated and should be removed as they benefit neither Zimbabwe nor the United States of America, the authors of the hostile policy, Foreign Affairs and International...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
We want real meat-pies not soya-chunks
The story and 'evolutionary' progress of the Zimbabwean meat-pie is stomach churning and disappoing. Updating technology and latest recipes have failed to bring back the 'lick and bite' on our beloved...Published: 25 May 2019 at 16:14hrs | | by Thomas Murisa
Rhodesian chemical-biological war crimes
As Zimbabwe celebrates its 39th year of Independence, as Africans we have either chosen to ignore or have been brainwashed to forget the terrible things white Rhodesians did to our own freedom fighter...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Tendai Biti's mischief exposed
The recent summoning of the Reserve Bank Governor, Dr John Mangudya, to appear before the Parliamentary Public Account Portfolio Committee (PAC) has exposed Tendai Biti, the Committee Chairman of usin...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 22:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pays price for broken promises
Influential Americans have expressed disappointment with President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government for failing to live up to their promises that were made when the country's former leader, Rober...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - EU dialogue resumes
Zimbabwe and the European Union are set to resume dialogue this month as part of re-engagement efforts the new dispensation led by President Mnangagwa is undertaking, Foreign Affairs and International...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must act on reforms, promote democracy
newsdayZimbabwe, a land of unparalleled beauty and infinite potential, is again under democratic and economic siege. Armed men are removing residents from their homes. Unknown assailants have burnt th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
US senators blast Mnangagwa's govt
United States senators Jeff Flake and Chris Coons - who are both members of Washington's influential Senate Foreign Relations Committee - have blasted the government over the heavy handedness of the s...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube engages diplomats on reforms
ZIMBABWE'S international re-engagement programme and debt clearance plan are facing renewed headwinds with the United States government maintaining a hardline stance, insisting on tangible reforms, wh...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's diplomatic offensive off the rails
LAST week's damning testimonies in the United States senate on the human rights situation in Zimbabwe have thrown President Emmerson Mnangagwa's international re-engagement agenda off balance, as Wash...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
America's 'friend' Biti must come clean
There has been outrage over last week's posturing by officials in the United States of America as they sought to force Zimbabwe to drop charges against a single opposition MDC-Alliance member, Mr Tend...Published: 12 Dec 2018 at 05:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
It's time we have our Logan Act
A quick search on Wikipedia, specifies that, "the Logan Act is a United States federal law that criminalizes negotiation by unauthorized persons with foreign governments having a dispute with the US. ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 21:28hrs | | by Christine Lethokuhle Mabhena
Qualifying and quantifying political reform in Zimbabwe
Earlier this week a local daily reproduced an article from the American weekly magazine, Newsweek. The article was titled "White farmers 'getting poorer, sicker' as they await Government compensation"...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
US hypocrisy on Zimbabwe exposed
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the reins of power on 24 November 2017, he announced a paradigm shift in the manner in which things would be done politically and economically by the new ad...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 13:12hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Mthuli Ncube in timely US intervention
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday made a timely intervention as he submitted a detailed paper on Zimbabwe's economic and political reforms to a United States o...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:18hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
South African billionaire defends white wealth
Johann Rupert, South Africa's second-richest man with a $6.3 billion fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apart...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Mthuli Ncube calls for political reforms
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has urged the government to be receptive to the reform demands of the opposition and Western powers - as this will enable Zimbabwe to access help from overseas companies ...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa expects better US-Zim relations despite Zidera
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo says he expects Zimbabwe's relations with the United States to improve under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, despite the latter extending sanction...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
US sanctions on Zimbabwe - truths, history and lies
A new regime of US sanctions has just been signed into law, opening a fresh front in the increasingly polarised political debate in Zimbabwe.Critics say they hurt the economy, while supporters...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 19:01hrs | | by newsZWire
Did the MDC really call for Zimbabwe sanctions?
ZANU-PF often makes the claim that it is the opposition that has called for sanctions. The opposition's stance on sanctions has shifted according to its proximity to power.In 2012, Tendai Biti...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 18:52hrs | | by newsZWire
Chamisa's US sanctions expected to sow misery in Zimbabwe
The decision by President Donald Trump to extend sanctions on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration came after Zimbabwe's new government failed to meet international obligations, and spurned a...Published: 12 Aug 2018 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No to fake news! There are NO NEW SANCTIONS
It is said that the first casualty of war is the truth. Well, I think we can now extend that saying to Zimbabwean elections, as over the past few months, we have seen a series of exaggerations, half-t...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 12:55hrs | | by Faith Hope
Mr Chamisa, it's game over!
IT'S game over, and this writer cannot agree more with the thinker who says, "Good management is what creates results." The same with Paul Hawken's flip-side when he says, "Good management is the art ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
US burst Mnangagwa's bubble
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been dealt a heavy blow after the United States asked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to release comprehensive results of the just-ended presidential elections...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 19:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK deeply concerned by Zimbabwe post election violence
Britain's government yesterday said it was deeply concerned by the violence following Zimbabwe's elections and by the "disproportionate response from the security forces"."We have urged all pa...Published: 05 Aug 2018 at 10:00hrs | | by Reuters/ANA
US calls for release of all Zimbabwe's poll data
United States Arizona Senator Jeff Flake on Friday night called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) to stand by its word on transparency and release all polling data.Flake said in order...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 13:09hrs | | by ANA
Britain's bet on Mnangagwa victory hangs in the balance
Efforts to nurse Zimbabwe back to international respectability depended on free and fair elections, but the plan appears to be unravelling.Ever since the then Africa minister Rory Stewart took...Published: 04 Aug 2018 at 12:24hrs | | by Patrick Wintour
WATCH: US Senator gives Zimbabwe polls thumbs up
Adequate measures have been taken to ensure tomorrow's elections are credible, and after announcement of results, losing parties should direct any grievances through the relevant legal channels, Unite...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe holds final rallies before historic election
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main challenger Nelson Chamisa hold final campaign rallies ahead of Monday's election in a country seeking to move past decades of economic and political paralysis....Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 18:10hrs | | by AP
US Congress Passes Zidera Amendment Bill To Call For Reforms Ahead Of Elections, Bill Awaits Trump's Signature
The United States House of Representatives has passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act ahead of the July 30 harmonised elections pointing out that the bill is a call for free...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 19:27hrs | 8 | by Mafu Sithabile
Chamisa's US sanctions wishes granted as US passes Zimbabwe Bill
Ahead of the July 30 elections in Zimbabwe - the country's first since Robert Mugabe's ouster - the House passed the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Amendment Act (S. 2779) to call for free a...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 17:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
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