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German firm wins Zimbabwe trademark dispute
German pharmaceutical giant Bayer Aktiengesellschaft has emerged victorious in a landmark trademark dispute after the High Court of Zimbabwe, sitting as the Intellectual Property Tribunal, ruled in it...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:22hrs | 4472 | by Staff reporter
Teen miner dies in tragic shaft collapse at Sunace mine
A 17-year-old illegal miner lost his life following a shaft collapse at Sunace Mine on the outskirts of Bulawayo. The tragic incident, which occurred on December 12, has left efforts to retrieve the t...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 14:55hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Colliery engages German firm to help extinguish underground fires
ZIMBABWE'S largest coal mine Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) said Friday it has contracted German-based company DTM to help extinguish underground coal seam fires."DTM is the only compa...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 07:44hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
No German company to manufacture Zmbabwe number plates
Government has not engaged any foreign company to manufacture vehicle registration number plates following a shortage caused by the lack of foreign currency to import raw materials required to produce...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
German firm to set up vehicle licence plates plants in Zimbabwe
Government is engaging a German firm for the production of vehicle licence plates under a deal expected to significantly reduce costs by 50 percent while also setting up 10 manufacturing plants in the...Published: 02 Mar 2019 at 20:03hrs | 1 | by Staff Repoprter
Tsvangirai might meet his political demise
The inimitable Nathaniel Manheru opined last week in his Saturday column that Zimbabwe faced a real prospect of a national by-election next year. That's instead of a so-called eagerly-anticipated harm...Published: 09 Jun 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
'CIOs must leave Zec'
The Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (Crisis) has said it is concerned with the continued involvement of State security agents in matters involving the country's elections.With opposition politica...Published: 07 May 2017 at 09:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zec to test Biometric Voter Registration kits
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission will this week test Biometric Voter Registration kits at polling stations that will be used in the 2018 harmonised elections.The week-long site valida...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
VW overtakes Toyota as the world's biggest carmaker
Volkswagen has overtaken Toyota to become the world's best-selling carmaker, the first time the German company has held the position.Japan's Toyota, which had topped sales for the past four ye...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 22:47hrs | 110 | by Staff Reporter
Bond notes likely to feed corruption
Where opacity and unaccountability thrive, corruption grows in direct proportion. The elite, like many other people in positions of influence, get carte blanche to abuse and manipulate systems. Th...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:29hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Bond notes 'are being printed in Zimbabwe,' says MDC-T
If Zimbabwe's little-liked bond notes aren't being printed in Germany or South Africa, where are they being printed? Zimbabwe, of course, say opposition officials.Until recently, the Reser...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Mugabe come to the rescue?
TWO things that are sure about death are its certainty and finality. Reference is being made to death in the physical sense, not the spiritual side of things.Because of this, many human beings...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:31hrs | 1 | by Cyril Zenda
Germany refuses to print bond notes for Zimbabwe
A German company which specializes in the printing of bank notes, Giesecke and Devrient has rejected Zimbabwe's request to print bond notes for cash strapped Treasury, prompting the desperate to t...Published: 21 Oct 2016 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Germany to print bond notes
Government has hired a German firm to print the $200 million worth of bond notes, a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe official has said.RBZ director for exchange control Mr Morris Mpofu told delegates ...Published: 21 May 2016 at 06:52hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe, Malema: The lions of Africa
DOES Africa have artificial human lions? If so, would you agree that President Mugabe and Hon. Malema are the true lions or warriors of Africa? If not, what would your reaction be when you hear them b...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 11:21hrs | 4 | by Mutumwa Mawere
Chiyangwa buys $400 000 Mercedes Benz
Flamboyant businessman Phillip Chiyangwa has taken delivery of his 2014 GL63 AMG, the first of its kind in Zimbabwe.The seven-passenger Mercedes Benz utility, which cost him $400 000, was han...Published: 21 Sep 2014 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Gono helped themselves to Gaddafi's millions
President Robert Mugabe and his close personal banker, himself a former central bank governor, Gideon Gono, have allegedly helped themselves to millions of dollars invested in Zimbabwe by late Libya...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 13:55hrs | 7 | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
Four kidnapped foreigners freed in Nigeria
Lagos - Four foreigners kidnapped last month when their vessel was attacked off the West African coast have been freed unharmed in Nigeria's oil-producing region, police said on Monday.The sai...Published: 28 May 2013 at 03:42hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
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