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Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 10 | by Victor Bhoroma
11 cops arrested in botched extortion bid
ELEVEN constables from different police stations, were last week arrested in Borrowdale while trying to extort money from a businessman they accused of illegally dealing in foreign currency and gold. ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 7 | by Staff reporter
Jean Gasho: Do you realize you are in an abusive marriage in Ghana? Come home!
Late yesterday evening I got WhatsApp from a friend who lives in Belgium. She had an article to share with me. This time around it was article from Jean Gasho extracted from her blog? I got another on...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 00:23hrs | 18 | by Nomazulu Thata
JSC offers to reinstate fired resident magistrate
THE Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has offered to reinstate fired Esigodini resident magistrate, Mr Tawanda Muchemwa, barely a month after he had approached the Labour Court challenging his dismiss...Published: 12 Oct 2019 at 11:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi are mere peace loving hardworking mortals!
In recent months our public media has been awash with stories of a group of artisanal miners by the name MaShurugwi, who for unfair reasons have come to be associated with a streak of cases of violenc...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 16:23hrs | | by Sizalobuhle Khumalo
This regime must desist from corruption in agriculture
Recent announcements by the government, that it would disburse $2.8 billion for the Command Agriculture and issuing some $300 million in Treasury bills is a serious cause for concern, judging by the m...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 15:34hrs | | by Rusty Markham
Gold panners vanish with AK47
A RANGER with the Zimbabwe National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority lost his AK47 with 15 rounds of ammunition to illegal gold panners in Chimanimani under as yet unclear circumstances on Tues...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 12:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa on corruption
Zimbabwean businessman and Econet Wireless founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa has called for a genuine reform of policies and stronger accountability mechanisms if corruption has to be defeated in Africa....Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister fingered in machete wars
STATE Security minister Owen Ncube has been implicated in the often violent Mazowe illegal mining activities that have seen youth gangs popularly known as MaShurugwi, engaged in machete wars over gold...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
New dates for Zimbabwe mining indaba
THE Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has announced November 5 and 6 as the new dates for the Semi-precious Stones Convention, which is set to be opened by President Mnangagwa. The two-day inda...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Business decries fuel price hikes
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has expressed concern over continuous fuel price increases saying the trend was negatively impacting on production due to rising cost of goods and serv...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Padenga in bid to improve crocodile skins quality
STOCK exchange-listed, Padenga Holdings Limited says it has invested in a research laboratory with aims to improve the crocodile skins quality as the company seeks to maintain and grow its hold on the...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC staffs Harare Council jobs with relatives?
Harare City Council has been caught in a nepotism storm after it emerged that councillors in the city could be seconding their relatives for jobs in various departments, leaving a trail of similar nam...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers 'get away with over $17K USD'
EIGHT armed robbers allegedly raided a family in Bulawayo's Kumalo suburb and got away with more than US$17 000 among other valuables using their victim's car which they later abandoned. The i...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 06:54hrs | 2272 | by Staff Reporter
Government starts repossessing idle mines
THE Government has started implementing the "use it or lose it" policy, which will see thousands of individuals or companies having their mining rights taken away for holding onto them for speculative...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spells out US$12bn milestone
President Mnangagwa is this month expected to spell out comprehensive practical steps that Zimbabwe will take to achieve an audacious US$12 billion annual exports milestone for the mining sector....Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Busting the myth of an 'upper middle income' Utopia in Zimbabwe
Ever since the November 2017 military coup, in which then iron-fisted late Zimbabwe leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe was toppled, his predecessor Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa has ridden on the mantra of ta...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 19:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hunger drives young girls into prostitution
Starvation in Silobela has reportedly caused families to force young girls into prostitution as hunger continues to torment some parts of the country.This was revealed by Silobela Ward 30 Coun...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Powerless Zesa blacklists debtors
ZESA Holdings has embarked on a nationwide blitz on defaulters and is blacklisting them so that they cannot open new accounts using different addresses. In an interview, ZESA spokesperson Mr F...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tips for starting an e-commerce business
The e-commerce sector continues to grow. Global accessibility for entrepreneurs that are located anywhere in the world has made it easier than ever for anyone with an internet connection to build a we...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff Writer
'Zanu-PF behind machete-wielding panners'
The opposition MDC has alleged that warring machete-wielding artisanal miners in Mashonaland Central province are under Zanu-PF control.MDC's provincial chairperson George Gwarada challenged a...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
US ups economic war on Zimbabwe
The United States has escalated its political and economic war against Zimbabwe in the past few weeks, despite spirited efforts by the New Dispensation to re-engage on an equal footing with a vi...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Trevor Shiri
Mnangagwa unleashes gold panners on Mugabe dairy farm, orphanage
A dairy farm and a children's orphanage owned by the family of former president Robert Mugabe could soon be overrun by gold panners after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave a greenlight fo...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 13:41hrs | | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase produces showstopper event as designers showcase the best of African design
LONDON: Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase has always been a place of effortless style, class and an overflow of talent, and this year was no different.The tradeshow, which ran under the theme #ThisIsA...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 11:40hrs | | by Tidi Kwidini
There's no substitute for real reform, Mnangagwa
Last week, President Emmerson Mnangagwa had quite a chastening and sobering experience and, instead of trying to look for a propaganda opportunity, this is the right time for him and his administratio...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 09:00hrs | | by Nqaba Matshazi
Sextortion in Zimbabwe
Catherine Mazorodze was overworked and tired when she quit her job as a farmworker in Zimbabwe's Manicaland province.No job meant she was also homeless, along with her grandmother with whom sh...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF empowers youths with mining equipment
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has bought state of the art mining Gold Carbon-in-pulp (gold CIP) equipment worth about $2,8 million to improve gold returns in mining operations done by youths in all provinc...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pair arrested for 'shooting' gold panner
TWO men from Gwanda have been arrested for allegedly shooting an illegal gold panner in the leg after one of them found him prospecting on his plot in the company of five other men. Qhubekani ...Published: 03 Oct 2019 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Vast Resources in Chiadzwa joint venture
AIM-listed mining group, Vast Resources plc has signed a Joint Venture Agreement with Chiadzwa Mineral Resources (Pvt) Limited, a company that represents the Chiadzwa community interests in diamond mi...Published: 02 Oct 2019 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rejects US claim that diamond mine uses forced labour
Zimbabwe accused the U.S. of ignorance after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it's blocking rough diamond imports from the Marange fields because they were produced with forced labor....Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 21:53hrs | | by Bloomberg
America bans buying of Zimbabwe diamonds
The United States of America Customs and Border Protection (CBP)has issued five Withhold Release Orders (WROs) banning the importation of diamonds from Zimbabwe saying they are mined through forced la...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 17:37hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets up for abusing party vehicle
A looming rift is tearing Guruve District following a serious misunderstanding between the war veterans and other Zanu-PF cadres over the party vehicle which is allegedly now under the seizure of the ...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 08:59hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Maphosa wins Mr Zimbabwe title
AFTER years of trying, Nigel "Spartan" Maphosa finally took the overall title at the Zimbabwe National Bodybuilding Championships held at 7 Arts Theatre on Saturday to be crowned Mr Zimbabwe. ...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo presents an ideal plan for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is buffeted by inconsistencies, lack of cohesion, indecisive politics, incapacitation and deep rooted corruption. The bottom line is Zimbabwe economy has totally collapsed and there is need f...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 23:10hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabwe mining industry lags behind in technology
YOUNG Miners Foundation (YMF) chief executive Payne Kupfukwa has lamented that the local mining industry was lagging behind in terms of technology, with firms using archaic and inefficient equipment....Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Illegal mining threatens Blanket Mine operations
CALEDONIA Mining Corporation has bemoaned the rampant increase of illegal mining activities on properties controlled by its gold mining company, Blanket Mine in Gwanda.Blanket Mine has explora...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs higher productivity and exports
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Dr Jesimen Chipika emphasised to chartered secretaries meeting in Victoria Falls last week that the government's Transitional Stabilisation Programme is a two-...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 16:01hrs | | by Agencies
Uganda crowned Cosafa champions
It was yet another heartfelting Cosafa finale as South Africa's U-17 girls team "Bantwana" lost to tournament invitee Uganda "Crested Cranes" 2 - 1.After a goalless first half Uganda drew the ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 12:18hrs | | by Daniel Itai (Port Louis, Mauritius)
Can an undervalued currency boost Zim Exports
The Zimbabwean Dollar was re-introduced on the 24th of June 2019 through the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019. The law outlawed the use and indexing of multiple currencies for local ...Published: 30 Sep 2019 at 12:16hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Bosso in Chibuku Super Cup quarters after beating Dynamos
Highlanders are through to the quarter-finals of the 2019 Chibuku Super Cup after edging out bitter rivals Dynamos 1-0 at Rufaro Stadium on Sunday.Prince Dube's first-half goal was the differe...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 20:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Heritage Sites in Zimbabwe
A World Heritage Site is a natural or cultural site that the world community regards as having immense universal value. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation have design...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:26hrs | | by Phineas Chauke
Artisanal miners side-marketing gold: Mining Federation
SMALL-scale miners could be pushing gold into the informal market where middlemen are buying the yellow metal in foreign currency.Although Fidelity Printers and Refiners is the sole gold buyer...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Triangle advance to the Caf Confederations Cup play offs
Triangle 1 - 0 Azam Triangle progress on a 2-0 goal aggregateTRIANGLE advanced to the play offs stage of the Caf Confederations Cup on a 2-0 goal aggregate after they proved to...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
All set for Summer Shutdown UK 2019
Music lovers in Leicester are set for an explosive show tonight as a star studded line-up of artists headlined by Ti Gonzi, Jah Signal, Freeman and Dobba Don descend on Dryden Street Social Club to ki...Published: 28 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe earns US$5bn through exports
ZIMBABWE'S foreign currency receipts are close to US$5 billion from January to date, which indicates that the country is generating sufficient forex to cater for its economic requirements, Industry an...Published: 27 Sep 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is the British Royal Family a Global Brand or Its simple Inferiority Complex on African Part.
It's hard to imagine the monarchs of Murehwa and Masvingo selling souvenir tchotchkes in quite the same way as the British Monarch. South Africa is gripped with the euphoria of the visit of Prin...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 16:32hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Gold panners invade mine
ABOUT 3 000 illegal gold panners have reportedly invaded a mining claim at Lonely Gold Mine in Inyathi, Bubi district, in Matabeleland North province after news spread that 3kgs of the mineral worth a...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Punish Mnangagwa for his barbarism vis-a-vis Dr Magombiye,' called Coltart - why is MDC propping up regime
"This is a regime which is increasingly paranoid and unhinged. It has dug itself into a deep hole. In seeking to exculpate itself from the crimes against humanity it is alleged to have committed in re...Published: 26 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Malema walks in the shadow of Uncle Bob
Julius Malema's entourage is a political spectacle anywhere, at least for those gifted with a political eye.So when the boyish-looking 'Juju' jetted into Harare's Robert Gabriel Mugabe Interna...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 22:11hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana
Zanu-PF orders ceasefire among warring gold panners
Zanu-PF has ordered its supporters to stop attacking artisanal miners from the Midlands province, popularly known as Mashurugwi, following a recent incident in which two kombis, houses and other infra...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
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