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Zimbabwe's title deeds affirms land reform programme
The issuance of title deeds to beneficiaries of Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme has been hailed as a historic milestone, cementing the irreversibility of the initiative and unlocking significant valu...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 10:38hrs | 478 | by Staff reporter
Issuance of title deeds marks historic milestone in Zimbabwe land reform
The issuance of title deeds to beneficiaries of Zimbabwe's Land Reform Programme has been hailed as a landmark achievement affirming the irreversibility of the initiative and unlocking immense economi...Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 10:35hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Aliko Dangote promise to keep his Zimbabwean business empire
Aliko Dangote, Africa's wealthiest black individual and the founder and chairman of Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement manufacturer, made a commitment to preserve the extensive business em...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 15:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa's 13-year-old daughter listed on US sanctions
When the United States announced the sanctioning of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son earlier this month, it also revealed the names of 17 individuals who had been removed from the list of Specially ...Published: 28 Dec 2022 at 20:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF accuse the US of 'barbarism and cowardice'
Zanu-PF has accused the United States (US) of "barbarism and cowardice" after Washington added President Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Junior, three individuals and two business entities on its sanctions ...Published: 14 Dec 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ex-convict ally implicated in Cottco scandal
GUTAI Lisa-Marie Maropafadzo of Maropafadzo Energy (Pvt) Ltd , an ex-convict close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family whose company is implicated in the US$5 million Cotton Company of Zimb...Published: 28 Aug 2022 at 19:10hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Govt official 'blocks' school construction
A SENIOR official in the Foreign Affairs ministry has been accused of blocking the construction of a secondary school in Goromonzi district, Mashonaland East province.This has resulted in lear...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe 40 yrs backward'
ZIMBABWE is now 40 years backward compared to several African countries as a result of misrule and failure to tap into professional skills that have found home outside the country due to the country's...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 21:26hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Biti caution govt over IMF windfall
ZIMBABWE'S former Finance ministers Herbert Murerwa and Tendai Biti have warned the government against using the recent US$961 million worth of special drawing rights (SDRs) from the International Mon...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti - Mthuli Ncube to lock horns over IMF funding
MDC Vice President Tendai Biti and the Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube are expected to participate in a heated economics debate on Tuesday organized by the Zimbabwe Economics Society under the theme:...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 12:09hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why RBZ needs autonomy
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono recently appeared on Zimbabwean entrepreneur and newspaper publisher Trevor Ncube's discussion series In Conversation with Trevor.Amo...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:15hrs | | by Admire Dube
Battle over sacred mountain rages
The battle for the control of the sacred Ntabazinduna Mountain has been dragging on for the past 15 years, it has emerged.Outspoken Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni early this year escalated the...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:20hrs | | by Staff reporer
Young entrepreneurs urged to actively participate in energy sector
Zimbabwe is faced with a high unemployment rate which has seen a majority of young people resort to entrepreneurship. However most young people are shying away from the Energy sector and space....Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
More heads to roll at Zesa
SEVERAL Zesa Holdings senior managers face the axe following a damning forensic audit that has unearthed serious allegations of corruption and abuse of office.Last week, the national electrici...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 5 | by newZwire with The Source
15 Zesa bosses sent on mandatory leave
ZESA Holdings has sent 15 managers across its subsidiaries on mandatory leave to pave way for a forensic audit into the affairs of the parastatal, it has emerged. The audit has been going on a...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll re-runs in select Zanu-PF constituencies
Zanu-PF yesterday released the official list of candidates who were successful in the primary polls to contest for the National Assembly seats in elections set for July with more of the old guard maki...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
More Zanu-PF primaries winners named
Zanu-PF yesterday released more names of candidates who won primary elections to contest for National Assembly seats in the forthcoming harmonised elections on the revolutionary party's ticket. In the...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Army's diamond mining activities under spotlight
Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya is today expected to appear in Parliament for grilling over the army's mining activities in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.Rushwaya was initially scheduled to ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Government committed to resolving Gukurahundi'
THE Government has always shown commitment in bringing closure to the matter of civil disturbances commonly known as Gukurahundi that affected Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the 1980s with for...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Wicknell's woes mount
ENERGY minister Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday told Parliament that more heads were set to roll at Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) over the $7 million Gwanda solar project which was awarded to businessman Wi...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million and not the $5 million initially reported through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislators h...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chivayo deals: Heads to roll at Zesa
The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) was prejudiced of more than $7 million - and not the $5 million initially reported - through suspected irregular payments to businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo, legislato...Published: 23 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Crime busting unit targets Wicknell Chivayo
HARARE - An elite crime-busting unit run by government is going after flamboyant businessman Wicknell Chivayo over a string of energy deals entered with the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) - a unit of Ze...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 21:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe no country for 'nice men'
In 2000, after the ruling Zanu-PF party had been shocked by the opposition at elections, it went through some soul searching.Just five years earlier, Zanu-PF had won 118 of the 120 seats on of...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 07:05hrs | | by The Source
Zesa press for tariff hike
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) has not given up on tariff hike push with top officials saying current tariff at 9,83c per kilowatt-hour (kWh) cannot sustain operations. ...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 04:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T backs Jonathan Moyo
MDC-T Bulawayo Province has come out in support of Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo, over his criticism of government's much-vaunted Command Agriculture programme fronted by Vice-President ...Published: 16 Mar 2017 at 10:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZImbabwe monetary authorities go Biblical
MONETARY and fiscal authorities have turned to the Bible to appease citizens who are anxiously "praying" for the economy to rebound.Previous Finance ministers have repeatedly quoted Bible ...Published: 22 Jan 2017 at 12:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa struggling to get funding
State power utility company, Zesa Holdings (Zesa) is struggling to attract funding owing to unsustainably high gearing levels and antiquated equipment that have made operations inefficient, the co...Published: 28 Oct 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond Notes Controversy and the Chinamasa Reforms
In the Mid-term fiscal policy review of 2016, the Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa proposed to cut 25 000 jobs by December 2017 and said it would save $155 million annually; freeze Civil Servants bo...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 13:57hrs | | by Blessing Machiva
Is Patrick Chinamasa Ready for Ministerial Harakiri?
This year has been pretty hectic for my learned friend and former Cabinet colleague Zimbabwe Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa. Patrick is a consummate politician, who in spite of the negative pu...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Welshman Ncub
War vets want another indaba with Mugabe over unmet demands
HARDLY four months after meeting with President Robert Mugabe in what was dubbed as a crisis indaba, veterans of Zimbabwe's 1970s war of liberation are considering having another meeting with their pa...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mumbengegwi dies
Former Finance Minister Dr Samuel Mumbengegwi has died.He died this morning at the Avenues Clinic in Harare from an unknown ailment.At the time of his death, Dr Mumbengegwi was a lectu...Published: 14 Jun 2016 at 15:36hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
US use of IMF to fight Zimbabwe old wine in new skins
THE attempt by the United States Senate Committee for Foreign Relations to block Zimbabwe from receiving any loan or assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank and African Devel...Published: 14 Feb 2016 at 10:45hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
Mboweni gave Zimbabwe unacceptable conditions, says Mnangagwa
South Africa's former Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni gave Zimbabwe several conditions which were deemed unacceptable for Zimbabwe to Randify the economy.The government chose the rand a...Published: 07 Aug 2015 at 10:46hrs | | by Ndou Paul
'Jonathan Moyo ruined R1 billion package'
Information minister Jonathan Moyo has been accused of scuppering a mystry rescue package for Zimbabwe worth a billion rand by South Africa's former Reserve Bank governor.Moyo was locked in a ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo, Tito Mboweni in twitter WAR
Former Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni has been involved in a twitter war with Zimbabwe's Information Minister Jonathan Moyo .Mboweni twitted, "Jonathan Moyo irritates me. writes ...Published: 17 Jun 2015 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Mutasa in another scandal
Former Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Didymus Mutasa, is implicated in a land scam where he was reportedly influencing four A2 farmers he unprocedurally resettled at Craig Farm along Mutoko Roa...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 07:56hrs | | by Hebert Zharare and Paidamoyo Chipunza
Mugabe sabotages Ministers
THERE could be no job as difficult or impossible in this world as being a minister in President Robert Mugabe's Cabinet.Mugabe does not give ministers the tools to do the job, but still ex...Published: 13 Dec 2014 at 08:45hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Cracks emerge in Mnangagwa camp
FISSURES are emerging within a faction linked to Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as allies turn against each other in the race for positions. After handing Vice President Joice Mujuru an embarras...Published: 04 Dec 2014 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru falls
Under fire Vice President, Dr Joice Mujuru is leading a host of Zanu-PF bigwigs who have fallen by the wayside after losing in Central Committee elections held in various provinces.Joining D...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru throws down gauntlet at Mugabe
VICE-President Joice Mujuru threw down the gauntlet at President Robert Mugabe in the heat of the moment at the tension-filled politburo meeting last week to come out in the open if he wanted to remo...Published: 07 Nov 2014 at 19:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa power outage riles Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe yesterday came face to face with the reality many people are enduring on a daily basis when a politburo meeting he was chairing was aborted after a blackout in Harare which als...Published: 25 Oct 2014 at 20:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dr Nathan Shamuyarira memorial service
The memorial service for the late Dr Nathan Shamuyarira, who died on the 4th of June this year, will be held at Number 68 Deacon Drive, Hogerty Hill, Borrowdale on Saturday, the 4th of October at 10am...Published: 03 Oct 2014 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Why seek treatment abroad?,' asks Zanu-PF official
SENIOR Zanu-PF official and former Midlands Provincial governor Cephas Msipa has chided his peers in government and the ruling party for seeking medical treatment outside the country and snubbing loca...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chaos as ex-workers attack black farmer
A Goromonzi farmer was on Tuesday assaulted by a group of ex-farm workers who are resisting eviction from his Bromley Farm.Several other people were injured, with one person reported missing f...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 21:14hrs | | by Nomalanga Moyo
Politicians dominate new Zesa boards
Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday appointed board members for Zesa Holdings and its nine subsidiaries, with the new boards dominated by politicians and former ambassado...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 23:15hrs | 2 | by Felex Share
Govt uncovers fake A2 offer letters
Government has uncovered a scam where fake A2 offer letters have been given to unsuspecting land seekers in exchange for money.Some people have been approaching the Ministry of Lands and R...Published: 28 May 2014 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu in farm dispute
A LAND dispute that erupted after war veterans in Nyamandlovu invaded a farm belonging to an indigenous Zimbabwean has sucked in Umguza MP and Transport minister Obert Mpofu.Ten families were...Published: 13 Feb 2014 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Court stops compulsory acquisition of Crest Breeders' land
The Labour Court has stopped the government from compulsorily acquiring over 1000 hectares of land belonging to Crest Breeders International.In a judgement handed down by Labour Court Presiden...Published: 18 Nov 2013 at 16:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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