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Trade Fair brings brisk business for vendors, kombis
For small entrepreneurs like Mr Felix Ndlovu and Mr Lovemore Mutatu, the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is not just an annual event, but a golden opportunity that redefines their year's earn...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:29hrs | 87 | by Staff reporter
Dairibord to start toll production in SA
Dairibord Holdings is set to expand its operations in the region to drive export growth, with South Africa as the immediate destination for a planned toll manufacturing project. The initiative is expe...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 08:48hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
No to third term of office for President Mnangagwa: Mudenda
Former Mthwakazi Republic Party National Executive Council Chairman Mudenda Chilumbo has criticized the Zanu PF faction that is rallying for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rule beyond 2028, stating t...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:03hrs | 1893 | by Stephen Jakes
Can aspartame in soft drinks cause cancer?
Assessments of the health impacts of the non-sugar sweetener aspartame released by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agric...Published: 10 Aug 2024 at 07:49hrs | 862 | by Erick Matotoba
ZNA officers trade guns for trowels to safe lives
In 1998, the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) demonstrated exceptional valor in the distant N'Djili region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a country still grappling with conflict today. Facing ...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:50hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Anthony Mandiwanza finally retires
LONG-SERVING Dairibord Holdings chief executive officer, Mr Anthony Mandiwanza, is retiring after serving the company for 34 years, 24 of them at the helm.In a statement on Wednesday, Da...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 18:19hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa relives 2017 'ice cream' horror
President Mnangagwa yesterday opened up on his infamous Gwanda poisoning incident in 2017, saying the medical treatment that saved his life after being airlifted to South Africa inspired his mantra th...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 10:29hrs | 28 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's dairy estates collapses
GUSHUNGO Dairy Estates has closed shop after former first lady Grace Mugabe sold about 700 dairy cows worth about US$1,4 million to a prominent butcher, rendering about 120 workers jobless.The...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's empire is collapsing like a castle built on sand
What you need to know:‘Gucci Grace' will, however, still live comfortably for the rest of her life even if the businesses that her husband left her collapse, as post-coup law ensures that sh...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ice cream vendors barred from ZITF for wearing yellow company uniforms
ICE Cream vendors who had hoped to cash in on the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair's (ZITF) last day Saturday, were denied entry into the Bulawayo exhibition park for wearing yellow uniforms, NewZimb...Published: 01 May 2022 at 12:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean ice cream maker a hit in SA
FROM a tender age, Dr Tapiwa Guzha (35), a Zimbabwean based in Cape Town, South Africa, loved cooking and eating indigenous fruits and vegetables from his grandmother's rich nutrition garden in Marlbo...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Trade Fair without ontethe
TRADE Fair without ontethe (children) is not the same. Covid-19, the global pandemic, resulted in children below the age of 18 miss the biggest and busiest day of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 3 | by Bongani Ndlovu
Dairbord to launch US$1,5m new plant
MILK processor, Dairibord Holdings, says it will commission a new US$1,5 million manufacturing plant in the second half of the current financial year. Zimbabwe's largest dairy processor, which...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 07:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's political prostitutes
The man who was behind Grace Mugabe's youth interface rallies where she was spewing vitriolic attacks against Mnangagwa has once again by hook or crook managed to get himself appointed to lead a fundr...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:56hrs | 4 | by Sam Wezhira
Where is Comrade Albert Matapo?
We always realize extremely late that we the general populace is taken for a ride by people without any conscience, unscrupulous chancers in politics who masquerade as genuine revolutionaries and yet ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:20hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Workers decimate Mugabe's cattle herd
VILLAGERS have gone on a raiding rampage on a farm belonging to the late former president Robert Mugabe in Mazowe, hunting down and slaughtering over 1 400 cattle belonging to his family, in a which h...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Of Zanu-PF and poisoning
0N August 11, 2017, at a rally in Gwanda, the then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa fell ill, allegedly after eating ice cream which had been poisoned and spent over a week in South Africa under trea...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Anthony Mandiwanza, when is the right time to step down?
Dairibord, former Dairy Marketing Board (DMB) was once one of the largest food producers in southern Africa, was founded in 1951 and listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) in 1997. Dairibor...Published: 04 Nov 2020 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Pressure keeps mounting on Chamisa
Pressure keeps mounting on MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa as his former top lieutenant and now MDC-T secretary general Douglas Mwonzora has said that MDC Alliance name belongs to the MDC-T and the...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 17:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stability of prices brings relief
Prices of basic commodities are stabilising and marginally decreasing on selected items, arresting the volatility and speculative behaviour which characterised the market before the introduction of th...Published: 12 Sep 2020 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poison in Zimbabwe
The European Union's Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Timo Olkkonen, says corruption is destroying the country. He said the international appeal for a couple of hundred million dollars to prevent mass starvati...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:20hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Dirty things happen at Mnangagwa's State House
An unsaid but angry war is raging in the State Residences department as you fret over the prices of essential commodities, government's cluelessness to fix the economy and, of course, the swarm of cor...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 19:00hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa beefs up security
DRONES, sniffer dogs, security cameras, heavily armed soldiers and police officers, hundreds more embedded in the crowds turned the National Heroes Acre into a virtual cantonment area as President Emm...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1 | by newzimbabwe
EcoCash agents make a killing
ECOCASH agents have turned their booths into illegal selling points of cash at exorbitant premiums ranging from 30 to 40 percent. For one to get bond coins and notes from EcoCash agents, he or...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC leaders told to resign
Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has urged the MDC leadership to resign if they are failing to provide the necessary leadership that the people of Zimbabwe need to solve the problems bedevilling the c...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe dairy firm sings the blues
ALPHA Omega Dairy, a company owned by former President Robert Mugabe is singing the blues with operations at below capacity and low uptake of its products in the market.The former Zanu PF stro...Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Satire phone call that sparked Chiwenga's coup
Comedian Taffy Theman has released a satire video that depicts how the coup in Zimbabwe started in November 2017. Taffy and another comedian appear acting the role of President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe MPs 'eating' on behalf of hungry constituents
As the electorate and citizens we have an obligation to question the way we are governed and/or represented. Yes, it is every citizen's right to seek representation either in the Executive or the Legi...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 11:23hrs | 2 | by Elliot Ziwira
Parliament debates trifles
At a time when many people in Zimbabwe wonder where their next meal is coming from and whether it is worthwhile taking someone to hospital for treatment, the House of Assembly has been preoccupied by ...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 18:40hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Greedy Zimbabwe MPs demand three meals with dessert
Members of the House of Assembly have demanded that they be served three luxury meals a day plus dessert while attending Parliamentary sittings. They also want Parliament to provide gym facili...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC Alliance MPs extort govt, get luxury cars
MEMBERS of Parliament yesterday arm-twisted Finance minister Mthuli Ncube into raising their budgetary allocation by 44% and demanded the latest 4×4 luxury Toyota Land Cruisers, among other perks, de...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
KFC re-opens, hikes prices
Fast food franchise KFC has re-opened with a new pricing structure after temporarily shutting down all its outlets in the country due to economic instability.The popular food outlet announced ...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 12:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimra puts cap on imported goods
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has set the maximum quantities of good cross-border travellers can import for personal use that can be covered under the traveller's rebate.Travellers re...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Travellers' rebate unchanged: Zimra
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has emphasised that it will remove the traveller's rebate for people who bring in goods in excess of $200. This comes as the Government indefinitely susp...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Goods de-listed from import licence requirement
Following the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 237A of 2018, a number of goods which were formerly controlled by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Enterprise Development were removed from t...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 16:59hrs | 8 | by Zimra
Import with your own forex, Mangudya says
Companies and individuals seeking to import basic commodities following the lifting of the import ban will have to use free funds, freeing the central bank from having to raise funds for the imports, ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Business leaders conflicted over imports ban
ZIMBABWE'S business leaders want government to suspend the Statutory Instrument (SI)22, which is meant to protect local industry from cheap and non-essential imports, to counter the growing shortages ...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revisits his nearly fatal ice cream poisoning
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again revisited his nearly fatal poisoning at the height of the ruling Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars last year - revealing how he had lat...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs the best brains Zimbabwe can produce
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently in New York, United States of America, for the 73rd Ordinary Session of the United Nations General Assembly. On Friday, he had an interview with CNN's Christi...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's chance of legitimacy
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a military-backed veteran hardliner who outmanoeuvred Robert Mugabe and who now promises a fresh start for Zimbabwe.Monday's election offers Mnangagwa - nicknam...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 18:09hrs | | by AFP
Mnangagwa must answer to past 'transgressions' first
Oftentimes, age is said to be nothing but just a number. Ask anyone in a cross generational romantic relationship and most assuredly, they would parrot like answer that age is only but a number. At fa...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Bomb blast at White City Stadium Bulawayo
The government must deploy more security personnel as we draw near the harmonised elections in a couple of weeks to come.We seem to be heading for a political turbulence in the country as we n...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 06:54hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Removing the political teeth of tyrannism
REMOVING THE POLITICAL TEETH OF TYRANNISM: Who among Zimbabwe political opposition coalitions shares a clear governance vision?...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 10:49hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere
'I am used to these (bomb, etc.) attempts,' boasted ED - you have a thick skin, povo are ones dying like flies
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who survived a blast at a ruling Zanu-PF party rally on Saturday, suggested he was the target of the attack which left one of his vice-presidents wounded," reported AFP....Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:15hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa paid a $2,000 bribe in Mozambique
After he fled Zimbabwe in October last year and crossed into Mozambique, the then fired vice-president and now Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa handed an armed member of Renamo about $2000 (R25...Published: 23 May 2018 at 11:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rosy outlook for Mugabe firm
While former President Robert Mugabe might have been ousted from power, his dairy firm is flourishing behind the scenes, recording an increase in capacity utilisation.Mugabe, the only leader Z...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
My hero EDM has gambled-away my enthusiastic vote
Zimbabwe president Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (EDM) once owned my heart as the world's most powerful man for a fortnight! I am on record as fighting his public battles for a fortnight! The only-one t...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 21:04hrs | | by Evangelist Reginald Thabani Gola
Mnangagwa's short-lived glory!
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (EDM) remains as a most accomplished game-changer history-maker who cheated the local witches in his mother's womb and beyond! The colonial gallows at youth for h...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1 | by Evangelist Reginald Thabani Gola
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