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Call for reparations: A mere excuse by failed African leaders!
As the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) kicked off this week in Samoa, the topic of reparations for slavery and colonialism has once again been thrust into the spotlight. Sever...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 20:31hrs | 281 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ED2030 sloganeering lacks practicability
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, as I see it, the ED 2030 campaign sloganeering lacks practicality. It is corrosive, divisive and erosive. It contradicts the time-honoured lead...Published: 19 Jun 2024 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
US says companies may review stance on Zimbabwe after sanctions shift
US businesses may re-examine their stance on Zimbabwe following the adoption of a new sanctions program which places only three entities and the nation's top leaders including Zimbabwean President Emm...Published: 09 Mar 2024 at 10:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe did not actively push for his family's primitive accumulation of wealth'
THE late president Robert Mugabe stopped his son-in-law Simba Chikore and daughter Bona from joining the scramble to take over the country's third-largest mobile network operator, Telecel Zimbabwe....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 08:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa net worth jumps 125%
The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), F...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked 10th and US$100m richer
Africa's billionaires are richer than they have been in years, despite the global pandemic. As a group, the continent's 18 billionaires are worth an estimated $84.9 billion - a 15% increase from twelv...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe blocked son-in-law, daughter and nephew over attempts to take over Telecel
WHILE the late former president Robert Mugabe's regime was corrupt and incompetent it allowed ministers, top civil servants and its business cronies to loot public resources Mugabe himself was very st...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo must be puking as Strive Masiyiwa's fortune rises to US$2.3bn
exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo last week made a jibe on telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa saying that Masiyiwa is a Bond-note billionaire, a reference to the local currency th...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 20:25hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa legitimising neo-colonialism
Because Mother Africa's children residing at home and abroad are paying extremely close attention to Zimbabwe's upcoming harmonised elections, the individual profiles of the candidates will automatica...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Will Grace Mugabe become the president of Zimbabwe in 2018?
When Grace Mugabe called out a shamefaced Kazembe Kazembe at a Zanu-PF Youth Interface Rally in Bindura earlier this year, to rebuke him over calls he made for Saviour Kasukuwere to resign, it was rea...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 09:53hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Is democracy un-African?
Libya has experienced nothing but war and brutality since the reign of King Idris I started in 1951. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi deposed the monarch in a bloodless coup in 1969. Under Gaddafi, or 'Brother...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Tafi Mhaka
Meet Southern Africa's billionaires
There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is sti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:07hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a Bonana Republic
My People,I am sure the last few days have all but confirmed to you that real African leaders do no waste time visiting useless local African hospitals for treatment as they could end up being...Published: 04 Jun 2017 at 20:31hrs | 6 | by Dr Amai
Bona Mugabe's appointment above board
The announcement of the New Censorship Board is an initiative that the public greatly appreciate as recently, during the World Freedom Day Celebrations celebrated last month, there was general consens...Published: 29 May 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Tatenda Gono
dos Santos goes, but Mugabe still thinks he is the alpha and omega
Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa's second-longest serving leader, has confirmed he will not run in this year's presidential election, calling an end to 38 years as head of state, but ...Published: 03 Feb 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Online
Angola's powerful veteran President to quit politics
Luanda - Angola's powerful veteran President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa's second-longest serving leader after 36 years at the helm, on Friday said he would leave politics in 2018, after his ...Published: 11 Mar 2016 at 15:25hrs | | by Agencies
3 Zimbabweans listed among Africa's 50 most influential personalities
Zimbabweans have been feted fairly on the list compiled by ...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 12:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel closure: Zanu-PF double standards exposed
Telecel Zimbabwe (Telecel) licence cancellation by the country's telecommunication regulator smacks of hypocrisy and Zanu-PF-led government's double standards when dealing with perceived political ene...Published: 12 May 2015 at 14:14hrs | 1 | by John Kachembere
Africa's youngest female billionaire firms up interest in Zimbabwean Telecel
Isabel dos Santos, daughter of Angola's President Eduardo dos Santos and one of Africa's richest women, is reportedly gearing up to acquire a significant stake in Zimbabwean Telecom giant Telecel. He...Published: 17 Apr 2015 at 09:43hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru among Africa's wealthiest people?
If the Mujurus empire is as vast as the media are reporting - some say worth billions of US dollars - this could mean for the past three years Dr Joice Mujuru was among Africa's richest people, and pr...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Telecel teeters on brink of insolvency
Zimbabwe's beleaguered mobile network operator Telecel Zimbabwe's finances are in a sorry state amid indications the company is bankrupt. The company reportedly has management inefficienci...Published: 20 Mar 2015 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Telecel International executives jet in
Telecel International (TI) executives are in Zimbabwe to discuss the fate of its local unit following government threats to shut down the mobile operator.This also comes as two of Empowerment ...Published: 15 Mar 2015 at 09:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Growing inequality clouds Angola's expanding economy
Angola has one of the world's fastest growing economies. Its economy grew by 5.1% in 2013. As major public infrastructure investments in energy and transport kick in, its growth is projected to re...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 20:08hrs | | by Nirit Ben-Ari
Strive Masiyiwa is one of Africa's 55 billionaires
Strive Masiyiwa, Zimbabwe's richest man and foremost telecommunications tycoon is one of Africa's 55 billionaires with a combined fortune of $143.88 billion. The average net worth of the members of th...Published: 07 Oct 2013 at 16:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dos Santos' daughter becomes Africa's first female billionaire
Africa has its first female billionaire Isabel Dos Santos, daughter of Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos.The 40-year-old studied engineering at King's College, London, before opening h...Published: 28 Jan 2013 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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