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Zimbabwe targets Japan for investment
Zimbabwe is targeting the forthcoming Seventh Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD) as part of the "open for business" drive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) needed t...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | 355 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe eyes US$2bn from G7 nations
Zimbabwe will borrow US$1,9 billion from the Group of 7 industrialised nations to clear debts to the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Nc...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
5 contractors for Harare-Chirundu dualisation
GOVERNMENT has completed the selection process of five contractors to undertake the Harare-Chirundu highway rehabilitation and its subsequent dualisation, with road surveys already under way.T...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1989 | by Staff reporter
Nyamukondiwa gets US scholarship
Zimbabwe's golf sensation Tafadzwa Nyamukondiwa has moved to the United States after he clinched a golf scholarship with Western Texas University.The 18-year-old golfer made an impressive perf...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
SA car dealers close shop at border
SEVERAL car dealerships on the South African side of the border at Beitbridge have started closing shop or relocating to either Mozambique or Botswana due to low business. It has emerged that ...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:55hrs | 2198 | by Staff reporter
Probe nails top tourism official in US$500 000 scam
A GOVERNMENT-INSTITUTED investigation has nailed the National Employment Council for the Tourism Industry (Necti) general secretary Klodias Hove in an abuse-of-office scandal and financial misconduct ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 15:04hrs | 629 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Dubai company sign coal marketing agreement
GOVERNMENT yesterday signed an agreement with a Dubai based company, Victoria Consultant, that will assist the country secure markets for coal exports in India and Japan. The agreement - which...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 174 | by Staff reporter
A brief guide to playing at the Luckyniki online casino
The Luckyniki online casino is all about Japanese culture. Featuring great slots and incredible bonus winning capabilities, the Luckyniki online casino looks set to give you a memorable casino gaming ...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 11:27hrs | 294 | by Staff Writer
Change: Wither Zimbabwe?
I had to go cross to check the theory. What is the change we have been sold? Or is this another war-time dummy!Particularly when the quality and magnitude of change is huge and transformationa...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:22hrs | 523 | by Zifiso Masiye
Russia rebuilding a bridge to Africa
About 35 leaders of African countries have officially confirmed their participation in the Russia-Africa Summit, Russian Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa and Deputy Foreign Minister, ...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 09:17hrs | 2098 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Second hand cars from China 'scary'
An urban planner in Kenya says "it's quite scary" to hear about China's plan to export some of its second hand cars.Constant Cap told BBC Newsday that it "almost sounds like they are using the...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 09:52hrs | 4428 | by BBC
Ex-Mugabe allies make it into Chamisa's national executive
THREE former Zanu-PF top politicians have made it into opposition MDC's national executive list recently released by party leader Nelson Chamisa.Former Ministers of State for Masvingo Province...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:13hrs | 10888 | by newzimbabwe
Musina residents 'reject' their police
RESIDENTS of Musina, South Africa's northernmost town bordering Zimbabwe, last week demonstrated against their police's alleged general dereliction of duty in the wake of rising crime such as murder a...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1517 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean boy lands role in US film
CAPETOWN-BASED afro-jazz musician Simbarashe Saini's son, Kevin, has struck gold after landing a role in an American movie set to hit the screen next month.The seven-year-old will feature in R...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:28hrs | 421 | by Staff reporter
MDC fights for Japajapa's freedom
MDC Secretary General Charlton Hwende says the MDC is working flat out to make sure that jailed activist Paddington Japajapa gets bail after he was slapped with two years in prison.Said Hwende...Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 10:11hrs | 5402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
New wave of African stars prepare for debut NBA seasons
There has been a consistent flow of talent coming into the NBA from Africa for more than 30 years now and the continent doesn't look to be running out of quality basketball players anytime soon. ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | 875 | by Staff Writer
Tajamuka plotting a national shutdown protest
Pressure group Tajamuka has issued a statement saying they are consulting various stakeholders towards implementing a national protest that will liberate the people of Zimbabwe. In a statement...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:50hrs | 7748 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Japajapa convicted
A HARARE magistrate yesterday sentenced MDC activist Paddington Japajapa to three years in jail after convicting him of inciting the public to commit political violence when he accused the Zimbabwe El...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1872 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance activist Japajapa jailed two years
MDC-Alliance activist Paddington Japajapa was yesterday jailed for an effective two years after he was found guilty of contravening Section 66A of the Electoral Act Chapter 2:13 (unofficial or false d...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 07:40hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Lessons from Singapore on economic development
Singapore is a tiny island-city state in Southeast Asia with a total area of 718km2 (543 times smaller than Zimbabwe) and part of the four Asian Tigers (Others include Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Kore...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 1325 | by Victor Bhoroma
Africa the 'Sun Continent' and Investors understand that Solar Energy is a Low Risk Business
Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of brig...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:24hrs | 586 | by Enos Denhere
US blocks Cyclone Idai aid
The Japanese religious movement, Soka Gakkai Foundation is failing to forward its US$10 000-00 donation to Cyclone Idai victims, citing the unilateral sanctions on Zimbabwe by the United States, Harar...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2734 | by Gondai Kamumango
Govt mulls scrapping forex duty for vehicles
TREASURY is considering scrapping the payment of duty for vehicles in foreign currency when it presents the mid-year fiscal policy at the end of this month, it has been revealed.On June 24, th...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:30hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Government debts weigh on TelOne
State owned fixed telecommunications giant TelOne says unpaid Government debts amounting to $93 million, 62 percent of total debt, are largely the reason it has struggled to meet obligations to critic...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
Giving Mthuli Ncube's mono-currency a fighting chance
It is July 1, 1916, World War 1, the Battle of the Somme. The British Army had been planning for weeks and months for a massive assault on German positions dug in around Somme, to relieve pressure on ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 18:46hrs | 4026 | by Joseph Mverecha
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 3475 | by Tendai Chimunda
Zimra collects $230m in Q1 at Beitbridge
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has recorded a relative increase in revenue levied on commercial cargo which passes through Beitbridge Border Post in the first quarter of the year in comparison...Published: 01 Jul 2019 at 07:32hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa developing algorithmic surveillance system to spy on Zimbabweans
In a bid to attain political omnipresence and omniscience against unsuspecting citizens, the Zimbabwe government is reportedly working on a sophisticated algorithmic super surveillance system, said to...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 08:37hrs | 8495 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mphoko to get his exit package
Former vice president (VP) Phelekezela Mphoko, is now likely to get his terminal benefits, more than a year after he was booted out of government. According to the independently-owned Daily Ne...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | 7356 | by Staff reporter
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 3725 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Taming the Shrew' - Deaths on our Roads
Driving in Harare and in the highways of Zimbabwe has become distressful. Recent reports of high profile road traffic deaths refer. The traffic chaos has become a 'shrew.' There is urgent need to 'tam...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1313 | by Engineer Tororiro Isaac Chaza PMP
'Ramaphosa not too stupid to allow SA turn into a Zimbabwe'
A TOP South African politician, businessman and peace consultant says President Cyril Ramaphosa will not be too "stupid" as to allow South Africa to regress into another Zimbabwe.Roelof Petrus...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:28hrs | 1765 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs complete transformation, not patchworks.
"In a world of conspicuous institutional failure, one entity that still offers some important lessons for the practice of governance is Singapore." Kent CalderZimbabwe is experiencing a struct...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:13hrs | 323 | by Dr Gus Manatsa
Lionel Messi highest paid athlete in the world
Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid athlete, earning $127m in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 ranking.Juventus's Portugal forward Crist...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3101 | by Daniel Itai
Zimbabwe may withdraw from Endangered-Species deal to sell $300m of ivory
Zimbabwe may consider withdrawing from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species because the organization won't allow it to sell its ivory stockpile.The southern African nati...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1069 | by Bloomberg
Toyota working towards driving Zimbabwe Motor industry
TOYOTA Zimbabwe is working on expanding its business in the country in anticipation of a boom in the motor industry buoyed by the Government's efforts to revive the country's economy.In an int...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:34hrs | 860 | by Staff reporter
Harare residents shoot down MOPA Bill
HARARE residents yesterday dismissed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill (MOPA), describing it as repressive and an attempt to protect government and law enforcement agents who are being given mor...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:59hrs | 1048 | by Staff reporter
Funding Africa's infrastructure gap
Key to enabling African economies to make the most of their opportunities is developing infrastructure in the region. Across the continent, new laws are being implemented and alternative sources of in...Published: 30 May 2019 at 19:52hrs | 830 | by Agencies
'Dump cars and buy bicycles' Minister tells Zimbabweans
The Minister of Energy and Power Development Advocate Fortune Chasi has urged Zimbabweans to consider using bicycles and motorbikes given the dire fuel shortages hitting the country.Chas...Published: 30 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | 11723 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A uniquely Zimbabwean problem
As inflation, among other key economic indicators, keeps worsening at a pace reminiscent of the 2008 experience, public demands, often through protests, for dollarisation have become more pronounced. ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 1412 | by Livison Bhebhe
De Villiers fires salvo at ZRU after sacking
FORMER Springbok coach Peter de Villiers has lashed out at the Zimbabwe Rugby Union (ZRU) after reports that he had been fired as the Sables' head coach. De Villiers was appointed Zimbabwe head coach ...Published: 30 May 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1094 | by Staff reporter
Who will win the 2018/19 HSBC World Rugby Sevens series?
Fiji climbed to the top of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens table this week by winning the London Sevens for the second year running. They secured a thumping 43-7 victory over USA at Twickenham and that sa...Published: 29 May 2019 at 20:17hrs | 489 | by Staff writer
Zimbabwe struggles to keep its fledgling currency 'zollars' alive
MOST CURRENCIES have snappy names, like yen, won, kip or lek. Some have unfortunate ones: dong or colón. Few have names as cumbersome as Zimbabwe's Real-Time Gross-Settlement Dollars, also known as R...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1359 | by The Economist
Another Zimbabwean 'Beast' charms Sharks
LAST time a prop from Zimbabwe arrived at Sharks' Kings Park Stadium in Durban, he would turn out to be a record-breaking international player for South Africa - one of the world game's greats....Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:30hrs | 411 | by Staff reporter
Jacob Mudenda blocks fuel situation debate
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday shot down a request by MPs to discuss the fuel situation in the country as a matter of urgency, saying legislators will get a chance to grill E...Published: 22 May 2019 at 16:11hrs | 2559 | by Staff reporter
Major Matabeleland roads under reconstruction
THE multi-million dollar road infrastructure development programme undertaken by the Government has moved a gear up with work on the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road and Bulawayo-Tsholotsho Road now underway, amon...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Obadiah Moyo defends Mnangagwa's wife
Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo on Wednesday defended the role being played by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa in the health sector saying she was a hardworking ambassador who is contribu...Published: 17 May 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1796 | by Staff reporter
2019 ZITF perceptions
The 60th of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair had more than 532 companies who participated in showcasing their services and products. The Trade Fair theme was "Propagating Industrial Growth throug...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:13hrs | 391 | by Enos Denhere
We must flash out all the sloths
Hairdressers of Natpharm head honchos must understandably be worried since they might not be seeing their clients anytime soon, especially after they received quite the "hairdryer treatment" last week...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:34hrs | 331 | by Bishop Lazi
ZITF needs overhaul
ECONOMIC analysts have called for the sub-division of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) into sector-driven fairs as the business exhibition is struggling to attract big international corpor...Published: 01 May 2019 at 08:57hrs | 565 | by Staff reporter
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