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Medication to prevent yourself from getting HIV
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is medication taken to prevent getting HIV, it is extremely effective(99%) in preventing HIV when taken consistently i.e one pill a day.This medication is recom...Published: 8 hrs ago | 624 | by Erick Matotoba
President Ruto asks Africans to ditch the US Dollar
President William Ruto has asked African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the globally-bullish US dollar by signing up to a pan-African payments system to facilitate trade within the conti...Published: 30 May 2023 at 22:32hrs | 929 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabwe citizens less willing to embrace new street names
FOR the one-year period he has been selling wooden utensils in Harare's central business district, Blessing Magocha (35) has been using popular buildings and landmarks as a meeting point with his clie...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:57hrs | 3926 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Nigeria for Tinubu inauguration
Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has arrived here to join other leaders attending the inauguration of Nigeria president-elect Bola Tinubu scheduled for Monday.VP Chiwenga landed at the N...Published: 28 May 2023 at 13:00hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Inside Elections: Stalemate in Manicaland? Perhaps not
This is the second in a series of (inside elections) articles examining the politics and voting patterns of 2023 general election expected swing/marginal National Assembly constituencies.To wi...Published: 28 May 2023 at 12:39hrs | 274 | by Farai Chirimumimba
Mnangagwa's amnesty to rapists raises a stink
Pressure is piling on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reconsider the release of dangerous criminals, including rapists, who benefited from an amnesty that saw the release of 4 000 prisoners. R...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:08hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
8 mistakes in Zimbabwe's 2013 Constitution
ON May 22 2023, Zimbabwe's Constitution turned 10, having become effective on 22 May 2013. This year, we mark the 10-year anniversary. I choose to mark this day with a reflection, and my reflection is...Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:15hrs | 809 | by Musa Kika
Chamisa slams Mnangagwa
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader, Nelson Chamisa has slammed the failure to proclaim the elections date by President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the move restricts planning ahead of the polls....Published: 27 May 2023 at 09:08hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Manifestos and democracy in Zimbabwe
MACDONALD Lewanika (2019) in his doctoral thesis argued that contrary to popular opinion Zanu-PF is a learning organization, which has changed its electoral practices to suit different needs.M...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 232 | by Munyaradzi Mapfumo
Controversial lawyer frets over Zimbabwe election date secrecy
LAW expert and Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum executive director Musa Kika has revealed that failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to proclaim an election date as stipulated by the Constitution ste...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:35hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in spotlight over the massive Nssa corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has presented its forensic audit which unearths corruption and names individuals implicated in the pensions fund's latest scandals to the Office of the Pr...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 3059 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel finally returns to Britain
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel - who fears being thrown under the bus should he return to Zimbabwe, because of the starring role he played in Al Jazeera's investigative Gold M...Published: 15 May 2023 at 19:29hrs | 3281 | by Staff reporter
Are investors in African equities poised for wins amidst global turmoil?
It has been a tumultuous first quarter of 2023, and African equities have not been spared.Global markets started the year on a very positive note, with the S&P 500 up 9.0% at its peak in e...Published: 12 May 2023 at 11:17hrs | 307 | by Rami Hajjar, portfolio manager of the Allan Gray Africa ex-SA Equity Fund
Global technology guru dates Zimbabwe
RENOWNED technologist and founder of artificial intelligence company, Omelas, Evanna Hu will visit Zimbabwe to engage stakeholders on the rollout of 5G technologies as part of celebrations to mark the...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:11hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
EU, UK, US presence at ZITF excites Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday said the participation of European nations, the United States of America and the United Kingdom at this year's Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is an ind...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 09:00hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Curtain comes down on eventful ZITF
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) is an annual event that brings together business leaders, innovators, policymakers, and investors from across the globe together.This year's trade ...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:57hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean science teacher bags prestigious leadership award in US
The prestigious Cisco Youth Leadership Award, with a prize of $250,000 (R4.6m), this year went to Zimbabwean science teacher Nkosana Butholenkosi Masuku.He founded Phenomtech-Sciency to make s...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 20:07hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Epworth title deed scheme Zanu-PF vote-buying stunt
THE regularisation of Epworth settlements after President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week started distributing so-called title deeds has come under the spotlight as it has since emerged that the document...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:30hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Ncube frets over runaway forex rate
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube this week threatened to hike Zimbabwe's policy rate beyond 200%, if companies continue to dabble into parallel market activities.The Treasury chief, who spoke dur...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 07:04hrs | 2090 | by Staff reporter
ZITF roars to life
THE 63rd edition of the premium trade exhibition — the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair — kicks off in Bulawayo today amid high optimism that the platform will strengthen existing business linkag...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:25hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
ZITF slashes entry prices by half
The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair entry prices have been reduced for public days, Friday and Saturday during the annual showcase in Bulawayo.This was said by ZITF Company Board chair, Mr B...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 19:38hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel holed up in Dubai
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel is currently holed up in Dubai alongside several prominent members of rival gangs exposed in Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative documentary a...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 6171 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe's passport application dismissed
The application by CCC Member of Parliament Joana Mamombe for the temporary release of her passport to visit Kenya for a training conference has been dismissed by Harare magistrate Mr Stanford Mambanj...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:41hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gets paid by a bullion dealer every two weeks?
ONE of Africa's most notorious gold dealers Kamlesh Pattni, who was implicated in the Goldenberg scandal which almost bankrupted Kenya in the 1990s, says he pays President Emmerson Mnangagwa every two...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 1227 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe awaits passport ruling
CCC member of Parliament Joana Mamombe, who is on bail facing allegations of faking abduction with her two accomplices, wants a temporary return of her passport to travel to Kenya.Mamombe on F...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 06:18hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
'I'm working for investor-friendly environment" insist Mnangagwa. Watch again Al Jazeera Gold Mafia. I rest my case!
The spirit is willing, but the intellect is weak! "Zimbabwe is open for business!" is the most enduring thing President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ever said since taking over from the late Robert ...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:43hrs | 895 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe among Dubai's target tourism source markets
ZIMBABWE is among the key African tourism source markets being targeted by the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Dubai province, which has recently been named the world's leading travel destination....Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:33hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
Professor Moyo dismiss Al Jazeera Gold Mafia as 'disjointed thesis'. He too is feeling fallout heat
When the story first broke that Al Jazeera was going to air a documentary of the gold smuggling and money laundering in Zimbabwe, Zanu PF regime and its apologists dismissed the whole thing s inconseq...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 23:36hrs | 2654 | by Wilbert Mukori
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide domination
The Coming BRICS Summit: The ending of US worldwide dominationAn African PerspectivePart 1South Africa will host the 15th BRICS Summit from 22nd-24th August 2023, with the theme;...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 2227 | by Ian Beddowes
Zimbabwean appointed managing director at Uganda's DFCU Bank
Development Finance Company of Uganda Bank Limited (DFCU) Bank has appointed Mr Charles M Mudiwa, a Zimbabwean national, as the new managing director, almost three months after Mr Mathias Katamba resi...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 08:07hrs | 2418 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa the Al Jazeera documentary protagonist
AS the narrative of Qatar-based international television news channel Al Jazeera's Gold Mafia investigative film on gold smuggling, money laundering and corruption unfolds and audiences navigate the s...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 14:21hrs | 3176 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya spared govt gold crackdown
WHILE the Zimbabwean government says it has taken measures to freeze accounts of the gold mafia and investigate the gold smuggling, money laundering and corruption, one of the kingpins, Henrietta Rush...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 14:20hrs | 9017 | by Staff reporter
Uebert Angel, Rudland accounts frozen
INDIVIDUALS implicated in the gold Mafia scandal including prophet Uebert Angel have had their assets frozen by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's Financial Intelligence Unit with arrests imminent....Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:10hrs | 976 | by Staff reporter
What draws the gold mafia to Dubai?
An Al Jazeera investigation shows how criminals use the city's pro-business policies to smuggle gold, clean dirty cash.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:23hrs | 1586 | by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
Only PhD holders should lecture at university
WHEN I completed my Master of Philosophy in Linguistics degree, I was a teaching assistant at the University of Zimbabwe. My two colleagues and I celebrated because we had spent four hard years resear...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 659 | by Jairos Kangira
Passion Java taunts Zimbabweans over gold theft
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally and self-styled prophet Passion Java has torched a fiery storm after appearing in a video bragging that those implicated in Al Jazeera's four-part gold smuggling do...Published: 03 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 2790 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity Printers in kickbacks storm
FORMER Fidelity Printers and Refiners general manager Fradreck Kunak (pictured) a and the company's head of gold operations Mehluleli Dube were allegedly paid US$30 000 and US$3 000 kickbacks apiece e...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:11hrs | 3101 | by Staff reporter
Gold Mafia: Zimbabwe government should rethink its policies!
The Exposé, a documentary by Al Jazeera International, of what it calls the Zimbabwe Gold Mafia does not come as a surprise to journalists in Zimbabwe.The looting of Zimbabwe's sovereign mine...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:04hrs | 268 | by Kenneth Mufuka
LIST: Top 50 African Trailblazers Awards nominees released
The inaugural Afri50 Trailblazer Awards will take place on May 1, 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, coinciding with Workers Day. The event will recognize 50 African trailblazers who have made a sig...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:44hrs | 881 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shady characters around Mnangagwa
SPOTLIGHT seems to bring out the best and worst of people, and sometimes their true colours. Self-proclaimed prophet Uebert Angel is among people caught off-guard by the four-episode Al Jazeera docume...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2616 | by Staff reporter
Valee Music courts DJ Tira
UNITED KINGDOM (UK)-BASED Zimbabwean Afro-pop songbird Valee Music has roped in the services of South African DJ, record producer and kwaito artiste DJ Tira on Ng'cabanga Ngawe (Thinking about You), h...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 07:46hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF's gold Mafia is punishing those who voted for it too.' Where is solace in sniggered at ghost voters!
The Al Jazeera "Gold Mafia: Laundry Service" of the looting of Zimbabwe's gold has forced many Zimbabweans to sit up and pay attention. In my WhatsApp group there is a photo of a couple sniggering wit...Published: 27 Mar 2023 at 10:05hrs | 2195 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe in top 10 of most visited African countries
ZIMBABWE has been ranked ninth on the list of Africa's most visited countries in 2022 after receiving nearly 1 million international tourists.The country recorded 895 338 arrivals last year, a...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 09:57hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean actor joins The Lion King cast's UK tour
ZIMBABWEAN actor and film producer Shaun Mundawarara is part of Disney's The Lion King tour of the United Kingdom and Ireland as an understudy for the role of Simba. This comes after the multi...Published: 26 Mar 2023 at 09:54hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa exposed
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been left exposed and politically vulnerable following ground-breaking revelations by Qatar-based international television network Al Jazeera's of gold...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:23hrs | 5161 | by Staff reporter
Africa: Embattling a Continent
When the IMF goes to warSo the International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff has decided to grant Ukraine some whooping USD15,6 billion?Ukraine is at war with Russia.A war funded and...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 12:59hrs | 236 | by Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Al Jazeera exposé: 'A fiction D grade movie' with 'over exaggerating pastor'
The chairperson of Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement and founder of Zimbabweans Unite Against US War Sanctions, Rutendo Matinyarare, has described the 1st episode of Al Jazeera exposé Gold Mafia docum...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 07:20hrs | 4382 | by Ndou Paul
'Gold Mafia is bigger than Zanu PF' said Al Jazeera. The tail is wagging the dog - out of spite!
"Gold Mafia Episode 1: Laundry Service" will be aired on Al Jazeera TV tonight Thursday 23 March 2023, an advance version was already circulating on the social media. There are six take home point...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 03:14hrs | 7892 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa likely to feature in Al Jazeera exposé episode two
AL JAZEERA finally dropped its explosive documentary exposing how hundreds of millions worth of gold was being smuggled out to Dubai by a well knit circle of high ranking officials who include Ambassa...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:50hrs | 2967 | by AFP
Gold smuggler tied to Kenyan plunder is back - now in Zimbabwe
A gold smuggler implicated in a scandal that robbed Kenya of 10 percent of its GDP in the 1990s has moved his smuggling operation to Zimbabwe and Dubai, Al Jazeera's Investigative Unit (I-Unit) can re...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:50hrs | 649 | by AFP
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