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Zimbabwe, SA approve tourists only border crossing
Zimbabwe and South Africa have jointly approved a seasonal tourism-only border crossing linking Kruger National Park and Gonarezhou National Park via the Pafuri-Sengwe corridor, in a groundbreaking in...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 09:04hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Sweden, South Africa impressed by Zim tourism surge
Zimbabwe has gradually witnessed a surge in the tourism and hospitality sectors over yesteryears, with several tourists coming from South Africa and Sweden expressed their commitment to embark on a ma...Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 08:02hrs | 1362 | by ideon Madzikatidze in Gonarezhou, Chiredzi
Zimbabwean man steals R1 million in South Africa
Kruger National Park, South Africa: The Hawks are on the hunt for a former Mugg & Bean manager accused of stealing nearly R1 million from the franchise.Amos Tineyi Kampinya, a 44-year-old ...Published: 27 Jul 2024 at 09:34hrs | 3343 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean man wanted in SA for stealing nearly R1 million
A ZIMBABWEAN in South Africa is on the run after reportedly stealing almost R1 million from an upmarket restaurant at Kruger National Park.Amos Tineyi Kampyinya (44), according to the South Af...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 16:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hunting benefits truths can collapse Anti-hunting Animal Rights Groups
The recent 'flooding' of the media and British House Lords with the truths about international hunting benefits not only caused a rethink on the UK trophy hunting imports ban Bill but can also eventua...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 10:13hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
Ramaphosa's Finance Minister accused of sexual harassment
South Africa's Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has revealed that a case of sexual harassment has been opened against him. In a statement released in his personal capacity on Saturday, 13 August 2022...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 17:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Airlink launches Harare-Durban direct flight
SOUTH Africa's Airlink has launched direct flights between Harare and Durban in a development that is expected to promote trade and tourism.Harare is Zimbabwe's capital and trade centre while ...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Germany's biggest airline dates Victoria Falls
ONE of Zimbabwe's biggest leisure chains yesterday predicted a dramatic upswing in arrivals, as Germany's biggest airline prepared for its maiden adventure on the Windhoek-Victoria Falls route today....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fastjet connects Kruger park to Victoria Falls
FASTJET has become the first airline in the history of Victoria Falls International Airport to offer a flight that connects Victoria Falls and Kruger National Park in Empumalanga, South Africa....Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
So Zimbabwe wants to feed its starving people with elephant meat! Heil Zimbabwe. This is long overdue
Did you know that the sustainable elephant carrying capacity for Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park and Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou National Park is, in both cases, no more than ABOUT one elephant per two squa...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 16:10hrs | 10 | by Ron Thomson
'Demand Arrest Of Chicken Thieves Not Wildlife Poachers' - Animal Rights Tell Africans
One of the most curious and harmful lessons that Western animal rights groups continue to teach African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and the African public, in general, is 'demand the a...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 12:54hrs | 8 | by Emmanuel Koro
Clearing landmines from a crucial African wildlife corridor
In Zimbabwe, landmines affect not only local populations but also their precious livestock and wildlife. Thanks to an initial start-up grant from the US government, followed by another grant and stron...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 12:46hrs | 7 | by Agencies
Ramaphosa owns trophy hunting company?
The Presidency denied President Cyril Ramaphosa has a stake in a trophy hunting company following a claim published by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). PETA alleged Ramaphos...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fears Matabeleland restoration: no one will baby sit him in Matabeleland
"If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand". These words of wisdom are attributed to Jesus Christ himself.Zimbabwe is one such Kingdom trying to find balance on shaky t...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 08:02hrs | 3 | by Israel Dube
Rhino poaching drop may mean we're running out of rhinos
A strategic report on poaching just released by the Department of Environmental Affairs shows that fewer rhinos but more elephants are being killed. Of concern, however, is what it leaves out....Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Janine Avery
Authorities ducking and diving over Umbabat lion trophy hunt
SOUTH AFRICA - An extraordinary cat and mouse game is being played out in Mpumalanga over the baiting and shooting of what could be a much-loved Umbabat Reserve pride male lion named Skye. Sin...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 08:56hrs | 2 | by Adam Cruise
Prophet Makandiwa gives Ramaphosa prophecy
According to a video broadcast on United International Church (UFIC)'s Christ TV, Prophet Emmanuel Makandiwa, during a church service at Life Haven on March 18, 2016, told congregants that South Afric...Published: 13 May 2018 at 08:37hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
The Day Chikerema rebuked Mphoko
Today we round up our interview with veteran guerilla and nationalist Abraham Dumezweni Nkiwane. In the past two weeks Nkiwane spoke about the state of education in the then Southern Rhodesia, rise of...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo airports set for upgrade
Buffalo Range and Masvingo airports are set to be upgraded to international standards, with Chinese investors having shown interest to partner Government in the two projects.Buffalo Range Airp...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rhino Poaching Stats: Slight Decrease But still Far Too High
The small decrease in overall poaching in 2017 has been overshadowed by a growing concern for the increase and broadening of poaching elsewhere in South Africa as onl...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 09:54hrs | 2 | by Louzel Lombard Steyn
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
Germans take control of Zimbabwe's Gonarezhou
GOVERNMENT has surrendered management of the Gonarezhou National Park to a German based-firm, Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS), after failing to contain rampant poaching which was threatening to wip...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 09:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Rescued elephant calf adopted
An orphaned baby elephant has been fully accepted into a semi-wild elephant herd at Camp Jabulani outside Hoedspruit in a rare success story. The baby elephant, Timisa, which means courageous ...Published: 18 May 2017 at 10:36hrs | 15 | by Melissa Reitz
Poaching and budget crises spur dehorning move in Africa's 'rhino conservation cradle'
IT would have been unthinkable just a few years ago that rhinos would be dehorned for their own protection in a park as large and famous as the Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu-Natal.The 96&n...Published: 24 Apr 2017 at 17:38hrs | 3 | by Tony Carnie
4-metre snake found in supermarket fridge
A merchandiser got a little more than yoghurt when he reached into a fridge and found a chilled snake at the Komatipoort Spar in Mpumalanga on Friday.According to ...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
More questions than answers as Kruger Park continues shooting buffalo
Confused explanations at a public meeting in Skukuza on Saturday are concerning stakeholders as the Kruger National Park forges ahead with its program of shooting buffalo as part of a sustainable offt...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 11:08hrs | 3 | by Adam Cruise
Wake up women
Life has become my greatest school. I have learned a number of things through life. From people around me and what takes place in their lives, i got my free lessons from the people around me and i sti...Published: 04 Mar 2017 at 12:47hrs | 1 | by Belinda Chowa
Zimbabweans drown in Limpopo river while trying to illegally cross into SA
RANGERS in the Kruger National Park witnessed how the raging Limpopo River swept away Zimbabweans trying to cross into Mzansi.The rangers were patrolling the border between the two countri...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 14:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyclone Dineo kills four in Mozambique
There are reports that four people in Mozambique, including a child, have died as a result of tropical Cyclone Dineo.According to Jornal Noticias, a child was killed after being crushed by a t...Published: 16 Feb 2017 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff Reporter
South African arrested in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park on poaching charge
A South African, Pieter Jansen van Rensberg, has been arrested on a charge of poaching inside the protected buffer zone of the Mozambique's Parque Nacional de Limpopo (PNL), which abuts the Kruger Nat...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
Elephant ambassador Charlie felled by poacher’s guns
Tracking collars and sophisticated telemetary are a good way to see where wild elephants roam. They can also lead grisly discoveries about where they die. ...Published: 06 Dec 2016 at 15:30hrs | 7 | by Don Pinnock
Unmissable Things to do in South Africa
South Africa is a favorite for holidaymakers who enjoy a varied itinerary full of adventure and culture. There is safari where big game can be seen, beaches, vineyards, dry deserts and of course the f...Published: 05 Dec 2016 at 13:31hrs | 27 | by Staff Reporter
Zuma's ally 'implicated' in rhino poaching documentary?
The investigative documentary, Al Jazeera Investigates - The Poachers Pipeline, aired on Al Jazeera on Sunday afternoon.Mahlobo appears to have been implicated in the rhino poaching exposé, w...Published: 13 Nov 2016 at 15:46hrs | 14 | by Citizen
South African farmer 'stealing' donkeys from Zimbabwe
A SOUTH African white commercial farmer is allegedly working with organised criminals in Beitbridge who are stealing donkeys and smuggling them across the border to be fed to lions at his farm....Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 20:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Meet Charlie Elephant
We first spotted Charlie from about 700 foot up over the arid Mozambique savannah and it was love at fist sight… A majestic African elephant bull, approaching his prime with strikingly handsome tusk...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Jacqueline Lahoud
Kruger animals becoming meat for starving neighbours
This is a story about too much hippo poo in the Kruger National Park, hungry neighbours and rain that just won't fall. It's also about culling, but the park doesn't like the word and prefers harvestin...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 16:56hrs | 4 | by Don Pinnock
Elephant numbers across Africa decrease by a third in just seven years - survey
A pan-African survey of African savannah elephants has revealed declines of a staggering 30 percent - 144,000 elephants -between 2007 and 2014 in the areas covered by the survey. The Paul G. A...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 12:55hrs | | by Agencies
Boy (6) snatched by leopard at Kruger National Park
A leopard at a South African game reserve snatched a six-year-old boy and ran off with him.Little Kellan Denny was attacked and dragged away by the big cat at Kruger National Park.As t...Published: 06 May 2016 at 17:34hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Game warden found dead, undressed at national park
A game warden was found dead and undressed in Gonarezhou National Park last Sunday, a discovery that has rattled both villagers and wildlife conservationists in the area.Wardens are said to ha...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:26hrs | | by Langton Nyakwenda
Prophet challenges a lion
A Zion Christian Church prophet who was filled with the Holy Spirit recently 'challenged' a lion to do battle in the Kruger National Park.Prophet Alec Ndiwane who is based in the Pretoria Sosh...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reoporter
Poacher killed in Zimbabwe may have come from Kruger
One of Kruger National Park's biggest bull elephants is suspected of being killed by Zimbabwean hunters as he strayed out of the protection of the national park and into Zimbabwe. Initial info...Published: 14 Oct 2015 at 16:56hrs | | by Adam Cruise
Over 740 rhinos have been killed in SA this year
Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa says 749 rhino have been poached so far this year in South Africa, up from the same period last year where 716 were killed. The minister revealed the...Published: 01 Sep 2015 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Emergency as elephant poached
An Emergency was declared as the first elephant was poached on western border of Kruger National ParkEach day, In Africa, around 100 elephants die at the hands of poachers. Almost all the kil...Published: 27 Jul 2015 at 13:19hrs | | by Don Pinnock
Mozambique to destroy seized ivory, rhino horn
Mozambique plans to destroy more than one tonne of confiscated ivory as well as 53 rhino horns to show its resolve in the fight against poaching, a New York-based conservation group said on Saturd...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Is government doing enough to protect South Africa's biodiversity?
Globally environmental destruction is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore. Why then, the apparent complacency from government in the face of South Africa's biodiversity crisis? Threatene...Published: 23 Jun 2015 at 17:38hrs | | by Melissa Reitz
Zim relocates 5 black rhinos to Botswana
Zimbabwe has reportedly loaded five black rhinos onto a plane bound for Botswana and it is the first such exports since the 1990s, as part of conservation efforts amid an increase in poaching in s...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Huge snake brakes ambulance
A huge python has made itself at home in an ambulance's engine near the Kruger National Park,in South Africa and paramedics can't go anywhere until the snake leaves."I have given the sna...Published: 05 Jun 2015 at 09:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Stray lions wreak havoc in Beitbridge
A PRIDE of lions suspected to have strayed from South Africa's Kruger National Park is terrorising Tshikwalakwala villagers where the big cats have already killed several donkeys and cattle. V...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 01:19hrs | 14 | by Mashudu Netsianda
Zanu-PF heavyweights kicked out
THE Zanu PF politburo has booted out elite army officials and Masvingo province party heavyweights from the money-spinning safari landholdings in the prized Save Valley Conservancy (SVC) for double-di...Published: 14 May 2014 at 05:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The British engineered Gukurahundi Massacres
I understand how people hate Robert Mugabe but, to publish this report as a factual report is a horrible crime against the people of Zimbabwe. I can only assume you were neither witnesses to the t...Published: 26 Apr 2014 at 06:52hrs | 9 | by Brian Sherif
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