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Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 6 hrs ago | 4865 | by Bloomberg
Japan launches Chamisa's bullet train
A NEW bullet train has entered service in Japan that's the country's fastest, smoothest, most comfortable and safest yet it's able to "escape" to safety in the event of an earthquake.The N700S...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:14hrs | 5184 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1590 | by Emmanuel Koro
Lindiwe Sibanda to be a jury member of the world's largest food prize
The jury of the Food Planet Prize, the world's largest prize in the food arena, has been announced by the Curt Bergfors Foundation in Sweden.The ten international top professionals include lea...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:34hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Metallon sells gold assets to Tagwirei's Landela
MZI Khumalo's Metallon has completed the sale of Shamva Mine to Kuda Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures, while the sale of Mazowe Mine is expected shortly.The transaction represents a change o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1811 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5841 | by Staff reporter
Plot to destabilise Zimbabwe economy exposed?
AS Government intensifies efforts to close channels that are fuelling the black market and other illicit financial activities, it has emerged that some foreign nations and individuals have been trying...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 2102 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mobile operators called to further national interests
The Zimbabwean government has been commended for its firm stance in fighting illegal dealings connected with the foreign currency black market to restore mobile money platforms to their original purpo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:05hrs | 1178 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money services banned
THE Government has suspended phone-based money transactions with immediate effect as investigations into allegations that they fuel black market transactions that have caused runaway inflation gather ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Cassava Fintech launches SASAI Health Status Report as it steps up fight against Coronavirus
Cassava Fintech International (CFI), a subsidiary of the Econet Group, has launched the SASAI Health Status Report (SHSR), a secure blockchain technology-supported solution expected to digitize the te...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 17:56hrs | 130 | by Agencies
Stanbic Bank in virtual Africa investors conference
In line with current world trends, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe's parent company, Standard Bank Group has adopted a digital approach to enable African corporate clients and leading policymakers to connect vi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:28hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
UK investor completes acquisition of Zimbabwe's Lubu coalfields
A UNITED Kingdom-based investment group, Contango Holdings, has completed acquisition by way of reverse takeover of Consolidation Growth Holdings' interest in the Lubu coalfield project in Matabelelan...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Rename Victoria Falls, and Lake, after African luminaries
Fellow Africans and friends of Africa, liberation starts by "Decolonising The Mind," to borrow the title of a must-read book by Ngugi wa Thiong'o the Kenyan intellectual and author. Africans w...Published: 22 Jun 2020 at 07:55hrs | 855 | by Milton Allimadi
Same frog now in lipstick
IN more ways than one, courting love is similar to stalking prey.Although motivated by different designs, courting and stalking essentially entail stealthily winning an advantage in order ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 244 | by Bishop Lazi
Minister Obadiah Moyo 'detained' in his bedroom?
HEALTH Minister Obadiah Moyo, who was arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) officers Friday night, is reported to have spent the same night at his home before coming to court the next...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:04hrs | 1112 | by newzimbabwe
Losing children to UK's social workers
Nesbert Shumba left Zimbabwe in 2003 and settled in the United Kingdom. His wife and two children joined him a year later and while in the UK, Nesbert was blessed with three more children. He moved to...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1087 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1664 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Police brutality Why the Zimbabwe, US outrage is different
THE past few weeks have seen unprecedented global outrage at the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis by a white police officer Derek Chauvin, who knelt on his neck for almost nine minutes while Floy...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:16hrs | 726 | by Dzikamai Bere
Zimbabwean-born Irish rugby star turned wine expert
Dave Curtis took the road less travelled on his journey from Zimbabwe to an Ireland jersey in the early 1990s and the return trip has been just as interesting and rewarding.The sun is shining ...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Lupane varsity rocked by nepotism, tribalism storm
Lupane State University (LSU) vice-chancellor Pardon Kuipa is in an eye of a storm after it emerged that his daughter, who only has a Master's degree was appointed a lecturer ahead of PhD holders with...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 10:05hrs | 1139 | by Staff reporter
Biti warns Mnangagwa
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under-pressure government that the country is facing imminent implosion.Speaking in an interview with the Da...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:38hrs | 8434 | by Staff reporter
Solving political turmoil key to addressing Zimbabwe's economic crisis
ZIMBABWE is experiencing one of its worst economic crises since independence characterised by cash and foreign currency shortages, fuel scarcities, rampant prices hikes, hyperinflation and increased v...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:35hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
The dangers of face masks
The Zimbabwean government and indeed many governments have made it mandatory to wear a face mask in public as a health intervention to control the spread of coronavirus. It has not been explained full...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 06:05hrs | 4017 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC's tedious, shabby politics
ZIMBABWE has never needed a stronger political opposition than now, a time of worsening economic challenges that portend an imminent regression to the calamitous crisis of a decade ago.Dishear...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:54hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
George Floyd murder: Violence erupts across US on sixth day of protests
Violence has erupted in cities across the US on the sixth night of protests sparked by the death in police custody of African-American George Floyd.Dozens of cities imposed curfews, but many p...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 16:26hrs | 1451 | by BBC
Mwonzora cranking up the heat on Chamisa
BUOYED by Friday's High Court ruling which effectively killed the debate whether the MDC Alliance is a political party or not, the interim leadership of the country's main opposition party is cranking...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:58hrs | 7142 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa is finished'
THINGS appear to be going from bad to worse for Nelson Chamisa and his allies, with the High Court ruling yesterday that the MDC Alliance does not have an independent right of existence under the law ...Published: 31 May 2020 at 23:56hrs | 16488 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa joined the struggle only in 1978'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa joined the liberation struggle in 1978 when he arrived in Mozambique, National Patriotic Front Spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has said. The firebrand Spokesperson ...Published: 28 May 2020 at 11:03hrs | 7294 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's radical cure for depression
Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note.Late one evening, Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Harare, Z...Published: 28 May 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2012 | by Rachel Nuwer from Zimbabwe
ZANU PF Inspired by Nazis
on "Africa Day," as reports surface that they lack Ubuntu and are STARVING even the INNOCENT CHILDREN of Zimbabwe.Some of the great work being done by the ladies from the humble kitchen called...Published: 26 May 2020 at 18:13hrs | 1307 | by Thabo Makuyana
Mnangagwa running out of time
PRESSURE is mounting on the country's political leadership to put their differences aside and hold much-needed dialogue to help end the country's deepening economic crisis.This comes as life f...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:03hrs | 11156 | by Staff reporter
Towards the re-invention of Africa
The world is a huge afterthought. Most of what we know about the world and what happened in it is based on the history that was told later, in the hindsight of the historians.We can perceive t...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 101 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Zimbabwe diasporans eligible for land allocation back home
ZANU PF United Kingdom and Europe chair, Marshall Gore has encouraged the Diaspora Community at large to apply for land back home during the build-up to the second phase of the equitable land redistri...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:39hrs | 3146 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa using coronavirus as cover for arbitrary rule
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa warned that President Emmerson Mnangagwa "opened an avenue to arbitrary rule" when he extended the coronavirus lockdown for an indefinite per...Published: 19 May 2020 at 08:25hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Prodigal son Tinashe Jonasi apologises to Zanu-PF Chamisa and All Zimbabweans
In a twist of events Mr Tinashe Jonasi who has gained notoriety in attacking the Zimbabwean government and all the opposition members. Mr Jonasi came into light as he was flighted more often in a You ...Published: 18 May 2020 at 17:02hrs | 5106 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Dr Joshua Nkomo and the Calamity of Honesty
Very few people in the history of mankind and Zimbabwe will match Dr Joshua M.Nkomo's selflessness and tolerance, commitment to equality and love of Zimbabwe. He was a man whose eyes refused to se...Published: 18 May 2020 at 09:48hrs | 2599 | by Mqondobanzi Nduna Magonya
Credibility zero - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Nobody anywhere believes in the corrupt and violent Zimbabwe government - not even its 'all weather friends' like China and South Africa, who will no longer lend it money. The Vigil suspects that Zanu...Published: 17 May 2020 at 19:08hrs | 787 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
BackgroundIt all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Le...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:40hrs | 807 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Joshua Nkomo's symbolism in Matabeleland's search for true freedom
It all began with Sipho Malunga's speech which was virtually delivered in honour of the late revered Zimbabwe nationalist, Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, on the occasion of his annual Memorial Lecture Series o...Published: 16 May 2020 at 14:12hrs | 1212 | by George M Mkhwanazi
Liquid propane could supply Zimbabwe with fuel
Gift Chitanda remembers the day in 2019 the Zimbabwe company Intergas Zimbabwe offered him an interview for the lucrative job as the company's chief operating officer.The day before his interv...Published: 16 May 2020 at 09:07hrs | 8851 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF at its exploitative best
The ongoing MDC political infights presents Zanu-PF with a rare opportunity of political opportunism which they cannot afford to miss. Zanu-PF is reacting to the MDC saga with predatory instincts, typ...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:25hrs | 846 | by Mzingaye Ngwenya
Rise and shine Zimbabwe
After attending a burial of my sister in February, in Plumtree, it was only normal that we would gather, lighten the moment a little bit and catch up as close family and extended family alike. It was ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 882 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Retired UK based Zimbabwean nurse dies from Covid-19
A retired Zimbabwean nurse based in the United Kingdom has died of coronavirus after she had been invited back to work to assist front line staff in the fight against the world pandemic.Rachel...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:47hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
Death of Zimbabwe's economy
Better the economy dies than our people do declared President Mnangagwa the other day: you can revive the economy but can't bring back a dead person. He was speaking at State House while accepting don...Published: 03 May 2020 at 18:26hrs | 2356 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Death of Zimbabwe's economy - ZimVigil
Better the economy dies than our people do declared President Mnangagwa the other day: you can revive the economy but can't bring back a dead person. He was speaking at State House while accepting don...Published: 03 May 2020 at 15:29hrs | 1129 | by ZimVigil
There is no other way than a National Transitional Authority in Zimbabwe
SINCE 2016 the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) has argued consistently for a process leading to the establishment of a National Transitional Authority (NTA). We have done this for no ulterior mo...Published: 03 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 5348 | by Ibbo Mandaza and Tony Reeler
Peter Johns to be buried in UK
LEGENDARY Radio 3 disk jockey Peter Johns will have a private funeral in the UK, as health concerns due to Covid-19 have meant that it is considered too risky to repatriate his body back to his native...Published: 03 May 2020 at 09:05hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls Stock Exchange to be launched soon, Mthuli Ncube confirms
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is set to establish a hard currency stock exchange in Victoria Falls as part of efforts to attract global capital. The move will also support efforts to grow V...Published: 02 May 2020 at 19:55hrs | 3068 | by Ndou Paul
Why Emmerson Mnangagwa is an illegitimate president
A country draws its legitimacy through legitimate processes carried out transparently through its institutions. Robert Mugabe had indeed overstayed his welcome as the President of the Republic o...Published: 02 May 2020 at 17:56hrs | 1734 | by Lloyd Msipa
Facebook bans David Icke's page ove 5G - Coronavirus conspiracy theory
Social media giant Facebook has deleted the page of conspiracy theorist David Icke after being accused of promoting conspiracy theories related to the deadly Coronavirus. Icke was accused of l...Published: 01 May 2020 at 15:23hrs | 1321 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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