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John Deere expands firm's construction equipment portfolio to Zimbabwe
JOHN Deere is expanding its construction equipment line-up to 18 countries, including Zimbabwe, where Deere-branded construction products were previously not available.The company already supp...Published: 14 hrs ago | 260 | by Staff reporter
Malawian border jumpers deported
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:22hrs | 434 | by Staff reporter
28 Malawian border jumpers to be deported from Zimbabwe
The 28 Malawian border jumpers who were rounded up on Saturday while hiding at a house in Beitbridge are now facing deportation to their country after a local court found them guilty of violating Zimb...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 18:14hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter
Mozambique terrorists murder Zimbabwean man
Zimbabwean Nyasha Mugwagwa, who was among the 12 people killed in Palma, Mozambique, when armed criminals who claim allegiance to a terrorist group ISIS that attacked the town, has been buried by Moza...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:20hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails vaccination programme
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed Zimbabwe's ongoing Covid-19 vaccination programme, which is progressing well with the country having the eighth highest vaccination rate in Africa and third in the South...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:33hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Dairibord-Dendairy merger talks still on
Dairibord Zimbabwe, the country's largest dairy processor, discussions with unlisted fellow industry player Dendairy over potential acquisition and merger of the two's operations. Market analy...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops ready for war
Zimbabwean troops are girding for war after President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other regional leaders agreed an "immediate technical deployment" to help Mozambique fight Islamic insurgents who have rece...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:01hrs | 5597 | by Staff reporter
Warriors pave Afcon path
FOLLOWING a five place leap on the latest Fifa rankings, the Warriors will be looking to continue paving their path for the African Cup of Nations (Afcon) when they play World Cup qualifiers in June....Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:28hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Zifa back Loga for World Cup matches
ZIFA board member, Bryton Malandule, says Croatian coach Zdravko Logarusic needs to be given more time in charge of the Warriors. The 55-year-old coach has come under intense criticism, ...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:17hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
SADC to deploy in Mozambique
SADC will urgently resuscitate and capacitate its Force Intervention Brigade (FIB) in order to facilitate deployment in Mozambique, which is presently under siege from insurgents that claim to be affi...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:13hrs | 537 | by Staff repporter
Mnangagwa leaves for Mozambique
President Mnangagwa has left for Maputo to attend an SADC Extraordinary Double Troika Summit on the security situation in northern Mozambique. He was seen off at Robert Gabriel Mugabe Internat...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:37hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Sadc leaders in crucial Moza indaba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join other Southern African Development Community (Sadc) leaders in a crucial regional meeting to map a strategy to fight Islamist militants in Mozambique's ...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1014 | by Staff reporter
IOM rescues cross-border traders
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has started rolling out support programmes to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 pandemic on informal cross-border traders in the Sadc region. ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:43hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri extradition hearing: SA witnesses must appear in Malawi court, magistrate rules
South African witnesses, whose statements are included in the extradition request for self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri and his wife Mary, must appear in the Malawi lower court, magistrate Patr...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:14hrs | 1082 | by Staff reporter
Trucker shot in SA border queue
A 38-year-old Malawian truck driver is battling for life at Musina General Hospital in South Africa after he was shot in the head early on Monday by two gunmen who pounced on his vehicle along the N1 ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:11hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not worried about Ramaphosa speech in Tanzania
The president of South Africa Mr C Ramaphosa paid tribute to the countries he said helped and fought with ANC to remove Apartheid in South Africa. Mr Ramaphosa thanked Tanzania for being the centre an...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 10:24hrs | 12018 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'174 000 Zimbabwean migrants have returned home'
OVER 174 000 migrants have returned to Zimbabwe since the onset of COVID-19 due to loss of employment and deportation.This was revealed by the International Organisation of Migration (IOM) in ...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 05:55hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
Zec keeps tight lid on by-elections
HUMAN rights defenders have blasted the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) for its continued suspension of by-elections citing COVID-19 restrictions.Zec chief elections officer Utoile Silaigw...Published: 24 Mar 2021 at 06:34hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
'There is no crisis to mediate in Zimbabwe,' says Sadc
AS PRESSURE mounts on the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) to once again intervene in Zimbabwe's political disputes, the Botswana-headquartered regional bloc says there is no reason for i...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:40hrs | 1147 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is the second least happy country in the world
African countries rank close to last in 'The World Happiness Report 2021'The World Happiness Report 2021 has been released and Finland has come out tops, followed by Iceland, Denmark, Switzerl...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 13:43hrs | 3821 | by Staff reporter
'Broadcasters should speak all national languages'
Reaching 90 years of age on March 15 this year , retired veteran broadcaster and national languages enthusiast Amon Nyamambi, better known on the airwaves as 'uMaqhulayibambe' his grandfather's name, ...Published: 21 Mar 2021 at 08:26hrs | 321 | by John Masuku
Mnangagwa caps 65 at Defence University
President Mnangagwa yesterday capped 65 graduates at the second graduation ceremony of the Zimbabwe National Defence University. The ceremony was supposed to be held last year but was postponed due to...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:10hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says unity will end political, economic crises
MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa last Tuesday called for an urgent all-inclusive dialogue to resolve the country's decades-long political and economic crises. He said the talks will not s...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 11:07hrs | 2084 | by Staff reporter
Govt extends suspension of fungibility of Old Mutual and PPC shares
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube, has extended the suspension of financial services giant Old Mutual and cement maker PPC's fungibility by another 12 months. In...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 06:20hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, allies consult on talks
MOMENTUM towards national dialogue is gathering pace, with the opposition set to hold nationwide consultations with key stakeholders this weekend on the mooted talks.Speaking to the Daily News...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 20:41hrs | 1597 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reveals he has been writing, sending emissaries to Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is stepping up the chase for talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, to end the country's decades-long political and economic crises.Speaking in Harare yest...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 13:18hrs | 2679 | by Staff reporter
Bushiri extradition hearing set for tomorrow
THE extradition hearing against self-proclaimed prophet Shepherd Bushiri, and his wife, Mary, is expected to begin in the Lilongwe Magistrate's Court in Malawi tomorrow.The charismatic preache...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 15:53hrs | 1247 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt firms banned from the forex auction
GOVERNMENT has suspended 12 companies allegedly involved in transfer pricing from the foreign exchange auction system on suspicion they channel part of the funds from the auction to the parallel marke...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:36hrs | 951 | by Staff reporter
Econet, Telecel likely to follow NetOne in reviewing data bundle tariffs
MOBILE network operators Econet Wireless Zimbabwe and Telecel Zimbabwe are likely to adjust their discounts on mobile data bundles this month to offset rising costs, industry insiders have said....Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 17:03hrs | 1956 | by Staff Reporter
Potraz wades into Zimbabwe data prices pricing debate
ZIMBABWE'S telecommunications regulator has refuted reports that the country's data is the most expensive in the region and in Africa.Some social media reports recently carried a recycled repo...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 08:58hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors drop in world rankings
The Warriors continue making headlines under new coach Zdravko Logarusic, albeit for the wrong reasons, after they dropped the most points in the latest Fifa/Coca-Cola world rankings released on Monda...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Spotify coming to Zimbabwe
As part of Spotify's expansion into 85 new markets, Spotify an online audio streaming and media service, is soon coming to Zimbabwe. If you are in Zimbabwe and you want to listen to music on the platf...Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:47hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Power outage hits Chirundu border post
RESIDENTS, businesspeople and regional transporters at Chirundu Border Post have gone for three weeks without electricity due to a faulty transformer.The transformer was hit by lightning three...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:49hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Is Mnangagwa a lost cause?
One of Barack Obama's contribution to US foreign policy was the encouragement of a class of liberal whites and blacks with absolutely first-class brains, but above everything else, loved their subject...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:12hrs | 447 | by Ken Mufuka
Row over Ginimbi's Lamborghini
There is a growing row in sorting out the estate of late businessman and socialite Genius Kadungure with his family reluctant to surrender the top-of-the range Lamborgini vehicle bequeathed to someone...Published: 20 Feb 2021 at 18:59hrs | 1579 | by Staff reporter
More trucks using Zimbabwe as transit route
THE volume of commercial trucks using Beitbridge Border Post has started to increase, with transporters now avoiding the Botswana transit route due to very strict Covid-19 screening measures.I...Published: 18 Feb 2021 at 11:32hrs | 2410 | by Staff reporter
Can we use ZUMBANI A traditional medicine for treatment of COVID19?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of the knowledge, skills, and practices based on the theories, beliefs, and experiences indigenous to different cultu...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | 983 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
No Covid-19 results, no passage for truck drivers
Commercial truck drivers and cross border transporters, commonly referred to as Omalayitsha must produce a certificate when they arrive at a Zimbabwean border post indicating they are Covid-19 free or...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 05:43hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to receive 1 million COVID-19 doses
ZIMBABWE will likely receive just over one million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine in the first quarter under the Covax Facility, a document released by the organisers yesterday has s...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 21:57hrs | 1303 | by Staff reporter
Curfew affects cargo movement across borders
Tight enforcement of the Zimbabwean and South African curfews has been delaying cargo traffic at Beitbridge, with freight forwarders prevented from moving trucks across the border during curfew hours,...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 05:55hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
The Mthwakazi question: Who does or doesn't qualify to be Mthwakazian?
My intention is not to write on either the historical origins or the actual geographical boundaries of Mthwakazi State, highlighted in yellow on the above image, but I am more concerned with initiatin...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:26hrs | 2618 | by Nkonzo Mathanda
ZIFA back Loga
ZIFA have thrown their weight behind under fire Warriors coach Zdravko "Loga'' Logarusic, insisting the Croat's recent failure at the African Nations Championships (CHAN) tournament was a result of a ...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | 154 | by Bishop Lazarue
Beitbridge residents 'fed up' with the recently-deployed commandos
BEITBRIDGE residents are "fed up" with the recently deployed commandos from a crack Zimbabwe National Army unit and the Zimbabwe Republic Police Support Unit from Chikurubi who they accuse of committi...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 06:01hrs | 3388 | by Staff reporter
African banks sign deal to rehabilitate Beitbridge border post
A group of African banks has signed a US$194mn senior debt facility to rehabilitate the Beitbridge border post, a crossing that connects Zimbabwe and South Africa.Rand Merchant Bank (RMB) acte...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:23hrs | 3226 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe, Mozambique worse affected by climate change'
ZIMBABWE and Mozambique are among the worst affected countries by climate change after Cyclone Idai in 2019 hit the two countries, resulting in loss of lives and infrastructure.This was reveal...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:06hrs | 447 | by Staff reporter
Poor grain production hurting Zimbabwe economy
Zimbabwe has been a net importer of food for the past 2 decades and the country's import bill has increasingly featured grain imports with maize imports averaging 1.1 million Metric Tonnes (MT) per ye...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 13:18hrs | 527 | by Victor Bhoroma
Albert Nyathi in life-saving projects
ALBERT Nyathi is working wonders at Kafusi Village - his rural home - in Gwanda, Matabeleland South.The renowned poet, musician, writer, actor and philanthropist seldom opens up about his pers...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 2118 | by Staff reporter
Matebeleland South braces for Tropical Cyclone
CONTINUOUS heavy and destructive rain is expected in Matebeleland South, Masvingo and Manicaland when Tropical Cyclone Eloise hits the country tomorrow. The rains will be coupled with strong w...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:22hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Govt probes $25bn mobile money scam
Prosecutions on a wide range of financial crimes are likely as investigations continue inside and outside Zimbabwe into the huge pool of unregulated liquidity estimated at $25 billion created within t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | 829 | by Staff reporter
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