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Chivayo says he will build the Gwanda solar plant
Maverick businessman Wicknell Chivayo says he has not abandoned the Gwanda solar plant and he will proceed to build it. Chivayo was responding to ZANU PF member Never Maswerasei who had said, ...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 18:38hrs | 1865 | by Mandla Ndlovu
List of Zimbabwean celebrities who became politicians
Sports and Showbiz fraternities has become a springboard for most celebrities who later became politicians either due to their own desires or by being asked by different audiences to participate in po...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:33hrs | 4823 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nedbank Zimbabwe caught with pants down, ordered to return $3m to client
NEDBANK Zimbabwe has been ordered to return close to $3 million it had unlawfully taken from its client, Mega Market (Private) Ltd, after making some foreign currency payment to the client's suppliers...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 07:47hrs | 2634 | by Staff reporter
Zesa to cut power at Kariba by 59%
Zesa Holdings will need to drastically reduce power output at anchor power station, Kariba South by 58.7 percent, after the Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) cut water allocation for electricity generatio...Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2700 | by Staff reporter
Mavhaire distances self from ZPC bribery storm
FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday distanced himself from the case in which the former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje is being accused of concealing hi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 671 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Pastor resurrects dead baby
Omega Fire Ministries Leader Apostle Johnson Suleman is filmed in a video that have gone viral resurrecting a boy who was brought dead to church.The Pastor is heard calling the family of the b...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 7258 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zesa blames faults for incessant blackouts
POWER cuts that are being experienced countrywide have raised the ire of consumers as many areas are going for hours without power almost on a daily basis. A number of Bulawayo suburbs have be...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:38hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
ZPC gets licence for Bulawayo Power Station, residents to take legal action
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has issued a licence to the Bulawayo Power Company for the Bulawayo Power Station. In December last year, ZERA announced in a public notice that it had...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
BCC, Zinwa face off over boreholes ownership
ZIMBABWE National Water Authority (Zinwa) is up in arms with the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) over the maintenance and running of the Epping Forest boreholes situated at Nyamandlovu Aquifer just outsid...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 14:44hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Ministry official nabbed over Idai donations
A deputy director in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development on Saturday appeared before a Chipinge magistrate facing charges of stealing Cyclone Idai donati...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:24hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Jere defends under-fire ref
PREMIER Soccer League chairman Farai Jere says referee Thabani Bamala, who is in the eye of a storm in the wake of his handling of the showdown between Highlanders and CAPS United at Barbourfields on ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:16hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Cop hires kombi to ferry stolen Cyclone Idai donations
A police officer has been arrested for alleged wholesale looting of aid valued at tens of thousands United States Dollars earmarked for victims of Cyclone Idai in Chipinge amid reports of rampant misa...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 18:39hrs | 5085 | by Methusi Ncube
ZPC board secretary throws Kazhanje under the bus
Zimbabwe Power Company board secretary Laura Tsomondo yesterday said former chairperson of the parastatal, Stanley Kazhanje, failed to declare his dealings with Intratrek Zimbabwe when he presided ove...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 08:06hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Prosecutor investigated over Mandiwanzira's acquittal
Prosecutor-General Mr Kumbirai Hodzi has turned the sword on the prosecutor he assigned to deal with the criminal abuse case of former Minister Supa Mandwanzira and ordered investigations into his all...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
BCC to decommission Umzingwane Dam
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) will soon decommission Umzingwane Dam, one of its six supply dams, after water levels dropped to 26%, an official has said."The plan was to decommission the dam aro...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
State seeks to rescind Supa Mandiwanzira's acquittal
The State is seeking to petition the High Court for a rescission of the judgment acquitting former minister Supa Mandiwanzira of criminal abuse of office charges that was delivered on Wednesday. ...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:29hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Mobile Sports Betting: How 2019 Will See The Boom
Worldwide sports betting is a phenomenon. It's makes billions in the likes of the UK and Europe as punters place bets on the go, whether that be to work, in the bar on a Saturday afternoon, or even li...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 12:13hrs | 1140 | by Staff Writer
Chivayo case in new twist
Former Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje yesterday denied allegations that he received a $10 000 bribe so that he does not cancel a 100 megawatt Gwanda solar panel station pro...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira acquitted
Former Minister Supa Mandiwanzira heaved a sigh of relief yesterday after the High Court acquitted him on one of the criminal abuse of office charges involving a $218 million auditing contract signed ...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:40hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Zesa not expecting any load shedding
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) says it does not expect any load shedding for as long as it can maintain power production at its power plants across the country.The power utility ...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 14:27hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hates flying, claims Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has come out guns blazing, berating those criticising his boss for excessive foreign travel as dwelling on trivia. Charamba said Mna...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:53hrs | 3977 | by Staff reporter
BCC scraps 72-hour water shedding programme
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday suspended its weekly 72 hour water shedding programme that was introduced earlier this year, but may reintroduce it if the daily water consumption does not go dow...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:22hrs | 310 | by Staff reporter
Supa seeks acquittal on graft charges
Former Minister Supa Mandiwanzira, who is embroiled in a $218 million-consultancy scandal, is seeking acquittal on charges of corruption, arguing the indictment is defective. Mandiwanzira is o...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:19hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Blackouts return after fatal storms
With Zimbabwe still reeling from the devastations wrecked by Cyclone Idai - which killed hundreds of people mainly in Manicaland - as well as the country's escalating economic challenges, long sufferi...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:58hrs | 1488 | by Staff reporter
Let's enhance our people's ability to be self-reliant
Today's politics can be misleading as it creates the contentious illusion that the government of the day must deliver on everything needed to improve people's lives. It allocates the entire burden of ...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:43hrs | 161 | by Tapiwa Gomo
African investors shun Xenophobia...head to Zimbabwe
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has attracted an array of international investors who have signed mega deals without any tangibles on the ground. In a recent show of confidence, Afri...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 13:14hrs | 10925 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NetOne hikes prices too
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has approved request made by state-owned mobile operator NetOne to increase tariffs effective 1 April 2019, ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:15hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF in vote buying ahead of by-election
Zanu-PF is being accused of vote buying ahead of the Cowdray park local government by-election slated for tomorrow. This was after Vice President Kembo Mohadi donated 60 tonnes of maize and 30 ton...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1025 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's foreign trips justified
Political analysts and veteran politicians have scoffed at critics of Presidential international trips saying it is President Emmerson Mnangagwa's diplomatic and political obligations to represent Zim...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 19:59hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Fierce battle for Bulawayo council seat
THE battle for the Cowdray Park ward 28 council seat has reached fever pitch with parties contesting in the by-election leaving nothing to chance.The by-election has been set for this coming S...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:26hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe the way forward
Good Evening my fellow Zimbabweans, I would firstly like to offer my condolences to the bereaved families and offer some words of encouragement to the victims of cyclone Idai that affected the...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1305 | by Terence Simbi
ZPC cancels $113m power tender
Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has cancelled the US$133 million tender for the repowering of Munyati Power Station awarded to an Indian company, Jaguar Overseas, after the firm failed to secure funding ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 23:03hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pulls all stops to win Bulawayo ward
ZANU-PF has pulled all the stops in a bid to win Bulawayo's ward 28 by-election set for Saturday, deploying top party officials from its commissariat department, led by Vice-President Kembo Mohadi to ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:13hrs | 692 | by Staff reporter
Joshua Nkomo's absence felt in Zanu-PF
NEARLY two decades after his death, Zanu-PF says it misses Joshua Nkomo's extraordinary skill in uniting the nation and mobilising votes for the ruling party.The late revered vice president pa...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | 3238 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins regional power exports
ZIMBABWE has started exporting electricity to regional countries especially Namibia, buoyed by increased production at the Kariba Power Station which came into life in March last year.Presiden...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:25hrs | 2125 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira's passport return bid deferred
A HARARE magistrate deferred until next week a decision on whether to release a passport to ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, facing charges of criminal abuse of office. Mandiwanzira, who...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:31hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo to start work on Gwanda solar project
Wicknell Chivayo is the victim of malicious prosecution, a High Court judge ruled on Friday as he threw out fraud charges against the Harare businessman involving $5,6 million.Justice Owen Tag...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:21hrs | 911 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF members urged to show loyalty to party
ZANU-PF members in Bulawayo's Ward 28 have been urged to show their commitment and loyalty to the party by voting for the party's candidate, Kidwell Mujuru, in the council by-election set for March 30...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 05:49hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo acquitted
The High Court has acquitted Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo of any criminal liability in the alleged US$5.6 million fraud and violation of the exchange control charges.Harare High Court j...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12hrs | 687 | by Staff reporter
Supa offers $100,000 house to get passport back
Ex-Cabinet minister Supa Mandiwanzira, pictured, - who is facing two counts of criminal abuse of office - has offered to surrender an additional property worth $100 000 as surety in a bid to convince ...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 07:57hrs | 2500 | by Staff reporter
Muzamhindo pushes for a Policy Indaba
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo's initiativeI'm driving a national agenda which has no political affiliation, but to assist on enhancing development. We simply ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | 216 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zera to beat SADC lightbulbs deadline
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) says the country is well on course to meet the year-end deadline of eliminating trading and use of the incandescent light bulbs set by the Southern Afri...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:41hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Hollywood actress speaks on Zimbabwean identity
HOLLYWOOD actress Sibongile "Sibo" Mlambo has shed light on her African roots which date to Zimbabwe and her growth in the acting industry which has seen her become one of the sought-after actors in t...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1111 | by Staff reporter
China seeks stronger trade, economic ties with Zimbabwe
China will intensify trade and economic cooperation with Zimbabwe, and come to the country's aid after a devastating drought has left almost half of the population food insecure and requiring aid....Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 13:41hrs | 388 | by Xinhua
Zesa to extend Hwange life for US$310m
Zesa Holdings is working on upgrading Hwange Power Station to restore the plant's generation potential to rated capacity of 920 megawatts from current levels of around 700MW, acting group chief execut...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:20hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Non-performing parastatals warned
President Mnangagwa has warned parastatals that continue to under-perform despite Government support saying days of perennial poor performances and failure to complete projects they would have embarke...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:55hrs | 379 | by Staff reporter
A link to Zimbabwe-China mega deals
Economic deals signed between Zimbabwe and China are bearing fruit following yesterday's successful commissioning of the National Backbone Fibre Link that was directly funded by a US$23,6 million faci...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 07:50hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, South Africa to jointly develop Beitbridge, Musina
President Mnangagwa cuts the ribbon during the official launch of the TelOne Beitbridge-Masvingo-Harare fibre optic link in Beitbridge yesterdayTHE Zimbabwean and South African governments hav...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 05:59hrs | 3173 | by Staff Reporter
Joy for Mandiwanzira
HIGH Court Judge, Justice Esther Muremba has ordered a stop to former Information Communication Technology (ICT) minister Supa Mandiwanzira's trial at the magistrates' court until his application for ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 3966 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's mega deal deception unmasked
Since assuming power President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been engaged in a desperate attempt to attract Foreign Direct Investment.One of the greatest deceptions that Mnangagwa pulled out in May 2...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 13:55hrs | 4655 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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