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Illegal compensation of stolen Zimbabwe assets to white farmers
Good day Mr EditorI would like to publish my opinion /article concerning the above issue in your paper Bulawayo24 with your permission.The compensation deal that was signed between Zan...Published: 10 hrs ago | 246 | by Mzilikazi Zwane
Misappropriations of national funds
Although considered as one of the mineral hubs of southern Africa, the country finds itself in the deep end financially grappling to stay afloat. Zimbabwe's mineral resources include amongst other chr...Published: 10 hrs ago | 97 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
'We must unite to fight against detractors'
ZIMBABWEANS must remain united and resolute in the fight against renewed glaring, and unjustified attacks by the country's perennial detractors, both inside and outside our borders, said President Emm...Published: 11 hrs ago | 621 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 434 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mliswa body-shames 'flat-bottomed' Zanu-PF rivals
FIERY Norton legislator, Temba Mliswa has waded into simmering Zanu-PF factional wars, accusing some party elements of plotting to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa.In a leaked 16-minute audio...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 4370 | by newzimbabwe
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:11hrs | 1143 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Poverty could bring back machete gangs'
DISRUPTION of employment and increasing levels of poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic have forced artisanal small-scale miners to resume their activities, raising fear of the resurfacing of the dread...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 317 | by Staff reporter
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 376 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
20 Maphisa Hospital nurses test positive to COVID-19
TWENTY nurses at Maphisa District Hospital in Matabeleland South province tested positive for coronavirus this week, sending the settlement, predominantly occupied by civil servants, gold miners and p...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda miners disarm police to release friend
SIX miners, among them a woman, have been arrested for allegedly attacking three police officers and damaging a vehicle they were using in protest to the arrest of their workmate.Tawanda Msima...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:12hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Illegal miner defies lockdown dies
A Chiweshe illegal miner who defied the country's lockdown regulations and went to pan for gold at a disused mine shaft in Chiweshe died on Friday after the shaft collapsed.Mashonaland Central...Published: 01 Aug 2020 at 20:52hrs | 2281 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3850 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans labour under Zanu-PF debt concrete slab
ONE thing that makes me smile when I think constitutional democracy an elected government that shows unwavering love for its citizens. In perfect liberal or social democracies, elected governments fea...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:56hrs | 252 | by Rejoice Ngwenya, Comaliso
Nehanda statue erection challenged
A HARARE man wants the High Court to stop the erection of the statue of Zimbabwe's late heroine, Mbuya Nehanda, in the capital, arguing the government had bypassed traditional rites by not engaging he...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:07hrs | 1793 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi wreak havoc in Mbembesi
MBEMBESI villagers are living in constant fear of violent illegal gold panners, popularly known as MaShurugwi, who have reportedly invaded the area and are digging around homesteads and gravesites in ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:07hrs | 518 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls name must fall now
MONUMENTS and cities named after the departed are designed to honour people, and to keep those honourees and what they stood for alive in our collective memory. Therefore, I am left to wonder as black...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:05hrs | 2135 | by Tendai Kamba
Blackday for Kwekwe
Today has marked a black day for Kwekwe with the loss of the National Patriotic Front member of parliament for Kwekwe Central Matambanadzo Masango and 2 gold miners being trapped to death....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:25hrs | 9311 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2669 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Police boss sucked into bloody mine wrangle
Police in Mvuma have been accused of illegally grabbing a lucrative gold mine at the centre of a dispute between two miners with some officers allegedly shooting to death an employee during the violen...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:06hrs | 1182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans companies want to trade in Rand
CAPTAINS of industry in Bulawayo have pleaded with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, to promote the wide use of the South African rand to complement the multi-f...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 645 | by Staff reporter
America should stop lecturing Zimbabwe
United States Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols is behaving like a demigod. He is indeed way out of order and lost because he has removed his diplomatic robes and stepped into the local political a...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:33hrs | 1617 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Lawyers worry over Mthuli Ncube silence
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has noted with concern the silence of the mid-term budget and economic review on the extractive industries transparency initiative (EITI) adoption pro...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:27hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
China donates 18 laptops to Ministry of Information
The Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe has donated 18 laptops to the Ministry of Information Publicity and Broadcasting Services. The donation was done by Chinese Ambassador Guo Shaochun after a meet...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 12:11hrs | 891 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gono trips self in farm mechanisation looting saga?
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the farm mechanisation programme he presided over was not part of the debt taken over by government and passed on the taxpayer via t...Published: 21 Jul 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3030 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7390 | by Dr Gideon Gono
Gono slams Magaisa for ignorance
The Farm Mechanisation Programme of 2007 was above board, was funded from Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe funds with beneficiaries never expected to repay the sums, and taxpayers were not saddled with the bi...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 779 | by Staff reporter
Key aspects sinking the Zimbabwean Dollar
The Zimbabwean economy is rapidly re-dollarizing, less than 12 months after the government banned the trading of multiple currencies through Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019 and introduced a local cur...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 3290 | by Victor Bhoroma
Are there two different states: The dilemma of a praise singer
The job of a praise singer is one not to be envious of. Dr Simba Mavaza must find it so hard to believe his lies about Zimbabwe unless there is another Zimbabwe on planet Jupiter, which to him must be...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 19:24hrs | 986 | by A Kadada
Three minors knocked down, 2 die on the spot
THREE minors, two from Mvurwi and one from Mount Darwin were knocked down by motorists killing two on the spot on Monday.Mashonaland Ce...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 22:56hrs | 4049 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Plastic container filled with ore kills panner
Chiweshe based illegal miner died on Thursday after a plastic container they were using to pull out gold ore in a shaft discharged and hit him on the head...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:32hrs | 696 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe gold mines lure investor despite economic ruin
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold mines are being snapped up by Mauritius-based Sotic International Ltd as the price of bullion soars to the highest in more than eight years.Landela Mining Ventures Ltd,...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:42hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
The foreign hand in the 31st July demonstrations uncovered
Zimbabwe is braced for another act of provocation by America. Information and intelligence available shows that the opposition and particularly the organisers of the demonstrations have been given thr...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 17:14hrs | 14589 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 276 | by Vince Musewe
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 843 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chinese man who shot 2 black workers released on $10 000 bail
A Chinese mine manager Zhang Xuelin who is accused of shooting two black employees in Gweru has been freed on a ZWL$10 000 bail by a High Court Judge in Masvingo.Justice Garainesu ordered Xuel...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 12:46hrs | 1733 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chinese miners urged to stop colonial tendencies in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU) has challenged the Chinese miners to stop colonial tendencies on local employees.This came after a Chinese man shot and injured ...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:52hrs | 773 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's diamond stash to rake in millions
The Minerals and Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) has said it is getting ready to sell the country's diamond stockpile of over one million carats, in a move expected to boost the country's cof...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:42hrs | 2395 | by Staff Reporter
Mine collapses on three artisanal miners
A mine shaft allegedly collapsed on three illegal miners at farm 161 Chesa, Mount Darwin killing one on the spot while injuring two on Wednesday.Mashonaland Central police spokesperson Inspect...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 17:33hrs | 980 | by Simbarashe Sithole
'Zimbabwe can finance own development'
ZIMBABWE has enough resources to finance its own development if the right mindsets, as well as institutional and legal frameworks, are put in place, a joint report by organisations that promote socio-...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 08:28hrs | 2874 | 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 | 1852 | by Staff reporter
Cop arrested for 'bribery'
A GWANDA police officer has been arrested for allegedly demanding a US$270 bribe from a local miner to stop any police raids. Blessing Zenya (32) who resides at the ZRP New Camp in Gwanda was ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:13hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Give Us Confidence Cde President
Dear Cde President, I know chances of you reading this letter are next to zero but all the same I write to you on the basis of you being "a listening President". Cde President it is crystal cl...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 18:24hrs | 3372 | by Munya Shumba
Killer arrested after staging suicide
A GWANDA miner has been arrested for allegedly strangling his workmate before dumping the body on a railway line, where it was crushed by a train to conceal the murder. The matter was initiall...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 16:52hrs | 3994 | by Staff reporter
Key concerns on the Forex auction system
The Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is cautiously yielding to free market demands for the complete liberalization of the foreign exchange market and scrapping of various consumption subsidies that were...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 5041 | by Victor Bhoroma
Council worker drowns in sewage
Chegutu Town council employee Love Chengeni (35) drowned yesterday while fixing sewage pipes in Chegutu.Sources familiar with incident allege a trench collapsed while he was changing dil...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:50hrs | 1652 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe environmental law association conduct research on formalisation of artisanal miners
A local Non-Governmental Law Association, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association i s seeking to carry out a research on formalization of the artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) sector....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 09:44hrs | 302 | by Stephen Jakes
Money changers and the secret of their wisdom
THE foreign currency auction announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe recently appears to have started on a high note, but there is a nagging fear that those favourable comments by observers may have...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 5724 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
MATTER OF FACT: Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner
IN our edition of June 19 2020, we published a story headlined, Matopo local leadership blocks eviction of local miner, where Bulawayo businesswoman Siphiwe GatshaDube claimed that she was being force...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:04hrs | 542 | by Editor
Machete gangs resurface
ARMED robbery cases involving machete-wielding gangs have resurfaced in Matabeleland South province, invoking memories of terror-filled moments linked to the thugs that traumatised communities....Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:01hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
'US$1 billion to back Zimbabwe forex auction'
Local banks have $1 billion in foreign currency accounts (FCAs) while the country has healthy inflows to sustain the newly introduced forex auction system that replaced the interbank with effect from ...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:11hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
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