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Panners invade school yard
ILLEGAL gold miners, who invaded Loreto High School in Silobela last month, have defied police eviction orders and clandestinely continued with their mining activities at the Catholic-run institution,...Published: 38 mins ago | 35 | by Staff reporter
Minister accused of creating parallel structures in ZANU PF camp
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe who is also Mashonaland Central province ZANU-PF chairperson has been accused of trying to manipulate District elections which are currently being held in the pro...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1153 | by Staff Reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 12 hrs ago | 839 | by Staff reporter
Minister in trouble over gold mine
SPARKS flew in the Ministry of Mines this week, as the long-running dispute over Ran Gold Mines, a 122-year-old asset in Bindura, took a new twist, with an angry party to the deadlock accusing Mines m...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1873 | by Staff reporter
Deal set to increase raw milk production
ZIMBABWE'S biggest dairy products manufacturer, Dairibord will only feel the impact of a grand cattle deal signed with platinum miner, Zimplats and Palmine after 12 months, analysts at IH Securities s...Published: 21 hrs ago | 263 | by Staff reporter
Gold rush spawns fresh displacements
THOUSANDS of Domboshawa villagers on the outskirts of Harare face imminent displacement to accommodate a clique of gold miners with strong links to the ruling Zanu PF party and top government official...Published: 21 hrs ago | 490 | by Staff reporter
New portal drives SDGs in Africa
SEVENTEEN United Nations entities under the Africa Collaborative Regional Platform launched an online data portal, the first of its kind on the continent, to measure and evaluate progress on the Susta...Published: 21 hrs ago | 30 | by Southerners
Chinese worse colonizers than the British, as savagely exploiting our country out of existence
I am a ZISCOSTEEL product. Born and bred in the iron and steel making small town of Redcliff.As with most towns and cities in Zimbabwe - Redcliff was built entirely by companies that opened th...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1330 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Everyone can benefit from equitable resource distribution'
ZImBABWe has vast natural resources that if equitably distributed can meet the developmental needs of every citizen, a senior clergyman has said.A Zimbabwe Council of Churches official, bishop...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:52hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1220 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces
ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China's Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 1029 | by Staff reporter
Petrol bombed pastor succumbs to burns
A PASTOR from Enaleni Village in Bubi District, Matabeleland North, who was petrol bombed and suffered burns to 97 percent of body has died. Bishop Ephraim Ndlovu (51) of Alive in Christ Pentecostal C...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa takes ZANU PF leader heads on
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused Zanu PF Mashonaland West youth chairman, Vengai Musengi, of fomenting divisions in the party, excelling only in the use of violence, taking over pe...Published: 20 Sep 2021 at 13:09hrs | 4349 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwean diamonds producer expands into Botswana
VAST Resources says its acquisition of Gem Diamonds Botswana (GDB), a wholly-owned subsidiary of London headquartered Gem Diamonds, aligns with its longer-term strategy to "maximise and crystallise" t...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:52hrs | 959 | by Staff reporter
Villagers make way for billion dollar Chinese project
"Instead of joy and fulfilment, the fortunes sitting in the bowels of our fathers' land have brought misfortunes upon us," 78-year-old Chokutaura Chananda said ruefully.Chananda is among hundr...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
Esigodini residents fret over illegal miners
Illegal mining activities in Matabeleland South's Esigodini area have led to an increase in gender-based violence cases and a child pregnancy, a local non-governmental organisation says.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:41hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner rehabilitates roads
A newly-rehabilitated gold mine in the Simona communal area which is on the border between Mazowe and Bindura is changing the lives of at least 9 000 villagers after it sponsored the rehabilitation of...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:38hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
'Dead' 14kg gold smuggler resurfaces, arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested Jefat Chaganda, the chief suspect in the 14 kilogramme gold case that happened in Plumtree in 2018.The case also resulted in the arrest of nine other suspects ...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$1,3bn in forex leaks
ABOUT US$1,3 billion is being siphoned out of the country every year and the proceeds are benefitting countries that ironically accuse Government of corruption.This was revealed by the Zimbabw...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:10hrs | 235 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 639 | by William Jethro Mpofu
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 1019 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs up in arms with Zimplats over shares
CHIEFS in Mhondoro-Ngezi, Chegutu and Zvimba are up in arms over platinum miner Zimplats' failure to allot the 10% community shares agreed to in 2011.The chiefs are also disgruntled that the c...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora's MDC-T elects female deputy mayor
THE Municipality of Chegutu Friday underwent rituals to formalise the nomination and appointment of Ward 6 councillor, Dadirai Guyo as the town's new deputy mayor.Guyo becomes the first female...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:32hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
SMM saga sucks in Cyril Ramaphosa
FRIENDS of Shabanie and Mashava Mines Holdings (FoSMM) have filed papers at the Johannesburg High Court seeking an order to compel South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to ignore an administrator ap...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:17hrs | 1463 | by Staff reporter
Court dismisses Nduna's attempts to grab gold mine
HIGH Court judge Justice David Mangota has dismissed an application by Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna in which he sought to be declared the lawful owner of Danly Mine.The lawmaker had sued RioZi...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:48hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of abetting 'new colonialism'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was accused of abetting a "new colonialism" by the MDC Alliance on Thursday over reports that Chinese miners are evicting entire villages in Mutoko and Uzumba in search of...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:47hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Old people's homes turn into poor families' dumping grounds
BANANA bread was served at a recent birthday party at Melfort Old People's home, where a group of residents mustered a raspy happy birthday tune.Just a week after arriving at the facility, Rod...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:23hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into mine dispute
THE names of Zimbabwe's late strongman Robert Mugabe and his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) have been dragged into a blazing dispute over Ran Gold Mine, a Mashonaland Central domic...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe set to up platinum output
Zimbabwe is expected to add up to 4% (about 17 thousand ounces (koz)) of platinum production volumes as a backlog of semi-finished inventory is refined in south Africa on the back of easing disruption...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Explosive dossier exposes Chiadzwa gems tax sleaze
A whistleblower has submitted an explosive dossier to the Zimbabwe revenue Authority (Zimra) providing insight into how diamond mining firms in the Chiadzwa diamond fields in Manicaland, evaded tax ob...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | 459 | by Staff reporter
Man attacks wife, son and mother-in-law
A man who had problems with his wife ran berserk and frenziedly attacked her, his child and mother-in-law with an axe.When Beatrice Ncube of Heany Junction in umguza was retiring to bed shortl...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:12hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube in US
ZIMBABWE will seek to raise $200m in a debut domestic US dollar bond sale on its stock exchange in Victoria Falls that trades exclusively in foreign currency, says finance minister Mthuli Ncube....Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 19:50hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
A Guide on cross-chain technology that will help you comprehend it
As more businesses, large organizations, and startups use blockchain technology; they realize that no blockchain protocol exists or functions to its full potential under complete anonymity. Interopera...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 13:53hrs | 204 | by Staff Writer
Chinese miner brings life to Bindura
FOR 27 years, the residents of Simona struggled to access medical facilities and markets for their farm produce in nearby Bindura due to the appalling state of the roads.But in just two months...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:59hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of authority by parliamentary committees
A number of small scale miners and big mining companies have complained about the total fragrant abuse of power and office by the chairman of the Parliamentary mining committee MR Edmund Mukaratigwa w...Published: 15 Sep 2021 at 08:44hrs | 827 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's MDC changes tack
THE opposition MDC Alliance yesterday said it would, in a seismic shift, rally citizens to defend their vote during the 2023 general election in order to prevent Zanu-PF from rigging.The Nelso...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:19hrs | 6837 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 1727 | by Staff reporter
'FC Platinum won't share Mapeza'
Norman Mapeza will have to choose between the Warriors and FC Platinum, as the Premier Soccer League side is not prepared to share their coach with the national men's team.Mapeza had emerged a...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:06hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF forces villagers to pay for war vets' welfare'
AS the country gears for 2023 elections and political tensions rise, a report by the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) highlights how traditional leaders and Zanu-PF activists are coercing villagers across...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1239 | by Staff reporter
South African soldiers destroys makeshift Limpopo River bridge
South African security agents had to shoot at crocodiles on Thursday afternoon that wanted to attack them as they destroyed a makeshift bridge built by smugglers and border jumpers along the Limpopo R...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:57hrs | 2366 | by Staff reporter
The godfather of Matebeleland politics, Abednico Ncube
The creation of empires and dynasties through the Zanu-PF structures continue to gain thrust and traction within Zanu-PF in Matebeleland South as noted with the continuous personalization of the vast ...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:48hrs | 888 | by Jerry Zinodla
'It's wrong for Chinese miner to evict villagers'
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) has described the planned eviction of Kaseke villagers in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, by a Chinese mining company as illegal.Heijin Mining C...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:29hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Chidhakwa, Gudyanga trial hits brick wall
The trial of former Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa and his permanent secretary Francis Gudyanga that was set to resume today hit a brick wall following indications that the magistrate who was presidi...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 18:25hrs | 341 | by Staff reporter
Mineworkers demand US$600 pay per month
Mineworkers have demanded their pay base to be pegged at US$600 inclusive of their Covid 19 allowances.In a statement Zimbabwe Diamond Allied and Mineral Workers Union Secretary-general Justic...Published: 07 Sep 2021 at 12:18hrs | 1029 | by Stephen Jakes
Chinese miner arrested in Zimbabwe
A CHINESE miner, Liu Chong, was yesterday arrested by Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) detectives for illegally conducting mining activities in the protected Mavhuradona Wilderness in Muzara...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:40hrs | 1947 | by Staff reporter
2 die, one injured in Insiza mineshaft collapse
TWO people died and another one was critically injured after a mineshaft collapsed at Stembok Mine in Insiza in Matabeleland South province last Wednesday.Acting provincial police spokesperson...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:39hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Ndebele King says his legitimacy was confirmed by Njelele
CLAIMANT to the ancient Ndebele kingdom, Stanley Raphael Khumalo, who has christened himself King Mzilikazi II, has claimed his legitimacy as a king was confirmed by ancestral spirits at the sacred Nj...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 20:38hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Banks wary of lending out US dollar loans
ZIMBABWE'S banks are sitting on US$1.7 billion and not willing to lend it to corporates due to the uncertainty around currency reforms which exposes them if they issue United States dollar-denominated...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | 2437 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to introduce drones at border posts
THE country's porous border posts will soon be under tight surveillance following Government's decision to acquire drones worth US$2 million to patrol the borderline to curb smuggling. The dro...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:20hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Will the IMF US$961m windfall rescue Zimbabwe?
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid-19 has caused substantial long-term global macroeconomic environment change, and the pandemic inflicted long-term scars on the global economy....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 246 | by Learnmore Nyamudzanga
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