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Uproar over controversial NSSA boss appointment

The government has ignited a fresh storm at the National Social Security Authority (Nssa) after bypassing two top-performing candidates for the position of general manager (GM) and appointing a lower-ranked contender instead.Exclusive docu…

Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:37hrs | 921 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe miners weather power crisis

Zimbabwe's mining industry says it has largely been shielded from the worst of the country's electricity shortages thanks to a targeted power rationing strategy that prioritises the sector. But operators warn that falling global commodity …

Published: 01 Aug 2025 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter

6 illegal miners killed at Mazowe Mine

Six illegal miners were killed and four others seriously injured at Mazowe Mine in Mashonaland Central on Friday when a hoist pulling them to the surface failed, sending them crashing 45 meters down an abandoned shaft.The accident occurred…

Published: 20 Jul 2025 at 09:16hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter

MoU to regulate small artisanal miners

The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has urged all artisanal and small-scale miners (ASM) to promptly engage registered mine surveyors to avoid operational disruptions following a new government directive.The call was made during a signing…

Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:23hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter

Man loses US$65,000 in stand scam

Simbarashe Mwanandimai, a 43-year-old director of EDI Resources from Borrowdale, appeared before Harare Magistrates' Court facing allegations of defrauding a home-seeker of US$65,500 by selling a residential stand he did not legally own.Mw…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 09:01hrs | 555 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners face deportation from South Africa

South Africa has arrested over 400 illegal miners, including Zimbabweans and other foreign nationals, during a large-scale operation targeting illicit artisanal mining activities across the country. The South African Police Services (SAPS)…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 09:00hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter

Daylight machete attack chilling details heard in court

A Bulawayo woman, Mrs. Samukelisiwe Chieza, suffered serious head injuries after she and four young church members were violently robbed by a notorious machete-wielding gang operating in parts of the city.The attack occurred in broad dayli…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:34hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners threaten Gwanda State University's land

The Portfolio Committee on Higher and Tertiary Education has expressed serious concerns over the illegal occupation of Gwanda State University's land by unauthorized miners. The committee's worries emerged following a recent visit to the i…

Published: 15 May 2025 at 09:33hrs | 503 | by Staff reporter

Families of Zimbabweans trapped in SA mine cry for help

Ten informal miners, the majority believed to be Zimbabwean nationals, have remained trapped underground for over five months in an abandoned gold mine shaft in Krugersdorp, Gauteng, after rising water cut off their only escape route. The …

Published: 04 May 2025 at 20:23hrs | 1541 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners invade Rhodes Estate in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwean Government has deployed security and environmental agencies to the Rhodes Estate in the Matopos National Park following growing concerns over illegal gold mining activities that are threatening livestock production at one of…

Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 06:53hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter

ZRP boss, miners kill prophet over US$10

At least two officers (Assistant Inspector Paul Nkoma and Constable Anold Mukuhlani) from the Zimbabwe Republic Police's (ZRP) Mbembesi base are allegedly offering two-thousand United States dollars (US$2000 plus a possible compensation ex…

Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 19:15hrs | 2065 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Mbembesi

Zimbabwe govt whips errant Chinese miners

The Zimbabwean government has intensified its efforts to combat environmental degradation linked to alluvial mining along the Sanyati River in Hurungwe, targeting two Chinese companies accused of illicit activities. The Environment Managem…

Published: 04 Nov 2024 at 06:48hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe police detective accused of terrorizing miners

The Kadoma business community has lodged an urgent complaint against Detective Sergeant Hardline Maisiri, accusing him of extortion and corruption. Business owners, particularly in the mining sector, allege that Maisiri has been demanding …

Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 16:19hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter

Miners jailed 2years for digging along a public road

Two men were sentenced to prison by a Kadoma magistrate for illegal mining activities along Chivero Road.Foaster Mutero (38) and Ernest Mhute (35) were apprehended on August 4 for prospecting mineral ore without a valid license. According …

Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:15hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter

Chinese investors elbow out local chrome miners

An investigation has revealed that the Zimbabwe Mining and Alloy Smelting Company (Zimasco) has replaced around 150 small-scale chrome miners with Chinese investors, raising concerns about discrimination against local operators.The affecte…

Published: 10 Sep 2024 at 07:27hrs | 221 | by Staff reporter

Police remove artisanal miners from Jumbo

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) have launched an operation to remove illegal artisanal miners from mining sites in the Mazowe district of Mashonaland Central. This action follows a directive aimed at curbing illegal activities in the ar…

Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 16:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Zacc struggles to recover US$1bn tainted assets

Zimbabwe's weak extra-territorial judicial systems are hampering the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) from recovering looted funds believed to be hidden in foreign countries, NewsDay has reported.This revelation comes as the anti…

Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa challenges miners to embrace innovation

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged the mining industry to leverage technology and innovation to enhance operations and productivity. Speaking at the Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe 2024 annual mining conference in Victoria Falls, Mnang…

Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Farmers, lithium miner clash

HORTICULTURE farmers in Goromonzi have accused the Platinum Lithium Zimbabwe (PLZ) mine of negatively affecting their socio-economic life, while others have welcomed the miner's activities in the area.Speaking during a public meeting organ…

Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's mines minister orders stop to artisanal mining

Mines Minister Soda Zhemu has called on artisanal miners to "completely stop" mining activities during the current rain season which poses a high risk of mine disasters.In a statement, Zhemu also advised established mining companies to emp…

Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Miners wreak havoc on roads

GOVERNMENT has expressed shock after illegal gold miners dug a four-metre tunnel under a section of the Gwanda-Beitbridge Road as vandalism of national infrastructure persists.Road and railway infrastructure is increasingly under threat in…

Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:48hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's small scale miners take Minister to task over bottlenecks

The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) convened with the newly appointed Mines Minister on Friday to discuss the complex challenges afflicting the sector.Annually, the sector's miners contribute approximately 68% of the total gold deliveries…

Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 07:25hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Delays in issuance of mining certificates worrying

The Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has expressed deep concern over the protracted delays in the issuance of mining certificates, citing that this has led to unnecessary disputes arising from the overlapping allocation of mining claims.Du…

Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Miners4ED invade gold mine

A GROUP of illegal miners operating under the Zanu-PF-linked Miners 4ED, which includes police officers and ruling party officials, have invaded Ascot Gold Mine in Norton despite the fact that it was condemned over a year ago following a f…

Published: 27 Feb 2023 at 15:52hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Armed robbers pounce on miners

TWO armed robbers clad in Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) were unlucky after robbing a Mazowe miner and a Chiweshe miner of their pregnant carbons.The matter came to light at Bindura magistrates courts on We…

Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 11:46hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole

Zimbabwe miners in urgent plea for forex

THE Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe says it is engaging authorities to come up with mechanisms that can accommodate the foreign currency requirements for the sector as shortages are weighing down the sector's potential driven by ongoing expan…

Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | 193 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners strain SA - Zimbabwe relations

DIPLOMATIC relations between Zimbabwe and South Africa may soon reach a new low amid concerns in Pretoria that illegal gold miners from Mozambique, Lesotho and Zimbabwe are engaged in violent criminal activities.It is estimated that over t…

Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 14:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Illegal miners threaten railway tracks

SMALL-scale chrome miners have invaded Mapanzure area in Zvishavane, Midlands Province, where they are conducting illegal mining activities along the Gweru-Zvishavane railway line, amid growing fears of destruction of the infrastructure, w…

Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Police shoot machete wielding miners

POLICE in Bindura allegedly shot three illegal machete wielding miners who were causing myherm at Kitsiyatota mine in Bindura.The matter came to light on Thursday at Bindura magistrate courts where Kudakwashe Njenge (26), Tatenda Nosenga (…

Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 13:44hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Mnangagwa to be ousted as Zanu-PF leader?

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's poor stewardship of the economy has seen a renewed push to oust him as the ruling Zanu-PF leader at the elective congress expected in October.While some members of the party have endorsed Mnangagwa as the par…

Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 19:57hrs | | by Staff reporter

Bodies of seven miners retrieved from shaft

THREE nights of pumping water out of the 240-metre-deep shaft at Bucks Mine in Colleen where seven miners have been trapped underground since Saturday were met with dead silence when the first body was finally hoisted out of the shaft.Afte…

Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 12 | by Fungi Kwaramba

Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners

FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped underground since Saturday.The miners are feare…

Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Chinese miners' trucks damaging our roads: Mayor

GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has blamed Chinese-owned mining vehicles for damaging city roads.Makombe said the Midlands capital was witnessing a proliferation of Chinese companies venturing into chrome smelting, but contributing little to in…

Published: 17 Dec 2021 at 23:41hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Miners in bloody fight over isitshwala

AN artisanal miner employed at Black Rock Mine in Esigodini attacked his colleague several times all over the body with a shovel and stabbed him for refusing to cook isitshwala.The incident happened this week on Monday at lunch time.A work…

Published: 03 Dec 2021 at 05:22hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter

'One year needed to retrieve Esigodini trapped miners'

THE families of six illegal miners, including four from one family, that were trapped underground when a mine collapsed in Matshetshe, Esigodini, will conduct a burial ritual at the site, as authorities have decided it would be too dangero…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chiwenga targets sex workers

ZIMBABWE new HIV annual infections have fallen from 47 000 recorded in 2016 to current statistics of 40 000 while AIDS related deaths have declined to 20 000 in 2019 from 54 000 in 2010.This, according to Vice President Constantino Chiweng…

Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Police arrest 14 948 people in Gweru and Mazowe

Details of the Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested 14 948 people in Mazowe, Shamva, Gweru and other sites around the country since the commencement of the operation chikorokoza ngachipere.According to the police, in a similar operation …

Published: 17 Sep 2020 at 12:11hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Miners bail out troubled Zesa

Zimbabwe's top three platinum miners are said to have helped settle the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) $10 million part payment to the South African electricity supplier Eskom last month, sources have re…

Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa snubs dead miners

ONLY a few hours after his rally criticism of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's failure to visit the site of a recent mine disaster that killed 24 artisanal miners in Battlefields, Mashonaland West, MDC leader Nelson Chamisa committed exactly…

Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by newzibmabwe

Miners object EPOs introduction

Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF), the umbrella body representing small-scale miners, is opposing applications for Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) made by 11 local and international mining companies, which are currently under considerat…

Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

Two illegal miners trapped to death

Two illegal miners were trapped to death at Kitsiyatota mine in Bindura Mashonland Central province yesterday (Tuesday) prompting police to burn down all make shifts shelters at the site.Eye witnesses allege one illegal miner was trapped h…

Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Mine accident victims: setting the record straight on funeral service

Dear Editor, I am concerned at the inaccuracies and omissions in the reportage of the event surrounding the arrival of the remains of Zimbabwean miners who perished in South Africa recently, specifically the reception and funeral service i…

Published: 13 Mar 2014 at 10:32hrs | | by Dr. Strike Mkandla

The tragedy and shame of the Durban Deep Mine disaster

As dawn broke over the Limpopo river this morning a convoy of hearses crossed the border into this ruin of a country which, as one writer put it, is aptly named after a heap of ruins in the forgotten town of Masvingo. The hearses were bear…

Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 17:08hrs | | by Patrick Ndlovu

MLO grieved by the death of illegal miners

We at Matabeleland Liberation Organization (MLO), are greatly grieved by the death of the illegal miners who perished inside a Roodeport mine. We join the thousands of family members, friends and citizens of Matabeleland in mourning those …

Published: 08 Mar 2014 at 11:37hrs | 2 | by Brian Ndwane

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