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Tagwirei, the military and power politics in Zimbabwe!
DEAR READER, it was on the 13th of May 2018 that Phineas Tagwirei, "father" to Kudakwashe Tagwirei a Zimbabwean tycoon with an avalanche of ''business'' interests quietly breathed his last at the trau...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 07:41hrs | 1984 | by Dr P. Zamchiya
Zimbabwe, Mozambique sign landmark energy deal
Zimbabwe and Mozambique have signed a landmark agreement to deepen cooperation in the energy sector, a development poised to significantly improve energy security and infrastructure across Southern Af...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets ambitious electrification and clean cooking targets
The Zimbabwean government has announced a bold plan to electrify over three million households and achieve 70% clean cooking access by 2030. This ambitious target was unveiled following today's Cabine...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:32hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Jeff Radebe signed IPPs to benefit Patrice Motsepe?
Former Energy Minister Jeff Radebe is still irritated by claims that by authorising Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to supply the government, he was creating a market for his brother-in-law Patrice...Published: 18 Mar 2025 at 20:40hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa announces a significant Cabinet reshuffle
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced significant changes to his Cabinet and the leadership of the Central Intelligence Organisation. Two Cabinet Ministers have been reassigned, and a new Directo...Published: 04 Jan 2025 at 05:55hrs | 5283 | by Staff reporter
Chasi prepared to return to end ZESA woes
Former Energy and Power Development Minister, Fortune Chasi, has expressed his readiness to serve Zimbabwe once again as the country grapples with a worsening electricity crisis. The growing calls for...Published: 26 Nov 2024 at 18:13hrs | 776 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe implementing 12-hour power cuts
The Government has attributed the current power cuts in Zimbabwe to reduced power generation at Hwange Power Station. The country is implementing 12-hour power cuts to manage domestic demand, as the n...Published: 17 Jul 2024 at 06:47hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to discipline his ministers
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda disclosed during a recent session that several cabinet ministers habitually avoid parliamentary business without providing explanations to President Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's wife once worked at Zimbabwe's Parirenyatwa Hospital
South Africa's accomplished First Lady, Dr Tshepo Motsepe, was at the side of her husband Cyril Ramaphosa as he was sworn in as president of the 7th administration on Wednesday, 19 June 2024.D...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 17:54hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Repowering of Hwange Units 1-6 to boost power generation
THE Government is stepping up the repowering of Hwange Units One to Six as part of efforts to find a lasting solution to the electricity problem in the country and is working on funding modalities as ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
United States sanctions on Zimbabwe: who is off the list, who is on?
The United States on Monday sanctioned Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and other government officials for their alleged involvement in corruption and human...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 19:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets minimum standards for unleaded petrol
THE Minister of Energy and Power Development, has adopted the revised ZWS 753:2020 (Unleaded Petrol) standard, as the standard for unleaded petrol RON 93 and all fuel importers are advised that in fiv...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 06:53hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 49 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe load shedding to ease by end of November
THE Government has assured the country of reduced load shedding by the end of November when one of the units at Hwange Power Station comes on board following depressed electrity generation at all powe...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:41hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes more appointments
President Mnangagwa has appointed three additional deputy ministers to complement those appointed last week, as announced by Acting Chief Secretary to the President Dr. Martin Rushwaya in a statement....Published: 17 Sep 2023 at 07:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ministers sworn in
Newly appointed Cabinet ministers have made a commitment to immediately start their work, while their senior colleagues have pledged to consolidate the achievements of the Second Republic, which have ...Published: 13 Sep 2023 at 18:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa badly missed veterans
WITH the national election done and dusted, it has become apparent that there are several Members of the National Assembly from the ninth parliament that will not be joining the new faces at the new p...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 07:55hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
29 houses for families displaced by powerline
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) yesterday handed over 29 houses built in Hope Fountain on the outskirts of Bulawayo for families displaced by the new 400kv power transmission line under the Hwa...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 06:27hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Minister fingered in Chief's attack
The Minister of Energy who is also Muzarabani District Coordinating Committee chairperson Zhemu Soda is not at peace with chiefs in Muzarabani after he allegedly sent party thugs to attack.Bul...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 12:33hrs | 23 | by Staff Reporter
Hwange Unit 8 to begin synchronisation on Tuesday
Hwange Thermal Power Station's Unit 8 is expected to be synchronised with the grid on Tuesday, and will progressively add another 300 megawatts that will boost supplies to both domestic and industrial...Published: 14 May 2023 at 11:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reportetr
Load shedding to further ease in Zimbabwe
THE country's power generation capacity continues to improve with Government announcing that the synchronisation of Hwange Unit 8 is slated for 16 May, a development that is expected to ease load shed...Published: 30 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi, more Zanu-PF heavyweights fall in party primaries
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has suffered defeat in weekend Zanu-PF primary elections, becoming one of the high profile casualties in the just ended ruling party internal polls.A fervent l...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF primaries preliminary results out
RESULTS for the Zanu-PF primary elections are still trickling in, with a mixed bag of young Turks and the old guard sailing through.The results are however, still subject to confirmation by th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 08:02hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
12 Zanu-PF MPs bite the dust in Mashonaland Central
PRELIMINARY results for the just-ended Zanu-PF primary elections in Mashonaland Central indicate that 12 National House of Assembly candidates fell by the wayside in the primary elections held over th...Published: 28 Mar 2023 at 06:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7, 99% complete
THE expansion of the Hwange Thermal Power Station's Unit 7 is 99 percent complete and is set to add 300MW into the national grid upon completion, Minister of Energy and Power Development Zhemu Soda ha...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 21:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe presently facing acute power shortages
Cabinet was yesterday seized with the prevailing electricity challenges afflicting Zimbabwe, with remedies expected to be announced and rolled out soon, acting Information, Publicity and Broadcasting ...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seals 500MW power deal
The new 500 megawatt solar power station being built by Skypower Global in Zimbabwe moved closer to fruition yesterday as more detail was added to the investment deal on the sidelines of the UN Climat...Published: 09 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF plans to weaponise gold in dirty 2023 elections campaign
Zanu-PF officials in Manicaland have devised a plan to rope in smallscale gold miners and their workers in a dirty 2018 elections campaign that will see the party supporting them in the plunder of the...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 17:21hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe -SA frosty relations hit new low
RELATIONS between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa continue to deteriorate amid growing anger in the neighbouring country over the immigration crisis at a...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 500MW power generation agreement
Building of large 500MW solar stations will now be moving forward as the Government is already negotiating a framework agreement with a major solar company based in the United Arab Emirates, Skypower ...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on alert for measles outbreak
Cabinet received an update on the Country‘s Response to the Covid-19 pandemic, and a report on the procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by the Chairman of the National Covid-19 Inter-M...Published: 24 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministers clash in ZANU PF factionalism
Factionalism in ZANU PF Mashonaland Central has reached a boiling point as Minister of Energy Zhemu Soda and Minister of Home Affairs are at loggerh...Published: 08 May 2022 at 14:26hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
'Zesa should reimburse clients'
Zesa clients who buy electricity cables or transformers are entitled to full compensation and the reimbursement is in the form of electricity units equivalent to the cost of equipment a client would h...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chasi returns to private law practice
Former Energy and Power Development minister Fortune Chasi has gone into private practice as a lawyer almost two years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa fired him from his ministerial post.Mn...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minister Soda Zhemu suspends entire Petrotrade Board
The Minister of Energy and Power Development, Hon Soda Zhemu has suspended the Petrotrade board chaired by Advocate Tinomudaishe Chinyoka, deputized by Zanele Dube.The Minister said he was sus...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 13:52hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Major refurb at Hwange
ALL six power generation units at the Hwange Power Station will undergo extensive refurbishment geared to restore the station to its full generation capacity next year.The Government has set i...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Power cuts could derail industrial targets
The power outages besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects during a difficult phase for Zimbabwe when the economy is reeling from the effects of COVID-19, economic analysts an...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe young businessman launches Africa Billionaires Association
Zimbabwean young businessman and Founder of ZUETH Petroleum Ethan Moyo recently launched an African Billionaires Association (ABA) an African entrepreneurs network whose ultimate vision is to ease acc...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 19:33hrs | 48 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Jail term for leaking whistle-blowers' identity
Staff of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) who leak names or identify whistle-blowers will face jail terms of up to six months, along with ordinary disciplinary action under legal amendme...Published: 23 Aug 2021 at 06:45hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to blame for Zimbabwe's energy crisis'
LEADER of opposition political party, New Innovative Mordernisation Front (NIMF), Peter Munyanduri has predicted shortages of electricity in the country will persist as long as the Energy Ministry is ...Published: 17 Aug 2021 at 07:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Resurgent power outages to gnaw at growth targets
THE power outages currently besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects at a time the economy is already reeling from Covid-19. Zesa has imposed rolling blackouts that ar...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:31hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya refusing to cooperate with fuel cartels investigations'
Energy and Power Development deputy minister Magna Mudyiwa has told Parliament that the finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) are refusing to release information that is critical in ...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 08:58hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZACC guns for US$7bn assets illicitly siphoned out of the country
An estimated US$7 billion worth of assets were illicitly siphoned out of the country through corruption and money laundering and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is now ratcheting up mea...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Soda ululates rehabilitation of Kariba dam
Minister of Energy Zhemu Soda appreciated and ululated the rehabilitation of the Kariba dam at a meeting held in Kariba yesterday.The meeting was held by various stakeholders aimed to ap...Published: 07 May 2021 at 10:26hrs | 10 | by Tarisai Mudahondo in Kariba
Soda Soda hands over chairmanship to Zambian counterpart
ENERGY minister Zhemu Soda yesterday handed over the chairmanship of Zambezi River Authority (ZRA) Council of Ministers (COM) to his Zambian counterpart, Mathew Nkhuwa.The chairmanship of the ...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retired Major-General Nyambuya NOT dead
Retired Major-General Mike Nyambuya, former Energy minister and ex-deputy Speaker of the Senate who was reported to have died is alive and well.There are some sections of the media which repor...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fortune Chasi's fight to be held on Boxing Day
Twenty-year-old online comedy sensation Melusi Chiripowako, affectionately known as Ray Vines, is set to take former Minister of Energy and Power Development, Fortune Chasi, in a boxing ring as part o...Published: 17 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zesa gets new operational vehicles, transformers
Power utility ZESA Holdings has taken delivery of its first batch of fleet of operational vehicles acquired from local suppliers and transformers as part of efforts to improve service delivery. ...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe to export electricity'
ZIMBABWE will be exporting electricity to countries in the region in the next five years as Government has set ambitious projects that will see a number of power generating projects firing.Off...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet Minister up for bribery
Minister of Energy Zhemu Soda has been accused of bribing Zanu PF Mashonaland Central provincial members to support him as Muzarabani district coordinating committee (DCC) chairperson.Soda who...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 13:43hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
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