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The 'torn' money-buying brigade: A hustle for survival in Zimbabwe
For many in Zimbabwe, especially those navigating the streets of Harare, torn or worn-out money has become more than just a nuisance - it's an opportunity for survival. One such individual, 30-year-ol...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:05hrs | 367 | by Staff reporter
Recalled CCC MP reinstated after successful court challenge
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has reinstated the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Member of Parliament Constance Chihota (CCC) following a High Court order.The legislat...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 16:53hrs | 2542 | by Staff reporter
Community share ownership trust CEO faces arrest
TRADITIONAL leaders, villagers and other stakeholders have called for the arrest Chiadzwa Community Share Ownership Trust (CCSOT) Chief executive officer Hardwork Mukwada over charges of abuse of fund...Published: 04 Apr 2024 at 13:42hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
EXCLUSIVE: Jameson Timba; Chibaya to wrestle CCC from Welshman Ncube...as Chamisa plots comeback
Nelson Chamisa’s lieutenants led by Jameson Timba are this Friday expected to set in motion their "Blue Movement Moments" working plan whose first phase is wrestling the party from the Welshman Ncub...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 08:11hrs | | by George Tshuma
By-elections ballot paper distribution begins today
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission is now 100 percent ready to deliver seamless by-elections on Saturday, with the distribution of ballot papers set to start today.ZEC has printed 230 000 ballo...Published: 30 Jan 2024 at 04:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa proclaims by-elections date
President Mnangagwa yesterday fixed February 3, 2024 as the date for by-elections for the six vacancies created in the National Assembly following the recall of 18 CCC legislators last month.T...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CCC accuses Jacob Mudenda of doing Zanu-PF bidding
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) has accused the Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda and the President of the Senate Mabel Chinomona of acting in contempt of ...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's 18 MPs bite the dust
National Assembly speaker Jacob Mudenda has upheld his controversial expulsion of 18 CCC legislators who were Tuesday permanently ejected from the legislative house moments after court halted further ...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 18:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CCC blood-letting continues
THE CCC yesterday recalled another 13 National Assembly members and five more Senators as the blood-letting continues unabated in the opposition party, taking the total recalled legislators and counci...Published: 15 Nov 2023 at 05:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu recalls 18 more CCC MPs
Sengezo Tshabangu has ordered further recalls on CCC organising secretary Amos Chibaya and 17 other party legislators among them five senators as he continues cleansing the main opposition of elective...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 20:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt US$400m deal morphs into political fix
The controversial deal to get state-run Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Corporation (ZCDC) to acquire a 33% shareholding in Great Dyke Investment (GDI) for US$400 million has taken a political turn, wit...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:46hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
5 highway robbers nabbed
POLICE in Gweru have busted a gang of five robbers who specialised in committing robberies along highway roads in and around Gweru.The five have been arrested and are assisting police with inv...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nurses abandon clinic
VIllAGERS in Chiadzwa's Mukwada area are struggling to access medical services after nurses from a local clinic abandoned their work station two weeks ago due to unavailability of electricity....Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt 'pampers' Mapostori
The government has been accused of favouritism after spearheading the tarring of a road leading to the main shrine of the Johanne Marange apostolic sect in Manicaland.At least 10km of the road...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police denied entry into Marange apostolic sect shrine
OFFICERS at Marange Police Station were reportedly denied entry into the Johane Marange shrine in Mafararikwa village, Bocha, since July 3 when over 30 000 members of the sect started their annual Pas...Published: 19 Jul 2021 at 06:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Police 'shield' Marange sect
POLICE yesterday claimed that members of the Johanne Marange Apostolic sect that are said to have gathered in Manicaland for an annual festival were permanent residents at a shrine there. Acti...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police dither on dispersing Mapostori
MEMBERS of the Johane Marange apostolic sect remain gathered in their thousands for their annual festival in Bocha, Marange in Manicaland province, with the police maintaining they are unaware of the ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ gets new acting GM
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board has appointed board member Mrs Restina Zinyanduko as acting general manager for three months as the parastatal moves towards restructuring top management....Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ appoints Chitando new GM
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has appointed Tongoona Chitando as acting general manager (GM) following the recent death of Joseph Mashika.Chitando will double up as the acting chief ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ to hold 'crisis' meeting
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) board will soon convene a "crisis" meeting to map the way forward in terms of the paratastatal's restructuring following the demise of the entity's acting gener...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora 'backtracks' on new purge?
A letter purportedly signed by disputed MDC-T secretary general Douglass Mwonzora notifying the Minister of Local government, Public Works and National Housing of the recall of 87 MDC Alliance council...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$23m 'vanishes' from NRZ
A top National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) official has been accused of misappropriating US$23 million in what insiders say could be a glimpse of the financial rot at the struggling parastatal....Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ fights US$236m DIDG suit
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) will defend the US$236 million lawsuit filed by the Diaspora and Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) following the termination of a US$400 million recapital...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ eyes regional markets for turnaround
GOVERNMENT plans to improve the interconnectivity of the National Railways of Zimbabwe with other countries in the region to improve the parastatal's market share and revenue, a Cabinet Minister said ...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ slowly rebounding
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) needs about $120 million for infrastructural development and a further $100 million for signaling and communication, general manager, Lewis Mukwada has said....Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 up for stealing diamonds
FOUR suspected rifle-wielding armed robbers appeared in court facing accusations of stealing diamond ore in Chiadzwa where Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) is operating. Foaster Mu...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC councillors vote for Zanu-PF mayoral candidate
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has embarked on a witch-hunt in Chitungwiza to sniff out councillors who voted for an aspiring mayoral candidate from Zanu-PF during Wednesday elections in the dormitory tow...Published: 14 Apr 2019 at 15:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Aid finally reaches Zimbabwe's 'death' village
Surprised members of a cyclone-hit community in Zimbabwe paused from retrieving and burying their dead to welcome the first humanitarian aid from the outside world as it arrived nearly two weeks after...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 20:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ trains servicing 3 000 commuters daily
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) says it is now transporting up to 3 000 commuters daily, up from 300 when the 'freedom train' service was relaunched in November last year as high transport cos...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
$400m NRZ deal set to top Mnangagwa - Ramaphosa talks
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) US$400 million deal will be one of the key items on the agenda during the South Africa-Zimbabwe bi-national commission meetings when South African President Cyr...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scientists discover 'ozone hole' over South Africa
A team of Zimbabwean researchers has discovered an "ozone hole" over South Africa that is centred over the Free State Province during spring, which impacts on temperature and rainfall levels, accordin...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
$400m NRZ deal in limbo
GOVERNMENT is reconsidering the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project to be jointly undertaken by the South African rail, port and pipeline company, Transnet and ...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No to continued plunder of our resources' - Marange: The Imprisoned Community
The discovery of diamonds in Marange in 2006 located in the Eastern part of Zimbabwe did not translate into the much anticipated benefits to the local inhabitants. The yearning for positive developmen...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:12hrs | | by Brian Maregedze
Zimbabwe horror accident victims named
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has released 36 names of the people who died on Wednesday this week near the Rusape tollgate.Their next of kin have since been informed.The names of ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 18:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZCDC security staff looting diamonds'
ZIMBABWE Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) security officials have been implicated in cases of diamond looting in Chiadzwa after they allegedly formed syndicates with illegal miners.This was...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NRZ looks to double freight capacity to 6 million tonnes
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is targeting to double its freight volumes from the current three million tonnes per annum to six million within four years, buoyed by the recapitalisation deal...Published: 29 Sep 2018 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ reports jump in first half freight volumes
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) moved 1 772 million tonnes of freight in the first seven months of the year, an 11% increase on its performance during the same period last year, according to a...Published: 22 Aug 2018 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance contests results in 3 Manicaland constituencies
MDC-ALLIANCE is challenging the outcome of the just-ended harmonised elections in three constituencies in Manicaland Province, with provincial chairman David Chimhini on the list of sore losers. ...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiadzwa villagers demo against abuse cleared
Villagers in Chiadzwa have been cleared by police to hold a demonstration against the Zimbabwe Consolidation Diamond Company (ZCDC) today over alleged harassment at the hands of security officials and...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ's $400m mega deal equipment incompatible
NRZ is facing a crisis owing to the incompatibility of railway equipment received under the $400 million Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) deal. Sources at the company said some...Published: 24 May 2018 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
How diamond smuggling is thriving in Zimbabwe
SITTING under a shade with eyes glued on a road in Mozambique's Manica town's affluent suburb, a group of five young men scans all directions for potential suppliers of diamonds.The street is ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | 8 | by Wealth of Nations
Electrification of NRZ rail network set for 2nd phase
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) says electrification of its railway network will be implemented in the second phase of the rehabilitation programme.NRZ is set to implement a rehabilita...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
NRZ set to make $1.1 million monthly
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is set to improve its monthly revenues by $1.1 million on the back of newly acquired equipment from South Africa under an interim arrangement with the parastata...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission NRZ wagons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will next Wednesday commission 108 wagons, seven locomotives and eight passenger coaches sourced from South Africa last week for the revival of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (N...Published: 15 Feb 2018 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Briton given 72 hours to leave Zimbabwe
A 23-YEAR-OLD Briton who was arrested together with 20 other foreigners last week for trespassing into Marange diamond fields has been given 72 hours to vacate the country after securing a temporary p...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Relief for arrested foreign nationals
Twenty one foreign nationals and prominent local rights activist Farai Maguwu were yesterday spared jail by a Mutare magistrate who fined them for trespassing following their arrest on Friday for hold...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamond field trespassers arrested
TWENTY-ONE foreigners, activist Farai Maguwu, and two drivers who trespassed into the Chiadzwa diamond fields on Friday were yesterday fined US$100 each by a Mutare magistrate.Among the 24 wer...Published: 12 Nov 2017 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man sits on tracks, waits for train to run him over
A MAN died after he was crushed to a pulp by a train in a suspected case of suicide in the wee hours of Wednesday in Nyamandlovu, police confirmed.The unidentified man is said to have sat on t...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF eyes Mutare mayorship
ZANU-PF intends to wrest power at Mutare City Council from incumbent mayor councillor Tatenda Nhemarare whom it accuses of gross incompetence.The revolutionary party's Manicaland secretary for...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean scientists unravel El Nino origins
A new study by two Zimbabwean climate science experts could make it possible to predict El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) ENSO several months before its occurrence.Climate experts say ENSO i...Published: 14 Aug 2017 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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