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Russia fines Google US$2.5 decillion
A Russian court has fined Google $2.5 decillion for allegedly blocking pro-Kremlin propaganda on YouTube.The fine, which is the equivalent of $2.5 trillion trillion trillion, is the result of ...Published: 31 Oct 2024 at 08:37hrs | 748 | by Staff reporter
7 countries at risk of bankruptcy
About seven developing countries are currently in danger of facing bankruptcy or in need of a bailout due to piling debt which is slowly gearing towards a default level.Countries can file for ...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:16hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
Used clothes take Zimbabwe by storm
Kimberley Dube takes great care with her appearance. She always looks sharp and fashionable in smart-looking jeans, t-shirts, sweatpants, tops, and designer sneakers."I love jeans - can't get ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 11:24hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Munhumutapa calls for cessation of the Government's role in chief appointments
In a significant letter addressing the legal framework surrounding traditional leadership in Zimbabwe, Mambo Munhumutapa has formally requested a cessation of the Minister of Local Government and Publ...Published: 01 Oct 2024 at 13:11hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
The Sentry report on Mutapa Fund is shallow and weak
I had the MISFORTUNE of going through a report prepared and distributed by The Sentry, possibly written by an excitable Nick Donovan. Long story short, the report is shallow and weak. Here is ...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 16:37hrs | 14 | by MMatigary
ICC chief prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu
The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, for war crimes....Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Legal woes mount for Italian Mafia Boss Francesco Marconati as CID and Home Affairs are roped in
In the sinister saga unfolding within Zimbabwe's gold mining industry, Francesco Marconati emerges as a dark specter, casting a menacing shadow over the operations of DGL Investments Number Five (Pvt)...Published: 28 Mar 2024 at 13:29hrs | 1 | by George Tshuma
Chemist Siziba dies
Zimbabwean local businessman Chemist Siziba who was one of the pioneers in the mobile telecommunications industry has died.He was 77.Siziba died of kidney failure at Parirenyatwa Hospi...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 07:05hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
New curriculum divides teachers
THE proposed Heritage-Based Education 2024-30 Curriculum has divided teachers with some expressing scepticism, while raising concern on history of the country being made a compulsory subject.T...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 19:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Italian investor Francesco Marconati flouts mining regulations...poses threat to national security
Italian investor Francesco Marconati's contentious actions in Zimbabwe's mining sector have raised serious concerns about regulatory compliance, worker safety, and ethical standards. Despite being ord...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 13:00hrs | 15 | by George Tshuma
Juvenile cyclist robbed at Knifepoint in Inyathi
Police in Matabeleland North Province have initiated a manhunt for two unidentified suspects who assaulted and robbed a young cyclist at knifepoint as he made his way to Inyathi Business Centre late l...Published: 27 Feb 2024 at 21:10hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
IMF advises Zimbabwe to adopt forex market reforms
As the instability of the beleaguered Zimbabwe dollar intensifies, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the government to adopt forex market reforms which are "more transparent and market...Published: 15 Feb 2024 at 10:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe showbiz awards rigged?
HOLLYWOOD actor Denzel Washington once said, "man gives an award, God gives the reward", which suggests the thought of the validity and relevance of awards ceremonies and the worth of the gongs....Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 07:36hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa surrounded himself with advisers who are no wiser than himself
CCC under the influence of Chamisa refused to have a constitution for CCC under the pretext that this was "strategic ambiguity " to side football Zanu-PF. This actually turned out to be a cowardly act...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 09:12hrs | 10 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Jim Kunaka re-joins Zanu-PF
Jim Kunaka, who had previously been a member of Zanu-PF before joining opposition politics, has returned to the ruling party, citing what he perceives as ideological bankruptcy in opposition politics....Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa's wife committing millions to supporting underprivileged people
MEET Tsitsi Masiyiwa; she is the wife of Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa as well as a philanthropist. Before her husband became a billionaire, they were almost penniless and went through a roug...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema advised to resign on moral ground
Zambia must prosper. President Kelvin Bwalya Fube has advised President Hakainde Hichilema to resign on moral grounds.Mr. Fube said he supported President Hichilema purely on the principle of ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 21:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Makomo Resources back on its feet
HWANGE-based coal miner, Makomo Resources, has resumed operations after securing a contractor.Makomo, once the country's largest coal miner, went under corporate rescue, a form of bankruptcy p...Published: 25 Aug 2023 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa raps anti-Zimbabwe NGOs
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has lambasted some anti-Zimbabwe non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and opposition figures for attempting to cast aspersions on the c...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa and the death of Gukurahundi as a campaign trump card
DEVELOPMENT milestones achieved in the short stint of the Second Republic in the Matabeleland region have busted the opposition's political ideological bubble that was hollow of tangibles but inflated...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
ToThe Zimbabwe Security Exchange Commission (SEC)
Zimbabwe has a relatively well-developed digital economy with nine financial institutions listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE). With the introduction of the Cyber Security and the Data Protecti...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:29hrs | | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Did war vets collapse Zimdollar?
I HEAR many Zimbabweans suggesting that Zimbabwe was driven to bankruptcy and the crash of the dollar by paying war veterans in 1997.However, this perception is wrong because Zimbabwe printed ...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 08:19hrs | | by Rutendo Matinyarare
Master of High Court backs Telecel rescue
THE Master of the High Court has backed the application by the Communications and Allied Workers Union (CAWUZ) seeking to place the cellular services company, Telecel Zimbabwe, under corporate rescue,...Published: 26 May 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unhealthy methods that many South Africans use to deal with poverty
South Africa is a country that has been grappling with poverty for many years. According to the World Bank, more than 20% of the population lives below the poverty line, which means that they survive ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 11:58hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe police must root out rogue officers
A COURT in Victoria Falls has ordered Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe and police commissioner-general Godwin Matanga to pay $1,7 million dollars in damages to poet Obert Dube who was assaulted b...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:29hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
The poor are on their own in Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa was all smiles as he officially opened the privately-developed Aspindale apartments in Harare. His infrastructure programme - housing for all - seemed to be all in order y...Published: 20 Feb 2023 at 05:30hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Fearless editor who first exposed the Gukurahundi killings
While there were a few local Zimbabwean journalists writing for periodicals and foreign correspondents like Peter Godwin for the Sunday Times (UK) and some filing for...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:11hrs | 13 | by Stephen Bates
Chamisa's CCC, Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF unite to 'loot' State coffers
GIVEN the fluidity of Zimbabwean politics, one can only second guess President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 elections strategy.Cabinet ministers have been offered US$500 000 "loans" they have not...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | | by Sibanengi Mswazi Dube
Zuma's persecution by courts painful and unnecessary, says top ANC official
ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize has weighed in on former president Jacob Zuma's impending return to prison, describing it as painful and an unnecessary punishment for an 80 year old.Mkhi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese embassy response to ZCTU statement
THE Chinese embassy in Zimbabwe has noted the Press release by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) on October 25. However it looks rather like a lame judgment in which there are only groundle...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Chinese embassy
Telecel set for corporate rescue
Telecel Zimbabwe, the smallest of the three mobile phone operators in the country, is set to be placed under corporate rescue, a form of bankruptcy protection, due to serious financial distress....Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 000 prisoners granted amnesty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has granted amnesty to at least 4 000 prisoners to ease congestion in prisons across the country.Addressing a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Inf...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cabinet approves General Amnesty to decongest prisons
CABINET yesterday considered and approved the General Amnesty 2022 proposed by the Ministry of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs.Dates for the release of inmates on amnesty will be prov...Published: 30 Sep 2022 at 06:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
NetOne fails to fix abuse of US$1m Covid-19 fund
MOBILE network operator NetOne has failed to properly account for a US$1 million fund the organisation was mandated with distributing to vulnerable citizens whose livelihoods were adversely affected b...Published: 04 Sep 2022 at 15:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar shortage hits market
A SHORTAGE of Zimbabwe dollar notes has hit the market, plunging companies and individuals into an acute liquidity crisis.Experts say the liquidity crunch has resulted from low demand for good...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe buys new Embraer plane
IN a move expected to boost the fleet of national airliner Air Zimbabwe, Government has bought a new state of the art Embraer ERJ-145 jet that is expected to take to the skies in the next eight weeks....Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Edmund Kudzayi is gay, so is Chamisa
PROFESSOR Jonathan Moyo has jumped to the defence of journalist Edmund Kudzayi, who has over the past week fallen victim to Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters' attacks for criticising thei...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Anger will not solve Zimbabwe's plight
ANGER doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything," wrote one African-American lawyer and politician, Lawrence Douglas Wilder.As Zimbabwe battles to navigate a tre...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No crisis in Zimbabwe'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said "all is well" in Zimbabwe and dismissed claims that the southern African country is in the throes of an economic crisis.Speaking in an off-the-cuff...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Nkayi sends roads SOS to govt
NKAYI Rural District Council (RDC) has sent a distress call to the Government over lack of road maintenance machinery, a development that has seen it being shortchanged by contracted companies....Published: 20 May 2022 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car with 2 dead bodies found inside Runde River
Details of the ZRP The Sub-Aqua unit, with the help of villagers from Chilonga in southern Chiredzi, have retrieved the two bodies stuck in a pickup truck which drowned in Runde river on Saturday.&nbs...Published: 02 May 2022 at 19:52hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans in diaspora not cash cows but should have their democratic rights respected!
There was much excitement in the corridors of power when it became apparent that diaspora remittances into Zimbabwe had surpassed the US$1.4 billion mark ...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The tragic price of forgetting: Pre-independent Zimbabwe questions still need answers
Zimbabwe is beset by a serious crisis of governance. Infact the same questions we wanted solutions for pre-independence still remain unanswered.We are still in a crisis.This crisis has...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 12:46hrs | 8 | by Taruberekera Masara
Chamisa, Biti and CCC manifestly lack patriotism
While the yellow fever may have gripped the nation, and the youth seems to be captured in the idealistic bankruptcy, the CCC remains the most unpatriotic outfit which uses the current economic stress ...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:45hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Lifting lid on Gukurahundi exposes opposition's ideological bankruptcy
ICONIC Pan-African philosopher Mwalimu Julius Nyerere once opined that those that are politically and intellectually bankrupt turn to ethnicity and religion as their major tool for mobilisation....Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
Air Zimbabwe ready to rejoin IATA
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe, expects to rejoin the International Air Transport Association (IATA) within the next three months, which will enhance the company's prospects to expand its internationa...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe ready to rejoin IATA, leases long-haul fleet
NATIONAL airline, Air Zimbabwe, expects to rejoin the International Air Transport Association (IATA) within the next three months, which will enhance the company's prospects to expand international ro...Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls trudges back to pre-pandemic levels
CONFIDENCE in Victoria Falls ticked up in the past year, underpinned by improved global sentiment and rigorous efforts towards combating the COVID–19 scourge, a new survey has indicated.The ...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Normalcy returns to CAPS Utd but.....
NORMALCY returned to turbulent CAPS United yesterday with the Harare giants training twice as they try to cover lost preparatory ground ahead of the resumption of the Castle Lager Premiership football...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lindiwe Sisulu hits back at Zondo
Less than a week ago, I published an opinion piece that captures the importance of where ordinary South Africans find themselves.This opinion piece is my contribution to a conversing South Afr...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:35hrs | | by Lindiwe Sisulu
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