Search / Planes
Air Zimbabwe, the nation's pride
ON Monday, early in the morning, Government officials set camp at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport awaiting the arrival of the first batch of Covid-19 vaccines, a gift from China that c...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pilot makes waves in US
GROWING up in the dusty streets of Highfield in Harare more than 40 years ago, Felix Chiota would gaze in awe at the sky each time an airplane flew over his neighbourhood. At a young age, Chio...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 07:31hrs | 2346 | by Staff reporter
Who are the actual NGO beneficiaries?
A reflection on Nkirote, a woman from a small village in Kenya, and James, a country director of an NGO.The World Bank defines extreme poverty as living on less than $1.90 a day. I have often ...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 18:50hrs | 1290 | by @NGOsceptic
Masiyiwa urges young Africans to lead 'wealth revolution'
ZIMBABWEAN telecoms mogul Strive Masiyiwa has called on young African business owners - whom he calls "digital, liberated young entrepreneurs" - to lead a wealth-creation and entrepreneurial revolutio...Published: 07 Feb 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1508 | by Staff reporter
Govt official in planes tender storm
A senior civil servant who recommended that a cloud-seeding tender be awarded to a company with faulty planes unsuitable for the purpose has been arrested and appeared in court yesterday on corruption...Published: 27 Jan 2021 at 05:52hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi Ziyambi hospitalised, battling for his life in the ICU
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affair, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson ...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 12:30hrs | 10792 | by Staff reporter
'They called me a dissident,' says Thambolenyoka
Tennyson Ndlovu is quite an enigma. Having joined the liberation struggle at 21, he quickly became a highly-respected instructor for the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), only to be demobil...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:45hrs | 989 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets airport rehab
Zimbabwe will roll out an aggressive rehabilitation programme for all major airport facilities in the country as it anticipates a boom in tourism and air traffic space.Finance and Economic Dev...Published: 03 Dec 2020 at 07:05hrs | 1496 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's unmonitored airstrips to be closed
Unmonitored airstrips will be closed, while a new radar control system to monitor aircraft flying in the country's airspace will soon be installed amid concerns some aeroplanes have become conduits to...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:44hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Thank God, covid-19 is not as deadly as Ebola, still it has delivered coup de grace on economy
"854 PCR tests done today (Wednesday), with the positivity at 2 percent. All 17 are local cases. 25 new recoveries reported: National Recovery rate stands at 94,5 percent and active cases go d...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 12:15hrs | 559 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Air Force joins plane crash search mission
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has joined the search for a missing Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) employee who was on a plane that crashed in Chewore Safari Area in Mbire...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 06:23hrs | 814 | by Staff reporter
1 killed, 2 injured in plane crash
A Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) plane, which went missing in the Zambezi Valley on Friday afternoon, was found crashed in Chewore Safari Area in Mbire on Sunday afternoon...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:04hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes delivery of new plane
A long-haul aircraft bought by Government from Malaysia to augment Air Zimbabwe's fleet the Boeing 767 was delivered yesterday.Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Joel Biggie Ma...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:00hrs | 3093 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF trashes ANC in explosive meeting
FRESH details have emerged from last week's stormy meeting between Zanu-PF and South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), revealing that the two former liberation movements main...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 07:14hrs | 5092 | by Staff reporter
US and its Allies barking up the wrong tree
ZIMBABWE is under attack from the West through the use of proxies in the form of the MDC Alliance, Lawyers for Human Rights, cheque book journalists, Civic Society Organisations (CSOs), Non-Government...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:50hrs | 429 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Creating in-roads for sustainable peace
The New Dispensation is engrossed with the ever growing malcontented youths, coupled with exasperated civil society owing to the perceived economic meltdown. This disgruntlement has manifested...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 18:50hrs | 145 | by Emmanuel Murema
Zimbabwe's Youngest commercial pilot
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return," once said Leonardo Da Vinci. The g...Published: 15 Aug 2020 at 16:54hrs | 1039 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa values lives of all Zimbabweans'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa values the lives of all Zimbabweans and has put in place measures to ensure that all citizens come back home during the dark phase spawned by the Covid-19 pandemic and no country s...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe plans to buy smaller aircraft
National airline Air Zimbabwe is working on acquiring smaller aircraft to service local routes as part of efforts to enhance connectivity within the country and boost domestic tourism. At an o...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:27hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 754 | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube, Khupe also benefitted from RBZ looting programme
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT: THE 2007/8 Farm Mechanisation Programme was above board: Taxpayers not saddled with the Bill.First of all, I must express my prima-facie disappointment with my bro...Published: 20 Jul 2020 at 08:24hrs | 7410 | by Dr Gideon Gono
No need to make Africa one country
There is obsession today among many Pan-Africanists of believing a one country Africa as the only viable way Africa can develop and eliminate all the problems it is facing. They believe that a one cou...Published: 05 Jul 2020 at 09:28hrs | 933 | by Lubani Nondo
Blood money as Army, Police fight to benefit from the Mozambique Islamic attack
The Institute for Global Threats and Democracies Studies has reported that the anti-riot police and the military forces of Mozambique are engaged in an acrimonious competition to benefit from the ...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 14:21hrs | 4457 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How General Philip Valerio Sibanda survived assasination attack
Commander Zimbabwe Defense Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has relieved how he survived the assassination attack by the Rhodesian settler regime at Freedom camp in Zambia. Speaking durin...Published: 24 Jun 2020 at 18:31hrs | 5037 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 989 | by Tawanda Majoni
How Dabengwa Made me a Freedom Fighter - Confessions of a Zipra Cadre
I must have been 15 years old herding cattle EMlageni near Siwubu along the Manzamnyama river in 1967. I remember the year very well. It was a very hot day and it was schools holiday. So, it was aroun...Published: 17 May 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1326 | by ZAPU Department of Information Publicity and Marketing.
Air Zimbabwe joins the malayitsha business scramble?
Air Zimbabwe has joined airlines offering passenger planes from transporting freight using cargo holds and cabins following cancellation of flights across the world due to coronavirus.Airlines...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 6532 | by Staff reporter
Nguluvhe details Manama wartime recruitment
IN January 1977, the ring of a bell, usually alerting pupils at Manama High School in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, of the time to go to the dining hall for supper, signalled a new chapter for ...Published: 04 May 2020 at 07:48hrs | 1548 | by Staff reporter
Coronavirus & govt of Zimbabwe: two enemies that Matabele must fight aggressively
As we fight the invisible enemy, covid- 19, let us not forget the more visible and more truculent enemy which is the Shona supremacist government of Zimbabwe.The terrorist government of Zimbab...Published: 29 Apr 2020 at 10:48hrs | 1128 | by Israel Dube
Lessons from Donald Trump
Australia's former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, has sent advance copies of his memoirs to news organisations all over the world. His greatest challenge was how to deal with US President Donald Tru...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 13:27hrs | 2267 | by Ken Mufuka
Crossing points during Zimbabwe/ Rhodesia bush war
WHAT do the following places share in common: DK (point along the Zambezi Valley), Kanyemba, Chirundu, Mlibizi, Kavira Forest, Chisuma? Some guerrillas may identify them as crossing points into Rhodes...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 12:13hrs | 685 | by Pathisa Nyathi
Zimbabwean engineers rebuild Boeing 737 plane
AIR Zimbabwe's rebuilding exercise has paid dividends as local engineers successfully overhauled engines and re-assembled the airline's Boeing 737 plane which took to the skies Friday afternoon ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 16:31hrs | 2770 | by Staff reporter
No coronavirus funds stollen by Mnangagwa
There has been an online news spreading rumours that the Zimbabwean government is funnelling millions of Corona virus dollars to a Mnangagwa-linked company. The article maintained th...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 09:00hrs | 2298 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Air Zimbabwe's Boeing 777 flown to Ethiopia
Air Zimbabwe has flown its Boeing 777 to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, as the struggling airline moves to conclude a lease agreement for the aircraft delivered from Malaysia in January.The US$16.5 ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 16:26hrs | 3846 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ probes charter plane incident
THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) is investigating reports that a private charter plane from Zimbabwe was on Wednesday turned away at OR Tambo International Airport in South Africa. ...Published: 04 Apr 2020 at 08:16hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers take Mnangagwa govt to task over coronavirus
ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have taken government to task on its state of preparedness, the number of health personnel who have been trained and measures that are being taken to track dow...Published: 29 Mar 2020 at 11:17hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 hit UK, US evacuate citizens to virus epicentres
THE United Kingdom and the United States have stepped in to help their citizens who may be stranded in Zimbabwe after international airlines grounded their planes as COVID-19 rattles the globe....Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 07:45hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
USA prepares to evacuate citizens from Zimbabwe
AS THE deadly coronavirus (Covid-19) sweeps across the globe with confirmed cases in Zimbabwe, Western countries like the United States are preparing to evacuate their citizens who are stuck in the co...Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 20:12hrs | 4170 | by Staff reporter
Gweru prophet stuck in Angola
GWERU-BORN prophet, Gerry King, has been stuck in Angola since last week after the country closed its ports of entry and exit as part of precautionary measures to stop the spread of the coronavirus....Published: 26 Mar 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1095 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners leaving Zimbabwe in fear of lack of preparedness to prevent Covid-19 outbreak
ZimFirst leader Maxwell Shumba has claimed that Zimbabwe is currently experiencing mass exodus of foreigners who fear that if they get infected with the Covid 19 disease they would not get any treatme...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 07:28hrs | 5146 | by Stephen Jakes
Victoria Falls faces lockdown as airlines begin pullout
ZIMBABWE's premier tourist attraction, Victoria Falls is facing a massive knock on tourist arrivals as major international airlines that are key in bringing in tourists indicated they will either stop...Published: 23 Mar 2020 at 05:31hrs | 715 | by Staff reporter
Perrence Shiri just resign, you are a sellout: period
Let me take this opportunity to advise you Perrence Shiri the Women's University educated graduate, that when it comes to law the devil is in the detail, its you who has gone rogue , anti revolutionar...Published: 22 Mar 2020 at 17:00hrs | 6202 | by Peter Moyo
Covid 19: Mnangagwa shoots self in the foot
If anything, the exponential spread of Covid 19 across the globe has exposed world leaders and g...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 09:48hrs | 10947 | by Josiah Mucharowana
Scramble for land in Zimbabwe's new capital city
At the centre of a vast swathe of magnificent landscape of prime farming land north-west of Harare lies a mountain that dwarfs its lush green environs. The rich red soils, have for years, been the hal...Published: 21 Mar 2020 at 05:46hrs | 2124 | by Staff reporter
Disinfect Public Transport Systems to curb Spread of Covid-19
National Secretary for Transport and Logistics Settlement Chikwinya has challenged the government to de-congest and disinfect the public transport sector as the nation fights the possible outbreak of ...Published: 20 Mar 2020 at 07:36hrs | 1098 | by Stephen Jakes
9 airlines in race to lease Air Zimbabwe B-777s
Nine airlines have shown interest in leasing Air Zimbabwe's two long-haul Boeing 777-200ERs acquired from Malaysia in a deal expected to generate up to US$400 000 a month. Ethiopian Airlines is unders...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 06:21hrs | 818 | by Staff reported
Govt to recapitalise Air Zimbabwe
Government will raise capital required for the operations of its 100 percent owned airline, Air Zimbabwe, after failing to secure a capable investor or strategic partner.As part of the plan by...Published: 27 Feb 2020 at 12:08hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe to lease out two planes
Troubled flag carrier Air Zimbabwe is going to lease two Boeing passenger planes acquired from Malaysia pending re-introduction of direct flights to China and London, the administrator has said....Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3859 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt to blame for food shortages'
THE opposition MDC has blamed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for contributing to the country's acute food shortages due to its failure to adequately mobilise aid despite receiving enough wa...Published: 27 Jan 2020 at 19:18hrs | 335 | by Staff reporter
New Air Zimbabwe planes must start generating revenue
The acquisition of two aircraft by the Government for Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) can impact the horticultural and tourism sectors positively, spurring the sectors' growth. This week, the Government took de...Published: 26 Jan 2020 at 06:04hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Load More Stories
