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Masiyiwa 7th as Forbes release latest list of Africa's billionaires
Forbes just published its annual exclusive billionaires ranking, with only three Nigerians making the list. The Nigerians are Aliko Dangote, Abdul Samad Rabiu, and Mike Adenuga. With a net wor...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 14:33hrs | 7025 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son-in-law captures Trevor Ncube's media group
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son in-law Gerald Mlotshwa - a prominent lawyer married to the ruling Zanu-PF leader's daughter Farai - has now formally bought a significant equity stake at the private...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:19hrs | 9395 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 19:46hrs | 2676 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa surpasses Patrice Motsepe to become the richest black man in Southern Africa
Strive Masiyiwa is now the richest black man in Southern Africa, with a net worth surpassing $4.4 billion – dethroning Patrice Motsepe from the position, according to one count.Masiyiwa's ne...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:14hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 2339 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Mnangagwa's advisory council falls apart
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council (Pac) has virtually collapsed after the acrimonious quitting of its high-profile deputy chairperson, Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) proprietor ...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:36hrs | 2308 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa net worth jumps 125%
The net worth of Zimbabwe's telecoms tycoon Strive Masiyiwa, who has recently been appointed to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation board, has surged 125 percent to US$2.7 billion (R41.3 billion), F...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:55hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa ranked 10th and US$100m richer
Africa's billionaires are richer than they have been in years, despite the global pandemic. As a group, the continent's 18 billionaires are worth an estimated $84.9 billion - a 15% increase from twelv...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 17:43hrs | 1397 | by Staff reporter
Africa's future is being sold out even as we speak
Even if one disagrees with their policies, one must recognise that European policies towards Africa and Asia were guided and designed by deep thinkers in their societies.African leaders today ...Published: 10 Oct 2021 at 06:56hrs | 11 | by Kenneth Mufuka
ABC of knowing Mbudziyadhura munyaya dzematongerwo enyika
Not many zealous seemingly political Zimbabweans know @daddyhope, better called Mbudziyadhura. Let me measure for you the depth of his political convictions and what sets him hissing. I will do so fro...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 19:38hrs | 23 | by Jamwanda
Jacob Zuma is not to blame for South Africa's mess
At the time of going to press, over 100 people had been killed and hundreds hospitalised after riots and protests related to the imprisonment of former South African president Jacob Zuma.Don't...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Cyril Ramaphosa's 'plot' to kill the ANC
SOME senior ANC leaders have accused President Cyril Ramaphosa of working with external parties to collapse the governing party and replace it with a centre-right coalition led by him after the 2024 g...Published: 07 May 2021 at 11:34hrs | 7 | by Piet Rampedi
Harare says 'Mozambican crisis a regional question'
ZIMBABWE will not individually deploy troops in northern Mozambique to fend off Islamic insurgents who have killed more than 2 500 people and displaced 700 000 others in the country, the government sa...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dlamini-Zuma clobbers Ramaphosa over Rupert
THE ANC's national executive committee (NEC) meeting on Sunday turned into a heated show of force when some of the ANC's top guns took President Cyril Ramaphosa to task over his close proximity to bil...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:40hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Johann Rupert gives Ramaphosa an ultimatum
Billionaire businessman Johann Rupert has allegedly given President Cyril Ramaphosa a marching order, instructing him to tow the line and fire Ace Magashule, African National Congress (ANC) secretary ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 17:44hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
US media has become the true opposition
LISTEN ye men of Dzimbahwe, even those foolish MaShurugwi, to these wise words.Over the last 30 years, the power of the media has grown out of all proportion to its intended purpose, which was...Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 08:59hrs | 11 | by Ken Mufuka
Zimbabwe human rights abuses rattle UN
OUTGOING United Nations (UN) Resident Co-ordinator in Zimbabwe Bishow Parajuli says government must bring to justice perpetrators of human rights violations, as lack of action is hurting the country....Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:33hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Tension grows as government clamps down on dissent
Teargas and truncheons returned to Zimbabwe's cities in recent days, as protesters took to the streets to express their discontent at the deteriorating economy.Protests began on August 16 in H...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe troops and police deployed in force
Troops and police deployed in force in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo on Monday in a bid to deter a planned opposition march, three days after brutally dispersing a banned protest in the capital H...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 14:07hrs | | by AFP
Dabengwa: Zimbabwe's intelligence Czar
On the night of August 15, 2011, I attended the launch of Wilfred Mhanda's (nom de guerre Dzinashe Machingura) memoir, Dzino: Memories of a Freedom Fighter in Harare. Mhanda was an important figure in...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 1685 | by Blessing Miles-Tendi
South African billionaire defends white wealth
Johann Rupert, South Africa's second-richest man with a $6.3 billion fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apart...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 2553 | by Bloomberg
Mnangagwa puts Mutsvangwa to the sword
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet responsible for presidential communications George Charamba (GC) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former special advisor, Chris Mutsvangwa, shoul...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | 15939 | by Staff reporter
Patrice Motsepe capturing South Africa
Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema has issued a stern warning to business mogul Patrice Motsepe, saying that he will do to him what was done to the Gupta family.On the occasion of ...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 16:18hrs | 2446 | by City Press
MDC-T and the American connection
IN my last submission, I touched on a crucial player in the regime change agenda - the Zimbabwe Democracy Trust (ZDT) - and hinted they were a story for another day. The Trust was set up...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 15:55hrs | 1747 | by Tafadzwa Masango
Zimbabwe's old, rich guys & their trendy pretty wives
When it comes to love, they say age is just but a number. What was once frowned upon as a bad social practice, is now widely accepted as okay especially among Zimbabwe's powerful and influential men....Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 11:57hrs | 6830 | by Vasco Chaya
Meet Southern Africa's billionaires
There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is sti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:07hrs | 1699 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa strove to where he is now
The mention of the name Strive Masiyiwa instantly the group company Econet Wireless and philanthropist rings in your mind. What about Mutumwa Dziva Mawere? The name has a link to Africa Resources Limi...Published: 23 May 2017 at 11:10hrs | 1157 | by Enos Denhere
When a young woman falls for an older man
Blessers, a new term to describe older men who go out with young women and bless them with holidays, cash, clothes, rent or various gifts in exchange for romance or a sexual relationship. The word ble...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 10:05hrs | | by Dr Sekai Nzenza
'ANC leaders who spoke out against Guptas backed by white capitalists'
Johannesburg - The Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans' Association (MKMVA) gave a tongue-lashing to several ANC leaders yesterday at Luthuli House, accusing them of colluding with white capitalists to...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:41hrs | | by Agencies
Zuma opens charge of corruption against billionaire businessman Johann Rupert
President Jacob Zuma's eldest son Edward has opened a charge of corruption against billionaire businessman Johann Rupert.Edward has labelled the luxury goods mogul "an arrogant white racist wh...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 13:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Britain has bloody hands in Zimbabwe
Donald Trelford exposed Robert Mugabe's murderous methods 25 years ago, but couldn't persuade Whitehall to intervene ------- The baby was already dead, but the crowd weren't to know t...Published: 05 Jan 2016 at 14:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Supper that smells too doggy
Zimbabwe: Assassins without gunsOctober 31, 2015 Shingirai Huni Features, Opinion & Analysis, Headlines, Nathaniel ManheruJoram NyathiNathaniel ManheruI will part w...Published: 31 Oct 2015 at 10:53hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mujuru among Africa's wealthiest people?
If the Mujurus empire is as vast as the media are reporting - some say worth billions of US dollars - this could mean for the past three years Dr Joice Mujuru was among Africa's richest people, and pr...Published: 29 Mar 2015 at 09:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
The trouble of Educating Robert Mugabe's Assassin
In recent days certain bold but infantile statements have been made that have caused some of us to reflect seriously on the problem of political silliness and historical idiocy in Zimbabwe. On the s...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 21:49hrs | 7242 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Raphael Chikukwa, the Fearless Promoter of Zimbabwean Art
In 2010, after ten years of independent curating, Raphael Chikukwa was appointed Chief Curator at the National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Since the 1960s, the nation has been beset by economic struggles, in...Published: 31 Oct 2014 at 10:50hrs | | by Rob Yates
Paypal comes to Zimbabwe
LONDON- PayPal is entering 10 new countries this week, including Zimbabwe, providing online payment alternatives for consumers via mobile phones or PCs in markets often blighted by financial fraud....Published: 16 Jun 2014 at 18:17hrs | 6021 | by Staff reporter
'Independent or private media is a fallacy,' says Prof J Moyo
THE following is the full text of a public lecture delivered at the National University of Science and Technology by Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Servi...Published: 26 Nov 2013 at 15:01hrs | 381 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Labor party suffers a crushing defeat
Australia's opposition has crushed the governing Labor party in a general election that has returned the Liberal-National coalition to power for the first time in six years.Early projections s...Published: 07 Sep 2013 at 15:02hrs | | by BBC
Asylum seekers threaten to sink Australian govt
Australian Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare crouches uncomfortably in a suit on the canvas of a youth boxing ring in Sydney's hardscrabble Western Suburbs, shaping up for the election fight of his li...Published: 29 Aug 2013 at 04:56hrs | 1987 | by Staff Reporter
Elumelu calls on African entrepreneurs to take business to BRICS
JOHANNESBURG, South-Africa - During a panel discussion held at the first BRICS Business Council meeting in Johannesburg this week, African business leader Tony O Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holding...Published: 27 Aug 2013 at 06:44hrs | | by APO
Adultery spreading like veld-fire
LIKE or loathe it, cheating has become rampant among married people in Zimbabwe. It is a fact that aided by modern electronic gadgetry like cellphones and computers where social forums likeFa...Published: 02 Mar 2013 at 12:28hrs | 7186 | by Ruth Butaumocho
Former News of the World crime editor arrested in UK
Scotland Yard has arrested former News of the World crime editor Lucy Panton as part of the investigation into police corruption, British media reported on Thursday.Police declined to confirm ...Published: 15 Dec 2011 at 22:52hrs | | by Moyo Roy
United Nations orders Gaddafi death investigations
AS the world ponders a post-Muammar Gaddafi Libya, questions abound over how the former Libyan leader died. The United Nations, his widow and other world leaders have since called for an inves...Published: 22 Oct 2011 at 07:37hrs | | by -
Why MDC formations are a security threat
A political threat is a system that aims at misinformation and broadcasting of negative propaganda done by individuals, political groups and media houses.The threat comes from the fact that pe...Published: 28 Jul 2011 at 11:34hrs | 616 | by Panganai Kahuni
Rupert Murdoch's wife saves hubby from attacker
On Tuesday Wendi Deng, the wife of Rupert Murdoch jumped from her seat to protect the media magnate from a foam pie wielding attacker.The 42-year-old had sat immediately behind her husb...Published: 19 Jul 2011 at 20:56hrs | 679 | by Matthews Estell
Rebekah Brooks resigns
Rebekah Brooks resigned quit as chief executive of News International, according to Al Jazeera News.Full statement below"As chief executive of...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 08:11hrs | | by Matthews Estell
Has Trevor Ncube's Zimbabwe Independent gone to the dogs!
Has Trevor Ncube's floundering Zimbabwe Independent gone to the dogs to the point of unashamedly becoming a pathetic MDC-T pamphlet in a desperate bid to secure a good chunk of the three million dir...Published: 10 Jul 2011 at 08:49hrs | | by Professor Jonathan Moyo, MP
Google targets iPad with Honeycomb
Google provided a glimpse on Wednesday of tablet computer software crafted to dethrone the iPad and courted developers key to the success of Apple gadgets.Google showed...Published: 03 Feb 2011 at 19:23hrs | | by Byo24News
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