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Mnangagwa makes senior appointments
President Mnangagwa has, with immediate effect, appointed Mr Martin Rushwaya as Deputy Chief Secretary for Administration and Finance, while Ambassador Mark Grey Marongwe is the new Secretary for Defe...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:09hrs | 1155 | by Staff reporter
High Court dethrones Rushwaya
FORMER Zifa chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya has been dethroned as president of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation after the High Court declared the results and proceedings of the elections whic...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:44hrs | 1380 | by Staff reporter
World security under US threat: Mathema
SANCTIONS imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America and its allies are undermining the new dispensation's efforts of international community re-engagement, a Cabinet Minister said yesterday....Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:44hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Zambia joint commission on Defence and Security opens
Defence and War Veterans' Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and her counterpart from Zambia Mr Stephen Kampyongo are today expected to officially open the 32nd Session of the Zimbabwe Zambia Joint Per...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:55hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
4 miners still trapped underground
First Lady Auxilia Mnangagwa yesterday visited Cricket Mine in the Battlefields area, the scene of the recent mine shaft disaster that has so far claimed 24 lives.Four artisanal miners are sti...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 15:59hrs | 1786 | by Staff reporter
'Dead miners worked for a top polical cartel' Mliswa alleges
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has alleged that there is a cartel of politicians who are behind the illegal mining activities that led to the death of miners recently in Mashonaland West....Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 13:27hrs | 4038 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bank seeks Rushwaya's incarceration over $174k debt
Tetrad Investment Bank, which is under provisional judicial management, has petitioned the High Court seeking the incarceration of Kadoma gold miner, Jameson Rushwaya over a $174 000 debt.Thro...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga calls for peace, unity
Zimbabweans must desist from fighting and embrace peace and unity, Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga has said. Speaking at the burial of the Ambuya Mary Rushwaya, mother to Defence and Wa...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2598 | by Staff reporter
Miners want to import own fuel
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation (ZMF), the representative body of small-scale miners, says it is pushing for a licence to import fuel for onward distribution to its members to ensure continuity of producti...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:33hrs | 602 | by Staff rpeorter
Chamisa's MDC calls for probe into crashed military chopper
Nelson Chamisa's opposition MDC has called for an inquiry into an Alouette III helicopter that was forced into crash landing in the Mchakazi area in Gutu Central this week.The helicopter crash...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 19:39hrs | 3838 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army chopper in forced landing
An Alouette III helicopter carrying Secretary for Defence and War Veterans Mr Martin Rushwaya force-landed in Gutu on Saturday after developing a mechanical fault. No one was injured in the in...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:42hrs | 560 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army has shares in Great Dyke Investment mining company
ZIMBABWE Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) board chairperson Peter Chimboza on Monday disclosed to Parliament that the army has 30% shareholding in the Great Dyke Investment (GDI) mining company....Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:17hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Small-scale miners push gold output to top 30 tonnes in 10 months
ZIMBABWE'S gold production topped 30 tonnes for the 10 months to October, with 34 tonnes expected in the full year, anchored by small-scale miners.The previous high was 27,1 tonnes produced in...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mutsvangwa rift widens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now distancing himself from his top ally Christopher Mutsvangwa amid warnings by the war veterans' leader that he won't be silenced after he spoke out against alleged s...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 09:10hrs | 2907 | by Staff reporter
30 000 artisanal miners register to regularise operations
ONLY 30 000 of the estimated 1,5 million artisanal and small-scale miners have regularised their operations owing to high levies charged by government, Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta R...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fortifies his political power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa moved to consolidate his power yesterday when he appointed his longtime confidante and loyalist Owen "Mudha" Ncube as the country's new State Security minister.He ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 13:15hrs | 5686 | by Staff reporter
Tobaiwa Mudede booted out
LONG-SERVING Registrar General Tobaiwa Mudede (74) has finally been retired while Information secretary George Charamba was elevated to the unfamiliar position of Deputy Chief Secretary Presidential C...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 08:01hrs | 8629 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa retires Mudede in major shake-up
ONE of the country's longest-serving bureaucrats, Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede, was retired yesterday as President Emmerson Mnangagwa also got rid of several permanent secretaries and directors in...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:58hrs | 1938 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints ONLY 1 permanent secretary from Matebelenand
President Mnangagwa yesterday appointed new permanent secretaries for ministries, reassigned some and retired others as his Government takes the Second Republic into motion. Long time Information, Pub...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | 6425 | by Staff reporter
Henrietta Rushwaya survives coup
FORMER ZIFA president Henrietta Rushwaya Thursday survived a bid to remove her as Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president after the High Court dismissed an application lodged by some rivals who wer...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 14:56hrs | 796 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to commence diesel production
Zimbabwe will soon start the production of diesel, leveraging on massive coal bed methane the country is endowed with in line with the ethos of mineral value addition, Post Business has learnt....Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya dragged to court
A GROUP of miners under the banner Zvishavane-Mberengwa Miners' Association (ZMMA) has taken former Zifa chief executive officer Ms Henrietta Rushwaya to court for defying a court order by masqueradin...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Business couple jailed over bank debt
HARARE businessperson Jameson Rushwaya and his wife Annie were yesterday slapped with an order for civil imprisonment after failing to settle a $174 000 loan with the now-defunct Tetrad Investment Ban...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1024 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dares mining firms
Government is working on a framework that will see all big mining companies in the country returning to full production to enhance their contribution to the fiscus and employment creation, President M...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 06:14hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Chiefs in near blows, as Charumbira survives axe
Chiefs Council president, Chief Fortune Charumbira, yesterday survived a planned ouster after he was voted by Masvingo traditional leaders to contest at national level for another term.Charumb...Published: 12 Jul 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1792 | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 37024 | by WikiLeaks
Chiwenga hails 'non-partisan' Red Cross
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga says government was ready to work with non-partisan non-governmental organisations that foster community development.In a speech read on his behalf by Defen...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:30hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe's police grabbed army mines Mafia style'
DEFENCE secretary Martin Rushwaya yesterday claimed the Zimbabwe Defence Forces' diamond mining claims in Chiadzwa were grabbed by police in a "Mafia style" after the government ordered all miners to ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | 525 | by Staff reporter
Army's diamond mining activities under spotlight
Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya is today expected to appear in Parliament for grilling over the army's mining activities in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.Rushwaya was initially scheduled to ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T primaries scupper Parliament
THE much-anticipated parliamentary inquiry into the chaos that continues to dog Zimbabwe's diamond sector was postponed after most MPs, who are members of the Committee on Mines and Energy, requested ...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 07:24hrs | 612 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds hearing called off
The Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy hearing on the diamonds case failed to kick off as earlier arranged due to non-attendance by legislators as they are currently preparing for p...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 10:58hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi to appear before Mines Parly committee
MORE bigwigs are expected to appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy today with Vice President Kembo Mohadi being the most senior as the probe into the leakage of $15 b...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:27hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, Mohadi face grilling over missing $15 billion
FIREWORKS are expected in Parliament today, when Vice-President Kembo Mohadi, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa and former police boss, Augustine Chihuri face grilling from the Temba Mliswa-led Parli...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1873 | by Staff rpeorter
Mohadi faces grilling over diamonds
HARARE - Vice President Kembo Mohadi will on Monday lead a team of serving and retired Cabinet ministers and security chiefs, respectively, in giving evidence on how police and the military were award...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 17:42hrs | 1769 | by Staff Reporter
MDC-T: A tradition of political violence
As the pre-election season rolls on, the MDC-T leader, Nelson Chamisa continues to address people as both that party's leader and the MDC Alliance presidential elections candidate. He has so far held ...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 16:20hrs | 786 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Mnangagwa arrives in Kinshasa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has landed at NDjili International Airport in the Democratic Republic of Congo this Tuesday afternoon.The President, accompanied by Foreign Affairs and Internation...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 14:44hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Nama Facebook Live disrupted
This year's National Art Merit Awards Facebook Live broadcast announcement of nominees was abandoned following power outage.The organisers were broadcasting live from the Reps Theatre in Harar...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:51hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's sons face arrest
Former president Robert Mugabe's sons Bellarmine Chatunga and Robert Junior, stepson Russell Goreraza and son-in-law Simba Chikore and leading political figures face imminent arrest after it emerged t...Published: 05 Jan 2018 at 15:15hrs | 19139 | by Staff Reporter
Zifa probe exposes Jonathan
ZIFA have branded former chief executive Jonathan Mashingaidze a tainted debtor and fraudster who bled the soccer mother body to its knees with the association further pressing for litigation against ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:10hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reassigns permanent secretaries
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday appointed and reassigned permanent secretaries, following the setting up of a new Government and appointment of Cabinet ministers.The changes were announ...Published: 09 Dec 2017 at 06:26hrs | 3688 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Chiwenga in cliffhanger talks
Zimbabwe's long-time leader President Robert Mugabe yesterday reportedly agreed in principle to step down after 37 years in power, although details of his exit conditions were still a closed-guarded s...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 04:44hrs | 3064 | by Staff reporter
George Charamba mediating between Mugabe and Chiwenga
Catholic Priest, Father Fidelis Mukonori is mediating between Robert Mugabe and the Generals. He is being assisted by Martin Rushwaya the Permanent Secretary for Defence and Mugabe's spokesman...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 08:28hrs | 10152 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faces uncertain future?
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Constantine Chiwenga's employment contract is about to expire or has already expired amid indications President Robert Mugabe will not renew it....Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 07:21hrs | 6854 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa in fuel scandal
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa, through the ministry's permanent secretary Willard Manungo, last year illegally granted permission to a private mining company to import 12 million litres of fuel d...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 07:28hrs | 2191 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hails security chiefs
President Robert Mugabe has congratulated security chiefs for mooting the idea to start a university for defense and security studies which has now become a fountain of knowledge.He implored t...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 19:14hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter
Timba 'wins' Tolrose dispute
The High Court has put to rest Tolrose mine's seven year shareholding dispute and battle involving businessman Patterson Timba and his erstwhile partner Jameson Rushwaya. In his recent ruling,...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | 804 | by Staff reporter
Gorowa wanted to kill himself
Former Warriors coach Ian Gorowa contemplated committing suicide after allegations that he was part of a cabal which tried to fix Zimbabwe's 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qualifiers against Swazi...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:12hrs | 2608 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa's love for Limpopogate accused he pardoned
HENRIETTA RUSHWAYA was the first person to wave the idea of being Zifa president in Phillip Chiyangwa's face.Chiyangwa shocked many when he ascended to the top post in local football on Decemb...Published: 21 May 2017 at 16:22hrs | 843 | by Staff reporter
Patrick Kombayi shooters die within days of each other
Two men, a CIO operative and a Zanu PF youth leader who were convicted and jailed for shooting and nearly killing former Gweru Mayor and businessman Patrick Kombayi during the 1990 General Elections d...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 11:11hrs | 3352 | by Staff Reporter
Pasuwa joins the money queue
Former Warriors coach Kalisto Pasuwa is joining what has become a permanent feature at Zifa: the long queue of people waiting for the football association to pay what it owes them. And if one cons...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 08:57hrs | 1101 | by Staff reporter
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