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Too old to die? 122-year-old Sekuru Banda denied funeral cover due to age
He has lived through the colonial era, both World Wars, and multiple global pandemics - yet for 122-year-old Sekuru Anuloisa Banda, a peaceful farewell remains an uncertain privilege.Yes, you ...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:56hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Scottland's match referee beaten up
Scottland's title-chasing ambitions in the Northern Region Soccer League (NRSL) have been put on hold after a match against Karoi United was abruptly halted due to a violent incident involving the ref...Published: 16 Sep 2024 at 16:07hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba mining house dumps hundreds of workers
Shamva Mine, owned by mining conglomerate Kuvimba mining house has laid off hundreds of workers in recent months, according to a union official. The termination of contracts for 200 workers co...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 11:21hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
Reflecting on the export ban for raw lithium
Through Statutory Instrument 213 of 2022 (Referend to as Base Minerals Export Control for unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores), Zimbabwe banned the export of raw lithium from the country. The regulati...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on Fidelity privatisation
IN a dramatic policy U-turn, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has indefinitely suspended its plans to partially privatise Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) nearly two years after announcing inten...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt stripping assets, claims MPs
LEGISLATORS have accused the Executive of systematically stripping the country of its valuable assets and selling them through opaque deals, which observers say smells of deep-rooted corruption and pl...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mzi Khumalo urged to dispose of Zimbabwe mines
SOUTH African mining magnate Mzi Khumalo is under pressure to dispose of Redwing Mine in Penhalonga, Manica- land province and Mazowe Gold Mine in Mashonaland Central as the mines have become hotbeds ...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Machete wielding illegal miners kill one, leaves four in agony
A gang of machete wielding illegal miners from Midlands aboard two kombis descended on Shamva mine and attacked five people killing one on the spot yester...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 17:33hrs | 8 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Shamva hospital pharmacy gutted by fire
DRUGS worth thousands of United States Dollars were lost at Shamva district hospital pharmacy after it caught fire this morning....Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 19:07hrs | 13 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Tagwirei linked companies cited in US$49m privatisation deal
AS Treasury maintains a tight lid over the identity of gold producers who snapped 60% shareholding in Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), emerging details show that Kuvimba Mining House, Better Bran...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC claims Fidelity 'parcelled out' to Tagwirei
The MDC Alliance is mulling a legal challenge to the disposal of the government's majority stake in Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), which the party says has been "parcelled out" to controversial...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 18:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba mining produces 311kgs gold
Kuvimba Mining House subsidiary, Fredda Rebecca Gold Mine has produced another milestone of 311kilogrammes of gold in June, which is the first for the mining firm.The achievement h...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa to officially commission Blanket Mine central shaft
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa would soon commission the Blanket Gold Mine central shaft project in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, which is one of the flagship mining investment projects towards achievement of a US...Published: 20 May 2021 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Landela buying spree raises stink
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa marked his triumphal entry into the citadel of power in 2017 by declaring that he would open the country up for business, thus promising a departure from the ruinous polic...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:37hrs | 3 | by Cliff Chiduku
Matter of fact!
IN our Monday January 11, 2021 edition, we ran a story titled Lawyers expose Mnangagwa's 'daughter' while referring to name-dropper Chantelle Chikafu. The headline created an impression that C...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:47hrs | | by Editor
Lawyers expose Mnangagwa's 'daughter'
WOMAN, who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter, Chantelle Chikafu has had her "unholy" alliance with the Mines ministry officials exposed by lawyers after she intended to grab ...Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 21:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba: How to hide a mining giant in plain sight
A year ago, Kuvimba Mining House did not exist. now it could be the country's biggest gold producer.How? The answer shows how transparency is still not a thing for Zimbabwean authorities....Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:10hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army boss disowns Chikafu
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda has disowned a woman who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter to dispossess a Shamva miner, John Maungwa,...Published: 24 Dec 2020 at 17:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Miner arrested for stealing own gold
SHAMVA miner, John Maungwa, who is involved in a bitter mining wrangle with a woman who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter Chantelle Chikafu was arrested on Monday for alleged...Published: 23 Dec 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mine wrangle: Top cop moved
THE Shamva mine wrangle pitting miner John Maungwa against Chantelle Chikafu, who once masqueraded as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's daughter, has claimed the scalp of Mashonaland Central provincial p...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa throws 'niece' under the bus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown his "niece", Shantel Chikafu, under the bus after she was arrested for abusing his name in a messy mine ownership wrangle in which she ejected John Maungwa from...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Army chief, minister sucked in mine row
ZIMBABWE Defence Forces (ZDF) commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda and State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube have been implicated in a messy mine ownership wrangle after Chantelle Chikafu, the...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 06:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Artisanal miner shot dead
Shamva Mine security guard Holy Zindi (42) is in hot soup after reportedly firing at and killing an artisanal miner who had trespassed into the mine in search of the precious mineral last week....Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Makandiwa eyes Shamva Gold Mine
A CONSORTIUM believed to be fronting for United Family International Church (UFIC) leader Emmanuel Makandiwa is bidding to take over the distressed Shamva Gold Mine in Mashonaland Central province....Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Guveya & Dugish Appointments Is Ravaging The Zimbabwe Economy
President ED Mnangagwa does not need a telephone call from God to inform him that the economy and the ancestors of Zimbabwe have refused to accept his appointments of Guveya Constantino Dominic Nyikad...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 15:23hrs | 1 | by Don Chigumba
Mwonzora blasts Mnangagwa's govt over job losses
MDC T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora has blasted Mnangagwa's government after the massive job losses in mines recently."The massive job losses in Zimbabwe in the past few days is consisten...Published: 03 Sep 2018 at 12:38hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Biti offers 'bus loads' of cash
MDC Alliance principal Mr Tendai Biti has said "whites will come with lorries and buses full of money" to Zimbabwe if the opposition coalition wins the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections.At a ...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Restructured Metallon guns for full capacity
THE country's biggest gold producer, Metallon Corporation says it wants four of its mining operations in Zimbabwe to reach their full production capacities this year.Metallon owns How Mine, Ma...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru 'lied' to the world
National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has been accused of lying ' to the world' when she claimed that her only assets are a farm and house in Zimbabwe.This w...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 03:12hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
The Mujurus wealth revealed
DETAILS of the late Retired General Solomon Mujuru's vast empire have started emerging despite concerted efforts by his widow, former Vice President Joice Mujuru, to conceal the riches, The Herald can...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SA's unrelenting grip on Zimbabqe economy
AS the South African high-level delegation descended on Harare last week for engagements with their Zimbabwean peers, a new set of statistics released by that country's department of trade and ind...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:45hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Metallon Gold Zimbabwe sued for over $15 000 debts
SAFECO Private Limited has sued the Metallon Gold Zimbabwe trading as Shamva Mine for a debt of $15 416, 79 the amount owed for the supply of the clothing."The applicant which deals in manufac...Published: 01 Oct 2016 at 06:57hrs | 6 | by Strephen Jakes
Massive asset stripping at Metallon Corporation
Metallon Corporation, a gold producer firm top brass has been accused of massive asset stripping as the industrial action entered its second week yesterday.Two weeks ago, Metallon reveal...Published: 01 Mar 2016 at 10:13hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Trapped Shamva Mine employee dies '- mobiReporter
Shamva 2015-02-08 22:43:14 In a sad development at one of Zimbabwe's largest gold min...Published: 11 Feb 2015 at 06:27hrs | | by Concerned Citizen
Metallon Gold ups productivity
Metallon Gold Corporation expects to produce about 500 000 ounces per annum in the next five years as the mining group steps up efforts to strengthen its position as the largest gold producer in t...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 05:55hrs | 4 | by Business reporter
Tsvangirai aide granted $500 bail
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's chief of protocol, Abisha Nyanguwo, accused of bombing Zanu-PF provincial offices in Gweru, has been granted a massive $500 bail pending trial by a Gweru magistrate...Published: 13 Apr 2012 at 15:22hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Shamva murder, cops charged with murder
HARARE - Eight police officers who butchered a Shamva mine worker, Luxmore Chivambo and injured several others now face the hangman's noose.Aspias Shumba, a 48-year-old inspector who led the o...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Armed robber in court facing 39 counts of armed robbery
A SUSPECTED armed robber who together with his accomplices went on a nationwide robbing spree targeting commuters and shops yesterday appeared in court facing 39 counts of armed robbery.Willi...Published: 28 Mar 2012 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Murderous Zim cop faces legal action
SHAMVA - Police say the officers involved in the clash with Shamva residents which resulted in the death of one person will be transferred while the matter will be treated as criminal.Seven ...Published: 20 Mar 2012 at 23:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Metallon Gold earmarks $600m for Zim mine expansions
Metallon Gold Zimbabwe is to invest $600-million in expansion projects over the next four years, a development that could see revenue rising to a projected $1,3-billion a year....Published: 29 Oct 2010 at 08:19hrs | | by Mining Weekly
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