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Cement imports threaten Zimbabwe's economy, warns PPC Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe risks losing approximately US$50 million annually in foreign currency if cement imports continue to flood the market, warns leading cement manufacturer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Zimbabwe...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 18:57hrs | 1225 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes China's $50 billion African modernisation fund
Zimbabwe is gearing up to tap into a US$50 billion fund that China pledged to support Africa's modernisation and industrialisation efforts during the recent Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) S...Published: 09 Nov 2024 at 17:08hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga launches AVM Prototype City Bus
The Vice President General (Rtd) Dr CGDN Chiwenga today witnessed the signing of an MOU between AVM Africa and Minsk Auto Mobile Plant of Belarus. The MOU aims to ease transport challenges through the...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 13:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can hold credible polls without interference, says China
THE Chinese government says Zimbabwe has the capacity and ability to hold its own elections without interference from any country.Ambassador Wang Ke, a director of the Chinese Foreign Affairs ...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 19:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bolster Sino-Zimbabwe relations
Relations between Zimbabwe and China are set to be further deepened this year for the mutual benefit of the people of both countries, President Mnangagwa has said.China celebrates its New Year...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'No need to import cement into Zimbabwe'
THE country's leading cement manufacturer, PPC Zimbabwe says they will continuously invest in their operations through maintenance and capital development programmes to ensure excellent product qualit...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 08:13hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends Chinese investors
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa commended Chinese companies Thursday for their investment in the southern African nation.Mnangagwa was speaking after touring the Gweru-based Sino-Zimba...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says puppets will never rule Zimbabwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared that the opposition will never rule Zimbabwe because Zanu-PF was the sole custodian of the country's liberation history.Addressing hundreds of ruling ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bata puts faith on Zimbabwe economy: US$5 million in plant and machinery
BATA Shoe Company Zimbabwe has invested over US$5 million in plant and machinery, in sheer demonstration of confidence in the economy.The company recently installed a polyurethane pouring plan...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Sino-Zimbabwe trade nears US$2bn
TRADE between Zimbabwe and China reached close to US$ 1, 9 billion in 2021, in a show of the positive outcomes of the growing relations between Harare and Beijing.The trade figures increased b...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's corrupt election funding exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF mortgaged the country's natural resources in lieu of US$100 million in financial support ahead of the country's 2013 general elections, a new report by a local watchdog has shown....Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by serious shortage of cement, PPC fails to meet orders
Zimbabwe has been hit by a shortage of cement, leaving the construction industry stranded, while in some instances resorting to the black market.The country implemented a cement import ban (SI...Published: 25 May 2021 at 13:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches Data Centre
The new National Data Centre commissioned yesterday by President Mnangagwa will anchor all e-government programmes and will allow co-ordinated planning and monitoring of results. The President...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt disowns Oppah Muchinguri
THE government has been left embarrassed after one of its top most government officials, Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri created a diplomatic headache for Zimbabwe by accusing China of creat...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 9 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Gweru council, workers in salary deadlock
AN ad-hoc committee has been appointed to look into the impasse between Gweru City Council workers and their employer.The development comes hardly a week after the restive workers issued a not...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Funding for Zimbabwe's new Parliament questioned
Zimbabwe is set to receive $165 million of Chinese aid for the full construction of a new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, yet Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated $3,8 million in the 2019 Na...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 09:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo engages Australia over twinning
BULAWAYO mayor Solomon Mguni has revealed plans by the local authority to engage Australian diplomats towards a twinning arrangement with one of that country's cities.Mguni and other Bulawayo ...Published: 01 Dec 2018 at 08:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Retailers rip off panic-stricken consumers
Retailers reportedly ripped off panic-stricken consumers by arbitrarily hiking the cost of basic commodities despite getting supplies from manufacturers at normal prices.Moreover, tariffs for ...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo to partner Chinese city
BULAWAYO City Council is set for a twinning arrangement with the Chinese city of Zhaoyuan Tangerang Selatan in a move envisaged to attract investment to the country's second largest city.The c...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cement sector has excess capacity'
ZIMBABWE's cement industry has excess capacity to meet the 1,3 million tonnes annual domestic demand as the sector has an installed capacity of 2,4 million tonnes, an official has said. Last month the...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cement demand to exceed supply in 2 years
ZIMBABWE'S cement industry could run out of capacity by 2020 as national demand grows faster than the expansion in investment, one of the major producers has said.The industry is dominated by ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Producers speak on cement crisis
National cement demand has surged since the second half of last year, driven by a reported bubble in mortgage and construction activity, amidst mounting supply-side challenges related to foreign curre...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Technical fault behind cement shortage'
A TECHNICAL fault at the country's largest cement makers PPC Zimbabwe and Larfarge is said to be behind the recent shortage of the commodity on the market, which has seen retailers pushing the price u...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:30hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa off to Beijing for key talks
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday left Harare for Beijing to attend the Forum for China-Africa Co-operation (Focac), with Zimbabwe's leader saying elevation of relations between the two countries...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe defends Mugabe's dodgy partner
FORMER Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe yesterday defended jailed Chinese businessman Sam Pa as the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy int...Published: 15 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's China visit to define our future
President Emmerson Mnangagwa left Harare for China yesterday and is expected to arrive in Beijing today for a historic four-day State visit to the global economic powerhouse.China is arguably ...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's China visit to define our future
President Emmerson left Harare for China yesterday and is expected to arrive in Beijing today for a historic four-day State visit to the global economic powerhouse.China is arguably Zimbabwe's...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinese firms seek clearance on externalisation
Chinese nationals, retail and mining companies accused of being part to the externalisation of more than $1,3 billion have approached the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to be cleared citing a number of irre...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
New cement plant begins production
REDCLIFF based cement manufacturer Livetouch Investments has commenced cement production at its 410 000 tonne a year capacity plant, a senior company executive said.Construction of the $34 mil...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIO company looted Zimbabwe diamonds
DESPITE reports that Kusena, a Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-owned company, which had mining rights in Chiadzwa, never took off, fresh evidence shows it operated under cover with a new name ...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 20:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths invade farm, orders owner to vacate
Zanu PF youths in Chiwudura reportedly invaded a farm in the area and ordered the owner to vacate as they campaign for their candidate Brown Ndlovu.Zimbabwe Peace Project reported that a group...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 09:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
MDC-T member attacked by Zanu-PF supporters
A MDC-T youth member Ashley Mdutshwa was allegedly attacked by rival Zanu-PF supporters in Chiwundura.This is according to a statement from the Zimbabwe Peace Project issued on Monday....Published: 29 May 2017 at 14:02hrs | | by Alice Charamba
MDC-T youth stabbed by Zanu-PF youths
Zanu PF primary elections are reported to have been finally held after serious factional skirmishes as well as political intolerance spearheaded by Zanu PF youths.Zimbabwe Peace Project report...Published: 28 May 2017 at 08:32hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Kwekwe named HIV hotspot
KWEKWE will this year host the annual World Aids Day commemorations on December 1 amid indications that the city is in the red in terms of national hot spot mapping.According to recent estimat...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Mnangagwa addresses mini-Zanu PF rallies during business visit
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday took advantage of a two day business visit organized by the CZI and addressed mini-Zanu PF rallies at Sino-Zimbabwe Cement Company and Bata Shoe Company...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Embrace bond notes, says Mnangagwa
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to embrace bond notes that will be introduced in October. Addressing Zanu-PF supporters gathered at Sino Cement Company in Gweru yesterd...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Patrick Chitumba
Chinese blamed for stalling Zimbabwe's economic turnaround
An insidious culture of dishonouring loan agreements has taken root in public and private enterprise and is now affecting Government inter-State economic partnerships.The latest victims of thi...Published: 27 Mar 2016 at 10:01hrs | | by Kuda Bwititi
Top officials fingered in poaching
Highly-placed people, staff in rural district councils and safari operators are involved in poaching, Environment, Water and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has said. Minister Muchinguri-Kas...Published: 16 Dec 2015 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
To defeat Mugabe we must implement the reforms and be fooled by Mutasa, a dumped passenger!
From the everyday Mugabe signed the Global Political Agreement (GPA) in 2008 committing him and Zanu PF to accepting democratic reform the next national elections were as good as won for Tsvangirai an...Published: 03 Dec 2015 at 06:24hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Bosso, Dembare clash in the Joshua Nkomo Cup
TRADITIONAL giants Highlanders and Dynamos are set to have an early season showdown when they meet in the inaugural Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Charity Cup at Barbourfields Stadium.The match was init...Published: 10 Mar 2015 at 06:37hrs | | by Sikhumbuzo Moyo
Chinese experts delay Zimbabwe visit
CHINESE economic experts who were due in the country this month to conduct feasibility studies ahead of the implementation of Sino-Zimbabwe deals signed in August have postponed their visit to Januar...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 22:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
TEARS of joy as residents win stands, cement in PPC draw
TWO lucky Bulawayo residents yesterday won residential stands worth $4,800 each in Emganwini suburb at the conclusion of the Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC)'s Yakhani/Vaka promotion grand draw....Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 03:52hrs | | by Business Reporter
'Mugabe not begging for cash in China'
President Mugabe is not begging for cash in China but seeking investment. Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba - who is part of the delegation - said the visit was meant to deepen...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 12:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese agric experts arrive in Zimbabwe
A 15-person Chinese delegation is in the country for feasibility study on possible areas of co-operation in agriculture. The delegation includes experts in grain crops, environment, agric...Published: 09 Jan 2014 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We are confident about the future of Zimbabwe' says China
CHINESE Commerce Minister Chen Deming has pledged his country's commitment to invest in capital projects in Zimbabwe and help the country address its infrastructural problems relating to roads, water ...Published: 24 Feb 2013 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Some are being used by being equated to Mandela says Mugabe
President Mugabe yesterday said Zimbabweans should be cautious of Western leaders who praise them as good leaders while arming them to work against the people. He said Western leaders could use Zimba...Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 06:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Consider value addition and beneficiation Mutambara tells China
Deputy Prime Minister, Professor Arthur Mutambara has implored China to consider value addition and beneficiation projects in its cooperation partnerships with Zimbabwe and other African countries to ...Published: 08 May 2012 at 14:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can adopt the Chinese blue print formula to development - Xin Shunkang
Outgoing Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Xin Shunkang, says African countries can adopt the Chinese blue print formula to development by maintaining stability, commitment to economic development an...Published: 03 May 2012 at 14:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and China sign four agreements
The Republic of China has pledged to assist Zimbabwe to the tune of over US$170 million through infrastructural development and the funding of health and broadcasting sectors.The pledge neces...Published: 06 Apr 2012 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
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