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Chamisa is Ndebele Closest Saviour, Dear Thulani
Thulani Nkala, I have always respected your passion for Zimbabwe to succeed, and I still do, apart from the fact that...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2184 | by Multiverse Dungani
Bulawayo residents resist cemeteries solar projects
BULAWAYO residents are against the proposal by the city council to establish solar projects at city cemeteries as they feel the project will infringe on their traditional beliefs. In a m...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:20hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Judge blasts State over Chivayo appeal
The Supreme Court on Wednesday blasted the State over clumsy work in its appeal challenging the acquittal of businessman Wicknell Chivayo of the $5,6 million fraud charge involving Zimbabwe Power Comp...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 267 | by Staff reporter
Fake projects scandal: MP Musikavanhu plots to steal CDF
Chiredzi West Member of Parliament (MP) Farai Musikavanhu is having a hard time explaining why he mentioned projects that have already been done in his application for the Constituency Development Fun...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:12hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
'We need WhatsApp,' says Traditional leader
TRADITIONAL leader Robert Ticherwa Marina. who is popularly known as Sekuru Samba urges the Government to equip traditional leaders with smart-phones, television sets and solar power for them to perfo...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Mavhaire distances self from ZPC bribery storm
FORMER Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire yesterday distanced himself from the case in which the former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje is being accused of concealing hi...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 06:57hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Prophet gave burglar charms to evade arrest
A HABITUAL Chipinge burglar has been jailed for two years for theft of goods worth over $600 in Buhera and Bikita after being given a charm by a prophet to evade arrest.Tinashe Mutete was conv...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
When nature fights back
Zimbabweans are in deep mourning, the nation is bereaved, hundreds of lives were lost with others missing and injured. Cyclone Idai was apocalyptic in every dimension, where there was livestock ...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 19:25hrs | 298 | by Thomas Murisa
Good policies will boost the solar energy and minerals business in Africa
In 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had an estimated $24 trillion in untapped mineral deposits, including the world's largest reserves of coltan and significant quantities of the world...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 16:02hrs | 400 | by Enos Denhere
Cyclone Idai washes away Zimbabwe diamonds target
AS the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) sifts through the wreckage of the devastating Cyclone Idai, preliminary indications are that the firm will miss its first quarter production target ...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:38hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
ZPC board secretary throws Kazhanje under the bus
Zimbabwe Power Company board secretary Laura Tsomondo yesterday said former chairperson of the parastatal, Stanley Kazhanje, failed to declare his dealings with Intratrek Zimbabwe when he presided ove...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 08:06hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
BCC to tap energy from graveyards
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) will soon be embarking on an ambitious project to turn its cemeteries into solar farms as the local authority pushes the concept of multi-use of land. According...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 06:32hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo case in new twist
Former Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje yesterday denied allegations that he received a $10 000 bribe so that he does not cancel a 100 megawatt Gwanda solar panel station pro...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:53hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
ZPC boss disowns Chivayo
FORMER Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) chairperson Stanley Nyasha Kazhanje yesterday pleaded not guilty to charges that he concealed a personal interest in a transaction from his principal after he alleg...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 06:42hrs | 1650 | by Staff reporter
Dzikamai Mavhaire faces arrest
Former Energy and Power Development Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire, who had been summoned by the State to testify against former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) chairperson in a bribery case, was yesterday i...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:18hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Chinese solar company lights up Chimanimani
A local Chinese-owned solar supply company Yao Wei Tech has donated rechargeable solar lamps to assist communities in the Cyclone Idai-hit communities.Yao Wei Tech is a solar energy and altern...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:00hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
State appeals Chivayo ruling
State prosecutors have filed a notice of appeal against businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo's acquittal by the High Court in a $5,6 million fraud involving the Gwanda solar project.Mr Chivayo and ...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:38hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo formalises acquittal
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo appeared in court yesterday to finalise his acquittal with the lower courts.Chivayo, who was jointly charged with his company, Intratek, was last wee...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 17:15hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
False start for Chivayo trial
The trial of businessman Wicknell Chivayo who allegedly transferred $10 000 into former Zimbabwe Power Company chairperson Stanley Kazhanje's bank account, ostensibly to influence him not to cancel a ...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:31hrs | 353 | by Staff reporter
Solar buses for Harare
A Chinese company, China Nanchang Engineering, has approached Harare City Council with a deal to supply 600 green energy (solar-powered) buses and additional fixed and working capital to service route...Published: 28 Mar 2019 at 23:29hrs | 1485 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo seeks consolidation of contract with ZPC
Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd managing director Wicknell Chivayo has approached the High Court, seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) to honour his contract for the construction o...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 07:08hrs | 904 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa to build house for Cyclone Idai heroine
TELECOMMUNICATIONS magnate and billionaire, Mr Strive Masiyiwa has pledged to build a house and pay a $1000 lifetime monthly allowance to an elderly woman from Harare who walked from Mbare to Highland...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 22:22hrs | 1894 | by ZimLive
Temba Mliswa speaks on Chivayo saga
Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has blamed botched Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) over the recent judgment that cleared businessman Temba Wicknell Chivayo over the botched Gwanda solar deal. ...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 10:32hrs | 5747 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe fuel crisis hurts business: Mudenda
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda on Friday said the resurfacing of fuel queues and electricity outages were symptomatic of challenges in the energy sector, which must be urgently resolve...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 07:06hrs | 915 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe begins regional power exports
ZIMBABWE has started exporting electricity to regional countries especially Namibia, buoyed by increased production at the Kariba Power Station which came into life in March last year.Presiden...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 22:25hrs | 2125 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo to start work on Gwanda solar project
Wicknell Chivayo is the victim of malicious prosecution, a High Court judge ruled on Friday as he threw out fraud charges against the Harare businessman involving $5,6 million.Justice Owen Tag...Published: 23 Mar 2019 at 21:21hrs | 908 | by ZimLive
Anti-graft body to contest Chivayo ruling
The Anti-Corruption Special Unit (ACSU) is breathing fire over the acquittal of businessman Mr Wicknell Chivayo in the $5,6 million fraud charge involving Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC)'s Gwanda solar p...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 22:48hrs | 1449 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo acquitted
The High Court has acquitted Harare businessman Wicknell Chivayo of any criminal liability in the alleged US$5.6 million fraud and violation of the exchange control charges.Harare High Court j...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:12hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Leyland eyes Zimbabwe bus plant
INDIAN investors yesterday swarmed Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndlovu, expressing their interest to do business in Zimbabwe, with one of the leading vehicle manufacturing companies, Ashok...Published: 20 Mar 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's ex-deputy minister's house auctioned off
Former Health and Child Care deputy minister Edwin Muguti is set to lose his house over rental arrears owed to Joyce Mako-Mashaninga.Last year, the court handed a default judgment after Muguti...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 13:46hrs | 4068 | by Staff reporter
Gweru, MSU partner in solar street lights project
GWERU City Council (GCC) has partnered Midlands State University (MSU) in a project that will result in the installation of solar powered street lights in Senga and Nehosho suburbs where most of the u...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:08hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube should learn from Masiyiwa
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's United States jaunt last week was always expected to yield what it yielded - an empty basket. It's no rocket science.In an article published in this column last...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 17:08hrs | 4411 | by Brett Chulu
Chivayo's court relief, as ZPC boss exonerates him
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has endured a roller coaster ride and mixed fortunes in his six-month bid for freedom, as his $5,6 million fraud case has taken interesting - if not intrigui...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | 1166 | by Staff reporter
Real Madrid to appoint Zidane again
Zinedine Zidane is set to return as Real Madrid manager just 10 months after leaving the Spanish giants, according to European football expert Guillem Balague.The Frenchman will replace Santia...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2686 | by BBC
Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?
The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting soldiers as heroes, and taking s...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | 840 | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats
PRAZ corners Chivayo's Intratrek over Gwanda project
The Procurement Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Praz) has written to Intratrek Zimbabwe - that is locked in a contractual dispute with Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) - emphasising the point that it ha...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:29hrs | 1313 | by Staff reporter
When hate has a shadow and body
Those hell bent on tarnishing the image of a democratically elected government of Zimbabwe have gone a gear up in their desperate efforts now bordering on insanity. Who in his/her right senses...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 16:27hrs | 268 | by Tondorindo. Chinehasha
Bio-fuel projects remain redundant
The long fuel queues being experienced across the country coupled with shortages of critical energy needs like electricity indicate mammoth challenges facing Zimbabwe, despite the abundance of alterna...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe energy projects fail to take off
OVER the last five years Zimbabwe's energy regulator has licensed more than 30 independent power producers (IPPs), but only eight of them have taken off and are currently operational.Zimbabwe ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 10:50hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC struggles to complete prepaid meter project
THE Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (Zetdc) is struggling to complete its prepaid electricity meter project due to foreign currency challenges, an official has said....Published: 28 Feb 2019 at 06:19hrs | 724 | by Staff reporter
'Chivayo's work is of no value if not completed'
The trial of controversial businessman Wicknel Chivayo continued yesterday with the finance director for Zimbabwe Power Company testifying as the first state witness.Chivayo, through his lawye...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:32hrs | 546 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo failed to deliver, court told
Wicknell Chivayo did not carry out any meaningful work on the Gwanda solar project despite being paid US$5 million in advance, State witness and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) financial director Mr Eube...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 06:29hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts Chinese
Chinese firms should take full advantage of the upgrading of relations between Harare and Beijing to a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership to invest in Zimbabwe where their investments will be given p...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 22:30hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
High temperatures to hit Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is expected to experience near record-high temperatures across the country from today up to Saturday, the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) warned yesterday. The MSD said in a ...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:42hrs | 2347 | by Staff reporter
$7bn needed for cleaner energy in Zimbabwe
A CLIMATE change specialist has said Zimbabwe needs close to $7 billion to mitigate climate change effects by 2030.This was revealed last week in Parliament by director of water and climate ch...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:24hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe scientists discover 'ozone hole' over South Africa
A team of Zimbabwean researchers has discovered an "ozone hole" over South Africa that is centred over the Free State Province during spring, which impacts on temperature and rainfall levels, accordin...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:04hrs | 4919 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails Education Amendment Bill
President Mnangagwa has commended the Education Amendment Bill that was published recently, saying it will re-introduce the concept of free education that was adopted at Independence, once it is passe...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:02hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa underscores free education
President Mnangagwa has commended the Education Amendment Bill that was gazetted on Friday, saying it will re-introduce the concept of free education that was adopted at independence, once it is passe...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:53hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Solar energy is the future: Masiyiwa
Econet founder Strive Masiyiwa says mini-power grids based on solar energy are the solution to Africa's energy problem.Masiyiwa made the prediction at a global conference of investors in Abu D...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:01hrs | 718 | by Staff reporter
Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project comes to life, says Mthuli
A flurry of activity over the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project is expected in the next few weeks amid indications that the updating of feasibility studies would be concluded at the end of the first...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
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