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Zimbabwe's Matebeleland might have a claim in Botswana's Tati concession
The government of Botswana, through the Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, acquitted 45,000 hectares of land from the Tati company under the willing buyer and willing seller arrangement. The Botswana ...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 10:10hrs | 22509 | by Zenzele Ndebele
Factionalism dominates Zanu-PF central committee meeting
ZANU-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa has revealed that factionalism, which is threatening to fracture the party, was the dominant topic during the central committee meeting held on Wednesday, j...Published: 25 Oct 2024 at 08:51hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
NRZ struggles amid sanctions, as revival efforts falter
In its prime, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) was the backbone of the nation's transport system, transporting passengers across the country and facilitating the movement of goods beyond Z...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 12:07hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Doji Candle: Understanding Its Role in Trading
The Doji candle stands out as one of the most intriguing candlestick patterns used by traders, offering a window into the market's state of uncertainty. It frequently appears during moments when buyer...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 13:17hrs | 366 | by Staff Reporter
William Ruto visits Germany: German press rebukes his claims about labour contracts.
It does not matter how one looks at this story; it is not only shameful to Kenya: it must shame all Africans equally. Recently, President Willian Ruto was on a state visit to Germany, and was proud to...Published: 17 Sep 2024 at 22:06hrs | 795 | by Nomazulu Thata
ED2030 campaign in full steam
ZANU-PF youths from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Midlands province are pushing a campaign for him to rule beyond 2028, despite Mnangagwa's public statements that he will retire when his term ends. O...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 16:39hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
Farewell Chairman VK: Reflections of a dear friend
The late Vimbai Kamoyo (VK) was quite a character.They buried him last week in Chiunye village, Mt Darwin, Mashonaland Central. Between him and I, the title of "Chairman" took tu...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:54hrs | 40 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Honouring Africa's top football talents
In my opinion, no continent has produced the range of footballing talent that Africa has, especially over the last 20 years. If you remember watching football back in the mid-noughties, Africa...Published: 18 Jun 2024 at 14:26hrs | 90 | by Sports Reporter
Nigerian billionaire Zimbabwe deals falter amid capital problems
WITH the help of Zimbabwean authorities who supported him amass platinum, gold, lithium, iron ore, tin and some rare earth mineral concessions, it first appeared like he was going far.At some poin...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
8 hour blackout in Bulawayo's eastern suburbs
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has announced a scheduled power outage for certain eastern suburbs in Bulawayo on Tuesday.According to a statement issued...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:49hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's very own Emperor Nero is burning down povo's hovels to build palatial villas for filthy rich few
"The closer the collapse of the empire, the crazier its laws" Marcus Tullius Cicero. Well we in Zimbabwe are witness this first hand. Zanu PF introduced the new local currency insisting ...Published: 18 May 2024 at 20:47hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Police, lawyers clash over calling of suspects
IN a world where police enforcement is strict and unwavering, one phenomenon that stands out as peculiar and debatable is whether or not it is right for police officers to phone suspects.This was ...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Only justice can guarantee peace!
It has become a common song in Zimbabwe.We need to maintain peace, unity, and desist from any acts that may cause discord and disharmony in the country.We have heard this call repeated...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:39hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
King Lobhengula: The Statesman Par Excellence
The man who is credited to have expanded Buthwakazi until it covered virtually the whole of Budlanondo (present day Zimbabwe and parts of present day Botswana) is King Lobhengula (named after Prince N...Published: 11 Jan 2024 at 17:31hrs | 22 | by George Mkhwanazi
Zim Ambassador Golf day Namibia off to a Good Start
Teenage sensation Prince Robert Kahisime stole the show with a sterling performance at the recently concluded Nyaradzo Ambassadors Golf Day Namibia held at the lush Windhoek Golf and Country Club....Published: 21 Dec 2023 at 08:05hrs | 27 | by Angicies
Zesa signs mega deals
Zesa Holdings has signed three major deals that will see the power utility promote renewable energy utilisation and restructure electricity markets in Zimbabwe.Zesa subsidiary Zimbabwe Electri...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:47hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZESA announces supply deals with a Swedish company
At the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, Zimbabwe has signed an agreement with UK-backed Africa GreenCo meant to ease the risks that have kept energy investors away from Zimbabwe.Power utility ZE...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 20:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe electricity tariffs up 19%
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) has approved a request by the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) for a tariff increase of 2 US cents per kilowatt-hour, ...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 06:34hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Massive blow to Mthuli Ncube's bid to widen political ambitions
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has abandoned his neutral technocrat tag and is now fully embedded in Zanu-PF, but his bid to grow his political clout suffered after he was defeated in the Cowdry Park c...Published: 28 Aug 2023 at 21:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
E-passport Offices at Concession are a pleasure to visit
Visiting government offices for whatever reason is usually viewed and weighed with disdain by many for fear of delays and poor service delivery. After procrastinating for over two weeks, me an...Published: 22 Jul 2023 at 13:36hrs | 32 | by Thomas Murisa
'Tertiary education should solve national problems'
THE Second Republic has transformed tertiary education into world-class standards as witnessed by the strides recorded in the provision of local solutions to local problems through innovation driven b...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe GDP jumps 6,2% to $56 billion
ZIMBABWE's gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 6,2 percent to clock $56,1 billion during the first quarter of the year 2023 when compared to $52,8 billion recorded in the same period last year....Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 07:43hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere to continue electoral campaign
EXILED Saviour Kasukuwere's campaign manager, Walter Mzembi has said plans are already in motion to appeal the High Court's decision to nullify the former Cabinet Minister's Presidential nomination ad...Published: 13 Jul 2023 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chapman's anti-climax and false presidential poll start
WHEN Robert Chapman entered Zimbabwe's highly polarised political fray, some critics called him a "Zanu-PF project" aimed at dividing the youth vote.His admirers referred to him as an alternat...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 14:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere snubs cheerleader Lumumba
PRESIDENTIAL independent candidate Saviour Kasukuwere has named his campaign technical committee headed by ex-cabinet minister Walter Mzembi.In a statement Monday, Mzembi announced a team of f...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 19:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe continues fight in US courts to block payment of US$277m land reform suit
ZIMBABWE continues its fight in the United States (US) to block enforcement of a US$277 million arbitration award to a German and Swiss family which stems from the country's controversial land reform ...Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 24 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
Mohadi continues with VP duties
FORMER vice-president Kembo Mohadi is still carrying out crucial duties at national level despite tendering his resignation in 2021 amid indications he will bounce back if President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Councillors in massive workshops looting scam
CCC-led councillors are allegedly looting council coffers through the conduit of holding workshops, with each of them having a target of fundraising US$5 000 as a war chest for the upcoming harmonised...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Power Company seeks investors for 3 thermal power stations
THE Zimbabwe Power Company is seeking private sector investors with large power demands to take over, modernise and run its three small thermal power stations in Harare, Munyati and Bulawayo in return...Published: 25 Apr 2023 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Andrew Langa forced out of Zanu-PF's Insiza South rerun?
FORMER Minister of Youth, Sport and Culture Andrew Langa has withdrawn from the ZANU-PF Insiza South primary election rerun, leaving Spare Sithole as the ruling party's candidate in the forthcoming ha...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 22:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Temba Mliswa wants polls parked in favour of transitional authority
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa says Zimbabwe should shelve elections for now in place of a transitional authority that would superintend over the country's affairs in the interim.To achieve th...Published: 13 Apr 2023 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo meets ahead of primary elections
Zanu-PF primary elections are turning into a jamboree of intra-party democracy across the expanse of the land with the Politburo today expected to consider a fit-for-purpose report that will be submit...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's underworld of teen sex, drugs
TEENAGERS of schoolgoing age take turns to go into a secret hide-out located in Hatfield, Harare, on a Saturday.The girls are dressed in all sorts of skimpy tight fitting clothes, while their ...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe was colonized through a 'mega deal', and happening again with the Chinese and Belarusians
When people talk of colonization, there are those with the misguided notion that this only occurs via military conquest - usually, by a more powerful nation over a far weaker one.Yet, this cou...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7, 99% complete
THE expansion of the Hwange Thermal Power Station's Unit 7 is 99 percent complete and is set to add 300MW into the national grid upon completion, Minister of Energy and Power Development Zhemu Soda ha...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 21:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sue Nyathi's novel translated to Arabic
LOCAL best-selling fiction author from Bulawayo, Sukoluhle "Sue" Nyathi has achieved yet another milestone after her sophomore novel, The Gold Diggers was translated to Arabic by theatre director and ...Published: 25 Jan 2023 at 10:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's re-engagement drive losing steam?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is serving the last few months of his five-year term, is facing the monumental failure of one of his major goals since he was brought to power by a military coup in 2...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 20:09hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Forthcoming Zimbabwean elections not a Chamisa alone spectacle
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa cannot wrestle power from Zanu PF single -handedly without all progressive Zimbabweans putting hands on deck....Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 16:03hrs | | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
China-funded Hwange power generator turned on
One of the two power generators being built at Hwange Thermal Power Station was successfully turned on for the first time on Tuesday, bringing the country closer to producing an additional 300 megawat...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi poised to bounce back after 2023 elections
FORMER vice-president Kembo Mohadi, who resigned from the government in shame in March last year, amid allegations he was using his office for sexual encounters with married women- including aides, is...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare, Bosso play for pride in Sunday premiership clash
Fallen Zimbabwe premiership giants Dynamos and Highlanders clash this Sunday in a Castle Lager Premiership Match Day 32 with nothing left to play for except pride.The so-called Battle for Zimb...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 20:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sanctions weighing on Zimbabwe banking sector
ILLEGAL sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western countries, led by Britain and America, have had a detrimental impact on the country's financial services sector as the embargo has seen the number of c...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commandeers train to Mnangagwa's rally
Zanu-PF will on Saturday use a National Railways of Zimbabwe train to transport its supporters to a party rally to be addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Mutasa, Manicaland province as campai...Published: 14 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Unit 7 trial run starts
ENGINEERS have started synchronising various sub-systems at the Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 7 plant which is 97 percent complete and ready for commissioning in November, paving way for its conne...Published: 29 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nurse caught pants down on-duty, married lover runs away
GETTING it on with your lover at work can feel naughty, steamy, and hot but, it can also be a risky "affair" since there can be consequences if you are caught in the act.In a rather strange in...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
As long as Zimbabweans are such unmitigated cowards - Chamisa will grow old, and go into the grave without ever tasting power!
I have written extensively on how our appalling cowardice as Zimbabweans is the greatest single most outstanding factor holding us back as a nation - preventing us from pushing for the change we despe...Published: 06 Aug 2022 at 21:39hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Binga hot springs dry out
THERE are more than 30 hot springs in Zimbabwe where warm water gushes from the ground.Geologists believe natural hot springs are found where water seeps into areas of volcanic activity in the...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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