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ICC Chairman visits Zimbabwe, expresses hope for cricket revival
International Cricket Council (ICC) chairman Jay Shah arrived in Zimbabwe on Wednesday, expressing optimism that his visit would inspire a revival of the sport in the country and help restore it to it...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:09hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Nedbank reaffirms commitment to Zimbabwe as an investment destination
Nedbank Group has reiterated that Zimbabwe remains an attractive destination for foreign direct investment and pledged continued support for key sectors of the economy to drive growth.Dr. Tere...Published: 07 Mar 2025 at 06:55hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
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 | 22677 | by Zenzele Ndebele
Owami Ndlovu set for Miss Teen International Pageant
19-year-old beauty queen, Owami Ndlovu leaves for India this Thursday where she will represent the country at the international pageant starting this Saturday.She joins more than 60 other beau...Published: 27 Jun 2024 at 10:12hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZiG is putting lipstick on a pig, says Biti
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday introduced a new currency to be known as the ZiG, which stands for Zimbabwe Gold.RBZ governor John Mushayavanhu said the ZiG would be structured an...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:31hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe can be tech hub'
THE vice president of technology and society at Google, Dr James Manyika, believes Zimbabwe has the potential to become Southern Africa's technology hub and intends to leverage on his expertise to emp...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation fu...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe apologist raps Chissano over Mumba
SELF-EXILED former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere has rapped former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano for criticising head of the Southern African Development Community Electoral Observer Mis...Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa on an unstoppable mission'
TWO weeks before Zimbabwe holds its general elections on August 23, political parties are in full swing campaigning despite increasing cases of political violence dampening spirits.Last week, ...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimparks to waiver entry for school children
HWANGE West Member of Parliament Mr Godfrey Dube has implored the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to waiver entry fees into the Victoria Falls Rainforest for school childre...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:24hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
US envoy jets into Zimbabwe to interfere with polls preparations?
UNITED States senior official Robert Scott yesterday jetted into the country for a two-day visit aimed at holding talks with stakeholders and ensuring free and fair elections.Zimbabwe is expec...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 20:16hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
The alternative Sona by Trevor Ncube
DEAR compatriots, comrades, and friends.Since independence in 1980, our nation has experienced moments of joy punctuated with anguish and trauma.The dream of our liberation struggle of...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | | by Trevor Ncube
Jonathan Moyo receives death 'threats' after Kasukuwere comments
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo said Sunday he had received death threats after his comments about fellow exile Saviour Kasukuwere's leadership ambitions.The erstwhile Z...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 05:00hrs | 1 | 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
Isaac Mpofu shatters eight-year record
LONG distance runner Isaac Mpofu put up a good performance at the World Athletics Championships in the United States of America to finish in the top 10 of the men's marathon and in the process shatter...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Isaac Mpofu makes top ten at the World Athletics Championships
ZIMBABWE'S Isaac Mpofu yesterday put up an amazing performance at the ongoing World Athletics Championships when finishing on position 10 in the men's marathon and setting a new national record in Eug...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
Mnangagwa pleads poverty
REVELATIONS that Zimbabwe is pushing to be classified a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) as Harare seeks debt relief in what is effectively a volte-face on the long-held official aversion to the i...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 13:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to miss out on AFCON draw
THE 2023 Africa Cup of Nations draw will be held next week and Zimbabwe's Warriors will not be part of the teams that will go into the hat as the country continues to pay the price for poor administra...Published: 12 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU MP calls for Zimbabwe sanctions removal
A MEMBER of the European Parliament, Fulvio Martusciello, has called for the removal of illegal economic sanctions that were imposed by the Western world on Zimbabwe, saying Harare needs a fresh start...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 08:15hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mthwakazi hits back at Mnangagwa
THE Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) Thursday hit back at Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for making unsavoury remarks against him and his party.Mnangagwa took issue with MRP leade...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa savages Mthwakazi leader
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has launched a scathing attack on Mthwakazi Republic Party Mqondisi Moyo accusing him advancing cessassion politics.Mnangagwa said this while addressing thousands ...Published: 23 Mar 2022 at 20:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
SRC dissolves Zifa, ready for backlash
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) have dissolved the ZIFA board and are ready for the storm which their decision could provoke, including the possible suspension of Zimbabwe, from internation...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:11hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's dictatorship rule will end soon.
Zambian young people have shown Zimbabweans that going to vote in numbers will see to a change in corrupt political rule.The results from Zambia not only show that voting matters but also that...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:54hrs | | by Prince Njagu
Cop 'killer' flushed out of Lobengula hideout
A FRACTURED arm and a missing ring finger are the least of Ntabiso Ncube's worries as he stands accused of shooting dead a police officer, who was part of a team that foiled an armed robbery by ...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt unsettled by non-renewal of SA permits
AS details of South Africa's recent bilateral talks with Zimbabwe emerge, the authorities in Harare are now in panic mode after Pretoria announced plans to suspend the temporary work permits of Zimbab...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mbuya Nehanda is a Zimbabwean heroine - Archivist
The erection of Mbuya Nehanda statue in Harare had created a lot of debate in Zimbabwe. Some people are of the view that the gesture was long overdue whil...Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:12hrs | 3 | by Etiwel Mutero
Ramaphosa's SA remains concerned over Zimbabwe's worsening political situation
ZIMBABWE'S new foreign minister arrived in South Africa on Friday, his first official visit to the country since taking up his position.Frederick Shava met with International Relations and Coo...Published: 22 May 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Put Zimbabwe first to help re-engagement efforts
IT is the role of the media to put Zimbabwe first when reporting to complement Government's re-engagement efforts meant to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The media when disseminating...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku says Patriotic Bill mustn't be allowed
POLITICAL Actors Dialogue (Polad) member and opposition National Constitutional Assem-bly (NCA) leader Lovemore Madhuku has been critical of constitutional amendments which seek to grant President Emm...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
We remained focused: Musona
DESPITE the COVID-19 results shenanigans that led to the 30-minute delay to the start of the Group H Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match between Botswana and Zimbabwe on Thursday, Warriors captain ...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:22hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Matebeles are not Zimbabweans
I always wonder why a lot of people from Matebeleland always think Zimbabwe is theirs too. You find them busy labelling themselves as Zimbabweans, even when everything is being done to show that...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:44hrs | 2 | by Dr Brilliant Sigabade Mhlanga
Talks between Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable
DIALOGUE between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the opposition is now inevitable, and also remains the best way to ending Zimbabwe's decades-long myriad challenges, professor of World Politics at th...Published: 08 Feb 2021 at 19:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
De-campaigning Zimbabwe through falsehoods
With special thanks to cde Bwoni. For the past twenty years Zimbabwe has been groaning under great satanic sanctions which have destroyed our livelihood. To ma'ke it worse the opposition...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:11hrs | 13 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'People must defend their vote' - never ever had a vote, can't defend what is not there
The root cause of Zimbabwe's crippling economic meltdown and political paralysis (politicians on both sides of the political divide are corrupt, incompetent and utterly useless) is the failure to hold...Published: 18 Sep 2020 at 13:59hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
World must be patient with Zimbabwe on reforms - SB Moyo
SINCE taking over power from long-time leader Robert Mugabe in a military coup in 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to end Zimbabwe's pariah status through an international re-engagement p...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 09:26hrs | 13 | by Staff report
'Cook Off' movie set for UK premiere
Award-winning local movie Cook Off continues on its upward trajectory as the blockbuster looks to explore the UK market with the UK premiere set for 27thJuly at the exclusive Mayfair Hotel in London, ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 09:33hrs | 44 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Why Fadzayi Mahere joined Chamisa bandwagon
Prominent lawyer Fadzayi Mahere saw her stock rise in the run-up to last year's harmonised elections after launching an audacious campaign as an independent candidate for Mt Pleasant constituency....Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Let's dream, think Zimbabwe'
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E.D. Mnangagwa, at the burial of the late Mishack Ntundu Velaphi, National Heroes' Acre, May 9, 2019 ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by ED Mnangagwa
The horrors of Gukurahundi relived
At a time when former president Robert Mugabe's government avoided debate on Gukurahundi massacres to an extent that talk about the bloody past was criminalised, a human rights activist was helping th...Published: 05 May 2019 at 10:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Analysts defend Tinashe Kachingwe
Analysts have defended American based musician Tinashe Jorgensen Kachingwe who recently courted social media storm after she was accused of denying being a Zimbabwean. When asked whether she i...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 14:14hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube lampooned over new currency plans
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday came under fire from economists who accused him of rushing to announce plans to re-introduce the Zimbabwe dollar before addressing factors which led to its coll...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 13:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe's Embraer delivery imminent, two B777s on way
AIR ZIMBABWE is on the brink of replenishing its fleet amid indications that the national airliner would take delivery of an Embraer ERJ 145 tentatively in the next two weeks.It has also emerg...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Rhodesia was 'successful' because essentially it was a province of SA
This week, I am going to start by doing something that we journalists don't normally do. Often we think our duty is to criticise or point out wrongdoing but never to praise even when praise is due. Bu...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Baffour Ankomah
'Lack of consensus fomented govt ructions, discord'
OF late, there have been contradictory statements coming out of the Information ministry and other government departments regarding various programmes and policy issues. NewsDay (ND) chief reporter Ev...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's unskilled ministers to be sent to China
THE Chinese embassy is organising seminars in Beijing for Zimbabwean cabinet ministers and bureaucrats to help them learn how to engage top investors and financial institutions in the world's second l...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:50hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chef brags over poll rigging antics
MASVINGO Provincial Affairs minister Ezra Chadzamira on Wednesday publicly bragged about Zanu PF's poll-rigging machinations, saying the practice was commonly practiced globally.The Zanu PF pr...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporte
Zimbabwe explains reason for blocking social media
The government says following the well planned violent demonstrations that rocked the country early this week, it was necessary to close the internet to reduce further harm that has so far cost the na...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 15:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
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