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Beitbridge border expansion commences
EXPANSION work on the Beitbridge Border Post appears to be finally starting eight months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa laid the foundation for the $241 million upgrade of Zimbabwe's premier port....Published: 4 hrs ago | 556 | by Staff reporter
The most popular slots in the year review
In 2018, there were many games that were at the top of the most popular slots rankings at online casinos and are therefore the most played. In addition to "old hands", numerous new slots have been add...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 76 | by Staff Reporter
Mushava's valentine in austerity and Zimbabwe's political economy
A few weeks ago, I wrote on Stan Mushava's autobiographical poetry anthology, Rhyme and Resistance and it has become a habit for me to check on his Facebook page for any latest poetry. On this Valenti...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 09:35hrs | 594 | by Brian Maregedze
Passports backlog hits RG's office as dollar crunch bites
Delays in the processing of passports have hit Zimbabwe, with Registrar General Clemence Masango blaming a worsening foreign currency crisis which has sparked the downsizing of operations fearing a st...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1772 | by Staff reporter
MPs want action on Matabeleland schools
PRIMARY and Secondary Education minister Paul Mavima has said four schools in Matabeleland North registered 0% pass rate in the 2018 Grade Seven examinations, a situation which is worrying Parliament....Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1231 | by Staff reporter
'A praying bridge of Driekhoek'
A bridge is a perfect symbol of life with hope. It has the beginning, the middle and the end. And when one put the first step on the bridge he hopes to pass to the other side. It carries the significa...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 19:56hrs | 182 | by Eric Shikobela
Bulawayo sewer system collapses?
A health hazard is looming in Bulawayo as the sewerage system has collapsed and raw effluent is polluting the environment with over half a million dollars needed to contain the challenge.Resid...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 10:13hrs | 2984 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya expected to tackle fiscal rot
CENTRAL bank chief John Mangudya will have to make bold monetary policy decisions or risk the country sliding back into hyperinflation, analysts say.Mangudya, who is yet to present his much-an...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:51hrs | 1747 | by Staff reporter
Makwavarara granted bail
Former Harare City Council Commission Chair Sekesai Makwavarara yesterday appeared in court facing charges of criminal abuse of duty.Makwavarara, 61, was granted $1 000 bail when she appeared ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 15:23hrs | 1777 | by Staff reporter
Is RBZ shifting position?
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has given its clearest hint to date that the country is slowly re-dollarising after upgrading the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform to include the United St...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 15:09hrs | 10077 | by Pauline Hurungudo
$46million drawn-down for RGM Airport facelift
Government has drawn-down $45,9 million, representing 30 percent of the total project cost for upgrading and modernisation of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The RGM Internati...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe airports' utilisation below 30%
Capacity utilisation at local airports has slumped to below 30 percent on the back of continued operational challenges facing national airline, Air Zimbabwe.This comes at a time the Civil Avia...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:44hrs | 332 | by Staff reporter
A black diamond curse for Mutoko
The paradox of resource abundance typically explains the case of black granite mining in Mutoko, Mashonaland East Province of Zimbabwe. The area is home to the best black granite rock highly demanded ...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:32hrs | 3196 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Upgraded' wife dumps hubby
HE's not good enough!Siphiwe Maseko a teacher by profession believes she is too good for her husband, Khalangani Dube, a security guard.All this after Dube sent her through teacher tra...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:28hrs | 1637 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ failure to maintain airports under spotlight
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ)'s failure to maintain the country's airports has come under spotlight after a Bulawayo-bound Fastjet airline was forced to abort landing at Joshua Mqabuko N...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:50hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to allow dollar trading to ease currency squeeze
Zimbabwe said it will allow companies and individuals to transfer dollars electronically, as it looks to ease a crippling scarcity of foreign exchange that's sent the economy into meltdown and trigger...Published: 31 Jan 2019 at 10:21hrs | 1717 | by Staff reporter
Adcock Ingram plots Zimbabwe exit
SOUTH African pharmaceutical group Adcock Ingram says it is assessing the viability of its continued presence in Zimbabwe, given the country's deteriorating economic environment.The Johannesbu...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 07:58hrs | 911 | by Staff reporter
3 IPPs line up power projects
Three independent power producers - Mopower Solar Limited, Zororo Energy Company Limited and Guruve Solar Park Limited - have submitted applications for licensing to set up power projects with a combi...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:30hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's central bank to allow US dollar trading
Zimbabwe's central bank says it has upgraded its RTGS platform to allow the settlement of transactions in dollars and trading will go live on February 1.Trading is currently in test mode, it s...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3069 | by Bloomberg news
RBZ incorporates US$ on RTGS platform
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has upgraded the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform to include the United States dollar as the institution seeks to facilitate payments of the greenback Nost...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Malema forgives Zuma
EFF leader Julius Malema on Sunday said that a church service had moved him to forgive former president Jacob Zuma. Malema attended a service at the Apostolic Faith Mission River of Life in So...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 676 | by Staff reporter
1893 MHRRM condemns Human Rights violations in Zimbabwe
The 1893 Mthwakazi Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM), after receiving an avalanche of credible information and hard evidence of mass and indiscriminate human rights violations by the army...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1588 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM Secretary for Information and Publicity
Internet shutdown anachronistic
The advent of new media brought in a wave of innovative approaches to the distribution and acquisition of knowledge. What the President Emmerson Mnangagwa-led government is doing in shutting d...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:52hrs | 1140 | by Alwyn Mabehla
Zimbabwe Immigration cleared 11,2 million travellers in 2018
The number of travellers, including tourists that were cleared at all the country's ports of entry and exit last year increased by nearly 5 percent to 11,2 million compared to 10,7 million in 2017, th...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:13hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
Emmerson Mnangagwa is a monumental failure
Robert Mugabe's protracted despotic rule brought Zimbabwe down to its knees. Such was the damage to a nation hitherto referred to as 'Jewel of Africa' that the general consensus was that things could ...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 18:28hrs | 12496 | by Grace Kwinjeh
Mnangagwa, Putin to meet
President Mnangagwa will meet the President of the Russian Federation Mr Vladmir Putin during his four-nation trip to Europe next week. The Zimbabwean leader is scheduled to visit Russia, Bela...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 17:09hrs | 539 | by Staff reporter
AirZim suspends flights
National airline, Air Zimbabwe has suspended flights up to mid-month due to maintenance works being carried out on its only functioning plane. The airline, which has largely been operating onl...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 11:34hrs | 3528 | by Staff Reporter
Harare, Chinese firm negotiate $350m deal
The Harare City Council is negotiating a deal with a Chinese firm, China Gezhoba Group International Engineering, to replace or upgrade the city's existing water mains, connections, fittings and other...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 07:45hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
Former top cop buried
Former police officer commanding Matabeleland South and North Provinces, Senior Assistant Commissioner Boyathi Ngwenya who died on New Year's Day, was laid to rest at Umvutsha Cemetery Park in Bulaway...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:55hrs | 1338 | by Staff reporter
Kariba tourists decline spurs Senate debate
Senators have called on central government to expeditiously provide financial resources for construction of a new airport in Kariba and upgrade its tourist facilities to international standards....Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:15hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax raises $572 million in December
Government says it has surpassed its monthly target for December and raised $572,4 million through the controversial two percent tax.According to Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, revenue generat...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:38hrs | 1716 | by Staff reporter
Government gets serious on road system upgrade
The new dispensation has recorded a success story in the dualisation of the Bulawayo-Mutare highway as well as the rehabilitation of many other roads which were littered with potholes at national leve...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 16:07hrs | 433 | by Staff Reporter
Toilets facilities poser for Beitbridge
A SHORTAGE of ablution facilities became a major challenge at Beitbridge, as more than 200 000 people travelled between South Africa and Zimbabwe in the last fortnight ahead of the festive season....Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:28hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Shares in Liquid are like $135m cash, says Mboweni
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (EZW) CEO Douglas Mboweni has described the company's equity stake in Liquid Telecom Holdings, which is just under 10% as "a US$135 million forex reserve".Speaking abo...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:25hrs | 744 | by Staff reporter
Why Beitbridge should fit into National Ports Authority scope
The quest to boost productivity in industries and to grow the national economy has seen Zimbabwe, like any other progressive nation in the world, coming up with a raft of measures to remove trade barr...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:50hrs | 521 | by Thupeyo Muleya
Exposed: The sprawling network of US military bases in Africa
The other CSL, in the remote smuggling hub of Agadez, is set to become the premier US military outpost in West Africa. That drone base, located at Niger's Airbase 201, not only boasts a $100m construc...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 2149 | by Staff reporter
Police urged to deploy vehicles to critically needy areas
POLICE should prioritise deployment of service vehicles to areas where they are critically needed instead of issuing them to senior officers who keep them idle for the greater part of the day, a parli...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:04hrs | 496 | by Staff reporter
DStv opens up channels for the festive season
DStv is giving lower-tiered subscribers an early Christmas gift by opening up some of the premium channels during the end-of-year and beginning-of-2019 festive period.From Tuesday, 18 December...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 13:18hrs | 7022 | by Channel24
Delta sweats over beer supplies
DELTA Corporation Limited, Zimbabwe's largest beverage marker, is making frantic efforts to ensure the availability of all its assortment of lager beers in the wake of the prevailing foreign currency ...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:38hrs | 423 | by Staff reporter
Zinara seeks $250m for project
THE Zimbabwe National Road Authority (Zinara) will float US$250 million worth of infrastructure bonds to mobilise funds for upgrading the Harare-Masvingo-Beitbridge highway. This comes after governmen...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:28hrs | 1041 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF brings Garden of Eden, fear to Esigodini
Esigodini feels under siege as the ruling Zanu-PF's seventh national conference gets into full swing in this quiet, gold-rich farming town of Matabeleland South province, with a heavy presence of Stat...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 10:02hrs | 1717 | by Staf reporter
Datlabs embarks on $4,5m upgrade
PHARMACEUTICAL and personal care products manufacturer, Datlabs Limited, has embarked on a $4,5 million plant and equipment upgrade as it seeks to improve operational efficiency. Briefing Indu...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:35hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Government to solve Cowdray Park sewer problems
THE Government has set aside over $45 million targeted at improving the country's water and sewer infrastructure, a move which will see 90 percent of all urban dwellers having access to safe drinking ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:09hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Government to solve Cowdray Park sewer problems
THE Government has set aside over $45 million targeted at improving the country's water and sewer infrastructure, a move which will see 90 percent of all urban dwellers having access to safe drinking ...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 08:09hrs | 682 | by Staff Reporter
'Mnangagwa an honourary member of the Chinese army'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a honourary member of the People's Liberation Army, it has been revealed. The revelation was confirmed by the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting servic...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 18:24hrs | 2488 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa dumps Chinese contractor
GOVERNMENT has abandoned talks with Chinese contractor Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Group Limited (AFECC) for the dualisation of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway, opting for local financi...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 10:35hrs | 3257 | by Staff reporter
Freedom
Her boss had announced impending job appraisals. Finally the supervisor from hell would get even. Ever since Themba had popped the question and put a large diamond on Thoko's left hand, the witch from...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 09:15hrs | 663 | by JerÃ
Exposé : The rot in Harare city council explained
Whistleblower Prisca Mutema has detailed how Michael Mahachi who was former chairperson of Harare City Council Commission fraudulently benefited close to USD $9 million from the City council. Mahachi ...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 09:44hrs | 3689 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US, China firms back Batoka project
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will next week meet representatives of major multinationals General Electric and PowerChina in a milestone indaba that will set the tone for construction of the massive Ba...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:04hrs | 983 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revokes Chombo's diplomatic passport
The State yesterday repossessed former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo's diplomatic passport saying he is no longer a government official.Chombo is facing a slew of charges ranging from crimi...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 15:07hrs | 6113 | by Staff reporter
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