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Zimbabwean man who controlled the development of Microsoft Windows
Zimbabwean-born Paul Maritz discovered his passion for computers at a South African university and became one of Microsoft's core executives, directing much of the early development of Windows....Published: 10 Jul 2025 at 13:04hrs | 652 | by Staff reporter
High-tech Western weapons 'useless' in Ukraine conflict
Satellite-guided shells are particularly vulnerable to Russian jamming technology, commanders in Kiev have told the newspaperRussia's electronic warfare capabilities have rendered precision-gu...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 17:07hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Doctors calling for Joe Biden to take cognitive test
Doctors are calling for Joe Biden to take a cognitive test and make the results public after a bombshell report laid bare his mental decline. Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal revealed a conc...Published: 06 Jun 2024 at 08:49hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Rupert Murdoch to wed Roman Abramovich's former wife
The media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged for a sixth time, it emerged on Thursday, this time to Elena Zhukova, a retired scientist.Murdoch's office announced that the 92-year-old is set to ma...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 14:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean living in Israel says situation scary as defense forces, Hamas skirmishes intensify
A Zimbabwean resident in Tel Aviv described the tense situation in Israel as the country faces ongoing skirmishes with Hamas militants. The conflict has resulted in over 1,000 casualties, with 700 Isr...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:13hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Multi-billion-dollar biotech city for Zimbabwe
In a significant development poised to propel Zimbabwe forward, a collective of diaspora professionals based in the United States has entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Zimbabwe Inves...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 08:52hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
All systems go for polls
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has finalised the deployment of polling officers and materials across the country paving the way for a smooth voting process tomorrow.Citizens will vote...Published: 22 Aug 2023 at 06:25hrs | 3 | by Stafff reporter
Xi Jinping arrives in Moscow
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Moscow on Monday for a three-day state visit to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. During the summit, the two sides will discuss strategic coope...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
EU divided over Russian sanctions
EU citizens are being asked to make great sacrifices to support a sanctions regime against Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine. But how long will Western consumers be willing to live without...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Robert Bridge
China opposes sanctions for good reasons
One month after the Ukraine crisis broke out, China and an increasing number of like-minded nations, particularly developing countries, have voiced objection to unilateral sanctions by United States-l...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Zhang Yunbi
Saudi Arabia to price oil in Yuan instead of dollars
Saudi and Chinese officials are in talks to price some of the Gulf nation's oil sales in yuan rather than dollars or euros, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday, citing people familiar with the ma...Published: 15 Mar 2022 at 16:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Recent Supplies of Weapons to Ukraine by NATO Countries
Starting from the beginning of the year to the end of the second decade of February, nearly fifty military transport aircraft from various countries - USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and Lithuania...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:56hrs | 3 | by Press Release by the Ambassador of Russia to Zimbabwe and to Malawi
Black Friday November 14 1997
The day the Zimbabwe currency tumbled or hit the lowest mark was in 1997 when war veterans got Z$50 000 in gratuities each from the former late President Robert Mugabe’s government after they embark...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:08hrs | 23 | by Leonard Koni
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Facebook planing to change company name
Social media giant Facebook is planning to change its company name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesda...Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 08:53hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Potraz ordered to connect 1,500 rural clinics
INFORMATION and Communication Technology (ICT) minister Jenfan Muswere said he has ordered the Postal and Telecommunication Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) to connect at least 1 500 rural he...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 20:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga in Covid-19 scare in China
TWo members of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's delegation tested positive for Covid-19 in China, forcing hundreds of people to be removed from the luxury hotel where they are staying.Chi...Published: 01 Aug 2021 at 06:53hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga aides test positive for Covid-19
Two members of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's delegation tested positive for Covid-19 at a luxury Chinese hotel - sparking a health emergency.Hundreds of hotel guests at the Legendale H...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Donald Trump engages in jecha/ sand tactics on the U.S. economy
Democratic political consultant James Carville once said that if he were reincarnated, he'd want to come back as the bond market because "you can intimidate everybody." Donald Trump is not intimidated...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 20:08hrs | 11 | by Steve Chapman
Steer clear of loan sharks
"Sir, if those assets just decrease by 25% and they remain on our books, that loss will be greater than the entire market capitalisation of this company," said a young risk analyst named Peter Sulliva...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 9 | by Batanai Matsika
Indeed, the US never been paragon of democracy, but laughable that a worse tyranny would dare comment
As much as my health is not well today, and, would have preferred staying far away from the pen, the most recent outbursts and ranting by the perennially and inherently unrepentant brutal, barbaric an...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 13:19hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
A currency backed by nothing
On February 25, 1862, United States President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act, a brainchild of Elbridge Spaulding. Those were terrifying times. The republic was at war with itself and woul...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 2 | by eBusiness Weekly
Chamisa and allies: Don't start wars that you can't finish
To hide a lie, a thousand lies are needed.The main opposition MDC was caught totally off-guard when one of their own, the talkative Job Sikhala, revealed the party worst-kept secret: That they...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | 3 | by Conway Tutani
The limits of mass protest in a dictatorship
HONG KONG is not Beijing. And July 1, 2019, is not June 4, 1989. First of all, in 1989, the violence in China came almost entirely from the side of the government; the weeks of demonstrations in Beiji...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | | by Ian Buruma
Unite against big business' deathly grip
THERE is a lot to criticise about what is going on, but not all price increases we are seeing are that inevitable because in many cases, these are contrived with many big retailers taking advantage of...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Conway Tutani
Who is profiting from negative reporting?
Not so long ago, Aljazeera correspondent Haru Mutasa was denied a visa by one Western embassy ostensibly because of lack of a guarantee that she would return home.While it is the prerogative o...Published: 30 Mar 2019 at 22:44hrs | 1 | by Ranga Mataire
EU's clean break for Mnangagwa
There is little justice and respect for basic human rights in Zimbabwe, still the European Union (EU) softened its sanctions regime.In February, after egregious human rights abuses escalated b...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
Who really calls the shots in bloody Zimbabwe crackdown?
THE two girls, one 11 and the other 12, were on their street in the Pumula district of Bulawayo one afternoon, going between each other's homes, when they made the mistake of peeping through the wall ...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 10:58hrs | 2 | by The Times (UK)
Harare's booming automotive market
Downtown Harare is an economic hub.Here, money arguably changes hands more than in any other part of the city.It is typically the Wall Street of the capital.Household goods, sc...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:46hrs | 1 | by Staff repoirter
Delta debacle: Dialogue key
The debacle between Government and Delta Corporation over the latter's announcement that it intended to price its products in foreign currency, brings to the fore the dire need for a social contract b...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:43hrs | | by Africa Moyo
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet stranglehold challenged as shareholder tussle breaks out
AFTER years of brutal hyperinflation, Zimbabwe became known as a place where cash was almost worthless. Now, investors are fighting over EcoCash, the country's homegrown PayPal-like service that has z...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Gabriele Steinhauser I The Wall Street Journal
Terence Mukupe relocates to Mozambique?
There has been high speculation that Former Finance deputy minister Terence Mukupe has relocated to Mozambique after he posted a Facebook picture of himself in Beira and captioned it: I love my new ho...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe oligarchy conundrum
Zimbabwe is full of drama that lacks focus. Have we been zombified by politics?Over the past two decades, former President Robert Mugabe was the problem. In November last year, the country bad...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:54hrs | 36 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mthuli Ncube to appoint international advisory board
THE Government will appoint an international advisory board that will provide a platform for it to adopt best practices, assess and/or adopt emerging trends and explore innovations that advance Presid...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
No rest for Mnangagwa in US
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a mission to turn Zimbabwe into a middle-income economy in 12 short years. And the frenetic pace at which he is working in New York this week reflects how tight that...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa makes pitch for Zimbabwe at world stage
President Mnangagwa debuts at the UN next week, two months after his election in a poll that was declared free, fair and representative of the will of the people. He arrived in New York for the 73rd s...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
International media stampede to interview Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is currently in New York for the UN General Assembly, had a busy schedule with international media stampeding for interviews with him.Day Two of President Mna...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Know your Minister of Finance Prof Mthuli Ncube
Professor Mthuli Ncube is currently Managing Director and Head of Quantum Global Research Lab (Switzerland), part of Quantum Global Group, the largest Private Equity group dedicated to investing in Af...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:14hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe not white man's burden
We are on the edge of an epoch in Zimbabwe.The nation could experience a new normal, so to speak, as the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has only a matter of days to validate President-elect E...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa's legitimacy bid crumbles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's extensive public relations campaign to position himself as a reformer and leader of a new dispensation in Zimbabwe has crumbled like a deck of cards. This is after the d...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ED admit to rigging but refuse reforms insisting "let bygones be bygones" will deliver free elections - how naïve
President Emerson Mnangagwa is breathtakingly naïve; that is the one thing that has come through again and again ever since he took centre stage last November. Remember the coup that was "a military ...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
No easy road, says Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says recalibrating an "entrenched political system to a new administration" takes time as the nation needs a shared vision and consensus on how to move forward.In ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 10:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to respect election results
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has committed to upholding a democratic process post elections with a promise to respect the outcome of the harmonised elections slated for the 30th of next month....Published: 16 Jun 2018 at 22:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why vote President Mnangagwa in the coming elections
The Zimbabwean economy has been in the doldrums for close to two decades. President E.D Mnangagwa has been the light at the end of the tunnel as his administration priorities the economy over politics...Published: 29 May 2018 at 14:35hrs | 1 | by Rudo Saungweme
Why ED, not NC, already has my vote
Nearly 60 days remain between us and July 2018, the big day slated for Zimbabwe's harmonised elections, but President Mnangagwa, the chess master, is already looking beyond that. Many of us privy to P...Published: 21 May 2018 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Paul Charumbira
Money and corruption in Zanu-PF
AFTER the release of Zanu-PF's list of aspiring candidates for parliament, we can now confirm that a record of fraud, crime and general crookedness is not a hurdle to one's political ambitions in the ...Published: 04 May 2018 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe delegation dazzles investors on Wall Street
After decades of economic isolation, the Zimbabwe Government, led by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development Patrick Chinamasa, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International trade, Dr Sibusis...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Moyo in New York on a Wall Street charm offensive
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo has said there has been tremendous progress under the new political administration led by President Mnangagwa, as Government has set o...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's New York pitch reveals his post-election game
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's op-ed piece he penned for the New York Times, published online on March 11 and 12 in the print version, supplies the chess pieces of how he intends to play the political...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:20hrs | 6 | by The Brett Chulu Column
SA biggest corporate scandal fails to make it into Sunday papers
Amazing that the biggest corporate corruption scandal in the history of recorded South Africa crime, has not made it onto the front pages of the South African Sunday press....Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 18:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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