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The truth about symbiotic survival of Mnangagwa and Chiwenga!
Citizens, forget about these fake social media channels news, one called Chatufa voices and his admirers. We are subjected in a web of fake news and meanings that spin themselves constantly, finding i...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:54hrs | 897 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zim bouncer strikes gold in SA
Zimbabwean bouncer Ali Mohommed is doing well in the neighbouring South Africa where he is rendering security to celebrities through his company Undisputed VIP Protection.Mahommed was born and...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 07:32hrs | 32 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Air Zimbabwe boss bullish after shock return
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) acting chief executive officer (CEO) Edmund Makona this week opened up about his plan for the troubled carrier, saying a massive revamp would be underway soon to save the busines...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim born entrepreneur Chiedza Ziyambe nominated for the UK' largest diversity awards
A UK based Zimbabwean designer and entrepreneur has been nominated for a prestigious national award for her work to support fashion designers and models in the industry.Chiedza Ziyambe has bee...Published: 12 May 2022 at 14:23hrs | 17 | by Agencies
Dramatic new twists and turns in Mnangagwa's fresh lawsuit
THE convoluted case about accountability and the rule of law in which a Harare man Tichaona Mupasiri has filed a Constitutional Court (ConCourt) application against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appo...Published: 13 Feb 2022 at 20:46hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
SECZim appoints acting CEO
THE Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZim) has appointed Gerald Dzangare acting chief executive officer following the departure of Tafadzwa Chinamo at the end of January.Dzang...Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans new US$1.3bn oil pipeline, finally ending Feruka monopoly
Zimbabwe plans to build a second US$1.3 billion oil pipeline to supply fuel into the country and the region, a deal that would end years of lobbying and rivalry between powerful oil interests....Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | 2 | by newzwire
Murowa running out of diamonds
OUTPUT at RioZim's gem extraction associate Murowa Diamonds slipped to 579 000 carats during the year ended December 31, 2020 after Zimbabwe's oldest operating diamond mining asset depleted high-grade...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
No electricity in plumtree for three weeks
The border town of Plumtree has endured three weeks of darkness after Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority switched off electricity. A local based organisation Secure Future Africa on Friday ...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 14:21hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Air Zimbabwe gets fresh hope for international flights
STRUGGLING flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) might regain its wings to fly internationally after a Netherlands-based company, Knighthood Capital (Knighthood), recently tabled an offer to partner the ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe stashes US$5m in UK
INSOLVENT flag carrier Air Zimbabwe Private Limited (AirZim) is still active in the United Kingdom (UK) under the same name, with financial records showing that the moribund airline has £4 million (U...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:38hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Of corruption and political will
THE latest Zinara graft scandal is the freshest in a series of corruption scandals which routinely grab the headlines for a short while before they fade into oblivion.The finer details of each...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:58hrs | 11 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Zimbabwe inflation hits the 20.8% mark, RBZ targets 7%
Zimbabwe's annual inflation rose sharply to a record 20.8 percent in October after it gained 15.46 percentage points from the September rate of 5.39 percent. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) for...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube tax evokes memories of 2008 crisis in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a comparatively youthful, Cambridge-trained economist as finance minister in September, he gave him an almost impossible task: repay billions of ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:25hrs | | by Bloomberg
ZimBollar: A guide to Zimbabwe's black market
As Zimbabwe suffers severe money shortages, businesses are closing, food shelves in Harare are emptying and prices of basic commodities, fuel and medicines are soaring. The price of a two-litre bottle...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by GroundUP
Mthuli Ncube opens his mouth, foreign currency rates soar
The bond note has continued to lose ground on the black market with its rates hitting 180 percent to the United State Dollar (USD) this week compared to October 1's 106 percent.On October 1, a...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 14:41hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Contractor finalises $241m Beitbridge border designs
The company contracted by Government for the $241 million Beitbridge Border Post modernisation project yesterday said they were now finalising the designs and work plans with civil works expected to b...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 10:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says bond note must go
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has called for the urgent removal of the bond note, saying the surrogate currency has worsened the economic crisis gripping the country.In a recent tweet, the MDC ...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: Tendai Biti arrested at Zambian border while trying to flee Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean opposition figure Tendai Biti's lawyer says he was arrested on Wednesday morning by the country's police - while trying to seek political asylum in Zambia.https://www.youtube.com/wa...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 12:07hrs | 2 | by TimesLIVE
Mnangagwa warns against corruption at Zim borders
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a strong warning against corruption at Zimbabwe's borders, saying his government will be ruthless with culprits.Mnangagwa extended the warning to illega...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO grilled over diamond operations
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) bosses were yesterday grilled in Parliament for entering into a joint diamond-mining deal known as Sino-Zim, with Chinese convict Sam Pa, without doing a proper...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, Gumbo self-enrichment plan exposed
TRANSPORT minister Jorum Gumbo and his Finance counterpart Patrick Chinamasa have been stopped dead in their tracks by exposure of their self-enriching plan to shut down flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (Air...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 11:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa, Gumbo battle to cover corrupt aircraft deal tracks
TRANSPORT minister Jorum Gumbo this week got further entangled in the aircraft purchase scandal which involves state-owned Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) and new airline Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) whose own...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 13:02hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Die hard with a Zimbo
Fresh from saving America from Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Thomas Sankara, communist North Vietnam and the Middle-East machinations of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Soviet Union, ex-Green Beret ...Published: 30 Mar 2018 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
ICC suspends Zim bowler, Brian Vitori
Zimbabwean cricketer, Brian Vitori has been suspended from international bowling following discovery that he was acting illegally.Vitori (28) was suspended after a panel of ICC world cup quali...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Byo24News Reporter
Cabinet approves $170m Beitbridge Border expansion
CABINET has approved a $170 million tender to Zim-Borders Consortium for the expansion of the Beitbridge Border Post, the country's busiest inland port of entry.The tender also covers construc...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 01:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ministry of transport marred with 'irregular' deals
This article is a continuation of a Khuluma investigation which began in 2017. An earlier article we carried last year implicated Grace Mugabe, and South African asso...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Tapiwa Vhurundiya (Khuluma Reporter)
Fuel tankers used for drugs, ivory, arms smuggling operations across Zimbabwe - South Africa
Modified tanker trucks are at the center of a new wave of drug smuggling into and through South Africa as well as movement of illegal arms and ivory from and out of Zimbabwe, a ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 08:49hrs | 8 | by Tapiwa Vhurundiya (Khuluma Reporter)
Protests scuttle AirZim audit
Protests by former Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) workers have forced the International Air Transport Association (Iata) to indefinitely postpone a scheduled audit of the beleaguered national airline.T...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe son-in-law's airline project flies into eye of storm
FORMER president Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore's plan to establish a private airline on the ashes of struggling flag carrier Air Zimbabwe is likely to suffer a stillbirth after the new gove...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 10:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe CEO fired
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) chief executive officer (CEO), Ripton Muzenda has been fired from the airline on charges of incompetence after refusing to implement a $2,4 million retrenchment programme as dire...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 09:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe suspends CEO
TROUBLED national airline, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), has suspended its chief executive officer (CEO), Ripton Muzenda, pending dismissal for allegedly opposing a board resolution to retrench over 200 work...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 11:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pool party horror
CHANGAMIRE Hip Hop Awards founder, Tafadzwa "Zim Boy" Muchechetere, had a close shave with death after he was saved from drowning during a farewell pool party in Johannesburg last week. Zim bo...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fly Zimbabwe Airways recruits staff
Fly Zimbabwe Airways has started recruiting staff pending its launch.A newspaper advertisement which was published yesterday said Fly Zimbabwe Airways is seeking an unspecified number of fligh...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 16:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sacked AirZim workers reject retrenchment deal
Sacked Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) workers have rejected the parastatal's retrenchment package, saying it had been imposed on them in violation of the Labour Act.The Daily News on Sunday can exclusi...Published: 27 Aug 2017 at 14:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe loses $2m monthly
HARARE - State-owned Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) is reporting huge losses of $2 million every month as mismanagement, high operating costs, old equipment and aircraft that are no longer profitable to fly we...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Air Zimbabwe rebrands, acquires 4 Boeing 777-200 planes
CASH-STRAPPED Air Zimbabwe has reportedly rebranded to Zimbabwe Airways after concluding a long-term lease deal, which will result in the delivery of four modern Boeing 777-200 planes from Malaysia Ai...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 05:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe set for a major overhaul
THE cash-strapped government has rolled out an ambitious plan to overhaul struggling flag-carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) that will see Treasury expunging the airline's legacy debts by way of liquid...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 14:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe deal collapses
PLANS by the country's beleaguered airline, Air Zimbabwe (AirZim), to lease modern passenger aircraft from Malaysia Airlines have hit a brick wall after the two parties could not agree on terms un...Published: 23 Mar 2017 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe planes order in limbo
AIR Zimbabwe's (AirZim) plans to acquire a new fleet of aeroplanes is now in limbo amid claims that the board and management are at loggerheads on how to execute the deal, NewsDay has learnt....Published: 06 Feb 2017 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concerns over one Beitbridge entry point as festive season rows into life
There are escalating concerns as to why there is only one Zimbabwe -South Africa entry point is one when the two nations are major trading partners yet Zimbabwe border with Zambia and Botswana has mor...Published: 14 Dec 2016 at 03:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
SAA gets permission to fly directly into Harare, Bulawayo and Victoria Falls Airport
THE recently signed Zimbabwe - South Africa Bi-lateral Air Services Agreement signifies the death knell for the struggling national carrier, Air Zimbabwe, as it opens it to unlimited competition f...Published: 14 Nov 2016 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Telecel Zim boss resigns after her Nu_de pictures are leaked by ex-boyfriend
The Head Consultant at Telecel Zimbabwe, Sharon Zvinashe, 41, resigned from the post after topless an undressed pictures of her were circulated online by an ex boyfriend names not revealed....Published: 08 May 2016 at 09:31hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Failed Zanu PF government reintroduces Zim dollar
The cash-strapped ZANU-PF government has finally succumbed to its inevitable failure and has predictably decided to re-introduce the Zimbabwe dollar in the midst of an unprecedended liquidity crisis i...Published: 05 May 2016 at 10:10hrs | | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada, MDC-T Shadow Minister of Finance
Zim borrowed $1,174 billion in 2015- Zimcodd
The Zimbabwe Coalition for Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has revealed that Zimbabwe borrowed a total of $1, 174 billion and arrears of $5,528 have accumulated.The organisation said in the pas...Published: 17 Dec 2015 at 05:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Miss Teen Zimbabwe preps gather momentum
All is set for Miss Teen Zimbabwe 2016 auditions to be held at Crowne Plaza Hotel tomorrow. The pageant which is back after a two-year sabbatical and is open to girls between the ages of 15-19....Published: 04 Dec 2015 at 05:32hrs | | by Tafadzwa Zimoyo
19 Year Old Zim Born Upcoming DJ Selected to Play In Durban, South Africa
It's been exactly 6 months since 19 year old Darlington Chikwewo a.k.a Young DLC moved to South Africa to pursue his passion in music, through studying Digital music composition and production at Bost...Published: 26 Nov 2015 at 23:49hrs | 2 | by Tendai Joe
Another AirZim boss gets bail
Former Air Zimbabwe Holdings Private Limited Company Secretary Grace Nyaradzayi Pfumbidzayi has been granted bail by the High Court weeks after being re-instated to her former position of acting manag...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 20:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Judgment day for jailed former Airzim boss
Jailed former Air Zimbabwe Holdings chief executive Peter Chikumba will know of his fate on Wedbesday when the High Court is expected to deliver judgment on his fresh application for bail pending appe...Published: 08 Sep 2015 at 23:30hrs | | by Fidelis Munyoro
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