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Zimbabwe moves to reform public medicine supply system
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has embarked on a sweeping reform process aimed at resolving medicine shortages at public hospitals, despite the country's main pharmaceutical distributor, NatPha...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 11:03hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Harare's disappearing hills
From a distance, the jagged ridgelines cutting across parts of Harare might appear to be natural geological remnants — monuments of the city's ancient terrain. But up close, these formations tell a ...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 10:58hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mines ministry steps up EPOs review
The Ministry of Mines and Mining Development is intensifying its review of Exclusive Prospecting Orders (EPOs) as part of a broader effort to eliminate speculative land holding and unlock Zimbabwe's v...Published: 09 May 2025 at 11:01hrs | 169 | by Staff reporter
Zela moves to protect marginalised communities
The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has reaffirmed its dedication to advocating for the protection of marginalized communities, particularly women in the mining sector, amid growing conc...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:41hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
A city at risk of collapsing: The cost of the search for gold in Zimbabwe
DOROTHY Moyo says a prayer every time she walks, runs, or drives around her neighbourhood in central Zimbabwe - afraid that the earth will give away from beneath her feet, dragging her underground....Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 10:21hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Is China good for Zimbabwe?
IMAGINE your father having an "all-weather friend" who appears to stand by him in every situation.This seemingly "all-weather friend", however, looks away as your father brutally batters your ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 09:10hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Is China really helping suffering Zimbabweans?
Imagine your father has an 'all-weather friend', who appears to stand by him in every situation.He looks away as your father brutally batters your mother and does not appear to give a hoot whe...Published: 14 Dec 2023 at 12:39hrs | 16 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bad leadership behind Zimbabwe's impoverishment
FORMER Finance minister in the Government of National Unity (GNU) Tendai Biti has blamed poor political leadership and a shambolic mineral resource governance strategy for the stagnation in Zimbabwe's...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 10:50hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
90% of waste in Zimbabwe not being recycled
GOVERNMENT has expressed concern that 90% of waste being generated across the country is not being recycled.Speaking during the World Environment Day commemorations in Harare yesterday, Enviro...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe losing control over lithium - Report
ZIMBABBWE's lithium is being smuggled at far worse rates than previously estimated, a new report said this week, blaming foreign cartels.In a report titled ‘implications of the lithium minin...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 19:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP demands answers from Mines minister
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Judith Tobaiwa wants Mines minister Winston Chitando summoned to Parliament to explain illegal mining activities taking place underneath build...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's diamonds sold for a song
Zimbabwe often sells its diamonds below market prices as they are not sought for and are even explicitly banned by major jewellery retailers for ethical reasons," ReportZIMBABWE is allegedly s...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt pampering looters with tax breaks'
ZIMBABWE'S civic society organisations have raised fresh concerns over elevated plunder of the country's resources by multinationals, and are pushing to close loopholes.During a crucial confer...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranked the least attractive country for mining investments
ZIMBABWE has been ranked the least attractive destination for mining investments in the world in terms of mining policy and mineral potential.This was revealed by the Fraser Institute in their...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces huddles before gold league return
ZIMBABWE is still struggling to be readmitted to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), more than 13 years since it was booted out of the world's largest gold and silver wholesale market....Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Tax incentives rip off Zimbabwe'
A LEADING resources watchdog has piled pressure on government to disclose the value of potential revenues it forfeits due to special tax incentives offered to attract investment.The Zimbabwe E...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:13hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Smuggled minerals surpass royalties
THE value of minerals being smuggled out of Zimbabwe far outstrips the royalties that government earns annually from resources, fresh data shows last week, as calls to crackdown on black market trade ...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:42hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'US$12 billion mining economy unattainable without policy'
ZIMBABWE, which seeks to achieve the US$12 billion mining economy by 2023, is still operating without a mining development policy, a situation that has created a lot of policy and legal reversals as w...Published: 13 Nov 2021 at 17:45hrs | 9 | by Dumisani Nyoni
ZCC advocates for dialogue on natural resources
The Zimbabwe Council of Churches has started advocating for dialogue on natural resources that will help to develop the economy of the country...Published: 27 Oct 2021 at 13:38hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Nehanda shrine under siege from illegal gold miners
SITUATED 30km north of Harare is an area of rocky hillsides overlooking the Mazowe River.The area boasts several botanical interests.However, Gomba, as the area is also known, is...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zela urges govt to tackle mine violence
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) wants government and law enforcement agents to craft a clear roadmap with specific action to tackle gender-based violence in the mining sector....Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Bigwigs must be held to account
AFTER ripping Zimbabwe's economy apart last year, the COVID–19 pandemic spilled into 2021, infecting people and taking lives at an unprecedented scale.While this was bad enough, a new phenom...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministers face grilling at mining indaba
Ministries, MPs and miners face grilling on mineral resource governance in the country at the 10th edition of the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba (ZAMI), which begins today in Bulawayo.ZAMI...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Everyone can benefit from equitable resource distribution'
ZImBABWe has vast natural resources that if equitably distributed can meet the developmental needs of every citizen, a senior clergyman has said.A Zimbabwe Council of Churches official, bishop...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Villagers living in fear of eviction
MUTOKO'S Karimazondo and Chingamuka villagers are living in fear after "some" Chinese officials informed them that they would be relocated to pave way for mining operations.The community membe...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Zela
Group demands ZSE listings for Fidelity suitors
INVESTORS interested in taking up equity in the central bankrun Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) should agree to list on at least one of the country's stock exchanges in order to enhance transpare...Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Villagers displaced by diamond mines should fight for their rights'
A legal expert with Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights has urged communities in resource rich areas where they are sometimes displaced from, to actively defend their basic rights. Speaking duri...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zela red-flags proposed constitutional amendments
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has urged MPs to reject the recently gazetted Constitutional Amendment Bill No 2, saying the Bill seeks to strip them of the power to keep the Executi...Published: 21 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt dangles compensation to Chilonga villagers
GOVERNMENT yesterday in a volte-face agreed to compensate Chilonga villagers in Chiredzi district set to be evicted to make way for an irrigation scheme.This was revealed in Statutory Instrume...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga villagers plot resistance
CHILONGA villagers, whose impending eviction from their ancestral communal lands has caused a major outcry, have vowed to stay put, accusing government of toying with them.Some of the villager...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Evictions fiasco rocks Mnangagwa govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was forced to hold crisis meetings after a controversial edict paving the way for the eviction of thousands of Chiredzi villagers caused an uproar.The...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and it's Vile Chiredzi Evacuations.
At a time when a government is supposed to stand in solidarity with the people that they claim voted them into office and assisting them during these covid19 infested times. The Emmerson Mnangagwa led...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 12:25hrs | 1 | by Prince Njagu
Chilonga evictions: State capture at play
You would have hoped that the post-Mugabe establishment could - at least - get one or two things right. But, ouch, this so-called "new dispensation" is as crude, primitive and self-serving as such reg...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:16hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Chilonga villagers challenge eviction
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has filed an urgent chamber application at the Masvingo High Court seeking to interdict government from going ahead with its plan to displace more tha...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's 'brother' implicated as foreign firms defy govt ban on river bank mining
FOREIGN-LINKED companies - particularly from China and Belarus - are deploying heavy machinery to river banks to mine for gold under the guise that they are desilting the watercourses, it has emerged....Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Council sued over sewage
CHITUNGWIZA Town Council is being accused of posing a serious health threat to over 650 000 residents in the dormitory town by discharging raw effluent into rivers that provide water to the municipali...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 05:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Miners still trapped underground
THE 30 illegal miners trapped in a collapsed shaft at Ran Mine in Bindura were still underground yesterday as efforts to dewater the shaft were in progress.This came amid reports that a volunt...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mines now 'death traps'
AN investigation by the auditor general Mildred Chiri revealed that a number of mining operations across the country do not adhere to occupational health and safety regulations, exposing miners to dan...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly defends clampdown on machete gangs
CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines, Edmond Mkaratigwa has defended the recent deployment of security forces on rowdy machete gangs which he described as "vampires" disturbin...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chinese Hwange blitz a minister's directive
THE shock decision by the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) to grant two Chinese mining firms the greenlight to drill and explore for coal in the giant Hwange National Park w...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Nat Park invasion: Chinese miner in court
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) and a Hwange resident Fidelis Chuma, have approached the High Court seeking to bar a Chinese mining company from exploring for coal in the vast Hwange...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tensions flare over Chinese miners in the Midlands
Mounds of black chrome shimmer along the highway that runs through this area, as mine workers labour near heavy machinery marked with Chinese writing.The workers toil about 5km from the road, ...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP threatens Silobela miner
A SMALL-SCALE miner, who recently told a public hearing that a member of national assembly was behind a plot to grab her gold mining claims on Friday approached Parliament seeking protection after she...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sentence machete-wielding robbers to life'
SMALL-SCALE miners yesterday said machete-wielding criminals robbing them of their gold and other minerals must get life sentences with hard labour at the country's mines.The issue came out in...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Zimbabwe has second worst mining policies in Africa'
ZIMBABWE has the second worst attractive mining policies in Africa, ranking better than the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), a new report has shown.According to Canada-based Fraser Institut...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Court stops Chimanimani farmers eviction
THE High Court has stopped the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) from evicting Chimanimani families, who were facing imminent displacement from their banana farms.The...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Davison Kaiyo
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Davison Kaiyo
'Zim will not recover missing $15bn diamonds revenue'
THE Mines Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Thursday ruled that it would be difficult for Zimbabwe to recover its missing diamond revenues from some of the people implicated in the scam. The commit...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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