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Zimbabwean student seeks funding for Aerospace Engineering studies in UK
Sijabuliso Hilton Sibanda, a 19-year-old Zimbabwean student is seeking £130 000 funding for Aerospace Engineering studies after he was accepted into the University of Manchester.Sibanda who a...Published: 20 Aug 2024 at 17:51hrs | 2057 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets beneficiating aluminium
The Zimbabwean government aims to boost lightweight metal production through aluminium beneficiation to meet rising industrial demand. Aluminium is essential in various sectors, including aerospace en...Published: 16 Jun 2024 at 09:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warned over Starlink dithering
EXPERTS have cautioned the Zimbabwean government against impeding technological advancement as that will be akin to trying to stop the wind or hold something with greased hands.The warning com...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:58hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Starlink scandal exposes ZBC rot
One of the reasons former Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer Adelaide Chikurungu was pushed out was because she allegedly acquired a Starlink internet kit for the state br...Published: 03 Mar 2024 at 08:50hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa fired Mutsvangwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa fired his outspoken political ally Christopher Mutsvangwa as Minister of Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Affairs with immediate effect for various reasons, but the tri...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 18:34hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's US$5 million spending binge
FOR Wicknell Chivayo, money seems to grow on trees.Never the one to be shy to ostentatiously display his wealth, Chivayo, who likes to call himself Sir Wicknell, has of late been on an unrelen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean could allow China's G60 Starlink
The Zimbabwean government is exploring various internet service providers beyond SpaceX's Starlink, including China's G60 Starlink, for potential operation within the country. Calls have intensified, ...Published: 03 Jan 2024 at 20:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
What Happened with Debris from Chinese Rocket Booster Falling Back to Earth?
China faced a lot of criticism because it allowed more than one rocket booster to fall to Earth uncontrollably. Even NASA accused space operators in Berlin of not meeting responsible standards on spac...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 12:17hrs | 13 | by Staff Reporter
Rostec, Zimbabwe helicopter deal in crosshairs of US sanctions
ZIMBABWE, which is under United States sanctions, has received 18 helicopters from a sanctioned Russian state entity, Rostec, for air medical services, law enforcement, as well as search-and-rescue op...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals
From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral v...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
USA wants South Africa to cancel all future military exercises with China and Russia
The House of Representatives in the United States of America is pushing for a review of relations with South Africa over its hosting of military exercises with China and Russia.The joint marit...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 18:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe satellite launch 'defies all the odds'
Zimbabwe sent its first satellite into orbit on Monday, part of the Joint Global Multi-Nation Birds Project-5 (BIRDS-5) sponsored by Japan.The small satellite, which Zimbabwe hopes will help i...Published: 08 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's historic satellite launch today
Zimbabwe will today join the league of nations that have launched satellites into space when it sends its first satellite, ZimSat-1, into orbit after developing it through the BIRDS project.Th...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's precision-strike aircraft given Shona name 'Mwari'
The Paramount Group has produced and sold the first military aircraft made in South Africa since the 1980s when state-owned arms maker Denel SOC Ltd. unveiled the Rooivalk, or red falcon, attack helic...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Khumbula reaches for aerospace dreams in the US
Born in a maize field in Zimbabwe, Samuel Khumbula never dreamed he would come to the United States. The son of the seventh wife of a polygamous patriarch, he grew up poor, sleeping on the ground in a...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:07hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to launch satellite next month
Zimbabwe is set to launch its first satellite into orbit next month in a major milestone expected to enhance mineral exploration, monitoring of environmental hazards and droughts, mapping human settle...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:05hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
UFO spotted in Gwanda
AN unidentified flying object (UFO) was sighted in Gwanda rural and urban on 20 January, B-Metro reported.An UFO is a mysterious object seen in the sky for which no orthodox scientific explana...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Let's go Brandon' man gets threats
The Oregon father who added "Let's go Brandon" at the end of a live-streamed Christmas Eve phone conversation with Joe Biden said he is now being "attacked" for "utilizing freedom of speech." He claim...Published: 26 Dec 2021 at 16:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Let's go, Brandon': Caller pranks Biden at White House event
A caller has pranked US President Joe Biden by dropping an anti-Biden taunt into their chat during a White House Christmas event.Mr Biden and First Lady Jill Biden were hosting the festive cal...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
5 Zimbabwean entrepreneurs win big in AfCFTA Caravan Prize
The AfCFTA Secretariat rewarded winners of the AfCFTA Caravan Prize with five young Zimbabwean entrepreneurs joining a list of finalists and seme-finalists of enterprising entrepreneurs with potential...Published: 06 Nov 2021 at 06:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
British spaceports under development
Two new British spaceports could be the catalyst to making Britain Europe's newest space superpower. If they can overcome planning challenges, the value to the UK's economy could be hard to measure....Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 20:37hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
Main Characteristics of The Smallest СubeSat Cameras
CubeSat cameras are an essential part of small-sized satellites today. Let's discuss some of their characteristics. We delve right into details to help you understand...Published: 19 Apr 2021 at 10:40hrs | 19 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa shops for military technology, hardware in Belarus
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to Belarus last year, which was highly publicised as a strategic state visit to seal deals worth US$350 million spanning across various productive sectors of the e...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
What do you need to become a welder?
Do you like creating, designing, and fixing stuff? If you are good with your hands, welding could be the career you are looking for. One of the best things about welding as a profession is that it doe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 21:05hrs | 8 | by Staff Writer
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 | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-born whiz-kid wants to send rockets to space
After coming tops in the essay category at this year's DStv Eutelsat Star Awards last month, Zimbabwe-born whiz-kid Tanaka Chonyera is ready to take the first steps towards achieving great feats in th...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Boeing sucked into Zimbabwe Airways saga
The world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of aircraft and other equipment - Boeing - has been sucked into the Zimbabwe Airways saga where the son-in-law of former president Robert...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Kazakhstan firms keen on Zimbabwe investment
Over 50 Kazakhstan companies have expressed interest in partnering Zimbabwean counterparts in various business and economic development spheres.The companies' representatives met President Mna...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 16:44hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt goes shopping for aircraft
GOVERNMENT has dispatched five aviation experts to Texas, the United States of America, where they are understood to be inspecting three Embraer E145 aircraft purchased by national airliner, Air Zimba...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga owns the mystery supercar
FLAMBOYANT businessman, Frank Buyanga is the owner of the 'mysterious' $2 million supercar delivered to Zimbabwe a month ago.Ever since its arrival there has been plenty of speculation over it...Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 22:21hrs | 7 | 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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Airbus, Bosch eye Zimbabwe
A high-profile German business delegation including senior executives from the world's largest automotive supplier Robert Bosch and global aerospace giant Airbus, was in the county this week to explor...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 06:34hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe set to get new planes
THE Ministry of Transport and Infrastructural Development plans to buy three Embraer ERJ145 aircraft for Air Zimbabwe at a cost of US$6 million and lease two other similar aircraft which will ply rout...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airways close to securing 6 jets
ZIMBABWE AIRWAYS - the new debt-free Phoenix rising out of the ashes of Air Zimbabwe - is in advanced talks with a Brazilian company to lease five aircraft to service underserved regional routes, it h...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 07:55hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Airbus seeks new business with Air Zimbabwe
Europe's largest aerospace group Airbus representatives are currently in the country to negotiate new business deals with Air Zimbabwe. Transport minister Joram Gumbo yesterday confirmed t...Published: 05 Aug 2016 at 11:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia $34 million deal
THE Russian government has pledged a $34 million partnership with the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) with the deal set for finalisation in Harare tomorrow.Saleh Abbas, the commercial director of ...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Pamela Shumba
North Korea launches long-range rocket
North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Sunday carrying what it called a satellite, but its neighbors and the United States denounced the launch as a missile test, conducted in defiance of U.N. s...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 17:36hrs | | by Reuters
Mnangagwa hires private jet to Dubai, Grace blocks him from engaging Mugabe privately
FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe blocked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa from having private talks with her husband in Dubai over the festive season.Mnangagwa was widely believed to be the front-runn...Published: 15 Jan 2016 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff Reporter
All-wheel drive F-Type claws its way into sub-Sahara Africa
- Torque on demand all-wheel drive (AWD) extends the F-TYPE's performance and dynamic capability on all road surfaces and in all conditions - In AWD for...Published: 28 Jul 2015 at 20:59hrs | 1 | by Jaguar Land Rover sub-Sahara Africa
Zimbabwe Diaspora Vote sacrificed for business by Britain and the EU
Despite admitting that Zimbabwe remains a country of concern, the UK has arguably sacrificed Zimbabwe's Diaspora Vote for business by sponsoring the first official trade delegation to Zimbabwe at ...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 08:29hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Air Zimbabwe to start offering daily flights
CASH-STRAPPED national carrier, Air Zimbabwe will in the next two weeks start offering daily flights to Johannesburg, Harare and Bulawayo when the servicing of one of its two A320 airbuses and an MA60...Published: 20 Mar 2013 at 22:12hrs | | by Business Reporter
Unmanned Russian rocket fails to reach target
Russia's federal space agency says an unmanned rocket and its payload of two communications satellites failed to reach orbit, the latest in a series of failures that has dogged Moscow's space program....Published: 07 Aug 2012 at 04:34hrs | | by AP
Chinese astronauts enter space orbiter for first time
Three Chinese astronauts floated into the cabin of an orbiting module Monday afternoon, becoming the first group of Chinese to enter an orbiter in space.Jing Haipeng, followed by Liu Wang and ...Published: 18 Jun 2012 at 21:44hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Russian plane crash in Indonesia kills all people on board
A rescue team found no survivors but several bodies on Thursday when it arrived at the wreckage of a Russian plane that crashed into an Indonesian mountain during an exhibition flight with 45 people...Published: 10 May 2012 at 08:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Another flying car takes off
THE HAGUE, Holland - We've just told you about a US company testing its new street-legal plane called the Transition. Now a Dutch company hopes to get its share of airspace with a new model designed ...Published: 05 Apr 2012 at 11:35hrs | | by AFP
African intellectuals should be jailed
Africa, the lowliest of the continents is still nocturnal. It is in this disposition that it emerges a superpower, greater than the United States, Britain, and China combined. In the night, when the w...Published: 04 Apr 2012 at 04:59hrs | | by Field Ruwe
'Marijuana plane' invades President Barack Obama's airspace
A small plane which violated US presidential airspace in Los Angeles was found carrying 18kg of marijuana.The Cessna plane was intercepted by two F-16 fighter jets after it strayed into restri...Published: 17 Feb 2012 at 05:35hrs | | by -
United Kingdom (UK) Scholarships
Overseas Student Scholarship, University of Abertay Dundee, UKOverseas S...Published: 31 Jan 2012 at 06:17hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Iran shows footage of captured US drone, brought down by its electronic warfare unit
TEHRAN — Iran made a formal protest on Thursday over a US drone entering "deep" into its eastern airspace last week, and aired footage of what appeared to be the downed aircraft on s...Published: 08 Dec 2011 at 18:12hrs | | by AFP
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