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400 delegates jet into Zimbabwe for diamond Indaba
Approximately 400 delegates hailing from 59 countries, including Zimbabwe, are set to gather in Victoria Falls next week for the Kimberley Process Certification Scheme (KPCS) summit. The focus of thes...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's biggest diamond miner shifts sales to Dubai auctions
ZIMBABWE'S biggest diamond producer has shifted almost all of its sales to Dubai, targeting cutters, polishers and traders and eliminating middlemen.Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co. has aucti...Published: 22 Oct 2023 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russian investor prospects for gold, diamonds in Tsholotsho
The Russian conglomerate and the world's leading diamond producer, Alrosa Mining, have awarded a contract to Titan Drilling International for exploration operations focused on gold and diamonds in Tsh...Published: 21 Sep 2023 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to dump US dollar
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the country is agreeable to the use of alternative forms of payment for various transactions as opposed to the sole use of the United States dollar.Yesterday durin...Published: 28 Jul 2023 at 06:44hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Russian mining giant heads to Zimbabwe
THE world's largest diamond producer Alrosa of Russia will next week be in Zimbabwe to start work on mining operations with 50 more companies from the Euroasian nation targeting various sectors....Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Even Mnangagwa wants 'whites' to develop Zimbabwe!
A few days ago, I had a very interesting debate with a ZANU PF sympathizer - who was adamant that Zimbabwe was going in the right direction under President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa.He based...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 21:50hrs | 10 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to scale up diamond cutting, polishing industry
MINES and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has said the country is targeting seven million carats this year as the country plans to scale up the diamond cutting and polishing industry....Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe confident of producing 6m carats next year
Zimbabwe is confident it will produce six million carats and generate US$1 billion from the diamond industry next year in line with set targets, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando ...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe miners happy with Govt proposal to pay royalties in gold, diamonds, platinum
Zimbabwe's miners do not expect any significant impact from the government's proposal to collect royalties in the form of refined minerals, the country's Chamber of Mines said on Monday.Presid...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russians discover 22 new diamond deposits in Zimbabwe
Russian miner Alrosa PSJC has discovered 22 new diamond deposits in Zimbabwe, according to the southern African nation's president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.Alrosa will only be allowed to work on tw...Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe must take advantage of Russia trade ties'
OUTGOING Zimbabwean ambassador to Russia, retired Brigadier-General Nicholas Mike Sango has bemoaned the slow uptake of trade opportunities between the two countries despite the potential of the Russi...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia optimistic on Zimbabwe investments despite war
RUSSIA is bullish about its investment prospects in Zimbabwe despite the current economic restrictions triggered by the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine by Russia. The Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mining sector rakes in US$5,3 billion
Zimbabwe generated US$5,3 billion from mineral exports last year, half the US$12 billion mining industry target set for next year with output rising and new mines opening or re-opening, Mines and Mini...Published: 24 Mar 2022 at 05:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ukraine war hits Russia-Zimbabwe deals
RUSSIAN investments in Zimbabwe running into billions of United States dollars are under threat as the US and the European Union (EU) gang up in imposing restrictive sanctions on the Kremlin, its fina...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's choice of vaccines under scrutiny
ZIMBABWE'S vaccination programme has come under scrutiny amid questions as to why Treasury purchased expensive vaccines whilst cheaper ones with better efficacy were on the market.The NewsHawk...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe happy to assume World Kimberley Process post
Zimbabwe says it is greatly honoured to have been elected vice chair for the World Kimberley Process for 2022, at a time when local diamond production is scaling new records.The election was d...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:51hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Govt exposed over COVID-19 vaccines
MEMBERS of the public who were vaccinated with the first jab of the Indian Covaxin COVID-19 jab and failed to get the second dose might be forced to restart the vaccination exercise using Chinese Sino...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Russian fertiliser producer opens base in Zimbabwe
UNITED Fertiliser Company Limited (UFCL), a Russian firm with a global footprint, has opened a branch in Zimbabwe.The latest development comes at a time when the Government, under the Second R...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's fake mega-deals raised false hopes
IN the run-up to the 30 July 2018 elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa repeatedly claimed that Zimbabwe had attracted investment commitments amounting to over US$16 billion since he took over power...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WHO ranks Zimbabwe high in vaccine procurement
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) have rated Zimbabwe among the best countries in the world when it comes to buying and acquiring supplies of Covid-19 ...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints on indaba adjustments
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that Zanu-PF might have to review the holding of the party's Annual People's Conference owing to a spike in Covid-19 infections and fatalities. Yesterday, ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Suffocating enablers of Zimbabwe's vision is the new plot
When the European Union and its big brother, the US, imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, the central object as the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, Chester Crocker put it, was to m...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 13 | by Tafara Shumba
25 000 more doses arrive from Russia
ZIMBABWE has received 25 000 doses of the Russian Covid-19 vaccine Sputnik V donated by diamond miner Alrosa Group. Speaking while receiving the vaccines yesterday, Deputy Minister of Health and Child...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 million more vaccine jabs arrive today in Zimbabwe
The largest single Covid-19 vaccine order, two million doses, arrives today to ensure that the national vaccination programme can be quickly accelerated as the country enforces a lockdown tightening t...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 11:10hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
No jab, no COVID-19 allowance, govt tells frontline workers
GOVERNMENT has threatened to withhold CoVID-19 insurance payouts to its frontline workers who are not vaccinated before July 14.Last year, government said it would take care of civil servants ...Published: 30 Jun 2021 at 17:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Travel agent shunts foreigners to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 jabs
A SOUTH AFRICAN travel agent is reportedly making a killing by bringing South Africans to Zimbabwe for COVID-19 vaccination in a scheme that involves some government officials and a local private hosp...Published: 29 Jun 2021 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
500k doses for Covid-19 hotspots
Vaccinations are being stepped up in identified Covid-19 hotspots, now that 500 000 more doses arrived on Saturday with another 2 million expected at the end of this week, to help break the chains of ...Published: 28 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US$70 million war chest for Covid-19 vaccines
Government is set to utilise the US$70 million left in its coffers from the US$100 million set aside by Treasury for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines as the fight against the pandemic intensifies in ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
500,000 Sinopharm doses expected
The latest order of 500 000 doses of Sinopharm vaccines is now expected to arrive on Saturday, taking total deliveries of bought and donated vaccines to 2,26 million doses with more commercial orders ...Published: 22 Jun 2021 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
More Sinopharm jabs for Zimbabwe
THE National Covid-19 Vaccination Programme will receive a major boost this week when the country takes delivery of a new batch of 500 000 vaccine doses procured by the Government from Chinese pharmac...Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa receives Russia's Sputnik V
President Mnangagwa has received a consignment of 25 000 doses of the Russian manufactured vaccine - Sputnik V - donated by diamond mining giant, the Alrosa Group, to boost the country's battle agains...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 18:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe records 17 Covid-19 deaths in 3 days
Zimbabwe has recorded 17 Covid-19 deaths in the last three days, while 111 new cases were reported yesterday.All the cases were local transmissions.Five deaths were reported yesterday and ...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
3rd wave could overwhelm Africa, claims WHO
THE third wave of COVID-19 infections could potentially be devastating for Africa at a time when the continent is experiencing a severe shortage of vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has wa...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
25 000 Sputnik V jabs boost for vaccination
Zimbabwe's battle against Covid-19 got a boost yesterday after the country took delivery of the first consignment of 25 000 doses of the Russian manufactured vaccine — Sputnik V — donated by a dia...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's biggest diamond miner sees output rising 30% in 2021
THE biggest diamond miner in Zimbabwe said it will be able to increase production of rough gems by about 30% to 3 million carats this year thanks to improved mining methods.Zimbabwe Consolidat...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 18:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Russia's Alrosa acquires more diamond prospecting grants in Zimbabwe
ALROSA, the world's largest producer of rough diamonds, has increased the number of prospecting grants it holds in Zimbabwe and remains optimistic about the potential of the country's diamond industry...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe invites bids for venture capital partner to set up diamond processor
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) is offering a venture capital partnership to bidders willing to set up a diamond processing company.MMCZ plans to invest in a company that...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's first batch of Covid-19 vaccines expected Monday
Government has dismissed as false and mischievous claims that it does not know which Covid-19 vaccine it should import, saying Zimbabwe will receive its first batch of 800 000 jabs from China on Monda...Published: 11 Feb 2021 at 06:14hrs | 40 | by Staff reporter
Russian diamond giant to donate Covid-19 vaccines to Zimbabwe
Russian diamond producer Alrosa PJSC will buy and donate the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines to Angola and Zimbabwe to help those nations' inoculation programs, Chief Executive Officer Sergey Ivanov sa...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 18:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red lights flashing over Russian deals
RUSSIA is clearly keen to boost its presence in Africa. "Africa is one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy," declared Russian deputy foreign affairs minister Mikhail Bogdanov in a meeting of t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Type 2 diamonds to anchor Zimbabwe's US$12 billion industry
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it would anchor its US$12 billion mining industry economy on a rare and more expensive type two diamond set to be mined in its Malipati Diamond Projects in Matabeleland South...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putin sends special message to Mnangagwa
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to President Mnangagwa with the aim of entrenching existing excellent bilateral relations and establishing new economic interchange between the two ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Israel talks Zimbabwe up over diamonds
THE Israeli government is in talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to directly buy Zimbabwean diamonds as relations between the two countries continue to warm up after several years...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe turns to nuclear enrichment, with help from Russia
TROUBLED by a recurring electricity crisis, Zimbabwe agreed terms with Russia to engage in uranium exploration and enrichment in a bid to begin generation, Foreign Minister Sibusiso Moyo revealed this...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa admin scores high on investment drive
THE Government's decision to rescind indigenisation laws which made the country unpleasant to foreign direct investment has seen the drive to attract investment registering significant gains, Presiden...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jealously guard and defend our peace'
Address by his Excellency President Mnangagwa marking his first elective year in office, 30th July 2019. This month marks one year since our watershed d...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 08:49hrs | | by President Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe army hails Russia ties
Commander Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has hailed the historic cordial relations that exist between Zimbabwe and Russia which date back to the days of the liberation struggle...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells diasporans to invest back home
ZIMBABWEANS living in the diaspora have a role to play in rebuilding the country's economy, President Mnangagwa has said. The President said it was every Zimbabwean's responsibility to contrib...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 14 | by Itai Mushekwe
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