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Online investment scam backfires for EcoCash agents
An attempt to make quick profits through an online investment scheme ended disastrously for two Mutare women who were convicted of fraud after misusing their employer's US$1,500. The crime came to lig...Published: 25 Jun 2025 at 12:34hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
The 'torn' money-buying brigade: A hustle for survival in Zimbabwe
For many in Zimbabwe, especially those navigating the streets of Harare, torn or worn-out money has become more than just a nuisance - it's an opportunity for survival. One such individual, 30-year-ol...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:05hrs | 390 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lifts ban on holiday lessons
The Zimbabwean government has lifted the ban on holiday classes for examination classes, while maintaining the ban for other pupils to ensure they rest during holidays. Holiday lessons for examination...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:34hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Starlink rattles Zimbabwe internet service providers
The era of hanging emails, failed file downloads, and unstable internet will soon be a thing of the past if Starlink's global satellite internet service is rolled out in Zimbabwe. Elon Musk's Starlink...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo solar tile producer eyes Sadc market
A BULAWAYO entrepreneur who produces solar roof tiles and kitchen countertops from plastic waste is eager to penetrate the Southern regional market and help promote intra-regional trade.Solar ...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Wadyajena hits back at Musarara
GOKWE Nembudziya legislator Mayor Wadyajena has hit back at Grain Millers Association (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara who accused the lawmaker of bullying him out of a grain transportation deal....Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:07hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's R62m farmgate scandal puts spotlight on David Mabuza
The $4 million (about R62m) farmgate scandal, which threatens to cut short President Cyril Ramaphosa's presidency, has thrust his deputy David Mabuza into the spotlight as a possible replacement....Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 20:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
No more bureacracy on Zimbabwe investments
LOCAL and international investors are free to tap into any business opportunity in Zimbabwe as there are no more bureacratic bottlenecks in terms doing business, Transport and Infrastructural Developm...Published: 07 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Popular 2021 business ideas categorised
Becoming an entrepreneur and running one's own business is regarded as extremely desirable by many - over 62% of people believe it's a good career. Unfortunately, enthusiasm for the career is not the ...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 12:49hrs | 27 | by Staff Writer
NetOne taps into online digital entertainment
MOBILE telecommunications giant, NetOne, has unveiled plans to expand business by tapping into opportunities from online digital entertainment products. The State-owned entity says it is ready...Published: 06 May 2021 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MDC members blast Zanu PF MP for hijacking Zupco
MDC officials have blasted Mazowe North legislator Campion Mugweni for allegedly hijacking the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) bus that was allocated to Mvurwi, for his publicity-seeki...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 12:46hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Undocumented migrants bolster indigenous truck owners' businesses
THE refusal by bigger companies like Botswana Couriers, Sprint Couriers, Skynet Couriers, UPS, TNT Express and FedEx to accept parcels from individuals without identity documents has created an opport...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Young agri-entrepreneur shines in rural Zimbabwe
While agriculture forms an integral part of Zimbabwe's economy, many young people still think of it as back-breaking labour that offers little economic benefit.However, things are slowly chang...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to open Harare agric show
President Mnangagwa, who is the Zimbabwe Agricultural Society patron, will today officially open the 109th edition of the renamed Zimbabwe Agricultural Show at the Exhibition Park in Harare. T...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt readies for introduction of electric cars
THE Government is putting in place modalities to introduce electric cars in the country as a stop gap measure aimed at reducing over reliance on traditional fuel in powering automobiles, a Cabinet Min...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:38hrs | 63 | by Staff Reporter
Young entrepreneurs urged to actively participate in energy sector
Zimbabwe is faced with a high unemployment rate which has seen a majority of young people resort to entrepreneurship. However most young people are shying away from the Energy sector and space....Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 10:05hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe economy looking positive but lacks stability, says Robertson
ECONOMIST John Robertson says Zimbabwe's economic situation is beginning to look promising following the central bank's decision to liberalise the foreign exchange market last month.Speaking a...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 05:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bio-fuel projects remain redundant
The long fuel queues being experienced across the country coupled with shortages of critical energy needs like electricity indicate mammoth challenges facing Zimbabwe, despite the abundance of alterna...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'ZUPCO buses brought to destroy Bulawayo'
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has alleged that the recently introduced Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) buses in Bulawayo are a ploy by ZANU PF to takeover business from in...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 10:34hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
You need these qualities to be a successful cleaning franchise holder
Both residential and commercial establishments need cleaning services. These places need maintenance, and cleaning takes time. Homeowners and business managers often outsource the work to a cleaning c...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 10:58hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Digitisation project gathers momentum
THE $173 million digitisation programme that is expected to help improve the quality of the country's broadcasting services is now 35 percent complete and is anticipated to be over by 2021, an officia...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
News farmers are lazy, says Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial vice chairperson, Ailes Baloyi has savaged resettled farmers in the district for just sitting idle on the land without producing anything of value.Speaking during t...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 14:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa never ceases to shame the devil
Strive Masiyiwa, the Econet Wireless founder, has always been his own man.With all his wealth, Masiyiwa does not get ahead of himself. His public persona is that of gentility — that social s...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:12hrs | 3 | by Conway Tutani
Mnangagwa lauded for not forcing people to rally
In A development that marked a clear departure from former president Robert Mugabe-era tactics, Zanu-PF turned a corner by hosting President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rally at Sakubva Stadium on Saturday w...Published: 24 May 2018 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
'ZITF not a platform for merrymaking'
BULAWAYO mayor Martin Moyo has called on business executives to stop viewing the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) as a platform for merrymaking, but a unique gathering to seal sustainable busi...Published: 26 Apr 2018 at 08:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe will go down in history an iconic figure of principle
OUR past is rich in history; the sacred sacrifices made by the founding fathers of this nation alongside many sons and daughters who perished for our freedom can never be overlooked.From the e...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
Latest pyramid scheme to hit Bulawayo
On Saturday morning, a horde of well-dressed young men and women turned their backs on the glass doors of a three-star city hotel in disappointment.The man who they had dressed up for had not ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Forex trader vanishes with investors’ profits
IF it's too good to be true, simply walk away.That's advice one can get from a person that has been swindled off their money in "get rich quick" schemes. Probably about 25 people from Bulawayo...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 09:25hrs | 465 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans, we are learned but not learning
Anyone who is honesty will realize that traction for freeing Zimbabwe from inter conflicts based on greedy barely show signs of victory before too many people, media titled prominent, and with history...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
$135m for Harare hotel
BELGIAN-American hotel group Carlson Rezidor, which is presently on an aggressive expansion drive buoyed by its imminent takeover by Chinese investors, is set to shell out more than US$135 million for...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:01hrs | 2 | by Darlington Musarurwa and Africa Moyo
Bulawayo youth curves a niche in digital marketing
WHEN Marshall Malaba opened Facebook and Twitter accounts a few years ago, he had little understanding of how these platforms would shape his professional destiny.With the increase in social m...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:38hrs | 1 | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwe's impending hunger - A clear example of Mugabe's dereliction of duty
"True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the 'rejects of life', to extend their trembling ha...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 09:22hrs | | by Vince Musewe - PDP Secretary for Finance and Economic Affairs
1ns and 2s with DJ-Sticha - What They Won't Tell You In This Music Industry Of Ours
Ukufunda akupheli kuphel' iskole,now there are some things in life ozozifunda ngendlela ekuhambeni,noma bekufundisa abantu kodwa kukhona ozokufunda ngokwenz' ama mistakes noma ozofunda ngoba ubone iph...Published: 13 Jan 2016 at 14:23hrs | | by DJ-Sticha
Girl, 17, married for a goat and $50
An elderly Jotsholo couple married off their 17 year old grand-daughter for a goat and $50 to a 74 year old man.The couple are aged 80 and 72.They claim to have seen a business opp...Published: 11 Dec 2015 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prostitution in rural communities
PROSTITUTION has never been so rife in rural communities but wait until you get just after Runde River along the busy Masvingo- Beitbridge highway at a thriving business centre called Lundi. It has fi...Published: 19 Jul 2015 at 11:32hrs | 2 | by Vincent Gono
Vital task for the next Innovative President of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's next President HAS TO BE HIGHLY INNOVATIVE!!! We have lost TIME since Independence because our monotonous leadership was preoccupied with heroism rather than productivity. We took 34 ye...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 16:29hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zimbabwe spends $1m on old tyres
Zimbabwe has imported second hand tyres worth more than $1 million during the past year. National Tyre Services chief operating officer Tafadzwa Choto said between January 2012 and August ...Published: 29 Sep 2014 at 07:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean businessman, Tapfuma Nzara, creating a valuable lifestyle brand in SA
Musician and businessman, Tapfuma Nzara, has come a long way and achieved a lot in and outside his music career.Tapfuma was born in Zimbabwe and his father is a former DJ and club owner an...Published: 21 Aug 2014 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Janine Dube, www.onevybe.com
Two wheelers, a Sustainable Transport Alternative
Only those who have never been affected by the consequences of the chaotic operations of commuter omnibuses can fight from their corner. My horrific experience with the commuter omnibus recently g...Published: 12 Jun 2014 at 11:02hrs | 1 | by Tafara Shumba
WorldVentures Broadens Travel Experiences to Australia and Serbia Simultaneously
WorldVentures™ has presence in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Kenya PLANO - WorldVentures™, the leading international direct seller ...Published: 03 Jun 2014 at 10:23hrs | | by APO
Highlanders unveils 2014 kit
GIANT global sports apparel manufacturers Adidas yesterday unveiled the Highlanders Football Club kit for the 2014 season in Bulawayo.Speaking at the presentation ceremony, South Africa-based...Published: 19 Mar 2014 at 10:55hrs | | by Ricky Zililo
'Now is the time to invest in Zimbabwe'
Last week, Mr James Benoit of AfrAsia spoke to Mauritius magazine on whether Mauritius is getting to know Africa better? Is China good for Africa? How can Mauritius b...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 03:31hrs | 1 | by Mauritius magazine
Adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos
The import of the topic before us must be understood. We are discussing the importance and impact of identifying, designing and adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos that will all...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by DPM Prof Arthur Mutambara
I am not a drug trafficker but a victim of the human-trafficking - SA drug mule tells her story
The South African woman, Nolubabalo Nobandla who was recently sentenced to 15 years in jail in a Thailand prison for trying to smuggle 600 grams of cocaine hidden in her dreadlocks in December ...Published: 22 Jun 2012 at 09:21hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
China cashes in on British royal wedding
Chinese jewellery factory owner Zhou Mingwang sums up the global appeal of this week's British royal wedding with one line: "It's a love story."But, he adds with a sly smile, the much-ballyhoo...Published: 26 Apr 2011 at 06:28hrs | 2 | by Byo24News
MTN wants to buy into Netone
Zimbabwe's state-owned mobile operator NetOne is in talks with South Africa's Sifiso Dabengwa led MTN and other African mob...Published: 09 Mar 2011 at 12:56hrs | 1 | by Byo24NEWS
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