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CSO hails Bikita minerals beneficiation to communities
BIKITA - President Emmerson Mnangagwa commissioned petalite and spodumene processing plants at Bikita Minerals that are valued at US$ 300 million on November 29 2023.The giant processing plant...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 09:09hrs | 332 | by Stephen Jakes
When children give birth to children!
There could have never been a more heartbreaking and disturbing sight.I had gone to the local clinic in my small town of Redcliff for a scheduled medical review.This is an ordinary rou...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 11:11hrs | 593 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's Cross Border traders commend price stability measures
The Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association (ZCBTA) has commended authorities for implementing comprehensive measures that have contributed to price stability. The recognition follows the maintenanc...Published: 23 Nov 2023 at 05:45hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco smuggling between Zimbabwe - SA now security threat
SOUTH Africa is drowning in illicit cigarette smuggling which has seen the neighbouring country losing at least R50 million (US$2.6 million) daily in potential revenue from well-coordinated syndicates...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:49hrs | 593 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa mixes politics with religion
Tony Blair's press secretary Alastair Campbell, when the former British Prime Minister was asked about his faith, famously retorted that "we don't do God," illustrating the perceived perils of mixing ...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 22:27hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's fuel cartels under fire
Fuel is then offloaded in Zimbabwe before trucks are filled with water and dispatched to cross the borders again.Treasury has launched a series of investigations aimed at fishing out fuel indu...Published: 14 Jul 2023 at 18:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Biti lays into Mnangagwa, Tagwirei
SENTRY and Open Secrets exposé has confirmed that Zimbabwe has become a mafia state, run and controlled by cartels and syndicates, Former Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said.In a publicised...Published: 08 Jul 2023 at 08:29hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police urged to maintain peace throughout elections period
Police must maintain the highest degree of vigilance to guarantee maintenance of law and order as well as the protection of life and property before, during and after the forthcoming harmonised genera...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Maintain peace throughout elections period'
Police must maintain the highest degree of vigilance to guarantee maintenance of law and order as well as the protection of life and property before, during and after the forthcoming harmonised genera...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will the next ZANU PF leader call Mnangagwa a 'dimwit'?
The ruling ZANU PF is always full of drama, which never ceases to amaze, if not bemuse.So, after current President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's monumental failure to resuscitate the country's...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 13:05hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Aspiring Zanu-PF MP leads invasion of sacred mountain
A CARTEL in Mberengwa led by Zanu-PF aspiring MP for the constituency and gold baron Tinashe "Goga" Shumba has angered the community by invading Janasi Mountain, which is considered sacred, in search ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 18:38hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Youth conscientization critical in liberating Zimbabwe!
As youth in Zimbabwe mark the 'Day of the African Child', it is clear that today's generation lacks conscientization on why the country is still not free. A few days ago, I penned an article, ...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 13:45hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mr. President, you can't make the nation suffer simply because of your ego!
Pride comes before a fall! When I had the inspiration for this article, a certain scenario played out in my mind.I imagined an egoistical father - who was adamant that every 'respectab...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 07:23hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Kembo Mohadi slams propaganda cartels
ZANU- PF Second Secretary, Kembo Mohadi has slammed Western media and propaganda cartels using social media for causing unwarranted panic among citizens through their ill-conceived messaging on price ...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Precious minerals smuggled through Zimbabwe porous borders
ZIMBABWE is losing precious minerals through porous borders, with security forces and border officials manning the entry points seriously incapacitated to plug illicit flows, a report by the Parliamen...Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:06hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will always suffer with a govt perpetually crying over sanctions!
As Zimbabweans continue to suffer through unmitigated poverty, under the ZANU PF regime, for the past two decades - do they honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel?Surely, every time I...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:06hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If anyone has to withdraw from Zim elections then it should be Mnangagwa!
So, political commenter Jonathan Moyo believes that, for the good of the Cowdary Park (Bulawayo) constituency, possible opposition CCC candidate Thokozani Khupe should withdraw her bid, and allow the ...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 13:57hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
When the devil has colonised the pulpit
The ever-known spirit and will to excell in academic studies has left most school children, both at primary and secondary levels. The 'tiger' in them to succeed has never shown its head save f...Published: 16 May 2023 at 17:35hrs | 9 | by TT Murisa
If Mnangagwa had a shop how much would he sell a loaf of bread?
It is really sickening whenever I hear senior government and ruling ZANU PF party officials always choosing to fault business every time prices of basic commodities shoot up. Over this past we...Published: 15 May 2023 at 11:19hrs | 11 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa backtracks on 'looting' law
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has scrapped the controversial law that sought to hide details of some procurement processes from the public after a public outcry, saying its gazetting was a fraud,...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:33hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
UK flags Zimbabwe over soaring corruption
LORD Robin Goldsmith, the United Kingdom's minister for Overseas Territories, Commonwealth, Energy, Climate and Environment at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, has told the British Pa...Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:07hrs | | 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 | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will wake up after elections…well, hopefully!
Yesterday, during a relative's burial, I had a wonderful opportunity to mix and mingle with friends, family, neighbors and people from all walks of life. In these interactions - especially wit...Published: 29 Apr 2023 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa expands empire in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa, members of the First Family and his close allies, who include former State Security minister Owen Ncube, have amassed significant wealth in the form of immovable property...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:45hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'I'm working for investor-friendly environment" insist Mnangagwa. Watch again Al Jazeera Gold Mafia. I rest my case!
The spirit is willing, but the intellect is weak! "Zimbabwe is open for business!" is the most enduring thing President Emmerson Mnangagwa has ever said since taking over from the late Robert ...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:43hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Obama was 'fundraising phenomenon' but nothing compared to Mnangagwa's US$ 240 startup, thanks to Gold Mafia
When elections costs in an impoverished nation like Zimbabwe are comparable and even exceed those in a very rich nation like United States of America; you can be sure of one thing the Zimbabwe electio...Published: 11 Apr 2023 at 09:51hrs | 5 | by Wilbert Mukori
CCC demand heads to be 'chopped'
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) has called on the government to act on institutions and individuals implicated in the Al Jazeera documentary demanding heads to be 'chopped'.This comes as t...Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 07:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Convicted gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan claims Mnangagwa is his partner
Convicted gold smuggler Ewan Macmillan has told Al Jazeera that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is his business partner, according to bombshell new revelations.Macmillan made the sensational clai...Published: 29 Mar 2023 at 06:59hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera exposé: Mnangagwa should step down for enabling corruption
A CROSS-SECTION of Zimbabweans say they feel gutted after watching the first of a four-part Al Jazeera exposé on money-laundering and gold smuggling activities implicating President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 08:16hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe never accounted billions to build Blue Roof, talents he received and wasted; instead blamed British for everything
Let me say from the on-set that white colonial exploitation of Africa has a lot to answer for why the continent is in the economic and political mess it is today. But this is not say the whites are so...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 14:11hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
What's the point of 'performance contracts' when the regime always blames sanctions for its failures?
How do you measure a cabinet minister's performance over a particular period?How does one judge whether a local government CEO (chief executive officer) has done a good or terrible job?...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 10:16hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Bulawayo to crackdown on Vendors4ED
BULAWAYO councillors have resolved to launch a crackdown on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating illegally in the second-largest city under the moniker Vendors for ED.The gro...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 19:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wrote to Mnangagwa
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says he has written several times to President Emmerson Mnangagwa importuning the state leader to abandon his vindictive treatment of the oppo...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 19:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Did the army really removed criminals who were surrounding Robert Mugabe?
In light of Aljazeera revelations, the new dispensation has been found at an uncomprising position and with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe giving long angry statements exposing the whole Zanu PF governm...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
'Zimbabwe journalists can use expired Press cards'
POLICE yesterday said journalists would be allowed to use their expired 2022 Press cards until further notice.This was revealed by national police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyat...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 05:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Minister Chitando stranded as Qatar Airways plane grounded in Zambia
Dozens of travellers from Harare including Zimbabwe's mines minister Winston Chitando were left stranded in Lusaka, Zambia, on Sunday night after a Qatar Airways plane developed a technical fault....Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 17:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZACC eagerly await graft exposé
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) says it is eagerly awaiting the pending premiere of a documentary by Qatar international news network, Al Jazeera that will purportedly expose massive co...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Vendors4ED fuel lawlessness
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's shadowy group operating under the banner Vendors For ED is on a collision course with Bulawayo City Council after it violated city by-laws by establishing unsanctioned v...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 13:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC officers, vendors hurt in dawn market raid
BULAWAYO City Council fired rubber bullets and used a fire engine to spray vendors with water after launching an operation to clear 5th Avenue of illegal activities in the early hours of yesterday, a ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:03hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Modern democracy now outdated and in urgent need of reformation!
I am sure every single one of us has some particular obsessions or quirks in life that we appear constantly focused on - possibly, taking precedence over other matters that may also be in our lives....Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 11:35hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe will be a shell by 2030
SOUTHERN Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was slapped with United Nations sanctions in 1965 until 1979, but still managed to be one of Africa's richest nations.Zimbabwe was slapped targeted sanctions b...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:51hrs | 5 | by Black Eagle
Failed leadership with nothing to offer nation allows corruption in order to appease restless population!
It is no secret that Zimbabwe has become a lawless country! Whenever I move around, observing laws being openly violated at every turn - I always say to myself, 'Mnangagwa is really not in cha...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 19:07hrs | 4 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe to stop smuggling of beverages
Zimbabwe's beverage sector has been affected by rising cases of smuggling, a new report has shown.In a paper submitted to Cabinet, Industry and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza said there had be...Published: 21 Dec 2022 at 20:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Corrupt cartels shouldn't hold nation at ransom but be held to account!
It was really strange reading a report - whereby, Fossil Group, threatened to retrench over 2,000 workers - ostensibly, in response to its, and its proprietor Obey Chimuka's recent placement on the US...Published: 15 Dec 2022 at 23:23hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Drug lord blocked from starting new life in Zimbabwe
Plans by an Irish drug lord, Christy Kinahan Snr, to start a new life Zimbabwe were blocked recently when he was reportedly denied residency after buying properties, with authorities arguing he was no...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:47hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Drug cartels turn Zimbabwe into a hub
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a destination of choice for smugglers of dangerous drugs such as heroin, with police saying syndicates involving locals and foreigners were on the loose.The country h...Published: 30 Oct 2022 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt moves to seize Chihuri farm
GOVERNMENT is intensifying its vindictive approach to seizing farms belonging to its critics, most of whom were the late former president Robert Mugabe's loyalists in the twilight years of life and ru...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, political elites negotiate shady, corrupt mining deals
COMMUNITIES across the country are being neglected in negotiating mining contracts with foreigners as the military and political elites take centre-stage for personal gain, an expert has said....Published: 28 Sep 2022 at 20:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Cartels bay for Mthuli Ncube's blood
PREDATORY cartels of "tenderpreneurs" preying on Zimbabwe's lax procurement systems, prejudicing government of millions of United States dollars, are baying for the blood of Finance minister Mthuli Nc...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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