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Nestle Zimbabwe ramps up CEREVITA production
Nestle Zimbabwe has ramped up production of its iconic breakfast cereal, CEREVITA, following a US$7 million investment aimed at modernising local manufacturing and meeting surging demand both at home ...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 09:44hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Greedy mine quartet jailed for robbery
Four casual mine workers have learnt that their quest to grasp all, landed them into losing all liberties or joy for spending shares of daily mining proceeds after Matebeleland South Provincial Magist...Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 18:15hrs | 246 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole in Kezi
Beitbridge route buses withdraw services
Hundreds of travelers, primarily cross-border traders and shoppers, were left stranded in Beitbridge on Wednesday as bus operators withdrew their services, fearing that their buses would be impounded ...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 06:38hrs | 7567 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lithium project gains traction
THE construction of a multi-million US dollar world class lithium mining plant, which seeks to feed into the future of electric vehicle manufacturing, is gaining momentum in Fort Rixon, Matabeleland S...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe farmers turn to aquaponics
A CRICKETER turns his back on the excitement of pro sports to take on a whole new challenge: farming without soil.Yasser Parker thought he had fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming a profe...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:29hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
SA returnee finds success in dad's footsteps
SOON after completing his O-Level studies in 1996, Mr Killion Mafuruse (43) of Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo decided to follow in the footsteps of his late father who was a full-time carpenter.Al...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Brawl over CSC turns nasty
A nasty brawl between new investor in Cold Storage Company (CSC) and the judicial manager, which threatens to scupper current initiatives to revive the once-vibrant meat processor, has emerged, The Su...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:05hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Farm workers jobless as Mpofu defies High Court
DOZENS of workers at Esidakeni Farm, located about 67km from Bulawayo, are said to have lost their jobs after Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu defied a court order to vacate the farm....Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 05:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmers raise red flag over GMB 'loaders' fee
Some disgruntled farmers have claimed that they were being forced to employ temporary workers to offload maize at Grain marketing Board (GMB) depots.The casuals, as the temporary workers are c...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 07:52hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Public Works officer exposed
Gokwe North district Public Work Officer Scryvan Tabaiwa Chahwanda has been exposed for his abuse of power in the capacity of his office.He allegedly abused funds that were allocated to renova...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:03hrs | 1 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Rights 'defenders' tell chiefs to 'stay in your lane'
HUMAN rights defenders yesterday urged traditional leaders to desist from pressurising their subjects to vote for a particular political party as the country gears for the 2023 elections.In th...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Massive flooding hits Gweru areas
Incessant rains that have pounded Gweru and surrounding areas since the onset of the rains, have caused massive flooding in residential areas and a number of dams in the Midlands provicnes are already...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:42hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
How to start your own gold mining company
THE last article looked at the way one obtains a Prospecting Licence and gets to peg a mine. Today's article will look at starting your gold mining company. After considering all the requirements for ...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:56hrs | 13 | by Trynos Nkomo
Zimbabwe government steps up road projects
Government has stepped up major road rehabilitation programmes across the country as it closes in on this year's target to spruce up over 50 000 kilometres of road.This year, Treasury released...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Calls to combat Zimbabwe graft grow louder
INDICATIONS from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government currently show that he has taken a tough stance against corruption, a cancer that has done significant damage to the country's socio-economic...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-aligned council workers to be fired
UNCERTAINTY has gripped a number of Zanu-PF party supporters employed as casual workers at the MDC Alliance-dominated Marondera Municipality after they received text messages advising them not to repo...Published: 08 Aug 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa gives priority to road projects
The new political dispensation led by President Mnangagwa's appetite for action and less talk, has seen road projects that have been in the pipeline for over 30 years finally taking off. Durin...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Illicit financial flows at Zimbabwe Education ministry
Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has exposed massive illicit financial flows within the Higher and Tertiary Education ministry.In a report on the examination of the appropriation and fu...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 17:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo-Nkayi road's ingwigwizi Bridge construction kicks off
The construction of the remaining part of Ingwigwizi Bridge has begun along the Bulawayo-Nkayi road, following the release of US$2million by the treasury to facilitate the completion of the project....Published: 22 May 2018 at 14:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
May Day loses significance
Noah Bikita (42) is a former Detroop Mine workers committee chairman. He worked at the mine as a driver and is now paying the price for standing for workers' rights in 2016, as he is out of employment...Published: 02 May 2018 at 08:04hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Hotels accused of exploiting locals
VICTORIA Falls residents have accused hotels and tour operators in the country's prime resort town of exploiting locals by employing them as cheap labour, sometimes "without" pay.The town runs...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Monarch workers charged with theft of scrap aluminium
THREE workers at Monarch Steel Company in Bulawayo are in trouble after they allegedly stole scrap material worth $85 from their employer.Charles Gwetshwayo (39) of Mzilikazi in Bulawayo, Sini...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt tweaks labour laws to allow casual workers to be deemed permanent after two yrs
GOVERNMENT has tweaked labour laws to allow the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) and ferro-alloy industry employees who have been casual workers for over two consecutive years, to be deemed permanently emp...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Job seekers struggle to be hired as casual workers at ZITF
Scores of job seekers have besieged Zimbabwe International Trade Fair arena hoping to be hired by exhibiting firms as casual workers.Traditionally, showcasing companies with stands do hire peo...Published: 21 Apr 2016 at 15:27hrs | 2 | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabweans unfazed by huge unemployment
Officially, hardly anyone in Zimbabwe has a job. Yet in the bustling streets of the capital Harare and nearby towns, there is hardly an idle person in sight.Hawkers offer vegetables, soft drin...Published: 03 Nov 2015 at 12:42hrs | | by dpa
Zimbabwean citizens slipping through social safety net
MY late father-in-law never tired of seeking to persuade me that the true measure of the success or failure of any given nation is never the successes of its well-to-do citizens but how that nation ma...Published: 04 Oct 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Welshman Ncube
Workers suspended for demanding to meet with director
Zimbabwe Blue Line Cleaners has suspended without pay, 20 of its workers at the Southerton depot in Harare for demanding a meeting with the company director over $270 000 salary arrears they are owed....Published: 20 Jul 2015 at 16:04hrs | 23 | by Stephen Jakes
Dirtiest place in Mat South named
MAPHISA Rural District Council has been named the dirtiest place in Matabeleland South by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA).The agency said travellers who throw litter from moving ...Published: 21 Mar 2015 at 16:01hrs | | by Bhebhe Mandla
Audits expose 22 ministries
Auditor-General Ms Mildred Chiri has issued adverse reports on 22 ministries for poor corporate governance, abuse of fund accounts, flouting procurement procedures among other ills, while 10 ministri...Published: 16 Feb 2015 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council refuses arbitration with unpaid workers, offers salary cuts
The Municipality of Gwanda has refused to go for volunteering arbitration with its workers over unpaid workers stretching for up to over five months.The council owes workers outstanding w...Published: 16 Jul 2014 at 21:12hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Marange diamond deposits run out
Diamond mining firms in Marange will this week lay off more workers in an exercise which will result in more than 400 job losses.A Daily News report quoted worker's unions saying Chinese compa...Published: 30 Jun 2014 at 17:33hrs | | by Mthulisi Mathuthu
Robert Mugabe University, Hospital on the cards
THE First Family has earmarked massive infrastructure projects including a university and hospital on the land it allegedly recently grabbed from Interfresh's Mazowe Citrus Estate, highly-placed sourc...Published: 27 Jan 2013 at 15:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Binga to apply for town status
PLANS are under way for the Binga Rural District Council to apply for a town status for Binga amid revelations that a physical planning team was on the ground working on its master plan.In an ...Published: 14 Jan 2013 at 04:33hrs | | by Victoria Falls Reporter
Zanu-PF supporters block recruitment of youths for not possessing Zanu-PF cards
Zanu-PF supporters in Gokwe, Midlands today [Wednesday] blocked the employment of youths by cotton companies in the district for not possessing Zanu-PF membership cards.Several cotton companie...Published: 02 May 2012 at 14:31hrs | | by Ndou Paul
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