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Zimbabwean man makes history with solo road trip from London to Harare
Zimbabwean adventurer Hugh Ndudza has made history by becoming the first black Zimbabwean to successfully complete a solo overland road trip from London to Harare. He touched down in the capital on Su...Published: 26 May 2025 at 19:37hrs | 1714 | by Staff reporter
ZITF Company seeks partners for US$12m smart city project
The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) Company has announced a call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from qualified local and international firms to take part in the development of significant...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 12:28hrs | 124 | by Staff reporter
ZITF Company secures US$12 million for shopping complex
The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) Company has announced a major milestone in its transformation, securing a US$12 million investment for the construction of a modern shopping centre at its ...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:18hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo reimagines its future as 65th ZITF opens
As the 65th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) kicks off in Bulawayo today, the host city is seizing the moment to present itself not merely as an event venue, but as a bold and a...Published: 21 Apr 2025 at 08:56hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails WestProp
President Emmerson Mnangagwa praised WestProp (Private) Limited, a leading property investment and development company, for its US$280 million investment in The Hill Luxury Golf Estate, a joint ventur...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:06hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe warms up to Mnangagwa
THE last time former first lady Grace Mugabe made a public statement was on November 5, 2017 at Rufaro Stadium in Harare.At an event dubbed "Super Sunday" in some quarters, she gathered thousa...Published: 19 May 2024 at 12:40hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Reverend Obadiah Musindo stands accused of locking up girls at five-star hotel
Reverend Obadiah Musindo, associated with Zanu-PF and part of the Destiny for Africa Network (DAN), is allegedly engaging in a disturbing pattern of locking up vulnerable girls (names provided) in a H...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 05:41hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
New hotels for Victoria Falls
The prime tourism hub of Victoria Falls is experiencing substantial infrastructure development, providing a significant boost to Zimbabwe's tourism sector with the goal of achieving a US$5 billion tou...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Scott Sakupwanya's flamboyant campaign under the spotlight
A convoy of high-end vehicles led by police escorts snakes its way into Number One Grounds in Harare's Mabvuku high density suburb on a late Thursday afternoon.Brown dust rises as three ...Published: 23 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt splurges on COP27
ZIMBABWE sent a delegation of 264 people at a minimum cost of nearly US$1,6 million to the just-ended Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) hel...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$50m hotel for Victoria Falls
A MASSIVE US$50 million hotel project is on the cards in Victoria Falls, as the transformation of the prime tourism destination into a world-class city and resort gains momentum.Victoria Falls...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:10hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Govt targets 20 malls for Harare
GOVERNMENT announced an ambitious plan to build as many as 20 malls in Harare Metropolitan province to decongest the central business district (CBD).Provincial Affairs and Devolution secretary...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's the economy, stupid!
WORKING for government remains one of the surest ways for a stable income, job security and above all, a ticket to further studies for many across the globe.However, with each passing day, the...Published: 23 Oct 2021 at 06:35hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Govt lavishes Mthuli Ncube with a US$200 000 hotel stay
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:50hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
AAG, BCC clash over vehicle parking tender
THE Affirmative Action Group (AAG) has taken the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to task for failing to authorise a vehicle parking management tender deal, resulting in potential revenue losses.AA...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA-based Zimbabwean gay couple demand rights back home
SHINGIRAI Musekiwa and Elton Chibhebhe fled Zimbabwe to come to South Africa because they are gay.Now based in Langa, the activist couple is fighting for the human rights of Zimbabwean homosex...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land probe opens can of worms
GOVERNMENT'S latest blitz on land barons has exposed serious political undercurrents, with one of the suspected barons, Wellington Peyama, sensationally claiming that he was being hounded by Housing a...Published: 09 Feb 2021 at 06:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in Victoria Falls for city status conferment
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa arrived in Victoria Falls yesterday evening and will today officially confer the prestigious city status to the resort town, in another milestone achievement for Matabeleland North...Published: 09 Dec 2020 at 05:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls finally gets city status
Victoria Falls becomes the City of Victoria Falls tomorrow, with President Mnangagwa expected to formally confer the new status at a ceremony where he will also be granted the Freedom of the City, the...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Excitement over city status grips Victoria Falls
IT'S finally happening for Victoria Falls. The city fathers are excited that the resort town municipality is upgrading into a city. Victoria Falls Mayor Councillor Somvelo Dlamini said the lev...Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls gets city status
PARLIAMENT has approved Victoria Falls' city status following recommendations by a commission that was set up to assess the town's capacity. Local Government and Public Works Minister July Moy...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm eyes 5-star hotel
ANHUI Foreign Economic Construction Group Co Ltd (Afecc) is looking to invest in a five-star hotel in Zimbabwe, but that would depend on whether they will get back their money.The group has in...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
No free Chinese lunch
CONSTRUCTION of the US$100 million six-storey new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Harare, is well ahead of schedule, with the Chinese contractors working round the clock.This is good news t...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | 17 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Harare Mayor defends taking over Bulawayo
HARARE mayor Herbert Gomba has said there is nothing wrong with City Parking being given a parking management tender by Bulawayo City Council (BCC), as the two local authorities have a long working re...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
MDC leaders told to resign
Bulawayo lawyer Sindiso Mazibisa has urged the MDC leadership to resign if they are failing to provide the necessary leadership that the people of Zimbabwe need to solve the problems bedevilling the c...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 14:14hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
4 councillors 'implicated' tender scandal
FOUR Bulawayo councillors have been implicated in an alleged tender scandal after a prospective parking management company allegedly pampered them with five-star hotel junkets among other goodies, Sun...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Zifa creditor masquerades as cop, caught on CCTV
A SHADOWY operation, in which a daring Zifa creditor masqueraded as a police officer to try and intimidate a bank manager to freeze all the association's bank accounts, has been blown into the open af...Published: 11 Jun 2019 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Opposition leader who wanted to arrest Mnangagwa freed
The High Court on Wednesday ended the three-week detention of Tinashe Jonas, leader of Ideal Zimbabwe party.Jonas who was represented by members of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights was fr...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 10:01hrs | 7 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Outrage over Bulawayo hotel rates
Some leading Bulawayo hotels have reportedly increased their rates by as much 350 percent ahead of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) expected to take place next month. ZITF, the cou...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Harare's Charter House turned into hotel
CHARTER House located at corner Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way is set to be turned into a five-star hotel.Director of Legal Services in the Ministry of Environment, Tourism and Ho...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 16:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Meikles mulls hotels sale
Meikles Africa Ltd is locked in negotiations with a Middle East investor for the sale of its majestic five-star hotels - Meikles and Victoria Falls. A well-placed source said this week that ne...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa hypocrisy exposes lack of political, ideological depth
A video circulating on social media of MDC officials, Murisi Zwizwai and Charlton Hwende publicly confronting, accusing and humiliating MDC co-vice-president, Engineer Elias Mudzuri for attending a me...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:12hrs | 5 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
Forex dealers pushed back for Mnangagwa's arrival
Security details yesterday pushed back illegal foreign currency dealers from the Meikles Hotel where President Emmerson Mnangagwa was meeting a high-profile delegation of Chinese investors.Mna...Published: 12 Jun 2018 at 16:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zifa leadership has lost its mandate'
THE Sandton Project - a programme aimed at destabilising ZIFA operations - rolled into Harare yesterday with calls for the association's leaders to quit because they had allegedly lost their mandate t...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa returns with a bagful of nothing?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa returned home yesterday from a highly fruitful trip to China, where his administration struck deals worth billions of dollars that will see new projects and those that sta...Published: 08 Apr 2018 at 09:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge City: A perennial mirage or reality?
Sustainable urban development is one of the top priorities for many governments worldwide. The transformation of social, economic, cultural and political structures in society are some of the key fact...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe six months on: Life in the fast lane
In October 2017, just six months ago, Robert Mugabe was state president and it looked as if we were stuck with him for another five-year term after elections in 2018.There seemed to be no poss...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Chamisa's new path: High modernism and patriotism
Before we even reflect on MDC-T leader Nelson Chamisa's political messaging at rallies, let us look at his appearance. He has a savvy hi-tech gadget and a Zimbabwean flag which sums it up. Some form o...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:33hrs | 5 | by Phillan Zamchiya
Bonang Matheba sneaks in-out of Zimbabwe
At a time Zimbabwe is apparently open to all kinds of business, those with commercial acumen have not wasted any time, seeing it as the perfect time to land in the landlocked mineral-rich wonderland....Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:17hrs | | by staff reporter
Zanu PF G40 anti-corruption goes into overdrive - ours is political, anti-vote rigging overdrive
Zanu PF is a party of ruthless thugs; once one has been booted out of the party, the party will haunt to the end of the world! "The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is scrutinising a docke...Published: 21 Jan 2018 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mphoko: Here today, gone tomorrow!
History is littered with cases of presidents who served unbelievably short terms.Some lasted less than an hour, and others a few hours, days or months.istory is littered with cases of presiden...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff write
School in SA trip nightmare
Direct Contact School authorities in Harare have come under fire from some parents after it emerged that their children who had gone for a travel and tourism trip to Cape Town, South Africa were stran...Published: 08 Nov 2017 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
When Grace Mugabe got angry
History is chock-full of those moments when those who hold the indistinct title or office of the First Lady have let down their guard, embarrassing nations and husbands alike.There is the stor...Published: 05 Sep 2017 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe spends $3.5 million to charter a flight to Singapore and Mexico
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe splurged close to US$3,5 million to charter a Comlux Aviation Boeing 767 BBJ aircraft to Singapore and Mexico from May 7 to 26. This comes at a time government is struggling to...Published: 27 May 2017 at 16:58hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Zvorwadza dupes home-seekers, faces over 40 counts of fraud
National Vendors Union chairman Stendrick Zvorwadza is facing over 40 counts of fraud after he allegedly duped unsuspecting home-seekers of thousands of dollars under the pretext that he would offer t...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A festival of love
IT is always bigger and definitely always better!With just a few weeks to go before The Sunday Mail Bridal Dinner takes place, preparations are now at an advanced stage.The bridal dinn...Published: 12 Mar 2017 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe hotel standards have gone down'
ZIMBABWE'S hotel rates are generally competitive if compared to regional countries but what is lacking locally is value for money, a Cabinet Minister has said.In the past, the country has ...Published: 27 Feb 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Will Mujuru survive?
ON March 1 2016 hundreds of people thronged a five-star hotel in Harare to meet former vice-president Joice Mujuru as she announced the launch of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party at a press...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Anger at the Mugabes' lavish use of tax money
The First Family's holiday break in the Far East has already been branded a PR disaster after the couple allegedly salted away millions for the annual jamboree after scaling back financial perks f...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 13:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mlambos take the letter to the president straight to Zim
Barely a few days after the official reading of the letter to the president at Cosmos City , in a session that happened on 3 December at Cosmos City Mall, Mlambos Express Band is now eager to co...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Future Moyo aka Jamelah
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