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Employee accused of stealing over US$27,000

A Rainforcing Steel Contractors employee has appeared in court on charges of fraud, forgery, and theft of trust property. Nothando Banana, aged 35, of Barham Green, denied the charges when she appeared before Bulawayo Regional Magistrate D…

Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:47hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter

Ghana army delegation visits Geo Pomona

A high-level military delegation from Ghana's Armed Forces Command has visited the Geo Pomona waste-to-energy plant to gain insight into the project's innovative approach to sustainable waste management and clean energy generation. The del…

Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:46hrs | 93 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo to resume shooting of stray dogs

The City of Bulawayo has resolved to resume the shooting of stray dogs, as concerns over their growing menace continue to mount. The local authority last conducted such an exercise in 2015.According to the Bulawayo City Council's Dog Licen…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:36hrs | 665 | by Staff reporter

Ghanaian striker at Highlanders

Ghanaian midfielder Paul Orape was one of the new faces in Highlanders' first team at the club's Family Fun Day on Sunday, signaling a potential addition to the squad ahead of the 2025 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League season.The 22-year-…

Published: 18 Feb 2025 at 03:35hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa congratulates incoming Ghana President-elect

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who also serves as the Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), has extended his heartfelt congratulations to Ghana's President-elect, John Dramani Mahama, on his victory in the Decemb…

Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 10:21hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter

Ghana's ruling party falls

Ghana's vice president and ruling party candidate, Mahamudu Bawumia, conceded defeat Sunday to opposition candidate and former President John Dramani Mahama in the West African nation's presidential election seen as a vote of no-confidence…

Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 17:43hrs | 4137 | by Staff reporter

Ghana's John Mahama projected to unseat ruling party in December election

Ghana's main opposition leader and former president, John Dramani Mahama, appears to be the front-runner in the upcoming December presidential election, according to an opinion poll released on Monday. The survey, conducted by Accra-based …

Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 13:46hrs | 506 | by Staff reporter

Ghanaian in court for fraudulent Zimbabwean passport

YET another foreign national managed to fraudulently acquire Zimbabwean identity documents, including a passport.She was arrested at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport over the weekend. Her case comes at a time focus has been …

Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 15:32hrs | 1036 | by Staff reporter

Deported Nigerian journalist who wanted to enter Zimbabwe was using Ghananian documents

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba, has defended the deportation of Nigerian journalist David Hundeyin, saying he was an "agent provocateur."Hundeyin said he was detained on Wednesday at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport a…

Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Ghanaian MPs back tougher anti-gay legislation

The lead sponsor of an amended bill warns that the country will target US economic interests if Washington sanctions officialsGhana's parliament has unanimously passed a motion to further tighten laws on homosexuality, which is already lar…

Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 16:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa expected in Ghana

PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA is expected in Ghana today, where he will join continental and Caribbean leaders for the 30th African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) meetings.His participation symbolises Zimbabwe's strong support for the multilateral…

Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Ghanaian player cast bad luck on Dembare?

FORMER Dynamos' Ghanaian defender Sylvester Appiah has sensationally threatened to cast a bad luck spell on the Glamour Boys until the Castle Lager Premiership football giants pay him US$200 which he claims they owe him.Appiah was at DeMba…

Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

UK based Zimbabwe businessman in Ghana lithium refinery venture

United Kingdom based Zimbabwe businessman Douglas Chikohora, 63, and his Cluff Africa Associates Mining Limited (CAA) are set to team up with a European firm in setting up a lithium refinery in Ghana.Making the announcement Monday, the Min…

Published: 07 Feb 2023 at 21:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Ndlovu scoops continental gong in Ghana

FORMER Mr Zimbabwe Bernard "Ben Chest" Ndlovu continues to make strides in his modelling career after he recently scooped the Mr Continent Best Body gong at a show held in Accra, Ghana.At the pageant, Ben Chest rubbed shoulders with male m…

Published: 21 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Mnangagwa speech hot air'

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said that the country's economy was on rebound, with this year's projections indicating over 7,8% economic growth, but opposition MPs rubbished his claims, accusing him of failing to address economic …

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Ex-Health minister Moyo acquitted

FORMER Health minister Obadiah Moyo, who was being accused of criminal abuse of office, has been acquitted by the High Court.Moyo appeared before Justice Pisirayi Kwenda yesterday who upheld his application for exception after it was found…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Storm leaves trail of destruction in Matebeleland South

STRONG winds have left a trail of destruction in Umzingwane and Gwanda districts and other parts of Matebeleland South province.Affected villagers told Southern Eye that homes, schools and church buildings were destroyed by strong winds th…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zacc investigator exposes top cop

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commissioner (Zacc) investigating officer Eric Chacha yesterday exposed how police commissioner in charge of Matabeleland North province, Erasmus Makodza had been benefiting from a company owned by his girlfrie…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Coventry lands top IOC role

SPORTS minister, Kirsty Coventry has been appointed chairperson of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Coordination Commission for the Brisbane 2032 Olympic Games.Coventry's latest appointment comes barely three months after she be…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's State of the Nation address

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa delivered a State of the Nation Address and officially opened the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday. He tackled a wide range of issues including the illegal sanctions, economic prospects and n…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Govt ups forex black market fight

GOVERNMENT is implementing a raft of additional measures to curb the illegal trading of forex and the benchmarking of prices using the parallel market rates, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube, said yesterday.…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

'Law is tool for development'

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday laid down the legislative agenda for the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament which will see a number of Bills which include the consideration of legislation relating to the devolution agenda being high on t…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

4 specialist hospitals boost

GOVERNMENT is in the process of establishing specialist medical schools at four State universities, with the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) already recruiting critical staff to take over Ekusileni Medical Centre.Other…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:26hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Top cop accuses ZACC officer of concealing documents

AN investigating officer suspended police Commissioner Erasmus Makodza, charged with concealing a transaction from a principal, yesterday claimed that an investigating officer from Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), who handled th…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:25hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Moyo cleared by High Court

FORMER Health Minister Obadiah Moyo yesterday walked out of the High Court a free man after being discharged from prosecution on corruption charges for illegally awarding a multi-million-dollar contract for Covid-19 medical supplies to Dra…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

ZimAlloys to resume production next year

Zimbabwe Alloys (ZimAlloys), one of the country's largest ferrochrome producer is looking to re-start production during the first quarter of next year, an official has saidThe company owns three furnaces at its Gweru smelting complex with …

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere's brother evicts families from Insingiza Farm

Hundreds of families were yesterday evicted from Insingiza Farm in the Mapunga area on the outskirts of Bindura, owned by expelled former Zanu-PF provincial chairperson Dickson Mafios and his half-brother Tichaona Danny Kasukuwere.Women an…

Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:23hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe through the eyes of Ghana

On December 31, 1981, when Fte./Lte. Jerry John Rawlings seized power in a military coup in Ghana, it was the second time he had burst onto the political scene; the first was in June 1979. Back then, he cleaned up, held democratic election…

Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 14:53hrs | 5 | by Dr Ayittey

Ghana names street after Ndabaningi Sithole

THE late Zimbabwe African Union (Zanu) founder, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, has been honoured in Accra, Ghana, where a street has been named after him.In Zimbabwe, Sithole, who was a Methodist cleric, was rejected by Zanu-PF's President R…

Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:12hrs | 1599 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe miss Nkrumah

President Robert Mugabe says it was a great betrayal to the African cause when Kwame Nkrumah was ousted and had to die in exile.Addressing Ghanaian journalists in Accra after the country's 60th independence celebrations, Mugabe said Nkruma…

Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 18:05hrs | 1435 | by Staff reporter

WATCH: Mugabe cautiously walks the red carpet in Ghana

Zimbabwe's 93-year-old president Robert Mugabe, just returned from seeing his doctors in Singapore, cautiously walks the red carpet in Ghana. And everyone's watching his feet.The Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday that delegates at Ghana…

Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 12:55hrs | 4462 | by Online

Tsvangirai's 'diplomatic offensive' futile

YESTERDAY readers woke up to a screaming headline extolling MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's so- called diplomatic offensive during which he called on foreign nations to intervene in Zimbabwe's supposed "economic and political crisis."M…

Published: 10 Jan 2017 at 05:58hrs | 3 | by Nduduzo Tshuma

What Africa needs are more Nanas!

'In today's Africa where a brotherhood of dictators and kleptocrats in charge of this continent have destroyed the great African vision left by the fathers of our land the likes of Kwame Nkrumah,Nelson Mandela,Julius Nyerere etc. Today Afr…

Published: 08 Jan 2017 at 13:58hrs | 2 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Snr

African Countries Must Re-benchmark their GDP statistics

When Ghana revised its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures in 2010, the resultant 60 per cent jump in its GDP estimates saw it being upgraded from low-income country to a lower-middle income country. Similarly, Guinea Bissau and The Gambi…

Published: 06 Jun 2014 at 06:48hrs | 2065 | by Perry Munzwembiri

New Ghana VAT Act promulgated

26 February 2014: The controversial Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill that was approved by the Ghana Parliament on 15 November 2013 despite a walkout by minority members received Presidential assent on 30 December 2013 and was gazetted on 3…

Published: 26 Feb 2014 at 07:15hrs | 98 | by Celia Becker, Tax Executive at ENSafrica

To be forever free!

Renewed focus on modern slavery on anniversaries of the transatlantic slave trade Every day sees visitors breaking down in tears while touring 97,000-square-foot Elmina Castle, west of Cape Coast, Ghana. Built in 1482 by the Portuguese as …

Published: 22 Mar 2013 at 17:12hrs | 5 | by Kingsley Ighobor

Ghana's âˆšÂ¢â€šÃ‡Â¨Ã€Ãºnew path' for handling oil revenue

When the oil rigs started pumping crude off the coast of Ghana's Western Region in December 2009, many people hoped for better living standards and development. They wondered whether Ghana would be able to break the "curse" that has often …

Published: 21 Mar 2013 at 16:22hrs | 2 | by Efam Dovi

Pamela's World - Telling Our Diasporan Stories

First show at my new time - 10 am - 11am GMT on 02/13/12 Some of the artists played: Dj Kent, SWV, Whitney Houston, R2bees, DJ Sbu, M3nsa and more. Hottest and Latest news on Whitney Houston's passing away and of course some Valentine Tips…

Published: 13 Feb 2012 at 11:59hrs | 49 | by Pamela Stitch

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Dad strips naked in front of his daughter, beats up wife

Sex-for-prayers cult exposed

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