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Zimbabwe gold exports jump 25% in June
Zimbabwe's gold exports soared by 24 percent in the first five months of 2025, reaching US$748 million compared to US$599.2 million during the same period in 2024, according to figures released by the...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 09:22hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Boys DzaMdara hosts youth empowerment indaba
A Zanu-PF affiliate group, Boys DzaMdara, has launched a youth empowerment indaba in Nyanga, aimed at nurturing and supporting up-and-coming entrepreneurs from across the country.The meeting, ...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:57hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
As the curtain comes down
Zimbabwe is a sun-drenched country in Southern Africa, some fifteen to twenty degrees South of the Equator. It's Central Plateau and Eastern Highlands are high, full of botanical flowers, trees, rocks...Published: 11 Dec 2024 at 19:46hrs | 304 | by Leonard Koni
Gold heist suspect in court
Nyasha Rusike, 38, appeared before Harare Magistrate Mrs. Marehwanazvo Gofa on charges of robbery after allegedly stealing gold valued at US$5,000 and other valuables from a gold miner. Rusike, who fa...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 15:32hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF gold baron refutes owing US$3m in gold deliveries, threatens
Zanu-PF's Insiza North Member of Parliament, Farai Taruvinga, a well-known gold magnate in Matabeleland South, is embroiled in a legal battle with gold buyer Shasha Richard Gomez over an unpaid gold d...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 17:12hrs | 4011 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP lives luxury lifestyle, fails to pay debts
Despite his ongoing development of a US$5 million rural shopping complex at Skuta Business Centre along the Bulawayo-Masvingo highway in Filabusi, Zanu PF Insiza North MP Farai Taruvinga is facing leg...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 09:18hrs | 3107 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP ordered to pay US$3 million
Zanu-PF's Insiza North Member of Parliament, Farai Taruvinga, a prominent gold baron in Matabeleland South province, is facing legal action from gold buyer Shasha Richard Gomez over an unpaid gold del...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:18hrs | 2086 | by Staff reporter
Who is protecting Henrieta Rushwaya?
Zimbabwe is in a state of disaster where the leaders are caught in a web of corruption, putting the young people and the next generation into a hopeless future of wallowing in abject poverty wit...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 20:21hrs | 17 | by Leonard Koni
Scott Sakupwanya controls half of Zimbabwe's gold sales?
Gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya says he delivered almost half of the gold sold to the official buyer, Fidelity, in 2023.Sakupwanya says his company Better Brands delivered 13 tonnes of gold to Fi...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:24hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa urges voters to take advantage of CCC crisis
Zanu-PF Treasurer Patrick Chinamasa has urged residents of Mabvuku-Tafara constituency to take advantage of an ongoing crisis within the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) to vote party candidate Ped...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:42hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer kills wife, commits suicide
A Mount Darwin gold buyer allegedly shot his wife to death before committing suicide on Thursday.Luckmore Norest Kamema (33) fatally shot his wife Jane Gatsi before shooting himself to death i...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 18:36hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF's well-oiled campaign raises eyebrows
A day after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rally in Harare on August 9, thousands of empty boxes of fast foods were strewn across the venue spanning up to more than the size of four soccer fields....Published: 13 Aug 2023 at 21:57hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
AU accomplice in Zimbabwe corruption
THE sincerity of African leaders and institutions in fighting corruption has come under scrutiny following the appointment of controversial Zimbabwean self-styled prophet Uebert Angel as its Pan-Afric...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 08:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Metallon to take over Redwing Mine
GOLD Miner, Metallon Corporation will take over operations at the scandal-ridden Redwing Mine in Penhalonga following the removal of the gold mine from corporate rescue by the Supreme Court in Septemb...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP candidate ropes in Moses Chunga and Dexter Blackstock
TALENTED young footballers from Mabvuku and Tafara suburbs are set to benefit from an ambitious scouting project that will involve the legendary Moses Chunga and former English Premier League player D...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 20:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ambassador-at-large on a property-buying spree
PRESIDENTIAL Envoy and Ambassador-at-Large Uebert Angel, who is holed up in Dubai after being exposed as a player in gold smuggling and money laundering activities, has been on a property-buying spree...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 17:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Gold dealer Ewan MacMillan makes racial slur against Mnangagwa's ambassador
Loose-tongued gold baron Ewan MacMillan, who once branded Vice President Constantino Chiwenga a dunderhead, has returned with a racial slur against United Kingdom based Zimbabwe preacher Uebert Angel ...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 19:40hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Looting fears mount in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S gold markets were overrun this week by fears that the recently announced steep increase of 400% in gold dealing licence fees would result in a sharp rise in smuggling of the precious ...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold deliveries to hit 40 tonnes
STATE-owned gold buyer, Fidelity Gold Refinery (FGR) is bullish on hitting a 40-tonne gold delivery target in 2023 buoyed by new gold mining projects coming into production as well as continuous polic...Published: 03 Feb 2023 at 19:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Headwinds ahead for Zanu-PF
NORTON Independent legislator Temba Mliswa remains a comical character but he is one you cannot afford to ignore.A rabble-rouser of note, he has been a thorn in the flesh of Zanu-PF ever since...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 11:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's gold output reaches new record high
Zimbabwe's gold output reached a new record high of 35.38 tonnes in 2022, spurred by new mining projects, timely payments and incentives to miners.The output was 19.5 percent up from the previ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga duped into buying fake gold for US$24,000
A gold buyer who punished a Chinhoyi couple for selling him fake gold worth US$24,000 will spend Christmas behind bars after he was arrested for taking the law into his hands in revenge.Donald...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:12hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rival amakorokoza groups clash in Nkankezi
GOGO Martha Mlotshwa swears that she has never seen so much blood in her 75 years of existence.At her age, she has seen it all - the good, the bad and the worst of humanity but the level of vi...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gold buyer robbed of US$350 000
A REGISTERED gold buyer from Bulawayo lost US$350 000 in cash to two armed robbers who told him they were selling 50g of gold before pulling out a firearm and ransacking his house.National pol...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ in dramatic U-turn on Fidelity privatisation
IN a dramatic policy U-turn, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has indefinitely suspended its plans to partially privatise Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) nearly two years after announcing inten...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African in Zimbabwean court for fraud
A South African, Peter Coetzee, alias Van Tonder Vikus, alias Johannes Jacobus Conelius Naude, yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Mr Taurai Manuwere facing charges of duping two gold miners o...Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 06:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Simba Bhora robbed
Shamva based Simba Stars (Bhora) owner and gold buyer Simba Ndoro allegedly lost US$53 000 and 300 grams of gold worth more than 15 000 dollars in an armed robbery at his...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 21:19hrs | 4 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe gold smuggling on the rise: Parly
Parliament's Mines Portfolio Committee yesterday raised concern over the proliferation of gold mines amid reports that gold smuggling to South Africa and the Middle East had increased.The comm...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ally, Zanu-PF implicated in gold leakages
A FRESH report has put President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ally Pedzisayi "Scott" Sakupwanya at the centre of gold leakages and violence at Redwing Mine in Penhalonga and surrounding areas in Manicaland pr...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:16hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
RBZ gold coins to strengthen Zimdollar
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week, following a resolution agreed on by its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), announced plans to introduce gold coins to be used as a new investment tool to st...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt incentives behind record gold deliveries, says Sakupwanya
ZIMBABWE'S biggest gold buyer Better Brands Jewellery (BBJ), owned by local gold baron Pedzisayi "Scott" Sakupwanya, says the government's current bullion incentives will see record deliveries to the ...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 19:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa linked gold dealers mint money through govt incentives
GOVERNMENT'S Gold Incentives Scheme (GIS) has come under scrutiny amid indications it is largely benefitting politically connected persons, mainly President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close ally Pedzisayi "...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 16:18hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
'Smuggler' Rushwaya wants gold possession de-criminalised
CONTROVERSIAL Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has made a shocking plea to the Zanu-PF government to repeal a piece of legislation which criminalises the possession of gol...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 20:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold output jumps 86,3%
ZIMBABWE'S total gold output for the first five months of the year spiked by 86,3 percent to 13,171,58kg compared to 7,068,85kg in the corresponding period in 2021, official data show.Accordin...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 08:57hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers pounce on gold buyer
Five armed robbers who robbed a gold buyer of his gold and a safe containing cash have been arrested while fleeing with their loot along Nyamapanda highway.Wiramayi Willard Gatsi(34), Benjamin...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 14:42hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole
RBZ shelves plans to sell gold buying unit
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has indefinitely suspended plans to dispose of its controlling stake in the country's sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refinery, to new shareholders, a senior ...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:21hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Robbers get away with US$50 000, R310 000
Police have expressed concern over the increase in armed robbery cases after criminals got away with over US$50 000, R310 000 and various property since last week in separate incidents countrywide....Published: 20 Oct 2021 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU-PF fails to provide resources for elections
ZANU PF Mashonaland Central province failed to conduct district elections yesterday in the province due to lack of resources.Sources fa...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Minister accused of creating parallel structures in ZANU PF camp
Home Affairs Minister Kazembe Kazembe who is also Mashonaland Central province ZANU-PF chairperson has been accused of trying to manipulate District elections which are currently being held in the pro...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 19:29hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Tagwirei linked companies cited in US$49m privatisation deal
AS Treasury maintains a tight lid over the identity of gold producers who snapped 60% shareholding in Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR), emerging details show that Kuvimba Mining House, Better Bran...Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sells Zimbabwe's gold refinery for only US$49m
TEN gold producers have agreed to buy 60 percent shareholding in Fidelity Printers and Refiners, an arm of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), for US$49 million, Finance and Economic Development Minis...Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 07:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Security forces deep in gold smuggling: Report
MEMBERS of the security forces and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials tasked to maintain order and security in the mining sector have been accused of the smuggling of the precious mineral outsid...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:38hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chinese now influential players in illicit gold trade study
CHINESE nationals are now "prominent and influential actors" in Zimbabwe's lucrative gold sector and have formed questionable partnerships with the elite in Zanu-PF and senior law enforcement agents....Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:26hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold receipts plunge 35%
Zimbabwe's gold export receipts have plunged 35% to US$78.4m in May from US$120m achieved in the prior comparative period as the yellow metal deliveries to the country's sole buyer and marketer, Fidel...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 08:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Gold smuggling syndicates exposed
A new report has illustrated the depth of the gold smuggling scourge in Zimbabwe, estimating that over 70% of the country's output has found its way into backstage international markets.Titled...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's gold policy fueling criminality'
GOVERNMENT'S policy of buying gold on a no-questions-asked basis is creating chaos and fueling criminality in the mining sector, the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (Zimcodd) has said....Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:05hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
US$780k gold smuggler linked to Rushwaya?
ZIMBABWE'S lax security at ports of entry and airports has come under spotlight again after Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya's ex-aide was arrested at the OR Tambo Interna...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya denies links to OR Tambo Airport gold smuggler
Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya on Monday denied links to smuggled gold worth R11 million which was seized by South African authorities at OR Tambo International Airport last S...Published: 10 May 2021 at 17:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
4 in court over fake gold
THREE Harare men last Thursday appeared in court for duping a businessman of US$45 000 in a botched gold deal.Stephen Mhumbwe, Louis Mudzongo and Mike Tafira appeared before Harare magistrate ...Published: 26 Apr 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
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