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Kupukile Mlambo appointed chief executive of the Sovereign Wealth Fund of Zimbabwe
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe deputy governor Kupukile Mlambo, who holds a PhD in economics from Gothenburg University in Sweden, has been appointed chief executive of the US$100m Sovereign Wealth F...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 19:14hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Dutch investor seeks Mnangagwa's intervention over US$8m botched venture with Zimbabwe partner
Director of Dutch-based investor Euro LPG BV Omar Abdallah, has sought the intervention of President Emmerson Mnangagwa after the Sheriff failed to act on a High Court order overturning a controversia...Published: 07 Dec 2022 at 05:22hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
High Court sheriff under spotlight
THERE is a new twist to the saga involving Netherlands Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) equipment manufacturing giant Euro LPG BV, which lost millions of United States dollars to a consortium of local busin...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:32hrs | 479 | by Staff rteporter
Honada Fit and 10 cars in freak pile-up
A ROAD accident at Coca-Cola intersection, in Harare's Graniteside industrial area, led to an 11-vehicle pile-up yesterday.Witnesses said the accident was caused by the driver of a bus who los...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:08hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo's iconic Post Office Gardens crumble
A gaping hole now exposes the western part of the Post Office Gardens. It is perhaps ironic that a building also known as the War Memorial Park or the Cenotaph, now looks like it was the victim of a n...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 191 | by Staff reporter
'Liberation museum sitting on goldfield'
SATELLITE images dating back to 1985 show that the famed US$40 million Museum of African Liberation project is being constructed on a goldfield, the Zimbabwe Independent reported.According to ...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1321 | by Staff reporter
Runaway truck crash at new Beitbridge border bus terminal
The Zimborders Consortium that is transforming the Beitbridge Border Post at a cost of US$300 million in partnership with the Government is working on improving public safety at the country's busiest ...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:08hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa warns Zanu-PF
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) president Nelson Chamisa on Sunday challenged Zanu-PF to stop threatening people with displacement if they choose to vote against the ruling party in next year's po...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:44hrs | 4063 | by Staff reporter
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 490 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe mining surpasses US$5 billion
Zimbabwe's mining sector is registering unprecedented growth, for the first time in history, with earnings jumping to US$5,2 billion in 2021 from about US$2,9 billion in 2017, as positive gains contin...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:39hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter
'6,4m Zimbabweans living in extreme poverty'
THE latest World Bank report indicates that 6,4 million Zimbabweans are living on less than US$1,90 a day.The report is based on the multilateral institution's Poverty and Inequality Platform ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:22hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
'No crisis in Zimbabwe'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has said "all is well" in Zimbabwe and dismissed claims that the southern African country is in the throes of an economic crisis.Speaking in an off-the-cuff...Published: 09 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | 5632 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's forex currency crisis worsens
An outlet in Harare's Graniteside industrial area has been turning away customers using local currency through point of sale (POS) platforms on the pretext that they are experiencing network failure....Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 2720 | by Staff reporter
Brilliant architecture refreshes Zimbabwe's Beitbridge border
A REFRESHING atmosphere greets a discerning traveller upon arrival at the new look Beitbridge Border Post, a world class facility whose upgrading under the Second Republic, has reached the final stage...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge carriageway gets attention after years of neglect
THE upgrading of the road linking Beitbridge Border Post and major inland cities including Bulawayo and Harare is nearing completion with the contractor saying it will be open to traffic at the end of...Published: 11 May 2022 at 09:11hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
OPC ZITF stand has public in awe
AN imposing artistic image depicting President Mnangagwa carrying a masonry trowel laden with mortar and building blocks in the background, admirably stood above the Office of the President and Cabine...Published: 02 May 2022 at 07:57hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm to set up plant for Gwayi-Shangani pipeline
CHINESE company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, will soon set up a plant in Bulawayo to manufacture pipes for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam pipeline.Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s...Published: 21 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Zapu in mourning
ZAPU says it will not be celebrating Independence Day on Monday, but will be mourning the loss of lives before and after independence.This year's 42nd independence celebrations will be held in...Published: 18 Apr 2022 at 10:35hrs | 794 | by Staff reporter
Lupane villagers complain over extraction of granite stones
VILLAGERS in Ndengwende, which is popularly known as koMlalazi village in Lupane, are complaining about mass extraction of granite stones in their area, saying it is posing an environmental hazard....Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1199 | by Staff reporter
Haulage trucks damage highway
THE Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway is in a bad state especially in Hwange where the road is almost caving in at some sections, with haulage trucks belonging to mining companies being blamed for infli...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 383 | by Staf reporter
Unpacking Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo Philosophy
During our War of Liberation, we had a huge rear base in Mozambique called Mudzingadzi.As with many of our rear bases, Mudzingadzi suffered repeated Rhodesian air raids.One such raid c...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:18hrs | 232 | by E.D. Mnangagwa
Waverley Plastics' majority shareholder Amanda Cohen acquitted
Waverley Plastics majority shareholder Amanda Berkowitz nee Cohen has been aquitted of trumped up assault charges by a Mbare magistrate Nyasha Vitorini on...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 12:09hrs | 1371 | by Paul Ndou
Mliswa wants Chinese driven out
NORTON legislator Temba Mliswa has launched a scathing attack on Chinese nationals, describing them as bullies who have captured government and initiated grand looting of the country's resources....Published: 10 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | 3685 | by Staff reporter
Investigation debunks story on Chinese mining investment in Zimbabwe
MUTOKO - A recent story published by the British newspaper, The Guardian, alleged that Chinese companies involved in granite mining in Zimbabwe have aroused fear and upset among local people.T...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 05:43hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa replaces fired Zanu-PF Admin
Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has replaced fired director of administration Dickson Dzora with former party research officer Richard Mahomva.Dzora was fired last week following...Published: 22 Jan 2022 at 05:18hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cracks whip
Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked the party's director for administration, Dickson Dzora, after NewZimbabwe.com exposed a massive corruption scandal in which he colluded with oth...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | 4648 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires party chef over ballot scandal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly fired the Zanu-PF director for administration, Dickson Dzora for allegedly conniving with some officials to corruptly engage a private company to print thou...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3583 | by Staff reporter
Chisora battered by Parker
Zimbabwe-born British heavyweight boxer Derek Chisora was sent crashing to the floor and was punished by a barrage of heavy punches by Joseph Parker in their heavyweight rematch in Manchester on Satur...Published: 20 Dec 2021 at 05:37hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants Cecil John Rhodes remains taken to Europe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has suggested that the remains of British imperialist Cecil John Rhodes can be removed from the Matopos National Park in Matabeleland South and returned to the Unite...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:10hrs | 2761 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa panics over criticism
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga on Friday issued a chilling threat to traditional leaders, warning that they would be stripped of their positions for criticising the Zanu-PF government.Pre...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 06:51hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF disowns Uzumba 'rebels'
Zanu-PF officials in Uzumba constituency have disowned party supporters who recently demonstrated against Chinese miner, Heijin's granite mining operations in the district.The supporters threa...Published: 15 Dec 2021 at 06:41hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa orders Chinese miners to stop displacing villagers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned Chinese mining companies to stop displacing communities from their ancestral lands.He was addressing thousands of party supporters at a rally in Uzumba ...Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:12hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Rebate on duty scammers exposed
GOVERNMENT has tightened the conditions for businesses benefiting from the rebate of duty facilities amid concerns over lack of transparency and accountability, which has seen some beneficiaries makin...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's rural communities resist opaque Chinese projects
ZIMBABWE is witnessing growing conflicts between Chinese mining companies and indigenous communities who are being evicted from their ancestral lands without compensation to pave way for mining operat...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner loses granite licence
A Chinese firm, Heijin Mining Company, is set to lose its certificates of operations in Kaseke and Chibvi 2, in Murehwa following complaints by the community, Chief Nyajina and Councillor Marowa....Published: 08 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chinese will cost Zanu-PF votes
The history of Zimbabwean elections would never be complete without a loud enough reference to one big patch on our map. This place they call Uzumba-Maramba-Pfungwe (UMP) in Mashonaland East province....Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:52hrs | 16 | by Tawanda Majoni
Govt suspends Chinese miner's operations in Uzumba
THE Mines Ministry has, with immediate effect, cancelled all the mining activities of the Chinese-owned Heijin Mining Company in Uzumba, Mashonaland East Province.The mine was prospecting for ...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
UMP villagers vow to punish Mnangagwa
ZANU-PF supporters in Uzumba Maramba-PFungwe (UMP), angered by the ruling party's silence at a time Chinese owned Heijin Mining Company continues to harass and displace them from their ancestral land,...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:35hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
Govt responsible for rights violations
The Civic Society organisations have lamented that three years after the adoption of Vision 2030 by the Zimbabwean government, ethnic, linguistic and indigenous communities in the country are facing a...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 19:35hrs | 15 | by Stephen Jakes
EMA speaks out on Chinese miners operation in Uzumba
THE Environmental Management Agency (EMA) says it is yet to receive an environmental impact assessment report from Heijin Mining Company, a Chinese mining company, which is on the verge of displacing ...Published: 30 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa chides Mnangagwa
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has chided President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly aiding the seizure of communal land by Asian capitalists, resulting in mass displacement of villager...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mayihlome concerned over haulage trucks transporting chrome
ZANU PF legislator for Umzingwane Levi Mayihlome has expressed concerns over the increase in number of haulage trucks transporting chrome and other ...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 07:50hrs | 7 | by Stephen Jakes
Villagers don't have title to communal land: Chinese miners
CHINESE mining company, Heijin, has reportedly told villagers in Kaseke, Uzumba district, that they have no capacity to stop their eviction to pave way for granite stone mining as they have no title d...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Rambo's tombstone unveiling tomorrow
A tombstone unveiling for the late national team and Highlanders legend Mercedes "Rambo" Sibanda will be held at West Park Cemetery in Bulawayo tomorrow.A granite tombstone, with a picture of ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Gold rush spawns fresh displacements
THOUSANDS of Domboshawa villagers on the outskirts of Harare face imminent displacement to accommodate a clique of gold miners with strong links to the ruling Zanu PF party and top government official...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt admits mistake in Chinese mine saga
TOP government and Zanu-PF officials on Tuesday descended on Kaseke Village, Uzumba, on a fact-finding mission after a Chinese mining company reportedly took over an entire village to extract black gr...Published: 23 Sep 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Villagers make way for billion dollar Chinese project
"Instead of joy and fulfilment, the fortunes sitting in the bowels of our fathers' land have brought misfortunes upon us," 78-year-old Chokutaura Chananda said ruefully.Chananda is among hundr...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:42hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$1,3bn in forex leaks
ABOUT US$1,3 billion is being siphoned out of the country every year and the proceeds are benefitting countries that ironically accuse Government of corruption.This was revealed by the Zimbabw...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of abetting 'new colonialism'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was accused of abetting a "new colonialism" by the MDC Alliance on Thursday over reports that Chinese miners are evicting entire villages in Mutoko and Uzumba in search of...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 19:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese miner pegs whole village
VILLAGERS in Uzumba, Mashonaland East province, are up in arms against a Chinese company, Heijin Mining, whose black granite mining claim covers the entire village.This was revealed in a lette...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:09hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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