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Nicholas Zakaria told to go and see Victor by Chivayo
Legendary Sungura musician Nicholas "Madzibaba" Zakaria is the latest artiste to receive a car gift from controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo. Posting on his social media pages from Duba...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:45hrs | 838 | by Staff reporter
Khanondo Safaris and Tours: Delivering unforgettable african adventures
Khanondo Safaris and Tours, a premier tour operating company nestled in the bustling adventure hub of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, is making waves in the tourism industry with its diverse array of thr...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 10:45hrs | 674 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Cyber City project threatens Mt Hampden graves
GOVERNMENT says it has no plans to desecrate and destroy graves in Mt Hampden area to pave way for the ambitious multimillion dollar Cyber City project.Online reports said graves were being de...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:17hrs | 471 | by Staff reporter
Redcliff council defrauding residents!
It never rains but pours for residents of the small town of Redcliff.We face the dilemma of the proverbial smoking pipe – burnt on one en...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 07:13hrs | 682 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Thomas Mapfumo criticises Wicknell Chivayo for using his money
Exiled Chimurenga music legend Thomas Mapfumo has criticised businessman Wicknell Chivayo and the Zanu PF government for donating expensive cars to musicians while ignoring the poor state of hospitals...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 08:48hrs | 2900 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chivayo gifts Alick Macheso a US$140 000 Mercedes Benz
Controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo has given Sungura maestro Alick Macheso a US$140 000, 2022 Mercedes Benz GLE400d (Premium Plus).Posting on his Facebook page, Chivayo said the gift i...Published: 08 Mar 2024 at 15:47hrs | 594 | by Staff reporter
Who is reaping now?
In recent years, Zimbabwe has witnessed a rather alarming phenomenon: the emergence of what can only be described as "gospel-preneurs." These are individuals who have cunningly crafted churches with t...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 22:56hrs | 203 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Zimbabwe going nowhere with delusional leaders
I KEEP being reminded of my younger days when we used to love joking about a guy who had fallen head over heels with a certain girl.In the midst of their intimate rendezvous, the guy would bec...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | 1252 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Luxury estate to launch in May
WESTPROP Holdings chief executive Ken Sharpe has revealed that the company will launch the highly-anticipated US$100 million mixed use Hills Luxury Lifestyle Estate in May this year."It is wit...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa breaks silence on his game plan
OPPOSITION politician Nelson Chamisa yesterday revealed that he had personally embarked on grassroots campaigns in villages to map his next political move and distanced himself from any other politica...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 04:45hrs | 7154 | by Staff reporter
Fly One Logistics unveils leading Luxury Harare-Bulawayo coaches
Fly One Logistics proudly introduces the Executive Coaches, a new fleet setting a new standard for travel on the Harare-Bulawayo and Bulawayo-Harare routes. Offering unparalleled comfort, convenience,...Published: 01 Mar 2024 at 15:08hrs | 2402 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sangoma's US$30 000 wedding brings Harare to a standstill
SEKURU Tasvu's nuptials with his sweetheart Talent Qeliwe Mpofu last weekend were rare in more ways than one.Not only was it a spectacle to have a traditional healer opting to have a white wed...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 07:08hrs | 849 | by Staff reporter
Bad governance, not drought, causing hunger in Zimbabwe!
It can not be denied that the 2023/24 agricultural season is one of the worst in Zimbabwe. This is largely due to the frighteningly low rainfall experienced as a direct result of the El Niño ...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 17:54hrs | 209 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe leaders are from Mars!
I WAS touched by an impassioned plea by a fellow Zimbabwean.He appeared on local television, imploring the government to remove VAT (value added tax) on rice. His logic was that rice w...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 19:19hrs | 563 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chivayo tells Zimbabweans not tell him how to spend his money
Controversial entrepreneur Wicknell Chivayo has disclosed that he dismissed online commentators advising him to allocate his funds toward the country's ailing healthcare system instead of directing th...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:47hrs | 1105 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo being investigated by ZACC
A leaked memo has confirmed that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has launched investigations into the source of funds of controversial businessman Wicknell Chivayo, following his lavish...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1790 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono friend abducted
Suspected state security agents abducted a Harare-based construction manager - who has done a lot of building works for award-winning Zimbabwean filmmaking journalist Hopewell Chin'ono - yesterday in ...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 19:07hrs | 1255 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's US$5 million spending binge
FOR Wicknell Chivayo, money seems to grow on trees.Never the one to be shy to ostentatiously display his wealth, Chivayo, who likes to call himself Sir Wicknell, has of late been on an unrelen...Published: 04 Feb 2024 at 17:36hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo gifts Sulu luxury car
Businessman, Wicknell Chivayo has gifted Dendera musician Sulumani Chimbetu with a 2022 Mercedes Benz GLE 300d. This comes on the heels of rewarding award-winning contemporary artist Jah Prayz...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 16:25hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
500,000 Zimbabwean children out of school
ABOUT half-a-million Zimbabwean children of school-going age are staying at home, a United Nations agency has said, amid calls for the government to address challenges that are keeping them out of cla...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:41hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Mushekwi donates US$25k boots to CAPS Utd
FORMER CAPS United striker Nyasha Mushekwi has donated football boots estimated at over US$25 000 to his ex-club ahead of the 2024 Castle Lager Premiership season next month.The former Warrior...Published: 22 Jan 2024 at 04:46hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not a game-changer but merely going in circles
So the ZANU PF regime is exceedingly delighted over the US$1.5 billion Manhize steel project in Mvuma!The Zimbabwe government can not tell ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 07:13hrs | 377 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
WATCH: World most powerful new truck goes to Zimbabwe of all places
Despite Zimbabwe's protracted economic problems, a few companies and individuals can still afford luxury and utility cars from outside the country.Someone, for instance, has bought this US$150...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 05:40hrs | 5232 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's internet costs surge
When a sharp hike in Zimbabwe's internet costs drove Joyce Kapvumfuti's small catering enterprise offline for a week, orders for her wedding cakes, business lunches and frosted cupcakes collapsed....Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:52hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
Wicknell Chivayo's R9.5 million Mercedes-Benz spotted in Harare
Zimbabwean business magnate Sir Wicknell Chivayo has become a trending topic as his 2023 Mercedes-Benz G 63 Brabus was spotted on the streets of Harare.Unlike his other exotic cars imported fr...Published: 04 Jan 2024 at 20:24hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wedding was a political statement
HIGH-PROFILE weddings, especially those of the rich, famous and powerful - very important persons (VIPs) - are renowned worldwide for their grandeur, luxury and vibrant celebrations.These ausp...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Airfares for flights between Zimbabwe and SA dramatically shoot up
AIR fares for flights between Zimbabwe and South Africa - mainly the Harare-Johannesburg and Bulawayo-Johannesburg routes - have shot up dramatically during the festive season (Christmas and New Year ...Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 17:26hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's ED-UNZA Scholarship Fund raises US$600,000
THE ED-UNZA (University of Zambia) Scholarship raised US$600 000 during a fundraising dinner held at State House two weeks ago.President Emmerson Mnangagwa is the patron of the fund, which was...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:17hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube divorced from reality
On November 30, 2023, in the bustling halls of the new Parliament building in Mt Hampden, Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube , a proud holder of a diplomatic ...Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 06:12hrs | 566 | by Harriet Chikandiwa
New taxes on luxury vehicles take effect
The new surcharge increasing the duty on luxury cars, double cabs and SUVs valued at more than US$120 000 is now law and comes into effect on January 1.Commercial and industrial vehicles and v...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:21hrs | 242 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya reveals plans for Chitungwiza
AFTER the successful commissioning of his Heart Stadium by President Emmerson in Waterfalls on Sunday, PHD leader Walter Magaya now wants to turn his attention on constructing similar facilities in hi...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 06:05hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zimra impounds over 100 luxury vehicles illicitly imported into Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has seized over 100 high-end and luxury vehicles that were illegally brought into the country. Currently, the tax authority is executing a nationwide operation t...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 05:50hrs | 180 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's bootlicker hits back at Mogoeng
A bootlicker has hit back at retired Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng for his view on President Cyril Ramaphosa.During the SAFM inaugural lecture on Wednesday, Mogoeng said Ramaphosa had a duty t...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 05:52hrs | 1037 | by Staff reporter
Luxury apartments named after Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday broke ground at the US$100 million Millennium Park development in Borrowdale West signaling the construction of the premium luxury 86-unit block of apartments na...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 05:51hrs | 4636 | by Staff reporter
Can we honestly say someone in ICU is 'doing very well'?
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube actually believes Zimbabwe's economy is 'doing very well'!Wow!Talk about delusional thinking!Or, perhaps it is just someone who is deliberatel...Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 17:56hrs | 577 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NSSA is a vehicle for enriching the powerful whilst exploiting the poor!
I already knew that Zimbabwe was hell and a living nightmare for the vast majority of the ordinary citizenry.I was also fully aware that the powerful were the only ones getting richer and rich...Published: 15 Oct 2023 at 09:49hrs | 471 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cruise ships shun Zimbabwean applicants
Some recruitment agencies have imposed restrictions on hiring Zimbabweans for cruise ship positions due to a history of individuals not returning to their ships when they dock in foreign ports. These ...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:08hrs | 8798 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls lodge named among Southern Africa's best
Victoria Falls continues to stand out as the preferred destination, with Matetsi Victoria Falls Lodge, situated on the banks of the Zambezi River, ranking as the seventh-best resort in Southern Africa...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:38hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
'We (povo) lacked strategic thinking for electoral victory.' Quick burning grass fire passion will never bring change.
The Zimbabwe electorate’s political activism is like a grass fire, it will flares up but very quickly die down because there was not much to burn. Similarly there is not much in-depth knowledge of a...Published: 27 Sep 2023 at 20:04hrs | 300 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimstat boss arrested by ZACC over fraud
Taguma Mahonde, the Director General of Zimbabwe's National Statistics Agency (Zimstat), finds himself in legal trouble as he has been apprehended by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on ...Published: 26 Sep 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1326 | by Staff reporter
Disastrous collapse of the country's health sector laid bare
The death of Dr Mthabisi Nembaware, a Zimbabwean medical doctor, in Mutare after a car accident as a result of Mutare Provincial Hospital's lack of an Intensive Care Unit to attend to emergencie...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 12:12hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions architect charged with bribery in the US
A US senator, Bob Menendez of New Jersey, who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which sanctions Zimbabwe was engaged in corruption and bribery in cash and gold bars in Egypt. ...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 23:53hrs | 1571 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's post-election government appointments are a circus of madness!
So, the elections are over in Zimbabwe!In as much as their conduct and outcome is still hotly disputed by the opposition - a justifiable and legitimate cause, considering how the election was ...Published: 22 Sep 2023 at 16:09hrs | 1171 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
If peace overshadowed justice, then there wouldn't have been a liberation struggle!
There is a common thread that defines oppressive leaders. They subjugate the population - stripping them of all their rights, whilst unleashing some of the most horrendous injustices - thereaf...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 20:11hrs | 115 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
5 Zimbabweans killed in Limpopo cash-in-transit shoot-out
Hawks have identified 16 of the 19 people killed in the recent Limpopo cash-in-transit (CIT) gang shoot-out. Guns were blazing at a luxury home in Makhado on Friday when the Hawks raided the p...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 20:13hrs | 1279 | by Staff reporter
Zimra blitz on luxury assets begins
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) yesterday said it had begun a 30-day voluntary tax blitz targeting private jet and luxury vehicle owners.In a notice, Zimra said persons who own houses, ...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:14hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Win for Zimbabwe as Edd Branson appointed Ambassador of Africa Tourism
Zimbabwe is fast becoming a regional leader and trendsetter in several areas. Zimbabwe has once again established its dominance in the tourism sector through the appointment of Edd Branson who h...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 19:18hrs | 388 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Afro-jazz sensation Berita to perform at Zimfest Live
The Bulawayo-born 'queen of soul' will serenade crowds at this year's annual festival taking place at the weekendSouth Africa-based Zimbabwean musician Berita has joined a glowing lineup of ar...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:55hrs | 72 | by Tidi Kwidini
UK: Zimfest Live reveal exciting 2023 line-up for Herts Showground
New and familiar names including Killer T, Tocky Vibes, Berita, Musa Keys and Sha Sha have been added to the line-up, as revealed in the latest stage announcement.Zimfest Live will return in J...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 09:19hrs | 46 | by Tidi Kwidini
Discover London: An Extensive Guide for Zimbabwean Travelers
London is one of the world's most visited cities and really needs no introduction. Home to iconic architecture, vibrant nightlife, and rich culture, London is a must-visit destination for all traveler...Published: 10 Jul 2023 at 18:52hrs | 53 | by Staff Reporter
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