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Excessive taxation driving fuel prices up
On the 5th of April, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced new pump price ceilings for fuel on the local market. The maximum pump price for Diesel is now ZW$111.77 per litre, up fr...Published: 23 hrs ago | 1036 | by Victor Bhoroma
Unresolved economic issues for 2021
The Zimbabwean economy has experienced a period of relative stability since October 2020, even though multiple reforms have to be implemented to attain sustained economic growth. To a larger extent th...Published: 23 hrs ago | 547 | by Victor Bhoroma
Tertiary education should focus on quality, not quantity
THE proliferation of a gamut of universities and tertiary institutions churning out tens of thousands of graduates each year is a welcome development in the country's quest to close the skills gap and...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:23hrs | 393 | by Canisio Mudzimu
Zimbabwe breaks law for US$50m Covid-19 vaccines loan
Zimbabwe has contracted yet another US$50 million loan from the Africa Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) to finance its Covid-19 vaccination programme despite government claims it is using internal res...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 09:15hrs | 922 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe shall rise again
EMMERSON Mnangagwa, in his message during Zimbabwe's 38th Independence celebrations, months after the coup that removed long-serving leader Robert Mugabe and a few months before his election as ...Published: 18 Apr 2021 at 08:54hrs | 170 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe poverty reaches alarming levels
ABOUT 1.5 million people living in Zimbabwe's urban centres plunged into alarming penury after their livelihoods were disrupted by the outbreak of Covid-19 and restrictions which were enforced to cont...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:18hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe's son granted bail
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, has been granted bail today at Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Industry in Ma...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 11:50hrs | 3185 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Grace Mugabe's son detained for theft
FORMER First Lady Grace Mugabe's son, Russell Goreraza, was yesterday remanded in custody at the Concession Magistrates Courts on charges of stealing gold processing equipment at Tian Bao Mineral Indu...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:51hrs | 4240 | by Staff reporter
Silobela, a gold rich area with nothing to show for it
The 60km Kwekwe Nkayi road is supposed to be the shortest link between the two centres, but it has become the longest. So bad is the road that what should be a 30-minute drive has since transf...Published: 13 Apr 2021 at 06:27hrs | 286 | by Michael Magoronga
Dairibord-Dendairy merger talks still on
Dairibord Zimbabwe, the country's largest dairy processor, discussions with unlisted fellow industry player Dendairy over potential acquisition and merger of the two's operations. Market analy...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 07:00hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Parliament warns of aviation disaster in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE'S airports could cause an aviation disaster due to poor weather-detecting instruments, outdated radar, few emergency vehicles, inadequate fire-fighting capacity and deplorable runways....Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:34hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under renewed pressure to give up Rwandan genocide suspect
United Nations investigators tracking one of the most notorious killers in the Rwandan genocide believe he is hiding in Zimbabwe and are launching a new effort to convince authorities in Harare to all...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:31hrs | 945 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya to challenge further remand
ZIMBABWE Mining Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has given the state notice to challenge further remand if not provided with trial date on her next court appearance.She is facing ...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:40hrs | 464 | by Staff reporter
NUST launches Covid-19 vaccination program
THE National university of Science and Technology launched its Covid-19 vaccination program for staff members and students today with the University`s vice Chancellor Professor Mqhele Dlodlo being the...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 18:28hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Police on high alert
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has warned that it will descend heavily on traffic offenders and violators of Covid-19 regulations during the Easter Holiday.This comes after President Emmer...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 14:49hrs | 575 | by Staff reporter
The Birth of the Federal Republic of Mthwakazi Establishment of the Department of National Statistics
MLF President, The birth of Mthwakazi as a sovereign state is informed by the lens of history. As Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), we have learnt from the grave errors of our history. As we c...Published: 03 Apr 2021 at 11:50hrs | 1125 | by Dr Churchill Mpiyesizwe Guduza
Zimra to acquire US$2m surveillance drones
Zimbabwe will speed up the process of buying drones worth US$2 million to be used at all ports of entry to reduce smuggling, while plans are at an advanced stage to place a CCTV camera system at borde...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:57hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
The US has no free gifts
As a proud pan-African, on hearing that Mozambique invited the US Marines to train its military on how to fight against the Ansar Al-Sunnar terrorists who have invaded, terrorised, and displaced the p...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:34hrs | 850 | by Prosperity Mzila
New power plant to feed 25MW into national grid
A 13-kilometre power line linking Zimbabwe Zhongxin Electrical Energy (Private) Limited's new plant in Hwange and Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is being installed in readiness to start feeding the init...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Illegal gold panners unleash reign of terror in Mat South, Mberengwa
GOLD panners have unleashed a reign of terror in Malungwane Village in Umzingwane District, Matabeleland South attacking villagers with axes, machetes and knobkerries. The development has seen...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 09:09hrs | 832 | by Lovemore Dube
Matemadanda fired for 'verbal diarrhoea decimating MDC A' - demand now is for credible opposition
"Zanu PF has relieved Victor Matemadanda from the political commissar post over incompetence and his verbal diarrhoea remarks on the decimation of the opposition MDC Alliance," reported Bulawayo24....Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 1531 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The economic toll of Covid-19 on Zimbabwe has deepened energy poverty
Zimbabwe's management of the Covid 19 pandemic on the health front seems to have scored positively compared to other countries but the gains on statistics should not deflect attention from the perils ...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 21:43hrs | 261 | by Taruberekera Masara in Pretoria
Border corruption distresses minister
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has bemoaned the rampant corruption being experienced at Zimbabwe's ports of entry, which he says is prejudicing the country of billions of dollars.The Treasury c...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 18:04hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Kabila's general flees to Zimbabwe
An army general under the government of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) former President Joseph Kabila has fled to Zimbabwe, according to reports from the mineral-rich country.This comes as...Published: 25 Mar 2021 at 16:09hrs | 7129 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe invites bids for venture capital partner to set up diamond processor
The Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) is offering a venture capital partnership to bidders willing to set up a diamond processing company.MMCZ plans to invest in a company that...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:12hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Let's banish the urban-rural chasm
Devolution now steadily but surely underway in our country, with provincial ministers of state also tasked with implementation of the new beginning, must sooner rather than later see rural areas where...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:17hrs | 117 | by Stephen Mpofu
Matabeleland converted into Mberengwa
The people of Matabeleland are up in arms with a ploy that is at an advanced stage to make part of Gwanda South be merged with Mberengwa. The person behind this gambit is a senior Zanu PF official who...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:57hrs | 3537 | by Sibangilizwe Moyo
ZCDC faces collapse
THE future of the state-owned diamond miner, Zimbabwe Consolidated Dia-mond Company (ZCDC), looks bleak, owing to loss of concessions and govern-ment interference, among other factors, investigations ...Published: 19 Mar 2021 at 09:36hrs | 1903 | by Staff reporter
Diamond scam hits Zimbabwe
One buyer has been snapping up all parcels at diamond auctions amid concerns some officials from the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MM...Published: 18 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 5132 | by Staff rpeorter
Is there anything for Zimbabwe's presidium to be proud of, after turning country into a shameless charity case?
I honestly had all the intentions of attentively watching and following the live broadcast of the delivery, that arrived today at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport in Harare, of an addit...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 17:17hrs | 759 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Dialogue with Chamisa
The year 2021 started at a very sad note. A year which everyone thought was going to breath a new lease of life has turned into a very bleak one coupled with myriad of challenges.As long as we...Published: 16 Mar 2021 at 14:41hrs | 1742 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe has great economic potential
RUSSIAN business executives and academics Sunday said there are enormous benefits in investing in Zimbabwe especially in the mining and agriculture sectors noting the country's promising economic pote...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 06:32hrs | 1215 | by Staff reporter
'NRZ machines, equipment belong to the scrapyard'
TRANSPORT and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has expressed dissatisfaction with the state of affairs at the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) and challenged the parastatal's board ...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:10hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
AECAS Webinar on Russian Business in Zimbabwe
The Association of Economic Cooperation with African States (AECAS) together with the Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia–Zimbabwe Business Council, Vi Holding wi...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 16:05hrs | 433 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Local supplies fill up supermarkets
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said the worst of the country's economic woes is over as Zimbabwe is witnessing a revival of its manufacturing sector that is filling up supermarkets, with an economic growth p...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:37hrs | 511 | by Staff reporter
Residents sue RioZim over damaged houses
RIO ZIM Limited has been taken to the High Court by 32 Kadoma residents who are seeking an interdict to stop it from blasting closer to their houses, saying this had caused structural damage to some o...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
Mine wrangle: High Court interdicts Zanu-PF councillor
THE Odzi mine ownership wrangle recently spilled into the High Court which granted an interim order interdicting Zanu-PF councillor Luckson Mawanga's Paari Mining Syndicate from carrying out operation...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:23hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Machete gang leader arrested
A suspected machete gang leader has been arrested in Kwekwe for committing a spate of armed robberies in and around the area. Police impounded his getaway vehicle a Toyota Mark X and recovered an axe ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:14hrs | 887 | by Staff reporter
MP stokes Zanu-PF factional fights
CHIREDZI West MP, Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF) has torched a storm after he commented on behalf of two other legislators with regards to the controversial lucerne grass project in the Chilonga area of ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1329 | by Staff reporter
Bikita Minerals upgrades plant
Zimbabwe's largest lithium miner, Bikita Minerals has upgraded its plant which will now be able to beneficiate its own lithium ore and that of other players in the country, Business Times can report....Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:42hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
US$600m water project crumbling
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on the verge of cancelling a US$600 million agreement, in which government had mortgaged 18 gold claims to a Malaysian company, ZimMal, which for 17 years failed to imp...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 07:03hrs | 1294 | by Staff reporter
Police impersonators arrested
TWO men have been arrested for masquerading as police officers in Dete, Matabeleland North. David Ndlovu (29) and Posent Nyathi (32) wore police uniforms and demanded bribes from businesspeopl...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:18hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
We need closure on questionable national projects !!!
Zimbabwe is the only country, where I have witnessed Mps going to Parliament to collect fuel coupons, allowances, good ventilation in Holiday Inn, Crown Plaza, Sheraton Hotel ( Rainbow Towers), and th...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 14:12hrs | 1546 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Will be a friend of West, they disgruntled with our land reform' - povo, not West, are ones dying for change
"I would like to be a friend of all and an enemy of none," announced Zimbabwe's new Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Fredrick Shava, after taking his oath of office."We are going to try our bes...Published: 04 Mar 2021 at 10:34hrs | 1081 | by Nomusa Garikai
White farmer gets greenlight to evict 12,000 black Zimbabweans
At least 12,000 villagers in Chilonga, Chiredzi, face imminent eviction from their ancestral lands to pave way for a dairy company owned by a white farmer with links to President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 17:01hrs | 4495 | by Staff reporter
African universities' science A faculties a mockery
AFRICAN universities should discontinue their science faculties and concentrate their financial resources on the development of the arts, histories and music than misrepresent the sciences through pre...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 479 | by Reinford Khumalo
Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe
Business executives are sounding decidedly upbeat in Zimbabwe, a sea change from the pessimism they've expressed through two decades of economic mismanagement and institutional decay.The south...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 09:07hrs | 1074 | by Staff reporter
'Gold to Zimbabwe what oil is to Nigeria, can turn around our fortunes' - not whilst US$1.2b p.a. lost to smugglers
On 3 March 2016 President Mugabe admitted that the nation had lost $15 billion worth of diamonds because of the looting and plunder in Marange and Chiadzwa."This kind of plunder must immediate...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | 477 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Eccentric Luveve man causes a stir
HE's mad! He's a genius! He's creepy. He's amazingly gifted!The unassuming Mathamsanqa Tshuma (67), a bachelor from Gwabalanda in Bulawayo, ...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:29hrs | 2359 | by Yvonne Ncube
Mapfumo calls for UN intervention in Zimbabwe
CELEBRATED United States- based Zimbabwean Chimurenga musician and human rights activist, Thomas Mapfumo, has appealed to the international community to immediately intervene and stop what he calls an...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 08:26hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
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