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Zanu-PF pushes for regional coal, steel union
ZANU-PF is driving an initiative to establish a coal and steel union among former liberation movements in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, aiming to boost economic integration...Published: 2 hrs ago | 20 | by Staff reporter
Iran-Israel conflict threatening Zimbabwe's economy
The recent breakdown of ceasefire agreements between Iran and Israel has raised alarms over a potential full-scale conflict in the Middle East, with serious global economic repercussions that could se...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 12:30hrs | 308 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Mozambique sign landmark energy deal
Zimbabwe and Mozambique have signed a landmark agreement to deepen cooperation in the energy sector, a development poised to significantly improve energy security and infrastructure across Southern Af...Published: 09 May 2025 at 10:57hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Muzarabani natural gas project update
Invictus Energy has announced that the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) of Zimbabwe has approved its Environmental Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for pilot production activities at the Cabora Ba...Published: 06 Mar 2025 at 15:16hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Forty-Five Years On: The Bitter Aftertaste of a forced colonial marriage
On the Fast Lane to 2030: Awakening the African Mindset Forty-five years ago, the Great Republic of Zimbabwe emerged from the suffocating grip of a forc...Published: 05 Mar 2025 at 16:34hrs | 728 | by Maxwell Haitengeswinyika Teedzai
EU could face gas shortages
The European Union's gas supplies could be at risk this winter due to increasing reliance on liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a replacement for Russian pipeline gas, the Financial Times wrote on Thursda...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 16:00hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
BRICs payment system being tested
A new digital payments system, BRICS Pay, debuted for live testing at this week's BRICS Business Forum at the International Trade Center in Moscow.During the trial - on 17 and 18 October - for...Published: 19 Oct 2024 at 15:54hrs | 1762 | by Staff reporter
South Africa energy poverty to deepen
I want to talk to you about the attached report. It is available online.The report is about the future of European competitiveness and outlines a competitiveness strategy for Europe in Septemb...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 13:45hrs | 212 | by Engineer Matšhela Koko
Lupane Gas Project to start in third quarter of 2024
The Lupane Gas Project in Matabeleland North is set to start during the third quarter of this year, the consultant of the project has said.CEWALE Discovery Investment Environmental Consultant ...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 14:29hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Invictus signs gas sales MOU for a gas-to-power project
Invictus Energy Limited has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Dallaglio Investments Pvt Ltd and Himoinsa Southern Africa Proprietary Limited for a gas-to-power project ...Published: 22 May 2024 at 16:54hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Moyo under fire over poor record record
MATABELELAND North Provincial Affairs minister Richard Moyo is under the spotlight for presiding over several failed and unfulfilled projects in the province since he was appointed minister in 2017....Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 15:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gas, oil discovery changes energy game
ZIMBABWE is primed to become a major player in the oil and gas industry following the confirmation of gas, light oil, condensate and helium deposits by Geo Associates, Mines and Mining Development Min...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wants lithium miners to plan new capacity
Zimbabwe wants miners to come forward by the end of March with plans to produce battery-grade lithium, despite a sharp fall in global prices for the mineral, a senior government official said on Frida...Published: 26 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | | 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 | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
How is the world combating rising energy prices?
Every country is approaching higher than typical energy prices we’re all facing right now in different ways. Rather than compare one country with another and create a piece that can be out of date t...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 12:42hrs | 65 | by Staff Reporter
Invictus Ernergy injects US$10,2 in Zimbabwe operations
BARELY two weeks after announcing further gas discovery at its Mukuyu-2 exploration well in Mbire District, Mashonaland Central province, Invictus Energy has raised a further US$10,2 million through p...Published: 29 Dec 2023 at 07:00hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Another gas discovery excites Zimbabwe govt
AUSTRALIAN firm Invictus Energy has made further gas discovery at its Mukuyu-2 exploration well in Muzarabani-Mbire districts of Mashonaland Central province, in northern Zimbabwe, confirming the coun...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes further gas discovery
AUSTRALIAN firm Invictus Energy has made further gas discovery at its Mukuyu-2 exploration well in Muzarabani-Mbire districts of Mashonaland Central province, in northern Zimbabwe, confirming the coun...Published: 15 Dec 2023 at 07:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
African countries stand firm on fossil fuels
The African Group of Negotiators is calling for an outcome that allows Africa to exploit its fossil fuels including coal, oil and gas to eradicate poverty while also funding renewable energy projects....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
We've gas in Zimbabwe, so what?
So, it has finally been confirmed!Zimbabwe has significant reserves of natural gas!This was announced by a clearly excited mines and mining development minister Zhemu Soda at a media b...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 15:03hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe orders lithium miners to submit refinery plans by March 2024
Zimbabwe has given lithium miners up to March 2024 to submit plans for the local production of battery-grade lithium in a bid to benefit from growing demand for the clean energy mineral, Finance Minis...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 21:09hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
CIO raises alarm over illicit army gold mining
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has raised serious national security fears over an illicit gold mining operation run by an army-owned company, Rusununguk...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 13:50hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Major boost for Muzarabani gas project
Zimbabwe and Algeria yesterday signed a Memorandum Of Understanding (MoU) in hydrocarbons which is a shot in the arm for the country's natural gas and oil exploration activities following the confirma...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Iran, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions are a fallacy
SO, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was in Zimbabwe for a visit.That was good news; well, for me at least, because I believe this was an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
President Raisi, please tell Mnangagwa that sanctions can never cripple a country!
So, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is in Zimbabwe for a visit. That is good news! Well, for me, at least this is an opportunity for him to finally get it into the heads of those gover...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:05hrs | 17 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe scouts for investors for Lupane gas project
WITH elections a few weeks away, government says it is still frantically looking for investors for the Lupane methane gas project.Natural gas reserves were discovered in Lupane, Matebeleland p...Published: 07 Jul 2023 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edges closer to methane gas extraction
ONE of the six investors awarded special grants by Government to prospect for coal-bed methane (CBM) gas in Matebeleland North has made significant progress and is inching closer to tapping the resour...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 21:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe presses miners to produce battery-grade lithium locally
Employees charge lithium ion batteries for a Hamba electric motorcycle at a solar-powered recharging station in Wedza, Zimbabwe, 22 May 2020. Picture taken May 22, 2020. REUTERS/MacDonald Dzirutwe...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Can Afrikaners save South Africa?
I AM not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation because I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live...Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Let's support our school children by paying their school fees
Here I was walking lackadaisically towards our forlorn and miserable Chinehasha Shopping Centre on Friday. The much-remembered and never to be forgotten 2023. Ahh isn't it the same year of the g...Published: 18 May 2023 at 21:05hrs | 2 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe to convert coal to fertiliser
A Zimbabwean government-owned entity, Verify Engineering, is preparing to use locally available coal to develop ammonia-based fertilisers as the country ramps up agricultural productivity."We ...Published: 14 May 2023 at 12:42hrs | 30 | by Takudzwa Changadeya
Zimbabwe discovers oil, gas and helium
AUSTRALIAN firm, Invictus Energy has confirmed the presence of "light oil, gas-condensate and helium" from its drilling samples at its Mukuyu-1 rig site in Muzarabani.Analysts, however, were q...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new mines law a welcome game changer, but.....
AFTER years of debates and uncertainty, government finally gazetted the Mines and Minerals Bill in February 2023 to ostensibly replace the current Mines and Minerals Act [Chapter 21:05]. The current A...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by James Tsabora
Mr. President, Zimbabweans don't care about your 'critical pronouncements' as long as we're hungry and poor!
Recently, during a performance contract signing ceremony, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa chided his information and communications personnel for failing to properly articulate and disseminate h...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Resource curse in Africa
The African continent is bestowed with so much natural wealth such as diamonds, coal, petroleum, natural gas, copper, and uranium to mention a few. Still, it has been the poorest continent in the worl...Published: 09 Mar 2023 at 09:09hrs | | by Jeremie Kalombo
China calls for investigation into Nord Stream blasts
China called on relevant parties to conduct an objective and fair investigation into the Nord Stream natural gas pipeline explosions incident and supported the accelerated investigation process to fin...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 20:19hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Huge oil, gas deposits confirmed in Muzarabani
Large natural gas and oil reserves have now been confirmed in north-east Zimbabwe, although technical glitches meant Australian firm Invictus could not extract a fluid sample to fulfil regulatory requ...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Southern African power crisis stems from post-liberation history
THE electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post-liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerabl...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Why army was deployed in oil-drilling precincts of the Zambezi Valley
FEARS of a Mozambican Cabo Delgado-style Islamic insurgency in the northern Zambezi Valley where the Zimbabwean government and an Australian Securities Exchange-listed Invictus Energy are engaged in o...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have nothing to celebrate in new resource discoveries!
No one can deny that Zimbabwe is one of the most richly endowed places on this planet.Highly favored by God Almighty with nearly 40 identified minerals - including gold, platinum, diamonds, ch...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:27hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Beware of the folly of Trojan rulers!
Government, folly of mankind?Barbara W Tuchman is a prolific writer on politics as read through history. I enjoy her take on her subject.But she is American, western, itself an importa...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 18:07hrs | 3 | by on Saturday
US$44m war chest to drive Zimbabwe's oil/gas search
Oil and gas explorer Invictus Energy, says the discovery of commercially viable quantities of petroleum deposits at its Mukuyu-1 or Baobab prospects in the north of Zimbabwe would transform the countr...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 06:06hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must deploy border guards as extremism fears mount - report
WHILE Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the viol...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
2 jailed for trying to smuggle lithium ore to SA
TWO Mutoko men appeared at the Mutoko Magistrates Court on Wednesday charged with attempting to smuggle 40 tonnes of lithium ore out of the country using a South African registered truck.Livin...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at Johane Masowe shrine
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has urged the church to take part in the ongoing transformation of the country through the construction of critical infrastructure such as schools and clinics to augment the Second...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on cusp of oil, gas breakthrough
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)-listed oil and gas firm Invictus Energy has started assembling drilling equipment at its Mukuyu-1 prospect in Muzarabani, Mashonaland Central, ahead of exploration...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Blending helping reduce fuel prices, claims Zera
ZIMBABWE's fuel could have been much more expensive had it not been for the reintroduction of blending, Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has said, notwithstanding that its price is now the ...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
EU divided over Russian sanctions
EU citizens are being asked to make great sacrifices to support a sanctions regime against Moscow over its military offensive in Ukraine. But how long will Western consumers be willing to live without...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Robert Bridge
Russia's rouble comes roaring back
The rouble has surged all the way back to where it was before Russia invaded Ukraine, closing at 79,7 in Moscow on Wednesday.In the days after the Ukraine war began, the rouble's collapse was ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unhappy with gas licensees
Delays by some investors in implementing projects for renewable or lower carbon energy are potentially hampering Zimbabwe's progress despite the investors being awarded special permits by the Governme...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
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