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Murowa running out of diamonds
OUTPUT at RioZim's gem extraction associate Murowa Diamonds slipped to 579 000 carats during the year ended December 31, 2020 after Zimbabwe's oldest operating diamond mining asset depleted high-grade...Published: 18 hrs ago | 979 | by Staff reporter
Residents must resist road levy
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) is calling all residents of greater Harare and motorists to resist the introduction of a roads levy by the City of Harare.The move comes at a t...Published: 18 hrs ago | 414 | by Combined Harare Residents Association
We're coming for you: Mnangagwa warns financial sector sharks
GOVERNMENT is going to decisively deal with sharks in the financial sector who are profiteering at the expense of the public, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview ahead of the country...Published: 18 hrs ago | 671 | by Staff reporter
Milk shortages hit Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe has been hit by a serious milk shortage, with dairy farmers citing viability challenges emanating from poor producer prices, it has emerged. Zimbabwe Association of Dairy Farmers (ZADF) chair...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:52hrs | 820 | by Staff reporter
RioZim gold output falls 27%
LOW ore grade at the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed gold producer RioZim's flagship unit Cam&Motor Mine saw the firm's total output tumble by 27% during the year ended December 31, 2020, said the ...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 112 | by Staff reporter
If you sow mischief, you harvest grief
IN 2019, Zimbabwe experienced three days of darkness between January 14 and January 17.It seemed looneys had broken from the asylum and set fire on the tinderbox.Chaos and madness reig...Published: 11 Apr 2021 at 05:38hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
BCC counting $1 billion loss in potential revenue
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) potentially lost over $1 billion in potential revenue since October owing to delays by government to approve its supplementary budget.The council in September 2020 ...Published: 10 Apr 2021 at 04:56hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
CORONA VIRUS !! Perilous Times have come
The whole world has been turned upside down by an unseen enemy called COVID 19. As if it is to insult the intelligence of the world the virus was coronated and it is called CORONA virus which means cr...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 12:55hrs | 1578 | by Bybit Mavaza
Business escalates rice tax deadlock
ZIMBABWE'S retail and wholesale industries, under pressure from Treasury to pay a controversial tax on rice in retrospect, have approached President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Vice-President Co...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:37hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets US$5bn tobacco industry
THE government wants to create a U$5 billion tobacco industry by 2025 as it moves to turn around the economy through agriculture.This comes as Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka told stakehol...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 16:35hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco production target raised to 300 million kgs
The new tobacco selling season opened yesterday with Government hoping that the industry cannot just survive at present levels but raise production to 300 million kilogrammes annually through the impl...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:38hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Case against paying compensation to white farmers for land appropriation
OUR Excellency, President ED Mnangagwa.We are living in a time when the vestiges of white hegemony and entitlement are, at long last, being challenged almost on a daily basis all over the worl...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 07:05hrs | 663 | by Cedric Steele
De Jongh back at Highlanders
FORMER Highlanders coach Hendrikus Pieter de Jongh is back at Bosso as the club's brand ambassador in Netherlands.The Bulawayo football giants yesterday confirmed they are in conversations wit...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tobacco selling season kicks off today
The new tobacco selling season kicks off today with the opening ceremony this morning at the Tobacco Sales Floor in Harare and with contract sales opening tomorrow. The Tobacco Industry and Ma...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 06:44hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Why are so many Countries Legalizing Cannabis?
For a long time, in countries all around the world, marijuana had a terrible reputation. People who used cannabis on a regular basis were known to be lazy, unhelpful stoners that didn't give anything ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 08:57hrs | 1256 | by Staff Writer
Chamisa advised against election boycott
ANALYSTS yesterday urged the MDC Alliance not to boycott elections as doing so would leave the ruling Zanu-PF party enjoying unbridled power.Nelson Chamisa's party looks set to fight with the ...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 07:18hrs | 4741 | by Staff reporter
Fuel price increased again in Zimbabwe
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has increased prices for diesel and blend with effect from today. The review follows adjustments made in February when Zera cited a general rise in fuel...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1055 | by Staff reporter
Govt cuts royalties for gold miners
THE government has reduced royalties payable by artisanal and small-scale gold miners from two percentage points to one percentage point for 500 grammes of the precious yellow metal per month....Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:58hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter
Zera opens fuel import licence applications
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) is now accepting applications for fuel importation licences for 2021, outlawing 2019 fuel procurement licences that were still in use.In a state...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 16:55hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe hurtling towards stagflation'
LAST week the CEO Africa Roundtable (CEOART) gathered some of Zimbabwe's best economists and industrialists to digest economic developments during the first quarter of 2021. What came out of the summi...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:44hrs | 535 | by Staff reporter
Chombo fingered in Augur Investments land scandals
AUGUR Investments, owned by controversial land developer Kern Sharpe, has been caught up in another land scandal involving 239 3923 hectares worth US$$45 428 910.The matter has spilled into th...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:02hrs | 305 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU slams businesses for double dealing
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has slammed some local businesses for enjoying access to foreign currency at the official rate while unfairly pricing their goods and services using parall...Published: 04 Apr 2021 at 09:01hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and de
ZANU PF has no moral high ground to urge the nation to honour struggle icons, as the party at forefront of abandoning heroes, and deleting its own from history.There are two questions that hav...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:12hrs | 867 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Divorce blow or couples
THE Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) yesterday announced a new fee structure for its members that will see couples intending to divorce paying as much as US$2 000 or its equivalent - $170 000 in local cu...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:27hrs | 1186 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mnangagwa duty-bound to hammer way out
THE socio-economic crisis bedevilling the country is untenable and demands that the two major political parties - Zanu-PF and the MDC Alliance - hammer some kind of deal that will help better the lot ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:17hrs | 202 | by Tired Citizen
Highlanders more than a football entity
HIGHLANDERS FC is more than a football entity. It is life and everything to some and leaving Bosso in 1976 would have seen club legend Douglas Mloyi disowned by his own family. The decision no...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:14hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Forced patriotism as Zanu-PF moves to entrench police state
Zanu-PF is pushing the controversial Patriotic Bill to entrench a police state and quash any dissenting voices ahead of the 2023 elections, analysts have said.The government has been previousl...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1796 | by Staff reporter
Gweru residents get home ownership
AT least 198 families in Gweru's oldest suburb, Mtapa, will become home owners after the Gweru City Council agreed to give them ownership of the properties.This comes after several years of lo...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:09hrs | 436 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tobacco floors raring to go
ZIMBABWE'S tobacco auction floors and contracting firms yesterday said they were ready for the opening of this year's marketing season next week. Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:09hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Ntseki fired
The South African Football Association have fired Bafana Bafana coach Molefi Ntseki. He paid the price after the side failed to qualify for the African Cup of Nations finals in Cameroon that wil...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 06:58hrs | 475 | by Staff reporter
Thousands flock to rural areas ahead of curbs countrywide
AHEAD of the 21-day lockdown starting today to contain the spread of Covid-19, thousands of people yesterday thronged Mbare Musika bus rank in Harare and many other pick-up points seeking transport to...Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 06:30hrs | 2457 | by Staff reporter
Commodities Exchange launch rescheduled
The much-anticipated launch of the commodities exchange - the Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) - been extended by a month to April 30 to give allowance for the requisite approvals and promulgation o...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 15:36hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
2,4m urban households food insecure: ZimVAC
APPROXIMATELY 2,4 million Zimbabweans in urban areas are struggling to meet their basic food needs, the latest report by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZimVAC) has revealed.I...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:55hrs | 184 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Zimra sued over rice tax
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) have been taken to court for double taxation on rice imports.The matter was filed yesterday at the High Court under cas...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:55hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
Bona, hubby get 20ha prime land for a song
Then Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo reportedly facilitated a deal whereby the daughter of the late former President Robert Mugabe, Mrs Bona Nyepudzai Mutsahuni, and her husband, Mr Simbarashe Mutsah...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2461 | by Staff reporter
LSZ deregisters 'double-dipping' lawyer
FOUNDER and managing partner of Manokore Attorneys DLA Piper Africa Zimbabwe, Lloyd Manokore, has been deregistered by the Law Society of Zimbabwe (LSZ) for unethical conduct after representing two pa...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:28hrs | 1058 | by Staff reporter
AfDB pegs Zimbabwe growth at 4,2%
ZIMBABWE'S economy contracted by 10% last year and is envisaged to grow by 4,2% in 2021 if effective measures are taken to stabilise foreign exchange and avoid excessive money creation, the African De...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:26hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cost of living spikes again
THE cost of living for an average family of five shot to $26 560 this month, from $25 900 in February, following a price rage that has defied a range of measures lined up to avert a crisis, data from ...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:25hrs | 2653 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube refuses to increase cash withdrawal limits
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says there is no need to increase the weekly $2 000 bank withdrawal limit for individuals as a move to combat the black market. This comes as the Treasury chief a...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 16:25hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Tremors shake Old Mutual SA after ZSE clampdown
JOHANNESBURG Securities Exchange (JSE) listed financial services powerhouse Old Mutual Limited (OML) says crucial negotiations were underway to strike a deal with Harare following the suspension of it...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:58hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's democratic credentials under fresh scrutiny
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's democratic credentials have come under fresh scrutiny after the ruling Zanu-PF revived its push for a law to punish "unpatriotic" Zimbabweans.Zanu-PF chief whip ...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:51hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must sleep with one eye open
So Bishop Lazi heard that his treatise on the proposed Patriot Bill, which is premised on giving sellouts and other quislings of hostile forces their just desserts, had riled the runaway fugitive Prof...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
Bumper harvest to save US$200m
The forecast record maize harvest of 2,8 million tonnes and significant output of other crops such as soyabean, cotton and traditional grains could save the country more than US$200 million, which cou...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:42hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Sakupwanya crowned the Chairperson of Gold Buyers Association
Harare based, "mbinga", and socialite, Pedzisai "Scott" Sakupwanya is now the new boss of the newly formed Gold Buyers Association of Zimbabwe. He has pro...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 19:14hrs | 875 | by Shelton Muchen
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 | 1527 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
The Zimparks, Lake Kariba Fisheries Research Institute (LKFRI) has launched small-scale fisheries (SSF) project that support loc
Titled, "Setting the stage for successful and sustainable management, development and utilisation of the small-scale fisheries of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe" is the project that was launched yesterday by t...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 440 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio correspondent
Fears of third wave as complacency sets in
ZIMBABWE could slide into a third Covid-19 wave due to complacency and failure to observe standard safety regulations after the relaxation of lockdown rules, experts have warned as the re-opening of s...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:54hrs | 1530 | by Staff reporter
Understanding the Zimbabwe economy
I OFTEN say to visiting experts and diplomats that, if you say you understand Zimbabwe, you have not been here long enough.We are a tiny blip on the global radar but we punch well above our we...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:52hrs | 971 | by Eddie Cross
Chicken products prices to soar
PRICES of chicken products are set to spike in the coming month, as the government is yet to renew a piece of legislation that suspended import duty on fertilised poultry eggs for hatching.Sta...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:51hrs | 1858 | by Staff reporter
Natpharm reverses tender nullification
THE National Pharmaceutical Company (Natpharm) has been forced to reverse a decision to disqualify a Chinese firm from a Covid-19 test kits tender after it had been denied on the basis of excluding tr...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 05:48hrs | 986 | by Staff reporter
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