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Kariba power station surpasses Power generation targets in Q2
Kariba power station generated 72 percent of the 2 300 GWh that the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) sent out during the second quarter of this year on the back of improved water availability and plant ef...Published: 9 hrs ago | 374 | by Staff reporter
'We can only afford 232 houses, not 300 000'
HOUSING Amenities minister Daniel Garwe yesterday said government had budgeted to build less than 250 houses this year, indirectly admitting to selling the public a dummy when it pledged 300 000 annua...Published: 16 hrs ago | 612 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe politics remains toxic'
HUMAN rights watchdog, Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) says the country's political environment has remained toxic with Zanu-PF cited as the worst culprits.In its latest monthly report titled Tox...Published: 16 hrs ago | 96 | by Staff reporter
Residents petition Parly over devolution funds abuse
THE Combined Harare Residents Association (CHRA) has petitioned Parliament to protest how the Local Government ministry is dictating how devolution funds should be utilised by local authorities....Published: 16 hrs ago | 80 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells profiteers to play fair,
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated the need to adopt fair business practices and urged economic stakeholders to rally behind the country's transformation agenda and leave a legacy of positive im...Published: 16 hrs ago | 64 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt abandons SA diaspora
THE Zimbabwe government has confirmed that it will not assist its citizens based in South Africa facing deportation in December after the expiry of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) with Foreign A...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:23hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes first journalist arrests under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe's Press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages."The pair wer...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Small-scale miners contribute bulk of Zimbabwe's gold output
The country's gold output in the last seven months amounted to 18 940 kilogrammes with the bulk coming from small-scale miners who have contributed 11 444 kilogrammes while output from formal mines is...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:35hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hectic schedule
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning an...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat roads' mischief
There is a popular Chinese proverb which goes: "if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first", and this is often quoted to explain some of the accelerated development taking place in the Asi...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 412 | by Lovemore Chikova
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 | 367 | by Victor Bhoroma
Munangangwa's campaign team off to false start in Buhera
President Mnangagwa's campaign for the watershed harmonised plebiscite slated for next year got off to a false start in Buhera owing to some suspicious elements leading the team, this publication lear...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 11:48hrs | 969 | by Edson Mapani
400 Zimbabwean schools connected to internet
GOVERNMENT yesterday said it had connected more than 400 schools to the internet.Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa said this was part of gov...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Former Amakorokoza lead actor, AK returns to Zimbabwe after 13 years in South Africa
FORMER Amakorokoza lead actor Bhekilizwe Ndlovu, best known for his role as AK in the hit 2002 drama, has returned to Zimbabwe after 13 years in South Africa.Ndlovu, who seems to have diverted...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
60% of population owns houses
Almost 60 percent of Zimbabwean households own their home and more than 83 percent of Zimbabweans now live in modern houses and flats, showing both the high levels of home ownership and the rapid impr...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 226 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe, SA to collaborate on expiry of permits'
Zimbabwe and South Africa will work together to find a common solution on the Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP that are due to expire at the end of this year.This emerged yesterday during the m...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 474 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economy enters growth phase'
President Mnangagwa said Zimbabwe's economy has transitioned from recovery to a growth phase, adding economic activity is projected to expand by a weighty 4,6 percent in 2022 despite the negative impa...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
BCC, TTI reviews parking model with immediate effect
Motorists will now be able to transfer their paid parking time to different parking bays after the City of Bulawayo and Tendy Three Investments Private Limited (TTI) reviewed the smart parking p...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 18:26hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's broke govt rules out US dollar salaries
GOVERNMENT has cast doubt over the possibility of paying civil servants in US dollars as inflation continues to ravage salaries amid growing tensions and fears of unrest, The NewsHawks can report....Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 2557 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's US$500m Zim Cyber City 'murky' investor exposed
MULK International, the United Arab Emirates-based company roped in by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to build a US$500 million Zim Cyber City in Harare, secretly bought Nigeria's National Theatre for U...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:46hrs | 2720 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cash-rich govt suppliers fuel currency volatility
GOVERNMENT procurement and service providers - who include public works contractors and suppliers of goods and services - are destabilising the foreign exchange market by offloading part of their stag...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
BCC to turn Emganwini house into clinic
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) plans to renovate a house in the sprawling Emganwini suburb and turn it into a makeshift clinic because the local authority has no budget for the construction of a proper h...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe oil could be new source of conflict'
CENTRE for Natural Resource Governance executive director Farai Maguwu has warned that the possible oil findings in Muzarabani could lead to conflict.Recently, the Britain-based independent oi...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
BCC councillors shoot down Belarus fire tender deal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) councillors have shot down government's directive that BCC should procure fire tender vehicles from Belarus.A latest council report indicates that town clerk Christ...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:22hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charts new inclusive path
THE Government will give a holistic account of the country's liberation struggle by honouring forgotten heroes such as the late Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole and James Chikerema among others for their c...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:17hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe a friend to all, an enemy to none'
Address by the President of the Republic 0f Zimbabwe His Excellency, ED Mnangagwa at the 42nd Heroes Day Commemorations. It is my singular honour and privilege to be addressing you all, at thi...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:16hrs | 89 | by ED Mnangagwa
Mliswa blasts July Moyo for Harare's worsening water problems
INDEPENDENT Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has teared into Minister of Local Government, July Moyo for plunging Harare into debilitating water shortages.Most areas in the capital experienced w...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1957 | by Staff reporter
Ex Zanu-PF youth boss Lewis Matutu bounces back
FORMER Zanu-PF deputy youth secretary, Lewis Matutu, who was stopped in his daring anti-corruption fight against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, has resurfaced, this tim...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:51hrs | 4428 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says said Mnangagwa is Zanu-PF's sole candidate in the 2023 election
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has said President Mnangagwa is Zanu-PF's sole candidate in the 2023 Presidential election.VP Chiwenga was addressing multitudes of Zion Christian Church me...Published: 08 Aug 2022 at 05:44hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Equipment woes force Bulawayo road rehab scale down
A COMBINATION of breakdowns and shortages of plant and machinery has forced the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to scale down on capital projects including the ongoing road rehabilitation works.A ...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:52hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Wadyajena exposed
DESPITE growing pressure for him to step down from the parliamentary committee on Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement to pave way for an investigation involving alleged abuse of office, G...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe average salary very low as poverty bites
SEVEN out of 10 employed people in Zimbabwe earned a monthly salary of ZW$20 000 in January this year, an income which was below the obtaining bread basket as urban poverty hits the southern African n...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:51hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Mayor, councillors fume over US$20 monthly allowance
HARARE councillors are seething with anger, describing Local Government minister July Moyo (pictured) as inconsiderate and heartless in failing to review the paltry monthly allowances given to city fa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 18:49hrs | 255 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's new wife introduces him as Bulawayo's 'son-in-law'
THERE were wild cheers in eNtumbane suburb in Bulawayo when Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's new wife Miniyothabo Baloyi, speaking for the first time since their marriage, introduced him as the c...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:45hrs | 6754 | by Staff reporter
Passport office contractor in row over payments
A dispute has erupted between Kingdom Five Zimbabwe; a company contracted by government to do renovations for the Harare e-passport centre, and its workers as well as subcontracted companies over unpa...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:29hrs | 3411 | by Staff reporter
Harare cancels Pomona waste deal
The Harare City Council has resolved to cancel the Pomona waste management deal that was imposed on the local authority by the Local Government ministry.Council had resolved to suspend the 30-...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:28hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Lupane State University students win innovation prize
LUPANE State University (LSU) scooped the top award at the Enactus awards ceremony organised and hosted by Boost Fellowship in Harare on Friday to walk away with $400 000.The Entrepreneu...Published: 07 Aug 2022 at 08:27hrs | 145 | 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 | 535 | by Staff reporter
Mai TT, A full blown ZANU PF sideshow political project
Despite intense infighting that characterizes Zanu PF, the fact remains that ZANU PF is determined to win the next election at any cost. For them, there is just too much at stake and they cannot affor...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 09:27hrs | 1837 | by Knowledge Hakata
Bulawayo gets a key dam
A $42-million dam a century in the making could end water shortages for more than half a million Zimbabweans — and win votes for the ruling party in an opposition stronghold that may decide next yea...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 3777 | by Staff reporter
Shot in arm for BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has approved well-wisher's offer to instal solar systems at some of the council's facilities to ensure smooth running of operations during power outages.According t...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over BCC parking funds
DELAYS by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to use funds collected from Tendy Three Investment (TTI) to rehabilitate the city's roads has sparked outrage among residents.TTI is charging US$1 per...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Matshe Koko's firm to build massive solar plant in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has signed a power purchasing agreement with a South African independent power producer, Matshela Energy Limited, for a 100MW sol...Published: 05 Aug 2022 at 06:38hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors want parking system contract revised
Bulawayo councillors on Wednesday hit out at the "unfair" parking system which was imposed on the city's residents, with one warning fellow councillors that they were underestimating the depth of publ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 22:32hrs | 484 | by Staff reporter
Harare street-lighting project takes off
THE City of Harare has embarked on a smart street-lighting pilot project covering 35km of the capital city's major road network."The project covers Airport Road, Seke Road, Julius Nyerere Way,...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 730 | by Staff reporter
Lager beer production seen up 11%
DELTA Beverages says its lager beer portfolio is performing ahead of prior year, with a target to produce more than two million hectolitres this year, up 11% compared to prior year.Last year, ...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe will win economic war
ZIMBABWE will attain a prosperous future and overcome the economic challenges being engineered by its detractors bent on making the economy "scream" through asymmetrical warfare targeting ordinary cit...Published: 04 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
'Ziyambi tricked us on PVOs Bill'
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) claim that Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi tricked them into believing that their submissions to the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVOs) Amendment Bill would be ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:45hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Government connects 400 schools to the internet
GOVERNMENT has connected 400 schools to the internet in all the country's 10 provinces as part of an ongoing programme to accelerate the implementation of the national e-learning strategy.The ...Published: 03 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF made 235 poll promises, keeps 13
Zanu-PF made 235 electoral promises in the run up to the 2018 polls, but only managed to keep only 13, less than a year to polls in 2023, a non-governmental organisation has claimed.Independen...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
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