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Kasukuwere mourns Munatsi
Exiled Saviour Kasukuwere sent his condolence message to the Munatsi family following the untimely death of Chief Executive Officer of Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency, Douglas Munatsi who died ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 798 | by Simbarashe Sithole
BREAKING: Zimbabwe Top Banker burnt to death in his house
CEO of the Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency, Douglas Munatsi, has died. He was burnt by a fire that gutted his flat located at the corner of Fifth Street and Josiah Tongogara Avenue on Monda...Published: 6 hrs ago | 5604 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Cosatu making attempts to negotiate for Zimbabwean migrants
THE Congress of South African Unions (Cosatu) has revealed plans to engage the government on behalf of Zimbabweans that are likely to be deported due to expiry of the Special Dispensation Permits (ZSP...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2160 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pays US$44m of foreign debt
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration paid US$44,2 million to foreign creditors during the nine months to September, as part of its refreshed debt repayment plan, data showed at the weekend....Published: 9 hrs ago | 381 | by Staff reporter
ZEC removes 22 000 from voters roll
More than 22 000 dead people have been removed from the voters rolls in the latest batch of such routine deletions, with a notification and appeal process in place in case a mistake was made, while th...Published: 9 hrs ago | 268 | by Staff reporter
Chinese firm yet to start airport job seven months after contract
The multi-million-dollar contract to fix Zimbabwe's Air Traffic Control Communication Systems (ATCCS) by China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) is yet to commence, seven months after the Chinese mul...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 13:07hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Graft scandal rocks govt agency
Zimbabwe's research institute under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Development ministry has been rocked by reports of graft, maladministration and corporate misgovernance co...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:03hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter
US$4 billion mystery in Afreximbank, Zimbabwe deals
SHARP differences emerged between Zimbabwean authorities and the Africa Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank) on Friday over the value of loans extended by the regional lender to Harare.During a ...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:02hrs | 740 | by Staff reporter
Power crisis pushes Blanket Mine into fresh costs
GOLD focused resources giant, Caledonia Mining Corporation says it will increase capital injections at its Zimbabwe-based Blanket Mine by 78% in 2022 due to a worsening power crisis.The New Yo...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 08:01hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
New Covid-19 variant: Zimbabwe to decide on injiva
THE Government has said it is monitoring the new Covid-19 variant that has been detected in South Africa and Botswana with a view of coming up with a way of controlling the spread of the virus ahead o...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:53hrs | 530 | by Staff reporter
US$1bn SDRs to be used over three years
The US$958 million worth of Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) allocated to Zimbabwe by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be used over a three-year period, with US$311 million expected to be relea...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:48hrs | 33 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for new Covid-19 variant
The GOVERNMENT has set in motion an intensive Covid-19 mass vaccination blitz to thwart the looming threat of the recently discovered omicron variant which threatens to plunge the country into a fresh...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:47hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
Spirit of Morrison Nyati still lives
IF you are as old as Bishop Lazi, you probably would never be able to banish the irrepressible memories of those chicken bus rides from the village to the city, or vice versa.However forgettab...Published: 28 Nov 2021 at 07:41hrs | 64 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to acquire a new chopper after scary incidents
GOVERNMENT has set in motion plans to acquire a helicopter for President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid concerns over his security following a spate of hair-raising incidents aboard ageing and unreliable Air...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 2228 | by Staff reporter
Marc Holtzman: His axis with Mnangagwa and CBZ Bank
ON Monday last week - 15 November - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa travelled with a delegation of senior government officials and top business executives to the Intra-African Trade Fair in Du...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1475 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt to borrow US$1,4bn
GOVERNMENT has announced a plan to borrow ZW$146,8 billion (about US$1,4 billion) in 2022 to fund various infrastructure development projects.This debt would add to the existing stock of US$13...Published: 26 Nov 2021 at 19:42hrs | 617 | by Staff Rporter
Zimbabwe needs a president who actually listens more than he talks!
Ever since the advent of the so-called 'Second Republic' (also deceptively misnamed, 'new dispensation', as there is hardly anything 'new' about those in power) through a military coup d'etat in Novem...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 12:59hrs | 725 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Pegged exchange rate unsustainable
Zimbabwe's export receipts for the first 9 months of 2021 jumped 38% to US$6.10 billion from US$4.43 billion realized in the same period in 2020. Notable improvements have been realized in internation...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:37hrs | 1642 | by Victor Bhoroma
Four die from COVID-19
FOUR people succumbed to Covid-19 while 33 new cases were recorded in the country yesterday.All the new cases are local transmissions. The country had last recorded a death on November 1...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 08:42hrs | 1447 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean failure
LOOKING back over the past 40 years in Zimbabwe, I am surprised we are still here.In 1980, I was playing a small part in the transition from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe in that I was selected as one ...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:57hrs | 461 | by Eddie Cross
US$28m in taxpayers' funds misappropriated in corrupt deal
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Lands has recommended that the police and Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission investigate the Grain Millers' Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) and its president T...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1980 | by Staff reporter
Zimpapers editors directed to 'support Zanu-PF'
The chairman of the Zimbabwe Newspapers Group (Zimpapers) has told editors to openly declare support for Zanu-PF before elections, claiming: "It happens everywhere."Tommy Sithole told editors ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
Mutanda fights CAPS govt shareholding claim
WAR veteran and businessman Fredrick Charles Mutanda has approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside an arbitration ruling that government is the majority shareholder of pharmaceutical com...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:11hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Malema defends EFF's failure to disclose funders
EFF leader Julius Malema says his party has nothing to hide and this was the reason they did not disclose any donations.The Electoral Commission of South Africa (IEC) published a second quarte...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:55hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF issues new e-cards
Zanu-PF has started issuing new electronic membership cards with Harare province getting the first batch, but the programme will soon be rolled out to other provinces.The electronic system is ...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:54hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
IDC throws out bids for Deven
TWO local companies seeking a shareholding in Deven Engineering had their bids thrown out after they failed to offer the "best value for money" for the coach builder.Deven's core competence is...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 05:50hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
Graft scandal rocks govt agency
Zimbabwe's research institute under the Higher and Tertiary Education, Innovation Science and Development ministry has been rocked by reports of graft, maladministration and corporate misgovernance co...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:26hrs | 833 | by Staff Reporter
Banga laid to rest
SCORES of mourners thronged Nhekairo Village in Hwedza communal lands for the burial of veteran lecturer and media practitioner Peter Banga.He was head of department for Mass Communication at ...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 12:52hrs | 2281 | by Virimayi Nzira
Stanbic donates US$15000 haemodialysis machine to Gwanda Provincial Hospital
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank, has donated a Haemodialysis machine to Gwanda Provincial Hospital to alleviate challenges faced by kidney patients at the health institution and i...Published: 19 Nov 2021 at 12:39hrs | 411 | by Agencies
Govt to construct 144 modern boarding schools
GOVERNMENT will construct 144 modern boarding schools countrywide next year to mitigate against the shortage of learning institutions.The boarding schools will be built in each of the country'...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to commission Beitbridge projects today
President Mnangagwa is today expected to commission 28 houses for civil servants and also assess progress on projects being implemented under the Beitbridge Redevelopment Programme (BRP).The G...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:14hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
SRC dissolves Zifa, ready for backlash
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) have dissolved the ZIFA board and are ready for the storm which their decision could provoke, including the possible suspension of Zimbabwe, from internation...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:11hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
New money transfer firm enters Zimbabwe market
A new international money transfer company, Mojo Mula Transfers, has entered Zimbabwe's financial market after partnering with retail giant, OK Zimbabwe to open branches across the country.The...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:06hrs | 775 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 protocols remain in force
Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by chairman of the Ministers' National Committee, Vice President and M...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:06hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over anti 'regime change' NGOs Bill
THE recently-gazetted Private Voluntary Organisation (PVO) Amendment Bill violates the Constitution, legal think-tanks said yesterday, adding that it failed to explain why government wanted to revamp ...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 1262 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo, a freedom fighter par excellence
LIBERATOR, bureaucrat, corporate communications expert, politician, author and diplomat all rolled into one.Simon Khaya Moyo was a top functionary during the struggle and thereafter, continued...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda Provincial Hospital receives dialysis machine
STANBIC Bank yesterday donated a haemodialysis machine worth US$15 000 to Gwanda Provincial Hospital.Matabeleland South Provincial Development Co-ordinator Ms Latiso Dlamini said Government is...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 146 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Saints legend dies
ZIMBABWE Saints legend Shacky Toindepi Nyathi has died.He was 58.Nyathi collapsed and died at his Mzilikazi home in Bulawayo on Sunday.His best friend and former teammate Godfr...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 1152 | by Staff reporter
Resident acquitted on charge of stealing BCC manhole lids
A BULAWAYO resident who was accused of stealing Bulawayo City Council's sewerage manhole lids valued at $17 200 was last week found not guilty of the crime and acquitted at the close of the Stat...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance accepts failure, welcomes Govt support
President Mnangagwa's administration has been thanked by the opposition-controlled Harare City Council for assisting in infrastructural development, from renovation of the critical health facilities t...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rubbishes G40 election claims
The ruling Zanu-PF has rubbished claims that former G40 elements pose a threat to its hopes of romping to victory in the 2023 elections, saying it will not be distracted by "a few outside noisemakers"...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:24hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to import 400MW to bridge power deficit
STATE power utility, Zesa Holdings, intends to import up to 400 megawatts from Mozambique and Zambia as part of measures to end a debilitating power crisis, a senior executive said.This comes ...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:20hrs | 232 | by Staff reporter
Local institution sends 24 chefs to the US
Harare-based SAHTC - The Hospitality School, on Thursday held a send-off lunch for 24 trainee chefs, who are travelling to the United States for a one-year internship at two luxury properties....Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 391 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt chases Kasukuwere shadow
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration activated its entire security and bureaucratic machinery which spent the better part of last week hunting for exiled former Local Government minister Savi...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity to roll out mobile gold buying units
GOLD buying subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) is set to roll out mobile gold buying units next year, as part of efforts to curb leakages and smuggl...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:39hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
USD cash bonuses explained
CIVIL servants and Government pensioners will receive their bonuses later this month through bank deposits into their nostro accounts, Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube ...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 579 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economic fundamentals are strong'
THE economy is on a growth trajectory with Gross Domestic Product (GDP) projected to grow by 7,8 percent in 2021, attributed to a favourable rainfall season, higher international mineral commodity pri...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:38hrs | 73 | by Professor Mthuli Ncube
99% Govt workers vaccinated?
CLOSE to 99 percent of Government workers in Zimbabwe have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 ahead of next month's deadline by which all civil servants must be immunised or face disciplinary acti...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
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