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Zimbabwe launches second space satellite

Zimbabwe is set to launch its second earth observation satellite, ZimSat-2, on Tuesday, marking a significant milestone in the nation's growing space program. The satellite will be launched from Vostochny Cosmodrome in Russia's Amur Oblast…

Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:02hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter

Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema closes democratic space

Zambia's opposition parties yesterday made distress calls on the diminishing state of democracy and restrictions on civil liberties and political rights by President Hakainde Hichilema's administration following the arrest of five oppositi…

Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Foreigners 'invade' retail space reserved for Zimbabweans

ZIMBABWEAN authorities have been allocating retail licenses to foreigners in contravention of the law, investigations have established.Retail space in the capital Harare is now dominated by Indians, Chinese, Pakistanis, Nigerians, Malawian…

Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe govt puts space barons on notice

THE Harare Metropolitan province yesterday announced plans to set up a taskforce targeting space barons and businesses operating without permits.The taskforce will comprise the police, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority, National Social Securi…

Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The invention and revolutionary stand of the hubble space telescope

Space is huge. It is estimated to be more than 23 trillion light years diameter wise. For context of its sheer size, think of a single light year which is around 5.8 trillion miles. Although there are estimates of how large the universe is…

Published: 01 Nov 2021 at 18:16hrs | 29 | by Staff writer

Zimbabwe democratic space has shrunk

IT is indisputable that the little democratic space that existed during ex-President Robert Mugabe's tyrannical era has now even shrunk further.I write this article with a bleeding heart, as scenes from Zimbabwe, reminiscent of the brutal …

Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze

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IN an article in March 2011, the journalist Mike Norrish wryly noted that "Cricket seems to have run out of ways to spice things up. It's even been left behind by Formula One, where Bernie "The Rainmaker" Ecclestone is implementing devilis…

Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Tim Middleton

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Search / Space

Zimbabwe launches second space satellite

Zambia's Hakainde Hichilema closes democratic space

Foreigners 'invade' retail space reserved for Zimbabweans

Zimbabwe govt puts space barons on notice

The invention and revolutionary stand of the hubble space telescope

Zimbabwe democratic space has shrunk

Watch this space

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