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Used clothes take Zimbabwe by storm
Kimberley Dube takes great care with her appearance. She always looks sharp and fashionable in smart-looking jeans, t-shirts, sweatpants, tops, and designer sneakers."I love jeans - can't get ...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 11:24hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Benjani Mwaruwari gets coaching job in England
FORMER Warriors captain Benjani Mwaruwari has kick-started his journey towards a return to coaching after earning an opportunity to work with English Championship side Plymouth Argyle's juniors....Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar flounders
Zimbabwe's central bank will hold its first rate-setting meeting of the year next Monday as it seeks to deal with a currency rout.The monetary policy committee will meet "to discuss interventi...Published: 25 Jan 2024 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mayweather encounter stokes boxing flames in Zimbabwean prodigy
BEAVEN Sibanda shoved and pushed tens of people, including security detail, desperately trying to get an up close for an autograph from his boxing hero, his stature betraying his efforts."I co...Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spiritual home of Black cricket in Zimbabwe finally gets international recognition
Bill Flower realized 30 years ago that cricket wouldn't survive, let alone bloom, in Zimbabwe unless it reached out to the country's Black majority and found a place in their hearts.Part of hi...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 13:09hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can learn from Ashes Series
Zimbabwe's Test players are likely to be keeping an eye on proceedings in England over the coming months as a new chapter is to be written in Ashes history.It's a series that will see the seco...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 16:12hrs | 10 | by Staff Reporter
$14 billion gold digital tokens bought so far in Zimbabwe
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said a total 139 570 982 milligrammes (139,57kg) of gold-backed digital tokens valued at $14 077 billion were bought during the initial sale, which opened on Mon...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mubobobo dream stokes gruesome murder rage
IN a shockingly bizarre development, a man from Chiredzi in Masvingo province was a fortnight ago gruesomely murdered and his head crushed with an axe handle by a fellow villager who had sensationally...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 18:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
White skin, black masks!
Two developments caught my attention this week. One is a Brenthurst Foundation scholarship invitation to young Africans intent on pursuing postgraduate studies.Brenthurst Foundation is owned a...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:08hrs | | by Jamwanda
Zimbabwe star Sikandar Raza makes history by claiming ICC monthly award
VETERAN all-rounder Sikandar Raza has created history by becoming the first Zimbabwe player to win the ICC Men's Player of the Month award.Raza beat New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner an...Published: 12 Sep 2022 at 19:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Sikandar Raza shortlisted for ICC Player of the Month award
ZIMBABWE cricket star Sikandar Raza has been shortlisted for the ICC Men's Player of the Month award for August 2022 in recognition of his outstanding individual performances against Bangladesh and In...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC: A Triple Legacy for Zimbabwe
Dying for European perspectiveAMUSING if it was not tragic. The European Union, EU, has granted Ukraine candidate status. It's a remote stage along a very long continuum to eventual EU&n...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:22hrs | | by Jamwanda
Govt cracks down on speculators
GOVERNMENT is clamping down on big corporates, which borrowed billions of Zimbabwe dollars and used the money for speculative activities while taking advantage of exchange rate movements to push up pr...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bank lending freeze targets big corporates enjoying 'arbitrage profits'
HARARE - The Zimbabwe government is clamping down on big corporates which borrowed billions in Zimbabwean dollars and allegedly used the money for speculative activities.Authorities say the co...Published: 13 May 2022 at 14:50hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Fuel hikes to worsen economic woes
GOVERNMENT yesterday increased prices of petrol and diesel by 23.78% and 18.23% respectively, a move that economists said will result in a hike in prices of basic goods and services and further erode ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkayi South MP's rant stokes fire
NKAYI South legislator Stars Mathe (Zanu-PF) has come under fire for criticising residents who had expressed disgruntlement over delays in the rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Nkayi Road.Mathe l...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new $50 can't buy bread
LAST week, the Zimbabwean central bank introduced a $50 note, the country's highest denomination since a return to Zimbabwean dollars as the main currency in 2019.It joins other denominations ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CJ Malaba case stokes fire
TOP human rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa has called for investigation and suspension of Judicial Service Commission (JSC) secretary Walter Chikwana over his alleged meeting with one of the judges assig...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe forex rules 'a tragedy of good intentions'
LAST week's promulgation of Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021, which penalises issuance of local currency receipt for foreign currency purchases and pricing goods above the official auction rate, among...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 09:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MP stokes Zanu-PF factional fights
CHIREDZI West MP, Farai Musikavanhu (Zanu-PF) has torched a storm after he commented on behalf of two other legislators with regards to the controversial lucerne grass project in the Chilonga area of ...Published: 10 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
What you need to get if you want to safely try recreational marijuana
Using recreational marijuana these days is a liberating and enjoyable experience. As more and more states are changing their stance on the use of marijuana for medical and recreational purposes, peopl...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 19:17hrs | 16 | by Staff writer
Mawere stokes flames in SA judiciary
THE case of exiled Zimbabwean business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere, who was controversially muscled out of ShabanieMashaba Mine (SMM) Holdings, is now at the centre of judicial capture.Mawere was in...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
'G40 money' stokes Zanu-PF bloodletting
FISSURES are widening in the ruling Zanu-PF, amid damaging allegations of "dirty money" exchanging hands to influence the outcome of the party's district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections....Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
4 'mysteries' of Zim'babwe's economic crisis
Zimbabwe continues to groan under the crushing weight of an economic disaster rapidly manifesting through hyper-inflation, capital flight and a crippling energy crisis, among other symptoms of economi...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Zuze
Harare water-rationing stokes cholera fears
Harare City Council says it is limiting running water to two days a week due to a drier-than-normal rainy season as criticism mounted over the move.The aim of water-rationing is to help distri...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:39hrs | 7 | by VOA
Loan shark who terrorised fellow Zimbabweans must repay £40,000 or face jail
Loan shark Rita Tahwa has been ordered to repay £40,000 (US$52,000) or face going to jail after she illegally lent money to 100 members of the Zimbabwean community.The 43-year-old started loa...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | | by stokesentinel.co.uk
Mnangagwa stokes debate on death penalty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again stoked debate on capital punishment after concurring with a European Union position on the emotive matter. The EU said capital punishment had not establishe...Published: 13 Oct 2018 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?
Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
How the 2018 polls will be lost or won
This week's article focusses on an important subject: how the 2018 elections will be won or lost.Regrettably, but for good reason, I will disappoint a number of my readers who believe in the c...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Innocent Batsani Ncube
Tsvangirai statement stokes tensions in MDC-T
MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai's intimation of a possible imminent retirement from active politics is stoking tensions in the party, as rival camps have started bickering on whether he should bow o...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Commando Ministers
Are we going commando again? It begins by naming major general Sibusiso Moyo and air marshall Perrence Shiri as ministers and while you are thinking ahhh this is it the next move is Chiwenga is Vice P...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 23:07hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
HIV life expectancy 'near normal' thanks to new drugs
Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have near-normal life expectancy because of improvements in treatments, a study in The Lancet suggests.Twenty-year-olds who started antiretroviral ther...Published: 11 May 2017 at 07:52hrs | | by BBc
5 Zimbabwean 'robbers' arrested in South Africa
SOUTH Africa police have arrested five Zimbabweans in connection with an armed robbery at a jewellery shop at a Johannesburg mall.The armed robbers allegedly made off with jewellery wo...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man jailed for US tax fraud
DALLAS - A Zimbabwean man resident in north Texas has been sentenced to 93 months (nearly 8 years) in a US Federal Prison for his role in a Stolen Identity Refund Fraud (SIRF) Scheme that raked in mil...Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 22:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Women must also know their limits'
If ever there is one litigious question that can arise for discussion, it is the question of what passes for propriety in dressing.There are as many opinions on the subject as there are grains...Published: 22 Jan 2015 at 12:21hrs | | by Learnmore Zuze
Zimbabwean gang leaders jailed in UK over 'biggest cheque scam'
A 43-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwean man, Charles Nyongo from Leeds who helped mastermind what is thought to have been the country's biggest ever cheque scam has been jailed.Nyongo was one of the ringle...Published: 09 Oct 2014 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff Reporters
Mutsvangwa stokes Zanu-PF firestorm
Zanu-PF structures in the country's 10 provinces are divided on how to deal with Foreign Affairs deputy minister Chris Mutsvangwa who has of late been attacking senior party officials as factionalism ...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe man builds a micro-light aircraft
Young Glen View motor mechanic, Kenneth Sampili (33) has become the talk of the high-density suburb lately, not because of his skilful handling of motor engines, but his recent feat - an ambitious at...Published: 20 Jan 2014 at 21:53hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean born batsman included in England squad
Yorkshire's Zimbabwe-born middle-order batsman included in squad as England go for fourth consecutive Ashes series win.Gary Ballance, a nephew of former Zimbabwe captain David Houghton, was t...Published: 23 Sep 2013 at 15:35hrs | | by Sports reporter
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