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Mthuli Ncube sees 2025 growth rebound after this year's drought
Zimbabwe has projected economic growth to accelerate to 6 percent in 2025 from 2 percent this year, helped by improved agricultural output and power generation as the country recovers from a severe dr...Published: 28 Nov 2024 at 16:32hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's big business wants spaza shop economy?
Major businesses across South Africa are looking to capitalise on the country's booming informal economy, with many companies licking their lips at an opportunity worth hundreds of billions of rands....Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 10:04hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa met Botswana's Boko
President Emmerson Mnangagwa used the platform of the regional World Children's Day commemoration in Victoria Falls on Saturday to hold a crucial meeting with newly elected Botswana President Duma Bok...Published: 19 Nov 2024 at 13:51hrs | 4536 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents call for mosquito control
As the rainy season brings increased mosquito activity to the city, residents are urging the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) to prioritize mosquito control efforts. The rising number of mosquitoes, compou...Published: 11 Nov 2024 at 15:43hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Pathisa Nyathi's final journey: Exploring African science and witchcraft
In a chilly July mid-morning last year, Pathisa Nyathi, a renowned African cultural historian and prolific author, walked into the Sunday News newsroom, carrying with him three new books. These works ...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:49hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Warriors call ups manipulated to disadvantage some teams
In recent weeks, tensions have flared within Zimbabwe's football circles as several top club coaches voiced frustration over national team call-ups disrupting their squads in key matches. These disput...Published: 03 Nov 2024 at 10:01hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants govt to enforce 'use it or lose it policy' in mining
ZANU-PF has instructed the government to amend legislation on exclusive prospecting orders (EPOs) and enforce the "use it or lose it" policy to prevent mining companies and individuals from holding cl...Published: 02 Nov 2024 at 08:35hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Democrats are trying to fool Americans about Kamala!
The allegories and stories we were taught at school were supposed to teach us something about life and the real world.In one of the masterpieces of all time, Mark Antony addresses Brutus, a co...Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 13:02hrs | 704 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Bosso fans versus Farai Jere and Mutasa
In an unprecedented move, Highlanders Football Club supporters boycotted their team's 2-0 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) win over ZPC Kariba at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday. The protest w...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 12:19hrs | 2778 | by Staff reporter
Rampant deforestation blamed for climate change
The Africa Carbon Forum (formerly the Africa Voluntary Carbon Credits Market Forum, or AVCCMF) has blamed the rampant cutting down of trees and irresponsi...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:09hrs | 100 | by Stephen Jakes
Chrome ore concentrates are not minerals, rules Zimbabwe High Court
High Court Justice Siyabona Paul Musithu has issued a landmark ruling that could significantly affect the financial landscape for chrome miners in Zimbabwe. The court has determined that chrome ore co...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:15hrs | 1527 | by Staff reporter
The politics of water in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Water has always been an important and valuable resource to humanity, which partly explains why most great civilisations were situated near water bodies. The value of water is much more amplified when...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 19:46hrs | 1073 | by Craig Tinashe Tanyanyiwa
Bulawayo residents face rates hike
Bulawayo residents may face higher rates and rentals next year as the city council considers revising various levies, along with introducing special road and water levies. This was revealed during the...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:58hrs | 392 | by Staff reporter
Caps United's strikers in the spotlight
Caps United's season has been rocky, winning only one of their last eight matches, putting them at risk of relegation. Today's game against Bikita Minerals at Sakubva Stadium is crucial for their surv...Published: 24 Jul 2024 at 09:13hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP, Opposition councillor fight for recognition
Mazowe North Member of Parliament Tsungai Makumbe (ZANU PF) together with Mvurwi ward four councillor Thulani Ndlovu (CCC) on Sunday allegedly fought for recognition at Mvurwi stadium by donating spor...Published: 23 Jul 2024 at 16:33hrs | 574 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zimbabwe's currency will remain fully backed by gold reserves
Zimbabwe's government will stick to what it promised when it launched a new currency in April by ensuring it remains fully backed by reserves, the central bank governor told Reuters on Wednesday, addi...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 09:20hrs | 752 | by Staff reporter
Minister fires warning shots at Harare brothels
Tourism and Hospitality Industry Minister, Barbara Rwodzi has expressed dissatisfaction with mushrooming brothels countrywide, announcing Harare as the main culprit where unregistered 'quickie nests' ...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 17:17hrs | 268 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo seeks to draw water from Filabusi
The escalating water crisis in Bulawayo has prompted city officials to seek updates on plans to draw water from Lake Cunningham in Filabusi, Matabeleland South province. The city is currently implemen...Published: 06 Jul 2024 at 11:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Joe Biden at 81 versus Robert Mugabe at 81: No match
AS HAS BECOME ITS ENTRENCHED TENDENCY, a characteristically thoughtless and delinquent segment of the political opposition in Zimbabwe has been busy using old-age to make asinine comparisons between t...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 09:17hrs | 49 | by Jonathan Moyo
The imbecility of Macron - 'Africa can't manage the world!'
Imbecility of MacronFollowing a wave of anti-French feelings across Francophone Africa, a former Economic Minister for France, one Thierry Breton, took to twitter and posted the following: "It...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:43hrs | 209 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
ZiG needs to be backed by RBZ discipline
According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), a structured currency is a currency that is pegged to a specific exchange rate or currency basket and backed by a bundle of foreign exchange assets lik...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 18:04hrs | 2 | by Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development
Half ZiG and coins to start circulating on April 30
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) in the 2024 Monetary Policy Statement introduced a new "structured currency" termed ZiG (Zimbabwe Gold) on April 5. A "structured currency" is a currency tha...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kaindu speaks on big game
A FEW days before Highlanders and Dynamos rekindle their rivalry, a rare 2024 Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) season opener at Barbourfields Stadium on Sunday, the big match feeling has undou...Published: 07 Mar 2024 at 05:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's power retention moves face tricky constitutional hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's bid to seek a third term in office, which he has set in motion, faces legal hurdles because the constitution bars incumbents from benefiting from an amendment allowing a...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's gamble faces legal hurdles
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's long-standing bid to seek a third term in office faces legal hurdles amid revelations by constitutional law experts that any constitutional amendment for an extension of...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:55hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Utseya resigns
THE Zimbabwe U19 camp remained united yesterday amid reports that Prosper Utseya will leave his coaching post after the team's campaign in the Men's U19 World Cup where they face-off with hosts South ...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZBCtv Secures Full Broadcast Rights For 2023 AFCON
The broadcasting rights for all fifty-two games of the ongoing 2023 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) tournament in the Ivory Coast have been secured by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation Television (Z...Published: 14 Jan 2024 at 20:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nepotism dents post-election period
Zimbabwe Open University academic Didymus Dewa recently said issues of nepositism, clientalism, patronage and loyalism affected the major political parties that won the elections in the August 23 and ...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 21:44hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Zapu blast tribal ZBC presenters
ZAPU spokesperson Richard Gandari has blasted the ZBC presenters who made tribal attacks on the Ndebele King LObengula live on TV claiming he was depicted to sell the country to colonialis...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 15:24hrs | 39 | by Stephen Jakes
Mighty Warriors coach acquitted
A Harare magistrate Mrs Esther Chichera has acquitted Zimbabwe senior women's football coach Shadreck Mlauzi of two charges of indecently assaulting a female member of the technical team after she fou...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 13:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans' appetite for imports remains high
Zimbabweans still prefer imported goods despite increased production by local producers because most of the products are substandard, it has emerged.For years, the local market has been domina...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Stone and Water Resort unleashes Zimdancehall versus Sungura bash
Popular leisure spot Stone and Water Resort in Mvurwi is hosting a Zimdancehall versus Sungura Bashment on Christmas day.The bash will feature high-riding King Shaddy and Culture love in the Z...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 17:35hrs | 17 | by Paul Ndou
CCC's Kufahakutizwi arrest...new details emerge
As the veil of uncertainty surrounding the arrest of Munyaradzi Febion Kufahakutizwi begins to lift, new details have surfaced, shedding light on the alleged incident that led to his detention. The ca...Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 12:34hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa's rule may be grabbed by corporals: War vet
An ex-Zipra war veteran Max Mkandla has warned that if Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa were to win the presidential elections his rule would be overthrown by a mere army corporal c...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 13:58hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa's CCC faction joins court proceedings versus Tshabangu
The Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) faction led by Nelson Chamisa has entered court proceedings in response to Sengezo Tshabangu's case seeking the exclusion of its legislators from participating ...Published: 06 Dec 2023 at 05:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Stone and Water resort unleashes Sungura night
The God father of Sungura Nicholas (Senior lecturer) Zacharia is invading Mvurwi at the Luxurious Stone and Water resort on Saturday.Zacharia is being supported by Mvurwi based upcoming artist...Published: 05 Dec 2023 at 20:29hrs | 16 | by Own Correspondent
Zimbabwe poised for record platinum haul
THE World Platinum Investment Council (WPIC) says Zimbabwe is on track to ramping up output of the white metal to an all-time high of 502 kilo ounces (koz) following massive investment by one of the c...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 14:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
CCC MPs push for hefty salaries...multiple vehicles
Amid growing concerns over legislative priorities, the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Parliamentary Caucus Secretary, Farai Chinobva, has made controversial remarks suggesting that CCC legisl...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 13:35hrs | 10 | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Warriors move up Fifa rankings
THE Zimbabwe senior men's national team has moved up one place on the FIFA rankings to number 124 in the world after their two draws in the World Cup Qualifiers played last month.International...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:53hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC in the red
THE Auditor-General (AG)'s latest report has revealed that the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC)'s liabilities currently exceed its assets by ZWL$24,5 billion....Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Judge's sudden resignation opens a Pandora's box
FORMER High Court judge Webster Chinamora allegedly left a huge backlog of reserved judgments, with Delta Corporation continuing to haunt him despite his recent resignation, the Zimbabwe Independent r...Published: 25 Nov 2023 at 07:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'état dividend
Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)...Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 23 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe load shedding to ease by end of November
THE Government has assured the country of reduced load shedding by the end of November when one of the units at Hwange Power Station comes on board following depressed electrity generation at all powe...Published: 12 Nov 2023 at 11:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe allows cement imports after prices double
Zimbabweans can now freely import cement, the government says, a response to a doubling of prices caused by surging demand and depressed local production.Cement prices are rising due to a comb...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Tom Curry's malicious allegation against Bongi Mbonambi dismissed
World Rugby has concluded there is "insufficient evidence" to suggest that South Africa's Bongi Mbonambi racially abused England's Tom Curry.The governing body said there was "insufficient evi...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Guvamatanga rubbishes retailers' complaints over spaza shop influx
George Guvamatanga, the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, has chosen to downplay the impact of tuck shops on formal retailers. Instead, he has suggested that many businesses are being managed by i...Published: 03 Oct 2023 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Politics of ethnicity: Jumping from the pan into the fire
BELOW is a book excerpt from In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas and Solutions) by Professor Arthur Mutambara.President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet shocked many b...Published: 29 Sep 2023 at 08:31hrs | 9 | by Arthur Mutambara
Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election now done and dusted
The harmonised general election is over.Any continuing chatter or narratives about "fresh elections scaffolded by foreigners", or a "National Transitional Authority" [NTA] also facilitated by ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 20:34hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe police told to be professional
Wilbert Mandinde, the Acting Executive Director of the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO Forum, has urged the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to demonstrate professionalism in their conduct, particularly in li...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ally not on the list of people arrested over Bosso - Dembare violence
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy spokesperson and legislator, Gift Ostallos Siziva is not on the list of people arrested in Bulawayo facing charges of inciting violence during the Highlander...Published: 14 Sep 2023 at 10:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
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