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Bulawayo City Council registers construction boom
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) approved building plans valued at US$4.6 million in April, reflecting a 2.32% increase compared to the previous month, according to the latest council minutes.T...Published: 18 mins ago | 5 | by Staff reporter
South Africans languish in Zimbabwe prisons
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission has told IOL that scores of South African nationals are languishing in Zimbabwe's Harare Remand Prison, awaiting deportation, after they were arrested for breachin...Published: 4 hrs ago | 447 | by Staff reporter
Kariba turns into ghost town
The eastern shoreline of Kariba, once a crown jewel in Zimbabwe's tourism industry, is fast slipping into obscurity as tourism operators flee the area amid plummeting visitor numbers, collapsing infra...Published: 4 hrs ago | 165 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tourism industry bleeds US$40 million in 90 days
Zimbabwe's tourism industry is reeling from a steep downturn after losing nearly US$40 million in potential revenue during the first quarter of 2025, amid a silent but deadly investor exodus and persi...Published: 4 hrs ago | 49 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe deploys drones along Mozambique border
The Zimbabwean government has intensified efforts to clamp down on smuggling along the country's porous eastern border with Mozambique through the full-scale deployment of drone surveillance technolog...Published: 7 hrs ago | 541 | by Staff reporter
King Munhumutapa's trial begins
The trial of self-styled King Munhumutapa, Timothy Chiminya, accused of undermining the authority of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, commenced today at the Harare Magistrates' Court.Chiminya app...Published: 7 hrs ago | 184 | by Staff reporter
Health Commission implements job evaluation outcomes
In a major move to improve equity, motivation, and service delivery in Zimbabwe's health sector, the Health Service Commission (HSC) has announced that it will begin implementing the results of its co...Published: 7 hrs ago | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doesn't need 249 years to fight corruption, Mr. Murwira!
The Zimbabwe government never ceases to amaze.During the recent United States Independence Day commemorations in Harare, the American ambassador to Zimbabwe, Pamela Tremont, described corrupti...Published: 8 hrs ago | 189 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe: A country where a Ferrari can't travel!
We live in a curious country.In traversing Zimbabwe's diverse and often rugged landscapes, one cannot help but notice the overwhelming presence of Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). F...Published: 18 hrs ago | 732 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Has democracy failed in Zimbabwe?
This is the million-dollar question we all need to ask ourselves.Democracy, by its very nature, is a noble and necessary concept. It is anchored on the principle that every human ...Published: 18 hrs ago | 243 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZIDA to rollout e-regulation portal next month
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) is set to launch a new e-regulation portal by mid-July, in a major digital reform aimed at improving the ease of doing business and enhancing tran...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:35hrs | 140 | by Staff reporter
IMF kicks off crucial talks in Zimbabwe
A high-level delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has begun formal meetings with Zimbabwean authorities, launching a critical mission to assess the country's reform trajectory under t...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:33hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo cracks down on informal trading
The City of Bulawayo (BCC) has announced a swift and decisive crackdown on micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and other traders operating in undesignated areas within the city centre....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:13hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tobacco marketing season booms
This year's tobacco marketing season is demonstrating remarkable stability and prosperity, creating an encouraging environment for Zimbabwean farmers as prices at auction floors remain robust....Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 10:05hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Helidrive nears 500 airlifts
HELIDRIVE National Air Rescue Service, a groundbreaking Zimbabwe-Russia emergency air ambulance initiative, has successfully airlifted 485 patients since its launch last year, offering a lifeline to r...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:44hrs | 285 | by Staff reporter
Trabablas Interchange eases congestion
The newly completed Trabablas Traffic Interchange has breathed new life into one of Harare's busiest road junctions, drastically improving traffic flow and turning a former congestion hotspot into a s...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:39hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Family demands justice following fatal pitbull attack on relative
A Harare family is mourning the tragic death of Samuel Machara, who was fatally mauled by a pitbull in Bluffhill over the weekend, prompting renewed calls for stricter laws regulating the ownership of...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:36hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
Stepson's US$60,000 lawsuit against widow dismissed
A High Court judge has dismissed a US$60,000 lawsuit filed by a Murewa man against his stepmother, ruling that there was no evidence of malicious intent in a criminal complaint she lodged with police ...Published: 04 Jun 2025 at 09:34hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt unveils digital title deeds processing
In a landmark move set to transform land ownership documentation in Zimbabwe, the Government has introduced a Digital Land Administration Platform (DLAP), allowing farmers and landowners to apply for ...Published: 03 Jun 2025 at 09:29hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo launches city-wide tourism data collection drive
The City of Bulawayo has launched a comprehensive city-wide data collection initiative aimed at transforming the local tourism and hospitality sector into a competitive and sustainable economic ...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 16:22hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Supa Mandiwanzira urges youth to Join National Youth Service
ZANU-PF Nyanga South Member of Parliament, Supa Mandiwanzira, has called on Zimbabwean youths to enroll in the National Youth Service (NYS), highlighting the programme's role in equipping young people...Published: 02 Jun 2025 at 09:07hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry's George Shaya state funeral promise unfulfilled
The widow of the late football legend George "The Mastermind" Shaya has broken her silence, revealing that a government promise of a state-assisted funeral - allegedly made by then Sports Minister Kir...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:36hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
Women vendors robbed, raped by conman peddling fake deals
Two women vendors from Mvuma fell victim to a brutal robbery and rape at the hands of a conman in Masvingo City on Africa Day evening, after being lured by promises of discounted goods from South Afri...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:47hrs | 441 | by Staff reporter
Tenant's sons burn landlord's house
Mutare Magistrate Poterai Gwezhira will preside over the trial of two men, Solomon (21) and God'swill Tafara Takaendesa (23), who are facing charges of negligently causing serious damage to property u...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:44hrs | 240 | by Staff reporter
Harare remand prison a haven for drugs and corruption
Despite being guarded round the clock, Harare Remand Prison has become a notorious hub for drugs, smuggling, and illicit trading, activities abetted by some of the very guards assigned to enforce orde...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:27hrs | 113 | by Staff reporter
IMF team set to arrive in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is poised to take a crucial step towards restoring its economic credibility and unlocking foreign investment, with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation expected this week to finali...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:25hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter
Harare ratepayers face US$3 million monthly bill in secretive deal
Harare's ratepayers are set to pay nearly US$3 million every month for refuse collection and street cleaning under a murky new contract involving the government, the City of Harare (CoH), and Geo Pomo...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 14:20hrs | 2992 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans appreciate real development but can't keep quiet when it's a veil for looting
This is a fact we all need to understand. Zimbabweans are a naturally appreciative people. We are not inherently negative or ungrateful. On the contrary, we cherish and celebra...Published: 31 May 2025 at 19:31hrs | 2751 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Jonathan Moyo criticizes Zimbabwe's new ZBC licence fee law
Former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo, once a key architect of Zimbabwe's stringent media laws, has publicly condemned the recently enacted legislation mandating motorists to pay a Zimbabwe Broadc...Published: 31 May 2025 at 14:07hrs | 1791 | by Staff reporter
Global Investment Conference for Africa 2025 to take place in Harare
Harare is set to host the Global Investment Conference for Africa (GICA) 2025 from September 11 to 13, bringing together prominent business leaders and investors from across the world.Organise...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:56hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
MP raises concern over limited hospital visiting hours
Mkoba South opposition legislator John Kuka has voiced concerns about the restricted visiting times at public hospitals, arguing that these limitations disadvantage patients by reducing the support th...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:55hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
11-year-old boy found hanging in school cottage
A sombre mood has gripped the Filabusi community in Matabeleland South following the tragic death of an 11-year-old boy who died by suicide last week.The boy, identified as Junior Moyo, was fo...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:44hrs | 320 | by Staff reporter
Chitungwiza Mayor vows to tackle sewer crisis
Chitungwiza Mayor Rosaria Mangoma has declared solving the town's long-standing sewerage problems as her legacy goal, as she rallies support under the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI) to ...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:42hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
How a legal loophole can help motorists outsmart the ZBC car radio licence requirement
This is quite interesting.There's a loophole in the new Broadcasting Services Amendment Act - and it may be the only legal shield Zimbabwean motorists have.While much of the public out...Published: 30 May 2025 at 22:28hrs | 2030 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Victoria Falls conservationist faces $2 million lawsuit
Victoria Falls-based wildlife painter and conservationist Larry Benjamin Norton is preparing to defend himself against a US$2 million lawsuit filed by Scanner Investments, the developers of Baines Res...Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:17hrs | 732 | by Staff reporter
Man loses US$65,000 in stand scam
Simbarashe Mwanandimai, a 43-year-old director of EDI Resources from Borrowdale, appeared before Harare Magistrates' Court facing allegations of defrauding a home-seeker of US$65,500 by selling a resi...Published: 30 May 2025 at 09:01hrs | 538 | by Staff reporter
Alarm over Zimbabwe's new media blueprint
Media advocacy groups have raised serious concerns over what they describe as the veiled criminalisation of journalism in Zimbabwe's new National Media Policy, launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 123 | by Staff reporter
How can MPs protect Zimbabweans from exploitation when they themselves are shielded?
It's a tragedy when those meant to represent you no longer do. The recent enactment of a law compelling Zimbabwean motorists to first purchase a ZBC car radio licence before they are allowed t...Published: 29 May 2025 at 20:29hrs | 316 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
African Sun asset stripping continues
Hospitality giant African Sun Limited (ASL) has announced plans to sell its iconic Caribbea Bay Resort in Kariba, marking the latest move in the company's continued disposal of non-core assets....Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:36hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prophets, prophetesses told to get some education
Archbishop Andby Makururu, the leader of the Johanne The Fifth of Africa Church, has called on prophets and other spiritual leaders to attain a minimum level of education if they are to effectively le...Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:23hrs | 368 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Zambia scramble to revive US$5bn power project
More than three decades after it was first proposed, the Batoka Gorge Hydropower Project is back in the spotlight as Zimbabwe and Zambia renew efforts to revive the long-stalled US$5 billion energy ve...Published: 29 May 2025 at 13:22hrs | 3785 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission now operational
The Zimbabwe Independent Complaints Commission (ZICC), chaired by Justice Webster Chinamora, is now fully operational and has already received 15 complaints from citizens, mostly related to assault ca...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:37hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer rapes teen lover at Chikurubi
A PRISON officer is being accused of allegedly raping a teenager at Chikurubi Prison Camp on Monday.Proud Bhanya is alleged to have lured his lover, 19,from Glenwood to his room at the camp wh...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:25hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
UK Minister for Africa to visit Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom are set to deepen diplomatic and economic ties with the anticipated visit of UK Minister for Africa, Lord Collins, in what is shaping up to be a historic shift in relat...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
BCC resumes sorghum production
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has resumed commercial sorghum farming at Aisleby Farm after a five-year hiatus, aiming to diversify income sources and reduce dependence on ratepayer funding. The init...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:54hrs | 81 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sees $2.6bn bridge finance in place by early 2026
Zimbabwe anticipates securing $2.6 billion in bridge financing by the first quarter of next year, a crucial step needed to repay debt owed to international financial institutions and regain access to ...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:51hrs | 118 | by Staff reporter
Man found dead with legs crushed near railway line
Police in Bulawayo have launched an investigation after the body of an unidentified young man was found near a railway line over the weekend, prompting authorities to appeal for public assistance in i...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:46hrs | 177 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to engage Tajikistan's key economic players
Zimbabwe is expanding its international partnerships with a strategic focus on Central Asia, as Vice President Dr. Constantino Chiwenga prepares to visit Tajikistan tomorrow for high-level meetings wi...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:44hrs | 121 | by Staff reporter
Tsikamutandas tearing communities apart
A disturbing trend has emerged in Chief Bota's area of Zaka and Nyajena in Masvingo district, where self-styled traditional healers known as Tsikamutandas, allegedly in collusion with some traditional...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:39hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
There were no Zvigananda under Smith because Rhodesians loved Zimbabwe more than ZANU-PF!
There is something tragically ironic about the state Zimbabwe finds itself in today.A country that was once described by none other than former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere as the "jewel...Published: 27 May 2025 at 20:45hrs | 1166 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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