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Foreign-funded NGO reports partisan distribution of food aid in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) has raised alarming concerns over the politicization of food aid distribution in rural areas, with reports indicating that opposition supporters are being systematical...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 09:07hrs | 336 | by Staff reporter
100 illegal gold panners arrested in Esigodini, Umzingwane
A recent joint operation by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and the police has led to the arrest of 100 illegal gold panners in the Umzingwane catchment area, which supplies much of the city’s water...Published: 17 Aug 2024 at 12:36hrs | 141 | by Staff reporter
'Thievocracy' thriving in rural areas.
Wanton thieving, villages are under siege. It's so bad that no one trusts anyone anymore. The 'gold fingers', call them thieves, are striking almost every week. The treasure hunters move nocturnally l...Published: 17 Jun 2024 at 20:34hrs | 2 | by Murisa Chiweshe
Mega-dollar ED Cup tournament launched
OVER 1 000 youths based in Wedza and some parts of Chikomba are set to battle it out in the Wedza ED Cup football and netball tournament which kicks off in a fortnight.Put together to celebrat...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
What draws the gold mafia to Dubai?
An Al Jazeera investigation shows how criminals use the city's pro-business policies to smuggle gold, clean dirty cash.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:23hrs | 5 | by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
Plumtree: A fuel smugglers paradise
FUEL smuggling is rampant along the Zimbabwe-Botswana border, with illicit traders resorting to paying bribes to evade arrest, a practice that has seen the country losing millions of dollars in potent...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 05:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mazowe Villagers to receive USD $30K
More than 20 villagers who lost property at Arnold Farm in Mazowe after being evicted by former First Lady Grace Mugabe are set to receive US$30 000 in compensation.The villagers lost property...Published: 19 Jul 2022 at 19:40hrs | 10 | by Shelton Muchena and Desmond Nleya
Dumped garbage at council offices remain undisposed
Heaps of dumped garbage at Hatfield District Council offices in Harare by irate residents last Friday is still there with council officials going about with their business unfazed. Irate Hatfi...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 15:11hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Umzingwane Dam chokes
TWO unregistered dams built in the Umzingwane Dam catchment area and gold panning activities along Umzingwane River have contributed to the Bulawayo supply dam not impounding adequate water since the ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:43hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
High Court quashes white farmer's jail sentence
A CHIREDZI commercial farmer, Tony Renato Sarpo (55), who was last year slapped with a 10month prison sentence for theft of trust property, has been freed after his sentence was quashed by the High Co...Published: 16 Jun 2021 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
3 thieving soldiers denied bail in Chiwenga case
THREE soldiers accused of stealing property worth $1,6 million from Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's Orchid Gardens farm in Domboshava have been denied bail by a Harare magistrate.Anesu M...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 more in court over Chiwenga property theft
ANOTHER soldier yesterday appeared in court on allegations of jointly stealing property worth more than $1,6 million from Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's Orchid Gardens Farm in Domboshava. ...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga loses US$1,6m property to security aides
TWO members of the Presidential Guard and their two alleged accomplices appeared in court yesterday charged with stealing property worth $1,6 million from Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's Dombosh...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 10 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Council pounces on illegal operations
MORE than 59 people have been arrested in a joint operation by the Bulawayo City Council (BCC), Zimbabwe Republic Police and the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to bust syndicates that are invol...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 23:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents turn to sewer water
A HEALTH disaster looms in Umguza district after Mbundane residents, banned from fetching water from boreholes in Nketa 8, have resorted to sewer dams as Bulawayo's water crisis gets worse.Mbu...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe has last laugh as economic crisis reaches breaking point
The fault lies entirely with the ruling Zanu-PF party, which has lost its legitimacyWhen Zimbabweans are expressing nostalgia for Robert Mugabe you know things must be bad. Yet it is now commo...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | | by www.msn.com
'Chinese bosses beat up Zimbabwean workers'
THE Amalgamated Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (Amuz) has accused Chinese investors of allegedly abusing workers and failing to adhere to the country's laws. Giving his solidarity messa...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Charamba and the Pfeesident
WHOEVER said the more things change, the more they remain the same was not far off the mark, at least in relation to Zimbabwe. We have a whole regime pretending to be a new dispensation but st...Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 16:21hrs | | by Hon Criss
Goods de-listed from import licence requirement
Following the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 237A of 2018, a number of goods which were formerly controlled by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Enterprise Development were removed from t...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 16:59hrs | 3 | by Zimra
Govt Suspends Restrictions On Importing Goods
The following goods are no longer subject to SI22 of 2017 restrictions:1-Margarine 2-Stockfeeds3-Shoe Polish 4-S...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 16:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Burombo flats in Makokoba a health time bomb- MP Toffa
MDC legislator Jasemine Toffa has insinuated that Buromboi Flats in Bulawayo are a serious healthy time bomb considering the fact that the house over 1000 people."I would like to first of all ...Published: 04 Oct 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa is a very bad and poor chip off the Tsvangirai block
Mario Vargas Llosa, the world-famed Peruvian writer, penned a small, but sweet collection of incisive essays titled "A Writer's Reality." My favourite from that collection is "Novels Disguised". Its a...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 09:13hrs | | by Igomombe
Violence returns
It is a silent, sunny afternoon in Chihwayi village, located on an expansive swampy terrain that is surrounded by mountains, more than 20km from Mutoko business centre.Amid the scattered homestead...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 16:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's colourless phishing joke
I miss Gideon Gono. That's only because John Mangudya, his successor at the central bank, is that turtle you can't pick out from the rocks, which when it strays onto the road, looks and sounds like a ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
'Tshinga Dube - a generous, supportive legislator'
THE constituency consists of some of the oldest suburbs in Bulawayo such as Makokoba, Thorngrove, Westgate, Steelgate, Westondale, Barbourfields, Mzilikazi, Nguboyenja and Burombo. Most property owner...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
How MDC-T engineered economic sanctions affect poor people
Zimbabwe has suffered under severe sanctions for a very long time. I t has become a song to an extent that people think it's a tired song. The reality of the matter is that people are suffering and in...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Christmas without Mugabe in State House. Meet me in Chimanimani
I had everything that I required for an unexpected voyage to green terrestrial ecstasy with me: a bag full of clothes, one sizzling hot music CD and plenty of passion for life. I left Harare at ten o'...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Sex, cash, booze galore at Eldorado
THE normally quiet and poor surroundings of the Hunyani area just outside Chinhoyi was temporarily turned into a hive of activity following a gold rush triggered by Zanu-PF meddling at the gold rich E...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 12:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rot at Zimbabwe public hospitals exposed
The Auditor-General has unravelled shocking levels of official corruption at government hospitals where public funds are not being properly accounted for at a time when patients are failing to access ...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa demands backs its fuel from Zanu-PF
David Parirenyatwa's Health ministry is demanding back fuel it gave to Zanu-PF for use during President Robert Mugabe's 93rd birthday celebrations in Matobo last month.In a February 27 let...Published: 28 Mar 2017 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man pays $3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows of coins
A US businessman in dispute with the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has paid his $3,000 tax bill using five wheelbarrows containing 300,000 coins.Nick Stafford from Cedar Buff, Virgini...Published: 13 Jan 2017 at 10:51hrs | | by BBC
Production Industry gives kudos to Chinamasa
INDUSTRY and market watchers have endorsed the call to increase production by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa but said there was need to ensure Government leads the re-industrialisation drive t...Published: 11 Dec 2016 at 08:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Imports ban created opportunities'
Zimbabwe's imports ban has created opportunities for the local manufacturing industries to boost their production capacity, a consumer pressure group has said.This was after the government in ...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 21:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
More foreign goods face censor
A NUMBER of companies in Zimbabwe are pushing for the Government to include more goods under import restrictions among them small farm implements such as undrawn ploughs, consumptive goods such as spi...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:39hrs | | by Dumisani Nsingo
WATCH: Govt to assess, evaluate SI64
Government is setting up a monitoring and evaluation team to assess the effects of Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 on the business sector and make improvements according to recommendations from stakeh...Published: 16 Aug 2016 at 06:51hrs | | by Elita Chikwati
South Africa hits back at Zimbabwe imports ban
South Africa has flexed its economic muscle, telling Zimbabwe to reduce duty and surtax on 112 products in response to Harare's recent trade restrictions.Last month, Zimbabwe promulgated Statu...Published: 07 Aug 2016 at 11:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Import restrictions could last up to 3 years, Zimbabwe tells SA
ZIMBABWE has told South Africa that import controls introduced in June this year through Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 will last between two and three years. The Statutory Instrument removed...Published: 06 Aug 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Business Reporter
CZI gives thumbs up to import restrictions
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries says the decision by Government to restrict imports of certain products that can be manufactured locally was critical to halt continued decay of local industry...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 06:39hrs | | by Business Reporter
Govt weighs between imports ban, tariff hike
Government is in the process of evaluating what would work better for the country between tariff increases and import restrictions, ministry of Industry and Commerce permanent secretary Abigail Shonhi...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 13:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Import restrictions temporary,' says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe should work on improving competitiveness to compete with foreign products as import restrictions are just a temporary solution, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.His sentimen...Published: 11 Jul 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Martin Kadzere
New imports law for commercial not individual buyers
Government has clarified that the statutory instrument number 64 of 2016 which restricts the importation of selected basic commodities is targeted at commercial imports and not individuals.Add...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 07:03hrs | | by Roberta Katunga
Zimbabwe issues more than 3 000 import licences
Government has so far issued over 3 100 import licences for goods worth around $23 million since June 20, three days after gazetting of import control regulations on various grocery and building mater...Published: 06 Jul 2016 at 16:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
AA warns South African travellers to Zimbabwe
Johannesburg - The Automobile Association (AA) has warned South African travellers to Zimbabwe to exercise caution when using the Beitbridge border crossing.This comes after protests at the bo...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stands firm on import ban
Restrictions on imports of selected basic commodities under Statutory Instrument Number 64 of 2016 will not be reversed because the policy is in Zimbabwe's best interests and was introduced after ...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:14hrs | 3 | by Lincoln Towindo and Thupeyo Muleya
Govt not going back on import restrictions, buying for personal consumption allowed
RESTRICTIONS on imports of selected basic commodities under Statutory Instrument Number 64 of 2016 will not be reversed because the policy is in Zimbabwe's best interests and was introduced after wide...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zapu Youth Front S.A Salutes the people
Thirty six years after independence, Zimbabwe's Zanu regime still rides on the system that propped up Rhodesian regime. No wonder, three years on after the signing of the new constitution to become th...Published: 02 Jul 2016 at 21:42hrs | | by Zapu Youth Front South Africa
New imports rules: panacea to employment creation
The move taken by government through the Ministry of Industry and Commerce in introducing some new imports rules meant to ban importation of some basic commodities thereby promoting the local industry...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 14:07hrs | | by Mukachana Hanyani
'Import ban on weaves, wigs & braids worries me a lot'
"Guys is Nivea banned also?" That was the question from one anxious Twitter user in Zimbabwe after news broke that the authorities were limiting imports of a vast range of goods - including beauty pro...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 12:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe introduces import controls on bottled water, Cremora & Vaseline
Cash strapped Zimbabwe gpvernment has put import controls on various products which are mostly available locally as part of ongoing efforts to support the local industry and to lower the import bi...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 21:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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