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Modi acquires Choppies Zimbabwe for US$260,000 after selling it for US$22 million
Deputy Industry Minister and prominent businessman Raj Modi has acquired Choppies Zimbabwe for just US$260,000, marking a dramatic turn in the retail chain's fortunes more than a decade after the Bots...Published: 13 hrs ago | 993 | by Staff reporter
George Guvamatanga gave company 'illegal' bank guarantee on $20 million loan
Treasury secretary George Guvamatanga has been accused of providing an "illegal and unconstitutional" bank guarantee for a US$20 million loan to a seed company linked to command agriculture corruption...Published: 14 hrs ago | 644 | by Staff reporter
ZDF distances itself from arrested former Air Force officer in UZ salary strike
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has moved swiftly to distance itself from the actions of retired Group Captain Boncace Mwakorera, a former Air Force of Zimbabwe officer, who was arrested yesterday a...Published: 14 hrs ago | 922 | by Staff reporter
Rwodzi steers sports tourism, officiates SDA church cook-out
Minister of Tourism and Hospitality Industry (MOTHI), Barbara Rwodzi has this Wednesday in Harare reaffirmed the government's commitment towards utilising sports as a catalyst for tourism growth, with...Published: 14 hrs ago | 333 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Bulawayo cycling couple returns after 13 300km across Africa
After an extraordinary, months-long cycling expedition spanning the African continent, Zimbabwean adventurers Thando Tshuma and Vusumuzi Mnkandla are finally on the home stretch of their awe-inspiring...Published: 20 hrs ago | 4407 | by Staff reporter
Zupco in drive to procure 500 buses
ZUPCO is set to kick off the long-awaited procurement of hundreds of new buses within the next three months, marking a significant step forward in efforts to modernise Zimbabwe's public transport syst...Published: 20 hrs ago | 678 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man killed in brutal bakkie attack in Sandton as mjolo turns deadly
Joburg-based activist Moreboys Munetsi has intervened to assist the family of a Zimbabwean man, Emmanuel Mahamba, who was brutally murdered in a horrific incident which has sent shockwaves in South Af...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1517 | by Staff reporter
Farmers' group rejects compensation deal for past land seizures
A group representing many of the white farmers whose land was seized during Zimbabwe's land reforms over two decades ago has rejected a compensation deal and said it wants to reopen negotiations with ...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:50hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt urged to address Bulawayo de-industrialisation
Former Speaker of Parliament, Lovemore Moyo, has urged the Zimbabwean government to urgently address the ongoing de-industrialisation of Bulawayo, warning that the city's transformation from an indust...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 09:01hrs | 283 | by Staff reporter
South African hospital faces legal action for refusing liver transplant to Zimbabwean teen
Bureaucratic red tape is standing between 15-year-old Vanessa Mafu and the liver transplant that could save her life.Diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis that has progressed to liver cirrhosis,...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 08:02hrs | 513 | by Staff reporter
ZITF 2025 shatters records
The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) has reached full capacity ahead of its 2025 edition, following an unprecedented surge in interest from local and international exhibitors. The overwhelming...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:37hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe lifts exchange rate controls
Zimbabwean businesses have been granted greater flexibility in pricing their goods and services, following the Government's decision to scrap exchange rate controls amid increased currency stability a...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:36hrs | 6603 | by Staff reporter
Breathalysers to be used at Zimbabwe roadblocks during holidays
The Government has unveiled a major initiative aimed at curbing the alarming rise in road accidents caused by reckless and drunk driving, through the deployment of more breathalysers and the rollout o...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:34hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mineral revenues decline despite volume surge
Zimbabwe's mining sector delivered a mixed performance in the first quarter of 2025, with mineral export volumes registering notable growth, but overall revenues falling sharply. This is according to ...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:34hrs | 130 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe extends duty-free import window for bus operators
The Government has extended the duty-free bus import facility to April 30, 2025, in a move aimed at further revitalising Zimbabwe's public transport system and ensuring affordable, reliable services f...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:31hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Why Zanu-PF won Glen View South seat
ZANU-PF has reclaimed the Glen View South constituency in a closely watched by-election, with its candidate Tsitsi Tawomhera securing victory.Zanu-PF's campaign focused heavily on infrastructu...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:30hrs | 540 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's steel revolution begins
Zimbabwe has taken a major step toward economic transformation and self-sufficiency with the launch of full-scale finished steel production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) plant in Manhiz...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:29hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sets ambitious electrification and clean cooking targets
The Zimbabwean government has announced a bold plan to electrify over three million households and achieve 70% clean cooking access by 2030. This ambitious target was unveiled following today's Cabine...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:32hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Zimra in tax compliance drive
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has introduced a series of taxpayer self-service kiosks across the country in a bid to simplify and improve the tax compliance process for individuals and busine...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:29hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Labour Court reinstates ZCTU's secretary-general
In a significant legal ruling, the Labour Court of Zimbabwe has annulled the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU)'s decision to retire its secretary-general, Japhet Moyo, at the age of 60. Justice...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:28hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Police crush UZ lecturers' demonstration
Police once again displayed heavy-handed tactics on Wednesday morning, arresting leaders of a demonstration by University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers who were demanding a salary review. The arrested le...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:27hrs | 468 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF intensifies membership mobilisation in Bulawayo
The ruling Zanu-PF party has escalated its grassroots mobilisation efforts in Bulawayo, with party leaders urging members to focus on aggressive recruitment, particularly targeting the youth, in prepa...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:26hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Harare Institute of Technology prepares students for Africa's AI revolution
The Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) is playing a leading role in preparing Zimbabwe's youth for the rapidly evolving Fourth Industrial Revolution by embedding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:25hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Caledonia Mine sets new gold production record
Caledonia Mining Corporation Plc, a Jersey-domiciled miner focused on Zimbabwe's gold sector, has reported a near 10% increase in gold production for the first quarter of 2025, with a total of 18,671 ...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:24hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe manufacturing sector faces challenges
Industry and Commerce Minister Nqobizitha Ndlovu has called for urgent action to address the challenges stifling the competitiveness of Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector, after new findings revealed tha...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:23hrs | 79 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to get share of US$300m Afreximbank dividend
The Zimbabwean government is set to receive a significant payout from Afreximbank's recently declared US$300 million dividend, following the bank's exceptional financial performance in the year ending...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:22hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
New policy to cut Zimbabwe's energy intensity
The Government of Zimbabwe has launched the National Energy Efficiency Policy, a new initiative aimed at reducing the country's energy intensity to meet global standards. The policy, introduced last w...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:21hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
Former Harare Mayor, Ex-Town Clerk arrested on corruption charges
Former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni and ex-acting town clerk Josephine Ncube have been arrested on charges of criminal abuse of duty, the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) confirmed last n...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:20hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo-Vic Falls Road upgrading to take 10 months'
Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Felix Mhona has confirmed that the long-awaited rehabilitation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road will resume next month and is expected to be compl...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:19hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Belarus to establish bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe
Belarus is set to establish a bus and tractor assembly plant in Zimbabwe by December 2025, further cementing the growing ties between the two nations. This announcement was made by Mr Pearson Chigiji,...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:18hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Ex-MP accuses suspected land barons of trying to overturn High Court order
Former Mount Pleasant legislator Jason Pasade has accused Eastwind Trust owners, Rodgers Pote and Trymore Arineshito, of attempting to manipulate the lower courts to reverse a High Court eviction orde...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:16hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Busisa Moyo inducted into Zimbabwe business hall of fame
Renowned industrialist and business leader Mr Busisa Moyo has been inducted into the Zimbabwe Business Hall of Fame 2025, a prestigious honour recognising his exceptional contribution to Zimbabwe's ec...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:16hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gears up to host landmark 65th edition of ZITF
The City of Bulawayo is set to roll out the red carpet for the 65th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which kicks off next Monday, with Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:14hrs | 338 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa swears in 2 new ministers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday swore in two newly-appointed ministers at State House in Harare, who immediately pledged their commitment to fulfilling the national Vision 2030 agenda of creati...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:13hrs | 192 | by Staff reporter
NUST enlists police to combat illegal gold mining on campus
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) has called in the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to help tackle a growing crisis of illegal gold panning that has infiltrated its main campus i...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:56hrs | 154 | by Staff reporter
ZITF 2025 fully booked as international participation increases
The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) 2025 has reached full capacity for its traditional exhibition space, with additional space being created to accommodate a growing number of exhibitors, ZIT...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:54hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland man arrested for stealing aunt's 11 cattle
Police in Mashonaland West have arrested a man accused of stealing 11 cattle from his elderly aunt and selling them to fund his mining activities.Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) provincial spok...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:50hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa welcomes Afrikaner business delegation in Harare, South African angry
A delegation from the Afrikaner business community received a warm welcome from Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week in Harare's State House, according to a Zanu-PF official contacted by ...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:48hrs | 1079 | by Staff reporter
University Zimbabwe lecturers arrested over salary protest
Three University of Zimbabwe (UZ) lecturers were arrested by police on Wednesday after staging a protest over poor remuneration at the university's campus in Harare.The lecturers, who are part...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:47hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's ZiG currency risks extinction stoked by policy choices
Zimbabwe's ZiG is heading toward failure, not through rapid devaluation, but through growing irrelevance, according to Imara Asset Management, the country's oldest independent brokerage.Unlike...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:45hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
JOC blocks ZANU-PF ex-MP, Tongaat Hullets' farmers eviction ploy
Members of the Joint Operation Command (JOC) in Masvingo withdrew and crippled an attempt by former ZANU-PF Chiredzi West legislator and central committee member, Farai Dumo Musikavanhu who in conniva...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 10:37hrs | 1988 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole recently in Chiredzi
Rampant corruption, nepotism hit Catholic school...headmistress embezzle funds
Parents are up in arms with Ekusileni Secondary School headmistress in Filabusi, with some threatening to withdraw and transfer learners from the Catholic-run mixed (boarders and day learners) institu...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 10:36hrs | 2010 | by Gideon Madzikatidze recently in Filabusi
Zimbabwean rapist kills victim in Botswana
In a shocking incident, a Plumtree-based businessman Cabangane Mathe (35), allegedly killed a rape victim in a bid to conceal the crime he had committed.The matter came to light at Plumtree ma...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 10:33hrs | 1619 | by Simbarashe Sithole
What triggered the call for the failed 31 March 'uprising' in Zimbabwe?
The old-age wisdom that facts are stubborn came alive last week after social media platforms and sections of the mainstream media went into a frenzy with sensational claims that the Parliament of Zimb...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 18:22hrs | 2523 | by Jonathan Moyo
Panic in Mnangagwa camp as impeachment talk intensifies
Growing fears of a potential impeachment plot are reportedly unsettling President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inner circle, as deepening cracks within the ruling Zanu-PF party threaten to erupt into a full-b...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 10:25hrs | 9336 | by Staff reporter
900 candidates linked to suspected Zimsec paper leak
In a shocking development ahead of the upcoming Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations, approximately 900 candidates have been linked to a suspected exa...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:49hrs | 2276 | by Staff reporter
All CCC positions unlawful
In a landmark ruling, the High Court in Harare has found in favor of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu, declaring that all party positions and main organs...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:48hrs | 2249 | by Staff reporter
Mixed feelings in Matebeleland region as Independence Day beckons
As Zimbabwe prepares to mark the 45th anniversary of its independence this Friday, a growing chorus of concern from stakeholders in Matabeleland has emerged, expressing disappointment with the governm...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:45hrs | 637 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steel production cuts import reliance
A monumental step forward for Zimbabwe's import substitution strategy has been achieved with the commencement of extensive finished steel production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) plant ...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:43hrs | 1022 | by Staff reporter
Zimra blitz disrupts Bulawayo traders
Scores of traders operating within Bulawayo's city centre were left reeling last week after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) implemented a series of business closures, as part of a wider nationa...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:42hrs | 1923 | by Staff reporter
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