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President Mnangagwa (right) chatting to his counterpart President Nyusi at State House Saturday

Moza’s Filipe Nyusi In Zim To Meet ED On Cabo Delgado Disturbances

By Staff Reporter MOZAMBIQUE’S President Filipe Nyusi is in Zimbabwe on the invitation of President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Nyusi, who is the acting chairperson of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), is holding talks with President Mnangagwa at State House. The talks are centred on the situation in Cabo Delgado where insurgents massacred people in March

6th June 2021

Zimbabwe’s Elephant Culling Stirs Debate

Al Jazeera AFRICA’S elephant population has been dangerously declining – but not in Zimbabwe. Authorities in the southern African country estimate that the number of its mammoth mammals currently stands at slightly more than 100,000 – up from 84,000 in 2014, when the last census was conducted – for a carrying capacity of about 45,000.

6th June 2021
Late Robert Mugabe

How Zimbabwe is still haunted by Robert Mugabe

BBC IN OUR series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the grave. Robert Mugabe’s relatives say he died a bitter man nearly two years after he was forced to hand over power to current President Emmerson

6th June 2021

New Vetting Exercise For War Vets – ZIPRA

By Bulawayo Correspondent A NEW national vetting exercise for former freedom fighters in Zimbabwe is expected soon, and the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) has urged its members to prepare and take part in the screening programme. Ex-ZIPRA cadres have been lobbying for the amendment of the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle Act. It is

6th June 2021
Truworths

Truworths Minimises Credit Sales Due To Hyperinflation

By Alois Vinga LISTED clothing retailer, Truworths Limited has cancelled credit sales due to hyperinflationary pressures Zimbabwe is going through, and protect the company from value erosion. Presenting the half-year financial performance of the firm, the company’s chief executive, Bhekithemba Ndebele said they were forced to push to sales on a cash-in-advance basis only to

6th June 2021
Job Sikhala

Sikhala’s Acquaintances Acquitted For Breaching Covid-19 Lockdown Regulations

VOA A HARARE Magistrate has exonerated three acquaintances of Zengeza West lawmaker, Job Sikhala, by quashing charges of breaching national lockdown regulations pressed against them last year. According to the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights, Terrence Manjengwa, Blessed Changara and Barnabas Gura, who all reside in Harare were arrested on September 3, 2020, outside Harare

5th June 2021

Man Jailed 9 Months For Protecting Lover From Sexual Abuse

By Matabeleland North Correspondent VICTORIA FALLS: The desire to protect a girlfriend from sexual harassment has landed a local man in prison after he was sentenced to nine months for assault. Bornwell Sibanda of Chinotimba was walking with an unnamed woman who is his girlfriend when they were approached by Bekezela Mpofu patted the woman

5th June 2021
Seh Calaz

Seh Calaz Pens Emotional ‘Letter To The President’

By Paidashe Mandivengerei POPULAR Zimdancehall star, Seh Calaz, born Tawanda Mumanyi, has begged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently redress the rampant social ills affecting youths, in his newly released single, ‘Letter to the President’. In the seven-minute heartfelt track, Seh Calaz describes himself as a ‘nobody from the ghetto’ desperate for audience with Mnangagwa over

5th June 2021

Cops Recover US$28 000 Copper Cables From Six Zvishavane Men

By Staff Reporter  POLICE in the Midlands province have recovered copper cables worth over US$28 000 following the arrest of six Zvishavane men in connection with the theft in the town. Midlands police spokesperson Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the development to NewZimbabwe.com Friday. He said the police reaction team launched an operation that led to the

5th June 2021
Lilian Timveous

ED Rewards MDC Alliance Defector With A Plum Petrotrade Board Post

By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed a former senior official of the MDC Alliance Lilian Timveous as a board member of Petrotrade, a government-owned company. Timveous, a former senator, was a deputy treasurer in the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa before her dramatic summersault last February, which saw a defecting from the

4th June 2021
Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops

Catholic Church Wants Radio Licence, Govt Says No

America Magazine THE Catholic Church in Zimbabwe has for years lobbied the government to ease stringent broadcasting laws and reduce steep licensing fees that have denied private players and local voices entry into radio and television media. While Zimbabwe’s broadcasting authorities on numerous occasions made commitments to liberalise national media, those concessions have not been

4th June 2021

Biggest Chiadzwa Diamond Miner Sees Output Rising 30% In 2021

Bloomberg THE biggest diamond miner in Zimbabwe said it will be able to increase production of rough gems by about 30% to 3 million carats this year thanks to improved mining methods. Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Co’s mines in the east of the country have so far met monthly targets of 200,000 carats, chief executive Mark

4th June 2021
Reverend Mtata

Reverend Mtata Eyes Lutheran General Secretary Post

By Anna Chibamu THE Zimbabwe Council of Churches (ZCC) secretary-general Kenneth Mtata has been shortlisted for the position of general secretary at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF). Mtata, a reverend at the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe was shortlisted for the top post together with Anne Burghardt from Estonia. A statement released by LWF said

3rd June 2021

Resource Challenges Hamper San Language Development

By Staff Reporter RESOURCE constraints are hampering efforts to develop teaching and learning aids and materials for the Tshwao language spoken by remnants of the San community in Tsholotsho, it has emerged. The San were forced out of the Hwange National park by the government as way back as 1928, with the majority of them

3rd June 2021

Sex Workers Left Dry As Wives Escort Hubbies To Tobacco Auction Floors

By Robert Tapfumaneyi MACHEKE: Female sex workers in this small farming town have been left counting losses after most tobacco farmers this marketing season chose to be escorted to tobacco auction floors by their spouses. The farmers took the decision to avoid losing their hard-earned cash through theft, or unnecessary spending with sex workers and

3rd June 2021

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