ZimOnline
About Us
Mission Statement
Write To Us
 
 
    
 
  

FRUIT Vendors -- Washing fruit and other food bought from vendors before eating it is one way to prevent the spread of typhoid.
 
Harare fears typhoid epidemic
24/01/2012
HARARE -- A hotel worker is among 600 Harare residents infected with typhoid, amid fears the disease could quickly cascade into an epidemic similar to a cholera outbreak about four years ago that killed...
Full Story
  
 
Civil service strike off to slow start
24/01/2012
HARARE – A strike by Zimbabwean public workers to demand more pay got off to a slow start yesterday with nearly all government departments open for business, while many schools
Arrow Full Story
Solution lies in our own hands: Obasanjo
24/01/2012
OPINION: It might surprise many who know of my life in politics and international affairs, but in my heart I consider myself a farmer
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe is just a friend: Thai Minister
23/01/2012
JOHANNEBSURG – A newly appointed Thai minister has refused to step down after the US government blacklisted her over alleged business dealings with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s family
Arrow Full Story
Zim immigrants expelled
23/01/2012
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa last week expelled more than 600 illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, a top official said at the weekend
Arrow Full Story
Zim faces civil service shutdown
20/01/2012
HARARE – Union leaders yesterday vowed to shut down the entire civil service for the whole week next week as they intensified pressure on the government to hike salaries and improve working conditions
Arrow Full Story
Mujuru inquest: gunshots claim corroborated
20/01/2012
HARARE – A second witness on Thursday told the inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru that she heard the sound of gunfire moments before she was alerted to a fire that destroyed a farmhouse in which
Arrow Full Story
Public service strike tomorrow
18/01/2012
HARARE – Zimbabwean civil servants go on strike tomorrow to press the country’s cash-strapped coalition government to hike salaries and
Arrow Full Story
Mujuru wife demands time to study report
18/01/2012
HARARE -- The inquest into the death of former army general Solomon Mujuru resumes today after it was temporarily called off yesterday to allow his widow, Vice President Joice Mujuru, time to study
Arrow Full Story
Mujuru inquest told of ‘gunshots’
17/01/2012
HARARE -- A security guard has told an inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army general Solomon Mujuru that he heard what sounded like gunfire shots before he was alerted to a fire that destroyed a house
Arrow Full Story
US diamond bans counter-productive: Biti
16/01/2012
HARARE – United States sanctions against firms mining Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond deposits will hurt efforts to ensure transparency and end siphoning of revenue from the sale of gems from the controversial mines, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said
Arrow Full Story
We are back!!
16/01/2012
Dear Readers -- The editor and the ZimOnline team wish to apologise to our readers that we have not been able to update your favourite news website with fresh news for some weeks now. This was due to a major technical fault with our content management systems that made it impossible for us to upload any new material on the website. The fault has since been rectified and we have resumed publishing today, while measures have been put in place to ensure this problem does not recur and that we are able to continue to provide you with the news and on Zimbabwe that you need to know. EDITOR
Arrow Full Story
War vets disrupt constitutional briefing
16/01/2012
HARARE -- War veterans at the weekend disrupted a press conference called by the country’s constitutional committee to brief journalists and civil society on progress in the drafting of a new charter for the country
Arrow Full Story
Ban appoints Zimbabwean to Sudan mission
16/01/2012
JOHANNESBURG -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Zimbabwean Raisedon Zenenga as his deputy special representative (political) in the world body’s mission in South Sudan
Arrow Full Story
Group quits KP over Marange gems
05/12/2011
HARARE – International trade watchdog Global Witness has pulled out of the Kimberley Process (KP) -- the international regulator organised to stop the trade in illicit diamonds -- as a result of the certification of the Marange diamonds
Arrow Full Story
Police chief rejects reform
02/12/2011
HARARE -- Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has dismissed calls for restructuring of the Zimbabwe’s security forces as part of a foreign agenda to destabilise the country
Arrow Full Story
Nando’s withdraws Mugabe ad
02/12/2011
HARARE – South Africa’s Nando’s fast food outlet on Thursday said it was withdrawing an advert mocking President Robert Mugabe as the last dictator standing following threats
Arrow Full Story
PM quits ‘hijacked’ marriage
01/12/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his controversial marriage to a Harare businesswoman that he said political opponents
Arrow Full Story
Tsvangirai marriage: Full statement
01/12/2011
Full statement by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announcing his divorce from Harare businesswoman Lorcadia Tembo
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe advert irks supporters
30/11/2011
HARARE –Youths from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party have called for a boycott of fast food outlet Nandos in retaliation for an advert flighted on South African television poking fun at the veteran leader
Arrow Full Story
Nationalisation: ANC wants more info
29/11/2011
HARARE -- South Africa’s ruling ANC party on Monday referred a report on nationalisation of mines back to drafters for more detail on
Arrow Full Story
Water shortage is national disaster: church
28/11/2011
HARARE - The Roman Catholic church’s human rights arm on Sunday urged Zimbabwean authorities to declare chronic water shortages in the country a national disaster, amid rising cases of typhoid in the capital Harare
Arrow Full Story
Zim economy to grow by 9.4%
25/11/2011
HARARE -- Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday said Zimbabwe’s economy will grow by 9.4 percent next year, while inflation would remain in single digits as the country continues to recover from
Arrow Full Story
BAZ awards radio licences
25/11/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s broadcasting regulator has awarded free-to-air national broadcasting licences to state-owned Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) and to AB Communications, a private firm that critics say also has links to the government
Arrow Full Story
Amplats’ Zim empowerment deal
24/11/2011
HARARE – The world’s largest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), on Wednesday said it will transfer 10 percent shareholding in its Unki mine
Arrow Full Story
We’ll punish gay people: Mugabe
24/11/2011
SHURUGWI – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to “punish severely” homosexuality that he said was un-Christian and un-African
Arrow Full Story
China funds Zim SMEs
23/11/2011
HARARE – The Development Bank of China will provide US$30 million to fund small and medium-scale enterprises in Zimbabwe as Beijing looks to strengthen ties with the resource rich African country
Arrow Full Story
Hunger continues to stalk Zim
22/11/2011
HARARE – More than one million Zimbabweans face food shortages between now and the next harvests beginning around March next year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said
Arrow Full Story
Reforms face further delays
18/11/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms could face further delays after a multi-party committee leading the drafting of the new governance charter said it was facing difficulties securing funds
Arrow Full Story
Journos released on bail
17/11/2011
HARARE – Two Zimbabwean journalists charged with defamation and theft of documents over a story involving a senior central bank official have been released on US$100 bail each
Arrow Full Story
Zim inflation eases to 4.2%
16/11/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate eased to 4.2 percent in October down from 4.3 percent recorded the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS) has said
Arrow Full Story
PM taken to task over gay rights
15/11/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean church leaders say they have asked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to publicly clarify his position on homosexuality following his calls in recent weeks for the country to uphold gay rights
Arrow Full Story
Zim drafts code against violence
14/11/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political parties will be barred from showing their strength or popularity in a violent manner, while supporters will be banned from carrying weapons to
Arrow Full Story
Army chief accused of domestic abuse
14/11/2011
HARARE – The wife of Zimbabwe’s top military commander, General Constantine Chiwenga, has accused him of regularly battering her, while threatening to shoot her dared report
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe, Tsvangirai to call for peace
11/11/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today call on their followers to shun political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year
Arrow Full Story
Court won’t hear MDC bail appeal
10/11/2011
HARARE –Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an application for bail by seven MDC activists, saying they should have first sought permission from
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe thanks China for support
09/11/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanked his Chinese allies for helping defend his rule against Western countries that he says want to topple him.
Arrow Full Story
Parties to meet over violence
08/11/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s coalition partners yesterday agreed to meet next Friday to discuss ways to end political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year
Arrow Full Story
MDC activists stoned, beaten
07/11/2011
HARARE – Hundreds of MDC supporters were injured when youths loyal to President Robert Mugabe stormed the venue of a political rally and beat up people gathered for the meeting, the party said on Sunday
Arrow Full Story
Police raid mdc headquaters
02/11/2011
HARARE – Anti-riot police yesterday raided the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) offices in central Harare, firing a volley of tear gas into the building and at pedestrians
Arrow Full Story
KP okays Marange diamonds
02/11/2011
HARARE – Global diamond regulator Kimberley Process (KP) has unanimously agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export diamonds from the controversial Marange fields
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe threatens Swiss property
31/10/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has threatened to seize Swiss property in Zimbabwe after Berne refused visas to members of his delegation to travel to a UN summit in Geneva
Arrow Full Story
COPAC says constitutional report ready
28/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional committee said on Thursday it has finished compiling a report of views and ideas Zimbabweans want included in a new constitution, but remained mum on when exactly it expects to begin
Arrow Full Story
PM wants growth-focused empowerment
27/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economic empowerment programme should seek to attract investment and grow more wealth to benefit ordinary citizens rather than powerful elites, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Wednesday
Arrow Full Story
Nationalisation unsettles SA investors
26/10/2011
Johannesburg -- South African finance minister Pravin Gordhan on Tuesday said calls to nationalise mines were hurting investor confidence in the key sector that he also said has under performed
Arrow Full Story
‘No Vote’ was a blunder: Tsvangirai
24/10/2011
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has said rejecting a government draft constitution 11 years ago was a blunder that condemned Zimbabwe to a decade of political chaos
Arrow Full Story
Fresh xenophobic violence in SA
21/10/2011
JOHANNESBURG – South African police were on Friday monitoring the situation at Itireleng informal settlement near Laudium, west of Pretoria, after an outbreak of xenophobic violence there
Arrow Full Story
State publisher bids for radio licence
20/10/2011
HARARE -- State-run newspaper conglomerate, Zimpapers, will today make an oral presentation to the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) as part of an application for a broadcasting licence
Arrow Full Story
Zim needs US$200 mln for vote
19/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe needs more than US$200 million to fund a constitutional referendum and elections expected next year, the country’s elections commission has said
Arrow Full Story
Empowerment targets too high: Tsvangirai
18/10/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe's indigenisation targets for the mining companies are too high and change in ownership into the hands of majority blacks will likely take years, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday
Arrow Full Story
Army won’t act over Wikileaks
17/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) chief General Constantine Chiwenga says the army will not act against two senior commanders accused of divulging sensitive information to United States diplomats
Arrow Full Story
Impala Platinum cedes stake in Zim operation
14/10/2011
SELOUS – Impala Platinum (Implats) yesterday said it had ceded 10 percent shareholding in Zimplats as pressure mounts on foreign firms to comply with a government empowerment drive but President Robert Mugabe said his administration did not want to seize foreign-owned mines
Arrow Full Story
SA deports Zimbabweans
13/10/2011
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa yesterday deported 261 undocumented immigrants from Zimbabwe, days after announcing it was ending a two-year moratorium on deportations of illegal immigrants from its northern neighbour
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe hints at Wikileaks probe
12/10/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has hinted that his ZANU-PF party could launch an investigation into damaging confidential documents released by whistleblower website Wikileaks showing that some of his closest allies
Arrow Full Story
Archbishop of Canterbury in Zim
10/10/2011
HARARE – Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams arrived in Harare on Sunday, in what has been billed as a pastoral visit to show solidarity with Zimbabwe’s Anglican church under siege from a renegade bishop
Arrow Full Story
Gov’t told to change police leadership
08/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unity government should appoint a new neutral police leadership and consider establishing a constitutional court and an independent public prosecutor’s office
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe says hands tied on polls
07/10/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe said yesterday that he wanted elections held next year to end an uneasy coalition with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai but that he had no control of processes that would lead to the new elections
Arrow Full Story
Zim growth slows down
06/10/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Tendai Biti yesterday projected that economic growth would slow to between 7.8 – 9 percent while inflation would remain in single digits but politics was dragging full economic recovery
Arrow Full Story
Williams visit for solidarity: church
05/10/2011
HARARE – Next week’s visit to Zimbabwe by Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams is meant to show solidarity with the southern African nation’s persecuted Anglicans, the local church said
Arrow Full Story
Give resettled farmers title: banker
04/10/2011
KADOMA -- Zimbabwe’s government should give title to black villagers resettled on former white commercial farms newly to pave way for banks to lend to the new farmers against their properties
Arrow Full Story
Gov’t urged to scrap media controls
03/10/2011
HAMBURG – A leading international media rights watch dog has called on Zimbabwe’s coalition government to scrap tough press laws that continue to hinder journalists from carrying out their work
Arrow Full Story
Miners meet empowerment deadline
30/09/2011
HARARE – Foreign mining companies in impoverished Zimbabwe have largely complied with today’s deadline to submit plans on how they would transfer majority shares to black investors
Arrow Full Story
Policy discord worries investors: PM
29/09/2011
HARARE – Discord within Zimbabwe’s unity government over when to hold new elections and how to carry out black economic empowerment has become a major worry to investors
Arrow Full Story
Zim to probe foreign-owned firms
28/09/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean authorities said on Tuesday they would soon probe foreign firms to find out those refusing to comply with an economic empowerment law requiring them to transfer majority stakes to local blacks
Arrow Full Story
ZANU activists jailed for murder
27/09/2011
GWERU – Four ZANU-PF activists including the son of a top party leader were on Monday sentenced to a total of 72 years in prison for the murder of an opposition supporter two years ago
Arrow Full Story
Zim considers action against firms
26/09/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe will today decide what action to take against several foreign-owned companies that missed a deadline to submit proposals of how they plan to transfer majority stake to local blacks
Arrow Full Story
Villagers fear army intimidation
23/09/2011
MUREWA – Zimbabweans in the rural areas want soldiers to be removed from the countryside during elections, fearing that they could be intimidated into voting for President Robert Mugabe
Arrow Full Story
Old Mutual, gov’t reach agreement
22/09/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- Zimbabwe’s largest insurer and one of its biggest investors, Old Mutual, said on Wednesday that it had reached agreement with the government over its plans to transfer shares to local blacks
Arrow Full Story
Zanu says wants better ties with EU
21/09/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party says it is ready to resume dialogue with European Union (EU) countries but said Brussels must first lift sanctions against its top leaders
Arrow Full Story
Zim rights Bill amended
20/09/2011
HARARE – Justice Minister Patrick Chinamsa has amended the Human Rights Commission Bill to empower the ZHRC to defend the rights of all
Arrow Full Story
OPINION: Zim gets ready for “indigenisation”
20/09/2011
In a country that needs foreign capital not to grow but to survive, Zimbabwe’s indigenisation law defies understanding
Arrow Full Story
SA, EU want faster Zim reforms
19/09/2011
HARARE – A joint South African government and European Union summit at the weekend urged Zimbabwe’s power-sharing government to quicken reforms
Arrow Full Story
Gov’t in empowerment backtrack
16/09/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s government said yesterday it would not cancel licences for mining companies which are under pressure to surrender majority shares to black investors
Arrow Full Story
Zimplats, gov’t agree way forward
14/09/2011
HARARE – The Zimbabwean government and the country’s largest foreign investor, Zimplats, said on Tuesday they had reached an agreement giving the mining firm until November
Arrow Full Story
MDC activists attacked, hospitalised
13/09/2011
HARARE – Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party says two of its members are in hospital in Harare after they were attacked by suspected supporters of President Robert Mugabe
Arrow Full Story
We still got our licence: Zimplats
12/09/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest foreign investor, Zimplats, has assured shareholders that its operating licence has not been canceled after differences emerged with government
Arrow Full Story
Gono eyed ministerial position
08/09/2011
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono was eyeing the finance minister position and a seat on Zanu (PF)’s powerful Politburo in 2008 but feared reprisals from hawks in the faction-ridden part
Arrow Full Story
Victims of violence still bitter
08/09/2011
HARARE – Victims of political violence in Zimbabwe are deeply embittered by the government’s failure to deal with perpetrators
Arrow Full Story
Foreign firms must comply: Mugabe
07/09/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday demanded foreign companies fully cooperate with his drive to force foreign-owned mining companies to sell at least 51 percent shares to blacks but then sought to reassure investors
Arrow Full Story
Impala still in talks with Zim gov’t
06/09/2011
HARARE – The world’s second largest platinum producer Impala Platinum Holdings (Implats) and major shareholder in Zimbabwe Platinum Mines (Zimplats) said yesterday it was still in talks with the government over its plans to transfer majoroty shares to blacks
Arrow Full Story
Botswana prepared for war with Zim
05/09/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Botswana three years ago sought weapons from the United States (US) in readiness for war with Zimbabwe, its northern neighbour with whom it has had frosty relations for the past decade
Arrow Full Story
ZESA won’t budge on tariffs
05/09/2011
HARARE – The state owned Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) has turned down pleas to reduce a 31 percent tariff hike consumers say is too steep and unjustified given shoddy service
Arrow Full Story
We won’t seize foreign assets: Minister
02/09/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Economic Planning Minister yesterday said the country’s indigenisation and economic empowerment law requiring foreign-owned mining firms to surrender at least 51 percent of their shares to blacks was flexible
Arrow Full Story
ZANU stealing diamond money: NGOs
02/09/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- President Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF party has been accused of running a parallel fiscus through which diamond revenues are being fleeced for the benefit of the well connected
Arrow Full Story
Black South Africans sell land
01/09/2011
CAPE TOWN -- Black South Africans have resold farms bought for them by the government to further slow down a land redistribution programme that was already terribly behind schedule because of
Arrow Full Story
Zim energy sector needs US$13 billion
01/09/2011
HARARE – The World Bank said yesterday Zimbabwe needed $13 billion to rebuild its collapsing energy sector
Arrow Full Story
Illegal miners shot at Marange: HRW
31/08/2011
HARARE – Human Rights Watch says security guards from private firms working at Marange diamond field have joined police in shooting, beating up and setting dogs on illegal miners
Arrow Full Story
Libyan ambassador expelled
31/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe has kicked out Libya’s ambassador and embassy staff for defecting to the National Transitional Council, which has ousted longtime ruler Muammar Gaddafi
Arrow Full Story
Zim told to pass law against poll violence
30/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe should enact a law to criminalise political violence associated with elections and reform the security sector to ensure service chiefs remain impartial as part of efforts to
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe hails farm recovery
29/08/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe at the weekend said Zimbabwe’s agriculture sector was on the rebound after a decade of decline blamed on the veteran leader’s chaotic
Arrow Full Story
Empowerment plan unworkable: Impala
26/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s controversial drive to force foreign-owned firms to sell controlling stake to local blacks will derail efforts to woo investors says Impala
Arrow Full Story
Harare Anglicans back in court
26/08/2011
HARARE – The Harare Anglican Church diocese has appealed against a Supreme Court ruling granting ex-communicated bishop Nolbert Kunonga temporary custody of diocesan property pending final ruling in a dispute over ownership of the property
Arrow Full Story
OPINION: Mujuru death exposes leadership vacuum
26/08/2011
While the controversy over whether Gen Solomon Mujuru’s death in a fire at his home last week was accidental or foul play rages on, Zimbabwe’s political parties are reassessing their strategies now that the Zanu-PF kingmaker has gone
Arrow Full Story
Embassy hoists rebel flag
25/08/2011
HARARE - The Libyan embassy in Zimbabwe replaced the government’s flag with the tricolor of the rebels fighting to oust long time ruler, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi
Arrow Full Story
Canadian miner’s licence reinstated
24/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s indiginisation minister, Saviour Kasukuwere, on Tuesday suspended cancellation of Canadian-owned Blanket Mine’s operating licence after the owners agreed to resubmit a new plan to transfer control
Arrow Full Story
Refugees take SA gov’t to court
23/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – A group of asylum seekers have applied to the Pretoria High Court for an order directing the government to provide adequate refugee reception offices across South Africa
Arrow Full Story
Chronic malnutrition in Zim
22/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Hunger and chronic malnutrition are on the rise in Zimbabwe, the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said
Arrow Full Story
OPINION: Another vicious attack on CSOs in Africa
22/08/2011
The attack on civil society across Africa ‘is now increasingly becoming bolder, broader and more dangerous. And it is going beyond governments to include regional bodies such as SADC,’ warns Paul Okumu, in a call for all CSOs both in the North and South to ‘strengthen and support the solidarity effort as a matter of urgency’
Arrow Full Story
Leaders skirt Mugabe confrontation
19/08/2011
LUANDA – A summit of southern African leaders that ended here on Thursday avoided confronting President Robert Mugabe on political reforms needed to stabilise Zimbabwe and instead
Arrow Full Story
No sign SADC will tackle Zim
18/08/2011
LUANDA – A Southern African summit opened in Angola yesterday but there was little indication leaders would tackle the political situation in Zimbabwe and at least three other countries in the region
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe speaks on Mujuru death
17/08/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe described as a horrific tragedy the death of former army general Solomon Mujuru, a former ally who played a key role in his rise to power
Arrow Full Story
General Mujuru dies in fire mishap
16/08/2011
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s most powerful political figures Solomon Mujuru died last night in a fire at his farm at Beatrice, about 50 km south of Harare, a development most likely to trigger major realignment of the troubled country’s politics
Arrow Full Story
SADC asked to tackle Zim media repression
16/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- Reporters Without Boarders has urged southern African leaders to tackle media repression in Zimbabwe it said was on the rise with 11 cases of intimidation and arbitrary arrests of journalists
Arrow Full Story
Govt confirms Mujuru death
16/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean state security minister Sydney Sekeramai confirmed the death of powerful former army general Solomon Mujuru as details surrounding his suspicious death
Arrow Full Story
Zim’s Biti keeps US$215 mln at IMF
15/08/2011
HARARE – Nearly half of the US$505 million Zimbabwe received from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in 2009 remains with the global lender for safe keeping as national reserves, the Ministry of Finance said on Monday
Arrow Full Story
Summit won’t sanction parties: analysts
12/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political rivals will attend the Southern African Development Community (SADC) next week ever more divided over a roadmap to fresh elections but the regional bloc is unlikely to sanction
Arrow Full Story
SADC urged to stand up to tyranny
11/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Southern African leaders must enforce their own protocols and agreements on human rights and democracy under threat in five countries where
Arrow Full Story
Zim bank robber in SA escape
11/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean bank robber Bongani Moyo escaped from a Pretoria court on Wednesday, the second time the notorious criminal who is allegedly linked to more than 30 bank robberies here has escaped
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe mocks US, Britain on debt, riots
10/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe yesterday chided his harshest critics the United States and Britain saying they should focus their energies on the debt crisis and civil riots troubling the two countries respectively instead of meddling in his country
Arrow Full Story
Probe army abuses: Amnesty
09/08/2011
HARARE – International rights group Amnesty International has said Zimbabwe should establish a commission of enquiry into systematic human rights violations by security forces in the last decade and expel those found guilty
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe in fresh tirade against West
09/08/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday said the government would hit back at Western countries that have imposed sanctions on his ZANU-PF inner circle by favouring investment from friendly countries and rejected demands to reform the security sector
Arrow Full Story
Zimbabweans snub SA permits
08/08/2011
JOHANNESBURG – More than 800 000 asylum seekers from Zimbabwe snubbed South Africa’s offer for work and study permits, local media has reported
Arrow Full Story
Hackers target ZSE website
05/08/2011
HARARE – The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has shutdown the bourse’ website after it was hacked into by unknown people, chief executive officer Emmanuel Munyukwi said on Friday
Arrow Full Story
Essar to pump US$4 bln into Zim plant
04/08/2011
KWEKWE – India's conglomerate Essar Group plans to spend up to $4 billion dollars in developing an iron ore processing plant in Zimbabwe within five years, Industry and Commerce Minister Welshman Ncube said yesterday
Arrow Full Story
Zim adjusts aid appeal by US$73mln
03/08/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe requires an additional $73 million in humanitarian aid this year due to increased food needs for the most vulnerable groups in the country even after the government said it expects a better harvest, according to United Nations agencies
Arrow Full Story
UN to appeal for Zim aid
02/08/2011
HARARE – UN humanitarian coordinator for Zimbabwe Alain Noudéhou and the country’s ruling coalition will today launch a revised consolidated appeal (CAP) for aid for the African nation still struggling to shake off the effects of a decade of recession and political strife
Arrow Full Story
Army biggest obstacle to reforms: PM
01/08/2011
KWEKWE – The armed forces have emerged as the biggest obstacle to democratic reforms in Zimbabwe, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Sunday, as he made fresh calls for restructuring of the security forces
Arrow Full Story
Polls impossible this year: MDC
29/07/2011
VICTORIA FALLS -- Zimbabwe will be able to hold new elections only next year or in 2013 after implementation of reforms to ensure the polls are truly free and fair, top political and government figures said on Thursday
Arrow Full Story
NGOs want 2008 abuses probed
28/07/2011
HARARE – A planned Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission should be fully independent and mandated to investigate rights abuses dating back to the violent 2008 presidential election run-off, local rights groups have said
Arrow Full Story
Zim deficit to hit US$700 million
27/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe's Finance Minister Tendai Biti maintained the 2011 GDP growth forecast at 9.3 percent but warned the economy would run up a $700 million deficit after controversial wage increases for civil servants this month
Arrow Full Story
Biti budget statement today
26/07/2011
HARARE -- Finance Minister Tendai Biti will today present a mid-term budget statement to Parliament, weeks after telling the House that the government was facing a US$500-million deficit
Arrow Full Story
Workers demand expulsion of Chinese
25/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean workers at Chinese cotton firm Sino-Zimbabwe Cotton Holdings at the weekend demanded the expulsion of Chinese nationals running businesses in the country after a march to protest failure by the company to pay their wages
Arrow Full Story
ZIMSTATS to conduct pilot census
25/07/2011
HARARE -- The Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTATS) will conduct a pilot census project next month to test the country’s preparedness ahead of next year’s population count, it said on Monday
Arrow Full Story
130 000 Zim immigrants get permits
22/07/2011
PRETORIA – More than 130 000 Zimbabweans have been issued permits to stay in South Africa, Pretoria said on Thursday, adding it hoped to wrap up a special project to document illegal Zimbabwean immigrants next month
Arrow Full Story
Gov’t rejects empowerment proposals
21/07/2011
HARARE -- The Zimbabwe government has thrown out all 175 indigenisation proposals it received from mining companies and promised to boot out any firms that do not meet the September 31 deadline to transfer
Arrow Full Story
Zuma’s team to review Zim situation
20/07/2011
JOHANNESBURG –South African mediators are expected in Harare today to gauge progress by Zimbabwe’s coalition partners towards crafting a roadmap to new elections whose date is yet to be named
Arrow Full Story
MDC says acquittal exposes AG’s bias
19/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party said the acquittal on Monday of one of its top leaders vindicates its long-standing claim that the country’s police and prosecution service were using trumped up charges to arrest and harass the party’s officials
Arrow Full Story
Fresh row over Zim army reforms
18/07/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s former opposition MDC parties have stepped up calls for restructuring of the country’s security forces, in a fresh row with President Robert Mugabe over
Arrow Full Story
Zim inflation picks up pace
16/07/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe's annual inflation for June quickened to 2.9 percent in June from 2.5 percent the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS) announced
Arrow Full Story
Zim/SA trade deficit balloons
15/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s trade deficit with South Africa increased more than seven times over the past four years to hit 13,6 billion rands (about US$2 billion) last year, according to a report produced by the Ministry of Economic Planning in Harare
Arrow Full Story
No cash for workers’ pay hike: Minister
14/07/2011
HARARE – Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Wednesday ruled out a supplementary budget this year, while forecasting a budget deficit of $500 million this year, to highlight a severe cash shortage that has hobbled
Arrow Full Story
Minister goes to court over police action
13/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Tuesday launched a court bid to block the police from accessing his mobile phone records, as the law enforcement agency insisted
Arrow Full Story
Rights commission Bill ready
12/07/2011
HARARE – Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is today expected to present to Parliament a Bill seeking to enable the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to defend human rights in a country with a long history of
Arrow Full Story
Ex-soldiers intimidate villagers
11/07/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Retired soldiers are harassing villagers in rural Buhera West constituency and threatening them with unspecified but severe punishment for backing Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party
Arrow Full Story
Gov’t lunges towards dysfunction: PM
08/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s unstable coalition government slithered towards dysfunction amid deepening discord and conflict within its ranks over the past six months, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said on Thursday
Arrow Full Story
Volatile situation in five Zim provinces
06/07/2011
HARARE – Political violence is on the rise in five of Zimbabwe’s ten provinces as tensions rise with ZANU-PF stepping up campaigns in a bid to press for fresh general elections
Arrow Full Story
Zuma urged to clarify land policy
05/07/2011
JOHANNESURG – South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) party has called on President Jacob Zuma to urgently clarify his government's position on land reform following reports of farm invasions in the country’s Eastern Cape province
Arrow Full Story
Demilitarise Zim polls body: NGOs
02/07/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwean rights groups have said the international community should apply more pressure to Harare to adopt a clear roadmap to new elections while demanding the demilitarisation of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission
Arrow Full Story
SA to resume deporting Zimbabweans
01/07/2011
JOHANNESBURG – More than 130 000 Zimbabweans have been issued permits to stay in South Africa, Pretoria said on Thursday while warning it would begin this month deporting any undocumented immigrants
Arrow Full Story
Land reform target impossible: SA
30/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s government has admitted failure in its bid to transfer 30 percent of arable land to blacks by 2014, with land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti describing the ambitious target as impossible
Arrow Full Story
Zim journos arrested
30/06/2011
HARARE – Police on Wednesday arrested the editor of The Standard newspaper, Nevanji Madanhire and reporter Patience Nyangove over a story carried in the weekly paper last Sunday, in yet another example of how journalism remains a risky occupation in Zimbabwe
Arrow Full Story
Tsvangirai ally cleared of corruption
29/06/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Tuesday acquitted energy minister and a top official of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party, Elton Mangoma, of charges of abuse of power and corruption for lack of evidence
Arrow Full Story
Impunity fuelling Zim violence
28/06/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s continued failure to investigate past torture crimes such as during the Gukurahundi era and run up to the 2008 violent elections could fuel a repeat of violence and torture in future elections
Arrow Full Story
Firms submit share transfer plans
28/06/2011
HARARE – Nearly 200 foreign mining firms have submitted plans to Zimbabwe’s indigenisation ministry on how they intend to dispose majority stake in their local units to blacks, the government said on Monday
Arrow Full Story
OPINION: Beyond Livingstone
28/06/2011
OPINION: -The excitement over the resolutions of the SADC Troika meeting in Livingstone, Zambia, at the end of March 2011, was largely focused on the stronger stance taken by the organ over the abuses of the Mugabe regime
Arrow Full Story
Court orders release of Tsvangirai ally
27/06/2011
HARARE -- A high court judge ordered the release of Jameson Timba, a key ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai two days after he had been arrested for calling President Robert Mugabe a liar
Arrow Full Story
Tsvangirai, military rift widens
24/06/2011
HARARE – The rift between Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and defence forces chiefs is widening and degenerating into a public spat in what analysts say raises political tensions and confirms fears that the military
Arrow Full Story
Teachers lead civil servants strike
23/06/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s public workers on Wednesday began an indefinite strike to press the cash-strapped coalition government of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to more than double wages
Arrow Full Story
Lawmakers want media unshackled
23/06/2011
HARARE – A special parliamentary committee on the media has called for a review of the country’s broadcasting laws, while criticising the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)’s monopoly of the airwaves as
Arrow Full Story
FIFA targets Zim match-fixing
22/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – FIFA head of security Chris Eaton is expected in Harare next week to help bring to a close a probe into match-fixing involving Zimbabwe’s national team, soccer authorities in the African nation said on Wednesday
Arrow Full Story
Fresh row stalls Zim reforms
21/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – A fresh row over how to interpret the opinions of citizens on a proposed new constitution has stalled once more Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms, the ZANU (PF) party of President Robert Mugabe said on Monday
Arrow Full Story
Group urges ANC to act against xenophobia
21/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – A human rights group has urged South Africa’s ruling ANC party to act “decisively” against members linked to violence against foreign immigrants
Arrow Full Story
Top Mugabe ally sees Feb polls
20/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabweans could go to polls in eight months’ time to choose a new government to replace the troubled coalition of President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a top official has said
Arrow Full Story
SADC push may come to nought
17/06/2011
HARARE – Southern African leaders may have last weekend spoken with the proverbial one voice to urge Zimbabwe’s political rivals to quicken democratic reforms but their efforts could still come to nought as
Arrow Full Story
ZANU supporters storm minister’s office
16/06/2011
HARARE –President Robert Mugabe’s supporters on Wednesday stormed Finance Minister Tendai Biti’s offices demanding that he signs a petition calling for lifting of Western sanctions against the veteran leader
Arrow Full Story
SA urged to seize white farms
16/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa must seize white-owned farmland without paying compensation, ruling ANC party youth leader Julius Malema has said
Arrow Full Story
IMF mission arrives today
15/06/2011
HARARE -- An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission arrives in Zimbabwe today for consultations with Harare authorities as part of ongoing efforts by the world lender to help the country revive its economy after a decade of collapse
Arrow Full Story
Polls talk stokes tension in Zim
14/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s political situation is increasingly turning volatile amid talk of elections to choose a new government to replace the ruling coalition that has kept the country relatively stable over
Arrow Full Story
No SADC rebuke for Mugabe
13/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Southern Africa leaders late on Sunday called on Zimbabwe to speed up democratic reforms but showed little indication they were prepared to adopt tougher measures against President Robert Mugabe blamed of blocking political change
Arrow Full Story
IMF sees Zim growth slowing down
11/06/2011
HARARE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected that Zimbabwe’s economy will grow 5.5 percent this year, a decline from the 8 percent last year as the country’s recovery remains fragile
Arrow Full Story
Zim declares Tekere national hero
10/06/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe on Thursday accorded national hero status to a former ally of President Robert Mugabe who later turned great foe of the veteran leader after resisting his attempts to impose one party rule in the country
Arrow Full Story
SADC seen pushing for Zim poll delay
10/06/2011
HARARE – Regional leaders will this week push Zimbabwe’s political rivals to adopt an election roadmap guaranteeing free and fair elections but will likely restrain President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai from hurrying to hold
Arrow Full Story
Essar to conclude ZISCO investment
09/06/2011
HARARE – India’s Essar expects to conclude its investment in the mothballed Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (ZISCO) by the end of this month after the conglomerate said in March it would invest at least $750 million in the state-owned company
Arrow Full Story
Tekere served the struggle well: Mugabe
09/06/2011
President Robert Mugabe’s statement on the death of his former friend, close political ally and in later years great adversary, Edgar Tekere:
Arrow Full Story
Earnings surge for Zim retail giant
08/06/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe's second-largest supermarket, OK Zimbabwe, on Tuesday announced a 153 percent surge in earnings through the year to March 2011, as the retailer benefited from an economy that has started
Arrow Full Story
Zim minister’s house bombed
06/06/2011
HARARE -- Unknown assailants petrol bombed the house of Zimbabwean Finance Minister Tendai Biti in the wee hours of Sunday morning, but no one was hurt
Arrow Full Story
Germany banks on Zuma to tackle Mugabe
03/06/2011
HARARE – Regional powerhouse South Africa is determined to prevent another sham election in neighbouring Zimbabwe as happened three years ago, outgoing German ambassador to Zimbabwe Albrecht Conze said
Arrow Full Story
Indian diamantaires want Marange gems
03/06/2011
JOHANNESBURG – A key Indian rough diamond buyer has urged New Delhi to accept imports of stones from Zimbabwe’s Marange mines following reports South Africa has authorised dealers to take stones from the controversial mines
Arrow Full Story
Zanu shifts into election mode
02/06/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU (PF) party has shifted into election mode, holding vote mobilisation rallies across the country, while re-establishing campaign bases
Arrow Full Story
More Zim centenarians than British
01/06/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe has four times more centenarians than Britain despite the European nation enjoying a far longer life expectancy than its former colony, according to a new report
Arrow Full Story
Securities body warns traders
31/05/2011
HARARE – The Securities Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has warned investors handle with caution the shares of leading hotel owner Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) and insurance giant Afre Corporation because of governance issues
Arrow Full Story
Time for Britain to start talking to Mugabe
31/05/2011
Time is running out for Robert Mugabe. The combination of advancing years and poor health are taking their toll on the 87-year-old despot
Arrow Full Story
Zim urged to stay away from dollar
30/05/2011
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s leading investment firms, Tetrad, has warned against calls by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono for the reintroduction of a Zimbabwe dollar pegged on gold
Arrow Full Story
Gold output to hit 20 tonnes: Chamber
28/05/2011
VICTORIA FALLS – Zimbabwe’s gold output could hit 20 tonnes in the short to medium term if the sector gets funding and electricity supplies improve, outgoing Chamber of Mines president Victor Gapare said yesterday
Arrow Full Story
Deal collapses over empowerment
27/05/2011
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s top gold miners Rio Zim says foreign investors withdrew an offer to invest in the firm because of concerns over President Robert Mugabe’s controversial plan to transfer control of the mining sector to local blacks
Arrow Full Story
‘New charter must promote basic rights’
26/05/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe should ensure a proposed new constitution guarantees and protects the basic rights and freedoms of citizens including the freedoms of expression and the media, a local media rights group has said
Arrow Full Story
Zim 'coup plotters' released
25/05/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of six men accused of plotting to topple President Robert Mugabe and replace him with his ally and the country’s defence minister Emerson Mnangagwa
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe health: a national security risk
24/05/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- President Robert Mugabe’s advanced age and his failure to groom a successor has become the biggest threat to Zimbabwe’s future stability and its transition to democracy
Arrow Full Story
Tribunal closure devastates Zim farmers
24/05/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s embattled white farmers says they are devastated at the dissolution of a regional court they had seen as their last hope for protection against President Robert Mugabe’s relentless land reforms
Arrow Full Story
IOM assists counting of Zim migrants
23/05/2011
HARARE -- The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) will today hand over information technology equipment worth over US$25,000 to the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTAT)
Arrow Full Story
‘Increase in arson attacks against MDC’
20/05/2011
HARARE – There has been a sharp increase in arson attacks against supporters of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party since
Arrow Full Story
Demilitarise Zim polls: NGOs
19/05/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s civil society groups have called for the demilitarisation of the country’s electoral institutions and processes, while also suggesting polls should
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe re-election report: ruling reserved
18/05/2011
JOHANNESBURG -- President Jacob Zuma’s office has failed to back with evidence claims that it could not release a report on neighbouring Zimbabwe’s violence marred presidential election in 2002
Arrow Full Story
Tsvangirai ally corruption case to resume
17/05/2011
HARARE – The trial of a top ally of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the country’s energy minister, Elton Mangoma, on charges of corruption resumes tomorrow with the court expected to rule on a bid by
Arrow Full Story
Parties worry over Mugabe succession: ANC
16/05/2011
HARARE – South Africa’s ANC party says Zimbabwe’s ruling parties are concerned that the unresolved question of President Robert Mugabe’s succession could endanger
Arrow Full Story
Zim miners appeal to Parliament
14/05/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s mining firms have called on Parliament to intervene to block a government economic empowerment drive that they say has morphed into a programme to nationalise foreign owned mines rather than an exercise to empower locals
Arrow Full Story
Earnings surge for Zim beverages giant
13/05/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Delta Corporation yesterday announced a surge in earnings and after tax profit as the company benefited from rising demand for lagers and beverages during the year to March 2011
Arrow Full Story
‘Zuma’s people won’t meet our military’
12/05/2011
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party will not accept South African officials meeting Zimbabwe’s service chiefs to discuss security reforms, the party’s top politburo committee said on Wednesday, while insisting elections will take place this year
Arrow Full Story
Zim reforms hit fresh snag
12/05/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms hit a fresh snag after the country’s three ruling parties yesterday failed to agree on how to analyse public submissions to a special committee tasked to draft the new charter
Arrow Full Story
Miners submit empowerment plans
10/05/2011
HARARE – The world’s top platinum producers Angloplat and Implats and Kazhakistan mining group ENRC have submitted plans to Zimbabwe’s indigenisation ministry on how they intend to meet a six-month deadline to
Arrow Full Story
Harare opts for hybrid debt solution
10/05/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe has adopted a two-pronged approach to tackling the country’s foreign debt that will see the African country use its rich natural resources while also embracing the HIPC debt relief initiative
Arrow Full Story
Zim power funding tied to polls: Report
09/05/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe's demand for electricity is expected to increase as the economy grows, but availability of funding to expand generation capacity is dependent on the outcome of the country's future elections
Arrow Full Story
Monday deadline for Zim miners
06/05/2011
HARARE -- Foreign owned mines have until Monday to submit indigenisation proposals to government, as trading on the local bourse has taken a battering over the past month on the back of the controversial plan
Arrow Full Story
Zim gold giant in production surge
05/05/2011
HARARE – Gold output surged at Freda Rebecca to 8,577 ounces during the first quarter of the year, surpassing the mine’s target after improved mine maintenance and power supplies, parent company Mwana Africa said yesterday
Arrow Full Story
Zim provinces face hunger
04/05/2011
HARARE – Four of Zimbabwe’s 10 provinces face food shortages this year with poor households in the affected areas expected to harvest food enough to last only about two months
Arrow Full Story
‘Mugabe is a press freedom predator’
03/05/2011
JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is among Africa’s seven worst press freedom predators who regularly harass and persecute journalists
Arrow Full Story
We’re ready to takeover: Tsvangirai
02/05/2011
BULAWAYO – Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai said yesterday he was in no doubt that his party would capture power from long serving President Robert Mugabe in the next election in a speech meant to energise supporters
Arrow Full Story
MDC congress to renew leadership
30/04/2011
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party is due to appoint a new leadership today to re-energise the former opposition ahead of a fresh election battle against President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party expected next year
Arrow Full Story
12 months to new polls: Tsvangirai
29/04/2011
BULAWAYO – Zimbabwe’s Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ruled out holding elections this year, saying polls can only take place in 12 months time and after democratic reforms
Arrow Full Story
Group warns of rising lawlessness in Zim
29/04/2011
HARARE – Personal security in Zimbabwe can no longer be guaranteed as lawlessness continues in the troubled southern African state, rights group Zimbabwe Peace Project has said, highlighting the urgent need for political reforms
Arrow Full Story
Scramble for Zimplats shares
29/04/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest platinum miner Zimplats said yesterday politicians and business leaders were jockeying to get a slice of its shares under the government’s controversial indigenisation drive
Arrow Full Story
Commission urged to probe Zim torture
28/04/2011
JOHANNESBURG – The African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) must investigate torture and other human rights abuses in Zimbabwe and Swaziland, a leading non-governmental organisation has said
Arrow Full Story
Police ban May Day marches
27/04/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe police have banned public marches to commemorate Workers’ Day next Sunday, apparently scared anti-President Robert Mugabe elements could hijack the processions
Arrow Full Story
Another tough law for Zim miners
26/04/2011
HARARE -- The Zimbabwean government has finished drafting new mining regulations that among other things seek to compel both foreign and local mining houses to fund development projects in the local communities where they operate
Arrow Full Story
Zim parties agree polls roadmap
22/04/2011
HARARE – Negotiators from Zimbabwe’s three ruling parties said on Thursday they have agreed on a roadmap to ensure the next polls are free and fair but remain divided on the role of the security forces in elections
Arrow Full Story
Zim won’t accept Briton as KP monitor
21/04/2011
HARARE -- Zimbabwe will resist attempts to appoint British national Simon Gilberts as the Kimberley Process (KP)’s new monitor for the country’s controversial Marange diamond mines, Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said on Wednesday
Arrow Full Story
Econet invests US$270 million in infrastructure
21/04/2011
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s largest mobile phone operator has invested US$270 million in network infrastructure over the past year, bringing total investment over the previous two years to more than $400 million, it reported on Wednesday
Arrow Full Story
Harare bans chrome ore exports
20/04/2011
HARARE -- The Zimbabwean government has from today banned the export of chrome ore in a move meant to boost local refinery production, the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development said yesterday
Arrow Full Story
Mugabe calls for end to violence
19/04/2011
HARARE – Presid