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Kuvimba: How to hide a mining giant in plain sight
A year ago, Kuvimba Mining House did not exist. now it could be the country's biggest gold producer.How? The answer shows how transparency is still not a thing for Zimbabwean authorities....Published: 10 Jan 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1538 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's economic outlook for 2021
Zimbabwe's economy ended the year 2020 on a fairly stable note due to the return of the multi-currency regime and decline in general inflation levels in the market. Headwinds caused by incessant power...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 21:02hrs | 1225 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe to fund white farmers' compensation with mine revenue
Zimbabwe plans to use profits from a mining venture to help settle a $3.5 billion compensation claim from white farmers and settle a two-decade dispute that's soured the country's relations with Weste...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 18:44hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Australian owned gold mines acquired by Kuvimba mining
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said the government has given Kuvimba Mining House the nod to acquire Globe and Phoenix Gold Mine and other associated mines owned by a...Published: 07 Jan 2021 at 13:51hrs | 1460 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Kuvimba Mining to raise US$1 billion, eyes VFEX listing
Kuvimba Mining House, the newly created mining company, will seek to raise US$1 billion to recapitalise its assets, which it hopes will generate an ambitious US$1.5 billion per annum by 2023. ...Published: 05 Jan 2021 at 18:27hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Kuvimba Mining House targets 500 000 ounces of gold
KUVIMBA Mining House is targetting 500 000 ounces of gold from all its subsidiaries which will turn the fortunes of the gold sector in Zimbabwe.The Group Chief Executive Officer, David Brown o...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 08:01hrs | 1364 | by Simbarashe Sithole
White farmers lease farms as beneficiaries give up, says Biti
MDC Alliance co-vice president Tendai Biti says a growing number of white commercial farmers are quietly returning back to their farms and leasing the land from non-productive black beneficiaries who ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:56hrs | 3945 | by Staff reporter
Supreme Court reverses army takeover of RioZim chrome mine
Listed mining company RioZim has won a Supreme Court battle with Zimbabwe's military after one of its mines was forcibly taken over through a ministerial decree.Defence minister Oppah Muchingu...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:18hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Karo's US$4 billion venture crumbles?
PLANS by Karo Resources (Karo) to set up a US$4,2 billion platinum mining venture and a processing plant in Darwendale after it was controversially allocated claims previously held by Zimplats are cru...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:14hrs | 2231 | by Staff reporter
We're not in control, says Zec
ELECTORAL management body, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has washed its hands over the by-elections which Vice-President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga embargoed citing the novel coron...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 06:33hrs | 2828 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves US$9,3m for Harare water
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has ordered an urgent allocation of US$9,3 million to the Harare City Council water treatment plant, Morton Jaffray, after the facility shut down last week due to shortage ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:00hrs | 1460 | by Staff reporter
Putin sends special message to Mnangagwa
Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent a message to President Mnangagwa with the aim of entrenching existing excellent bilateral relations and establishing new economic interchange between the two ...Published: 10 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | 2659 | by Staff reporter
Impala approached over stake in giant Zimbabwe platinum project
The owners of a Russian-backed project to build Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine have held talks to sell a stake of at least 20% to Impala Platinum Holdings, according to people familiar with the matt...Published: 07 Oct 2020 at 19:27hrs | 1026 | by Staff reporter
Russian plan to dig biggest Zimbabwe platinum mine advances
A project that aims to develop Zimbabwe's biggest platinum mine has cleared a significant hurdle, with the African Export-Import Bank completing a due diligence study allowing it to proceed with a $50...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 19:04hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Hopewell Chin'ono unmasked, as America slaps Tagwirei with sanctions
Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei was born on the 19th February 1969 in SHURUGWI, his father the late Phineas Tagwirei was a modest man ND A MEMBER OF THE Seventh Day Adventist church.Kudakwashe Re...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 4916 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Nasty row erupts over farms
ZANU-PF officials in Mashonaland West province are up in arms with the Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa, accusing her of single-handedly presiding over the exercise to downsize commercial farms...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:19hrs | 3220 | by Staff reporter
Metallon sells gold assets to Tagwirei's Landela
MZI Khumalo's Metallon has completed the sale of Shamva Mine to Kuda Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures, while the sale of Mazowe Mine is expected shortly.The transaction represents a change o...Published: 03 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 2001 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri says Mnangagwa targeting him over a woman
Former Zimbabwe Republic Police Commissioner Augustine Chihuri has claimed that President Mnangagwa is persecuting him over a war time clash over a woman, in a case where he is challenging the validit...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 5211 | by Staff reporter
Coup fears allayed after 'unusual' army drills in Darwendale
UNUSUAL heightened activity at the Zimbabwe National Army's Mechanised Brigade in Darwendale, spooked government to spiritedly dispel swirling rumours of a brewing coup against President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:22hrs | 3498 | by newzimbabwe
Fresh land seizures target white farmers
SENIOR government officials have put in motion plans to grab productive white-owned farms in Mashonaland West, with Provincial Affairs minister Mary Mliswa spearheading the action.Sources in t...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 07:54hrs | 8523 | by Staff reporter
Landela and CBZ get green-light to buy gold
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and Zanu-PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei could soon become Zimbabwe's biggest gold buyer after getting a special permit from Fidelity Printers and Refiners....Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:58hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri ordered to explain his wealth
All known Zimbabwean assets of former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri have now been placed under management while Chihuri, who is accused of side-tracking US$32 million of public funds i...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:09hrs | 842 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri case: More properties unearthed
Twelve more properties linked to former police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri have now been identified and the State wants these added to the list of frozen properties pending the outcome of i...Published: 04 Jun 2020 at 17:03hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
Russia donates to Zimbabwe's war veterans
RUSSIA has reaffirmed its commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations with Zimbabwe in various fields. This comes as the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Harare handed over of 1 500 tonne...Published: 29 May 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1929 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei's business empire comes under scrutiny
WHEN Kudakwashe Tagwirei's father passed away in May 2018, the government came to a standstill.Cabinet was postponed, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, ministe...Published: 29 May 2020 at 08:31hrs | 2405 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri up for diverting US$32m
Former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri is suspected of diverting US$32 million of public funds into family companies and buying a large swathe of property, which the State now wants froz...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:49hrs | 822 | by Staff reporter
34 leave quarantine centre
Thirty-four of the 73 returning residents in quarantine at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM) in Darwendale were allowed home on Saturday. Of the 34 dischar...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:30hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Returning Zimbabweans expose govt
ZIMBABWEANS, who returned home on Monday from the United Kingdom and reportedly refused to be quarantined at Belvedere Teachers' College in Harare, preferring hotel accommodation have opened up, accus...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 08:40hrs | 2245 | by Staff reporter
'Returning Zimbabweans should not expect first-class treatment'
ZIMBABWEANS returning home in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic should not expect to be accommodated in upmarket facilities because the country is going through a major health crisis that requi...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:30hrs | 461 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe govt urged to ramp up COVID-19 testing
The chairperson of the parliamentary portfolio committee on Health, Ruth Labode, yesterday urged the government to ramp up the testing of more people ahead of the looming winter season. As of Sunday, ...Published: 14 Apr 2020 at 21:52hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Panic as 32 Zimbabweans from UK arrive at Harare airport
The Ministry of health entered panic mode on Monday after 32 Zimbabweans abode an Ethiopian line jetted into the country from the Coronavirus hit United Kingdom. According to online publicatio...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 13:55hrs | 3483 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe quarantines 287
Government has quarantined 287 people including 15 foreign nationals at various places across the country as a precautionary measure against the spread of the Covid-19 diseases.The 287 include...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 17:30hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
So the capital will be in Mt Hampden after all
THE decision to locate Zimbabwe's new capital at Mount Hampden will indeed go down in history as the only decision that deserved poetic justice in memory of an episode whereby African nationalism and ...Published: 05 Apr 2020 at 08:55hrs | 1580 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Zanu-PF benefactor in murky Zupco bus deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor and Sakunda Holdings boss Kuda Tagwirei, whose tentacles stretch across a vast spectrum of the economy, has been acquiring buses for Zupco's public transportatio...Published: 28 Mar 2020 at 08:10hrs | 5732 | by Staff reporter
Water woes, sextortion and blame game in Zimbabwe
As Zimbabwe's economy worsens, sextortion is setting in, with women and children falling victim to this form of abuse and corruption. Drinking-water scarcity is a serious problem authorities have unsu...Published: 07 Mar 2020 at 07:15hrs | 424 | by Brian Maregedze
The regime is alien to transparency, accountability
THE ruling Zanu-PF party members have been giving Zimbabweans comic relief in the past few months, making the right noises about transparency and accountability in government and the economy, but ques...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 303 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Mthuli Ncube uses Davos to push investment agenda
Zimbabwe continues to use opportunities of the annual gathering of business, political, academic and other leaders in the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland to sell the country as an investm...Published: 04 Feb 2020 at 05:42hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Russian-made fighter jets for Zimbabwe's military
ZIMBABWE is on the verge of replacing its antiquated military helicopters with Russian-made fighter jets, among other armaments, in a deal that has seen Harare mortgaging part of its vast mineral weal...Published: 17 Jan 2020 at 06:28hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
Darwendale platinum project up for next year
Construction work on the US$500 million Darwendale platinum project will start in the second quarter of 2020, first deputy chief executive officer of Vi Holdings, Alexander Ivanov, said on Thursday on...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:56hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally swoops on US$500m platinum project
Commodities baron Kudakwashe Tagwirei's Landela Mining Ventures has emerged as the new joint venture partner in the Russian-led Darwendale platinum mine project, which has also roped in former Impala ...Published: 25 Oct 2019 at 09:33hrs | 2995 | by Staff reporter
Russia Making Further Inroads into Zimbabwe
Russia maintains very friendly relations with Zimbabwe, thanks to ties which evolved during the struggle for independence. Since then, it has had a very strong mutual sympathy with and friendly feelin...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 11:02hrs | 1442 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Patience is bitter, but its fruits are sweet
Since the first human being started to walk the face of the earth — whether as a product of God's creative masterpiece or as a freak of nature spawned by what scientists call the Big Bag â€...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 07:27hrs | 70 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe army hails Russia ties
Commander Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda has hailed the historic cordial relations that exist between Zimbabwe and Russia which date back to the days of the liberation struggle...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:15hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 15317 | by Itai Mushekwe
CSC in massive solar project
COLD Storage Company (CSC)-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe has entered into a strategic partnership with Econet's subsidiary, Distributed Power Africa (DPA), which will see all of the country's meat processor ...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:08hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Why the smear campaign?
Zimbabwe has been under economic sanctions for nearly two decades.To date, it is still reeling under the effects of the ruinous Western economic embargo that is estimated to have cost the coun...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 434 | by Kudakwashe Mugari
Zimbabwe discovers rare minerals
Zimbabwe sits on bountiful and lucrative deposits of minerals known as rare-earth elements (REE), some of which sell for more than US$1 000 for a single kilogram and where investors are seeking altern...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Africa Awaits Russia's Investment
Russia has been looking to raise its existing relationship with African countries and Afreximbank is now providing huge support in realizing that long term goal. The bank, with the task of transformin...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 11:04hrs | 806 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Country risk, perception major weakness for Zimbabwe
THE Cold Storage Company (CSC) has been in the news recently following the announcement of its new partner by the government. Boustead Beef was recently unveiled as the new partner for the state-owned...Published: 31 May 2019 at 07:57hrs | 346 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe safe, secure
VICE President Kembo Mohadi yesterday said Zimbabwe is a safe and secure tourism and investment destination, endowed with unique resources across all sectors of the economy. He said this in his keynot...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:59hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
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