Alrosa bets on new diamond discoveries

Kuda Bwititi, Harare Bureau  ALROSA, the world’s largest diamond producer, is targeting high-value gem-quality diamonds from Zimbabwe and believes there is potential for new discoveries of the precious stones. The mining…

Government licenses companies for riverbank mining

Dumisani Nsingo, Senior Business Reporter THE Government has licensed 11 companies to partner the Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) to embark on riverbank mining as it forges ahead to increase…

EDITORIAL COMMENT: Everyone must join fight against corruption

President Mnangagwa is on record calling for a fierce fight against corruption at all levels for economic turnaround to be achieved. “Corruption is deep rooted. I thought by making a…

From priesthood to the ‘bush war’

LIBERATION war fighter, Cde George Bvirwa Shumba’s life is founded on a strong Christian background. He studied towards priesthood but abandoned it to join the liberation struggle. The fighter, whose nom de guerre was Cde Farai Tafirenyika and is one of those arrested during the Nhari rebellion in the late 1970’s chronicles his political life to our Deputy News Editor Levi Mukarati.

‘Troika is a feather in the cap for Zim’

FOREIGN Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Moyo was in Lusaka, Zambia, where he attended the 21st Meeting of the Ministerial Committee on the Sadc Organ on Politics, Defence and Security Co-operation — commonly known as Organ Troika — ahead of President Mnangagwa’s assumption of the chairmanship of the Organ Troika at the annual summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, next month. Zimpapers Editor-at-Large Caesar Zvayi caught up with Dr Moyo to discuss, among other things, the significance and implications of Zimbabwe’s chairpersonship and the issues the President is likely to find in his in-tray.

Companies jostle for Midlands Show stands

Sukoluhle Ndlovu, Midlands Correspondent MORE than 85 percent of exhibition space for the annual Midlands Agricultural Show to be held next month in Gweru, has been taken, an official said.…

Lessons from the life and music of Johnny Clegg

Bruce Ndlovu , Sunday Life Reporter  FOR most Zimbabweans growing up in the 80s and 90s, the sight of Johnny Clegg would have perhaps been a bit strange to digest at first.…

Power shortage hits mobile phone services . . . Consumers stranded as outage disrupts critical financial services

Sunday News Reporter THE full scale of the effects of load shedding hit the country yesterday, after power cuts reportedly interrupted mobile services including EcoCash mobile platform disrupting individual and…

Makande: Ghost or serial rapist?

ON May 16, 2015 our sister paper The Herald ran an unusual article titled “Rapist ghost on the prowl”.

In the article, several pregnant women waiting to deliver their babies at Makande Clinic Mothers Waiting Shelter in Kariba District, Mashonaland West Province, made bizarre and startling claims.

Sanitary pad firms sing the blues

LOCAL manufacturers of sanitary pads have  scaled down operations owing to costly imported raw materials, especially from China and South Africa, raising fears that the product might not be readily available to local consumers at reasonable prices.

The country is now overly reliant on imported finished products.

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