INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

AfDIS completes US$1m cider plant

Listed spirit and winemaker, African Distillers (AfDIS), has completed the construction of its US$1m ciderfermentation plant as it quickens pace to produce ciders locally, Business Times reported.AfDI...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2022

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Air Zimbabwe engineers probe fire incident

Air Zimbabwe engineers have launched investigations into the cause of an engine malfunction that resulted in a "brief" tail pipe fire on its Boeing 767-200ER on its way from Johannesburg, South Africa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 April 2019

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Air Zimbabwe assures safety despite fire incident

Air Zimbabwe has assured the nation and the international  community of its commitment to the safety of passengers despite its only aircraft, the Boeing 767 200 ER had a fire spark mid-air on Fri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

Chiefs reject Mnangagwa's Gukurahundi plan

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's cocktail of measures to pacify the south-western parts of the country that bore the brunt of the 1980s massacres by the army have been greeted by strident opposition fro...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

POLITICS

'Visit to Gukurahundi genocide sites a Mnangagwa smokescreen attempt'

OPPOSITION Zapu has dismissed the planned visit by the country's peace commission to Gukurahundi sites in Matebeleland as an attempt by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to hoodwink the world into the fals...

By newzimbabwe | Published: 26 April 2019

POLITICS

Mnangagwa still deciding on Tsvangirai memorial

Permanent secretary in the ministry of Information Nick Mangwana said government will in due course give a position on whether or not President Emmerson Mnangagwa will attend former Prime Minister Mor...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2019

POLITICS

Chiefs to set up Gukurahundi genocide taskforce

CHIEFS have unanimously resolved to urgently set up a taskforce to tackle the emotive Gukurahundi massacres that claimed about 20 000 lives in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the early 1980s.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 December 2018

POLITICS

Another road crash claims 12

TWELVE people died on the spot yesterday near Checheche Growth Point in Chipinge when a Green Fuel sugarcane haulage truck collided with a commuter omnibus. Chairman of the Chipinge District Civil Pro...

By The Herald | Published: 03 December 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabweans decide

ITS all systems go for Monday's harmonised elections with the Zimbabwe Election Commission and the Zimbabwe Republic Police giving assurances three days before the plebiscite that the voting process w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 27 July 2018

OPINION

#Zimdecides: Fictitious addresses, missing names raise eyebrows

Eight people who are registered under one address will vote in five different constituencies in Harare in one of the eye-popping discoveries during an analysis of the voters roll recently released by ...

By Blessed Mhlanga | Published: 01 July 2018

POLITICS

WATCH: Economy to decide election outcome

This weekend bomb blast in Bulawayo has rocked the Zimbabwean political landscape ahead of the elections on July 30th. On this Political Capital, we are Karabo Letlhatlha discusses Zimbabwe's politica...

By CNBCAfrica | Published: 27 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa recounts poisoning incident

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday recounted the day he was poisoned while attending a Zanu-PF rally in Gwanda last August.Mnangagwa who was then the Vice President, had to be airlifted to Gweru e...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 June 2018

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Zesa employees injured in freak accident

FOUR Zesa employees in Bulawayo escaped death by a whisker yesterday when a circuit breaker they were working on caught fire and severely burnt them.The accident happened along a sanitary lane between...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 June 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa in freak accident

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday escaped unhurt after a poorly constructed stage collapsed while he was introducing his party's candidates at a rally in Hwange. The inci...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 June 2018

POLITICS

'Mugabe not sorely to blame for Gukurahundi'

Former president Robert Mugabe is not solely responsible for the infamous Gukurahundi disturbances in Matabeleland and Midlands that saw an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians butchered by the North ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 June 2018

POLITICS

CID declares war on criminals

The newly-appointed Criminal Investigations Department (CID) director Senior Assistant Commissioner Stephen Mutamba has declared war on all criminals, saying the force will not hesitate to use minimum...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

1 838 killed in 2017 road accidents

At least five people died daily in road accidents in 2017, as the number of fatalities in traffic crashes rose by 10%, statistics from the Traffic Safety Council in Zimbabwe (TSCZ) reveal.A total of 1...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 May 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe opposition leader dies in car crash

AN aspiring Presidential candidate in the forthcoming general election has reportedly died in a car crash on his way from South Africa to Zimbabwe on the eve of the launch of his political party.Josph...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

POLITICS

SA court decides Grace Mugabe's fate today

The Pretoria High Court will today give itself a chance to decide an issue that could lead to the revocation of diplomatic immunity granted to Grace Mugabe, paving the way for her to face prosecution ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

Gukurahundi genocide case struck off court roll

A BULAWAYO High Court judge yesterday struck off the roll a case, where civic groups were suing former President Robert Mugabe and his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa over the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 May 2018

OPINION

'Mnangagwa must apologise for Gukurahundi genocide'

THE Zimbabwe Independent this week engaged former minister, senior Zanu-PF official and liberation struggle fighter retired Colonel Tshinga Dube who usually speaks out his mind, including during ex-pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt to decide on reporting reforms

Government is assessing proposals by industry on a new financial reporting framework. This will take into consideration the implications of bond notes and multiple currencies on financial statements. ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'65 die in work-related accidents in 2017'

About 65 workers died in work-related accidents last year, while 5 007 were injured as the country continues to experience "unacceptably high" work-related accidents, Labour and Social Welfare ministe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 April 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T decides on candidates

The MDC-T national elections directorate met yesterday to deliberate on the selection of party candidates in preparation for this year's elections.The meeting came as senior party officials are report...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 April 2018

OPINION

Holiday death toll not linked to roadblocks

SOMEWHERE in this edition, we carry a story giving chilling statistics on the sharp increase in road accidents, mostly fatal ones, during this Easter holiday when compared to the same period last year...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 April 2018
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