JOHANNESBURG – South African border management officials will next week meet with their Zimbabwean counterparts to address the escalating number of undocumented minors intercepted at the Beitbridge border. According to authorities, more than 50 undocumented minors were intercepted at the Beitbridge port of entry in two separate incidents. Last week, 20 children aged five to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe has hit a major economic milestone. Annual inflation has dropped into single digits for the first time since 1997. READ: Inflation puts damper on Christmas celebrations in Zimbabwe Inflation slowed sharply to just over 4% last month from 15% in December. The development is central to the government’s plan to make the…
HARARE- The trial of former Mugabe-era Foreign Affairs Minister Walter Mzembi, is finally under way. He has been languishing in prison for 7 months, after his arrest in June. Mzembi was taken into custody on his return from exile in South Africa Romeo Karise
HARARE – Leading Zimbabwe opposition figures accused the government on Wednesday of a constitutional “coup” after the cabinet approved amendments that would allow President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend his term in office. Sweeping changes to the constitution accepted by the cabinet on Tuesday include extending the presidential term to seven years and following a decision…
HARARE – As white Zimbabwe farmers again ask the Trump administration to weigh in on long-promised government compensation for their evictions 25 years ago, many of them are increasingly ageing and desperate. Farmers’ unions engaged a US lobbying firm late last year to raise their plight in Washington in the hopes of a funding breakthrough,…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s ban on raw lithium exports is forcing Chinese miners to rethink their strategy, speeding up plans to process the metal locally instead of shipping it to China’s vast rechargeable battery industry. The country is Africa’s largest lithium producer and has one of the world’s largest reserves, according to the US Geological Survey…
HARARE – The US is suspending all health funding to the country. At the heart of it all is Zimbabwe’s refusal to sign a health for minerals deal. It said the US is making unfair and unreasonable demands. The Zimbabwean government accuses the US of demanding sensitive health data of its population. And that’s why…
Lion DNA has been used to successfully prosecute poachers for the first time in the world, it has emerged. Wildlife crime experts have only just revealed how they were able to identify the individual animal from body parts found in a suspect’s village, as they matched a profile on Zimbabwe’s lion database. A blood sample…
Men’s T20 World Cup, Group B, Colombo Zimbabwe 169-2 (20 overs): Bennett 64* (56); Green 1-6 Australia 146 (19.3 overs): Renshaw 65 (44); Muzarabani 4-17 Zimbabwe won by 23 runs Scorecard. Tables Blessing Muzarabani claimed a career-best 4-17 as Zimbabwe held their nerve to stun Australia with a brilliant 23-run win in the T20 World…
The United States is ending its health programmes in Zimbabwe, including HIV treatment for one point two million people. The US embassy said Harare had pulled out of negotiations over a new health aid agreement which would have provided 367 million dollars over five years. The US has been renegotiating aid to Africa following the…