Zimbabwe’s inflation may be just 4.1% on paper, but in daily life, this doesn’t translate to much – food prices remain high, minimal salaries and wages persist, and confidence in the local ZiG currency is low
Zimbabwe’s ex-President Robert Mugabe may have had financial ties with Jeffrey Epstein, according to the latest batch of files related to the convicted US sex offender. In an email exchange from 2015 with Japanese entrepreneur Joi Ito, the disgraced financier suggested they approach then-President Mugabe to provide Zimbabwe with a new currency after the local…
Walter Magaya is seen arriving at the Harare Magistrates Court on January 26, 2026, following his second arrest on allegations of raping four women HARARE – Televangelist Walter Magaya was dramatically arrested on Monday as he was leaving court, this time facing new rape allegations involving four women. Magaya’s lawyer, Admire Rubaya, had earlier applied…
Kudakwashe Tagwirei (left) and Paul Tungwarara (right) met recently to try and heal their rift HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa was drawn into Zanu PF’s intensifying factional battles on Saturday after he intervened to stop an event in Manicaland at which his investment adviser Paul Tungwarara was scheduled to speak. Tungwarara, a close ally of…
Themba Gorimbo of Zimbabwe poses on the scale during the UFC 310 official weigh-in at UFC APEX on December 6, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Zuffa LLCLas Vegas — Professional mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Themba Gorimbo is showing off his intense training routine on social media and grappling with wrestlers to elevate his skills after…
17 dead in head-on collision between minibus taxi and truck in Zimbabwe, police say A head-on collision between a minibus taxi and a haulage truck killed 17 people in northeastern Zimbabwe on Tuesday police said. Police spokesman Paul Nyathi said all 17 victims, including some pedestrians, died at the scene of the crash, which happened near Chitungwiza,…
Former Zimbabwe captain Sean Williams’ international career is over after he entered a rehabilitation programme to treat drug addiction, the country’s cricket association has announced. Zimbabwe Cricket said the all-rounder had made himself unavailable for national selection – and that it would not pick him again. Williams, 39, has scored almost 9,000 runs and taken…
For some Zimbabwe children with heart disease, a rare lifeline restores hope Tubes snaked across 3-year-old Gracious Chikova’s bandaged chest in the intensive care unit of a government hospital in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. Just a day earlier, surgeons had opened her tiny heart to repair a defect that threatened her life. Now she sipped a drink…
Yoga in a Zimbabwe tavern is the latest mental health outreach in a struggling It’s before sunrise on a Saturday and a small group has gathered at Socialite Bar in on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital. Instead of nursing hangovers, they sit with eyes closed and bodies in meditative poses on the bare floor. It’s…
· Jan 18 Police in Harare are investigating a fatal hit-and-run road traffic accident which occurred on 16/01/26 along Borrowdale Road, opposite Borrowdale Race Course. A yet to be identified man died on the spot after being hit by an unknown motorist who did not stop after the accident. The body of the victim was…