| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe’s controversial programme to force foreign-owned firms to transfer controlling stake to blacks is an ill thought-out plan that will only help to enrich an already wealthy black elite | | |  Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe hopes to have placed control of its lucrative mining industry into black hands by month-end as part of its economic indigenisation programme | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | MASVINGO – Twenty-one people died and 45 others were seriously injured in a bus accident on Monday morning along Zimbabwe’s notorious Harare to Beitbridge highway | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU (PF) party has vowed to never allow the return of farms it seized under its controversial land reforms to their former white owners | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | OPINION: -- The continued theft of large quantities of diamonds by dealers and cartels is a threat to national security and may undermine the work of the inclusive government in Zimbabwe | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Australian special forces have secretly carried dozens of intelligence gathering operations in Zimbabwe over the past year, it was disclosed on Tuesday | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) are set to resume talks to find ways to revive full diplomatic relations, suspended when Brussels imposed sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his top officials | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – Iran has promised to help strengthen Zimbabwe’s army, once among the most feared in Africa but that experts say has been weakened due to years of underfunding and a Western ban on weapon sales to the African country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | BULAWAYO – President Robert Mugabe on Thursday reminded his coalition partners that the chief task of their unity government was to create conditions for the holding of violence free elections and not writing a new constitution | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- A typhoid outbreak that began in Harare last year is steadily spreading across Zimbabwe with more than 3 000 cases reported although only one death due to the disease has been reported so far | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG –Zimbabwe’s three ruling parties must honour an agreement to write a new constitution before holding elections to choose a new government to replace their coalition administration, South Africa has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has received an additional US$6.7 million from the Australian government’s International Development Assistance Programme to improve water and sanitation | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Chamber of mines on Monday told parliamentarians that exorbitant licence fees and other charges levied by the state were threatening the viability of the mining sector | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa must review its land reform policy, a top official said on Monday, adding on to increasing calls for an overhaul of Pretoria’s land redistribution programme that the government admits has failed to meet objectives | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to block a new constitution that would prevent him from running for president | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The European Union (EU) is expected to extend for another year sanctions against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and his top allies but will trim down the number of people on the visa and financial bans list by a third | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe's tobacco selling season opens tomorrow with at least 150 million kilogrammes expected to be sold this year up from 132.5 million kilogrammes sold last year, in yet another sign of recovery | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe could lose electricity supplies from Mozambique’s Hidroelectrica de Cahora Bassa (HCB) over a US$90 million debt it owes the Mozambican power utility | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- More than half of Zimbabwe’s teachers have at one point during the past decade experienced some form of political violence including being threatened, beaten up, tortured or raped | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- President Robert Mugabe and his ZANU PF will block any new constitution that seeks to bar him from contesting the next presidential election, a senior party official has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – A magistrate’s court on Monday rejected a request to exhume the body of former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru to allow a fresh autopsy to establish the cause of his death | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Former Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) chief executive officer Henrietta Rushwaya was yesterday released on US$500 bail on charges of match-fixing | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – A Zimbabwean magistrate will rule today whether to allow a South African pathologist to give evidence at the inquest into the death of former top army general Solomon Mujuru | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | OPINION: The reduction of the debate on security sector reform to issues of retiring some individuals and/or not renewing their contracts is wrong-headed and misses the bigger problem | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | OPINION: Southern Africa’s ‘democracies’ do not produce citizens but subjects controlled by governments due to the hierarchical nature of the region’s politics, which demands obedience. But for how long will this go on? | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – City health officials and independent doctors have warned of a possible cholera outbreak in Harare, already grappling with a typhoid outbreak that has infected more than... | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – A strike by Zimbabwean public workers to demand more pay got off to a slow start yesterday with nearly all government departments open for business, while many schools | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | OPINION: It might surprise many who know of my life in politics and international affairs, but in my heart I consider myself a farmer | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- A hotel worker is among 600 Harare residents infected with typhoid, amid fears the disease could quickly cascade into an epidemic similar to a cholera outbreak about four years ago that killed | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNEBSURG – A newly appointed Thai minister has refused to step down after the US government blacklisted her over alleged business dealings with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s family | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG – South Africa last week expelled more than 600 illegal immigrants from Zimbabwe, a top official said at the weekend | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Union leaders yesterday vowed to shut down the entire civil service for the whole week next week as they intensified pressure on the government to hike salaries and improve working conditions | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – A second witness on Thursday told the inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army commander Solomon Mujuru that she heard the sound of gunfire moments before she was alerted to a fire that destroyed a farmhouse in which | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean civil servants go on strike tomorrow to press the country’s cash-strapped coalition government to hike salaries and | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- The inquest into the death of former army general Solomon Mujuru resumes today after it was temporarily called off yesterday to allow his widow, Vice President Joice Mujuru, time to study | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- A security guard has told an inquest into the death of former Zimbabwe army general Solomon Mujuru that he heard what sounded like gunfire shots before he was alerted to a fire that destroyed a house | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – United States sanctions against firms mining Zimbabwe’s Marange diamond deposits will hurt efforts to ensure transparency and end siphoning of revenue from the sale of gems from the controversial mines, Finance Minister Tendai Biti has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | Dear Readers -- The editor and the ZimOnline team wish to apologise to our readers that we have not been able to update your favourite news website with fresh news for some weeks now. This was due to a major technical fault with our content management systems that made it impossible for us to upload any new material on the website.
The fault has since been rectified and we have resumed publishing today, while measures have been put in place to ensure this problem does not recur and that we are able to continue to provide you with the news and on Zimbabwe that you need to know. EDITOR | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- War veterans at the weekend disrupted a press conference called by the country’s constitutional committee to brief journalists and civil society on progress in the drafting of a new charter for the country | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | JOHANNESBURG -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has named Zimbabwean Raisedon Zenenga as his deputy special representative (political) in the world body’s mission in South Sudan | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – International trade watchdog Global Witness has pulled out of the Kimberley Process (KP) -- the international regulator organised to stop the trade in illicit diamonds -- as a result of the certification of the Marange diamonds | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE -- Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has dismissed calls for restructuring of the Zimbabwe’s security forces as part of a foreign agenda to destabilise the country | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – South Africa’s Nando’s fast food outlet on Thursday said it was withdrawing an advert mocking President Robert Mugabe as the last dictator standing following threats | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his controversial marriage to a Harare businesswoman that he said political opponents | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | Full statement by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai announcing his divorce from Harare businesswoman Lorcadia Tembo | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE –Youths from President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party have called for a boycott of fast food outlet Nandos in retaliation for an advert flighted on South African television poking fun at the veteran leader | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- South Africa’s ruling ANC party on Monday referred a report on nationalisation of mines back to drafters for more detail on | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE - The Roman Catholic church’s human rights arm on Sunday urged Zimbabwean authorities to declare chronic water shortages in the country a national disaster, amid rising cases of typhoid in the capital Harare | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Finance Minister Tendai Biti on Thursday said Zimbabwe’s economy will grow by 9.4 percent next year, while inflation would remain in single digits as the country continues to recover from | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s broadcasting regulator has awarded free-to-air national broadcasting licences to state-owned Zimbabwe Newspapers (Zimpapers) and to AB Communications, a private firm that critics say also has links to the government | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The world’s largest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), on Wednesday said it will transfer 10 percent shareholding in its Unki mine | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | SHURUGWI – President Robert Mugabe has vowed to “punish severely” homosexuality that he said was un-Christian and un-African | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – The Development Bank of China will provide US$30 million to fund small and medium-scale enterprises in Zimbabwe as Beijing looks to strengthen ties with the resource rich African country | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – More than one million Zimbabweans face food shortages between now and the next harvests beginning around March next year, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) has said | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s constitutional reforms could face further delays after a multi-party committee leading the drafting of the new governance charter said it was facing difficulties securing funds | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Two Zimbabwean journalists charged with defamation and theft of documents over a story involving a senior central bank official have been released on US$100 bail each | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE -- Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate eased to 4.2 percent in October down from 4.3 percent recorded the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistical Agency (ZIMSTATS) has said | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwean church leaders say they have asked Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai to publicly clarify his position on homosexuality following his calls in recent weeks for the country to uphold gay rights | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s political parties will be barred from showing their strength or popularity in a violent manner, while supporters will be banned from carrying weapons to | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – The wife of Zimbabwe’s top military commander, General Constantine Chiwenga, has accused him of regularly battering her, while threatening to shoot her dared report | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will today call on their followers to shun political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE –Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to hear an application for bail by seven MDC activists, saying they should have first sought permission from | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – President Robert Mugabe yesterday thanked his Chinese allies for helping defend his rule against Western countries that he says want to topple him. | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Zimbabwe’s coalition partners yesterday agreed to meet next Friday to discuss ways to end political violence that has resurfaced in many parts of the country ahead of elections expected next year | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Hundreds of MDC supporters were injured when youths loyal to President Robert Mugabe stormed the venue of a political rally and beat up people gathered for the meeting, the party said on Sunday | | | | Full Story | | | | | | | | | | HARARE – Anti-riot police yesterday raided the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) offices in central Harare, firing a volley of tear gas into the building and at pedestrians | | | | Full Story | | |
| | | | | | | HARARE – Global diamond regulator Kimberley Process (KP) has unanimously agreed to allow Zimbabwe to export diamonds from the controversial Marange fields | | | | Full Story | | | |