Zimbabwean journalists were facing possible arrest at police checkpoints for using expired accreditation cards during the national lockdown

New journalists’ accreditation fees gazetted

Davison Kaiyo Government has gazetted registration and accreditation fees for journalists with the charges going up as much as 900 percent. The ZMC immediately announced that it would be advising journalists on how they would be...
In Zimbabwe, approximately 300,000 people are currently at risk of statelessness, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Now Is the Time for the US to Reset Relations with Zimbabwe

  Marc Holtzman There is no better time for the United States to reset relations with a foreign country than at the change of an administration. While the new president, Joe Biden, will no doubt have...
The number of health workers who have been infected by the COVID-19 virus has put a strain on institutions dealing with increasing cases of the disease

“Two health workers infected with COVID-19 each day”

Davison Kaiyo and Sydney Kawadza At least two members of the health frontline workers in Zimbabwe’s major hospitals are contracting the dreaded COVID-19 virus per day and putting a strain on the country’s health provision...

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Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs minister dies

Davison Kaiyo  HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo (SB) has died. He was 61. Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services acting Minister Jenfan Muswere has confirmed the death but could not give further...
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Local currency breaks depreciation trend against the USD

HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe held its weekly foreign currency auction today, which saw the local currency break its depreciation trend against the US dollar albeit marginally, as it gained 0.01% to...

Caledonia Mining reports record gold production at Blanket Mine

Caledonia Mining Corporation reported a record total gold production of 57,899 ounces in 2020 for Blanket Mine, which is the top end of the company’s revised increased guidance. For comparison, Blanket produced 55,182 ounces...
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How ‘energy transition’ will impact Zimbabwe this decade

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro HARARE – In the just started 2021/30-decade, fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) will continue to lose global market share as the world energy supply and demand transition to low carbon renewable energy (wind,...
Government efforts to curb the rate of infection from the COVID-19 virus are bearing fruit with cases dropping by almost 50 percent

Zim taking cautious approach on Covid-19 vaccine rollout

HARARE – Zimbabwe is taking a cautious approach towards the roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines that some African countries are set to roll out amid indications that government could delay the programme while observing the...
Simukai Chigudu at a protest in Oxford in June last year

‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes

Simukai Chigudu There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor, or over...