BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa tariff review

Gold miners - who have been clamouring for an electricity tariff reduction from the current USc12,8 per kilowatt hour (kWh) to USc7 per kWh - are set for a major reprieve amid indications that a break...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Khupe threatens to quit MDC-T

The MDC is headed for turbulent times amid reports that its longest serving deputy Thokozani Khupe is contemplating stepping down should Morgan Tsvangirai attempt to hand over power to any of her juni...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa fled 'assassins' for a safe place

George Charamba, the man who served former president Robert Mugabe for over 30 years and mediated the veteran ruler's resignation under pressure from the military and his party, has lifted the lid on ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's govt mum on Mphoko pension

GOVERNMENT has remained mum over former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's pension, weeks after he wrote a letter of demand for his benefits.Mphoko's lawyer Welshman Ncube said they were yet to get a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

'Postpone Zimbabwe elections'

THE Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) leader and former Zanu-PF member Kisinoti Mukwazhe has petitioned Parliament to postpone this years' general elections to 2021.In a letter to the Speaker of Parlia...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa on Twitter

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has opened a Twitter account to interact with the public.The President officially confirmed the page through a video posted on Twitter on Saturday, a day after also confir...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Muzorewa throws his hat into presidential ring

GWINYAI Muzorewa, the late Bishop Abel Muzorewa's young brother, is seeking to contest this year's presidential elections under the revived United African National Council (UANC).The older Muzorewa wa...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa visits Namibia

President Emmerson Mnangagwa will today visit Namibia on the third leg of his regional tour to brief his counterparts on the political situation in the country and the forthcoming harmonised elections...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance root for Chamisa?

MDC Alliance principals are reportedly rooting for youthful Nelson Chamisa to take over as their presidential candidate in the event that ailing Morgan Tsvangirai does not recover in time for the grue...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

SA tycoon to invest $1,2 billion in Zimbabwe

SOUTH African tycoon Mr Robert Matana Gumede arrived in the country last night to cement a $1,2 billion investment deal in key sectors of the economy which include infrastructure development, energy, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

'Total economic turnaround unachievable in Zim'

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson Mr George Charamba has said total economic turnaround is not achievable in 100 days due to the state of the economy but President Emmerson Mnangagwa was doing everything with...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Padenga applies for power generation licence

LISTED crocodile skin producer and marketer, Padenga Holdings has applied to the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) for a power generation licence to set up 0.0336 megawatts solar plant in Ka...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Optimism as industry resumes operations

MOST companies are returning from annual shutdown this week amid high prospects that the new political dispensation will reinvigorate investor confidence and enable the manufacturing sector to secure ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa assures food security

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the nation of food security this year despite delays in the distribution of inputs under the Command Agriculture Programme and the prevailing dry spell.Address...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

LIFESTYLE

Zimbabwe scores another HIV first

Zimbabwe is the first country in the world to use the latest medical technology in HIV infant diagnosis and viral load testing, The Herald can reveal.Speaking after the training of certified laborator...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$5m facility for millers, bakers

The Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has arranged a $5 million facility for small millers and bakers, which will go towards resuscitating closed companies and increasing capacity for those still ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim to normalise relations with global partners

Government is in the process of reviewing current legislation and the processes around doing business in the country as it seeks to create mutually respectful relations with international trading part...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 January 2018

POLITICS

'Robert Mugabe did not resign'

EXILED former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has warned that Zimbabwe will soon become the new Somalia if the international community does not move in to restore constitutionalism in Harare,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

OPINION

Chamisa is a Lacoste plant and mole in the MDC-T?

THIS second instalment of the ZBR comes in a week that has seen two notably interesting events that talk to the theme of the #2018Resistance. The first one was the statement issued by the MDC-T Youth ...

By Patrick Zhuwao | Published: 14 January 2018

POLITICS

Tsvangirai's sons speak out on 'ailing' dad

Ailing opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai's family has reportedly broken the silence over his health, saying that they have authorised the Movement for Democratic Change party's acting president Elia...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

POLITICS

'Joshua Nkomo refused presidential offer'

The late vice president Joshua Nkomo turned down an offer to become the country's president in a coalition government formed after the 1980 elections, Zapu president Dumiso Dabengwa claims.Instead, th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

POLITICS

Ginimbi flaunts R4 million sports car

Flamboyant youthful businessman Genius Kadungure has boasted that he has bought a 2017 Bentley Bentayga - a supercar, which costs R4 million.Kadungure, 33, has been showing off on social media the spo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo's untapped tourism potential

With dozens of tourist attractions, each having a rich history and remarkable diversity of culture, Bulawayo - Zimbabwe's second largest city - as well as its hinterland should have no problem attract...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

POLITICS

Jonathan Moyo predicts bloodshed

FORMER Cabinet minister Jonathan Moyo has sensationally declared that Zimbabwe will be plunged into bloodshed if the international community fails to remove President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government.I...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF ignore Mugabe birthday

Old sages say, "out of sight, out of mind".Following his forced resignation last November, memories of former president Robert Mugabe seem to be fading away - including in his own party, Zanu-PF.This ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 January 2018

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