POLITICS

Chief refuses to retract Mnangagwa life presidency call

A traditional leader from Manicaland is facing legal action after refusing to retract controversial remarks in which he called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to be granted a life-presidency.Acting ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 October 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's life expectancy rises to 65

Zimbabwe's life expectancy has increased by four years to an average of 65, with women expected to live longer than men, according to the Ministry of Health and Child Care. Officials described the ri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2025

POLITICS

Trouble for Mnangagwa life presidency chief

Manicaland traditional leader Chief Oliver Saurombe is facing potential legal action over remarks in which he called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to serve as Zimbabwe's life president. Lawyers ha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 September 2025

POLITICS

Mzilikazi commemorations roar into life

The Ndebele Nation in Zimbabwe will this Friday and Saturday commemorate the 157th anniversary of the death of its legendary founding king, Mzilikazi kaMashobane, at Mhlahlandlela, just outside prese...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 September 2025

POLITICS

Zanu-PF affiliates call for Mnangagwa life presidency

Zanu-PF affiliates have stepped up their calls for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remain in power for life, a motion that is expected to surface at the party's annual conference set for Mutare Polyte...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Air Vice Marshal praises Tagwirei's Arundel for saving his life

Air Vice Marshal Biltim Chingono has hailed Arundel Hospital, owned by businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei, for saving his life following a severe medical emergency that left him on life support for four...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Fidelity Life records jump in profit after tax

Fidelity Life Assurance Zimbabwe has reported a sharp rise in profit after tax to US$6,1 million for the year ended May 30, 2025, more than doubling the US$2,4 million recorded in the prior period. Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Urban lifestyles linked to rising colon cancer risk in Zimbabwe

People living in urban areas with higher incomes and those suffering from diabetes are more susceptible to colon cancer than those who consume traditional diets, according to findings presented by pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 July 2025

POLITICS

Vuvuzelas deployed to tackle human-wildlife conflicts

A local non-governmental organisation, Wildlife Conservation Action (WCA), has introduced an unconventional but effective tool in the fight against human-wildlife conflict in rural Kariba - the vuvuze...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Ipec cracks whip on life insurance providers

The Insurance and Pensions Commission (Ipec) has ordered all life insurance products to be withdrawn from the market, directing insurers to re-register their offerings only after demonstrating thoroug...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 July 2025

FINANCIAL SERVICES

First Mutual Life assures policyholders

First Mutual Life Assurance Company (FML) says it is continuing to engage with the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) to bring closure to matters arising from a forensic audit conducted in 2022....

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2025

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Zimparks begins multi-year wildlife relocation to Matusadona

The Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks), in collaboration with the African Parks Network and the Matusadona Conservation Trust, has embarked on an ambitious wildlife translocat...

By Staff reportetr | Published: 05 July 2025

OPINION

Footprints in the chains: The life story of Job Sikhala

Author: Munyaradzi SavanhuReviewed by: Ibbo MandazaThe book, Footprints in Chains: The Life Story of Job Sikhala, is less biographical than an indelible account of human rights abuses, the excesses of...

By Munyaradzi Savanhu | Published: 29 June 2025

POLITICS

Blessed Mhlanga robbed 73 days of his life

Alpha Media journalist Blessed Mhlanga was finally granted freedom on Wednesday night after spending 73 days in pre-trial detention at Harare Central Remand Prison. Mhlanga was arrested in early Janua...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 May 2025

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Afreximbank says globalisation is under life support

Globalisation is under threat amid rising protectionism which must force African countries to look inwards for growth and development, Afreximbank president Benedict Oramah has said.The world is in a ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimra lifestyle audit: 36 suspended

THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) suspended at least 36 officers implicated in lifestyle audits, while processes are underway at the High Court to forfeit the ill-gotten wealth.Zimra Commissioner...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 September 2019

SOCCER

Zimbabwe agent gets Fifa life ban

Fifa yesterday handed a life ban to player agent Kudzanai Shaba for his alleged involvement in Asian betting syndicates linked to match-fixing.Shaba, who was in 2012 named in a Zifa report as one of t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 25 April 2019

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Lifeline for Deven Engineering

The recently introduced mass public transport system in the country has opened new opportunities for local bus manufacturers and assemblers as more buses are needed to roll out the exercise country wi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 January 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Life assurance profits down 63% in Q3

ZIMBABWE'S life assurance industry recorded 68 % decline in after tax profits to $314,85 million in the nine months to September 2018 compared to $979,27 million during the same period in 2017, the in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 January 2019

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Non-life insurers profit jumps 52%

NON-LIFE insurers' profit after tax jumped 52,34 percent to $16,34 million in the 12 months period to June 30, 2018 compared to the same comparative period the prior year, according the Pensions and I...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2018

POLITICS

'Mzembi fighting for life in SA hospital'

THE trial of former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi, who is accused of fraud, criminal abuse of office and theft of trust property involving $1,8 million, was yesterday moved to December 4 afte...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 November 2018

OPINION

Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media

I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not...

By Tawanda Majoni | Published: 22 July 2018

POLITICS

Robbers leave farmer battling for life

PROMINENT Marondera farmer and businessman, Johanne Boreman, is battling for his life at a local private hospital following an attack by suspected robbers on Sunday night. After the attack, the suspec...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 July 2018

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Motor, fire policies add spark to non-life insurers' earnings

Profit after tax for non-life insurers more than trebled to $33,63 million in 2017 from the previous year aided by a growth in gross premium written (GPW) and investment income, a new report by the in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

ZIMBABWE

ZSE spurs life assets

POSITIVE performance on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has spurred asset bases of local life assurance companies, as the sector closed the first quarter with an asset base of $2,82 billion, it has ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 June 2018
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