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Mnangagwa pushes rail and ICT deals in Beijing

President Emmerson Mnangagwa held high-level meetings with two major Chinese corporations in Beijing on Monday, advancing Zimbabwe's agenda to modernise infrastructure and accelerate digital transform...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa to tie up $533m railway deal

President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday met executives of the China Railway Group (CRG) in Beijing to finalise a transformative US$533 million deal to overhaul Zimbabwe's deteriorating railway system,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 September 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Air, rail services for Mutare

The Grand Reef Airport in Mutare is 68 percent complete, with contractors expressing confidence that the facility will be operational by next Tuesday, just in time for the Sanganai/Hlanganani/Kumbanay...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's broken railways threaten lithium, tobacco exports

Zimbabwe's crumbling railway system, once the backbone of the economy, has become a major obstacle to growth, inflating transport costs, stifling exports, and threatening emerging sectors such as lit...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Tourism hopes derailed by neglected road infrastructure

Hopes of transforming Kariba into a premier tourist destination are being undermined by chronic neglect of road infrastructure, with stakeholders voicing growing frustration over the government's ina...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

The truth behind Rovos Rail's collision in Zimbabwe

The luxury rail industry across Southern Africa was shaken earlier this year when a Rovos Rail train carrying 47 foreign tourists and 34 staff collided with a freight train on the Bulawayo-Beitbridge ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

NRZ clarifies viral security wall built over rail line in Harare

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has issued a statement clarifying the origins and context of a security wall built across a railway track in the Willowvale industrial area of Harare, after ima...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 May 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Foreign currency shortages derail Paramount Garments

LEADING textile firm, Paramount Garments' exports have dropped by 14 percent while prospects of growing its Bulawayo clothing manufacturing unit, Archer Clothing Manufacturers are in limbo due to adve...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

POLITICS

Zimbabwe soldiers leave ugly terror trail

Horror stories are slowly emerging of how the country's trigger-happy security forces brutalised ordinary Zimbabweans this week - shooting  68 people and leaving dozens others requiring life-savi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa calls for rail network overhaul

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for a total revamp of the country's rail network and re-equipping the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workshops to enable the parastatal to serve the entire...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 November 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa rally bombing trail goes cold

FIVE months following a deadly explosion at a Zanu PF rally addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa at Bulawayo's White City Stadium which killed two security agents and injured 49, including Vice-P...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 November 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

China Railways officials jet in

China Railways Limited top officials arrived in Zimbabwe on Thursday to finalise a $2,5 billion railway deal with Zimbabwe. The delegation is led by VP and senior government engineer Shao Gang.More to...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa rails against G40

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday said he is aware that the G40 faction in Zanu-PF was still alive almost eight months after the military intervened in the ruling party's vicious wars over former...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare-Chitungwiza rail project back on track

Zimbabwe has revived plans to construct a railway line linking Harare and Chitungwiza as it seeks an efficient and reliable public transportation system between the two urban centres. Desmond Matete, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 July 2018

POLITICS

Teachers contest Zanu-PF's bid to railroad pupils to rallies

The Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union in Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) has once again approached the High Court to enforce a provisional order barring Zanu-PF from forcing school pupils and teachers to attend camp...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe claims Chamisa is out to derail her campaign

A faction of the MDC led by Thokozani Khupe is accusing its colleagues-turned-rivals of embarking on a campaign to destabilise its outreach programmes ahead of the forthcoming elections.Party's spokes...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 June 2018

POLITICS

Who is who on the Zimbabwe campaign trail?

A TOTAL of 23 candidates successfully filed their nomination papers last week enabling them to run in the presidential elections to be held on July 30, although it is self-evident the real race will b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2018

POLITICS

'Grace Mugabe and G40 we derailing Zanu-PF'

THE time for sloganeering is over and the revolutionary party, Zanu-PF is reverting back to its founding principles dating back to the liberation struggle, says Politburo member, Perrance Shiri. Addre...

By Staff reporter | Published: 20 June 2018

POLITICS

Campaign trail turns bloody

THE July 30 election campaign trail has claimed the life of a two-year-old who was reportedly abducted and brutally killed by suspected Zanu-PF activists at the weekend after his father Rambai Lumbe d...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 June 2018

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Goods train derails in Hwange

THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train between Bulawayo and Victoria Falls was on Tuesday delayed for about 10 hours after a goods train derailed and blocked the railway line in Hwang...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

New railway line to link Hwange, Harare

A NEW rail line linking Hwange to Harare via Binga and Gokwe will be constructed as part of the revitalisation of the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), a Cabinet Minister has said.The giant parasta...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 May 2018

POLITICS

Makamba Busha hits campaign trail

South African-based businessman Joseph Makamba Busha has hit the campaign trail, expressing confidence that his FreeZim Congress will give mainstream parties a good run for their money in the forthcom...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 May 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa rails Mnangagwa over ballot papers

MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has dismissed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's promise of a free and fair election saying if he was sincere he would not be rejecting opposition demands for an open tender for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 May 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Forex shortages derail SMM turnaround plan

SHABANIE Mashava Mines' (SMM) turnaround efforts have been hampered by foreign currency shortages as the company seeks to acquire de-watering equipment at its mines in Mashava and Zvishavane.The asbes...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Zimbabwe Railway benefits from ZIMREF

Zimbabwe's transport sector is one of the beneficiaries of the Zimbabwe Reconstruction Fund (ZIMREF) a World Bank managed multi- donor Trust Fund. One of the goals of ZIMREF is to create an enabling e...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2018
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