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SADC troika indirectly raps Mnangagwa, Zanu PF for “unwarranted attacks”
Own Correspondent
Harare--The SADC troika held a virtual extraordinary meeting of the ministerial committee last Tuesday, at which it condemned attacks on its chairman and Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, following a negative…
Bikita Lithium smuggling rife
DEALERS who boast of close links with powerful Zanu PF politicians and senior employees at Bikita Minerals are making a killing by facilitating the smuggling of truckloads of lithium from Zimbabwe’s biggest lithium producer on a daily…
ZimInd takes legal action against parly over CDF
Harare- THE Zimbabwe Independent has initiated legal action to press parliament to release crucial documents of public interest detailing how legislators in Harare province utilised Constituency Development Funds (CDF) allocated between…
President Mnangagwa rejects PVO Bill, for now
Tawanda Majoni
Harare—President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill back to parliament, slightly more than a year after the Legal Committee of the legislative house gave it a non-adverse…
Failure is what happens when schools are without teachers
Lulu Brenda Harris
Binga--The poor national examination results achieved by students in Binga schools each year tell a story of an underfunded education system suffocating a hugely marginalised district.
What makes it more deplorable is the…
Jonathan Moyo says returning to Zimbabwe “very soon”
Staff Reporter
Harare--Self-exiled former cabinet minister under the late Robert Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, has declared that he is returning to Zimbabwe, after almost six years in the wilderness.
He is considered to be closer to Vice…
Mystery raids drive high-density suburbs into self-imposed curfews
Tafadzwa Muranganwa
Harare--Systematic nigh-time raids and assaults on residents of some of Harare’s most populous suburbs by unidentified gangs have spawned fear that is forcing the citizens to confine themselves to their homes after…
Cabo Delgado: Artisanal Miners, Local Communities Left High and Dry
Estacio Valoi
*This is the third and final part of an investigative series on small-scale mining in southern Africa that exposes the dishonesty of the governing Frelimo party in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado.
Cabo Delgado,…
Chinese supplier outed selling banned mercury to artisanal miners
Brenna Matendere
Harare--A Chinese-owned supplier, STC Chemicals, is feeding artisanal gold miners with mercury, which the government banned in December 2020, a new study has revealed.
The study by Information for Development Trust…