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A CONTROVERSIAL young Zimbabwean woman Susan Mutami, based in Australia, with high-level Zanu PF and government links, has dropped a bombshell: she has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of raping and repeatedly abusing her as a minor at only 15. The explosive revelations do not end there: Mutami makes further allegations …

THE Government will not tolerate timber poaching, illegal mining, settlements in plantations, and deforestation as that will impede the rural industrialisation agenda being driven by the Second Republic aimed at achieving an upper middle class economy by 2030, President Mnangagwa has said. The President directed Government ministries, agencies, and traditional …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that he would be in power beyond 2023 to foresee all the infrastructural projects he has initiated. Speaking during the ground-breaking ceremony of a planned Cyber City project in Mt Hampden just outside Harare yesterday, Mnangagwa said: “The people who are here, you are the …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa summoned finance minister, Mthuli Ncube and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya, to a crisis meeting over the worsening economic condition, it has been learnt. Multiple government sources told Business Times that the meeting held at the State House on Thursday, Mnangagwa demanded that Ncube …

…report exposes massive gold leakages …key political players in dubious deals  ZANU PF-linked dealers have taken over operations in the gold mining and trading deals in Mashonaland Central provinces with those linked to the ruling party being roped in by struggling mines to avoid operational costs, statutory obligations and compliance …

The Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD), a grouping of 16 political parties which took part in the 2018 elections, including Zanu PF, has released a declaration recommending electoral reforms before next year’s general elections. Among the reforms, POLAD wants all election-related legislation to be consolidated in the Electoral Act; stops police …

In what would have been unthinkable a few years ago, the Svosve family in north-eastern Zimbabwe is ditching maize for indigenous grains in order to overcome persistent drought and food shortages. This is despite the fact that maize is second only to water in importance in the average Zimbabwean household, …

Zimbabwe is choking under mounting international debt as it begins to pay the price for borrowing heavily from China for infrastructure projects at the tail end of Robert Mugabe’s rule. Beijing funded the expansion of Victoria Falls International Airport and that of the southern African country’s main source of electricity, …

Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate now stands at 19% basing on the strictest definition of employment, Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZIMSTAT) has reported. The details, contained in the agency’s Quarterly Labour Force Survey for the first three months, showed the country’s unemployment rate is relatively lower. ZIMSTAT’s definition of employed people includes …

The problems at the huge Hwange Power Station and the small Harare station have been corrected, while negotiations are ongoing for the importation of more electricity as a short-term measure to lessen the impact of power outages while the country waits for the results of medium to long-term projects. Energy …