India's Leander Paes and Cara Black of Zimbabwe defeated Brazil's Andre Sa and Ai Sugiyama of Japan 6-3, 6-3 to storm into the semi-finals of Wimbledon mixed doubles here...

Beitbridge BureauSixteen bodies, the majority of them believed to be of Zimbabweans, were last week given paupers’ burials at Musina Cemetery in South Africa’s Limpopo Province.The bodies had...

Court ReporterThe trial of Richfield Dingani Zinyemba on allegations of swindling a city businessman of R633 749,5 has been set for July 8.Dingani allegedly tricked Mr James Hunter into transferring...

Herald ReporterChitungwiza Town Council, which is battling to raise funds to pay its workers, has set Tuesday next week as the deadline for all ratepayers to pay their outstanding bills.The...

(RTTNews) - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced Thursday that it would not provide further financial assistance to Zimbabwe until the impoverished African country settles its existing...

Herald ReporterA National Library and Documentation Service Council has been appointed with an audit on the current state of the country’s libraries its first task.Harare lawyer Ms Nokuthula Moyo...

Xinhua-Herald Reporter.CHINA has pledged to continue supporting Zimbabwe while vowing to boost ties with the country in the fields of mining, agriculture and construction. According to media reports...

Faced with mounting dissatisfaction within his formation of the Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for an urgent meeting with his partners in the...

Herald ReporterZIMBABWE Newspapers has re-assigned most of the company’s editors to head the different newspaper and magazine titles with William Chikoto, current editor of the weekly Sunday Mail,...

Masvingo BureauA Masvingo man who stole 21 cattle has been jailed for an effective 37 years.Zakaria Chigome (46) of Sisk suburb in the city was convicted of stealing 21 cattle from a farmer, which he...

Though Zimbabwe has barely embarked on making a new constitution as a key step toward holding another round of elections after the disastrous ballots of 2008, debate has sprung up as to whether the...

Many HIV/AIDS activists in Zimbabwe have responded positively to news that the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has shifted disbursing power to the United Nations Development...

Herald ReporterTHE 2008 Grade Seven results are finally out, the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council has announced.Zimsec director Mr Happy Ndanga yesterday said the results were being sent to all...

By Innocent RuwendeTEACHERS threatening to strike over unfulfilled pay promises have been told that civil servants are likely to get proper salaries when Finance Minister Tendai Biti presents the...

From Caesar Zvayi in SIRTE, LibyaPRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday met United States Under-Secretary of State for African Affairs Mr Johnnie Carson and Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema...

By Freeman RazembaSIX armed robbers yesterday raided Barclays Bank in Bulawayo and got away with US$50 000, R126 000 and 500 pound as robberies increase countrywide.Chief police spokesperson Senior...

From Takunda Maodza in MUTARETHE head of the visiting Kimberley Process Certification Scheme team yesterday acknowledged efforts by the Government to rid the Chiadzwa diamond fields of illegal miners...

Municipal ReporterHarare City councillors have re-engaged town clerk Dr Tendai Mahachi on the issue of former director of works Engineer Christopher Zvobgo after initially excluding him from a...

Court ReportersA greedy extortionist ran out of luck when he upped his demands, seeking to wring another US$25 000 from a Harare businessman after he had already extorted US$11 000. The businessman,...

Herald ReporterGOVERNMENT has started consultations on the Information Communication and Technology Bill which will repeal the Broadcasting Services Act, Postal and Telecomunications Act and amend...

Nicholas van Hoogstraten, the British property tycoon who became a friend of President Mugabe, has had charges of illegal currency dealing and possession of pornography dismissed by a Zimbabwe...

State Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi on Wednesday stunned a Harare Court by denying that the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) was involved in the abduction of opposition and human rights...

Michael Peter Hitschmann, who was initially arrested for allegedly plotting to assassinate Robert Mugabe at his birthday bash in Manicaland in 2006, was released on Thursday. Although the...

The top hierachy of the MDC will hold a two day strategic planning meeting beginning Friday, amid reports of lingering disagreements between party members over participation in the government. The...

Harare — Retired army officer Colonel Taurai Katuka, who died last Thursday, has been declared a provincial hero and will be buried at the Bindura Provincial Heroes Acre today. Col Katuka, who...

Zimbabwe's Vice President Joice Mujuru has said the last two and a half years have been seen an increase in economic cooperation between Zimbabwe and the People's Republic of China. Speaking at a...

The Zimbabwean government has secured a 60-million-U.S. dollar loan from a Tunisia-based African Export-Import Bank to boost tobacco production, local media said on Thursday. Finance Minister Tendai...

Mutare — The illicit trade in diamonds has surged dramatically in this eastern border city amid reports senior police officers and soldiers have formed syndicates with wealthy foreign buyers...

Harare — AFRICA First ReNaissance Corporation (Afre)'s property arm, Pearl Properties Ltd, plans to invest in new retail properties, particularly shopping malls and industrial parks, in the...

opinion Harare — THE Honourable Prime Minister of the Republic of Zimbabwe -- Morgan Tsvangirai and the party that he leads -- the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), should watch...

Harare — INSURGENT LonZim Plc shareholders have escalated their battle against four of the group's directors, issuing an announcement that is likely to dismantle any defence that has so far...

Harare — IF only he had taken time to appreciate there are two sides to any coin and gauge the political mood before making what Zimbabweans abroad say was an offending statement, Prime...

Harare — A CONSORTIUM of deep-pocketed investors led by astute banker Patterson Timba signalled its intention to control hospitality business, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG), after increasing its...

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has set up a taskforce chaired by its Trade and Investment Sub-committee to engage the government over the issue of tariff protection and accompanying...

Harare — NIGEL Chanakira is wasting no time in finding potential suitors to recapitalise Kingdom Financial Holdings Limited (KFHL) and buy-out shareholders who may want to dispose of their...

analysis Harare — IT must have been a rude awakening for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his entourage when they were reportedly booed and heckled by disgruntled Zimbab-weans in the...

Harare — MINING corporations operating in Zimbabwe on Tuesday defied an order by Mines and Mining Development Minister, Obert Mpofu, to boycott an international mining conference organised in...

Greece has donated 650,000 U.S. dollars to Zimbabwe to help fight cholera and assist in food relief projects, The Herald said on Thursday. Speaking recently on the occasion of Greece's National Day,...

Harare — ZIMBABWE'S leading building societies have resumed short-term lending for property rehabilitation and may expand the portfolios to medium-term credit for new property development by...

Harare — WOMEN have become the face of Aids in Africa. This is the chilling conclusion by the Southern Africa HIV and Aids Information Dissemination Services (SAFAIDS) in its latest report...

Harare — SOUTH Africa's agri-processing group Tongaat Hulett has announced plans to consolidate its Zimbabwe sugar operations in its financial statements for the first half of this year,...

Harare — The Kimberly Process, an international diamond certification body set up to curb trade in conflict diamonds has launched an investigation into reports that President Robert Mugabe's...

Harare — THE Movement for Democ-ratic Change (MDC) formation led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai risks losing its parliamentary majority following the conviction of three of its legislators...

The contentious document was crafted in September 2007 by representatives of the three main political parties in Kariba at the height of the negotiations among the protagonists to the Zimbabwe...

editorial Harare — WALTER Mzembi, then deputy water resources minister, told the nation last year that the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (ZINWA) was to sink boreholes at the University of...

Harare — NATIONAL power utility, ZESA Holdings this week said defaulting customers now owe the parastatal more than US$185 million in unsettled bills, some dating back to February this year. ...

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe has begun deploying mobile network equipment worth USD200 million through contracts with Ericsson of Sweden and China’s ZTE, reports The Zimbabwe Guardian. Base station...

Harare — Government has reviewed upwards monthly allowances for councillors and has left room for further adjustments depending on the performance of the councils. Urban councils such as...

Harare — MUREHWA Constituency Senator Tendai Makunde, who is also a businessman and farmer, was yesterday taken to the Harare Civil Courts by a 20-year-old woman who is claiming maintenance for...

Harare — STUNG by the decision by his long-time lover to elope with another man, a Zvimba man hanged himself with barbed wire from a tree on Monday morning. Innocent Kaguda (28) of Chinyemba...