Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1572

  • Zimbabwe expels Libyan ambassador

    Zimbabwe today gave Libya’s ambassador to Harare Taher Elmagrahi 72 hours to leave the country. Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi said the decision was made after...

  • Nkomo alive

    Vice President John Nkomo today showed up alive and well quashing rumours that he had died in South Africa. The rumour that he was dead...

  • Ministers to be circumcised

    Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe today said all male government ministers in Zimbabwe will undergo circumcision as part of a campaign to prevent the spread...

  • Makone blasts police, Kasukuwere

    Co-Home Affairs Minister Theresa Makone today said she is embarrassed by the police after they failed to arrest any suspects a month after ZANU-PF activists...

  • Finalise land reform

    Finance Minister Tendai Biti today called on the government to finalise land reform. He also called for a “comprehensive agriculture reform strategy” to spur growth...

  • Biti says diamond revenue not enough

    Finance Minister Tendai Biti today said that his ministry received US$23 million from the sale of diamonds from the eastern Marange field this month but...

  • Mhanda calls inquiry into Mujuru death

    One of the key liberation commanders, Wilfred Mhanda, known in the war as Dzinashe Machingura, today called for a commission of inquiry into the death...

  • Power up by 31%

    Zimbabwe’s electricity regulator today ordered a 31 percent tariff increase, in a move it said was meant to ensure the state-owned power utility ZESA’s profitability....

  • Joice wants probe

    Vice-President Joice Mujuru today called for an investigation into the death of her husband Solomon last week in a fire at his farm. Mrs Mujuru...

  • Implats in talks

    Impala Platinum, the world’s second largest producers of platinum, today said its Zimbabwe unit Zimplats was in talks with the government after authorities rejected its...