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Ghana signs agreement to build small NuScale nuclear reactor
Reuters - Ghana on Thursday signed an agreement with a U.S. developer for a nuclear reactor using technology from NuScale Power (SMR.N), opens new tab, the U.S. State Department said on Thursday, as t...
Hard work turns family plot into green pride in arid Zaka: The success story of Philemon Sagope
Philemon SagopeEdmore ZvinonzwaThe floodgates that opened in Zimbabwe’s fast-track land reform programme following the Chief Svosve invasion of farms in Mashonaland East Province at the turn of the mi...
Zimbabwean artist Gresham Nyaude wins 2024 FNB Art Prize
Gresham Tapiwa NyaudeZim Now WriterZimbabwean artist, Gresham Tapiwa Nyaude recently became the fourth Zimbabwean to win the annual FNB Art Prize in Johannesburg.Nyaude follows in the footsteps of Kud...
Home seekers for ED chairperson named in US$200k land scam
Nyashadzashe NdoroChief ReporterThe Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission has arrested five members of a bogus housing scheme for allegedly defrauding 250 home seekers of more than US$200 000.Tinomudais...
ZACC summons Masuka over shady TIMB loan
Nyashadzashe NdoroChief ReporterZimbabwe's Agriculture Minister, Anxious Masuka, a twice-awarded top performing cabinet minister, is embroiled in a corruption scandal involving a US$397,000 loan alleg...
Chatunga Mugabe arrested in Beitbridge
  Newsday CHATUNGA Bellarmine Mugabe, son of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, has been arrested for violent conduct in Beitbridge where he allegedly assaulted a policeman at a roadblock at Bubi...
CC MP Chidziva arrested on rape charges
  Zim Now WriterGlen-View North legislator, Happymore Chidziva, has been arrested and charged with rape. The MP, commonly known as "Bvondo," is accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl.The in...
Digging riverbeds in Zimbabwe in desperate search for water
  BBC A man digs for water in a riverbed in Kurima village, Zimbabwe One of the worst droughts in living memory is sweeping across southern Africa, leaving close to 70 million people without enough fo...
‘Mnangagwa should emulate Nyusi’ Analysts
 Oscar J JekeZim Now Reporter Political analysts have advised President Mnangagwa to emulate his Mozambican counterpart,Felipe Nyusi, who is set to relinquish power at the end of his term in October,...
Mberengwa district wheat success story
Rutendo MazhinduZim Now Reporter Mberengwa district has demonstrated remarkable agricultural progress with the successful cultivation of 204 hectares of wheat during the 2023/24 season. This achieveme...