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Chatunga and four others granted bail

November 6, 2026

The five appeared before Magistrate Mr Tapiwa Kuhudzai and were each granted US$100 bail after the State consented to their release. The prosecution said there were no compelling reasons to oppose bail.

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One dead, three injured as Shurugwi miners storm Mnangagwa-linked Chinese gold mine

November 3, 2026

ARTISANAL miners in Shurugwi set fire to five earthmoving machines and assaulted

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Pegged for gold: Penhalonga families face losing their homes as council backs a mine it once fought

October 28, 2026

Two mining companies are moving to start a potentially toxic gold mining

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Pachena reporters scoop awards at NJAMA

October 24, 2026

Pachena reporters Brenna Matendere and Ruvimbo Muchenje scooped four awards at the 2026

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Mthuli asks MPs to rubber-stamp US$9.6bn mystery spending

October 16, 2026

Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is asking Parliament to rubberstamp a staggering US$9.64 billion that successive Zimbabwean governments spent without legal

Diamonds to Dust: How Broken Promises and Job Losses Are Stripping Chiadzwa Bare

July 31, 2026

ONCE hailed as Zimbabwe’s great diamond frontier, the forests of Chiadzwa are being quietly consumed — felled by axe or chainsaw, reduced to charcoal,

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Chatunga and four others granted bail

November 6, 2026

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One dead, three injured as Shurugwi miners storm Mnangagwa-linked Chinese gold mine

November 3, 2026

ARTISANAL miners in Shurugwi set fire to five earthmoving machines and assaulted security guards at a Chinese-owned gold mine linked to President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s family on Monday, in a violent escalation of a bitter fight over access to gold.

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Pegged for gold: Penhalonga families face losing their homes as council backs a mine it once fought

October 28, 2026

Two mining companies are moving to start a potentially toxic gold mining project which could affect 824 households and up to 10 000 people in the low-density suburb of Managers Hill in Penhalonga, Manicaland, despite a 10-year-old court order stopping mining in the area.

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Pachena reporters scoop awards at NJAMA

October 24, 2026

Pachena reporters Brenna Matendere and Ruvimbo Muchenje scooped four awards at the 2026 National Journalism and Media Awards (NJAMA) on Friday. Matendere won the Mining Reporter of the Year and the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Reporter of the Year awards, while Muchenje

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Mthuli asks MPs to rubber-stamp US$9.6bn mystery spending

October 16, 2026

Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube is asking Parliament to rubberstamp a staggering US$9.64 billion that successive Zimbabwean governments spent without legal authority between 2015 and 2018.

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Defence Minister savaged over ‘outrageous, irrational and malicious’ cantonment decree

October 9, 2026

Falcon Golf Club’s fight to keep control of the Harare course it has run for 55 years has taken another bitter turn. The club has launched a scathing attack on Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, accusing her of a malicious and outrageous decision

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Children bore the brunt of the Kariba ferry disaster

October 9, 2026

“Children were just sinking,” he said. “Most children could not swim so they just died in the water. Others were trapped inside the boat because it had a fence and tent to protect the enclosure.”

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Biting the Pen That Feeds It: Trevor Ncube’s ZimInd Sues 36 of Its Own Journalists

October 5, 2026

Newsroom Mutiny Goes to Court as ZimInd Publishers Demands US$100 000 From Its Own Reporters

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Judge-led commission to probe Kariba ferry disaster

October 5, 2026

RIDA's own probe stopped at lower-level officials. Justice Mafusire's board has the power to climb higher, all the way to the warnings the agency ignored

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Chatunga and four others granted bail

One dead, three injured as Shurugwi miners storm Mnangagwa-linked Chinese gold mine

Pegged for gold: Penhalonga families face losing their homes as council backs a mine it once fought

Pachena reporters scoop awards at NJAMA

Mthuli asks MPs to rubber-stamp US$9.6bn mystery spending

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Diamonds to Dust: How Broken Promises and Job Losses Are Stripping Chiadzwa Bare

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Chatunga and four others granted bail

One dead, three injured as Shurugwi miners storm Mnangagwa-linked Chinese gold mine

Pegged for gold: Penhalonga families face losing their homes as council backs a mine it once fought

Pachena reporters scoop awards at NJAMA

Mthuli asks MPs to rubber-stamp US$9.6bn mystery spending

Defence Minister savaged over ‘outrageous, irrational and malicious’ cantonment decree

Children bore the brunt of the Kariba ferry disaster

Biting the Pen That Feeds It: Trevor Ncube’s ZimInd Sues 36 of Its Own Journalists

Judge-led commission to probe Kariba ferry disaster

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