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Zimbabwe plans new US$1.3bn oil pipeline, finally ending Feruka monopoly
Zimbabwe plans to build a second US$1.3 billion oil pipeline to supply fuel into the country and the region, a deal that would end years of lobbying and rivalry between powerful oil interests....Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | | by newzwire
'Zimbabwe to have normal to below normal rain'
ZIMBABWE and much of the region, which saw the lowest rainfall in 40 years this year, will receive normal to below normal rains in the coming season, a regional forecast released on Friday says....Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by newZWire
Zimbabwe lithium mine secures power supply
Prospect Resources has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with African Continental Minerals (ACM) for the supply of power to the Arcadia lithium project and is exploring imports from the regio...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 07:05hrs | | by newZWire
Judge orders Metbank to pay back $20m to NSSA
Metbank has been ordered to pay back $20 million worth of Treasury Bills to the National Social Security Authority (NSSA), after a judge said the bank's court bid to keep the TBs had come "tumbling do...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 22:11hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Chamisa, Mnangagwa fans fighting for Boris Johnson's love - 'The Boris is mine'
Boris Johnson, mocker of African "piccaninny" children and their "watermelon smiles", became Prime Minister of Britain on Wednesday. On hearing the news, supporters of two political parties in an Afri...Published: 31 Jul 2019 at 19:34hrs | | by newZWire
Zimbabwe's new currency: What does it all mean?
FEW things fill a Zimbabwean with fear and dread more than the word "Zimdollar". So, it was no surprise that the news Zimbabwe had declared the RTGS the sole local currency, one more step in the count...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:22hrs | | by newZWire
What the latest IMF report on Zimbabwe means
In the report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) acknowledges the commitment by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government to stabilise Zimbabwe's economy.The fund also reveals that the IMF...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by newZWire
How Mnangagwa's government is perpetuating fuel crisis
When the fuel crisis escalated last January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was forced to announce a 150% price increase.Amid the outrage and riots which followed, one important detail went larg...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 8 | by newZWire
PHOTOS: Auction reveals Mugabe farm decay
An auction at Robert Mugabe's farm reveals the decay of one of his prized properties.A day ahead of a big auction at Mugabe's Gushungo Dairy Farm, in the Mazowe valley, auctioneers were sprayi...Published: 11 May 2019 at 15:50hrs | 9 | by newZwire
Of market forces and price hikes
Not too long ago, three months ago in fact, fuel in Zimbabwe was cheaper than bottled water and flights from the country were some of the cheapest around. This was thanks to a fixed exchange rate that...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by newZWire
Zimbabwe's disaster response is a disaster
There are few things that reveal the priorities of a government better than a national disaster. In Zimbabwe, Cyclone Idai, which had left at least 65 people dead and more than 100 missing in its wake...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 08:41hrs | | by newZWire
Ramaphosa's coded message to Mnangagwa
YOU can always trust South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa to send coded messages to his comrades in Zimbabwe.In 2016, at the Zanu-PF annual conference in Masvingo, in a "solidarity speech" o...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:15hrs | | by newZWire
UK withdraws support for Zimbabwe's debt clearance plan
Britain will not support Zimbabwe's debt clearance plan over "sickening" human rights violations seen over the past weeks, the Minister for Africa Harriet Baldwin said Tuesday.Finance Minister...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 20:13hrs | | by NewzWire.live
Mnangagwa digs in despite violent protests
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has defended this week's steep fuel price increase amid violent protests which rocked Harare and Bulawayo on Monday.Mnangagwa announced a 150% fuel price increase ...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 23:01hrs | 9 | by newZWire
Dear President Mnangagwa, our demands are simple
Dear Mr President,Let's start by talking about what's important to Zimbabweans.The things Zimbabweans demand are not complicated. They are not anything out of the ordinary.They...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 22:58hrs | | by newZWire
The West judges Zimbabwe differently
The Western world judges Zimbabwe at a higher standard than it does other African countries, and that's not entirely a bad thing.The temptation is to demand that the European Union (EU) and th...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Mnangagwa appoints diplomat Kitikiti as deputy chief secretary
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed diplomat Nicholas Kitikiti as deputy chief secretary, his office said Friday.Kitikiti's appointment as Deputy Chief Secretary (Policy Analysis, Devel...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 15:02hrs | | by newZwire
Mnangagwa's big paycheck revealed
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two Vice-Presidents earn an average monthly salary of $17 500 each.According to the Blue Book, the government document which details its expenditure and de...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:05hrs | | by newZWire
Mthuli Ncube's budget: The good, bad and ugly
In September, while meeting fund managers in New York, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said what the economy needed was a "big bang", a shock to the system. A week later, he brought that big bang; on th...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 1 | by NewZWire
A timeline of how Zimbabwe lost its currency
Today, November 14, marks the 21st anniversary of "Black Friday", the day the Zimbabwe dollar crashed in 1997.We track the Zimdollar's collapse from that fateful November day, and the many des...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:10hrs | 4 | by newZwire with The Source
Strive Masiyiwa's loyalty is to business
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is "sincere in what he's doing", economic recovery will be tough and Western sanctions must be lifted, says Econet Wireless founder Strive Masiyiwa.Masiyiwa was pa...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by newZWire
Joram Gumbo Zimbabwe's poster boy of sleaze
As ZANU-PF's long-serving chief whip, Joram Gumbo came across as a tidy, backroom operator, quietly but efficiently pulling the strings for his party in Parliament. But his scrapbook in government sin...Published: 27 Oct 2018 at 08:45hrs | | by newZWire
Threat to Mnangagwa's economic agenda
As prices rise and the foreign currency black market becomes volatile, Zanu PF will find it harder to resist the urge to repeat its old errors. And, in the centre of it all, will be Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:01hrs | | by newZWire
How the Zimbabwe govt stole from its people, again
THERE is a scene in the 1978 classic movie, The Great Train Robbery, which portrays the destructive arrogance of Zimbabwe's monetary policy over the past two decades.After masterminding a gold...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by newZWire
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