Columnist / Prosper ndlovu
Mnangagwa two years on
THE Second Republic under President Mnangagwa has, in the two years of its span, recorded a number of milestones across sectors towards the achievement of Vision 2030 to transform the economy and impr...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:47hrs | 6 | by Nqobile Tshili, Nduduzo Tshuma and Prosper Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube's 'painful' revenue masterstroke
AS Zimbabwe focuses on transforming the economy and broadening the job market, it is important for every citizen to appreciate the desperate need for generating critical funding to oil the development...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:22hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Industry commends Chinamasa
CAPTAINS of industry and economic analysts have commended Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa's boldness in tackling the country's economic challenges and called for speedy implementation of the propos...Published: 10 Sep 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu and Nqobile Tshili
Mugabe backs import controls
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday backed import controls under Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 saying the measures were meant to correct trade imbalance and boost domestic production. Zimbabwe, reduced to a ...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 08:54hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Welshman Ncube blamed for Zisco deal collapse
FORMER Industry and Commerce Minister Professor Welshman Ncube "misled" the Inclusive Government into signing the collapsed $750 million Essar Africa Holdings' Ziscosteel deal without doing due dilige...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 00:14hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Mnangagwa urges import substitution
BUYING locally produced products is the panacea to the country's economic challenges as more companies and jobs will be created, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Speaking at the just...Published: 04 Jul 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Industry captains decry 'numerous' roadblocks
THE presence of numerous roadblocks on the country's roads is becoming a burden on the economy as they increase the cost of doing business and frustrate investment.Delegates attending the ...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:33hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu/Leonard Ncube
Grace Mugabe hails resilient businesses
THE obstacles facing Zimbabwe's economy require research, diligence and networking in order to navigate the challenges and overcome the impediments to reinvigorating the country's economy, the First L...Published: 01 Jul 2016 at 08:27hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
CZI, ZNCC back imports ban
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) and Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) have backed the government's decision to restrict importation of products that are available locally, sa...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Grace Mugabe attends ZNCC congress
THE 2016 edition of the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) congress begins in Victoria Falls today with a number of dignitaries expected to lead discussions on revitalising the economy throu...Published: 29 Jun 2016 at 06:36hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Gwayi-Shangani Dam project put on hold
THE Gwayi-Shangani Dam project in Matabeleland North remains in limbo three years on after the contractor suspended operations due to lack of funding.Close to $90 million is required to comple...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:31hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
'Name and shame corrupt officials'
VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has called on Zimbabweans to name and shame corrupt officials to weed out the vice, which he blamed for stifling development in the country. Addressing delegates who ...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:49hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bulawayo to regain super industrial status, says Grace Mugabe
The First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe yesterday said Bulawayo is on a path to robust re-industrialisation, having survived the devastating effects of economic sanctions that led to the collapse of many com...Published: 28 May 2016 at 08:45hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Chinamasa mulls supplementary budget
THE government might consider crafting a supplementary budget to cushion the country from food shortages induced by drought.Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa hinted the possibility of a suppl...Published: 13 May 2016 at 06:52hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimra misses Q1 revenue target again
DEPRESSED industry output coupled with a tight liquidity situation and drought eroded Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s earnings for the first quarter of 2016 to $724.9 million from a target of $86...Published: 12 May 2016 at 06:47hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwe foreign debt payments on track
ZIMBABWE is on track towards clearing close to $2 billion debt to international finance bodies, which would facilitate access to fresh lines of credit to grow her economy, Finance Ministry Secretary W...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Prosper Ndlovu
RBZ scraps Rand, Euro plan
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has with immediate effect scrapped the apportionment of foreign exchange receipts into rand and euros and applied the five percent export incentive in US$ into autho...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Togolese President to officially open ZITF
THE Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), opens to the public today as President Robert Mugabe and his Togolese counterpart, Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé arrive in Bulawayo.Thousands of peo...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:24hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Industrialisation critical, says Mnangagwa
VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa says embracing a technologically-driven business model is critical if Zimbabwe is to achieve meaningful economic progress and make an impact in the global economy....Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:55hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bigger, better ZITF gets underway
THE 57th edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) kicks off in Bulawayo today with 401 direct exhibitors who include 34 foreign direct exhibitors participating. Expectations are high th...Published: 26 Apr 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu and Oliver Kazunga
Banks urged to scrap bank charges
BANKING services should be provided free of charge in order to achieve financial inclusion and increase business for the sector, Steward Bank CEO Lance Mambondiani said yesterday. Officially launching...Published: 23 Apr 2016 at 12:46hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Residents heckle Bulawayo mayor
BULAWAYO residents yesterday heckled and booed Mayor Councillor Martin Moyo during a stakeholders meeting as they accused the MDC-led council of running down the city.Residents took turns to l...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 14:07hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Prosecutor allegedly kidnaps three men
A PROSECUTOR in Beitbridge allegedly kidnapped three men and tortured them until one of them ruptured a kidney after accusing the trio of stealing from his house. Muchiwande Forbes Sithole, 35...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 09:29hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
I'm not a deserter says Mphoko
ACTING President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday scoffed at embattled war veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa's claims that he deserted his comrades in Mozambique at the height of the liberation str...Published: 02 Apr 2016 at 09:27hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bulawayo youth curves a niche in digital marketing
WHEN Marshall Malaba opened Facebook and Twitter accounts a few years ago, he had little understanding of how these platforms would shape his professional destiny.With the increase in social m...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:38hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bulawayo firms beg for debt reprieve
BULAWAYO province has appealed for a Presidential protection on ailing companies and a waiver on interest charges levied on them by financial services to facilitate economic recovery.Provincia...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:34hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Locals to establish Filabusi cement plant
A GROUP of local entrepreneurs plans to establish a cement manufacturing company in Filabusi, Insiza District, with an annual output capacity of 500,000 tonnes.The multi-million dollar investm...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:29hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zanu-PF Women's League clarifies VP resolution
CLAIMS that Zanu-PF Women's League secretary and First Lady Grace Mugabe is nursing presidential ambitions are without foundation, her deputy Nomthandazo Eunice Moyo said yesterday. The First ...Published: 26 Feb 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Supa Mandiwanzira slams cheating cellphone network providers
MOBILE phone and Internet service providers who provide shoddy service and inflate network charges risk being penalised as the government moves to protect consumers.Information Communication T...Published: 19 Feb 2016 at 06:04hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zesa tariffs hike panic
THE proposed 22 percent electricity tariff increase will further strain already struggling businesses in the country and push other cost drivers up, economic experts have warned.In the context...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:55hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bulawayo lobbies for bond market headquarters
AS efforts to revive the bond market in Zimbabwe gather moment, Bulawayo businesses are lobbying that the debt market be headquartered in the second largest city.A bond market is a regulated f...Published: 16 Nov 2015 at 16:23hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
'Chiyangwa caused the demise of Bulawayo industries'
PROPERTY magnate Philip Chiyangwa is "angry" after the former Education Minister David Coltart blamed him for causing the demise of Bulawayo industries. Chiyangwa took over the running of several comp...Published: 02 Oct 2015 at 06:44hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Air Zimbabwe assets set to get immunity
THE government is coming up with a law granting the troubled Air Zimbabwe a three-year immunity from attachment and execution of its properties over debts owed to different creditors. The proposal is ...Published: 12 Sep 2015 at 09:04hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Mugabe lays out Zimbabwe economic recovery blueprint
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday outlined a 10-point economic recovery plan anchored on a robust agriculture revolution and advanced value addition and beneficiation of the country's vast natural res...Published: 26 Aug 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu and Nduduzo Tshuma
Zimbabwe workers shocked by ruling
THE Supreme Court ruling yesterday that employers can terminate contracts of employment by giving three months notice has sent shockwaves across the labour fraternity in the country.Workers wh...Published: 18 Jul 2015 at 13:31hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwean technocrat's exit package rattles SA parliament
ZIMBABWEAN technocrat, Gatsha Mazithulela was a subject of discussion in the South African Parliament last week where fresh details emerged about his "controversial" exit from the neighbouring country...Published: 08 Jul 2015 at 05:57hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
SDA world leader comes to Bulawayo
THE Seventh-Day Adventist Church world leader Pastor Ted Wilson will deliver a farewell sermon to thousands of church members and other invited dignitaries at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo this af...Published: 30 May 2015 at 09:41hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Bulawayo runs out of land for High density housing
THE Bulawayo City Council says it has "exhausted" all the land for low income housing, in a move likely to alarm desperate home seekers on the backdrop of a ballooning housing waiting list estimated t...Published: 13 May 2015 at 06:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
ZITF 2015 begins
GLOBAL attention falls on Zimbabwe this week as the country holds its annual premier multi-sectorial trade showcase - the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) 2015 - which opens in Bulawayo today....Published: 28 Apr 2015 at 10:05hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Plumtree-Mutare Highway commissioning next month
WORK on the rehabilitation of the 820km Plumtree-Bulawayo-Harare-Mutare Highway is 98 percent complete with the project set for commissioning next month, Zinara board chairman Albert Mugabe has said....Published: 10 Apr 2015 at 07:17hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo calls for price cuts
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo says the call to reduce commodity prices and service charges is critical for accelerated economic turnaround and successfu...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 06:57hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Four-step plan to revive Bulawayo industries
INDUSTRIALISTS in Bulawayo have identified four strategic intervention areas that require urgent government attention and financing to guarantee the successful revival of industries and job creation....Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwe border chaos, roadblocks frustrate investors
DELAYS in clearing traffic at the Beitbridge Border Post, the busiest transit link in southern and eastern Africa, are responsible for the high transport costs incurred by businesses resulting in incr...Published: 04 Feb 2015 at 06:56hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Jonathan Moyo savages Cephas Msipa over split claims
ZANU-PF Politburo member Cephas Msipa's claims that factionalism in the revolutionary party could result in a split is a thoughtless proposition that has an effect of causing unnecessary confusion, In...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 08:41hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
'Grace Mugabe did not award herself a PhD,' says Prof Moyo
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe did not award herself a Doctorate Degree and her critics are not speaking from a "position of information", Professor Jonathan Moyo said last night.The Minister of Info...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 08:15hrs | 1 | by Prosper Ndlovu
Teachers perish in road accident
TWO female teachers and a colleague from Matabeleland North schools were killed in a road accident that left four other people, including a four-year-old baby, seriously injured in Lupane last Thursda...Published: 24 Sep 2014 at 09:30hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
'Europe, US complicit in Israeli massacre,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Mugabe yesterday told Europe and the United States that they were complicit in the "butchering of innocent women and children" in Palestine as he assumed the chairmanship of Sadc.Sig...Published: 18 Aug 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
'Amai Jukwa' expected to appear in court today
THE decision to resolve any charges levelled against Sunday Mail editor, Edmund Kudzayi, through the legal route is at the heart of a constitutional democracy, Information Minister Professor Jonathan ...Published: 21 Jun 2014 at 10:19hrs | 7 | by Prosper Ndlovu
'35 years to drive kombi,' orders Obert Mpofu
THE government is reviewing the Highway Code to raise the minimum age requirement for public transport drivers to 35 years from the current 25 years.The move, designed to curb accidents on the...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 07:14hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Zimbabwe roads a death trap, says Obert Mpofu
ZIMBABWE'S roads are in a deplorable state and need urgent rehabilitation as they have become a "death trap", a cabinet Minister said yesterday.Transport and Infrastructural Development Minist...Published: 07 Jun 2014 at 09:38hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
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