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'Zimbabwe title deeds within Constitutional framework'
The issuance of title deeds to A1 and A2 farmers, a policy introduced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa last year, is being carried out in full compliance with Zimbabwe's Constitution, Minister of Lands...Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:12hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe banker, SA banks implicated in R2 billion electoral scandal
A top Zimbabwean banker is at the centre of the nearly R2 billion Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) tender scandal involving a South African printing company paid R1.2 billion by the Harare governme...Published: 08 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | 2454 | by Roland Mpofu I iol
Over 1,000 beneficiaries receive title deeds in Epworth
More than 1,000 people in Epworth, Harare Metropolitan Province, have received title deeds under the Presidential title deeds and regularisation programme, offering homeowners security over their prop...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:32hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Access finance businessmen's legal battle takes new twist
Isau Bwerinofa, the chairman of the Access Finance board, has argued that the High Court does not have jurisdiction to handle the case brought against him and seven others by former director Senziwani...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:33hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Telling my Access Finance story
FOLLOWING a recent public announcement by Access Finance Group, a local remittance and financial services company, that its chief executive Singathini Raymond Chigogwana is retiring and would be repla...Published: 05 Oct 2023 at 15:07hrs | 39 | by Senziwani Sikhosana
Access Finance shareholders in bitter fall out
Details of a bitter dispute between local financial services firm Access Finance (Pvt) Ltd and its related entities' shareholders have come to light, revealing that the CEO reneged on a deal to sell 1...Published: 25 Sep 2023 at 20:26hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Chigogwana retires
Access Finance Group, whose strategic network of operations includes Zimbabwe, has appointed Mr Salim Eceolaza as the new chief executive.Mr Eceolaza is succeeding co-founder Mr Raymond Chigog...Published: 20 Sep 2023 at 06:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Zanu-PF MP spends weekend in jail over money laundering
Zanu-PF Makoni West constituency aspiring candidate Moses Ruwona will spend the weekend behind bars after Harare regional magistrate Stanford Mambanje postponed his bail ruling to tomorrow.Ruw...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:33hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Access Forex loses US$260K while 'laundering' money
HARARE - Financial services firm Access Forex was accused of money laundering in court on Thursday after it emerged the company hired an aspiring Zanu PF MP to make huge foreign payments on its behalf...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 12:32hrs | 24 | by Staff Reporter
US$200,000 armed robber in court
ONE of the seven armed robbers who raided Access Finance Bureau De Change in Bulawayo and got away with thousands of United States dollars appeared in court yesterday.Nkosilathi Ncube (43) of ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbery cases increased in 2021
Cases of armed robberies increased countrywide this year with criminals targeting cash-in transit vehicles, individuals and business people with large amounts of cash.Schools and cross-border ...Published: 24 Dec 2021 at 07:23hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Formalise your operations, vendors told
INFORMAL traders have been urged to formalise their businesses to access finance including loans from banking and other micro-financial institutions.The Vendors Initiative for Social and Econo...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:18hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Security guard arrested for inside-man role in armed robbery
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a security guard from Emakhandeni suburb who allegedly connived with armed robbers to raid his boss who managed to escape with a bag containing over US$300 000. ...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 08:57hrs | 12 | by Staff Reporter
Crack team set up for mobile money crime
A crack team of 15 experienced prosecutors has been set up to work with seasoned investigators to come up with watertight dockets and so effectively prosecute economic saboteurs abusing mobile money p...Published: 04 Oct 2021 at 05:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Illegal forex dealers move $1,5 billion in six months
EIGHT companies allegedly handled transactions valued over $1,5 billion in illegal foreign currency deals that involved transferring huge amounts of money from corporate bank accounts into mobile mone...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:10hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
8 firms in court over EcoCash deals
EIGHT financial institutions that were allegedly involved in foreign currency dealings in Harare through EcoCash bulk payer lines, yesterday appeared in court for violating some sections of the Exchan...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Unreported robberies point police to shady dealings
POLICE have raised a red flag following a spate of robberies across the country with suspects mostly targeting businesspeople keeping large sums of money in their houses.The country has in the...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bureaux de change start selling US dollars to public
BUREAUX de change yesterday started selling foreign currency to ordinary walk-in customers as per the resolutions of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe monetary policy committee MPC) meeting last month to promo...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 07:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers kill man in home raid
A Bulawayo man was shot dead at his home by four suspected armed robbers in an attack that left his neighbour with gunshot wounds. The man's family talked about the devastation of losing a loved one f...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:11hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Cop 'killer' flushed out of Lobengula hideout
A FRACTURED arm and a missing ring finger are the least of Ntabiso Ncube's worries as he stands accused of shooting dead a police officer, who was part of a team that foiled an armed robbery by ...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 06:32hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Cop killer arrested
AN armed robber who shot dead a policeman during a foiled robbery in New Luveve suburb in Bulawayo has been arrested.The policeman, Constable Gibson Tafara Madzimure (35), was shot in the head...Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 18:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fourwinds armed robbers appear in court
Three of six suspected armed robbers who were involved in a shootout with the police Saturday morning in Bulawayo's Fourwinds suburb have appeared in court charged with armed robbery.The suspe...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shootout armed robber dies at UBH
A THIRD armed robber has died in hospital following a shootout with police on Saturday morning in Fourwinds Suburb in Bulawayo, it emerged in court yesterday. Two of them were shot dead while ...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
32 armed robberies in Bulawayo between March and June - police
Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo witnessed 32 armed robberies in a four-month period between March 1 and June 30, police said on Sunday.Two people were shot by the armed robbers, one fatally...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 19:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Petrol attendant shot as violent crime wave sweeps Bulawayo
A petrol attendant was shot in the chest on Friday after armed robbers targeted a Flo garage in Bulawayo's Tshabalala suburb – the latest in a series of violent robberies in Zimbabwe's second city....Published: 05 Jun 2021 at 09:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Cash-in-transit with toy guns, security companies rob clients
PRIVATE security companies contracted to provide cash-in-transit services are ill-equipped to the extent that some of them use toy guns while transporting clients' money, police have revealed....Published: 02 Jun 2021 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
CABS and European Investment Bank unveil EUR15m COVID resilience business financing initiative
The European Investment Bank has agreed to support EUR 15 million of new long-term financing for entrepreneurs and businesses across Zimbabwe in cooperation with leading local bank CABS. The first eve...Published: 28 Apr 2021 at 18:31hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimnat partners Access Finance to provide bureaux de change
Zimnat customers can now obtain bureau de change services at selected Zimnat branches across the country, following the establishment of a partnership between Zimnat General Insurance and Access Finan...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 16:08hrs | | by Agencies
Forex black market becomes unpopular
BUREAUX de Change are becoming popular among Bulawayo residents as they are slowly eating into the parallel market's business. To date, the RBZ has licensed over 46 bureaux de change that are ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
RBZ grants 26 firms bureaux de change licences
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has issued licences to 26 institutions to operate as Bureaux de Change.In a notice, the RBZ said this is line with foreign exchange guidelines in the 2019 Mo...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's call for lifting of sanctions on Zimbabwe laudable
The call by the South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, for sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe to be lifted is progressive and worth celebrating.Ramaphosa joins Rwandan President Paul Kagame and ...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 11:24hrs | 3 | by Ashley Kondo
Mthuli Ncube retires 3 365 green bombers
Government has, with immediate effect, retired 3 365 youth officers who were employed by the Ministry of Youth, Sports, Arts and Recreation. They will be paid cash in lieu of accrued leave days and ca...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 11:03hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Zinara bosses off the hook
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA)'s bid to revive corruption charges against five Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) bosses yesterday hit a snag after the Supreme Court threw out t...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's top 10 lies
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!" - Walter Scott 1808.This beautiful line from a famous old poem simply means that if you tell lies, they will catch up with y...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Nkululeko Nyoni
Zimbabwe to be better than South Africa, promises Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday promised to fix the economy in "a short space of time" if he is elected after the July 30 elections.Addressing a rally at Ruteng...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 08:22hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa can be Zimbabwe's Obama
AS Zimbabwe goes into the next elections in July/August this year, the nation awaits with bated teeth as it ponders on which leader it will elect to be the country's leader for the next five years....Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 22:55hrs | 3 | by Darlington Nyambiya
Vendor removals good, says SMEs Minister
SMALL to Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development Minister Sithembiso Nyoni says President Mugabe's directive to move vendors to designated areas is progressive and will assist in formalisation...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Like Biblical Pilate, Mangudya washes hands on economic collapse
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya yesterday seemed to lay the blame for the impending economic collapse on the government, saying he had done everything he had promised to do."W...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 13:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zinara trio in forex scam
Three Zimbabwe National Road Administration (ZINARA) bosses appeared in court yesterday charged with illegally sourcing foreign currency on the pretext of servicing a $206 million loan for the rehabil...Published: 20 Jul 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo rejects FBC housing proposal
THE Bulawayo City Council has rejected a bid by FBC Building Society, which sought a joint partnership in developing 517 high density residential stands in Luveve suburb.Following an engagemen...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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Bulawayo turns down FBC housing proposal
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has turned down a joint venture housing project proposed by FBC Building Society for the development of residential stands to ease the housing backlog, latest council minut...Published: 11 Jul 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe too old to commit to anything'
Former Zanu-PF losing candidate for Hatfield constituency, William Mutumanje - popularly known as Acie Lumumba - said President Robert Mugabe is too old to sign or commit to any agreement on behalf of...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Subsidise farmers to ensure food security'
Government should subsidise farmers in order to ensure food security in the country, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs for Mashonaland Central, Advocate Martin Dinha has said.Addressing...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 09:01hrs | | by Melody Mashaire
Chinamasa upstages Mugabe nephew
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa is gaining the upper hand in a power struggle in the ruling party over his efforts to revive an ailing economy and tap financing from the International Monetary Fund...Published: 17 Apr 2016 at 10:17hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Boss to present Monitory Policy Statement tomorrow
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, John Mangudya will tomorrow present the 2016 Monetary Policy Statement (MPS). The policy statement comes at a time when the country is grappli...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 15:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meet EU officials, seek to restore donor relations
Zimbabwe plans to meet obligations for further financial support from the European Union by June after the deputy president met with EU officials last week."We are engaging with the EU, and la...Published: 03 Feb 2016 at 14:12hrs | | by Bloomberg News
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation in Zimbabwe to Host Bulawayo Solar Fair
SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (SNV) in Zimbabwe is set to host a Solar Fair in Bulawayo this coming Saturday 11th July 2015 at the Large City Hall Car Park.The Solar ...Published: 09 Jul 2015 at 06:30hrs | 2 | by Useni Sibanda
Manicaland farmers threaten not to sell maize to GMB
MUTARE - Farmers in Manicaland have vowed to stop selling their maize to Grain Marketing Board (GMB) following the announcement of the new producer price which they described as meagre.The gov...Published: 03 May 2014 at 07:25hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Chinese take over Zimbabwe construction industry
PLAYERS in the construction sector have called on the new government to put in place policies and laws that protect local contractors and help revive the sector.Local contractors are facing st...Published: 22 Sep 2013 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt signs MoU with the International Rescue Committee
The government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) to develop small to medium enterprises’ business solutions by supporting new and...Published: 21 Feb 2013 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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