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MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 52 mins ago | 81 | by Wilbert Mukori
New water treatment plant for Bulawayo to draw supplies from Lake Gwayi-Shangani
GOVERNMENT is inviting tenders for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb which is one of the key components of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project meant ...Published: 7 hrs ago | 123 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani 245km pipeline project paces up
GOVERNMENT has opened a tender process for the construction of a new water treatment plant in Bulawayo's Cowdray Park suburb as it intensifies efforts to address the city's water supply shortages thro...Published: 7 hrs ago | 79 | by Staff reporter
Joburg motorist arrested as SA registered Audi A4 found fitted with Zimbabwean number plates
A 42-year-old man has been arrested by the Johannesburg Metropolitan Police Department's (JMPD) undercover reaction unit officers in Ormonde for allegedly committing fraud.JMPD spokesperson Xo...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:23hrs | 1559 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia collaborate to replenish Kapenta stocks
ZIMBABWE and Zambia are working together in a bid to regulate fishing rigs on the largest water body, Lake Kariba, to try and replenish Kapenta stocks.This comes as a measure to reduce over-fi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 60 | by Staff reporter
Work on Zimsat-2 begins
The Zimbabwe National Geospatial and Space Agency (ZINGSA) has begun preliminary technical work for the development of the country's second satellite, Zimsat-2, with Treasury having set aside $300 mil...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:04hrs | 47 | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani contractors urged to consider locals
The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs in charge of implementation and monitoring of governmental programmes, Jorum Gumbo has urged the Gwayi-Shangani Dam contractors to engage local people in...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2797 | by Staff reporter
Russia-Ukraine war exposes Zimbabweans
A new report shows that over 89 000 Zimbabweans have migrated to seek opportunities in other places within and outside the country between August and September this year with food insecurity due ...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1714 | by Staff reporter
Cotton farmers give Mnangagwa's Intwasa middle finger
Some cotton farmers who got free inputs from President's Emmerson Mnangagwa's Pfumvudza programme have chosen the most unorthodox way to pay back the Zimbabwean leader's presumed benevolence through s...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:15hrs | 521 | by Staff reporter
ZimSat-1 deployed into orbit
Zimbabwe is banking on its first satellite, ZimSat-1 to give impetus to plans to solve the country's power challenges, as it has capacity to, among other things, map regions where there is high sun in...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 07:09hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now one of the fastest growing African economies
ANALYSING Zimbabwe's unconventional economy always proves somewhat cumbersome because it is a country bridled with policy inconsistency, unfavourable operating conditions buoyed by decades of unilater...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:32hrs | 1110 | by Respect Gwenzi
Chamisa, Mnangagwa MPs jostle for US$40,000 housing loan
PARLIAMENTARIANS are legally bound to service the recently extended US$40 000 residential stands loans at an interest rate of 5% for the next five years.Some MPs have offered vehicles as colla...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:31hrs | 384 | by Staff rteporter
RBZ in gems mop up deal
THE government has structured a deal that will see the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) buying excess diamonds as it moves to shut out unscrupulous dealers that have been dribbling authorities....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:30hrs | 210 | by Staff rteporter
America, Europe easing their stance on Zimbabwe
The current economic stability prevailing in the country is indirectly forcing the West to mend its relations with Zimbabwe, economic analysts have said.Economic analysts, Abednigo Matsika sai...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 09:59hrs | 2414 | by Innocent Mujeri
Bankers call for more taxes
BANKERS have urged Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to introduce sin-taxes to help grow the country's revenue base.In his presentation at a Parliament post-budget seminar on Monday, Bankers Assoc...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:59hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
The alternative Sona by Trevor Ncube
DEAR compatriots, comrades, and friends.Since independence in 1980, our nation has experienced moments of joy punctuated with anguish and trauma.The dream of our liberation struggle of...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:58hrs | 278 | by Trevor Ncube
Mthuli Ncube scraps REIT limits
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has scrapped a limit to the types of property that can be listed under the real estate investment trust (REIT), amid revelations that collective investment schemes under ...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
Karoro, Masaraure cases deferred to 2023
FORMER Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro's theft case and that of teachers' union leader Obert Masaraure, who faces a charge of obstructing the course of justice, have been postpone...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:57hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
EU turns to Zanu-PF as prospects of opposition govt fades
A FEW years ago relations between Zimbabwe and the Western world were at the lowest ebb but now a new chapter has been opened, thanks to President Mnangagwa's policies espoused by re-engagement and en...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | 4343 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa needs everybody's support and sacrifice
MANY factors can push a nation to embark on unstoppable demonstrations.Hunger is one of them. Closure of democratic space, if we read world history, can cause uprising and civil disobedience....Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 360 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Mthuli Ncube adds impetus to Nust projects
GOVERNMENT is placing special attention on construction works at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) as it is poised to be a bedrock of the country's industrialisation and mordeni...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube splurges cash on teachers, farmers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube on Thursday allocated the highest vote of ZW$631.3 billion to the education ministry in an attempt to appease restive teachers ahead of next year's general elections....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 18:00hrs | 12250 | by Staff reporter
Energy Minister Soda Zhemu's 2 years of empty electricity promises
On 29 August 2020 Energy Minister Soda Zhemu told the nation that, "One of the power generating units at Hwange Thermal Power Station was fixed yesterday to boost the country's unity capacity by more ...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 13:26hrs | 889 | by Nicholas Ncube
Low turnout mars Zanu-PF DDC polls
Zanu-PF district co-ordinating committee (DCC) elections in Chikomba, Mashonaland East province, failed to take off at the weekend due to a low turnout by district chairpersons.The elections w...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:22hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Witness nails fired deputy minister
THE trial of former Lands and Agriculture deputy minister Douglas Karoro who was fired in June this year after being implicated in the theft of inputs sourced under the Presidential Inputs Scheme star...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:17hrs | 819 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe land reallocations to benefit 260 000 people
Up to 260 000 people on the waiting list for farms are expected to benefit when the Government begins to reallocate abandoned plots, underused farms and farms that are lying idle.Those with mu...Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 05:16hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt splurges on COP27
ZIMBABWE sent a delegation of 264 people at a minimum cost of nearly US$1,6 million to the just-ended Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27) hel...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites African finance houses for talks
ZIMBABWE is ready to tap into available financial services provided by the Africa Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) to bolster its industrial transformation ...Published: 28 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 220 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt hard-pressed to appease restless public sector workers
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has proposed to increase the proportion of employment costs on state expenditure to 52.4% from 42.3% as the desperate government makes frantic efforts to appease the 300 ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:58hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube slashes Zimbabwe growth estimates to 4%
SOFTENING commodity prices on the international market have forced Zimbabwe's Treasury to cut economic growth projections for this year to 4% from 4.5% as the government's ambitious plan to build an u...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:57hrs | 61 | by Staff reporter
Govt to recruit 7 000 teachers
The GOVERNMENT will recruit an additional 7 000 teachers next year to enhance the delivery of quality education, with special focus on infant education.In the 2023 National Budget tabled in Pa...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:51hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's 2023 budget will take 150 years to deliver upper middle income, forget Vision 2030. The maths do not lie!
The Zimbabwe economy has been in decline for the last 42 years, it shrunk staggering 50% in the period 2000 to 2008 alone fuelled by the hyperinflation, that soared to dizzying heights of 500 billion ...Published: 26 Nov 2022 at 21:28hrs | 705 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mthuli Ncube raises VAT, restores duty on basics
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled his 2023 budget on Thursday, raising value added tax (VAT) in a move the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) described as "an attack on working p...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:21hrs | 10408 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube pampers security sector
THE security sector, which includes the Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC), Defence and War Veterans Affairs and the Home Affairs ministries were some of the departments that got the largest ch...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | 934 | by Staff reporter
EU launches €400 million partnership programme
THE European Union has launched the Africa-EU partnership programme to promote greener and climate smart agriculture, as well as gender equality and women empowerment, which will see Zimbabwe getting ...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt turns to Treasury bills, bonds
THE cash-strapped government is likely to print money to finance its $575,5 billion budget deficit, economic analysts warned yesterday after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced next year's $4,5 tr...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:12hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe warms up to more investments from China
Zimbabwe stands ready to welcome more investments from China across all sectors of the economy as Harare accelerates a sustainable and mutually beneficial modernisation and industrialisation of the tw...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 172 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get lion's share
SALARIES for civil servants are set to go up markedly after the Government allocated the biggest chunk of the 2023 National Budget towards the public sector wage bill to cushion workers from the negat...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | 510 | by Staff reporter
Key priority projects allocated $1,1 trillion
Key infrastructure projects such as the Harare-Beitbridge highway upgrade and construction of Lake Gwayi-Shangani, have been allocated $1,1 trillion as the Government moves to accelerate their complet...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa jets off again
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa was last night expected to leave Harare for Niamey, Niger, where he is set to join other Heads of State and Government today at the Session of the African Union (AU) Summit on Indu...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube unveiled ZW$4,5 trillion 2023 budget
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube Thursday unveiled a total ZW$4,5 trillion 2023 budget, which will see salaries and operational costs eroding a huge chunk of the money.Very little resources were...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 18:53hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hails 'excellent' China relations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa hailed "excellent" relations with China as he delivered for the first time a State of the Nation address at a new multimillion-dollar parliament building gifted by the Asi...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa calls for political tolerance
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday called for political tolerance among politicians aspiring to contest in the 2023 harmonised elections.The President also said parliamentarians should swiftly atte...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Meteorological Dept issues floods warning
THE Meteorological Services Department has warned of increased risk of floods in river basins, wetlands and low-lying areas such as Muzarabani and Mbire in Mashonaland Central with the Department of C...Published: 24 Nov 2022 at 04:57hrs | 1008 | by Staff reporter
'Wadyajena extorts US$2 million from Kuda Tagwirei'
Controversial Gokwe-Nembudziya Member of Parliament Mayor Justice Wadyajena has been fingered in a US$ 2 million extortion scam committed against business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei. The information...Published: 23 Nov 2022 at 16:42hrs | 8621 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mliswa blasts Zanu-PF MP Wadyajena
INDEPENDENT Norton Member of Parliament (MP), Temba Mliswa has unleashed a vitriolic attack against Zanu-PF legislator Mayor Wadyajena for allegedly abusing his position as Chairperson of Portfolio Co...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 3731 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF dangles cane plots to youths
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has doled out sugarcane plots to Zanu-PF youths in Chiredzi, Masvingo province, as a vote-buying gimmick ahead of the 2023 polls.In past elections, the ruling party ha...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:55hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa donates tractors to farmers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has donated tractors to two farmers from Filabusi who granted 106 hectares of land to Gwanda State University (GSU) to enable the institution of higher learning to conduct agricult...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 470 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA from new Parliament Building
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is expected to deliver the State of the Nation Address (SONA) tomorrow while officially opening the last session of ninth Parliament ahead of the 2023 national polls.Analys...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:52hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Intwasa abusers will go to jail, no fine option
Those selling or buying the agricultural inputs earmarked for the climate-proofed Presidential Inputs Scheme, Pfumvudza/Intwasa, will be sent to court where jail sentences can be imposed on conviction...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:50hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
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