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ZACC investigates EcoCash agents for selling cash
The Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission says it is investigating EcoCash agents using their unfair advantage to sell cash at prohibitive rates. Zimbabwe has over the years faced an acute short...Published: 6 hrs ago | 4153 | by Staff Reporter
Fuel price hike expected in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is expected to increase petrol and diesel prices after a strike on a Saudi Arabian oil facility removed about 5% of global supplies, an attack the US ha...Published: 9 hrs ago | 3488 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya summoned over Command Agric
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has been summoned to appear before the Parliament's Accounts Committee (Pac) to answer allegations that US$3 billion vanished under the controvers...Published: 9 hrs ago | 2162 | by Staff reporter
Record spike in oil price after shock drone attacks on Saudi oil
Oil surged along with gold and Treasury futures after a strike on the heart of Saudi Arabia's oil production increased geopolitical risk concerns. U.S. and European equity futures declined, while shar...Published: 9 hrs ago | 944 | by Bloomberg
Civil servants cry foul
CIVIL servants have called on the Government to set a framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments that have triggered significant price increases. Governme...Published: 10 hrs ago | 1755 | by Staff reporter
Doctors strike calls for urgent attention
The death of Robert Mugabe has taken the nation's focus away from very pressing issues, among them the strike by doctors at public hospitals.Doctors went on strike almost two weeks ago after f...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:04hrs | 2275 | by Staff reporter
City women face sex abuse in Zupco buses
When Zimbabwe's government started running a bus system earlier this year with fares on average one-third lower than those of private bus companies, Thandekile Gama was excited.The 33-year-old...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | 7297 | by Thompson Reuters Foundation
Inside the fight over Robert Mugabe's body
Former president Robert Mugabe's family was told that they risked losing his Harare mansion and other Harare properties if they did not accede to government's demands that the long-time ruler should b...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 2062 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: The socio-genesis, posterity of Pan-Africanism
My heart agonisingly aches in sullenness for Robert Gabriel Mugabe's demise. While weeping can only endure for a while, Mugabe's passing on offers a solid premise to recollect and curate the mortality...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 106 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
College charges extra on EcoCash
A COLLEGE in Bulawayo has come under fire for allegedly forcing parents to pay 30 percent extra if they are paying using plastic money.Parents with pupils at Herentals College said they were t...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
ZB Bank introduces WhatsApp banking
ZB Financial Holdings has signed a money transfer agreement with one of the largest international money transfer companies, Ria Money Transfer of the United States as part of its efforts to enable dia...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Can Bosso stand Colliery heat?
THAT Highlanders are finding the going tough this season is not a secret, it is the magnitude of the magnitude of that struggle that is shocking.Highlanders have won just five of the Castle La...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 129 | by Staff reporter
A too-comfortable end for Mugabe
"Peace has come to Zimbabwe/Third World's right on the one/Now's the time for celebration/ ‘Cause we've only just begun." So sings Stevie Wonder in Master Blaster, his 1980 hit single. And he wasn't...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 280 | by Jason L Riley
G40's ahistorical narrative
It was a comic spectacle to watch some G40 elements coming out of hibernation, mouth-frothing like demented confused fools gushing vitriol that former President Mugabe was forced to die in exile. Noth...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 292 | by Ranga Mataire
Zimbabwe nears SA industry loans deal
Zimbabwe is closer to sealing over half a billion US dollar syndicated loan package with South African banks to support the private sector, amid revelations Treasury is now finalising the insurance gu...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia in Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF and Mugabe
Ever since it was founded, Zanu-PF has persistently propagated a criminal mindset that the people of Matebeleland are foreigners to this country. Its blind membership including Minister Mutodi is ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2410 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
Increase monthly EcoCash limits to $100,000
Our members and stakeholders in the ICT sector have requested for an increase on personal monthly limits of your mobile money services to a minimum of a $100,000 a month. This is due to the constant p...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:33hrs | 1170 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabweans now living in extreme poverty as economy declines
With Zimbabwe's economy all but confirmed to contract by at least 8% in the year 2019, households are feeling the heat as poverty levels surge at alarming levels. Zimbabwe's last recession cycle occur...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1257 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya in court over govt loans
HARARE North legislator Allan Norman Markham (MDC Alliance) has approached the High Court seeking an order to nullify a loan agreement entered between the Finance ministry and the Reserve Bank of Zimb...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 13:04hrs | 3656 | by Staff reporter
Funeral after funeral as NSSA pensioners succumb to hunger and disease
For NSSA pensioners it does not only rain but it pours. Despite the 'comedy of scandals' highlighted and publicised about misplaced and misappropriated NSSA funds, those in positions of authorit...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:52hrs | 551 | by Gabarinocheka
NRZ - DIDG deal awaits guidance from Treasury
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has received the submissions for funding made towards the US$400 million recapitalisation project by Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG)/Transnet C...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:19hrs | 337 | by Advocate Martin Dinha
Mugabe coup announcer pleads for international support to spur reforms
Zimbabwe is serious about pursuing political and economic reforms and deserves international support, foreign minister Sibusiso Moyo said on Friday.President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised a diff...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:39hrs | 708 | by Reuters
Ex-fighter sheds light on Mugabe's escape to Mozambique
Robert Gabriel Mugabe's life epitomises a journey well travelled, with cumulative substance offering new horizons where outspokenness made and indeed earned him the coveted place of being the darling ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to address cash shortage
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) plans to increase the amount of physical cash in circulation after realising that some critical sectors of the economy such as the informal sector, senior citizens a...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:08hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 9229 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hikes interest rate to 70% to help plummeting currency
Zimbabwe's central bank raised its main interest rate to 70% to stabilize a plummeting currency and rein in surging inflation.The decision is the first by the southern African nation's Monetar...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 22:02hrs | 2748 | by Bloomberg
Mugabe death ignites an inferno of debates, discussions
DEPOSED late former President Robert Mugabe is currently the most talked about individual among Zimbabweans. Ever since his death last week, tongues never took leave from wagging. His death was bound ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 233 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
'Mliswa should have been arrested over US$400 000 bribe'
Controversial Kwekwe businessman Shepherd Tundiya, who is accused of obstructing the course of justice after allegedly trying to convince mogul James Ross Goddard to withdraw extortion charges against...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:04hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's MPC, RBZ boards face a daunting task
The new Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) boards face a daunting task in dealing with the country's monetary problems and bring the much-needed stability and confidenc...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:02hrs | 616 | by Staff reporter
Zifa in court victory
The Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) has finally breathed a sigh of relief after efforts by a former employee, who had sought to garnish its bank account over a US$518 331 debt, were thwarted by t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:01hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
MaZimnat ready to take on Cape Town marathon
Tariro Makanga and Lilian Choruwa, who won from Zimnat an all-expenses paid trip to the Sanlam Cape Town Marathon, are expected to arrive in Cape Town tomorrow (Saturday) to participate in the 10km ru...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 13:04hrs | 216 | by Agencies
Minister Mthuli Ncube taken to court
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has been taken to court by an Harare North Member of Parliament, Daily News has reported. The paper states that MP Allan Norman Markhan w...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 09:37hrs | 5679 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe offered Chiwenga presidency
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, who died in Singapore last Friday, offered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take over from him at the height of the coup, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | 7102 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe Zimbabwe's hero and tyrant
The "icon of liberation" who led Zimbabwe to independence also drove the nation into poverty.Obituaries of Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe who died in Singapore on Friday at the a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | 107 | by The New York Times
Mangudya faces daunting task
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya will soon present his mid- term Monetary Policy Statement, tasked with introducing a cocktail of measures to instil confidence in the market amid a deep...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:38hrs | 1210 | by Staff reporter
Tracing Mugabe's troubled legacy
This name evokes emotions of anger, hatred, regret and revulsion to many. Yet it is also a name that draws a lot of admiration, satisfaction, pride and gratitude to others.In death, just like ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 194 | by The Economist
Makhosini Hlongwane set to lose property over US$30 000 vehicle debt
FORMER Sport, Arts and Recreation Minister and Member of Parliament for Mberengwa East Makhosini Hlongwane's property is set to be auctioned over a debt of more than US$36 000 for a vehicle and asset ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:24hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
IMF team pays Mnangagwa courtesy call
Zimbabwe's efforts to re-engage multilateral financiers continues to gain ground with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) team holding a meeting with President Emmerson Mnangagwa this Thursday....Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | 355 | by Staff repporter
'Keep your De Klerk, we will keep our Mugabe'
EFF leader Julius Malema gave a defiant tribute to former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who he called a "patriot", at a memorial service held by the party on Thursday."For so long we have ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | 571 | by City Press
Zimdollar plunges 79%
ZIMBABWE'S inflation-ravaged dollar has plunged 79% against the greenback since it was declared the sole legal tender on June 24, amid an acute foreign currency shortage and diminishing market confide...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1080 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: A peerless, malevolent fearmonger
AS a young lad, my late grandmother would occasionally ship me to her rural home in Nkayi, where, for the first time, I came face to face with the late former President Robert Mugabe's handiwork....Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:01hrs | 198 | by Nqaba Matshazi
Prices up 100% in one week
PRICES of basic commodities have increased by up to 100 percent this week thereby pushing the prices beyond the reach of most consumers. Shops, including big supermarkets, have increased price...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:54hrs | 209 | by Staff reporter
Prices for basic commodities go up 100% in one week
PRICES of basic commodities have increased by up to 100 percent this week thereby pushing the prices beyond the reach of most consumers. Shops, including big supermarkets, have increased price...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 2689 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube appoints advisory team for RBZ
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee that will render an advisory role to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ). ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1112 | by Staff Reporter
Mupfumira could flee to England, says magistrate
Former tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira was denied bail on Wednesday after a magistrate ruled that she was a flight risk.Elijah Makomo said Mupfumira, charged with corruption involving US$95...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 22:46hrs | 3117 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's advisor gets top RBZ post
Member' of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council and United Refineries CEO Busisa Moyo has landed himself a top post as one of the board members of the Reserve Bank ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 16:58hrs | 5936 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Foreign students to stay in UK for 2 years after finishing studies
International students will be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduation to find a job, under new proposals announced by the Home Office.The move reverses a decision made in 201...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1986 | by BBC
'Zimbabwe loses US$98 billion due to sanctions'
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister, Dr Sibusiso Moyo, yesterday presented a paper to Cabinet, indicating Zimbabwe lost about US$98 billion due to the illegal sanctions imposed on the cou...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:01hrs | 161 | by Staff reporter
Does marriage affect your credit rating?
Getting married will change your life in many ways. Putting the cap on the toothpaste. Trading in the convertible for a minibus. Making your relationship Facebook official. Your credit scores ...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 22:06hrs | 1387 | by TransUnion
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