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Mthuli Ncube's reality check
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube will today present the Mid Term Fiscal Statement.The outbreak of the novel coronavirus, which is also known as Covid-19, disrupted business both in the public and...Published: 8 hrs ago | 3389 | by Staff reporter
Showdown looms over US$ salaries
Civil servants have requested a post-Mid-Term Fiscal Policy review meeting with the ministries of Finance and Public Service Labour and Social Welfare and central bank chief John Mangudya as they push...Published: 8 hrs ago | 4868 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's govt has no plans to abandon Zimdollar'
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi yesterday told Parliament that government had no immediate plans to abandon the Zimbabwe dollar, totally crashing any hopes by civil servants of having their salaries ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 2452 | by Staff reporter
Conventional economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy
CONVENTIONAL economics do not often apply to the Zimbabwean economy. If we take as an example the period during the government of national unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, the hard currency revenues to ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 898 | by Eddie Cross
Mthuli Ncube takes Zimbabwe closer to hyperinflation
ZIMBABWE continued on its march back to hyperinflation in June, adding to the nation's economic woes.While annual inflation slowed for the first time in five months to 737.3% from 785.6% in Ma...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1014 | by Bloomberg
'Free Zimbabwe from illegal sanctions'
President Mnangagwa has made international re-engagement, fighting corruption and achieving Vision 2030 his major priority areas. Political Editor Fungi Kwaramba (FK) sat down with Tanzanian A...Published: 9 hrs ago | 232 | by Staff reporter
TelOne centre reduces service disruptions
In a move that will result in a significant reduction in internet service disruptions, TelOne has launched a Network Operations Centre (NOC). The central facility will work to support the infr...Published: 9 hrs ago | 217 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa determined to re-engage'
ZIMBABWE is determined to re-engage the world and is doing everything it can to improve the economic welfare of its people but needs the albatross rock of illegal economic sanctions imposed by western...Published: 9 hrs ago | 728 | by Staff reporter
UN remind Zanu PF of the right to peaceful demo - UN favourite, bolting door after horse has bolted
The release of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, Clément Nyaletsossi Voule's report on Zimbabwe, just two weeks before the 31 July 2020 stree...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1520 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimbabwe's real GDP to contract 15,5%'
ZIMBABWE'S real gross domestic product (GDP) is seen contracting by 15,5% in 2020 as the foreign currency shortage, limited investment, company shutdowns, soaring inflation and lockdown measures to st...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:25hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
MDC an opposition party or tool of the West?
When a Republican Ronald Regan was still president of the United States back in 1986, his predecessor, then former president of the US, Jimmy Carter a Democrat visited Zimbabwe to meet local bankers t...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:23hrs | 1252 | by Prosperity Mzila
Zimbabwe loses US$1 billion to smuggling annually
Smuggling, ineffective border controls and customs loopholes at Beitbridge Border Post might be costing Zimbabwe nearly a US$1 billion a year in unpaid customs duty, industry leaders and authorities c...Published: 15 Jul 2020 at 08:20hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa steps up face masks campaign
BUSINESSMAN and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa has urged people to wear masks in the fight to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus.This comes at a time the World Health Organisation (WH...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:31hrs | 3701 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to intensify lifestyle audits
THE government has been urged to intensify lifestyle audits for political elites and public office holders to deal with rampant corruption, a local pressure group has said.This comes a day aft...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 20:24hrs | 2961 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar depreciates 4.37% to 68.89 to the real dollar
The local currency depreciated a further 4.37% to the dollar to 68.8879 at the fourth auction as the spread between bids narrowed significantly to just 21 from 35 last week and 65 at the first auction...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 19:06hrs | 1500 | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: ZANU PF speaks on Old Mutual
ZANU PF is totally opposed to the fungibility of the Old Mutual Shares and to this end it reaffirms its policy position that the ZSE should compulsorily de-list the Old Mutual Limited shares from trad...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 18:13hrs | 2102 | by Patrick Chinamsa
Zimbabwe sets its sights on nuclear power
Zimbabwe will have a draft sustainable energy policy by year end that among other critical issues, will promote greater use of renewable sources including nuclear power, according to Energy and Power ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 4074 | by Staff reporter
Prominent Zanu-PF financier dies
A PROMINENT Zanu-PF financier Jayan Joshi has died.Details were still sketchy last night, but Information permanent secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana said Joshi died in London yesterday."W...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 3965 | by Staff reporter
Lockdown violations worry Zanu-PF
THE Zanu-PF Mashonaland West leadership has stepped up efforts to educate the community on the Covid-19 pandemic following an increase in lockdown violations across the province. A recent case...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:38hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa in control over financial sector'
The Government will win the economic war with President Mnangagwa determined to overcome economic challenges arising in the nation, Zanu-PF secretary for science and technology Ambassador Christopher ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:15hrs | 7549 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2046 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5097 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe's reserve money falls to $11,26 billion
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says introduction of the foreign currency market auction system saw reserve money falling by 11% to $11,26 billion as at July 3.Zimbabwe conducted its first ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:50hrs | 1159 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 12946 | by Staff reporter
Millers table US$ price for subsidised mealie-meal
GRAIN millers have tabled a proposal to increase the price of subsidised roller meal from $70 to between US$2,50 and US$3,50 per 10 kilogramme to cushion themselves from operational challenges....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF will not brook anarchy'
The ruling party will not stand idle as opposition activists promote anarchy but will respond appropriately to any threats to the country's peace, ZANU-PF acting spokesman Patrick Chinamasa has said....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 190 | by Staff reporter
The Chinamasa versus Matematanda race of ZanuPF Political Violence and Intolerance: Deplorable.
Zimbabweans are stunned by the venomous threats of violence vomited through the press by the two high ranking ZanuPF leaders Chinamasa and Matematanda against organisers of a yet to happen demonstrati...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:08hrs | 1234 | by Mkhululi Zulu Zapu Presidential Spokesperson
ZiNA seeks army, police, judiciary protection during July 31 protests
The new pressure group called Zimbabwe National Anthem has petitioned the state institutions which include the army, the police and the judiciary to protect citizens from the power-hungry political le...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 09:04hrs | 1209 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10648 | by Bloomberg
FNB Botswana, STOP leaking your client's information!!
Dear Tebogo, Batsaakane,As requested several times, can you kindly do not leak your customer's transactional information to strangers. I have requested you to stop it several times but it look...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:45hrs | 93 | by None FNB Client
Police hunt for 6 Harare council employees
DETECTIVES from the Commercial Crimes Division have launched a manhunt for six Harare City Council employees who are at large over the US$1 million Kuwadzana stands scam involving director of human re...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:13hrs | 3855 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 275 | by Vince Musewe
July 31 mass demonstrators to be paid US$20 each?
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba has alleged that the United States of America Embassy has bankrolled the much hyped 31st of July mass demonstrations. Writing on Twitter Charamba said...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 12:15hrs | 7377 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The owners of Zimswitch revealed
On Wednesday the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe announced that it has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect.According to the statement, all mobile money transmissio...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 09:39hrs | 14147 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube walks a tightrope
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is expected to present a mid-term fiscal review statement next week. The country is on edge, as the steepest economic decline in living memory wreaks havoc. Even the hype...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 4442 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
Govt to audit US$ service stations
Government says it will conduct audits on fuel companies accessing the precious commodity through the reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency facility to check if they were not double-dipping by sel...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
RBZ gets rare praises over ZIMSWITCH move
Political Analyst Michael Mdladla Ndiweni has defended the announcement by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to designate ZIMSWITCH as the national payment switch. In a post on Facebook, Ndiweni sa...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 22:29hrs | 5847 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9686 | by Staff reporter
RBZ designates Zimswitch as a national payment switch
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has designated Zimswitch as a national payment switch with immediate effect as it moves to operationalise Statutory Instrument 80 of 2020, which enables it to contro...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 19:21hrs | 2033 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe politics dirty or it's political players who play dirty games?
Politics isn't dirty but it's Political Players with dirty political attitudes and approach in politics who makes Politics Dirty. It's only in Zimbabwe where Dirty Politicking is practised and or impl...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 08:22hrs | 962 | by Hon Richard M Simango
Mnangagwa pampers soldiers, police
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has pampered soldiers and the police, giving them between $5 000 and $8 000 COVID-19 allowances which critics say are meant to appease them ahead of the planned July 31 pr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:26hrs | 21550 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF threatens to clamp down on big business
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down on big business fond of disrupting government policies by inflating prices of goods and manipulating the black market.Speaking at a policy meeting in Harar...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 3057 | by Staff reporter
7 soldiers rob hospital
SEVEN armed soldiers and five civilians were arrested in Chinhoyi after raiding Chidamoyo Mission Hospital in Hurungwe and getting away with US$1 500 and other valuables.The armed robbery reported...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 3070 | by Staff reporter
The Unfollow Mnangagwa charade and plots of violence
THE past weeks have witnessed efforts by known opposition elements and their sponsored phantom characters taking part in the "Unfollow ED" campaign on microblogging site Twitter to create a false impr...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2107 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
5 ways to make money with just your phone
It is amazing to think about all of the different ways that you can make money today. There used to be a day not too long ago when traveling meant that you could not add to your bankroll while you wer...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 06:59hrs | 1166 | by Staff writer
Chiwenga's ex battles property attachment over debt
VICE PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife Jocelyn Chiwenga has filed an urgent chamber application seeking to bar possible attachment of her property after failing to settle a $99 000 Tian Ze Toba...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 3489 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests
JITTERY Zanu-PF officials are sweating over the planned July 31 mass protests, which they claim are meant to topple President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power.Addressing a party meeting in Harare...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:29hrs | 2374 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1772 | by Emmanuel Koro
Stanbic urges farmers to insure their livestock
As Zimbabwe continues to face various challenges in its Agricultural sector brought about by climatic change and other natural factors, Stanbic Bank has urged farmers to take advantage of its Agribusi...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 18:33hrs | 667 | by Staff reporter
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