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Zimbabwe's resilience: A nation's ability to overcome economic challenges, from sanctions to currency instability
For over two decades, Zimbabwe has been a nation under siege. Economic sanctions, imposed primarily by the United States and its Western allies, have crippled the country's economy, creating one of th...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 11:56hrs | 155 | by Michael Badze
An Open Letter to Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube
Dear Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube,As you navigate the complexities of Zimbabwe's economic landscape, a pressing matter deserves your urgent attention: the persistent depreciation of the Zimba...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 22:51hrs | 841 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Villagers sell their livestock for a song
VILLAGERS in Matebeleland and Midlands are being forced to sell off their livestock for a song to buy a few bags of maize and other basics as the effects of the El Nino-induced drought set in....Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 21:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Germany solution - A Path to Zimbabwe's Economic Revival
Zimbabwe's government is currently grappling with significant economic challenges, including destroyed infrastructure, reduced food production, high unemployment rates, and shortages of basic goods. T...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 10:26hrs | 5 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Matebeleland villagers appeal for govt intervention
VILLAGERS in Matebeleland region are appealing to the government to immediately intervene and save them from starvation as the food crisis reaches alarming levels.Several villagers have alread...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar crashes to lowest since its 2019 revamp
A fresh plunge in the value of the Zimbabwean dollar means that everyone in the country with US$100 is now a millionaire in local-currency terms. Again.The local unit on Tuesday weakened past ...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Depleted local food produce constrains access to income ahead of 2024 season: FEWS NET
The Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) has reported that depleted own-produced food stocks, has constrained access to income, and high food prices will likely drive Crisis (IPC Phase 3) o...Published: 27 Nov 2023 at 13:26hrs | 8 | by Stephen Jakes
Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals
From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral v...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Nkayi Villagers cry for help
Villagers under Headman Manguni in Nkayi have requested urgent government assistance and help towards tackling challenges that have made life difficult for the people of Nkayi. Villagers r...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:52hrs | | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Is Zimbabwe's new gold coin evidence of a broader global trend?
Saber rattling by the Chinese Communist Party stoked investor fears this week, putting upward pressure on gold prices. CCP officials felt aggrieved by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, whi...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:20hrs | 2 | by Mike Gleason
Allow the masses to trade in precious minerals, to bring stability to our Zim$ currency
Zimbabwe has had, what is now Refered to as a merry-go-round foreign currency policy, which has a five year cycle of a Zim$, dual currency and a USD$ and then back to Zim$. These cycles have been cons...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Yellow Skies Rally took many by storm
Speculations had predicted a low turn up of supporters at the Citizen's Coalition for Change Rally that was held in Bulawayo on the 5th of March 2022. There was a talk about a general political detach...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 10:24hrs | | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Gwanda villagers drive out amacimbi harvesters
VILLAGERS from the Dombo area in Gwanda District are driving out mopane worm harvesters from their areas saying they are depleting their wealth.Traditionally, mopane worms (amacimbi/madora) ar...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minerals and natural resources a solution to Zimbabwe’s economic turnaround program
We say Zimbabwe's minerals and natural resources belong to the people and we continue to allow colonial and oppressive laws that do not allow the natural black landowners to take advantage of the God-...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:37hrs | 10 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
You can't pull in croc with fish hook
IN the village, the outcome of a fishing trip to the river often meant the difference between a sumptuous meal and another dish to be tolerated just to keep the body and soul together.As pleas...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:37hrs | 9 | by Bishop Lazarus
Can Caterpillars Save Us?
For as long as anyone can remember, mopane worms have provided a critical source of nutritional and financial sustenance for Zimbabweans, especially in the country's southernmost provinces.In ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 19:24hrs | 10 | by Fortune Moyo
Amacimbi processing plant set up in Beitbridge District
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with development partners has set up the country's first state-of-the-art mopani worm processing plant in Matshiloni area in Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South. The amac...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo wants passport released
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Chombo, on bail over a slew of corruption-related charges wants his passport back temporarily to travel to South Africa for medical attention. Chombo, through ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Midlands farmers bartering grain for a song
FARMERS in the Midlands province are engaging in barter trade, exchanging grain for groceries, risking making their families food insecure, Southern Eye has gathered.Traditional leaders said s...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brisk business for umtshiphela/ harurwa vendors
SCORES of villagers in Bikita district in Masvingo province are making brisk business from selling edible insects - commonly known as harurwa/ umtshiphela (Encosternum delegorguei) – along the Masvi...Published: 22 May 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sex workers in Mashonaland hit hard by economic crisis
Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis compounded by the Covid-19 pandemic has left sex workers across the country in a quandary with some contemplating quitting the oldest profession for good.S...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal price to go down
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has welcomed Government's position to stop issuing maize and mealie-meal import permits with effect from end of the month, as the country is on course for a m...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mastercard and Network International Pioneering Africa's digital payment revolution
Civilization has transformed trading and commerce from the prehistoric means which involved barter trades facilitated by the item-to-item exchange. The discrepancies and inconsistencies of goods valu...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by Staff Writter
New twist to tycoon's estate
The late John Bredenkamp‘s widow, Jennifer, has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court seeking to block her son Gavin from holding on to the family's Thetford Farm in Mazowe. The case...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 17:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Demand Arrest Of Chicken Thieves Not Wildlife Poachers' - Animal Rights Tell Africans
One of the most curious and harmful lessons that Western animal rights groups continue to teach African rural communities co-existing with wildlife and the African public, in general, is 'demand the a...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Emmanuel Koro
Red lights flashing over Russian deals
RUSSIA is clearly keen to boost its presence in Africa. "Africa is one of the priorities of Russian foreign policy," declared Russian deputy foreign affairs minister Mikhail Bogdanov in a meeting of t...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Educating the girl child is educating the nation
Their figures mere silhouettes in the pre-dawn 'darkness', the trio always emerge from the east going to the west. Don't they say the three wisemen came from the East, no wonder these three young wome...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 17:01hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
May churches play their part in taming the youths
The 'cheap', but very cheap spirits (alcohol) on sale countrywide, do authorities or those tasked to do quality control aware of their production or importation? The beverages are competing we...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | | by Tondo
Zimbabwe is not a banana republic
Blessed Sunday good people.How was Friday?Has the Government changed yet?Is Nelson Chamisa now president of our teapot-shaped republic? Kikikiki.Yes, exactly as Bishop ...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:30hrs | | by Bishop Lazi
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Back to 2008 as Zimdollar returns
FOR President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, the re-introduction of the national currency a decade after its demise is a return to "normalcy".For most of the country's citizens, it's a bitte...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Tendai Biti claims abandonment of the multi-currency system is illegal
FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has described the abandonment of the multi-currency system by government as a disaster while urging its reversal.The MDC MP for Harare East w...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by newzimbabwe
ZBC sweats over Afcon rights
Live broadcast of Africa Cup of Nations matches by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation hangs in the balance, as the national broadcaster is battling to secure €700 000 (about US$791 000) required ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's maize stolen
POLICE have arrested three men - two drivers and a suspected buyer - who were in the habit of stealing part of President Mnangagwa's maize deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board depot in Chegutu. ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Allow Zimbabweans to trade in Gold, Diamonds and other minerals
Lets empower the people of Zimbabwe and allow them to trade in gold and diamond. I have travelled throughout Zimbabwe, and some of my family members are geologists and miners.I have seen some of them ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
German Methods can work in Zimbabwe
After World War II, in 1945 Germany was divided into two with the United States, Great Britain, and France occupying the western portion of Germany and the Soviet Union occupying eastern Germany. Its ...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 23:02hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Matabeleland restorationists shut out of Zimbabwe national dialogue
The latest violent crackdown on fuel protesters put Zimbabwe President, Mnangagwa in the category of tyrannous dictators and genocidists in Africa. The kind who would unleash the army to brutali...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe's central bank to allow US dollar trading
Zimbabwe's central bank says it has upgraded its RTGS platform to allow the settlement of transactions in dollars and trading will go live on February 1.Trading is currently in test mode, it s...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Bloomberg news
The weapon AK47 was invented in Africa and for Africa?
The AK 47 stands for Avtomat (Automatic) Kalashnikov: and 47 is the year in which it was invented. Mikael Kalashnikov is the sole inventor of AK47, he was at an early age obsessed with creating a sub-...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu PF a league of hynas and jackals - Mujuru youths
Revolutionary greetings comrades. The general elections are 10 days away and we still haven't seen any electoral reforms, worse, the voters roll is still littered with ghost voters coupled with clumsy...Published: 19 Jul 2018 at 20:14hrs | | by NPP National Youth Chairman
Deploy Tonga-speaking teachers to Gokwe
CHIEF Siyamchembo of Gokwe North has appealed to Government to deploy Tonga-speaking teachers in his area amid revelations that pupils were performing badly due to a serious shortage teacher-pupil lan...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why digital money makes sense
William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist compl...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Why Mnangagwa won't prosecute Kasukuwere for graft
A week before the military intervention that toppled ex-president Robert Mugabe in mid-November last year, Saviour Kasukuwere was addressing a Zanu-PF crowd in Harare, and yelled: "Down with Emmerson ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:46hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Say no to Chamisa's chauvinism
Another day, another derogatory, sexist and chauvinist remark by MDC-T President Nelson Chamisa. There have been the discussions, the criticisms and the analyses, but all is left to say is that Chamis...Published: 29 May 2018 at 15:24hrs | 1 | by Joice, Harare
Villagers survive on selling cow dung
VILLAGERS in the drought-prone Chief Mvuthu's area in Victoria Falls have resorted to selling cow dung manure and firewood to eke a living after most of their crops were destroyed by wild animals from...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Indians mull barter to ease forex woes
The Indian business community has proposed the use of barter trade with their Zimbabwean counterparts, to ease the foreign exchange crisis bedevilling the economy.In an interview on the sideli...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is ready for a female president
Revolutional greetings dear comrades. Women in African patriarchal societies were trapped in domesticity. They were viewed as objects of production and reproduction only fit to occupy the domestic sph...Published: 27 Dec 2017 at 07:40hrs | | by Khulani David Ndhlovu
Zimdef loses millions in stands scandal
THE Zimbabwe Manpower Development Fund (Zimdef) could have lost millions of dollars after a bank (name withheld) in which it invested $5 million offered to settle the debt with a piece of land compris...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 23:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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