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Zimbabwe economic reforms charms top economists
Despite inheriting an economy on the brink of collapse in 2018, marked by a 40 percent fiscal deficit from his predecessor the late Cde Robert Mugabe, ZANU PF First Secretary and President Cde Emmerso...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2962 | by David Mwanza
Cyril Ramphosa ordered to lift alcohol ban
South Africa media has reported that the country's National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) and Cabinet have been advised to lift the ban on the sale of cigarettes and alcohol and move the country ...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1637 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC rolls out e-learning facilities at schools
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has started rolling out e-learning facilities at its schools as learning institutions remain closed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.E-learning is seen as the o...Published: 23 hrs ago | 265 | by Staff reporter
No need to over-regulate political parties: Veritas
LEGAL think-tank Veritas has expressed concern over Cabinet's recent move to introduce another code of conduct for political parties, saying this would lead to over-regulation as the rules for politic...Published: 24 hrs ago | 311 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reserve money supply drops
ZIMBABWE'S reserve money supply growth decreased to $16,66 billion in the week ended July 31 from $17,01 billion the previous week as authorities implement tight policies to control inflation. ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 866 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa trashes govt critics
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday lashed out at government critics, describing them as "renegades" bent on derailing the country's economic recovery, the Daily News reports. Addressing the nation...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:59hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commits to improving ZDF conditions of service
GOVERNMENT is determined to improve the salaries and conditions of service for defence forces as a recognition of the roles and sacrifices they make in their duties.Addressing the nation on th...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 21:56hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youth leader fired over anti-Mnangagwa slur
THE Zanu-PF Bulawayo youth province has fired its district co-ordinating committee (DCC) secretary for youth affairs Munashe Mtutsa for allegedly criticising President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:26hrs | 2985 | by Staff reporter
Zec risks flouting the law over recalled MPs
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been warned that it risks flouting the law if it lets the Thokozani Khupe-led MDC-T fill the gazetted 15 proportional representation (party list) seats that were ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 2286 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shuts graft door?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated his administration's unwavering fight against corruption saying the door to graft has been shut warning that those who want to pursue that route would face dir...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:12hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
Misappropriations of national funds
Although considered as one of the mineral hubs of southern Africa, the country finds itself in the deep end financially grappling to stay afloat. Zimbabwe's mineral resources include amongst other chr...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 18:20hrs | 131 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
'We must unite to fight against detractors'
ZIMBABWEANS must remain united and resolute in the fight against renewed glaring, and unjustified attacks by the country's perennial detractors, both inside and outside our borders, said President Emm...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 755 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not dollarising, says RBZ
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Dr John Mangudya, insists there is no going back on the process of de-dollarising the economy despite the growing use of the US dollar in most transactions, mor...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1657 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is not Zimbabwe - so there's no anti-Zimbabwe campaign!
Over the past month or two - ever since the announcement by some opposition political parties, as well as human and labour rights activists, of a planned national demonstration on 31 July 2020 against...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:40hrs | 4144 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZANU PF and Wrong Priorities
United Nations is begging the world for US$250million to urgently feed starving Zimbabweans whilst the Zimbabwean government is looking for US$3.5billion to pay 4000 colonial white farmers. There has ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 18:23hrs | 2326 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
White farmer compensation: A stunt that backfired
IF you have lived in the village, or had the chance to visit one, you will remember how an ass be-haves. Stubborn and carefree, but very poor of judgement. It spends the whole day hee-hawing, tossing ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:14hrs | 824 | by Tawanda Majoni
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 922 | by Ben Freeth
Zimbabwe: False narratives and false solutions
Donkey years ago I was preparing for a doctoral dissertation defence when my professor called me to say I had been "referred". That was a nice word for saying the dissertation was unacceptable to one ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:05hrs | 494 | by Kenneth Mufuka
NetOne crisis deepens
TROUBLED state-owned mobile phone operator NetOne has been beset by a myriad of problems that include network failure and a shortage of airtime recharge cards, which are attributed to a board wrangle....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2677 | by Staff reporter
Tony Blair courts Mnangagwa
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair is prepared to meet President Mnangagwa to lend support to Harare's political and economic reform programme.Relations between Zimbabwe and its former c...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:41hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa squandered his goodwill
President Emmerson Mnangagwa addresses ZANU-PF supporters on his return from brief exile in South Africa last NovemberIN the euphoria of Robert Mugabe's fall, Zimbabweans would have done anyth...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 20:27hrs | 3591 | by newZWire
'Mnangagwa feared, admired in equal measure'
BULAWAYO-based author Marshal Chiza has written a book that exclusively looks at the country's first citizen, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The 86-page book, aptly titled Dear Emmerson, is set ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 19:38hrs | 1438 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to ignore rumblings
UNDER-FIRE President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hit back at his critics saying his government would ignore rumblings from "fugitives".In what appeared to be a response to local and regional ...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:45hrs | 3797 | by Staff reporter
Biti's Civic society demands answers over US$18 billion debt
CIVIC society groups have amplified their voices seeking to know how the country's debt ballooned to US$18 billion.The lobby groups are demanding debt transparency after taxpayers have been fo...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:40hrs | 4051 | by Staff reporter
Zesn presses for electoral reforms
THE Zimbabwe Election Support Network (Zesn) has urged political actors not to abandon the push for electoral reforms in the face of COVID-19 that has forced the country's electoral body, Zimbabwe Ele...Published: 08 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
'Need new GNU, too polarised for democracy' argue Gono - bull, Zanu PF doesn't want democracy
"The nature of our politics today demands, in my view, greater tolerance, cross-fertilisation of ideas from different corners of political and economic thought and inclusiveness. If I had my way into ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:46hrs | 1694 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7433 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2663 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2271 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details emerge in Noic pipeline saga
FRESH details have emerged that Treasury directed the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) to handpick only one firm to supply 720 million litres of fuel over 24 months, in a pro...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:03hrs | 1307 | by Staff reporter
BCC yet to receive devolution funds
GOVERNMENT has not yet disbursed devolution funds to the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for roads rehabilitation, the local authority has said.Council had budgeted $20,7 million for resurfacing o...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:56hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
'Air Force of Zimbabwe survived sanctions through research, development'
The Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) has managed to survive under illegal sanctions by reducing its import bill through research and development with local companies that are manufacturing essential equipm...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1009 | by Staff reporter
Cost of under reporting covid-19 to look good - virus spreads to Zanu PF chefs too, no sacred cows
Ever since the day, 11 March 2020, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared coronavirus a pandemic many governments across the world prepared themselves to do what they could to contain the virus,...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 23:03hrs | 3641 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4106 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Zanu-PF bigwigs accused of plotting against Mnangagwa
THE ructions consuming the ruling Zanu-PF are escalating, with the former liberation movement ramping up its investigations targeted at party bigwigs suspected of plotting against President Emmerson M...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 17:48hrs | 12649 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF burns as bosses fight
THE ructions consuming the ruling Zanu-PF are escalating, with the former liberation movement ramping up its investigations targeted at party bigwigs suspected of plotting against President Emmerson M...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:37hrs | 7776 | by Staff reporter
Ongoing 'keyboard war' against Mnangagwa's Govt doomed to fail
The ongoing attack on Zimbabwe by racist elements and their local puppets is betrayed by its timing. The attacks which were supposed to climax in the failed July 31 protests, have now been turned into...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:05hrs | 673 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic enhances FCA digital banking
Stanbic Bank has stepped up functionality of Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) on their digital banking platforms, in a move that will allow customers to take full advantage of the interbank rates bein...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
Law on anti-Zimbabwe lobbying on cards
Political parties should be placed under a uniform code of conduct, hate speech should be banned and campaigning against Zimbabwe criminalised, the Cabinet Committee on National Peace and Reconciliati...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
'As elected leader, I will bring prosperity' insist Mnangagwa - failed precisely because you rigged and are illegitimate
"Muromo hauzarirwi nerwizi!" (There is no flooded river that big mouth cannot cross!) so goes the Shona adage. President Mnangagwa, big mouth, told the nation in his State of Nation Address there is n...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:56hrs | 1180 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zim signs US$3.5bn White Settler Farmer Deal! Betrayal of Chimurenga!
White Colonial Settlers are going to be compensated by Zimbabweans for land developments they made on the land prior to Land reform exercise. Poor peasants with no land rights to their own pieces of l...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 07:49hrs | 376 | by Ms Tendayi Lynnette Mudehwe
Pretoria rebuffs Malema's pleas
SOUTH Africa yesterday rejected calls for it to deal robustly with Zimbabwe, adding that relations between Pretoria and Harare were governed by international laws.In addition, the regional pow...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:28hrs | 3561 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4099 | by US Treasury
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:44hrs | 1854 | by Israel Dube
High inflation sees Zimra exceed targets in Q2
Increased loss of value in the ZWL saw tax revenue in the second quarter exceed target by 42.75% to $20.11 billion. The tax collector had a target of $14.09 billion after collections amounted to $13.8...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Warriors stars join #ZimbabweanLivesMatter
NATIONAL football team stars have joined other local and international celebrities in condemning human rights abuses in the country under the #ZimbabweanLivesMatter social media movement.The m...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 4647 | by Staff reporter
Malema, Zimbabwe's SA Embassy cross swords
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in South Africa has expressed its displeasure with the utterances made by South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Malema, which sought to ca...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF claims to respect constitutional provisions
THE Global Compensation Agreement (GCA) on payment of improvements on land acquired under the land reform redistribution programme is a milestone and a significant phase in the trajectory of the natio...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Now that you have compensated white farmers, pay US$100 billion for Matabeleland genocide
Now that the government of Zimbabwe has finally signed a deal to pay white famers US$3,5 billion as compensation for their farms that it grabbed, we remind it to dig deeper into the same pocket and pa...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 21:25hrs | 1318 | by Israel Dube
Land reform beneficiaries must compensate ex-farmers
GOVERNMENT'S US$3,5 billion compensation offer to former commercial farmers dispossessed of land during the land reform programme has raised a lot of anxiety within and outside the country's borders, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1167 | by Staff reporter
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