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Zimbabwe army, police morale hits rock bottom
Parliament yesterday heard that soldiers and police officers' morale had hit rock bottom due to a shortage of food and uniforms, with a meagre 39 cents being spent on each soldier's daily diet, causin...Published: 2 hrs ago | 512 | by Staff reporter
Antipas drops a bomb shell
WARRIORS coach Joe Antipas has sensationally announced his departure from the national team, exactly 24 hours after masterminding the downfall of Zambia in a Total Africa Cup of Nations qualifier at t...Published: 2 hrs ago | 218 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt should stop regarding suffering citizens as 'enemies of the state', but address our legitimate grievances seriousl
This morning I was pondering over the forthcoming 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (running from 25 November to 10 December), when I was immediately reminded of a distributing story a...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1311 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1301 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Musona silences army of critics
KNOWLEDGE Musona answered his critics in the best manner possible last night with an influential role as he guided his Warriors to an historic AFCON qualifying victory over Zambia at the Heroes Stadiu...Published: 18 hrs ago | 2316 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash leaves consumers stranded
EcoCash services remained intermittent or non-available yesterday, causing major business losses and much hardship since the platform handles 85 percent of Zimbabwe's transactions and 99 percent of mo...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1535 | by Staff reporter
Gloomy festive season for Zimbabweans
The National Consumer Rights Association (Nacora) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have predicted a gloomy festive season for ordinary citizens. They have also blamed the government fo...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:38hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to expend 5% fuel levy on Chirundu Highway
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated 5% of the excise duty revenue collected on fuel towards the construction of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway as international...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:35hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Warriors beat Chipolopolo in Zambia
Zambia 0 - 2 ZimbabweKhama Billiat struck a brace to help Zimbabwe beat Zambia 2-1 in an Afcon Qualifier in Lusaka on Tuesday.The Warriors had drawn their opening match of the qualifying c...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:31hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe adopts Chinese translation app
Government through the tourism sector has embraced Youdao a new quick language translation application (app) in a bid keep up with the current travel and tourism industry trends, so as to increase com...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:31hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to reform at his own pace
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that he will implement political and economic reforms at his own pace, and insisted that the impetus for change and reform comes from within.In ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 2990 | by Staff reporter
2 years on, Mnangagwa remains steadfast
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said he will not waver in his determination to work and achieve the goals and dreams of millions of Zimbabweans who marched in 2017 in a series of events that gave birth to the...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:48hrs | 350 | by Staff reporter
This is how Zimbabwe has changed since I became President
TWO years ago, on November 18th, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets in the spirit of peace, unity and hope, calling for a new start. For a new Zimbabwe. Coming into...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:47hrs | 832 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Zesa switches off Mnene Hospital
Zesa has switched off power at Mnene Hospital over a bill of about $700 000, plunging the critical institution into darkness. Authorities at the 27-bed hospital said they have been without pow...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 628 | by Staff reporter
Business suffers as EcoCash still down
Retailers and other business entities may have lost potential revenue running into hundreds of millions of dollars after Zimbabwe's biggest mobile money platform, EcoCash, remained largely out of serv...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs reducing Second Republic into one big circus
THE animosity between the two political adversaries, the ruling Zanu PF party and the opposition MDC, who have perpetually been trading barbs in Parliament, has now degenerated into a farce and turned...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 18:50hrs | 2815 | by NewsDay Comment
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big step in the right direction towards ending period po...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:19hrs | 613 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Mnangagwa's govt squanders US$10.6 billion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government spent over US$10 billion in unbudgeted public finds, and now wants Parliament to okay the unexplained expenditure, raising the ire of opposition members of Pa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1481 | by Staff reporter
Chombo trial hangs in the balance
FORMER Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo's corruption trial still hangs in the balance as the Supreme Court last Friday deferred ruling on whether he should get a permanent stay of prosecution on the g...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube hails RBZ swift action on CBZ, Ecobank
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has praised the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for swiftly acting against two banks alleged to have allowed their depositors to make wi...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the risk of plunging the economy into hyperinflation aft...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1109 | by Victor Bhoroma
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encountered a group of people who are divorced from reali...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2940 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
300 jobs at BCC
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to employ more than 300 professionals as the local authority seeks to address under-staffing within its departments and subsequently improve service delivery.O...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:05hrs | 3341 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa threatens cash barons
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 618 | by Staff reporter
POSA now history
Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA), which has been signed by President Mnangagwa into law, is expected to open up democratic space by entrenching the right to demonstrate and present petitions,...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 237 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says economy to rebound in 2020
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2629 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers and Police must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday. Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:03hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Security services must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday..Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 2252 | by Staff Reporter
Nothing amiss in cash withdrawals above stipulated limits, Mangudya
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mangudya, says there is nothing amiss in depositors withdrawing cash above stipulated limits as exemptions are normal in the financial services sector....Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:21hrs | 5027 | by Staff reporter
Industry get-together 'roars' to life with 1920s inspired soiree
Wedding industry experts and professionals from across the United Kingdom gathered in North Yorkshire this week, as part of a wider initiative that seeks to foster a working relationship between the N...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 09:27hrs | 438 | by News Correspondent
What they said about 2020 budget
FORMER Finance minister and now MDC vice president Tendai Biti:"A budget of $63 billion is an illusion and unachievable, but also reflects extent of hyperinflation. The Pre-Budget Strategy Pap...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
'Poor funding compromises Zacc independence'
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is poorly funded to independently exercise its duties, leaving it exposed to manipulation and Parliament should make sure it has been allocated a sound b...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
Councils demand garnishee powers
LOCAL authorities are seeking garnishing powers to deal with defaulting ratepayers who are reluctant to pay their bills in the absence of such authority.This was highlighted at the Urban Counc...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 188 | by Staff reporter
Local authorities stifling business growth: Industry
MANY local authorities in Zimbabwe are using archaic laws and municipal by-laws that do not take into account the changing business environment and globalisation, a situation that has made it difficul...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Warriors go for the kill
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona believes a positive start against neighbours Botswana at home could go a long way in determining how well the team does in the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) qual...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
Can new Zimdollar relieve the chronic cash crunch?
Gason Mukuvadzi, a lanky man with boyish looks, sits behind a makeshift desk in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo centre. An umbrella canvas shelters him from the blistering sun as he waits for customers looking t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Infrastructural development key to woo investors, says Mangwana
ZIMBABWE needs to focus more on local infrastructure investments and industrialisation in order to woo investors and boost the crumbling economy, a top government official has said.Ministry of...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Tax-free bonuses for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has reviewed the tax-free bonus threshold from $ 1 000 to $ 5 000 with effect from this month with civil servants also expected to get their full annual bonuses pegged on gross income. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1100 | by Staff reporter
The Budget 2020 - Which way Zimbabwe
In the darkness of the Zimbabwean economy with ordinary people grinding beans using their back Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube casts a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. He said the count...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 23:50hrs | 2037 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa's MPs to be punished after 2020 budget presentation boycott
INDEPENDENT MP Temba Mliswa on Thursday demanded Parliament takes disciplinary action after all MDC legislators boycotted Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 Budget presentation in their continued di...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:47hrs | 2690 | by newzimbabwe
Mthuli Ncube reduces VAT and corporate tax
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube marginally cut corporate tax (24% from 25%), VAT (14.5% from 15%) and increased the tax free threshold to $2 000 from $700 with effect from Janua...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:36hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
The world of online casino gaming
The generation we belong to had just started to understand something known as computer games. Our generation that would rely heavily on entertainment watching Hanna Barbara's epic creation of Tom &...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 08:21hrs | 395 | by Staff Writer
New notes, coins hit Bulawayo
EXCITED depositors yesterday flocked to their banking halls in Bulawayo to withdraw new notes and coins following the cash injection on Monday into the formal system by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (R...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:33hrs | 2208 | by Staff reporter
Chombo appeal hearing on today
The Supreme Court is today expected to hear an appeal by former Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo, who is battling to stop his trial on charges of criminal abuse of office. Chombo (67), is seek...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:31hrs | 206 | by Staff reporter
RBZ raises $300m
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said yesterday it successfully managed to raise $300 million through its latest 182-day treasury bill auction. The offer, which opened and closed on Tuesday,...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:29hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
New notes and coins won't cause inflation, RBZ
Bank notes and coins introduced early this week to satisfy legitimate demand for coins and small notes will not fuel inflation, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has said....Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 16:58hrs | 1587 | by Staff reporter
Sasai exhibits at Africa's top tech conference
Sasai, the new all-in-one App from Cassava Fintech International (CFI), is exhibiting at AfricaTech, the fintech and digital expo that runs concurrently with AfricaCom, the continent's largest telco a...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 13:37hrs | 687 | by Agencies
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