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Security forces fingered in Youth Games scam
SECURITY forces could have helped themselves to huge sums of money meant for the African Union Sports Council (AUSC) Region 5 Under-20 Youth Games that were hosted in Bulawayo in December 2014, a fore...Published: 17 hrs ago | 315 | by Staff reporter
We're creating economic space for business, says Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe's economy is on the right path and Government continues to craft policies that seek to protect investments while creating an environment for business to thrive, President Mnangagwa said yeste...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1104 | by Staff Reporter
Zupco subsidy gobbles $51m monthly
The ZUPCO bus hire scheme is costing Treasury $51 million a month which is not sustainable, the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Local Government said on Tuesday.Government came up with th...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
ZPP raps Minister Mthuli Ncube over his space satellite budget
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has rapped Minister of Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube for budgeting for space satilite at a time when majority citizens are wallowing in perpetual poverty due...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 13:55hrs | 2120 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa gobbles over US$11,4m on foreign trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bloated entourage splashed US$12 million on travel expenses between January and September this year at a time government is battling to contain an intractable econ...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:33hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
BCC to hire external experts for BF?
THE Bulawayo City Council is likely to hire external expertise to work on recommendations of the Confederation of African Football stadium inspection team for Barbourfields Stadium, as the local autho...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:11hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's subsidy restoration takes effect
THE price of mealie meal has been slashed by 50 percent with immediate effect as Government introduces a new subsidy model for the production of roller meal, the Minister of Finance and Economic Devel...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:10hrs | 330 | by Staff reporter
Chaos reigns at budget meeting
A budget consultative meeting convened by Kwekwe City Council was abandoned on Tuesday after residents rejected a bid to impose figures on them for the second year running. The local authority...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:09hrs | 158 | by Staff reporter
Rein in Chamisa's legislators
Mr Speaker Sir Parliament's Rules and Orders Committee's decision to constitute a Privileges Committee that will investigate possible breach of Parliamentary procedures and etiquette by MDC-Al...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:09hrs | 292 | by Zvamaida Murwira
Roller meal price to fall
A new Government subsidy on roller meal, which will halve the retail price of a 10kg pack to $50, will be seen on shop shelves over the next few days. The subsidy, paid only on roller meal and...Published: 06 Dec 2019 at 07:04hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party to hold inaugural congress
The Zimbabwe Community Party (ZCP), formed two years, is set to hold its maiden congress this month in Bulawayo to elect central committee members, a senior party official has said.Bongani...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 20:49hrs | 694 | by Staff reporter
Ailing companies shut doors on Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF Bulawayo province is holding a fundraising event in the city tomorrow as it races against time to raise funds for the party's annual people's conference in Goromonzi next week.Southern...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:41hrs | 2537 | by Staff reporter
Govt should reduce political interference in SOEs
The World Bank has urged government to practise transparent and consistent reporting, expand gender diversity and to reduce political interference in the operations of State-Owned Entities (SOEs)....Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:40hrs | 469 | by Staff reporter
MDC in Harare turning into Mthuli cousins
DIFFERENTIATING Zanu-PF and the MDC led by Nelson Chamisa is not an easy thing, particularly for people who are not swayed by political rhetoric, and rally optics, but those who slowly and methodicall...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:22hrs | 2153 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Introduction of new currency a piecemeal solution
DURING the 2020 national budget presentation in Parliament last month, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube held up a note of the new Zimbabwe dollar and proudly announced that it was tough and resilient....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:20hrs | 1102 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs face the music for Mnangagwa snub
MDC MPs are at the mercy of their rivals after National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda Tuesday announced an all-Zanu-PF constituted Privileges Committee to investigate contempt of parliament charges e...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:05hrs | 520 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe understated US financial support by US$80m
A senior United States official working in Zimbabwe has questioned development aid figures released recently by Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube in the 2020 national budget statement, saying the funds ar...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:05hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 48-hour moratorium: Doctors trickle back to work
AT least 10 percent of junior doctors have reported for duty countrywide with Government ready to consider extenuating circumstances for doctors reporting to work after the moratorium extended by Pres...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:02hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa being fooled by events in Latin America
There are very interesting parallels between political developments in Zimbabwe and in four South American countries, namely Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador and Venezuela. In all these countries, ther...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:01hrs | 1874 | by Bevan Musoko
Plumtree residents petition council over rates hike
PLUMTREE residents have petitioned the local authority over a 350% to 800% rates increase for various services, contrary to the proposed increase of between 100% and 300% for 2020.In a letter ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:25hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube budget statement a fraud, says Biti
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement is in a shambles with several errors and inconsistences in figures compared to those in the proposed estimates of expenditure (Blue Book), former ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:21hrs | 379 | by Staff rpeorter
Don't politicise development issues, says MDC MP
MDC-Alliance Member of Parliament for Bulawayo Central Mrs Nicola Watson has said if political parties continue to be in an election mode the country will not develop. Speaking at a stakeholde...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:19hrs | 98 | by Staff rpeorter
Significant decline in cash premiums: RBZ
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee has said the recent injection of new bank notes and coins into the system has resulted in significant decline in cash premiums. In ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1975 | by Staff rpeorter
RBZ tightens monetary policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will take measures to counter the threat of high and potentially inflationary money supply growth from the 2020 growth-oriented budget by maintaining a stran...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:04hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Harare blows $375,000 on iPads for councillors
While Harare City Council continuously complains that poor cashflow prevents it from providing adequate water and services like refuse collection, it has just spent at least $375 000 on iPads fo...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:03hrs | 106 | by Staff reporter
Ncube hit the poor hard by scrapped grain subsidies and is yet to tax looters
One of the few things Professor Mthuli Ncube did as soon as he was appoint Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance was to introduce the 2% electronic transaction tax. The tax was to raise some revenue from the...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2245 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Doctors strike: 'It is time to show leadership, people are dying'
The government is still struggling to find a solution to one of the major health crises in Zimbabwe's history, three months after junior doctors went on strike demanding better pay.Sapes Trust...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 795 | by Staff reporter
Raw sewage overwhelms Mabuthweni, Iminyela residents
Ward 13 residents in Mabuthweni and Iminyela townships of Bulawayo have bemoaned the poor state of communal toilets with four families forced to share one toilet. Residents from the two ...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:06hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa charms Bulawayo artists
The National Arts, Culture and Heritage Policy which was launched in Bulawayo by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.President Emmerson Mnangagwa played into the hearts of local artists in Bulawa...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:04hrs | 387 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Annual People's Conference: The place to be
ZANU-PF will be holding its 18th National People's Conference from 10 to 15 December 2019, at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East Province. This event is not just a mere gathering, but t...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:57hrs | 144 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
MDC slams Jacob Mudenda
THE MDC has come out guns blazing at National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda for alleged bias against the main opposition's legislators.MDC secretary for legal affairs Innocent Gonese last wee...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:53hrs | 297 | by newzimbabwe
ZACC intensifies asset recovery
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) intensified its asset recovery programme in the past two weeks by impounding several vehicles suspected of being smuggled into the country without paymen...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:52hrs | 113 | by Comm John Makamure
Bread prices go up again
THE prices of bread have gone up to $18 from $14 a loaf, further putting pressure on already overburdened consumers who are struggling to put food on the table due to the escalating prices of basic go...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 11:49hrs | 1511 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa shames Mthuli Ncube
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's surprising decision to reinstate subsidies on grain and wheat - embarrassing his Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, betrays the level of anxiety within government over the c...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:41hrs | 2643 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chinese Ambassador mocks Mthuli Ncube over budget statement
Chinese Deputy Ambassador Zhao Baogang has made a veiled mockery on the budget statement by Finance and Economic development Minister Mthuli Ncube over the budget statement where he understated the am...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:35hrs | 4519 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US Senate, out of touch with reality
On 26 November 2019, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Jim Risch, imprudently tweeted on his official twitter handle, @SenateForeign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Governmen...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:47hrs | 250 | by Peacemaker Zano
Zanu-PF cripples Parly committee meetings
CHAOS continued yesterday in Parliament after the Portfolio Committee on Information and Media chaired by Binga North legislator Prince Dubeko Sibanda (MDC Alliance) was disrupted by Zanu PF legislato...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 624 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube burns his house to smoke out a rat
The 2020 national budget statement announced by Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube a fortnight ago was telling in more ways than one. The professor had no qualms to nail his govern...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 1466 | by Cliff Chiduku
Government to deploy doctors to major hospitals
THE Government is working on modalities to restore minimum service delivery at the country's central hospitals in Bulawayo and Harare through the deployment of clinical officers who are stationed in t...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:37hrs | 298 | by Staff reporter
US Senate, out of touch with reality
On 26 November 2019, US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman, Senator Jim Risch, imprudently tweeted on his official twitter handle, @SenateForeign that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Governmen...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 15:13hrs | 2064 | by Peacemaker Zano
Airlines bemoan turbulent times in Zimbabwe's transport sector
Board of Airlines Representatives chairperson and Tourism Business Council of Zimbabwe president Winnie Muchanyuka has bemoaned the turbulence being experienced in the transport sector following the g...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa intervenes, mealie meal subsidy restored
Subsidies on maize meal and rice are being restored to ensure that citizens have access to cheaper basic food stuffs and cushion them against the obtaining economic challenges, President Mnangagwa has...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 3646 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds China, takes swipe at US
GOVERNMENT's Chinese funded new Parliament building under construction at Mt. Hampden, some 32 kilometres northwest of Harare, is now taking shape.President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday too...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 20:39hrs | 2742 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1361 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gloom as Harare presents $4bn budget
HARARE yesterday presented a $4,5 billion budget amid fears that it will not be sustainable under the current hyperinflationary environment and will need immediate review that will affect hard-pressed...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Water charges to go up 400%
Harare City Council's budget proposals delivered last night will see the average bill for high-density householders rise to $225 a month. In the budget, council quadrupled water charges, raise...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo councillors angry at slow pace of Egodini
Bulawayo Councillors are angry at the slow pace in which Egodini Mall project is taking shape, saying the first phase should have been ready for commissioning this November.However from the lo...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 20:01hrs | 4626 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF-MDC tiff set to spill into Parliament sitting this Tuesday
THE tiff between Zanu-PF and opposition MDC supporters could spill into parliament sitting during resumption this Tuesday with National Assembly Speaker Jacob Mudenda yet to find a solution to the acr...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:50hrs | 841 | by newzimbabwe
Mealie-meal prices double
THE price of mealie-meal nearly doubled yesterday after government abruptly cut off subsidies over a month than earlier proposed, in the process piling pressure on the already hard-pressed Zimbabweans...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Duty, permit requirements on grain, flour imports removed
GOVERNMENT has suspended customs duty and scrapped import permits and licences for grain, maize meal and wheat flour with immediate effect to plug potential food supply gaps and counter the effects of...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 07:21hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
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