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Zimbabwe's RTG reports sharp rebound in foreign tourist arrivals
Zimbabwe's largest hotel operator, Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG), has reported a strong rebound in foreign guest arrivals, signaling a wider recovery in the region's hospitality sector as international ...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:42hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
CIO allegedly planned to kill Chamisa in 2020
A shocking investigation by the United Kingdom-based unit Dug Up has revealed that Zimbabwe's notorious Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) allegedly considered eliminating opposition leader Nelso...Published: 14 Feb 2025 at 06:37hrs | 2882 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga meets Swiss president
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday met Swiss President Alain Berset to whom he delivered a message from President Mnangagwa, as well as discussing about strengthening of economic cooperatio...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt draws down US$311m from IMF kitty
ZIMBABWE has drawn down US$311 million from the US$958 million it was allocated under extra Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund in August last year, an automatic allocation along...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
School fees shocker
GOVERNMENT and private schools have hiked fees ahead of opening day tomorrow citing the weakening Zimbabwe dollar.While the bulk of schools were still assessing the situation, some private sch...Published: 02 May 2022 at 08:05hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube holds talks with investors on USD bond
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube last week held a productive meeting with international investors who are keen to participate in the Government's US$100 million bond th...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 08:49hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Poachers take advantage of lockdowns
CASES of wildlife poaching have increased due to subdued anti-poaching activities that have been brought about by the lockdowns introduced to curb the spread of Covid-19.This was said by Paint...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
New brooms at Emcoz
THE Employers Confederation of Zimbabwe (Emcoz) has elected a new executive led by Schweppes executive Demos Mbauya as its president.Mbauya, who takes over from Israel Murefu, who served the m...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Power cuts could derail industrial targets
The power outages besetting the country are set to derail economic growth prospects during a difficult phase for Zimbabwe when the economy is reeling from the effects of COVID-19, economic analysts an...Published: 28 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Will the IMF US$961m windfall rescue Zimbabwe?
According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Covid-19 has caused substantial long-term global macroeconomic environment change, and the pandemic inflicted long-term scars on the global economy....Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Learnmore Nyamudzanga
Airlines debt haunts Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is among countries that owe international airlines millions of United States dollars from ticket sales, cargo space and other activities.According to the International Air Transport A...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 08:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
High internet tariffs push online learning out of reach of many
THE rising cost of internet services at a time when learners countrywide are required to engage in online learning as a Covid-19 mitigation measure is a cause for concern. Schools have been closed sin...Published: 12 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF approves SDR for Zimbabwe, Biti will not be happy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a new general allocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR) equivalent to US$650 billion, the largest in the IMF's history, in an effort to boost global...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 crisis: Can corporate leaders stand up and be counted!
Zimbabwe has undergone several crises over the years and each time disaster strikes, citizens have been known to put aside their differences - real or imagined - to put out the fire. It is thr...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 20:21hrs | 3 | by Nathan Chikara
Schools enrolment capped at 1 000
THE Government has started splitting some schools into two or more to decongest them as Covid-19 continues to wreak havoc in communities.Sunday News understands that one school in Luveve, Bula...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says 'we're in a crisis', 'MDC stuck with unregistered COVID-19 vaccines'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa says information on the ground, particularly in rural areas, was pointing to a dire situation in the country, hence the need for government to stop politi...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:15hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's Ramaphosa walking on a tight rope
I HAVE been watching countless videos about the crisis in South Africa.I have been enjoying the witted debates going on. South Africa is at a turning point, a turn into uncharted territory....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:13hrs | | by The Watcher
Rising poverty hits Mnangagwa support
THE majority of Zimbabweans are unhappy with the decline in their well-being under President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration and are unlikely to retain him for a second term in the 2023 elections,...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Standard Bank named Best Bank in Africa
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe's South African-based parent company, Standard Bank Group, has been named the Best Bank in Africa in Global Finance's 28th annual awards for the World's Best Banks. Addit...Published: 26 Mar 2021 at 12:01hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Mnangagwa to consider clubs' plight
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will consider how Govenment can best help local football clubs, who have been badly hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, until the situation returns to normal. A keen football fan, who is...Published: 13 Mar 2021 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Policymakers urged to offer growth incentives for digital infrastructure development
POLICYMAKERS have been called upon to frame policies that help increase investment in resilient digital infrastructure. This comes as the COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated the country's need fo...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 16:15hrs | | by Agencies
'Gold to Zimbabwe what oil is to Nigeria, can turn around our fortunes' - not whilst US$1.2b p.a. lost to smugglers
On 3 March 2016 President Mugabe admitted that the nation had lost $15 billion worth of diamonds because of the looting and plunder in Marange and Chiadzwa."This kind of plunder must immediate...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Was November 2017 a false start for Zimbabwe?
THEN there was the incident in New York on 9/11, I drove into the garden of my daughter and her husband and they shouted at me to come and see what was happening.I walked into the house and sa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe private hospitals not reporting Covid-19 stats
SOME private and public hospitals in the country have been accused of not providing the Government with Covid-19 statistics, a move that the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on health described as sc...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pleads with business
President Emmerson Mnangagwa this week extended the begging bowl to the private sector to fund the importation of coronavirus vaccines amid a rise in new infections of the virus with deaths breaching ...Published: 28 Jan 2021 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora calls for unity in Covid-19 fight
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora has called on all local political parties to unite in the fighting against Covid-19 as Zimbabwe's new infections and deaths continue to rise.As at January 24, 2021,...Published: 26 Jan 2021 at 17:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Furore over govt claims of killer doctors
DOCTORS yesterday reacted with alarm and anger over allegations by Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana that some medical practitioners were deliberately killing Zanu-PF politicians and hiding be...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 22:38hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana stirs hornet's nest by labelling some doctors as 'medical assassins'
Zimbabwean govt spokesman Nick Mangwana has stirred a hornet's nest by insinuating that there are doctors who are now killing "certain political players" in hospitals.This was in the context o...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 15:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti's letter to World Bank on Zimbabwe COVID-19 aid
In May 2020, the World Bank dipped into a special health fund to provide US$7 million to Zimbabwe to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus.The US$7...Published: 24 Jan 2021 at 09:09hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged Zimbabweans to stop attending private parties and gatherings.The President said in the "next hours, days and even months" there will be surging Covid-19 ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP blasts Mnangagwa
OUTSPOKEN MDC Alliance legislator Settlement Chikwinya has hit out at the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government over a patently blind imposition of a national lockdown without close consideration of the c...Published: 06 Jan 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CAF reach out to ZIFA over crisis
THE Confederation of African Football have reached out to ZIFA to enquire about the Covid-19 crisis in the Warriors' camp and the additional lockdown measures ahead of the national football team's par...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 23:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zifa discuss Covid-19 crisis
THE ZIFA board yesterday discussed the impact of the COVID-19 crisis that has hit the Warriors training camp for the CHAN tournament after almost half the members tested positive for coronavirus this ...Published: 31 Dec 2020 at 10:30hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Controversy awaits schools opening next week
PLAYERS in the education sector have urged government to reconsider its decision to reopen primary and secondary schools, which is scheduled for Tuesday next week, given rising cases of COVID-19 infec...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:26hrs | 11 | by Nigel
Musona in Covid-19 crisis
WARRIORS captain Knowledge Musona is in the midst of a Covid-19 crisis at his Belgian topflight club KAS Eupen after 17 players and five officials at the club reportedly tested positive for the novel ...Published: 20 Dec 2020 at 06:57hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe children malnourished as Covid-19 crisis deepens, says Steve Hanke
ECONOMISTS believe that food shortages and lockdowns have led to an acute rise in malnutrition cases among children in Zimbabwe. Data reveals that one in three children in the country are malnourished...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 06:01hrs | 10 | by Agencies
Water crisis ravages Bulawayo
Women carry the burden of collecting water for households...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Brezhnev Malaba
Chiyangwa laughs last?
NO ONE can fault former Zifa president and now Cosafa boss Phillip Chiyangwa for boasting that Zimbabwean football made a huge mistake in rejecting him in favour of Felton Kamambo.Events at Co...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:12hrs | 1 | by Michael Kariati
Mnangagwa's wife commissions GBV 'one-stop shop'
A TREATMENT and support centre for survivors of gender based violence (GBV) has been launched in Bindura. First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has called for a multi-sectoral response in the fight ag...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No by-elections anytime soon, declares Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed that by-elections will not take place anytime soon during the COVID-19 pandemic period despite health officials saying polls were poss...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The issue of Zimbabwe debt
THIS past Sunday, our church sermon was taken from Nehemiah Chapter 10 and focused on the instructions given to the tribes of Israel which had returned to Israel from exile in Babylon about 400 years ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:50hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
EcoCash self-care platforms enhance clients' safety, improve the customer experience
CASSAVA Smartech Zimbabwe's mobile money platform EcoCash is leading the way in maintaining social distancing for its customers and employees through the use of self-care platforms. With the w...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 19:57hrs | | by Agencies
'Teachers' industrial action is apolitical'
THE Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union in Zimbabwe (Artuz) has said the ongoing strike by educators is a genuine labour dispute and apolitical.But President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson, G...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN to assist debt-ridden landlocked countries including Zimbabwe
THE United Nations (UN) says it is committed to finding solutions to assist landlocked developing countries, including Zimbabwe, whose debt crisis has been exacerbated by the coronavirus (Covid-19) pa...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 17:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Whistle-blowers help bust Covid-19 looters
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is on record calling on all those entrusted with managing resources earmarked for fighting Covid-19 to exercise a high degree of transparency and account...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:27hrs | 2 | by Comm John Makamure
ANC refuses to be intimated by Zanu-PF
ZANU PF has warned South Africa's ANC not to treat Zimbabwe as one of the neighbouring country's provinces with party spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa saying South Africa's ruling party does not have an...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 07:22hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa a regional rebel'
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has described President Emmerson Mnangagwa as a rebel who is starting many fires that could destabilise the region if left unchecked.This comes am...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC comes under fire for corruption in local authorities
ZIMBABWE has once again come under the spotlight over an alleged human rights crisis. Civil society groups, churches, political organisations in and outside the country have slammed President Emmerson...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 17:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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