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Film on Chamisa to be released soon
A film on Nelson Chamisa’s election campaign, called “The Walk of Giants”, is currently in production and will be released soon.The 40-year-old was the main challenger of President Emmer...Published: 5 hrs ago | 659 | by Staff reporter
A year after Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwean politics appear to have changed due to the media reportage of the past twelve months since Robert Mugabe's ouster in the political scene. The question of a new Zimbabwe in the name of the n...Published: 12 hrs ago | 568 | by Brian Maregedze
A year after Mugabe, hopes for a new Zimbabwe still low
A year since a trio of army generals held former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe under house arrest as part of a 10-day military operation that enabled his protege, Emmerson Mnangagwa, to take powe...Published: 16 hrs ago | 885 | by Aljazeera
Chamisa accuses Mnangagwa of trying to engineer his arrest
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respo...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 4726 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe female rangers denied UK visas
The UK's decision to deny visas for two pioneering female anti-poaching rangers to attend an awards ceremony has been criticised by organisers.Zimbabwean Nyaradzo Hoto risks her life every day...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 09:35hrs | 2279 | by BBC
Eyewitness account of Zimbabwe's August 1 shooting
On August 01, 2018, my life changed entirely in ways I had not imagined when I woke up that day. A part of me died, while a new me was born out of the horrors I filmed, right from the frontline....Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:33hrs | 4114 | by Maynard Manyowa
Chamisa distances self from deadly August 1 demonstrations
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said that he was not aware of the demonstrations which took place on August 1 in Harare which led to the killing of six civilians. The deaths occurred afte...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:22hrs | 2411 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fears army backlash
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his lieutenants are living in fear of an imminent government crackdown, after army and police chiefs suggested this week that a militant wing in the MDC was respon...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | 4020 | by Staff reporter
Tourism sector seeks tax reviews
TOURISM players have pleaded with Treasury to review the 15% value-added tax (VAT) on foreign accommodation, the 2% transactional tax and duty exemption for car rental owners in order to make the coun...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 88 | by Staff reporter
Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030. This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 125 | by Emerson D. Mnangagwa
WATCH: Mnangagwa approves 11 projects worth $5.3 billion
The Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet circulated for the information of Cabinet a list of eleven projects which have been approved by His Excellency the President for immediate impleme...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 16:21hrs | 3800 | by Staff reporter
The online casino boom in Africa
- The Facts and Figures - How is the market growing? - Phone Use Across Africa - Is this the new way to access online casino sites? - Legislation Across the Continent - Operato...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 15:08hrs | 375 | by Staff Reporter
Govt invites troubled Air Zimbabwe bids
GOVERNMENT has invited bids for the troubled national airline, Air Zimbabwe, as it pushes ahead with privatisation of its loss-making parastatals.The airline owes creditors $341 million and wa...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:54hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube trims monthly fiscal budget deficit
TREASURY has scored excellent progress in trimming monthly fiscal budget deficit as part of Government's economic reform agenda with September 2018 deficit reduced to $19 million against a target of $...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:50hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Nestle Zimbabwe launches $1,2million coffee project
NESTLE Zimbabwe has launched a five-year programme at a cost of $1,2 million which will see smallholder farmers producing coffee to be sold to Nespresso at above market prices. The company, a ...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 398 | by Staff reporter
$4bn platinum project to start
KARO RESOURCES yesterday said it will kick off activities on its $4,2 billion platinum investment project in Mhondoro-Ngezi in the next few weeks by carrying out geophysics, and flying over the area a...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | 324 | by Staff reporter
Beer price back to normal
Beer price which had more than doubled over the past weeks has normalised, while charges for other beverages have also significantly come down.A pint of beer had shot up to $5 owing to panic b...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 18:19hrs | 5304 | by Staff reporter
1 year after Mugabe fall, Zimbabwe asks 'What has changed?'
One year ago the unthinkable happened in Zimbabwe: Robert Mugabe fell from power.Tanks rolled in the streets of the capital, Harare, on November 14, 2017, and the military put Mugabe under hou...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 14:25hrs | 1935 | by AP
Mazibisa dares Kirsty Coventry
The Founder of Mazibisa Inc. Nkosana Mazibisa has challenged Minister of Youth, Sport, Arts and Recreation Kirsty Coventry to show up for her duty and treat the Youth Ministry with the energy an...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 12:24hrs | 3284 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Mthuli Ncube's 2c tax unsustainable'
Industry says the controversial Intermediary Money Transfer Tax should be amended in the upcoming 2019 National Budget to improve the ease of doing business in the country.The Confederation of...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 10:14hrs | 2665 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to introduce water shedding
GWERU mayor Josiah Makombe has revealed that the city will soon introduce water shedding that will see most suburbs, particularly those in the western areas, going for days without water as council gr...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 211 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube tax evokes memories of 2008 crisis in Zimbabwe
When Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa appointed a comparatively youthful, Cambridge-trained economist as finance minister in September, he gave him an almost impossible task: repay billions of ...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:25hrs | 1122 | by Bloomberg
BCC to lease two farms
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is leasing out its two farms, Aisleby and Good Hope to interested business people after failing to run them profitably.The two farms were declared underutilised...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:30hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Economic Dialogue: Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030.This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabili...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:29hrs | 63 | by HE Emmerson D Mnangagwa
Moves to hike school fees
THE Bulawayo City Council has written to the Government requesting to increase tuition fees and council levy at its schools arguing the current fees were not enough for the provision of adequate and q...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:27hrs | 401 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa invades Marondera
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will descend on Marondera – the provincial capital for Mashonaland East –where he will hold a rally."Our president Chamisa will be addressing Mashonaland East peo...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 16:47hrs | 5060 | by Staff reporter
UZ vice chancellor challenges students
University of Zimbabwe, (UZ)'s ultimate goal is to produce graduates who can demonstrate real value to industry, commerce and the wider community, the institution's acting vice chancellor Paul Mapfumo...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:53hrs | 1350 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa installed NUST Chancellor
2 513 graduates were capped at the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) at a ceremony held at the institution's campus in Bulawayo today.At the graduation ceremony, President E...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:33hrs | 1127 | by Staf reporter
'Most accidents attributed to human error, speeding'
THE newly-refurbished Plumtree-Mutare Highway has become Zimbabwe's deadliest road, with Wednesday's Rusape bus disaster, which claimed 50 lives being one of the many fatalities along the road....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:09hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
'2019 budget deficit will be 4% of GDP'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has indicated that the 2019 national budget would reduce budget deficit to 4% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019, and subsequently to 2,4% in the following year....Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:04hrs | 1477 | by Staff reporter
Tax rebate for job creators
GOVERNMENT is planning to introduce a tax rebate for companies that create additional jobs as part of broader fiscal policy measures aimed at stimulating the economy towards an upper middle-class stat...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 10:32hrs | 239 | by Staf reporter
Van Hoogstraten cleared of CFI insider trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) has cleared Nicholas van Hoogstraten's investment vehicle, Messina Investments (Private) Limited of insider trading involving shares in CFI ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 17:19hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
Reality check for Mthuli Ncube
Under-pressure Finance minister Mthuli Ncube faces a tough task in balancing policy measures that stabilise the economy and populist demands from the ruling party when he presents his much-awaited N...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 17:18hrs | 4305 | by Staff reporter
Chitando, shareholders clash in Hwange Colliery scandal
MINES minister Winston Chitando unilaterally recommended Hwange Colliery Company Limited's placement under administration without the blessing of other shareholders. The move is widely seen by some of...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 06:20hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's 'Black Gold', no rush plus capital wagging State's tail
THE government of Zimbabwe held a Press conference at which President Emmerson Mnangagwa initially announced that a private company, Invictus, had made oil and gas discoveries in Muzarabani district. ...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 350 | by Takura Zhangazha
Bonus assurance for civil servants
THE Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, yesterday assured civil servants of a bonus incentive for 2018 whose finer details would be clarified in due course in line wi...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 05:03hrs | 3280 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's Treasury Bills records in shambles'
Government's issuance register for Treasury Bills (TBs) and bonds is in shambles, which makes it difficult to detect missing or unrecorded commercial paper.This observation was made by the Aud...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 19:02hrs | 1454 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns loss-making State entities
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has warned perennial loss-making State-owned entities to "find strategies to stop the worsening culture" as they continue to hurt economic recovery through perennial depen...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 14:05hrs | 2309 | by Staf reporter
Kasukuwere demands more documents ahead of trial
Former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere, who is facing charges of fraudulently parcelling out vast tracts of land to former First Lady Grace Mugabe's sister Shuvai Gumbochuma among others,...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | 1889 | by Staff reporter
IMF team arrives in Zimbabwe for consultations
An International Monetary Fund (IMF) team arrived in the country yesterday for the annual Article IV consultations - with discussions likely to focus on the country's monetary and fiscal policies, sta...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:27hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
Money supply growth slows
Zimbabwe's annual broad money supply (various forms of money) increased by just 1,18 percent in August to give a 38 percent rise for the year to August 2018 compared to 47 percent annual growth record...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:20hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere's trial fails to kick-off again
The trial for former Cabinet minister Saviour Kasukuwere failed to kick off a second time in Harare on Thursday.Kasukuwere, through his lawyer Advocate Thembinkosi Magwaliba instructed by Char...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 17:22hrs | 1825 | by Staff reporter
Fadzayi Mahere's letter to Mthuli Ncube
Top lawyer and civil rights activist, Advocate Fadzai Mahere has taken it upon herself to seek clarification from Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube on what President Mnangagwa really meant when he said we...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 16:37hrs | 10392 | by Mandla Ndlovu
One year after Zimbabwe soft coup
When Zimbabwe's army took power in a bloodless coup exactly one year ago, it promised to bring happiness back by ending social and economic suffering.The military said the coup was needed to "...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:03hrs | 2119 | by Tendai Kamhungira
Mnangagwa's business dance, Masiyiwa's compliance
President Emmerson Mnangagwa recently held a consultative meeting with Zimbabwe's business sector. This came against the backdrop of a national economic crisis largely caused by a new monetary policy ...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1916 | by Takura Zhangazha
Trade deficit narrows to $127m
Zimbabwe's negative trade balance narrowed markedly in August this year, falling 42 percent to $127,2 million on the back of strong growth in exports, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) said in its mo...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:43hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa puts Mutsvangwa to the sword
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet responsible for presidential communications George Charamba (GC) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former special advisor, Chris Mutsvangwa, shoul...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | 15696 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission chief witness attacked
One of the key witnesses in the Kgalema Motlanthe led Commission of Inquiry Makomborero Haruzivishe has reported that he has been attacked by six unknown assailants in Harare. "I have just be...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 19:30hrs | 5558 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe as a new gateway into Africa
ON Friday afternoon of 2 November 2018, I visited Surface Wilmar based in Chitungwiza, Harare. The company is owned by one of the largest companies in the world in the production of edible oils, based...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 14:36hrs | 1644 | by Minister of Finance Prof Mthuli Ncube
Zimbabwe as a new gateway into Africa
ON Friday afternoon of 2 November 2018, I visited Surface Wilmar based in Chitungwiza, Harare. The company is owned by one of the largest companies in the world in the production of edible oils, based...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 05:21hrs | 495 | by Hon. Prof Mthuli Ncube
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