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Witness incriminates Ministry of Industry and Commerce officials
The trial of three Ministry of Industry and Commerce officials accused of issuing fraudulent vehicle import licences to over 200 unqualified individuals resumed this week, with damning forensic eviden...Published: 24 May 2025 at 09:21hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt defends car import ban
The import ban on vehicles older than 10 years, which came into effect in January 2022, is part of Zimbabwe's strategy to protect and revitalize the country's motor manufacturing industry, which has b...Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:14hrs | 19543 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe spends US$1.6 billion on second-hand car imports
Zimbabweans have spent a staggering US$1.6 billion on importing second-hand vehicles over the past six years, highlighting the need to revive the local automotive industry, Industry and Commerce Minis...Published: 27 Feb 2025 at 11:00hrs | 149 | by Staff reporter
Duo arrested for defrauding car importers of US$20,000
Two Beitbridge-based customs clearing agents, Lloyd Mawadze (36) and Lauren Mawadze (32), have been arrested for allegedly defrauding vehicle importers of nearly US$20,000 over the past two years. The...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:32hrs | 150 | by Staff reporter
Zimra busts car import racket at Victoria Falls Border Post
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has uncovered a corruption syndicate involving three customs officers based at the Victoria Falls Border Post, accused of facilitating the illegal importation of...Published: 06 Feb 2025 at 07:19hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
£33 000 lost in botched car import deal
A HARARE man lost £33 470 to a car dealer whom he had engaged to import three vehicles to Zimbabwe.Vitalis Munemo, a car dealer at MCV Car Sales, appeared before Harare magistrate Denni...Published: 16 Jan 2024 at 04:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Duty-free car import regulations tightened
Updated regulations for duty-free vehicle imports by civil servants, public health workers, and junior and specialist doctors were gazetted at the end of last month to ensure that State workers in the...Published: 06 Jan 2024 at 08:42hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube extends car import deadline for former MPs
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has decided to extend the deadline for former legislators to import cars, while assuring the 10th Members of Parliament (MPs) that they will receive vehicles valued at US...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:14hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants abuse car import facility
THE Government has expressed concern over the continued abuse of the duty-free car import facility for civil servants amid revelations that more than 14 000 vehicles have been unprocedurally imported ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Prison officer in US$4 500 car import fraud
A 43-YEAR-OLD Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) officer stationed at Khami Prisons on the outskirts of Bulawayo allegedly defrauded a friend of US$4 500 after importing the car on his ...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube under fire over war vets payout
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has come under attack for his plan to splurge US$57,5 million on war veterans, a gesture seen as shoring up support for the ruling Zanu-PF party ...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Golden handshake for Zimbabwe's war veterans
GOVERNMENT has handsomely rewarded war veterans by availing mining concessions to them to ostensibly boost its chances of turning the mining sector into a US$12 billion industry.The developmen...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'War vets hold Mnangagwa to ransom'
WAR veterans have cornered President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding that he approves "commensurate benefits", including loan guarantees and rebates for duty-free car imports before they could back his r...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles duty-free cars for councillors
GOVERNMENT has reviewed councillors' allowances as President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he had approved a scheme to import vehicles duty free.Mnangagwa also said councillors would get special ter...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Red tape blights civil servants' vehicle import scheme
EVERAL civil servants' vehicles imported under a duty-free scheme are stuck at the country's borders accumulating storage costs as the Finance and Economic Development ministry has not yet processed e...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra grants car importers duty grace period
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has extended a two-week grace period to importers who under-declared duty on motor vehicles, as the tax collector adopts moral suasion as a first option to promo...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:05hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chloride expands outlets as imports fall
ZIMBABWE'S biggest battery maker, Chloride Zimbabwe, says outlets of its Exide Express, have increased by 330% in the past five years, as demand increases on the domestic market in response to import ...Published: 14 Oct 2021 at 06:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Sakhile not linked to Mnangagwa's family'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's office yesterday denied reports that Sakhile Mnangagwa, who was duped of US$68 000 in a car importation deal, was linked to the First Family.Presidential Communi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:31hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean vampire elites stash millions of dollars in foreign countries
I thought I had seen it all in Zimbabwe until 24 July 2021 when I saw this, "ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry claims it has begun a process of documenting the number of fellow citizens residing in ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:30hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Reprieve for second hand car importers
The administrative transitional arrangement on the import of second hand vehicles that are over 10 years old, has been extended to the end of this month since there are still such cars bought be...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Car import ban costs Zimra $3 billion
ZIMBABWE lost more than $3 billion in potential revenue in April alone following its ban on imports of vehicles that are older than 10 years. The number of vehicles imported has dropped steeply by bet...Published: 08 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Used car import rules clarified
Imports of second-hand vehicles more than 10 years old from the date of manufacture on the day they enter Zimbabwe on or after April 2 are no longer automatic and now need specific import licences for...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe curbs importation of older vehicles
IT IS now illegal to import vehicles that are more than 10 years old, after the government gazetted a new law yesterday aimed at curbing the purchase of battered cars into the country.The new ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt tightens screws on used car imports
IMPORTATION of second-hand vehicles that are 10 years old and more will now require import licences from the Industry and Commerce ministry as part of efforts to discourage imports of defective vehicl...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 09:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Used car imports increase under Covid-19 pandemic
ZIMBABWE imported more second-hand vehicles in 2020 compared to 2019, despite unprecedented disruptions caused by Covid-19 on the maritime and shipping industry, official figures show.Statisti...Published: 12 Mar 2021 at 06:41hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean ex-Japanese car importers to pay radiation inspection fees
GOVERNMENT yesterday ordered all newly-imported vehicles from countries which have experienced nuclear radiation such as Japan to be inspected for radiation before they enter the country with immediat...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:36hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to buy cars for Ministers and raise price of fuel
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced that he will be sanctioning the purchasing of vehicles for Ministers and Members of parliament this week after a long period of aus...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 09:14hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Civil servants get car import rebate
The government has started implementing the rebate scheme for civil servants importing vehicles.In a circular number 6 of 2019, Public Service Commission (PSC) Chairperson, Dr Vincent Hungwe a...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 19:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Teachers reject $129 salary deal
TEACHERS unions yesterday angrily rejected the $400 million deal struck by government and the Apex Council, accusing their representative body of being compromised and working against the improvement ...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:35hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Free duty car imports for civil servants
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube has given civil servants the greenlight to import vehicles without paying duty in a move aimed at placating distressed government workers.Statutory Instrument 52...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:11hrs | 9 | by newzimbabwe.com
Government targets reduction of tax burden by 2021
Government says Zimbabweans should expect reduction of the tax burden by 2021 as Treasury seeks to address challenges that led to the country experiencing fiscal imbalances.The reduction in go...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 18:34hrs | 9 | by Staff Reporter
'Intern' doctors threaten to snub disciplinary hearings
THE over 500 suspended junior doctors at public hospitals have vowed to snub disciplinary hearings scheduled for today at their various work stations around the country and continue with their industr...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga dismayed by doctor's stance despite concessions
The Government is dismayed by junior doctors' continuation of industrial action despite authorities meeting the majority of their demands. Government has met eight out of 10 initial demands ma...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt dismayed by doctor's stance
The Government is dismayed by junior doctors' continuation of industrial action despite authorities meeting the majority of their demands. Government has met eight out of 10 initial demands ma...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chamisa want civil servants paid in hard currency
Government should make efforts to pay civil servants salaries in foreign currency, MDC president Nelson Chamisa has said.This comes as the on-going strike by doctors has entered its fourth wee...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube brushes-off Biti's car import duty criticism
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday defended the payment of import duty in foreign currency in his 2019 national budget statement saying the measure was premised...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cars, luxury goods imports gobble $1.4 billion
Zimbabwe has in the first 10 months of this year spent at least US$1.4 billion on cars and luxury imports, forcing the government through treasury to effect duty payments in forex as part of measures ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 12:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors threaten crippling strike
Doctors have threatened to unfurl a crippling strike citing unfavourable economic conditions that have virtually wiped off their salaries.Mxolisi Ngwenya, spokesperson of the Zimbabwe Hospital...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 12:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Pharmacies warned to revise pricing or lose licences
A disheartening sight it was, witnessing sick people walk in and out of pharmacies empty handed. After having paid exorbitant amounts to have a doctor's diagnosis and yet the prescribed remedy f...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 06:51hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Payment of duty in foreign currency is justified
Presenting the 2019 national budget last week under the theme, "Austerity for Prosperity," Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube announced a raft of measures which inclu...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Brian Johnson Mutonhori
Private car importers can meet Zimra deadline (January 3 2019)
Zimbabweans importing motor vehicles from the United Kingdom have an opportunity to meet the January 3 2019 deadline of paying duty in RTGS and Bond notes if they use a facility offered by SmartWuhn L...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 12:03hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube's budget: The good, bad and ugly
In September, while meeting fund managers in New York, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said what the economy needed was a "big bang", a shock to the system. A week later, he brought that big bang; on th...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 4 | by NewZWire
Duty on vehicle imports gazetted
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has invoked the Customs and Excise Act and imposed duty in foreign currency on an array of goods that include vehicles and meat, in lin...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Zimbabwe car importers
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has thrown a lifeline to private motor vehicle buyers who paid for car imports on or before November 22, 2018, exempting them from mandatory duty in foreign curr...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 09:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube's budget an economic horror script'
THE opposition MDC yesterday said Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube's silence on currency distortions in the 2019 National Budget presented on Thursday demonstrated government's reluctance to deal with th...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chaos erupts at Beitbridge over forex duty
There was confusion at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday with luxury vehicle importers refusing to pay import duty in foreign currency in line with the new Government regulations as proposed by the Fin...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex duty: Car importers stuck at Beitbridge
There was confusion at Beitbridge Border Post yesterday, with luxury vehicle importers refusing to pay excise duty in foreign currency in line with the new regulations announced by Finance and Economi...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube piles more tax misery to Zimbabweans
ZIMBABWEANS should brace for more price hikes after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube increased excise duty on petrol and diesel as fundamentals pointed to a worsening economy despite token measures to co...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra collects $7,5m car import duty in 12 days
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) collected $7, 5million in 12 days in car import duty at Beitbridge as vehicle dealers acted on rumours that Government intends to introduce duty in US dollars....Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Used car imports surge 40%
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recorded a 40,9 percent increase in imports of pre-owned vehicles at Beitbridge border post in the last eight months, it has emerged.Officials statis...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
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