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RBZ is the problem not ZiG!
Before going to press on the Zimbabwe currency crisis, I had seven questions I wanted authoritatively answered. Professor Gift Mugano was the answer."Isn't he the one who is supposed to disapp...Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 17:58hrs | 4 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe MP grieves over meagre salaries
LEGISLATORS are prone to corruption and capture by oligarchs because of the meagre salaries they earn, Norton legislator Themba Mliswa has said.The local lawmakers are among the least paid in ...Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
2023 elections, Mugabe predictive intelligence
THE leader who carries off the remarks by the late President Mugabe will likely win the 2023 elections in Zimbabwe. The leader who does not let the Mugabe decision affect him at a personal level will ...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:44hrs | 17 | by Sharon Hofisi
Biti says Mangudya is a fool
FORMER finance minister Tendai Biti has described the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor as a fool, saying his monetary policies are insufficient to tame inflation.Biti said this in a scathing ...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Years of teacher tears
Over the years, the Zanu PF regime's response to teachers' grievances has been lip service from a place of lack of concern and a mere want to get the impo...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:31hrs | 3 | by Nontokozo Malaba Ncube
Gono says Zimbabwe is in a crisis
Former reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono says there is no need to deny that the country is in a crisis as the problems were self-evident.President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Casino Economy: Extraordinary Measures for Extraordinary Challenges by Gideon Gono
The paperback novel written by Gideon Gono, revolves around the issues regarding his position as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the opportunity Gono had to serve his president and th...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 09:45hrs | 35 | by Joe K
Can ED turn the economy round
Over the last three months, Zimbabwe has been dominated by some ugly headlines from elections squabbles to economic down turn.- It is fair to say the loud silence on the issue by His Excellence did no...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 10:53hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Chamisa wants probe on treasury bills
MDC President Nelson Chamisa says parliament should probe government's use of treasury bills (TBs) arguing they were used to rob the nation.In an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent, Chami...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Financial illiteracy is our biggest enemy in Zimbabwe
I found a very interesting letter in one of my old books that I last read in 2004. It is a letter that I received from Barclays Bank (Zimbabwe), offering me a Z$1 million overdraft facility. Three yea...Published: 12 Sep 2018 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Clinton likens Trump to Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's money printing policies before the Zimbabwe dollar went bust in 2009 have been likened to belligerent United States Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump's suggestion...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
When opposition loses sense
MDC-Renewal leader, Tendai Biti, has unashamedly thrown in the towel on politics by secretly slipping out of the country to the United States of America for an unspecified period of time.T...Published: 09 Apr 2015 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Onward Chiswa
Army detonates Gono's presidential ambition
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe's no nonsense hardline military generals, have allegedly paralysed former central bank governor, Gideon Gono's ambition to become president as a compromise Zanu PF candidate, after ...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe
Gideon Gono's RBZ term ends monthend
The central bank governor's term ends this month but if President Robert Mugabe asks him to stay on again, he might.At the height of the currency crisis every Zimbabwean was a trillionaire, wh...Published: 02 Nov 2013 at 14:47hrs | | by M&G
Mugabe's selective memory
In an article published in the Herald on Saturday, July 20, 2013, titled: "President pledges to resuscitate ailing industries"; President Robert Mugabe who addressed a star rally at Somholo Stadium i...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 05:37hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
Zim dollar backed by gold is 'undiluted rubbish'
Wananchi, as I stated in my last post, it is that season where every second is history and each hour brings its own unlimited bandwidth of fresh data and information. I warned in yet another post of t...Published: 07 Jul 2013 at 15:51hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Cyprus clinches last-minute deal, uninsured depositors lose out
Reuters) - Cyprus clinched a last-ditch deal with international lenders to shut down its second-largest bank and inflict heavy losses on uninsured depositors, including wealthy Russians, in return for...Published: 25 Mar 2013 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff Reporter
There is need for new pricing regime in essential services
Analysts say there is need for a new pricing regime in the essential services sector such as water, electricity and rentals for the economy to perform to its full potential, ZBC News reported....Published: 08 Nov 2011 at 20:28hrs | | by Moyo Roy
West uses media to invent enemies
SOUTH AFRICA, Nigeria, Gabon and the Arab League have all expressed surprise that the US, UK and Nato have used UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya in ways which are not supported by the reso...Published: 03 Apr 2011 at 19:59hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
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