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Mnangagwa breaks 23-year diplomatic stand-off with UK?
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa's engagement and re-engagement drive has broken a 23-year-old diplomatic stand-off between Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom, a development that bodes well for bilateral relations an...Published: 10 May 2023 at 05:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cannabis production doubles in Zimbabwe
THE production of industrial hemp doubled to more than 40 tonnes last year, with the country exporting about five tonnes to Switzerland.The number of players registered with the Agricultural M...Published: 19 Mar 2023 at 07:45hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Dismissed Zimbabwean lecturers refuse request to withdraw their court case
Four immigrant lecturers dismissed from Port Elizabeth TVET College have refused the college's request that they withdraw their court case.On Wednesday the Labour Court in Gqeberha postponed t...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 07:12hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions make Russian debt default a non-event
Russia is on the brink of its first debt default since 1998 as the Sunday deadline to make a $100m interest payment seems certain to be missed.Russia has the money and is willing to pay, but s...Published: 26 Jun 2022 at 09:26hrs | | by BBC
Chamisa's party urgently needs new name
POLITICAL scientists say the main opposition MDC-Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa has no choice but to rebrand and change its name ahead of the 26 March by-elections and the crucial general elections ne...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora cannot claim a non-existent entity, says Jonathan Moyo
POLITICAL scientist Professor Jonathan Moyo says Douglas Mwonzora's manoeuvre for the MDC-T to contest the 26 March by-elections under the MDC-Alliance banner is null and void at law and would confirm...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa caught in between a rock and a hard place
ZIMBABWE'S main opposition MDC-Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa is caught between a rock and a hard place ahead of crucial by-elections on 26 March.Nomination is on 26 January.Chamisa fa...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'I'm the MDC Alliance president,' Mwonzora says
Douglas Mwonzora has declared himself leader of the MDC Alliance in a letter to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC).Mwonzora told ZEC that only he and three other officials of his MDC-T pa...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora throws knockout punch
OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Douglas Mwonzora has written to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) seeking to bar his rival and leader of the MDC Alliance, Nelson Chamisa, from using the acronym MDC....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:35hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZBC hikes licence fees
Cabinet received an update in respect of Zimbabwe's Covid-19 response as presented by the Honourable Vice President Dr. CGDN Chiwenga as chairperson of the Ministers' National Committee.The na...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe will not adopt cryptocurrency'
The Government has denied reports that it was contemplating adopting cryptocurrency as a legal tender saying the Zimbabwe dollar will remain the only local currency.Cryptocurrency, such as Bit...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:30hrs | 43 | by Staff reporter
'Offshore centre plans on track'
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe has made significant strides in its quest to set up an offshore financial services centre in Victoria Falls.He said a planned commodities exchange w...Published: 19 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | | by Staff writer
VFEX moves to fund tobacco
ZIMBABWE'S bourses have moved to help the tobacco farming sector raise foreign currency for their operations, in a development seen as a solution to the industry's a long-running capital crisis....Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 06:03hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
VFEX signs Dubai deal
THE Victoria Falls Stock Exchange (VFEX) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange (DGCX), the region's leading derivatives exchange —to strengthen ...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stockfeed prices surge 886%
THE cost of procuring raw materials for manufacturing stockfeed rocketed by 886% in 2020 after maize prices rose threefold during the period, according to the stockfeed Manufacturers Association (SMA)...Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
What Zimbabweans must know about Retail Forex Trading
The forex market is the largest financial market in the world surpassing even the global stock markets. The BIS triennial survey of 2019 states that the global forex market generates nearly 6.6 trilli...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 05:21hrs | 5 | by Staff writer
'Wonder COVID-19 drug' Ivermectin works through inhibiting viral replication: Dr Stone
THE issue of Covid-19 treatment drugs has lately hogged the limelight after some medical practitioners raised the red flag over treatment claims by their colleague, Jackie Stone, describing her assert...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 have made the remote work to be in demand - Commodity broking business
The COVID-19 is a game-changer in the whole world. The business community now needs a massive revolution to promote the products and services. Technology is now the gateway being used to make it easy ...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 13:51hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Why SADC countries still 'oppose' rhino horn trade
SADC countries have individually decided not to get involved in the non-commercial international trade in rhino horn. This questionable decision has happened despite approval for such trade by the UN ...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Zimbabwe unpacks hemp/ mbanje growing regulations
It is now legal to grow, process and sell mbanje in Zimbabwe, but this does not mean throwing a few seeds in your backyard and waiting for a crop: There is a 32-page statutory instrument giving the ru...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Secondary stock exchange for Bulawayo
PLANS of opening a secondary stock market exchange which will likely to be located in Bulawayo are at an advanced stage, an official said. In an interview with Sunday News Business on the side...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sits on US$300m ivory stockpile
ENVIRONMENT, Tourism and Hospitality Industry minister Priscah Mupfumira has said Zimbabwe currently holds US$300 million worth of ivory stockpile with its elephant population now over 88 000 compared...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's battle of Populism vs Constitutionalism
INTRODUCTION The High Court sitting at Harare dealt a body-blow to Nelson Chamisa's leadership of the MDC on 8 May 2019. In the case of Elias Mashavira vs. Movement for Democratic Chan...Published: 11 May 2019 at 14:48hrs | | by David Tinashe Hofisi
Digital options under scrutiny by regulators
Digital options is highly attractive because of perceived simplicity. You just have to predict whether the value of an underlying asset will increase or decrease. This is similar to traditional forms ...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabeist G4Os and their aging geriatric could not even read the signs
In November 2018, His Excellency, President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, boldly declared the open and unrelenting warfare against the evil of endemic corruption."In the Second Republic, we wil...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 10:04hrs | 9 | by Christopher Mutsvangwa
How effective is CBD really?
Every so often, we jump to a conclusion without analyzing both sides of a picture. This is often the case with Cannabis. People associate it with negative effects due to its addictiveness. However, as...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 06:48hrs | 38 | by Staff Reporter
7-Star Swiss hotel for Zimbabwe
Swiss billionaire and owner of Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich, Mr URs Ernst Schwarzenbach, has expressed interest in investing in Zimbabwe, in a development that could bring an ultra-luxury, 7- Star hot...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Infrastructure, Education and Technology key for growth
In his book entitled, The Price of Inequality, revered economist, Joseph Stiglitz, contends that Government investments in infrastructure, education and technology form the basis of economic growth....Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:42hrs | | by ViewsFromMatopos
#IGForexChat 3: What does the next year hold for emerging market currencies?
IG presents 'IG Forex Chat 3' – a live di...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 15:53hrs | 5 | by Tech Reporter
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Daniel Ngwira
'Zimbabwe stock-broking backward'
ZIMBABWE's stock-broking is backward compared to regional players, with the sector lacking product diversification, recently-established broker Morgan & Co Zimbabwe (Morgan) has said.David...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC has proven that 10 + 4 = 40
By the time Comrade Mnangagwa joined politics in the early sixties, most Black Zimbabweans were uneducated and would accept 10 + 4 = 40.During those years, a person wearing a neck tie would ta...Published: 19 Aug 2018 at 15:00hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Mnangagwa to launch C-TRADE
Zimbabwe's capital markets are set for their most significant development in recent years as President Mnangagwa officiates at the launch of C-TRADE tomorrow. C-TRADE is an online and mobile t...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
U.S. the biggest importer of endangered African wildlife trophies
The United States remains the biggest importer of trophy-hunted endangered animals in the world in spite of Donald Trump's recent public comments overturning a decision by the US Departmen...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 09:02hrs | 16 | by Adam Cruise
Let's start with chicken economics Mr President
Today marks the beginning of a new year, putting an end to what has been a politically dramatic and historical year in Zimbabwe. Former President Robert Mugabe is gone allowing the country to forge a ...Published: 01 Jan 2018 at 09:23hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
God did it all for Zimbabwe
KUDOS to God's handiwork in using the military in this country as a primary tool in wrenching open a strong-room door to release a political stabilisation intervention latent with unlimited opportunit...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:00hrs | | by Stephen Mpofu
Big cats worldwide threatened by SA lion bone trade - EIA
Asian demand for tiger wine and other products is creating a crisis for big cats across the world, according to a study just released by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Titled Th...Published: 17 Jul 2017 at 15:33hrs | | by Don Pinnock Environmental journalist
Of Pravin Gordhan and Zimbabwe interests
Depictions of South Africa's Treasury boss, Pravin Gordhan, who was dismissed last week, smack of malice if not a grand plot.One then has to ponder whether South Africa's recently sack...Published: 13 Apr 2017 at 07:20hrs | | by Christopher Mugaga
US ban canned lion trophy imports from South Africa
Because South Africa was unable to demonstrate the conservation value of canned lion hunting, the United States last week banned the import of all trophies from captive lion hunts in the country. ...Published: 24 Oct 2016 at 09:09hrs | | by Don Pinnock
Wildlife under threat from legal trade in Southern Africa
Southern Africa is losing protected wild plants and animals at an alarming rate. Between 2005 and 2014, around 18,000 individual species worth US$340-million were legally sold. This figure, wh...Published: 05 Oct 2016 at 17:53hrs | | by Jane Surtees
1ns and 2s with Dj-Sticha - No Mashayana, let's talk Music Publishing.
Earning a living from art. It's what every artist wants. But it can be hard, particularly for musicians. The competition is fierce, the supply of music is huge and the barrier of entry at an all time ...Published: 19 Jul 2016 at 10:23hrs | 1 | by Dj-Sticha
Grand coalitions no silver bullet for electoral victory over Zanu-PF
IN January 1980, as the Patriotic Front forces returned to Zimbabwe, after years in exile engaging in a bitter struggle against the Rhodesian military, then Prime Minister Abel Muzorewa and his United...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 07:34hrs | | by Geoffrey Nyarota
New tougher, smarter, more capable New Ford Ranger for Sub-Saharan Africa
New design gives new Ranger a bolder, more sophisticated appearanceUpmarket interior boasts unrivalled style, ...Published: 12 Oct 2015 at 12:25hrs | | by Tech Reporter
All-New Ford Everest Matches Refinement and Luxury with Rugged Capability
All-New Ford Everest blends rugged off-road capability with exceptional ride quality and dynamic handlingBody-...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 13:18hrs | | by everest-13_880x500.jpg
African governance: does it have steadfast love, justice and accountability?
I have lived to witness three military coups under my watch either in transit or while visiting a country. The experiences were unforgiving and very taxing. The doubt of whether you will ever be able ...Published: 30 Sep 2015 at 09:45hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere
'Street kids' claiming late Mujuru's amassed loot - idea of restorative justice is appealing!
The late General Solomon Mujuru is believed to have been one of the country's richest persons when he died. Now his wealth is up for grabs and, not surprisingly, many want a share of it. As many as 9...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 14:41hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
The $5 question
FINALLY Government through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has brought finality to the issue of the Zim dollar that was stashed in people's accounts since 2009 when the country migrated to the use of for...Published: 15 Feb 2015 at 09:10hrs | | by Gabriel Masvora
Return of the Zimdollar, now a Black Swan event
The Zim government's dogged determination to keep the multicurrency system is an even that has to be celebrated by the populace in general and the financial markets in particular. The fact that the Zi...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 10:38hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
That PhD, the undoing of Mugabe and Zanu-Pf
It has been called many names from microwave PhD with regards to the speed of its remarkable completion, sexually transm...Published: 27 Oct 2014 at 15:05hrs | | by Shingai Mugochi, A concerned lay Zimbabwean.
Siyaya wows crowd at the Wales Fair-Trade Trade Fair - Video
Siyaya wowed crowd at the Wales Fairtrade Fair 2014. Siyaya Arts was started in 1989 as NASA (Nostalgic Actors & Singers Alliance) in Makokoba township, Bulawayo.The group was re...Published: 05 Oct 2014 at 22:40hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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