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MDC Alliance accused of recent fire outbreaks
MDC-Alliance sent some of its members for military training in some southern African countries ahead of the July 30 harmonised elections and the recent outbreak of fires in several cities could be the...Published: 15 hrs ago | 3102 | by Staff reporter
'Ring-fence bulk goods to save NRZ'
FORMER chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport, Dexter Nduna, says it would be difficult for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to be turned around despite the $400 mill...Published: 16 hrs ago | 495 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa demands lifting of sanction - crying shame, one so powerful is hopelessly wrong
Zimbabwe is in serious economic and political mess and there are many who have taken to shouting "Don't panic! Don't panic!" only to help spread the panic!"Ideally, the key thing is to establi...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1974 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe migration profile welcomed
The launch of Zimbabwe's migration profile is envisaged to help the government in developing a comprehensive national migration policy for the country.The International Organisation for Migrat...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 19:12hrs | 1681 | by Staff reporter
Confronting ED dictatorship head-on: demand enlightened Gvt based on free elections – not next time, NOW
"England must move forward to a more enlightened form of government based on a true representation of a free people. Such an institution is known as a democracy!" These were the memorable words of Oli...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 14:07hrs | 1346 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwean starlet makes his mark at Reading FC
ANDY Rinomhota is determined to nail down a regular place in the Reading FC first-team after impressing on his full league debut in the English Championship football side's 3-2 win over Bristol City r...Published: 18 Nov 2018 at 11:57hrs | 2423 | by Staff reporter
The most treasonous act you can do for your country is to support Zanu PF
If you support Zanu, you will be helping future Zimbabwean children to become perpetual slaves of other Nations while armed thieves in Zanu exponentiate their wealth.Imagine a country where yo...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 17:19hrs | 4248 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Air Zimbabwe - ZimAirways merger talks collapse
MERGER talks between flag carrier Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) and the dodgy Zimbabwe Airways (ZimAirways) to create a merged state-run airline have collapsed after a nominee shareholder demanded to be paid ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 07:01hrs | 1462 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council wants to charge in forex
THE Bulawayo City Council has formulated a policy designed to raise foreign currency through giving a 50 percent discount to individuals who pay bills in United States dollars after service providers ...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1747 | 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$3 500 by 2030. This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | 210 | by Emerson D. Mnangagwa
Industrial action against Mthuli Ncube looming
Air Zimbabwe has been allowed by the cabinet of President ED Mnangagwa to charge its clients (especially diasporas) in foreign currency. The confused minister in charge of Air Zimbabwe Joel Biggie Mat...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 11:50hrs | 3419 | by Don Chigumba
A human life over debt arrears
ON Saturday, Chalton Hwende, deputy treasurer-general of the MDC Alliance confirmed an attempted abduction of the party's president, Nelson Chamisa after a 'thank you' rally for their supporters at Ru...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:56hrs | 422 | by Pearl Matibe
'Diasporans should pay for Air Zimbabwe services in US$'
CABINET has resolved that Zimbabweans living in the diaspora should pay for Air Zimbabwe services in United States dollars, Transport and Infrastructural Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has sa...Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:37hrs | 1380 | 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 | 65 | by HE Emmerson D Mnangagwa
Time to value add, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proposed an indaba on how Zimbabwe should develop value chains for the country's mining and agriculture sectors with a view to advancing the twin objectives of moderni...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:18hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Diasporas Dilema - Rich Doesn't Mean Successful
Going abroad has been long regarded as a key to success. Thousands of Zimbabweans have destroyed their livelihoods in a bid to get a ticket and fly away to the diaspora. Most people have sold their ho...Published: 10 Nov 2018 at 11:23hrs | 1025 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'MDC want to unseat elected ED' - who elected him, even ZEC failed to verify its own result
President Mnangagwa rigged the 30 July 2018 elections cocksure his "Zimbabwe is open for business!" clarion call would deliver economic recover. Sadly, that has no happened, the flood of investors has...Published: 09 Nov 2018 at 19:43hrs | 4380 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe's de facto challenge
This week, US Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy is visiting four African and two European countries; United Kingdom, France, Togo, Mali, Ethiopia and Nigeria...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 06:25hrs | 569 | by Pearl Matibe
A dismissal that changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
The band played on. Feverishly. Madly. Deafening sounds and wet, clammy bodies gyrating against each other in lustful, prodigal passions. Zimbabwe was enthralled by a mad political spectacle. It was t...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 05:57hrs | 4592 | by Tichaona Zindoga
ZBC launches online news channel
The Ministry Information, publicity and Broadcasting has announced that it will be launching an online news channel under the State owned ZBC.In a statement today, the Ministry said, we ...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 09:55hrs | 1112 | by Mandla Ndlovu
The Motlanthe commission report could be Mnangagwa's test
As President Emmerson Mnangagwa counts down to his maiden first citizen anniversary, as I see it, the probable outcome of the commission of enquiry into the August 1 brisk shooting of civilians in Har...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:42hrs | 2115 | by Cyprian Ndawana
Banks must stop disbursing forex
If there is no leakage of forex from official institutions then the obvious source of forex on the black market are people in the diaspora who send home US dollars through Mukuru, Western Union, Money...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 05:27hrs | 1774 | by Goto
Mnangagwa builds international dream team
GOVERNMENT will soon unveil an International Advisory Council which will advise President Mnangagwa on global economic issues and push the re-engagement process.The team will also assist the c...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:41hrs | 703 | by Staff reporter
Afreximbank pledges to continue assisting Zimbabwe
AFRICAN Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has pledged to continue assisting Zimbabwe meet its financial needs, saying all the loans extended to local entities by the bank have performed to expectation,...Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 12:54hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
'Emulate Masiyiwa, project good image of Zimbabwe' - no lies can ever disguise pariah state image
"MR Strive Masiyiwa is a telecommunications magnet and billionaire with a business conglomerate straddling the African continent and beyond. He is a self-made entrepreneur who commands respect across ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 16:54hrs | 1958 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zimbabwe gets $1 billion bailout?
The African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has extended a $1 billion loan to Zimbabwe to guarantee the convertibility value of Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) balances into United States dollars a...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 15:08hrs | 13669 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa is a true patriot
MR Strive Masiyiwa is a telecommunications magnet and billionaire with a business conglomerate straddling the African continent and beyond. He is a self-made entrepreneur who commands respect across t...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:07hrs | 329 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe staggers on
LAST Friday, Finance and Economic Development minister, Mthuli Ncube, tweeted that he would curb Zimbabwe's economic crisis by limiting "government expenditure, rationalise posts in the public service...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 13:23hrs | 901 | by Pearl Matibe
Mvundlana Homestead pictures, why we quest?
Brilliant Zimbabweans use sour situations to sweeten their lives. Where we are faced with dire hardship, we climb at the back of that hardship the hardest way and hammer it into a magnificent and attr...Published: 31 Oct 2018 at 08:07hrs | 1988 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Zimbabwe banks fingered in US dollar scams
Market indiscipline in the local financial services sector necessitated the separation of Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) and real time gross settlement (RTGS) accounts, Finance and Economic Developm...Published: 30 Oct 2018 at 05:17hrs | 2356 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo community in UK celebrates roots
PEOPLE who grew up in Bulawayo but moved to the United Kingdom remembered home through song and dance at a gathering in Manchester called Vuka Byo Vuka. The gathering held on October 22 was sp...Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:33hrs | 287 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF, MDC have failed Matebeleland'
Former minister of State in the Organ of National Healing, Reconciliation and Integration, Moses Mzila Ndlovu, who is the guest speaker at the Gukurahundi commemorations scheduled for next month in th...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 22:25hrs | 2113 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has no option other than a change of govt in order to progress
Let me begin this series of write ups with preamble that governance is not machine management but a human driven process responsive to good decision that minimizes corruption and give eminence to the ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:24hrs | 1982 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Import with your own forex, Mangudya says
Companies and individuals seeking to import basic commodities following the lifting of the import ban will have to use free funds, freeing the central bank from having to raise funds for the imports, ...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 2196 | by Staff reporter
The two faces of Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been portraying himself as a reformer ,both to the political establishment as well as on the economy front.This would work only if he was sincere ,alas this is all an ...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 21:00hrs | 3479 | by AT Kadada
Chamisa now ready to 'form transition authority' with ED - ED is illegitimate and must step down
"The only way forward is for a political dialogue with ZANU PF and it is not about the creation of another Government of National Unity (GNU), but we need to have a Transitional Authority which mechan...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 06:46hrs | 6123 | by Nomusa Garikai
Emergency recovery measures to stop Zimbabwe economic free-fall
This article will be brief and straight to the point. There is no need to continue to pontificate on the political-economy of the country because we all know that after the 30th July elections the eco...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 14:00hrs | 5135 | by Dr Tapiwa Mashakada
Vuka Byo Vuka successfully brings UK community together for a memorable occasion
Community initiative, Vuka Bulawayo Vuka, held in Manchester over the weekend, wasn't your ordinary or typical community event. There was nothing superfluous about it, it in fact, embraced what commun...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 07:14hrs | 957 | by Tidi Kwidini
Mnangagwa's Cabinet: The skeletons are tumbling
The last time a Zimbabwean Cabinet minister publicly claimed that his hands were clean, he got rapped on the knuckles with handcuffs and thrown into the cooler for his efforts. Another minister has ju...Published: 22 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 7604 | by Tawanda Majoni
Guest speakers announced as all roads lead to Manchester for Vuka Byo Vuka
The organisers of UK initiative, Vuka Bulawayo Vuka, have announced a long list of key players in the Zimbabwe diaspora community who will be in attendance at the celebration in Manchester on Saturday...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 07:03hrs | 682 | by Tidi T C Kwidini
Ncube begging USA to lift ZIDERA to unblock funding - not until ED steps down, he rigged elections
A few weeks ago Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube joined the IMF, WB, Paris Club, ADB, etc. meeting in Bali Indonesia. He told the nation all the world's big financial institutions had "res...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 17:01hrs | 7533 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF MP dumped in restaurant
BULILIMA West legislator, Dingumuzi Phuti, says he was once dumped in a restaurant by his girlfriend.Better known as DJ Phuti in showbiz circles, the 38-year-old made history after being elect...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 17:19hrs | 5496 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube running out of time
AS ZIMBABWE'S economy continues to lurch from one crisis to the other, business leaders and economists say the government is running out of both time and "rope" to turn the situation around.Th...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:06hrs | 3867 | by Staff reporter
Business success in Zimbabwe no longer hinges on political connections
The Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group, a leading investor in Zimbabwe that won the tender to recapitalise the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) to the tune of $400 million (R5.7 billion), sa...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | 1850 | by African News Agency
Banks comply with RBZ's FCAs directive
LOCAL banks have started creating separate Nostro Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) and Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) FCAs in line with a directive issued by the Central Bank early this month. ...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1416 | by Staff reporter
Afreximbank confirms $500m facility talks
The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has confirmed holding talks with a Zimbabwean delegation led by Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube in connection with a $500-...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 06:27hrs | 677 | by Staff reporter
ZCC still want ED and Chamisa to reconcile - morbid clergy holding us back
"PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa have taken hardline stances to political engagement, which has stalled progress towards interparty dialogue seen as crit...Published: 16 Oct 2018 at 19:18hrs | 2152 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Open Letter - My 2c advice to H.E E.D and Hon. M. Ncube
Dear comrades Well i trust you will find time to read and consider my sincere advice to you.I'm not an economist or a financial guru but i think my 2c advise will wipe out the prevaili...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 20:06hrs | 2463 | by Isaac Nkomah
Forex shortages hit Western Union
MONEY transfer firm Western Union says Zimbabwe's ongoing foreign currency shortages are presenting some "unique challenges" amid growing reports that outlets in the country are disbursing only part o...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:50hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
Moses Mzila to attend 1893 MHRRM's Matebele 'Gukurahundi' Genocide Conference in the UK
The 1893 Mthwakazi (Matebeleland) Human Rights Restoration Movement (1893 MHRRM) hereby confirms that Moses Mzila Ndlovu, a strong, principled and fierce advocate for Truth, Justice and Reparations fo...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 19:16hrs | 1544 | by Thembani Dube, 1893 MHRRM's Secretary for Information and Publicity
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