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Zimbabwe exchange rate Armageddon near
THE Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) released last Friday supplied data which when analysed show that unless drastic measures are taken, our local currency will take a heavy battering in the coming wee...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 3683 | by Brett Chulu
Zanu-PF slams doctors' strike
ZANU-PF has condemned the ongoing strike by doctors and other health workers, saying their unilateral decision to withdraw their services and suspend all Health Services Bipartite Negotiating Panel me...Published: 21 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Minister in plot to scuttle NRZ deal
TRANSPORT minister Biggie Matiza is reportedly manoeuvring to smuggle through the backdoor a Dubai-based firm into the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal, despite...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:22hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Nust underdevelopment rapped
THE underdevelopment of the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) is inexcusable and the tertiary institution cannot blame Government for lagging behind, legislators said yesterday. ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 723 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's foreign currency receipts tumble
ZIMBABWE'S total foreign currency receipts for the first half of the year plunged 24% to US$2,58 billion as the capital-starved southern African country battles to lure investment.Total foreig...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
ZB introduces international bank cards
ZB Financial Holdings Limited (ZBFHL) is currently working on introducing an international bank card following its removal from the US sanctions list in 2016, chief executive Ron Mutandagayi has revea...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:19hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: Lessons to be learnt
Nations, like families, learn from past experiences.The death of Robert Mugabe, the second president of a liberated Zimbabwe, 1987-2017, brings many memories to us all.I will propose t...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 698 | by Kenneth Mufuka
ZB Bank introduces WhatsApp banking
ZB Financial Holdings has signed a money transfer agreement with one of the largest international money transfer companies, Ria Money Transfer of the United States as part of its efforts to enable dia...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
NRZ - DIDG deal awaits guidance from Treasury
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has received the submissions for funding made towards the US$400 million recapitalisation project by Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG)/Transnet C...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 12:19hrs | 361 | by Advocate Martin Dinha
Kalanga association rubbishes recently installed Mambo King
The Kalanga Language and Cultural Development Association (KLCDA), a representative association of the Kalanga Nation in Zimbabwe and affiliated to the Society for the Promotion of iKalanga Language ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 09:09hrs | 2048 | by Kalanga Association KLCDA
Zimbabwe faces serious turbulence
THE quasi Zimbabwe currency this week weakened against the United States dollar as the authorities struggle to defend the value of the domestic currency. The local currency, which was trading at ZW$11...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1898 | by Economic Global Capital
I dreaded Mugabe's death for years, write ex-CIO boss
ON Friday September 6 2019, I woke up to the news that former President Comrade Robert Gabriel Mugabe was no more. His death was something I dreaded for years as I worked to secure his wellbeing....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 5091 | by Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe
Mugabe swallowed by Frankenstein monster
ONE of the country's greatest orators - and demagogue too - former president Robert Mugabe, was controversial in life and now in death. Although he was ideologically difficult to pin down given his co...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1588 | by Gumisai Nyoni
Giving Mugabe a hero's send-off proves we love our dictators and don't want change - not yet
Zimbabweans are not yet ready to end the de facto Zanu PF one-party dictatorship and with it the economic meltdown and political paralysis.Last year Mnangagwa and Zanu PF blatantly rigged the ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:56hrs | 870 | by Wilbert Mukori
Uncle Sam sides with the masses, whilst ZANU PF focusses on its self
Uncle Sam says, "Zimbabweans have long deserved better…." The latest Tweets from the US Embassy Harare, seem to have been conveniently overlooked by the ZANU PF Media folk. The comment...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1642 | by Thabo Makuyana
Closure of the University of Zimbabwe a callous act
The ZANU (PF) aligned leadership at the University of Zimbabwe needs to be challenged by the students including seeking a Court interdict. It is indeed a fitting tribute to their departed hero who cau...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 21:05hrs | 591 | by Lizwe Dube
NRZ deal back on track
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation project is now back on track after the utility's board yesterday approved a US$420 million funding offer from the Diaspora Infrastructure Devel...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 06:57hrs | 606 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt should improve primary health care: Cross
FORMER MDC MP Eddie Cross, has called on government to roll out primary health care facilities in remote areas and ensure they are within walking distance to reduce preventable deaths.Cross ma...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:41hrs | 272 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe: Despot, narcissist and murderer
The one-time hero has left behind a country in ruins, its economy in tatters, its moral fabric torn by poverty and sufferingRobert Gabriel Mugabe's name should have been there in the pantheon ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 17:55hrs | 710 | by Mondli Makhanya
Home Affairs sits on 340 000 passports backlog
HOME Affairs deputy minister Mike Madiro told Senate on Thursday that his ministry was struggling to process 340 000 passport applications due to a severe shortage of resources, particularly imported ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:12hrs | 1412 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a confused country: Cross
Economist Eddie Cross has described Zimbabwe as a rich, but confused and badly managed country with potential to come out of the woods.Presenting at an All-Stakeholders Conference on Health in...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
Changing face of the 'Zimbabwean' funeral
Funerals are an inevitable sad part of our exit from mother earth.This exit to another world yonder, confirms human being's mortality.This is despite their status, power, influence and...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:09hrs | 771 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa organising the 2020 Diaspora Homecoming Conference
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says plans are at an advanced stage for the Diaspora Homecoming Conference penciled for April 2020.Speaking to Zimbabweans in the diaspora in Cape Town, South Afri...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 13:27hrs | 2622 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells Ramaphosa to use a bit of force
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has urged South Africa to use "a bit of force" to bring sanity in the neighbouring country following a recent wave of xenophobic attacks against foreign nationals that has...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | 3322 | by Staff reporter
Govt keen to set up electric vehicles infrastructure
GOVERNMENT is exploring avenues of accommodating electric vehicles (EVs) in the country by setting up the requisite charging infrastructure, which is the backbone of the innovation.This follow...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:43hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa speaks on SA xenophobia attacks
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed the role played by Zimbabweans in the diaspora towards growing the domestic economy and implored them to increase their participation through investments. He was...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:24hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
South Africans and their companies given 7 days to leave Nigeria
South Africans and their companies operating in Nigeria have been given seven days to pack up their bags and leave Nigeria by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) following an increase...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 20:50hrs | 10751 | by Staff reporter
'Sham 2018 poll resulted in illegitimacy' CIZC finally admit - yet still can't resist urge to appease Zanu PF
It is heartening to see that organisation like Crisis In Zimbabwe Coalition (CIZC) are finally calling a spade a spade! "The sham 2018 polls resulted in a serious legitimacy crisis that c...Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 06:36hrs | 884 | by Nomusa Garikai
Starvation to hit Zimbabwe
Food security is a matter of strategic national importance. Issues of food security affect us all regardless of colour, Creed and political affiliation. The issue of food security caused migrati...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:42hrs | 3324 | by Nicholas Ncube
Minister challenges Matebeleland to embrace devolution
MATEBELELAND must embrace devolution as it brings equality in development to all provinces and districts in the country through the equitable sharing of national resources, a Cabinet minister has said...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Repatriation of Mbuya Nehanda, Sekuru Kaguvi imminent
A UK museum has examined 13 human remains of heroes and heroines of the First Chimurenga as part of preparations to repatriate them back home.The remains include those of iconic 19th century l...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:36hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Can Zimbabwe Diaspora Women in UK allow trade talks, with a country abusing its women?
ZHRO (Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation) Leadership has rallied its members to join the MDC (Movement For Democratic Change) (Zimbabwe's main Opposition party) in the UK to Protest the arrival of a h...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 12:55hrs | 4208 | by ZHRO
Will Zimbabwe's current Esap II work?
In the weeks leading up to the poorly kept secret of his impeding appointment as Minister of Finance, Mthuli Ncube campaigned hard for the position, coming out of a long diasporan silence to write art...Published: 30 Aug 2019 at 08:36hrs | 981 | by Makunike
NRZ increase inter-city train fares by 100%
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has increased inter-city passenger train fares by 100 percent.Intra-city commuter train fares, however, remain unchanged at $1 for a return ticket....Published: 29 Aug 2019 at 23:56hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash bureau de change launch to spur financial inclusion in Zimbabwe
THE recent launch of a bureau de change by Zimbabwe's leading mobile money service provider EcoCash after approval by the country's central bank is likely to help channel more remittances through form...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 637 | by Sifelani Tsiko
Cassava announces free remittances to Zimbabwe via Sasai App
Cassava Fintech, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Econet Group, says with effect from September 1, 2019, Zimbabweans sending money from the Diaspora will pay only 2.5% in remittance fees, a drastic re...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:59hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
Borehole drilling company dupes clients
MORE than a dozen Zimbabweans based in the diaspora have fallen prey to an alleged bogus borehole drilling company that was operating in Bulawayo and duped them of thousands of United States dollars....Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 09:48hrs | 2464 | by Staff reporter
Banana's wife gets new wheels from Mnangagwa's govt
WIDOW to former Zimbabwean President Canaan Sodindo Banana, Mrs Janet Madade Banana has received a brand new Ford Everest car from Government as part of her benefits.The Government early in th...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:45hrs | 5985 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's re-engagement bearing fruits
The United Kingdom is a critical cog in Zimbabwe's efforts to re-integrate into the community of nations following years of isolation in the First Republic. As the former colonial power, the United Ki...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:36hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter
Zahara arrives in London for Mzansi Festival, promises to light up the stage
SOUTH African songbird Zahara, arrived in London Friday ahead this year's Mzansi Festival set for Saturday at Willen Lake in Milton Keyes approaches, with a variety of musical acts and activities on t...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:11hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Educate partners with UK's SympliFi
Educate, a Zimbabwe-based education access and people improvement company, has partnered with UK-based Fintech company, SympliFi, to enable Zimbabweans based in the United Kingdom to invest in the edu...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF won people's mandate and will not share it with MDC' - illegitimate, rigged elections
Zanu-PF is treating the issue of the regime's lack of legitimacy and the MDC's call for a power sharing arrangement as if the two are one and the same thing."The people pronounced themselves a...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 08:00hrs | 689 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Econet launches digital mobile bureau de change
ECOCASH has launched a digital mobile phone-based bureau de change in a move set to increase competition in the foreign currency exchange business. The innovative facility, a first by a mobile...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabwean families survive on diaspora remittances'
THE majority of poverty-stricken Zimbabwean families are now heavily dependent on diaspora remittances for their upkeep as the economy continues on a nosedive, with the value of the local currency fai...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Zahara to ignite Mzansi Festival UK 1st Edition
Festival goers in the UK are set for a treat as the 2019 edition of the Mzansi Festival set for Saturday 24 August at Willen Lake in Milton Keynes approaches, with a variety of musical acts and activi...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 22:34hrs | 649 | by Staff reporter
'People have lost confidence in elected regime' says Fr Wermter - it's worse and more complex
"IF the citizens do not feel any longer represented by the men and women they have cast their ballots for, and Parliament is no longer effective in serving the common good, can no longer defend human ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 21:05hrs | 1998 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimdiaspora in final push
In one of the Largest planned peaceful demonstrations this year, the Zimbabwe Diaspora in the UK made so much noise, that, over 15 Police officers, including rapid response, Armed and West Minster Enf...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:49hrs | 2045 | by Thabo Makuyana
Wrong to blame Zimbabwe crisis on war veterans
I have always been a fan of Zimbabwe Independent. It has an excellent record of providing the nation with sound and truthful analyses of the economic situation in Zimbabwe.The last edition of ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:54hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
'Park rigged elections and focus on new GNU' - no, Zanu-PF must step down and rigged elections is the gist
"I think both leaders have to park that issue (whether last year's elections were free, fair and credible and therefore Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF party are legitimate). In other words, Emmerson Mnanga...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 22:49hrs | 2901 | by Wilbert Mukori
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