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Doctors give government two-week ultimatum on supplies - decisive action at last, after 38 years of dithering
"DOCTORS at government hospitals have denied claims by the Health ministry that they had received supplies of medicines, bandages and critical accessories to alleviate their plight, following last wee...Published: 9 hrs ago | 1028 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimbabwe embassies must issue IDs, passports'
A parliamentary panel has proposed that Zimbabwe's 39 embassies across the globe be empowered to issue national documentation such as IDs and passports to migrants to decongest the Registrar General's...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1616 | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabweans in exile under Mnangagwa than there were during Mugabe's rule'
MORE Zimbabweans have been driven into exile by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration than under his predecessor former President Robert Mugabe, an opposition activist has said.Promise...Published: 21 hrs ago | 416 | by newzimbabwe
Zimbabwe struggles despite huge forex inflows
ZIMBABWE is doing fairly well in terms of foreign currency earnings compared to countries such as Rwanda and Ethiopia yet the country is struggling to meet its forex obligations, a situation which has...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 08:56hrs | 2740 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa should have cancelled the Abu Dhabi trip
Because of the shutdown in United States of America, President Trump was forced to cancel some international meetings held outside the USA. USA is also a latest victim of a cyclone, President Trump wa...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:05hrs | 3778 | by Don Chigumba
Hopewell Chin'ono's Save Our Hospitals initiative good idea but he is offside
I like Hopewell Chin'ono, he is an ambitious young man full of political energy. He is the mastermind of the idea behind the Save Our Hospitals initiative launched in the month of March 2019. He alrea...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 21:03hrs | 1505 | by Don Chigumba
Vaka CEO Message on the 10th Anniversary
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a step. I cannot believe its 10 years since the Vaka Building Materials and Hardware story begun. It all started when I was sitting in the class doing my MBA ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 20:29hrs | 904 | by Blessed Tazura
“Zanu PF has failed to provide health care, we must” – no, remove Zanu PF
The trouble with Zanu PF apologists like you Hopewell Chinono is that they are incapable of thinking logically. "Ultimately the responsibility for health care in Zimbabwe lies with the State, ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1985 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Make them fight a losing battle
The simple, clear message encoded in the Bi-National Commission signed between Zimbabwe and South Africa earlier this week and in the other between our country and Botswana earlier, ...Published: 16 Mar 2019 at 05:09hrs | 446 | by Stephen Mpofu
NRZ set for revivals as Zimbabwe, SA clear hurdles
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has received a boost after both Zimbabwe and South Africa cleared all the hurdles which had delayed the injection of US$400 million into the struggling parastat...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:25hrs | 2144 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions are shattering economic recovery' - stop madness, must be prudent lest spoil too many tomorrows
Tyrannical regimes have no respect of the law, fact, truth and reality. They will ignored well established historic facts that do not suit their narrative. In his recent article, "US sanctions shatter...Published: 14 Mar 2019 at 06:05hrs | 971 | by Wilbert Mukori
Rhodesia super than Zimbabwe?
The urban Idiot is a very complex idiot. Just a few months back the urban idiot was celebrating the fall of Robert Gabriel Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe, but today the urban idiot is all over ...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:48hrs | 3344 | by Cont Mhlanga
MDC Alliance told to stop tarnishing Zimbabwe's image
THE MDC Alliance should stop tarnishing the image of the country and call for the removal of sanctions if they love Zimbabwe and have the people's interest at heart, Deputy Minister of Defence and War...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 06:46hrs | 801 | by Staff reporter
Nurses' body must reform or die
On November 24 2017, President Mnangagwa ushered in the Second Republic with a maiden inauguration speech which was pregnant with pragmatism and divorced from the flowery language his predecesso...Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 06:37hrs | 495 | by Forward Nyanyiwa
Way out of Zimbabwe's mess is for Zanu PF and MDC to step down - both are illegitimate
If MDC had listened, first, to the repeated appeals for the party to implement the democratic reforms during the GNU and then to the warnings not to take party in the elections without first implement...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 07:28hrs | 2441 | by Wilbert Mukori
UN to probe Zimbabwe rights abuses
THE United Nations Human Rights Council will dispatch special rapporteurs to Zimbabwe to investigate allegations of human rights abuses by State security agents, Parliament has heard.Appearing...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 06:50hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's team arrives for BNC meetings
Senior government officials from South Africa arrived into the country yesterday for preparatory meetings of the third session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) amid indication...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:20hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
President Trump trumps President Ramaphosa's folly to perpetuate Zimbabwe pariah state
"Efforts by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Southern African Development Community executive secretary Dr Stergomena Tax to have sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe lifted have failed to bear fr...Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 23:09hrs | 873 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimbabwe not deterred by sanctions renewal'
The government remains undeterred in its quest to ensure that sanctions against the country are removed in their entirety so that Zimbabwe plays its part in global geo-political and economic affairs....Published: 06 Mar 2019 at 16:50hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Government and parents complicity is creating a class of useless graduates
Government and parents are delinquently complicity in allowing our young people to pursue tertiary level qualifications that offer no value to either the country or to the graduate. The pursuit of aca...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 10:06hrs | 1081 | by Brian Sedze
Zimbabwe urged to adopt currency board
ZIMBABWE should introduce an independent currency board which would stop the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) from controlling the foreign currency exchange rate, an industry expert has said.In ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:25hrs | 1067 | by Staff reporter
Let us work for and defend Zimbabwe
We are in the second Republic, the christened new dispensation, and we are in the process of economically re-engaging the Western world, and I do not in anyway wish to undermine the decent efforts of ...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:24hrs | 143 | by Reason Wafawarova
Towards the National Transitional Authority
IntroductionIn 2016, the Platform for Concerned Citizens (PCC) warned that the country was heading into deep trouble and a possible coup. This was the only possible outcome for the disintegrat...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:43hrs | 955 | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler
Mnangagwa must continue travelling
When the US-EU imperialist media and propaganda apparatus looks back at this era, their expert historians, writers, and political pundits, will be forced to admit traditional white supremacist arrogan...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:07hrs | 197 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Zimbabwe diasporas to get dual citizenship
Cabinet has approved the amendments to the Zimbabwe Citizenship Bill which will pave way for dual citizenship for citizens by birth especially those in the Diaspora.Addressing a post-Cabinet p...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 20:29hrs | 3521 | by Staff reporter
Money changers feeling the pinch
Black market foreign currency traders have been hit hard by the new measures that were announced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week, which have seen parallel rates beginning to stabilise....Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 13:21hrs | 6818 | by Staff reporter
NRZ hikes inter-city fares
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) yesterday increased fares on its inter-city passenger trains by up to 150 percent on some routes with immediate effect. NRZ operates three daily and two...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:52hrs | 2016 | by Staff reporter
Zimra to continue charging duty in forex
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority says it will continue charging duty in foreign currency on goods designated to pay in forex despite the liberalisation of trading of the United States dollar exchange ra...Published: 26 Feb 2019 at 06:45hrs | 809 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to address solidarity rally
THE Zanu-PF Youth League has said the Presidential Solidarity March and rally to be addressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa will now be held on Saturday after it was postponed following the death of...Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 22:35hrs | 1789 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking floating of exchange rate by Zimbabwe
The Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Dr Mangudya in his monetary policy statement liberalised the exchange rate that is, departing from the 1:1 position of the bond notes or real time gr...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 10:28hrs | 1000 | by Dr Mugano
$400m NRZ deal set to top Mnangagwa - Ramaphosa talks
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) US$400 million deal will be one of the key items on the agenda during the South Africa-Zimbabwe bi-national commission meetings when South African President Cyr...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans abroad face difficulties with accent
Speakers with foreign accents can face discrimination even in a country with a diverse population and a long immigrant history. But much remains to be done. "We're going to increasingly be exposed to ...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 08:31hrs | 2473 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Diaspora remittances drop
DIASPORA remittances into Zimbabwe dropped by 11,4 percent in 2018 to $619, 2 million from $699 million received in the prior year, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said. Diaspora remitt...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 22:49hrs | 2453 | by Staff reporter
Employers not worried by bond notes, RTGS devaluation
The floating of RTGS dollars will have minimum effect on employers despite the rising inflation, which reached record levels since the introduction of the multi-currency regime 10 years ago, an employ...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:02hrs | 2112 | by Staff reporter
'Monetary Policy Statement will bring sanity' says RBZ Governor - will not and never will as long as insane rule the roost
The primary objective of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) long awaited Monetary Policy Statement was to bring sanity to Zimbabwe's chaotic economic world, especially the madness in financial and c...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1200 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zimdollar returns'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has effectively brought back the local currency after denoting the existing electronic balances, bond notes and coins in circulation as real time gross settlement (R...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1756 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe abandons the 1:1 rate
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will introduce Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) that will be utilising the real time gross settlement system (RTGS) by the end of this month. This comes as t...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 22:37hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
The current monetary policy review will worsen current fiscal imbalances
Background and Review It was trajectory, forex premiums is hurting Zimbabweans and hostile to business environment. FCA accounts have yielded positive r...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 17:25hrs | 4087 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Full RBZ Monetary Policy statement.
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has liberalised the US dollar exchange rate against real time gross settlement balances (RTGS), bond notes and all currencies in the multi-currency basket, as i...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 14:48hrs | 6970 | by RBZ
Diaspora lay flowers for the #shutdown victims on steps of The Zimbabwe Embassy - demand an end to state-sponsored murders and a
London - Saturday 9 February 2019 - Diaspora Protestors carrying flowers staged a demonstration outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in London calling for an end to the wave of murders which have taken place ...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 17:06hrs | 867 | by Kingstone Jambawo
Can the Zimbabwe currency situation be solved using innovative technology?
Zimbabwe has been ravaged by price increases and shortages of basic commodities such as fuel. A new technology business, ZIMBOCASH, says the direct cause of these challenges is money printing. ZIMBOCA...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 11:37hrs | 1120 | by Agencies
African Union and Sadc are spineless
A combined African Union (AU), Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and President Emmerson Mnangagwa trio-solution to the entangled, Zimbabwean problem will not yield the correct result. In p...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 174 | by Pearl Matibe
Zimbabwe FCA deposits hit US$600m
The decision to separate real time gross settlement (RTGS) foreign currency accounts from actual United States dollar accounts is beginning to pay dividends amid indications that deposits for the latt...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:05hrs | 2943 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leaders trapped in Rhodesia
Growing up back then, this Village Idiot remembers well two Rhodesian slogans; ‘Rhodesia will never Die and Rhodesia is Super'. Looking at it today this remains true to the core. The Urban I...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 13:33hrs | 1430 | by Cont Mhlanga - Village idiot
Business forum 'The Shift' to launch in the UK in March
LONDON - Affirmative Action Group (AAG) president, Dr Chamu Chiwanza is scheduled to keynote at the launch of The Shift UK, a business enterprise scheme that brings together corporate leaders to discu...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 12:59hrs | 653 | by Tidi Kwidini
Obert Gutu takes Chamisa head on
MDC-T Vice President Obert Chaurura Gutu has question MDC president Nelson Chamisa's capacity of leading and developing the country.Taking a dig at Chamisa, Gutru said the 41-year-old leader i...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 09:59hrs | 5478 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Frantic talks fail to unlock NRZ logjam
A SERIES of meetings this week aimed at ending the stalemate in the finalisation of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal failed to break the deadlock among the ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 875 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts UAE market
Zimbabwe has dangled lucrative tourism opportunities to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Zimbabwean diasporans living in the Middle East amid hope of drawing investments into the tourism industry wh...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 08:55hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
BCC forex revenue slightly improves
THE Bulawayo City Council's foreign currency revenues have slightly improved following its decision to charge international companies in forex for services rendered. In December, the local aut...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:26hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire over private jets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under fire for using expensive chartered flights at a time when the majority of Zimbabweans are wallowing in poverty.Mnagagwa on Friday flew to Ethiopia f...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2945 | by Staff reporter
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