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Secret perks for council bigwigs
Top officials at Harare City Council have been accused of covering up excessive salaries and benefits amid allegations of gross financial irregularities and poor service delivery. The accusations were...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 06:44hrs | 892 | by Staff reporter
831 graduate from rebranded Border Gezi program
A historic milestone was achieved as 831 young Zimbabweans graduated from the rebranded Dadaya National Youth Service training centre in Zvishavane, marking the inaugural graduation ceremony of the re...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:45hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
831 graduate from rebranded Border Gezi program
A historic milestone was achieved as 831 young Zimbabweans graduated from the rebranded Dadaya National Youth Service training centre in Zvishavane, marking the inaugural graduation ceremony of the re...Published: 10 Dec 2024 at 06:45hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Cement imports threaten Zimbabwe's economy, warns PPC Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe risks losing approximately US$50 million annually in foreign currency if cement imports continue to flood the market, warns leading cement manufacturer Pretoria Portland Cement (PPC) Zimbabwe...Published: 02 Dec 2024 at 18:57hrs | 1223 | by Staff reporter
Zera blitz nets 300 smuggled LPG cylinders
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has seized 300 smuggled liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinders from South Africa and Botswana for failure to conform to set local standards.The...Published: 07 Nov 2024 at 07:04hrs | 1049 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council discontinues water supplies citywide
BULAWAYO City Council on Sunday discontinued water supplies to all city areas except for the city centre and industrial site, due to low reservoir levels.The local authority did not state when...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 16:37hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Comedian challenges Khalanga Lenkosi to release the nudes
SOCIAL media comedian Sipho Mercent Nyathi has come out guns blazing saying social media influencer Khalanga Lenkosi wants to ruin his reputation and challenged her to release the nudes that she claim...Published: 23 Aug 2024 at 07:05hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube backs down on taxes
The Zimbabwean government has removed value-added tax (VAT) from selected meat products, reduced presumptive taxes for informal traders, and mandated that all government service fees be paid in local ...Published: 26 Jul 2024 at 06:39hrs | 1594 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean nurse aid robs Ireland pensioners
"LOCK them up for a long time because they are evil," were the words of one of six vulnerable pensioners preyed on by their former carer for Euro 34 000 in violent burglaries in Athlone, Co. Westmeath...Published: 20 Jul 2024 at 12:13hrs | 999 | by Staff reporter
Harare city council workers in residential stands windfall
Workers at Harare City Council (HCC) will benefit from residential stands through an agreement with a local land developer, addressing the issue of many retiring homeless. ...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 06:59hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
Dark and Lovely products recalled due to contamination
The Consumer Protection Commission for Eastern and Southern Africa has advised the public to stop using 50ml single-use neutralising shampoo included in the Dark and Lovely moisture plus lotion k...Published: 25 Jun 2024 at 10:43hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean concerns over condoms cash drying up next year
At a forum organized by SafAids in Harare, concerns were raised by public health practitioners regarding the potential reversal of HIV prevention progress due to the looming end of international fundi...Published: 23 Jun 2024 at 10:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Japanese car makers falsified safety test results
Some of Japan's best-known automakers have admitted to committing fraud in safety tests to get new vehicles certified for sale. The disclosures come after an official and wide-reaching investigation w...Published: 05 Jun 2024 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt must support ZiG currency through raft of solid measures
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been urged to implement a raft of measures, including fiscal discipline, public consultation and policy consistency, if the newly introduced Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) ...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar remains legal tender until month-end
The Zimbabwe dollar remains legal tender for all domestic transactions until April 30, when the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) notes and coins will come into circulation, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has s...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans urged to have confidence in new currency
Measures announced by Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mushayavanhu in his maiden monetary policy statement on Friday should go a long way in containing prices and reducing inflation, a...Published: 08 Apr 2024 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New Zimbabwe central bank boss talks tough
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mushayavanhu on Friday declared that he will protect the central bank from external forces to maintain its independence.But analysts were quick to ...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans welcome another ZEP permit's life line
ZIMBABWEANS working and living in South Africa on the strength of a special three years' permit have welcomed its extension by the host government for another two years.South Africa's Home Aff...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 18:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
There is no hope in Sadc
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Your Excellency, as the Southern Africa Development Community (Sadc) commemorates yet another annual day of solidarity with Zimbabwe, my sincere submissi...Published: 25 Oct 2023 at 20:18hrs | | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
Zimbabwe electricity company seeks tariff increase
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) has submitted a request to raise electricity tariffs for 2023 by 2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). The power utility argues that t...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aaron Motsoaledi goes after SA court over Zimbabwe Exemption Permits
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi is seeking leave to appeal a Gauteng High Court ruling that found his decision to terminate Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEPs) was "unlawful, unconstitutional, an...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to cut sugar imports to avert collapse of local industry'
To safeguard local producers grappling with declining sales, it is advisable to halt sugar imports into Zimbabwe. Concerns have arisen that by March of next year, the country could find itself burdene...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Withdrawal of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits is discriminatory and inhumane'
New research has indicated that the biggest challenge in documenting immigrants is procedure, which increasingly excludes people who are considered 'not useful' to the South African economy.Th...Published: 14 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to clear its foreign debt by the end of 2025
ZIMBABWEAN Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube says Harare will do all it can to clear its foreign debt by December 2025 to open fresh lines of credit that would help in revamping the floundering economy....Published: 07 Aug 2023 at 06:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's land reform created roads funding gap
GOVERNMENT says the land reform programme resulted in public roads adjacent to farms being neglected as the invaders opened new roads to the properties.Transport and Infrastructural Developmen...Published: 26 Jul 2023 at 06:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council barred from direct sales of land
Harare City Council has been barred by the High Court from selling land directly to companies and individuals after the illegal sale of Mount Pleasant Sports Club and golf course has seen two top offi...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe says it was willing to welcome back its citizens from South Africa
The Zimbabwean government said it had taken note of the judgment by the High Court in Pretoria which ruled that the Department of Home Affairs' decision to summarily terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption...Published: 30 Jun 2023 at 14:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga in another bid to block extradition to Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWEAN businessman Frank Buyanga incarcerated in South Africa has launched a fresh bid in the High Court to avert extradition to his home country.Buyanga has been in a Johannesburg prison ...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe aims to double power output by 2025
Zimbabwe's state power utility ZESA aims to more than double national grid capacity by 2025 to respond to increased demand from the mining sector, its chief executive said on Thursday.The coun...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 15:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mthuli Ncube's 'smart city' vision takes shape - Cowdray Park road rehab in full swing
PARTS of Cowdray Park suburb in Bulawayo that had until recently been declared no go areas by kombi and Zupco operators are now once again being graced by vehicular traffic, following the grading of r...Published: 04 Jun 2023 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
SA's scrap of special work permits, Zimbabwe migrants will be exposed
Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans have flocked to South Africa to escape economic hardship since the 1990s. The South African government has, since 2010, granted the migrants a special permit to li...Published: 28 Apr 2023 at 07:03hrs | | by The Conversation
Chiwenga punishing Zimbabwe's health workers?
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has been accused by some disgruntled nurses of blocking salary and allowance increments in the health sector as punishment for past strikes and demonstrations....Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
United Kingdom (UK) visa payment changes for Algeria applications
UKVI is moving all visa fee payments for visa applications to online platforms as the capability to pay for a visa in the visa application centre discontinues...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 10:02hrs | 19 | by APO
SA Labour Court sets aside dismissal of three Zimbabwe immigrant lecturers
The Labour Court in Gqeberha has granted four lecturers, who are foreign nationals, an interdict to set aside their dismissals by the Port Elizabeth TVET College's Iqhayiya Campus.In the written r...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Revived CSC fast gaining traction
THE revived Cold Storage Company (CSC), now CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe, is fast gaining traction among stakeholders amid increasing business orders, as more players in the meat value chain utilise the...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 07:23hrs | 33 | by Staff Reporter
Court still withholding transcript in Ken Sharpe witness case
The Harare Magistrate Court still has not released the transcript of its ruling on 18 November denying bail to the former City of Harare chief building in...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:02hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Almost 200 babies born through IVF Zimbabwe programme
The in vitro (IVF) fertilisation programme which was reintroduced in Zimbabwe in 2016 by a team led by Dr Tinovimba Mhlanga has proved a great success with 197 live births recorded so far and more exp...Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 10:06hrs | 10 | by Agencies
Embassy rolls out documentation of Zimbabweans in Botswana
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Botswana has joined hands with the neighbouring country's government to rollout a comprehensive documentation exercise for immigrants in order to regularise their stay and en...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Bank commends Mthuli Ncube's bold economic reforms
GLOBAL financier, the World Bank (WB) has heaped praise on Zimbabwe for continuously implementing bold economic reforms more recently saying the initiatives had positioned the economy for a sound perf...Published: 16 Oct 2022 at 19:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who is afraid of Donald Trump?
When reading about United States politics, the reader should remember that the Democrats are the brainy party, but they are too brainy for their own good. While the Republicans are the stupid party, t...Published: 25 Sep 2022 at 16:46hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Chiwenga shoots first beast in the resuscitation of CSC
THE revamped Cold Storage Company(CSC)-Boustead Beef factory, which resumed operations yesterday after 22 years of closure, will never be allowed to collapse again as its re-opening is anchored on ren...Published: 19 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exemption permits: Motsoaledi hires private lawyers
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that they have hired private lawyers to address backlogs as the expiry of Zimbabwean exemption permit looms.The future of thousands of Zimbabweans h...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
The return of border gezi militia
The government's plans to rescuscitate the green bombers ahead of 2023 harmonised elections is another Zanu PF strategy of trying to intimidate the voters.This governing Zanu PF has been prove...Published: 16 Jul 2022 at 20:25hrs | 9 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe association to continue fighting SA special permit cancelation
SOUTH AFRICA: The Zimbabwe Permit Holders Association says it has not withdrawn its court challenge against the government's decision to discontinue the Zimbabwe Special Permit.This comes afte...Published: 04 Jul 2022 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
PPC downbeat as inflation shakes Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG Stock Exchange (JSE)-listed Pan African cement maker, PPC has said its earnings per share (EPS) from the Zimbabwean operations would be undermined by rocketing inflation.Ahead of ...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Meikles disposes of Cape Grace Hotel
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange-listed diversified group Meikles Limited has disposed of its strategic foreign asset, Cape Grace Hotel in Cape Town, South Africa, for about US$20 million, the Zimbabwe Indepen...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe COVID-19 funds disbursement murky'
PARLIAMENT'S Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has demanded that government should account for the missing millions of dollars meant for COVID-19 beneficiaries.Last year, Auditor-General Mildred...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hunger stalks Matebeleland South
HUNDREDS of families in drought-prone Matebeleland South are in urgent need of food aid after poor harvests.To avert a food crisis, a government taskforce has been set up in the province to re...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF uses State funds to buy votes'
LEGAL think-tank, Veritas says the Zanu-PF government is likely to ignore recommendations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resuscitate the economy in favour of "populist" policies that will...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa leaves for Switzerland
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa last night left Harare for Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting where he will join 50 other heads of state and government to deliber...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
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