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EcoCash leaves consumers stranded
EcoCash services remained intermittent or non-available yesterday, causing major business losses and much hardship since the platform handles 85 percent of Zimbabwe's transactions and 99 percent of mo...Published: 3 hrs ago | 434 | by Staff reporter
South Africa offers to mediate in Zimbabwe political crisis
South Africa announced a major recalibration of its Zimbabwe diplomacy on Monday with a new push for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition rival, Nelson Chamisa.Internat...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1459 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu I ZimLive
Ecobank speaks on $15,000 cash found on parallel market
Ecobank Zimbabwe Limited has said it complied with regulatory requirements before approving a $15 000 cash withdrawal by a customer which resulted in pictures of new Zimbabwe dollar notes circulating ...Published: 11 hrs ago | 431 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge officials panic as Zimra recalls imported cars
ZIMBABWE may have lost millions of dollars in unpaid duty through a fine-tuned vehicle smuggling scheme operated at some of its ports, Southern Eye has learnt.Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 8931 | by Staff reporter
Harare probes stands scandal
Harare City Council has ordered an investigation into allegations that it lost millions of dollars over the past two years in illegal residential stands deals involving its employees. This com...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 1726 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ready to confront Mnangagwa, says MDC
MDC acting president Lynnete Karenyi-Kore has called on Zimbabweans to occupy all democratic spaces to demand accountability and an end to unchecked deaths at government hospitals as a result of the o...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
2 years on, Mnangagwa remains steadfast
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said he will not waver in his determination to work and achieve the goals and dreams of millions of Zimbabweans who marched in 2017 in a series of events that gave birth to the...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:48hrs | 344 | by Staff reporter
Business suffers as EcoCash still down
Retailers and other business entities may have lost potential revenue running into hundreds of millions of dollars after Zimbabwe's biggest mobile money platform, EcoCash, remained largely out of serv...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2646 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
A critical review of Zimbabwe’s health sector today
This morning I woke up to a headline in the Herald reporting a visit by the First Lady to a Mbare based traditional midwife celebrating the achievements by the midwife. And juxtapose that to the situa...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 609 | by Dr Togarepi Mawoyo
Zimbabweans reject further military coups, but demand genuine electoral reforms to freely choose own leaders
If there is anything that Zimbabweans should have regrettably learnt the hard way, over the past years, is never to support or celebrate ZANU PF internal factional fighting, especially when this culmi...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:25hrs | 4827 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The Menstrual Equity Journey: 200 million dollars later
The move by government to allocate $200 million for free sanitary wear for rural school girls who menstruate, in the 2020 National Budget, is a big step in the right direction towards ending period po...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:19hrs | 565 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
Spaced out - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There was a lot of space in Parliament when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube delivered his budget. This was partly because the opposition was boycotting the occasion but mainly because of the surprise an...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:14hrs | 233 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Govt to raise passport fees
Govt to raise passport feesTHE registrar-general(RG)'s office says it will hike up its fees in a bid to marshal enough foreign currency needed to produce sufficient passports for Zimbabweans, the ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 3883 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, global de-dollarisation case study - Prof Ncube
Zimbabwe is undergoing a de-dollarisation process that very few countries have successfully implemented and will need time to address the lingering effects of dollarisation, Finance and Economic Devel...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers salvage goods from burning bus
A Harare-bound bus was yesterday reduced to a shell after it caught fire near Tree Tops Tollgate, about 20km from Gweru along the Bulawayo Road. No one was injured as the more than 40 passengers disem...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 1228 | by Staff reporter
RTGS is legal tender, says High Court
Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) is legal tender in the country, the High Court has ruled in a case in which an investment company lost its claim for provisional sentence against Fly Africa exe...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the risk of plunging the economy into hyperinflation aft...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1106 | by Victor Bhoroma
City Bus catches fire
Property worth thousands of dollars was destroyed in an inferno when a cross boarder bus, City Bus, caught fire near the Gweru-Somabula toll gate.The bus was travelling from Botswana to Harare...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:22hrs | 1385 | by Staff reporter
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2614 | by Ken Mufuka
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Call for citizens to stone oSiphathelani made
ZANU PF activist and journalist Reason Wafawarova has called Zimbabweans to stone the illegal money changers and throw their money to the streets for people to pick. Said Wafawarova, "Mob just...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 23:39hrs | 5313 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Sikhala talks about bloodshed, says MDC is coming for Mnangagwa
MDC national vice chairperson Job Sikhala, who is battling subversion charges and last week had his case moved from the Bikita Magistrates' Court to Masvingo High Court, has said he will not be cowed ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 6382 | by Staff reporter
Chief accused of stealing food aid
A Chipinge traditional leader, Chief Mupungu (born Happison Nxumalo) of the Nguni/Ndwandwe people in Chipinge South is making headlines for the wrong reasons.Barely a month after the youthful ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:15hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
Nothing amiss in cash withdrawals above stipulated limits, Mangudya
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mangudya, says there is nothing amiss in depositors withdrawing cash above stipulated limits as exemptions are normal in the financial services sector....Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:21hrs | 5023 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zimbabwe to build space satellite
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is planning to build a space satellite.Ncube revealed the information during the 2020 budget presentation on Thursday. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1542 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'G40 infiltrates ZANU PF Youth League' says Mutodi
Several ZANU PF youth league members some of them with high positions have been infiltrated by the G40 says Deputy Minister of Information Energy Mutodi. The deputy government spokesman who wa...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:53hrs | 3572 | by Mandla Ndlovu
2 years after Mugabe ouster in a coup: Zimbabwe in an abyss
"Following the address we made on November 13, 2017, which we believe our main broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our co...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 1196 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to enforce 'use it or lose it' policy for mining assets
Zimbabwe will vigorously enforce a policy to force companies to develop their mining assets and not keep the land for speculative purposes, Mines minister Winston Chitando said on Wednesday.Ch...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Council to unleash JOC on space barons
HARARE City Council has engaged the Joint Operations Command (JOC) to depoliticise Mupedzanhamo market in Mbare and deal with interference mainly from politicians.The local authority said it w...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:30hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Cross now smelling the coffee, but....
IN the Bible, there is a story of the prodigal son who demanded his share of his father's estate, which the father gave him. Shortly after being given his inheritance, the son runs off and squanders t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 910 | by Amos Mazambani
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Can new Zimdollar relieve the chronic cash crunch?
Gason Mukuvadzi, a lanky man with boyish looks, sits behind a makeshift desk in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo centre. An umbrella canvas shelters him from the blistering sun as he waits for customers looking t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 271 | by Staff reporter
Currency change sparks confusion
A SERIES of changes to the country's currency has triggered confusion for accountants, consumers of financial information and investors on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE).The Zimbabwean gove...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 477 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar and the quest for redemption
A NEW currency is in town and this week we witnessed its physical manifestation exactly four-and-a-half months after its official return. Since February, however, the near-return was almost predictabl...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 148 | by Respect Gwenzi
Tax-free bonuses for civil servants
GOVERNMENT has reviewed the tax-free bonus threshold from $ 1 000 to $ 5 000 with effect from this month with civil servants also expected to get their full annual bonuses pegged on gross income. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1083 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube reduces VAT and corporate tax
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube marginally cut corporate tax (24% from 25%), VAT (14.5% from 15%) and increased the tax free threshold to $2 000 from $700 with effect from Janua...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:36hrs | 1618 | by Staff reporter
The world of online casino gaming
The generation we belong to had just started to understand something known as computer games. Our generation that would rely heavily on entertainment watching Hanna Barbara's epic creation of Tom &...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 08:21hrs | 389 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa to abolish VP post reserved for Ndebeles in Zimbabwe govt?
The toxic politics of tribalism and clanism continues unabated in Zimbabwe as the process of "de- Zezurunisation" and "Karanganisation" of government and all sectors which begun when Mnangagwa (Karang...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 07:38hrs | 9851 | by Israel Dube
Mthuli Ncube to present a pro-productivity budget today
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube presents the 2020 National Budget this afternoon that is expected to help create a fiscal environment that will emphasise production an...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:34hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti sent cracking?
Revered economic analyst, Brighton Musonza, has said the return of the Zimbabwean dollar (ZWL$) has sent economic arrivalists such as Tendai Biti cracking with no technical argument against it....Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 20:39hrs | 13196 | by Staff reporter
Sasai exhibits at Africa's top tech conference
Sasai, the new all-in-one App from Cassava Fintech International (CFI), is exhibiting at AfricaTech, the fintech and digital expo that runs concurrently with AfricaCom, the continent's largest telco a...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 13:37hrs | 669 | by Agencies
Treasury is broke: Minister
GOVERNMENT, which has been hyping about a huge surplus, is reportedly broke and has been forced to fire 286 doctors because it cannot afford to pay them what used to be their United States dollar sala...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:38hrs | 1194 | by Staff reporter
New perks on the table for doctors
Government and striking doctors will meet tomorrow to discuss a proposed package of improved working conditions that includes accommodation, transport and food, as authorities seek to bring normalcy t...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans angered by $300 bank withdrawal limits
Zimbabweans finally got access to new low-denomination currency on Tuesday that authorities hope will end chronic cash shortages, but banks maintained an existing weekly withdrawal limit of $300 (US$2...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:08hrs | 4005 | by Staff reporter
ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 1928 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Long queues as Zimbabwe releases new bank notes, coins
New bank notes and coins finally hit the streets of Zimbabwe on Tuesday after a false start the day before, with depositors forming long queues at banks and ATMs. The new notes are part of Pre...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 12:07hrs | 3370 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to withdraw US$14 a week
Zimbabweans will be limited to withdraw a maximum of ZWL$300 (US$14) a week the State owned Sunday Mail has revealed. The paper said bank account holders should be able to start accessin...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 08:16hrs | 4960 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Tragedy of the doctors' crippling strike
It is simple: The tragedy of the over two-months doctors' strike is that Zimbabwe has two finely distinct groups; those who feel (the majority) the impact of the strike and those who talk (the minorit...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1741 | by Learnmore Zuze
NSSA rot sucks in another minister
FORMER Public Service minister Sekai Nzenza allegedly ordered State pension manager, National Social Security Authority (NSSA) to pay $1,8 million to a group of local experts she handpicked to unpack ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:27hrs | 5119 | by Staff reporter
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