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Civil servants push for another wage hike
Civil Servants have made fresh wage demands on the government as Zimbabwe's economy battles rising inflation and a weakening domestic currency.Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe secretary...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1299 | by Staff reporter
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 21 hrs ago | 5896 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return premature, says Gono
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the reintroduction of the Zimbabwean dollar, which has been rapidly losing value since its re-introduction in June last year, was pr...Published: 21 hrs ago | 6206 | by Staff reporter
Fresh details emerge in Noic pipeline saga
FRESH details have emerged that Treasury directed the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) to handpick only one firm to supply 720 million litres of fuel over 24 months, in a pro...Published: 21 hrs ago | 1173 | by Staff reporter
Charamba freaks out over 'racist' US sanctions
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman George Charamba has accused the US government of racism after the superpower Tuesday slapped targeted sanctions on fuel mogul Kuda Tagwirei for allegedly propping up a corrupt Z...Published: 21 hrs ago | 726 | by Staff reporter
'US sanctions on Tagwirei wrong and devoid of logic'
The imposition of sanctions on Sakunda Holdings and its chief executive, Mr Kuda Tagwirei, by the United States yesterday is wrong and devoid of logic, but will not affect the ongoing re-engagement dr...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 09:02hrs | 1252 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices rise
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has increased the price of fuel by margins ranging between 30 percent and 33 percent with effect from yesterday.However, in a public notice, Zer...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 18:32hrs | 3369 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Kuda Tagwirei added on America sanctions list
Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei (Tagwirei) for providing support to the leadership of the Government of Zim...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 4059 | by US Treasury
Jonathan Moyo attacks VP Chiwenga for being appointed minister of health.
Jonathan Moyo mocks the Vice President Chiwenga. In a Twitter trail Jonathan Moyo was asked to give his wisdom and comment on the appointment of Chiwenga as the minister of Health. Moyo responded and ...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5699 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
WATCH: Zimbabwe's new Minister of Health General Chiwenga talking about doctors
The newly appointed Minister of Health and Child Care General Constantino Guvheya Dominic Nyikadzino Chiwenga has set social media with Zimbabweans reposting a video of him mocking doctors...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 18:47hrs | 8769 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt tightens screws on urban councils
GOVERNMENT has tightened screws on all urban councils, demanding information on all residential stands acquired by councillors as it moves to unearth land scandals.In a letter dated July 27 an...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:20hrs | 993 | by Staff reporter
Ministry cracks whip on council land deals
The Ministry of Local Government and Public Works has directed all local authorities to submit information relating to land deals conducted under the current crop of Councillors whose tenure expires i...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter
Fuel dealer accidentally burns house
AN illegal fuel dealer from St Alberts Business Center in Mashonaland Central province accidentally burnt his child and lost property worth thousands of United States dollars yesterday.Mafios ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 20:55hrs | 4204 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks now overdue, says Hlatshwayo
THE much anticipated political talks between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and main opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are now overdue and remain the only solution to Zimbabwe's socio-econom...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling ring busted
Multiple fuel smuggling scams are being run in Zimbabwe with cheap fuel being smuggled from Mozambique, sometimes mislabelled to avoid customs duty, and sold or re-exported for hard currency while fue...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 750 | by Staff reporter
A passport is a privilege in Zimbabwe
I goT my current passport in 2016, three years after the election that ended the government of National Unity. This was also the year the government introduced bond coins and bond notes, and foreign c...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:29hrs | 780 | by Kudzai Mubaiwa
Borehole drilling scam surfaces
A NUMBER of Zimbabweans, who are in need of borehole drilling services are made to pay exorbitant charges in foreign currency or give away livestock by a cartel of companies suspected to be of foreign...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 925 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC, an American Trojan horse
It's categorically correct to say the MDC-Alliance, which has assumed many appellations over the year is not a political party, but a representative of the United States and its Western allies....Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 414 | by Khumbulani Vodloza Sibanda
In Zimbabwe, no one can breathe
On July 20, police in Zimbabwe arrested and detained journalist Hopewell Chin'ono. The prominent investigative reporter had blown the whistle on a $60 million corruption scandal in June.They a...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:01hrs | 142 | by Panashe Chigumadze
Noic, Sakunda sucked in US$17m loan scandal
EXPLOSIVE details show that the state-owned National Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) was advanced by Sakunda Holdings US$17,5 million of a US$22,75 million loan agreement to buy out Lonmin's 50%...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 08:00hrs | 3845 | by Staff reporter
Zesa workers rally behind Gata
ZIMBABWE Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) Holdings employees have taken sides with the parastatal's embattled executive chairperson, Sydney Gata, who is being investigated for corruption.Ga...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1914 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors down tools
SENIOR doctors yesterday downed tools, joining nurses who have been on strike for more than 40 days, a move that will add a strain to the country's already paralysed healthcare system.The stri...Published: 31 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Will Shiri's demise force Mnangagwa govt to act?
ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to news of the death of Agriculture minister Perrance Shiri, who reports suggest was the latest victim of COVID-19.He was no angel, but we hope his passing on may...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants struggle to use US$75 allowances
CIVIL servants are facing challenges utilising US$75 deposited into their accounts by Government as a flat non-taxable Covid-19 monthly allowance. The news crew understands that those who rece...Published: 30 Jul 2020 at 08:52hrs | 1411 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Farm Mechanization Saga: Kasukuwere produces V11s
It is with great disappointment that I learnt RBZ and some former executives of Fiscorp under which we were allocated farm equipment have professed ignorance on there being any payment on my part with...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 21:19hrs | 11556 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
The mighty Air-Marshall assassinated by the global army: quick and easy- yave nyama yekugocha!!!
He lies cold in his mortuary air-tight bag, tight not to continue to spread the lethal virus he succumbed to. We delight at the thought that even people who appear to be immortal are indeed mortal and...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 15:06hrs | 5774 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mnangagwa's govt begs doctors to stop strike
GOVERNMENT yesterday begged senior doctors to reconsider their threat to go on strike from today as COVID-19 wreaks havoc in the health sector, with 253 healthcare workers (HCWs) falling victim to the...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 13:06hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
Wanted Tsenengamu shames Chinamasa's family
Former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has accused Zanu PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa and his family as being corrupt.Tsenengamu said Chinamasa is a failed man who summons journali...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 11:55hrs | 4699 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Vela piles pressure on BDO Zimbabwe
FORMER National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairperson Robin Vela has threatened to sue BDO International if it fails to distance itself from a 2019 audit report by BDO Zimbabwe on the pay-as-yo...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:21hrs | 595 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo faction ditches Mnangagwa for Chiwenga
The Sword of Damocles is all now but hanging over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's head, amid reports that a Zanu-PF politburo faction has ditched the president, and switched sides to privately endorse ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:18hrs | 9624 | by Mary-Kate Kahari
Embassies caught in stands storm
WESTERN embassies (names supplied) were favoured in the illegal parcelling of residential stands by the MDC Alliance-led council in Harare as the opposition party used its control of the capital city ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar loses 6% against the dollar
The local currency continues to lose value as it searches for a stable range based on demand and supply. The ZWL lost 6.01% to trade at 76.7596 against the dollar from 72.1470 attained last week....Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 19:26hrs | 4828 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's regime should not insult Zimbabweans' intelligence
On 25 July 2020, I penned an article to the effect that, most of us who are bravery and nrelentingly standing up, and speaking up (in the process, placing our own lives in grave danger, but for a very...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 11:21hrs | 2163 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa's MDC sucked in land scam
MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa has been sucked into the latest swirl of residential stands allocation scam in the capital city, amid revelations that the opposition has been stripping the counc...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:25hrs | 1425 | by Staff reporter
Saved from the bad boys by bad boys
On Thursday 23 July prominent lawyer Alex Magaisa had an expose on the farm mechanisation scandal of 2007 of farm equipment that was meant to benefit the then newly resettled farmers in the government...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 20:04hrs | 1414 | by Sandra Bvungidzire
'Mnangagwa under threat from within Zanu-PF'
THE ruling Zanu-PF youth league has sensationally claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was under threat from within his own party and accuses some insiders of working with exiled officials to dis...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:54hrs | 14968 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to pay more to make calls
In a notice to operators on Wednesday, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) said operators may now use dual pricing on their tariffs.This is in line with...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:49hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Why I am standing with Hopewell Chin'ono
THE harsh treatment of journalist hopewell Chin'ono has shown the extent to which President Emmerson Mnangagwa can go to protect those robbing future generations of their wealth through unbridled corr...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 1349 | by Obey Manayiti
Zimbabwe telecom operators get forex greenlight
Zimbabweans will now pay more to make calls and use the internet after the telecoms regulator authorised operators to peg their tariffs at the official exchange rate and in United States dollars....Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2703 | by Staff reporter
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2667 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Mnangagwa losing the plot
One of the things President Emmerson Mnangagwa craved when he took over power following a military coup that toppled Robert Mugabe three years ago was international recognition.Mnangagwa promi...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:01hrs | 5662 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a failed State, says ZCTU
ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions president Peter Mutasa yesterday described the country as a "failed State" given the high poverty levels, decaying infrastructure, the odious debt situation caused mo...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 08:35hrs | 5052 | by Staff reporter
Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa
Wamkele Mene was recently appointed Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. Because of COVID-19, free trade for countries that have ratified the agreement did not beg...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 296 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Mobocracy, 'dofocracy' and the myth of new dispensation
"WE spoke and acted as if, given the opportunity, we would quickly create utopias. Instead injustice, even tyranny is rampant." Mwalimu Julius Nyerere.Dofocracy/DomocracyIn Shona a dofo is...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1396 | by Brian T Kagoro
'Mnangagwa ignoring silent genocide at public hospitals'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has been accused of ignoring the plight of striking nurses and other health workers leading to a "silent genocide" at public hospitals.The situation h...Published: 24 Jul 2020 at 08:11hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
No US$75 joy for civil servants
CIVIL servants yesterday expressed anger after failing to access their US$75 allowances as promised by the government, accusing their employer of being insincere.Government last month promised...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:20hrs | 1217 | by Staff reporter
Forex traders to pay US$ tax
Government has come up with a legal instrument compelling traders selling goods and services in foreign currency to pay taxes in the currency in which they levy their customers, Senators heard yesterd...Published: 23 Jul 2020 at 20:17hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Trial date set for Artuz leaders
THE State has set August 26 as the trial date for two leaders of the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union in Zimbabwe (Artuz), who in June participated in a demonstration demanding salaries in United Stat...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans reduced to hunter-gatherers
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is the harbinger and personification of a new dispensation which saves public funds as opposed to the late former President Robert Mugabe who squandered State reso...Published: 22 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 741 | by Tamburai Shato
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