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Parliament walkouts: MPs must serve the national interest
ZANU-PF legislators' decision to boycott the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Public Accounts (PAC) sitting where Sakunda Holdings was expected to give oral evidence regarding how the US$3 billion...Published: 2 hrs ago | 187 | by Nyasha Chingono
Zacc swoops on car smugglers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made several arrests in connection with the massive car smuggling racket in which government may have lost millions of dollars in unpaid duty at the ...Published: 2 hrs ago | 129 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to order importers to declare forex sourcing
Zimbabwe will force importers to declare sources of foreign currency and those who fail to prove they obtained the money from banks will forfeit their goods to the state, a government official said on...Published: 2 hrs ago | 57 | by Reuters
Zacc swoops on car smugglers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has made several arrests in connection with the massive car smuggling racket in which government may have lost millions of dollars in unpaid duty at the ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 518 | by Staff Reporter
Why Mnangagwa has failed to improve the economic prospects of Zimbabwe?
It is now more than two years since President ED Mnangagwa assumed power with an ostensible mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, RG Muga...Published: 23 hrs ago | 516 | by Martin
Latest on Presidential guard who fired bullets at Mnangagwa residence
The Presidential guard who was arrested for firing bullets at State House on Wednesday was tortured and sent to a medical doctor on Thursday morning, Professor Jonathan Moyo has revealed. Moyo...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 12:15hrs | 23829 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe govt should stop regarding suffering citizens as 'enemies of the state', but address our legitimate grievances seriousl
This morning I was pondering over the forthcoming 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based Violence (running from 25 November to 10 December), when I was immediately reminded of a distributing story a...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 12:16hrs | 1565 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Parastatals embroiled in car smuggling scandal
STATE-OWNED entities, Zimbabwe Special Economic Zones Authority (Zimseza), Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR) are embroiled in a messy car import scam after details emerged that they took delivery o...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:00hrs | 3119 | by Staff reporter
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: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:02hrs | 1793 | 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: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2085 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu I ZimLive
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 | 11569 | 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 | 2748 | 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 | 939 | 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 | 2885 | 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 | 634 | 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 | 4903 | 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 | 646 | by Theresa Farai Nyava
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 | 1240 | 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 | 883 | 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 | 1125 | 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 | 1389 | 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 | 2663 | 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 | 289 | by Staff reporter
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 | 6423 | 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 | 306 | 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 | 5033 | 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 | 1549 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 387 | 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 | 718 | by Staff reporter
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 | 352 | 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 | 282 | 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 | 1620 | 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 | 704 | by Agencies
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 | 882 | 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 | 4008 | 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 | 1931 | 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 | 4961 | 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 | 1748 | 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 | 5131 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fatcats in tollgates scam
A FRESH storm has hit the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) after the parastatal proposed to award a million-dollar deal to its perennial contractor Univern, a deal seen as a corrupt way ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 873 | by Staff reporter
RBZ seeks to raise $300m through TBs
GOVERNMENT is seeking to raise another $300 million through Treasury Bills (TBs) to finance its programmes, a month after issuing a sovereign paper with the same amount.In a statement yesterda...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:22hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government deluded about doctors
This has been one of the most deluded period for the Zimbabwe government – even by its own inherently schizophrenic standards — firstly claiming that providing low salaries to workers was economic...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1088 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Gweru forex dealer acquitted
A 35-YEAR-OLD Gweru man was last week acquitted on charges of illegally dealing in foreign currency.Paradzanai Hamanu of Mkoba 11 appeared before magistrate Edwin Marecha facing a charge of il...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:18hrs | 800 | by Staff reporter
New notes and coins out today
Commercial banks collected $30 million of new notes and coins yesterday from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and account holders should be able to start accessing their $300 weekly cash withdrawal ration...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:10hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
Cash withdrawals begin today
Commercial banks were collecting $30 million new notes and coins yesterday from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and account holders should be able to start accessing their $300 weekly cash withdraw...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:05hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
'Inflation is because TSP failed to factor in drought' - yeah right, sell-out whitewashing Zanu PF tomb
Zimbabwe is well and truly stuck in this hell-on-earth mess! What makes our situation so, so frustrating about it is this is a man-made mess. For the last 39 years and counting the ruling party, Zanu ...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 09:06hrs | 2846 | by Wilbert Mukori
Chamisa, Mwonzora supporters clash at party HQ
At least four people were seriously injured at Morgan Tsvangirai House, the MDC-Alliance headquarters in Harare, in ugly intra-party violence pitting supporters aligned to leader Mr Nelson Chamisa and...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:50hrs | 5758 | by Staff reporter
Zinara fires 30 cashiers for fraud
THIRTY Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) cashiers have been fired for fraud and theft. This comes after the authority uncovered systematic scams at four tollgates involving cashiers, supe...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 06:21hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar repayment for US$ debt
A Harare man who lent his wife's colleague US100 in 2017 who then failed to pay back on time, will now get back his money in Zimbabwe dollars. Cecresy Kunetsa dragged Maidei Banda to the Harar...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 22:05hrs | 5740 | by Staff reporter
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