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Zimbabwe's formal economy tanks
Zimbabwe's economy has become overwhelmingly informal, with the latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) revealing that 76% of business operations in the country are now i...Published: 24 Jul 2025 at 16:09hrs | 585 | by Staff reporter
Switzerland pledges $200,000 to renovate Bulawayo's Bhaktas market
Switzerland has pledged a US$200,000 donation towards the development of Bhakta's Market in Bulawayo, offering a significant boost to the city's drive to formalise and modernise trading spaces for inf...Published: 10 May 2025 at 14:19hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo ranks second in GDP contribution
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province has cemented its position as Zimbabwe's second-largest contributor to the national gross domestic product (GDP), following closely behind Harare. This development was re...Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 07:37hrs | 1373 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP urges govt to establish electronic cadastre
Hwedza North legislator Itai Ndudzo, a member of Zanu-PF, has urged the government to establish an electronic cadastre (e-cadastre) system in response to rising land disputes and fraud involving land ...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:37hrs | 37 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube wants all sanctions removed
THE piecemeal removal of sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States has been described as a step in the right direction, although the country prefers to have the illegal embargo completely rem...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
World Bank VP visits Zimbabwe
WORLD Bank (WB) vice-president for Eastern and Southern Africa Victoria Kwakwa will arrive for a four-day visit to Zimbabwe today, as the global lender develops a new country engagement framework that...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala Solidarity Movement vows 'protracted struggle' for prisoners' release
The Job Sikhala Solidarity Council emphasizes that it is not driven by political aspirations but is focused on advocating for the release of political prisoners. Formed last year by former Citizens Co...Published: 18 Jan 2024 at 17:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa being lied to by his ministers'
Gift Mugano, an economist and government critic, criticized President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration, suggesting that his ministers were providing misleading information about the state of the ec...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Meet the real Finance Deputy Minister David Kuda Mnangagwa
The appointment of David Kuda Mnangagwa to the position of Deputy Minister of Finance stirred up a considerable amount of controversy, giving rise to various accusations and theories about his selecti...Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 19:17hrs | 5 | by Nicholas Ncube
Blame game won't solve Zimbabwe's economic crisis
I couldn't help but chuckle when I heard President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent speech in Masvingo blaming opponents and Western countries for the current economic crisis that has caused anxiety within...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:10hrs | 5 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Prof Mthuli Ncube is smart!
Mthuli Ncube is a renowned economist and the current Minister of Finance and Economic Planning in Zimbabwe. Since his appointment in 2018, he has been instrumental in implementing necessary macro-econ...Published: 31 Mar 2023 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by Teddy Ncube
Mutambara wants Zimbabwe to dump, rework delimitation
FORMER Deputy Prime minister in the 2009-2013 Government of National Unity (GNU), Arthur Mutambara says the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) must redo the delimitation exercise as he dismissed the ...Published: 11 Jan 2023 at 16:54hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
New headache for Zec
NEW headaches emerged yesterday for the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) after former Cabinet minister Elton Mangoma added his voice to mounting criticism of the electoral body's preliminary delimi...Published: 10 Jan 2023 at 18:23hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa could defeat the unreformed Mnangagwa'
ZIMBABWE has been reeling under a multifaceted economic and political crisis since 2000, and it appears there is no end in sight. Amid chronic high inflation, Zimbabwe is confronted with a crucial gen...Published: 12 Jul 2022 at 18:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nothing wrong with Mpofu's declaration that Zanu-PF will rule forever
It is not surprising that political parties and pressure groups who are funded by the West have angrily reacted to Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu's declaration that the ruling party ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:42hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
US sanctions on Zimbabwe serving no purpose
THE United States and European Union have extended sanctions against Zimbabwe by another year amid calls by various stakeholders for a relook at the embargo, which analysts say is no longer serving it...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Dr. Obert Mpofu a hero or thief?
The question: What has Dr. Obert Moses Mpofu achieved for Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans has been asked by many people and yet met with different answers. Some have claimed without evidence that Obert Mpofu...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 12:06hrs | 7 | by Nicholas Ncube
Sanctions a divisive matter in Zimbabwe
AS Sadc mounted a fresh campaign to force the United States (US) and the European Union (EU) to lift two decades-long sanctions against Zimbabwe this week, a war of words erupted between opposition pa...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 08:27hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic maintains steady performance in first half
Stanbic Bank has transcended the macroeconomic challenges bedeviling the country to post an inflation adjusted profit after tax of ZWL 1.2 billion for the half year to June 2021.The Standard B...Published: 26 Aug 2021 at 08:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC's Dr Mashakada praises economic reforms
FORMER Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion and a key member of the MDCT party, Dr Tapiwa Mashakada has heaped praises on the country's economic revival efforts under the Second Repu...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Corruption in the Zimbabwe Republic Police a smoke without fire
In Zimbabwe, it is very rare for politicians holding ministerial positions or senior officers to resign on their own without a hint of scandal. So it has ...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 19:51hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trade unions castigate MDC led council demolitions
TRADE unions yesterday blasted the move by Harare and Chitungwiza councils to demolish structures used by informal traders to sell their wares, saying it was going to severely affect their livelihoods...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2023 increasingly looks like a lost cause for Zimbabwe opposition
POLITICAL analysts have warned that the country's opposition, and especially the MDC Alliance, risks being decimated completely ahead of the 2023 elections - unless it changes its modus operandi....Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 15:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-RBZ advisors under fire
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has slammed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s "underachieving" outgoing monetary policy committee (MPC) saying it lacked depth and expertise to driv...Published: 05 Mar 2021 at 06:57hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora appoints team to work on national dialogue strategy
OPPOSITION leader Douglas Mwonzora has now appointed a formal MDC committee to work on a strategy to engage the ruling Zanu-PF and other key stakeholders in the country, as his push for all-inclusive ...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to cut his leave
President Mnangagwa will cut his leave tomorrow to preside over the joint burial of national heroes Moton Malianga and Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba at the National Heroes' Acre, showing the importance he atta...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Malianga, Gwaradzimba
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday described the late founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Moton Dizzy Paul Malianga and Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen ...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Double burial for national heroes
Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Committee member Morton Dizzy Paul Malianga (91), who died last week, are l...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Malianga, Gwaradzimba declared national heroes
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on the late Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister Dr Ellen Gwaradzimba (60) and founding nationalist and Zanu-PF Central Co...Published: 17 Jan 2021 at 09:18hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's supporters go after Mashakada
RESIDENTS in Harare's Waterfalls suburb are baying for their MP, Tapiwa Mashakada's head and want him re-called for being an absentee legislator. The disgruntled residents, led by former radio...Published: 20 Oct 2020 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex auction system has failed, claims Mashakada
THE forex auction system introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in June this year to contain the black market and stabilise the economy has been a major failure and will not achieve targeted resul...Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 19:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Forex auction system has failed: Mashakada
THE forex auction system introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in June this year to contain the black market and stabilise the economy has been a major failure and will not achieve targeted resul...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to rescue closed mines
The government is considering a duty waiver for closed mines to allow them to retool, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said.Ncube said allowing the struggling mines to import equipment duty-f...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Former top govt official in US$5 million Zinara storm
FORMER deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet Ray Ndhlukula is in the eye of a storm after it emerged this week that he unprocedurally ordered the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
De-dollarisation fraught with risk
LATIN American countries such as Bolivia and Peru - like Zimbabwe did this week - once embarked on de-dollarisation without macro-economic stability and other necessary conditions, with the process en...Published: 30 Jun 2019 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to throw lifeline to fallen bigwigs
Reports indicate that MDC president Nelson Chamisa is set to throw a lifeline to party bigwigs sidelined during last weekend's elective Congress held in Gweru's Ascot Stadium.Chamisa has the p...Published: 29 May 2019 at 16:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC pushes to oust Mnangagwa
THE just-ended MDC congress has passed a potentially-explosive resolution that empowers its leader Nelson Chamisa to push for the ouster of President Emmerson Mnangagwa before his five-year term expir...Published: 28 May 2019 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube allocates $100m from 2% Electronic Transfer Tax towards Cyclone Idai relief and rehabilitation efforts
Social Impact of 2% Tax in action:$100 million collected from the 2% tax allocated to cover the emergency requirements for mitigating the impact of #CycloneIdai na...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 23:10hrs | 1 | by Mthuli Ncube
Mthuli Ncube allocates $100m from 2% Electronic Transfer Tax towards Cyclone Idai relief and rehabilitation efforts
$100 million collected from the 2% tax allocated to cover the emergency requirements for mitigating the impact of #CycloneIdai natural disaster, rehabilitation of hundreds of lives and restoration of ...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Prof. Mthuli Ncube
The 2pc Tax and Cyclone Idai...when what is right is not always popular
They say you can only know the true state of a car when you lift its bonnet and look inside. And so it was back in September, when I was appointed Minister of Finance, and got to take a look at the tr...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
Mthuli tax collections playing a key role in the economy
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says the Government will continue doing the right thing even when it's not popular, saying the Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT),...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's 1980 Cabinet - ages
Here are some things to PONDER onRobert Mugabe (56 yrs) - Prime MinisterSimon Muzenda (58 yrs) - Deputy Prime MinisterJoshua Nkomo (63 yrs)- Home AffairsEnos Nkala (48 yrs) - Finance...Published: 02 Apr 2019 at 13:50hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
PHOTOS: Chamisa at the burial of Dr Tapiwa Mashakada’s father
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa had to cut short his diplomatic stay in Botswana to attend the burial of Former Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion Dr Tapiwa Mashakada's father who was la...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 16:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Price stability key to economic recovery
"A more efficient management system of scarce foreign exchange is key to price stabilisation and business growth."According to the "Transitional Stabilisation Programme" (TSP), the aspirations...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Dog-eat-dog affair ensues in MDC ahead of congress
Jostling for positions has intensified in the MDC ahead of its elective congress in May.Party bigwigs are likely to take each other head-on at the congress as they battle for supremacy in the ...Published: 27 Feb 2019 at 14:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks kicked off, but not without confusion
IF you do not organise the people into productive sectors, they will organise themselves into disruptive activities.The talks about the talks have finally kicked off, but not without confusion...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:53hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Perm Sec recalled over growing rift with minister
The minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Sekai Nzenza, has surrendered back her permanent secretary, Judith Kateera, after the two clashed over the running of the crucial government ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$46million drawn-down for RGM Airport facelift
Government has drawn-down $45,9 million, representing 30 percent of the total project cost for upgrading and modernisation of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The RGM Internati...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What does the future have in store for me as a tobacco farmer or mukorokoza?
Having been a tobacco farmer for the last three years and my young brother being an artisinal gold miner, mukorokoza for a longtime we have nothing to show from our exploits except that we are wallowi...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Henry Madiro
Mangudya RBZ ouster speculation gains momentum
GOVERNMENT sources have downplayed as mere speculation reports that Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya's ouster from the apex bank is imminent.Linked with the increasingly t...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by NewZimbabwe.com
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