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Don't blame Mnangagwa for Mugabe's failures - George Charamba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesperson George Charamba has said it is funny that some Zimbabweans want to blame his boss for all the country's economic problems when most of them have root in for...Published: 6 mins ago | 26 | by Staff Reporter
FULL TEXT: RBZ statement on exchange rate
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Monetary Policy Committee has emphasized the need for the Central bank to find ways of of funding productive sectors of the economy. The Committee which met on Mon...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2073 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe still with us three years down the line
For Zimbabwe to achieve stability, there was to be a return to constitutionality. Sanity had escaped the political landscape. The operation restore legacy was not to be complete without order and a co...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1123 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Behold the 4th Chimurenga!
We do no not seek to dispense ourselves from the past. We are a product of our past. We do not seek to despise our fore bearers because we are where we are because of them. We are part of the revoluti...Published: 5 hrs ago | 2888 | by Ntokozo Msipha
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: 9 hrs ago | 3094 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe: The tragedy of gumboot Shona hegemony and dictatorship
When the colonial masters settled in Africa in the late 1700s and early 1800s, they mainly had one goal to stretch their economic prospects. In their arrival, it was numerically impossible to gather i...Published: 9 hrs ago | 775 | by Ayanda Manala
SADC to engage USA and Europe over Zimbabwe
South Africa's Minister of International Relations Naledi Pandor says the Southen African Development Cooperation must engage the United States of America and the European Union to lift the sanctions ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2498 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kasukuwere speaks on Share Ownership schemes
Exiled former Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has distanced himself from allegations that he profited from the Community Share ownership Scheme that was launched when Kasukuwere was Minister of Indiginisa...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3390 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Govt to raise passport fees
The registrar-general (RG)'s office says it will up its fees in a bid to marshal enough foreign currency needed to produce sufficient passports for Zimbabweans. This comes as the RG's office i...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3347 | 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: 12 hrs ago | 849 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF delegates accreditation starts
Accreditation of delegates expected to attend the 18th Zanu-PF Annual People's Conference to be held at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East Province will start this week, secretary for informati...Published: 12 hrs ago | 175 | by Staff reporter
'HIV wears a woman's face'
In 2001 at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the former and late UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said "HIV has the face of a woman", and for decades even up to date it still has that face!&n...Published: 12 hrs ago | 974 | by Nyasha Phanisa Sithole
Mthuli Ncube hails RBZ swift action on CBZ, Ecobank
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has praised the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for swiftly acting against two banks alleged to have allowed their depositors to make wi...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1064 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts Dubai investors
Zimbabwe intends to lure cash-rich investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to exploit opportunities in mining, tourism and manufacturing when it engages them at the 5th Global Business Forum on ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 169 | 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: 24 hrs ago | 1026 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa flies out to Dubai
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow join fellow African governments and business leaders for the 6th Global Business Forum Africa 2019 (GBFAfrica 2019) scheduled to kick off this Mo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 695 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt misses passport deadline
THE government will miss its audacious target of clearing the passport backlog by year end after it emerged that a combination of delays in shipping material and foreign currency was standing in its w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1276 | 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 | 2303 | by Ken Mufuka
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1169 | by Staff reporter
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 | 284 | by Staff reporter
Passports printing shoots up to 2000 per day
GOVERNMENT has started capacitating the department of the registrar general responsible for printing of identity and travelling documents and citizens need to be a bit patient before things return to ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 4089 | by newzimbabwe
Government underfire over MZWP
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), a technical partner in the ambitious project to draw water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo, has accused government of frustrating its efforts to woo pri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
Botswana Diamonds outlines Marange mining plans
Aim-listed Botswana Diamonds (BOD) on Friday shared details of its areas of focus and strategy for the near future.This includes the ramp-up of its South African Marsfontein operation, which p...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 356 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over city roads
BULAWAYO councillors are agonising over the city's measly road maintenance budget for the remainder of the year saying that with the rainy season setting in, the city's already bad road network will b...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
MDC demonstrates at Warriors match
AFTER being denied a chance to protest by police with the latest being at Thursday's 2020 budget presentation, MDC youths ambushed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime by demonstrating as the country...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 806 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa threatens cash barons
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:25hrs | 607 | by Staff reporter
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
POSA now history
Maintenance of Peace and Order Act (MOPA), which has been signed by President Mnangagwa into law, is expected to open up democratic space by entrenching the right to demonstrate and present petitions,...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 193 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa says economy to rebound in 2020
Zimbabwe's economy will rebound next year, as Government has set a solid foundation for growth despite being plagued by the worst drought in four decades in the 2018/2019 season, President Emmerson Mn...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers and Police must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday. Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:03hrs | 399 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda gets a border post
GOVERNMENT has designated Gwanda District's Mlambapele as an official port of entry and has set up four dry ports to decongest Beitbridge and Forbes border posts. Mlambapele connects Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2072 | by Staff reporter
Govt allocates millions to irrigation schemes
TREASURY has allocated nearly $423 million towards the development of irrigation schemes countrywide. Presenting the 2020 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 11:24hrs | 795 | by Sta Reporter
Mnangagwa warns corrupt councillors
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday issued a stern warning against corrupt councillors and council officials who divert public funds for personal use, saying Government will not hesitate to punish those cau...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 08:08hrs | 802 | by Staff Reporter
Security services must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday..Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 2218 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube disappointed
Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube says he was disappointed by the MDC Alliance Members of Parliament who snubbed his budget presentation on Thursday despite the fact...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 6108 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over bank charges
Depositors have expressed concern over the high banking charges levied by financial institutions.Speaking at a post-2020 Budget breakfast meeting co-organised by Zimpapers and ZBC in Harare th...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:20hrs | 2743 | by Staff reporter
14 Nov 2017 - a dark day that moved Zimbabwe to another level of suffering and oppression
I remember - as if it were just a few hours ago - waking up as usual at dawn on the morning of 15 November 2017, then routinely checking my WhatsApp, only to be greeted by a barrage of messages to the...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 13:48hrs | 1844 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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 | 1537 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli's budget a drop in the ocean
The 2020 budget is out but the future of the country still looks all gloom and not inspiring at all.The budget lacks clarity and is full of deception, lies and falsehoods. After austerity meas...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1579 | by Leonard Koni
Chiwenga coup generals declare war on Mnangagwa
VANCOUVER - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's military generals who were key in executing the November 2017 coup against President Robert Mugabe, have allegedly declared war on Presid...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:48hrs | 48586 | by Nancy Mabaya
What they said about 2020 budget
FORMER Finance minister and now MDC vice president Tendai Biti:"A budget of $63 billion is an illusion and unachievable, but also reflects extent of hyperinflation. The Pre-Budget Strategy Pap...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2281 | by Staff reporter
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 | 1189 | 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 | 908 | by Amos Mazambani
Local authorities stifling business growth: Industry
MANY local authorities in Zimbabwe are using archaic laws and municipal by-laws that do not take into account the changing business environment and globalisation, a situation that has made it difficul...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
MDC snubs Mnangagwa to bury cadres
THE opposition MDC yesterday continued with its protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy and snubbed the 2020 national budget presentation over his presence in Parliament.All...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 686 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economic crisis breeding ground for human trafficking
Zimbabwe's worsening socio-economic crisis creating a breeding ground for human trafficking, key stakeholders dealing with immigration and human trafficking have revealed. This emerged during ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:21hrs | 122 | 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 | 337 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1669 | 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 | 266 | by Staff reporter
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