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'Zimbabwe economy among the least free globally'
Zimbabwe's economy remains among the least free globally, according to the Fraser Institute's newly released Economic Freedom Country Audit Zimbabwe (EFCAZ). The Canadian public policy think-tank, ren...Published: 08 Nov 2024 at 07:02hrs | 668 | by Staff reporter
Three African stars to look out for at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar
With Qatar 2022 almost among us, there will be another five African teams competing on international football's biggest stage. Senegal, Morocco and Tunisia feature in their second successive World Cup...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 15:07hrs | 20 | by Staff Reporter
Central bank and monetary policy independence
The government of Zimbabwe recently dissolved the inaugural Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) that had been appointed in September 2019 and swiftly appointed a new team to fill up the void. The committe...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 22:34hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
The new Zimdollar: What could go wrong?
ZIMBABWE last week made its interim currency, the RTGS dollar, the country's sole legal tender, drawing the curtains on a decade of United States dollar dominance. Harare was forced to abandon its own...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Ed Stoddard
All hail Mthuli, Zimdollar will boost competitiveness
The rate at which the black market value of the RTGS dollar (now Zimbabwean Dollar) has been fast sliding against the US dollar was no longer sustainable and the move by Government to abolish the mult...Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Communist Party May day Statement 2019
Revolutionary Greetings to all Zimbabwean working people from the National Steering Committee of the ZCP. As Proletarian Internationalists we extend our revolutionary greetings to workers, communists ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 14:07hrs | 4 | by ZCP
Zimbabweans ranked happier than Rwandans, Batswana and Malawians
The World Happiness Report has been released and Zimbabwe ranks close to the bottom ten, lower than neighbours Mozambique and Zambia. However, Zimbabweans have been ranked happier than Rwandans, Batsw...Published: 21 Mar 2019 at 11:14hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to hike public sector salaries
A Zimbabwean businessman has urged government to raise wages in a bid to prevent the meagre income of public sector workers becoming a source of anger for citizens.In a letter to President Emm...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe has adequate fuel stocks, claims Gumbo
ENERGY minister Joram Gumbo says Zimbabwe has adequate fuel stocks, despite the reemergence of queues, and blamed social media for causing panic among motorists.Fuel queues, which had disappea...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwe bond note survives
ZIMBABWE'S surrogate bond note currency will continue to circulate as Treasury says it will maintain the 1:1 parity between local money and the greenback. This is despite the disparity in exchange rat...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Africa could be the next frontier for cryptocurrency
Experts say conditions on the continent are great for virtual currency Interest in cryptocurrency, a form of digital currency, is growing steadily in...Published: 06 Jun 2018 at 14:44hrs | | by Pavithra Rao
List of observers that Mnangagwa will invite
A list of observers that Govt will invite for 2018 elections. It includes 46 countries; the EU, US and Commonwealth. Also on the proposed list is US Senator Flake, one of the 'ZDERA' Senators ...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 18:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Prophet TB Joshua as you have NEVER seen him!
An inspiring documentary detailing the recent visit of Nigerian Prophet T.B. Joshua to the South American nation of Ecuador has been released on YouTube, showing rare footage of the cleric's adventuro...Published: 28 Jun 2017 at 14:09hrs | 43 | by Ihechukwu Njoku
Zimdollar return imminent?
If visibility and predictability are two foundations upon which stable financial markets are built, comments from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last week on the adoption of bond notes as ...Published: 17 Apr 2017 at 11:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
RBZ's cash-back headache
A directive by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for retailers to cap cash-back facilities at $20 a day will not resolve the cash crisis, analysts said on Friday, advocating the introduction ...Published: 16 Apr 2017 at 17:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes spark panic withdrawals
PANIC cash withdrawals, sparked by fears over the impending introduction of bond notes by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, have affected many banks in the country, with most of them now struggling to ser...Published: 09 Oct 2016 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Earthquake shake Chipinge
Residents in Chipinge and surrounding areas were on Thursday night awoken by tremors after an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale hit Mozambique.The earthquake, according to US G...Published: 24 Sep 2016 at 17:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
TB Joshua Receives Humanitarian Award In Israel
The statement below was published on TB Joshua's official Facebook Page yesterday. I felt it was newsworthy, hence my decision to send it to you alongside pictures:After the recent earthquake ...Published: 22 Aug 2016 at 16:39hrs | 1 | by TB Joshua Ministries
Zimbabwe's Andrew Peebles wins semi-final!
Zimbabwe rowing star Andrew Graham Peebles has won his section of the semi-final E/F men’s sculls.He came first to qualify for the Final E set for Friday.Peebles had the fastest ...Published: 09 Aug 2016 at 17:19hrs | 1 | by Sports reporter
Geek to gun-runner: the super-villain with Zimbabwean links
Cape Town - He established hothouses in lawless Somalia, protecting them with a private militia to grow opium poppies, cocaine and other narcotic substances under scientifically controlled conditions....Published: 11 Apr 2016 at 10:09hrs | 13 | by Ivor Powell
Harvard Beckons - Fashion designer Pam Samasuwo-Nyawiri receives scholarship to top Ivy League University!
Award Winning Designer and African Fashion Advocate Pamela Samasuwo-Nyawiri has received a scholarship to Harvard to do a PhD. Pamela, who is a journalist by trade, having always been ins...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 09:37hrs | 1 | by Tidi Kwidini
Julian Assange sex assault inquiry to be dropped
Swedish prosecutors will drop their investigation into sexual assault allegations against Julian Assange on Thursday because of the statutes of limitation, the BBC has learned.The Wikileaks fo...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 19:54hrs | | by BBC
Welshman Ncube on Friday: It Maybe Free, But Someone Pays For It
In the early 1980s, I was a young man in my twenties listening and reading with keen interest as nationalist politicians promised us unlimited access to free education, health and such other thing...Published: 03 Jul 2015 at 10:26hrs | | by Prof Welshman Ncube
Mugabe invited to Africa-South America Summit
A special envoy of the President of Ecuador Mr Rafael Correa, Mr Jose Maria Guijarro Garcia, delivered a special message inviting President Robert Mugabe to the next Africa-South America Summit to be ...Published: 03 Mar 2015 at 21:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 'coins conundrum'
Nobody wanted the Zimbabwe dollar, so the country dumped it for the US dollar in 2009 to stave off economic collapse and sky-rocketing hyperinflation.Now nobody wants the "bond coins" it put i...Published: 08 Jan 2015 at 12:38hrs | | by Reuters
Bond coins or not there is just no going back
February 2015 will mark six years since Zimbabwe adopted the multi-currency monetary system, commonly referred to as dollarization. The move was in response to the chaotic hyperinflationary period tha...Published: 05 Jan 2015 at 10:45hrs | 2 | by Perry Munzwembiri
Retailers to use RBZ Special Bond coins
The Retailers Association of Zimbabwe says its members have accepted the special bond coins unveiled recently by the country's central bank designed to ease change problems faced by members of the pub...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 08:12hrs | | by Gibbs Dube
'I fear Zimdollar return,' says RBZ Boss
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has ruled out the return of the local currency saying he personally fear the return of the Zimbabwe Dollar. This comes amid some suspicio...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimdollar' reintroduction likely to be tough
THE dumping of the local currency in 2009 in favour of the multicurrency regime was bittersweet in that it halted hyperinflation but at the same time created a liquidity crunch in the economy. It is w...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by AfrAsia Kingdom
Ministers abuse Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe has unknowingly been introduced to international fraudsters, who come as investors, by some of his top ministers and close associates, Daily News reported.This ...Published: 07 Jan 2014 at 11:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Emirates SkyCargo Completes Another Remarkable Year
HARARE - Emirates SkyCargo, one of the largest and most progressive air cargo operators globally, has achieved another successful year and major milestones over the past twelve months. In ...Published: 06 Jan 2014 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Moyo Roy
Emirates circles the globe over 18,000 times in 2013
Nearly 46 million meals loaded on flights leaving Dubai HARARE - Emirates' aircraft flew around the world more than 18,000 times in 2013, unde...Published: 31 Dec 2013 at 05:41hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Ecuador refuses to bow to U.S. pressure over Edward Snowden
Defiant authorities in Ecuador say they won't bow to U.S. pressure as they weigh former NSA contractor Edward Snowden's request for asylum.Ecuador's president and other top officials said Thur...Published: 28 Jun 2013 at 12:30hrs | 1 | by CNN
Fugitive US intelligence leaker vanishes in Russia
Moscow - Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden on Monday vanished in Moscow after failing to take a flight to Cuba on which he was booked, as Washington demanded that Moscow expel him back to...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 19:43hrs | 1 | by AFP
Why would Edward Snowden head for Ecuador?
The man who has admitted to leaking classified documents about U.S. surveillance programs appears to have his sights set on Ecuador.Edward Snowden, who is charged with espionage in the Un...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 04:10hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Edward Snowden heading to Moscow
Former US intelligence technician Edward Snowden is en route from Hong Kong to Moscow heading to a third destination, according to a report."US whistleblower Edward Snowden has left Hong Kon...Published: 23 Jun 2013 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe warriors move three places up in the Fifa World rankings
The Warriors have moved three places up the FIFA ladder following latest rankings released by the world football mother body this Thursday.Zimbabwe is now ranked number 102 in the world, up fr...Published: 06 Jun 2013 at 18:36hrs | | by Sports reporter
Warriors plummet in the Fifa rankings
THE Zimbabwe Warriors dropped four places on the world stage and one place on the African continent despite not kicking a ball in the period under review.According to the Fifa/Coca-Cola worl...Published: 09 May 2013 at 14:26hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe Warriors drop down rankings after Egypt loss
THE Zimbabwe Warriors have dropped one place on the world stage and did not move on the African continent in the latest Fifa/Coca-Cola World Rankings released by the governing body from their headquar...Published: 11 Apr 2013 at 08:23hrs | | by Moyo Roy
UK withdraws threat to enter Ecuador's embassy in London
The United Kingdom has withdrawn a threat to enter Ecuador's embassy in London to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange who has taken refuge there, the Ecuadorian president has said....Published: 26 Aug 2012 at 04:02hrs | 1 | by AJ
Ecuador embassy invasion 'would be suicide for UK'
The UK would be committing diplomatic suicide if it tried to enter his country's embassy in London, Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has said.The president said such a move would open up the...Published: 21 Aug 2012 at 05:17hrs | | by BBC
UK police surround the Ecuadorian embassy in London
London - According to @wikileaks on Twitter the Ecuadorian Embassy has been surrounded by five police vans and a helicopter is hovering above the Ecuadoria...Published: 16 Aug 2012 at 08:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's debt problem - a ticking time bomb
Zimbabwe's ever growing debt problem, if left unresolved soon, is arguably a ticking time bomb that could trigger civil strife and instability in the not so distant future.While RBZ Governor G...Published: 04 Jul 2012 at 08:22hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Julian Assange seeks political asylum in Ecuador
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is reportedly seeking political asylum in Ecuador the BBC reported on Tuesday night.According to the BBC, Assange sought political asylum at the country's Lond...Published: 19 Jun 2012 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
War against racist myths of 'democracy'
There is a white racist myth of "democracy" which has taken root among certain groups in Zimbabwe in the last 15 years or so. It has been promoted through foreign-funded NGOs and foreign-sponsored med...Published: 12 Jun 2011 at 10:04hrs | | by Tafataona Mahoso
Manchester United striker reveals he nearly quit football
Javier Hernandez has made a terrific impact since joining Manchester United, scoring 20 goals in his first season in English football to claim the Premier League title and help his club to the Champio...Published: 18 May 2011 at 07:38hrs | | by Goal
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