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Why I wrote Mnangagwa book
Former MDC politician Eddie Cross says he could not turn down an opportunity to write President Emmerson Mnangagwa's autobiography because he was impressed with his attitude.Cross (EC), the au...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:34hrs | 455 | by Staff reporter
President E D Mnangagwa @ 79 and overcoming the struggle in transition
The surfeit of one's proximity to a hero has a tendency of dissuading them from appreciating their rarely accorded access to greatness — such is the descriptive parable of the privilege I have to se...Published: 19 Sep 2021 at 08:16hrs | 77 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu
Zimbabwe prices near regional parity
PRICES of basic commodities in Zimbabwe are approaching parity with those in neighbouring South Africa and other parts of the region, with some goods actually now priced lower on the domestic market, ...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | 293 | by Staff reporter
Viral message on Zimbabwe civil servants trips to SA is fake
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima yesterday admitted that civil servants could not afford locally made products and recommended that government sponsors them to buy cheaper goods in neighbouring Sou...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1968 | by Staff reporter
Another lie exposed in Mnangagwa biography?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography by his newfound ally, Eddie Cross, has yet another major distortion which borders on lies on what happened after the former vice-president had been fired by hi...Published: 10 Sep 2021 at 18:54hrs | 2891 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's new biography confirms political brinkmanship with Chiwenga
THE political war of attrition between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga has found expression in the President's controversial new biography as internecine unresolved le...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 06:52hrs | 4598 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa removed Chiwenga from army to prevent another coup - Book
The book that President Emmerson Mnangagwa colourfully endorsed recently claims he removed Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from the army to avoid another military coup.'A Life of Sacrifice...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 08:19hrs | 5263 | by Staff reporter
Chris Mutsvangwa's Presidential ambitions exposed
Norton member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has sensationally claimed that War Veterans leader Christopher Mutsvangwa tried to convince the former Zimbabwe National Army General Edzai Chimonyo to support...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 10:14hrs | 7801 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's heroics myth explodes after 56 years
THE now hackneyed phrase that "the first casualty of war is truth" has been attributed to many prominent people – from the father of Greek tragedy Aeschylus to United States senator Hiram Warren Joh...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 21:28hrs | 1551 | by Staff reporter
Book exposes Mnangagwa, Chiwenga rift
Z1MBABWEAN-born associate professor at the University of Oxford, Miles Tendi has poked holes into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's biography and exposed the widening rift between the Zanu-PF leader and ...Published: 28 Aug 2021 at 05:59hrs | 5942 | by Staff reporter
Controversial pipeline deal to balloon to US$4 billion
FRESH details on the controversial US$1.3 billion new pipeline project, whose implementation is being spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political and business cronies, have emerged showing...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 13:07hrs | 729 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross a victim of petty conceit
SELF-ADMIRATION, an I-know-all obsession misleads one into self-destruction. Supremacism when self-crafted and entrenched breads arrogance, adamance and waywardness.I suggest Eddie Cross must ...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1949 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
The MDC Alliance's warped view of democracy
Over a week ago, President Mnangagwa launched his biography, "A Life of Sacrifice". As expected, his detractors like journalist Hopewell Chin'ono and self-exiled G40 kingpin, Professor Jonathan ...Published: 16 Aug 2021 at 06:40hrs | 366 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zezuru hardliners blocked Mnangagwa from becoming Defence minister
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's previous ambition of becoming the country's Defence minister was blocked by the ethnically driven politics of hawkish Zezuru stalwarts in the ruling Zanu-PF, a new book ...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:38hrs | 5488 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa associates behind the US$1.3 billion mega deal
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's political and business cronies, including his new associate Eddie Cross, are behind the new US$1.3 billion megabucks petroleum products pipeline project – whose cost h...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:27hrs | 2959 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora labels Jonathan Moyo as yesterday politician
MDC-T President Douglas Mwonzora has mocked former Zanu-PF chief propagandist Professor Jonathan Moyo saying he was far from being clever as a political strategist.Mwonzora, whose party has a ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 19:06hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans new US$1.3bn oil pipeline, finally ending Feruka monopoly
Zimbabwe plans to build a second US$1.3 billion oil pipeline to supply fuel into the country and the region, a deal that would end years of lobbying and rivalry between powerful oil interests....Published: 11 Aug 2021 at 21:29hrs | 1169 | by newzwire
Forex backlog to be cleared in one month
The Government - through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) - intends to clear the foreign currency backlog at the auction system within a month-and-a-half, Secretary for Finance Geo...Published: 09 Aug 2021 at 07:33hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa savages Miles Tendi over Mnangagwa book criticism
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's former advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa has launched a scathing attack on UK-based academic and biographer Blessing Miles Tendi over his criticism of the recently publishe...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:14hrs | 2201 | by Staff reporter
Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much,...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 1275 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's new Gukurahundi whitewash
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's controversial biography, A Life of Sacrifice, which trended upon its launch this week – mainly for the wrong reasons – has many shades of grey, but it does not compl...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 18:26hrs | 1638 | by Staff reporter
'Army must delink itself from ZANU PF' Jonathan Moyo says
Exiled former cabinet minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has called upon the Zimbabwe Service Chiefs to delink themselves from the ruling party ZANU PF and protect the gains of the liberation struggle. ...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 17:47hrs | 1815 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's book sells 50k copies on launch
MORE than 50 000 copies of President Mnangagwa biography, that details the liberation struggle, his sacrifice, betrayal by fellow comrades, hopes and aspirations, were snapped up yesterday as Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Aug 2021 at 07:38hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross pens Mnangagwa's biography
Former MDC-T policy advisor Mr Eddie Cross authored, 'A Life of Sacrifice', the biography of President Emmerson Mnangagwa which was officially unveiled today at the State House in Harare.The M...Published: 05 Aug 2021 at 12:59hrs | 4205 | by Staff Reporter
Mr Cross's zeal with limited knowledge, a danger to macro-economic stability
Mr Eddie Cross's article titled "Challenges facing the foreign exchange auction" made a lot of casual reading amusement, especially for those amongst us uninitiated in the domain of macro-economic ana...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:32hrs | 992 | by Jameson Dapi
Challenges facing Zimbabwe's foreign exchange auction
IT is clear that the auction for foreign exchange is in trouble. The arrears now stand at over US$200 million. That is equivalent to nearly Z$18 billion and the delays are having a serious impact on c...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1052 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe yet to enact laws to curb mineral smuggling
WHILE deliberations continue over joining an international group formed to reduce corruption in mining countries, Zimbabwe continues to lose billions of dollars from the smuggling of extracted resourc...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:35hrs | 83 | by Staff reporter
Naming, shaming, SI 127 key for market discipline
NAMING, shaming and imposing heavy penalties against entities caught abusing funds obtained from the auction will reinforce the platform's role as the preferred mechanism of distributing the scarce fo...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 08:53hrs | 763 | by Staff Reporter
What are we really worth?
Recently I had breakfast with three friends and we were charged at the rate of ZW$115 to US$1 for our food, which was priced in US dollars.later I had coffee with another group of friends and ...Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | 911 | by Eddie Cross
90% of Zimbabwe's forex in formal market
ABOUT 90 percent of the country's foreign currency is now circulating in the formal market thereby stabilising the exchange rate and stimulating economic growth, Finance and Economic Development Minis...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:09hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is a lousy politician and communicator'
Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa who came to power in November 2017 has done a good job in transforming the country's economy in the past three-and-a-half years but the world does not know this b...Published: 06 May 2021 at 10:00hrs | 3987 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa thinks Zimbabwe economy is showing rapid growth
Zimbabwe is on a path to rapid socio-economic growth driven mainly by measures put in place to boost production, which has risen remarkably across various sectors of the economy in the last few months...Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:11hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF bigwigs' debts choke CSC
A Cold storage Company (CSC) debtors' list shows that Zanu-PF top officials renting the parastatal's farms owe hundreds of thousands of dollars to the ailing company, with revenue collections dropping...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 08:03hrs | 675 | by Staff reporter
Land tenure reform to transform Zimbabwe rapidly
Two historical notes confirm the importance of land tenure and secure property rights. In the world today, only 18% of all agricultural land is privately-owned under freehold title. Yet this small are...Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1136 | by Eddie cross
'Informal sector is 70% GPD but remitting paltry 1% in taxes' - get nothing from taxing imaginary wealth, common sense
"Shocking evidence of tax leakages hogged the limelight this week, with Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube saying the informal sector, which makes up 70% of Zimbabwe's gross domest...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 21:38hrs | 748 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Zanu-PF bigwigs in fresh trouble
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has launched a fresh investigation into allegations that Zanu-PF bigwigs unjustly benefited from lengthy leases from the ailing Cold Storage Company (CSC...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:27hrs | 10740 | by Staff reporter
Private sector-led growth
Two years ago, the new Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube brought together a small group of local business persons in an informal advisory group.I was privileged to be included. our...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 742 | by Eddie Cross
Zimdollar to remain stable
TWO years ago, the new Minister of Finance in Zimbabwe brought together a small group of local business persons in an informal advisory group. I was privileged to be included.Our meetings were...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 619 | by Eddie Cross
West's Zimbabwean political project crumbling
There is an interesting quotation from the Old Man in Charles Mungoshi's "Waiting for the Rain" (1975). It is a quotation that epitomises his lament about the alienation that has afflicted Lucifer, hi...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 06:13hrs | 419 | by Ranga Mataire
'Gold to Zimbabwe what oil is to Nigeria, can turn around our fortunes' - not whilst US$1.2b p.a. lost to smugglers
On 3 March 2016 President Mugabe admitted that the nation had lost $15 billion worth of diamonds because of the looting and plunder in Marange and Chiadzwa."This kind of plunder must immediate...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 09:42hrs | 486 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
New RBZ Monetary Policy Committee members named
Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, on Sunday, appointed five new members to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The new members,...Published: 23 Feb 2021 at 06:42hrs | 1141 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's $50 note imminent
Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that it would shortly introduce a $50 note, while raising cash withdrawal limits to Z$2,000 per day from Z$1,000.The central bank also lifted its main lending ra...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 22:30hrs | 1674 | by Staff reporter
Top banker Jinya makes grand return
IT is an appointment that many least expected. But ex-Nedbank managing director (MD) Charity Jinya made a surprise return to the country's banking industry on Saturday after Finance minister Mthuli Nc...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 21:43hrs | 1820 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean banks strike forex auction settlement deal
ZIMBABWE's banking system has agreed to settle funds allocated at the foreign currency auction system within two weeks, central bank governor John Mangudya has said.Introduced in June 2020 to ...Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 07:06hrs | 1277 | by Staff reporter
Eddie Cross quits
LEADING economist Eddie Cross has quit his role as a member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) less than two years into the role, Zimbabwe Independent reported....Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:14hrs | 7133 | by Staff reporter
Was November 2017 a false start for Zimbabwe?
THEN there was the incident in New York on 9/11, I drove into the garden of my daughter and her husband and they shouted at me to come and see what was happening.I walked into the house and sa...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1123 | by Eddie Cross
'Forex enough to stabilise rate'
The exchange rate of the Zimbabwean dollar against the US dollar will continue to hold steady on the weekly auction market because the country is earning enough forex to support critical imports, the ...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:34hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
RBZ still optimistic about low inflation
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr John Mangudya, remains confident authorities will be able to maintain a lid on prices to curtail potential relapse into runaway inflation, following worrying incr...Published: 10 Feb 2021 at 05:29hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
State entities dominate forex allocations, says Cross
STATE firms and government departments are collecting a significant amount of funds allocated at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s foreign currency auction system weekly, crowding out the private s...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:03hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Mr Cross: Silence cannot be misquoted
In September 2019, Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, appointed a nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) to influence the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s monetary...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 08:28hrs | 3927 | by Dr Tim Rainhard
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