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Zimbabwe's multi-millionaire oligarchs living dream lives

I have often told foreign diplomats who are assigned to serve their countries in Zimbabwe and visiting specialists, that we specialise in confusing foreigners. But this confusion is found even among our own people and Government. So here I…

Published: 08 Oct 2025 at 14:22hrs | 872 | by Eddie Cross

ZANU-PF feverish defence of Chinese looting proves Zimbabwe now a colony!

A few days ago, renowned economist and former member of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee, Eddie Cross, made some interesting revelations. He claimed that there are now over 85,000 Chinese nationals residing in Z…

Published: 09 Jan 2025 at 16:20hrs | 1344 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

85 000 Chinese nationals now living in Zimbabwe

I was astonished to hear the other day that there are now over 85 000 Chinese nationals living in Zimbabwe. I questioned this estimate and was told no, its real. What on earth are they doing here? They are not migrants; they all want to go…

Published: 30 Dec 2024 at 19:15hrs | 934 | by Eddie Cross

Eddies Cross insists Mnangagwa won 2023 elections, defying SADC. Americans sussed out MDC leaders are 'flawed' back in 2007!

Mr Eddie Cross, former MDC MP and confidant of MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai reiterated his claim on Denny J Show that Mnangagwa won the 2018 and 2023 Zimbabwe elections. This is an outrage!Comrade Cross and his MDC/CCC friends were elected…

Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 21:15hrs | 1090 | by Wilbert Mukori

Why US sanctions on Zimbabwe 'have not worked'

The United States is a global superpower. Its political and economic reach is massive and global in character. Look back in history and you can see how the US has so often made real changes to the world economy and political dispensation.I…

Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 19:54hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe slowing getting back to its feet at 43

IN 1893 my ancestors raised the Union Jack in a place they called Salisbury, in the middle of what is now called southern Africa. That is 130 years ago and for the next 87 years this tiny group of white settlers ruled the country they call…

Published: 05 Sep 2023 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

Can Afrikaners save South Africa?

I AM not a South African, so I venture into their space with trepidation because I know how sensitive these things are. But I am an African and a keen observer of events that affect all of us who live in the south of the continent. Last we…

Published: 24 May 2023 at 06:03hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

Cowboy country

I DO not get away very often but right now I am in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, which is my wife's home base. We have not been here for seven years and the changes and challengers are very visible. We tend to forget that not long ago th…

Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:26hrs | 14 | by Eddie Cross

Family crisis in the West

I KNOW this is sensitive  ground and most people avoid commenting on, but I think it is too important to the world and our own families and society to just brush it aside as another feature of a failed society.Society in the West has …

Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | 7 | by Eddie Cross

Understanding the collapse of Zimbabwe

THE first two decades that followed the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980 were characterised by a number of major developments. Government expanded social services such as health and education â€” the total number of schools was increased f…

Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 12 | by Eddie Cross

Southern African power crisis stems from post-liberation history

THE electrical power crisis that has enveloped southern Africa has its roots in our post-liberation history. Prior to that, the utilities created by the States of southern Africa exhibited considerable foresight and planning. This was led …

Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Eddie Cross

The importance of parastatals

WHEN State-managed institutions work well they are often not recognised or rewarded and are taken for granted. When they fail, everyone suffers the consequences.At independence in 1980, 40% of Zimbabwe's GDP was created by publicly-owned a…

Published: 27 Sep 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Eddie Cross

The destructive force of corruption

IN my business life I have handled several billion dollars of revenue and expenditure over a period of 65 years. In that time, I have been blatantly approached and asked for a bribe once â€” by a local politician who was the governor of th…

Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | 5 | by Eddie Cross

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 analysis.Beyond the reading, however, the …

Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 19:32hrs | 8 | by Jameson Dapi

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 the rate charged was ZW$120 to US$1. In the auc…

Published: 28 May 2021 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

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 area produces over 80% of all world food a…

Published: 16 Apr 2021 at 07:58hrs | 1 | by Eddie cross

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 meetings were irregular, largely driven by the…

Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | 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 irregular, largely driven by the Ministers nee…

Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 18:10hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

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 saw the second plane fly into the twin towers on …

Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

The issue of Zimbabwe debt

THIS past Sunday, our church sermon was taken from Nehemiah Chapter 10 and focused on the instructions given to the tribes of Israel which had returned to Israel from exile in Babylon about 400 years before Christ. It is clear from this ac…

Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:50hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on

THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use that huge power and influence on?We, as a …

Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

The perfect storm is coming

I do not know what we have to say or do to get those in authority here to get them to understand that if they do nothing, Zimbabwe is headed for a political storm which could change everything or even sink the ship. I am regarded as a perp…

Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 11:56hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe - Where did that come from?

Statutory Instrument 142 - Monday June 24, 2019 will go down as one of those days you remember.I have just read the Zimbabwe Independent for this week, it was all about the "return of the Zimbabwe dollar". Since Monday, this has been the o…

Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube must 'unscramble the egg and go back to the basics'

I THOUGHT we had seen everything that this country of ours could throw at us, but the situation right now looks like nothing we have seen before.Prices have quadrupled and continue to rise inexorably. Incomes remain fixed or at least only …

Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross turns against Mnangagwa

I thought we had seen everything that this country of ours could throw at us, but the situation right now looks like nothing we have seen before. Prices have quadrupled and continue to rise inexorably, incomes remain fixed or at least only…

Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 11:39hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Strategic planning, management needed in our electrical energy sector

Just after the Second World War, political leaders in what was Southern Rhodesia started to think about how they would meet the needs of the country for electrical energy.After that, the debate raged between Northern and Southern Rhodesia …

Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe economic update with Economist Eddie Cross

We are now 9 months into the Transitional Stabilisation Program and a great deal has been achieved. Let's summarize:* We have eliminated the Fiscal deficit that was the main driver in the past 5 years under Mr. Mugabe, of inflation and ris…

Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 16:56hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

Where is Mnangagwa taking us to?

I DROVE up the window of the tollgate and the man on duty asked me: "Eddie, where are we going?" He was not asking what my destination was, but where did I think the country was going.Last night my daughter attended a parents' meeting at t…

Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe needs a weak currency to stimulate production, exports

Shortly after the government was sworn in August 2018, they agreed to an economic and monetary reform programme. Since then, much of this ambitious plan has been implemented and the consequences have been a sharp deterioration in living st…

Published: 17 Apr 2019 at 07:15hrs | 3 | by Eddie Cross

Light is shining at the end of the Zimbabwe tunnel

Today Zimbabwe reminded me why I think this is such an amazing place to live. I woke just after 5am, outside it was crisp, dew on the grass and the birds just waking up with me â€“ a pair of Robins serenading each other from the bottom of …

Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:29hrs | 3 | by Eddie Cross

How not to win hearts and minds

In a country that is used to turmoil, the month of January will go down as a period when we literally shot ourselves in the foot.The 2017 November coup  brought to a close 38 years of dictatorial administration under former President …

Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

The crisis in world leadership

We all have very short memories. Looking back over the 20th Century, we can see how a global conflict like the First World War can break out over what seems like a tiny, inconsequential incident in Austria. The key national leaders of the …

Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:26hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

Many of our leaders are just like that baboon

We seem to have been putting up with a lousy government, forever besetted corruption, nonsensical monetary and macroeconomic policies forever. First, we had the Rhodesian government from 1960 onwards, which resulted in the imposition of ma…

Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:21hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

The Outlook for 2019 is Dismal - unless?

I was called by a major local newspaper this past week and asked what my view of 2019 was? I laughed at the question because right now I do not think anyone could tell you what is going on, let alone predict 2019. Then I had coffee with tw…

Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 17:05hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross

Exchange control is the central problem facing Zimbabwe at present

BY introducing exchange control via the Reserve Bank, the State has done the following:     Created a system to â€˜sweepâ€™ some US$3 billion in direct foreign earnings into the nostro accounts of the bank. This amounts…

Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Which fundamentals require attention?

There is a real sense of despair in the country. Perhaps it is a left over from the heady days when we celebrated the final departure of former President Robert Mugabe from office and welcomed a 'new' government, then the elections and swe…

Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:09hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross mourns George Bush

George Bush senior died this morning. I met him once, when as Vice President he visited Harare and I was invited to a reception for him. My other indelible memory of the man was watching the GOP Convention where he was confirmed as the Pre…

Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Eddie Cross

'Our economic fundamentals are sound' - not whilst remain a pariah state

It is John Acton who said, "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." In countries like Zimbabwe where the great majority of the people have no clue what is going on it is not sur…

Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 07:33hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai

Opinion: Perspective . . .

SEEING things in perspective has never been more important in Zimbabwe. If we fail to do so, our view of the current problems we are encountering will be distorted and we may all make decisions we later regret.Eddie CrossWhen people went o…

Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Money is the root of all evil

We all use money every day and yet few of us really understand what these bits of paper or cotton or simply figures in a ledger really mean. But we know the stuff is important.In economic terms, the answer is actually quite simple, the stu…

Published: 12 Nov 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Overhaul social security

I GOT a phone call from a man in Bulawayo who said he wanted to see me on a personal matter. We arranged to meet and he told me that he had worked for a major and well-known company for 40 years. The company in question is a US multination…

Published: 02 Oct 2018 at 09:47hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Eddie Cross insensitive to rape victims

Editor, The statement by Eddie Cross that  "We have to be careful about dropping our pants - we may get raped!" betrays how insensitive he is to victims of human rights abuses. The statement so irrelevant and so irreverently assumes t…

Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by ZimRights

The dilemma facing Zimbabwe

A new year has dawned and I think all Zimbabweans suffered over this past festive season from a hangover caused by the unscheduled departure of Robert Mugabe from the presidency.Former president Robert Mugabe had built a dynasty that contr…

Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross, economic analyst

The cross of Eddie Cross

The Former Rhodie's Cross of shameful groveling at the expense of Matebeleland stinks to the high heavens. Obliviously blind to the vote that gave him that so-called MDC-T seat in parliament, he is on tribal steroids to annihilate what he …

Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Njabulo Sibanda

Reflections on tribalism in Zimbabwe

OVER a 1000 years ago three of my distant relatives who were tribal leaders on the Scottish Border with England, were taken prisoner by English troops and hanged for treason. Their crime? Supporting Robert, the Bruce in his struggle with E…

Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:04hrs | 3 | by Eddie Cross is MDC MP for Bulawayo South

Why Eddie Cross's 'Mugabe dead' mind therapy should happen every week

Life needs some specialised tools to counter some stresses which could cause stroke, dementia or death. Some people drink beer to try and forget stressful situations. Some go to church and listen to the message of hope which tells us not t…

Published: 07 Sep 2016 at 22:11hrs | 2 | by Venus Mlalazi

Mr Eddie Cross - you owe Mugabe an apology

MR Eddie Cross - the opposition Movement for Democratic Change chief whip - on Friday wrote a lengthy article on his blog in which he blatantly claimed that President Mugabe was incapacitated after allegedly suffering a stroke.Without a sh…

Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff writer

Open letter to Eddie Cross

Mr. Cross, I read with great interest your latest article lambasting the interference on local government affairs by the minister, especially MDC-T run city councils, as he has been supposedly uncompromisingly disruptive.  I read with…

Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 09:17hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Ndabambi

Eddie Cross crosses the line

Recently Mr Eddie Cross of the MDC-T penned an article in which he attempted to analyse the crucial milestones in the Zimbabwean journey towards self-destruction. In his analysis he deliberately distorted information about ZAPU by making a…

Published: 11 Oct 2014 at 06:54hrs | 3 | by Thulani Nkala and Themba Mthethwa

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Harare chicken farmer loses 250 birds and US$1,500 to scam

Ledwaba misapplied Rule 62(7): Was CR17 unlawfully sealed?

Varakashi4ED condemns 'calculated arson for donor sympathy'

South Africa pushing to deport more undocumented migrants

MP Mangondo raises alarm over rural road conditions as rainy season begins

Ibbo Mandaza's Sapes Trust premises firebombed

Dangote's visit to Zimbabwe gets Mnangagwa greenlight

Zera, ZETDC iron out proposed private sector power retail deal

Landmark ruling clears way for fraud lawsuit

Bulawayo steps up crackdown on illegal vendors

Cop arrested for selling 30 police uniforms

Victoria Falls, Chirundu borders to operate 24 hours

400 000 houses to get private sector electricity connection

Bulawayo water shortages a critical problem

Nyambirai stirs succession troubled waters

Zanu PF appoints new Director General

Dangote to invest US$1 billion in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe speeds up mercury phase-out

Girls warned against visiting 'prophets' alone

Domestic worker fined for assaulting employer's toddler

Baby dies after slipping from mother's back as parents fight

Govt approves 5,000 health posts to boost sector capacity

Police arrest suspect in fatal shooting of officer

Minister's aide arrested over gun at Zanu PF Conference

Mnangagwa critic arrested in US$10,000 trap

Chivayo gifts comedian US$150,000 for 'making Mnangagwa laugh'

Dembare edge Bosso on penalties

Man rapes woman at axe point

Security guards convicted for stealing company truck

US flags Zimbabwe's rigid labour laws