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No quick solutions to electricity, fuel shortages: Coltart
In our previous edition we carried a Q&A with former Education minister David Coltart where he spoke about the culture of political violence in Zimbabwe and how it has also influenced the MDC....Published: 11 secs ago | | by Staff reporter
'Austerity ends in 2019,' says Muthuli Ncube
While Government has instituted a batch of key macro-economic reforms since late last year, which analysts say have set the economy for recovery and sustainable growth, the chief architect of the chan...Published: 10 hrs ago | 2307 | by Staff reporter
When Excellencies grace Chitungwiza shebeen
What a couple of weeks of diplomatic intrigue.Epoch-making, maybe.Hallelujah! Praise be to the living God!We had desperately reckless American diplomats abandoning their airy a...Published: 10 hrs ago | 239 | by Bishop Lazi
Zimbabwe's re-engagement bearing fruits
The United Kingdom is a critical cog in Zimbabwe's efforts to re-integrate into the community of nations following years of isolation in the First Republic. As the former colonial power, the United Ki...Published: 10 hrs ago | 132 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Sables on a roll
Zimbabwe 32 - 26 UgandaIT'S all looking rosy for Zimbabwe as the Sables continued to edge closer to success after making it four out of four wins with a hard fought Victoria Cup rugby triump...Published: 10 hrs ago | 113 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Commonwealth bid on course
Zimbabwe's foreign policy in the Second Republic is anchored on ensuring the country regains its past glory by integrating into the community of nations after years of isolation typified by the First ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 150 | by Staff reporter
Pastor 'expels' congregant for not tithing?
A REVEREND with Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) in Sizinda, Bulawayo reportedly sparked outrage among his congregants when one of the worshippers stopped going to church amid allegations...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:27hrs | 2761 | by Staff reporter
Old Mutual adopts hyperinflationary accounting for its Zimbabwe unit
SOUTH AFRICAN-HEADQUARTERED insurance company, Old Mutual Limited (OML) says it will apply hyperinflationary accounting for its Zimbabwe business unit in light of the runaway inflation plaguing the ec...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Econet launches digital mobile bureau de change
ECOCASH has launched a digital mobile phone-based bureau de change in a move set to increase competition in the foreign currency exchange business. The innovative facility, a first by a mobile...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 817 | by Staff reporter
Chinese State Advisory Council in Zimbabwe
THE Chinese State Advisory Council is in the country to support the Government with research and economic development strategy as relations between the two countries advance to higher levels. ...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Economic isolation is hindering Zimbabwe's transformation
Since the election of a new government for Zimbabwe one year ago, the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, in which I serve, has begun reforming our land policies, changing laws, and commen...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:20hrs | 624 | by Foreign Policy
Mnangagwa, EU envoy in public spat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday threw away diplomatic etiquette and publicly censured EU ambassador Timo Olkkonen after the latter in his speech touched on the worsening human rights abuses in ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:13hrs | 3782 | by Staff reporter
'New Zimdollar not priority,' says Mthuli Ncube
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said on Tuesday Government was not in a hurry to issue new Zimbabwean dollar notes/coins, but rather focused on the need to replace soi...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:36hrs | 1311 | by Staff reporter
Govt to guarantee 99-year leases
GOVERNMENT is looking at offering full and partial guarantee to banks for the acceptance of the 99-year lease when farmers access funding this season, as negotiations with the financial institutions t...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:34hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF youth leader attacks Jonathan Moyo
ZANU PF deputy youth league boss Lewis Matutu has said former party spin doctor Professor Jonathan Moyo has not only lost relevance but has become a useless and permanent fugitive.In a Twitter...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 10:58hrs | 3426 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli Ncube to issue new coins, notes
ZIMBABWE will issue new notes and coins soon to replace the country's quasi currency (bond note) that was introduced three years ago in an attempt to counter a crippling shortage of cash. The ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | 2485 | by Bloomberg
'Zimbabwe to issue cash notes soon'
Zimbabwe will issue new notes and coins soon to replace the country's quasi currency that was introduced three years ago in a failed attempt to counter a crippling shortage of cash and that's pushed i...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 17:13hrs | 6596 | by Bloomberg
'Zimbabwe not heading towards hyperinflation'
Government says the country is not heading towards hyper-inflation but is experiencing wage compression as a result of big, painful but necessary micro-economic decisions that the government shall con...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:10hrs | 1322 | by Bloomberg
Zanu-PF's economic policy record 'poor': US think tank
UNITED States research arm, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), has condemned the Zanu-PF-led government's economic policy record as "poor".The CRS is a public policy research arm of the...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Forex black market becomes unpopular
BUREAUX de Change are becoming popular among Bulawayo residents as they are slowly eating into the parallel market's business. To date, the RBZ has licensed over 46 bureaux de change that are ...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:40hrs | 4693 | by Staff Reporter
Army chef sidelined over nasty fallout with Mnangagwa's wife
THE commander of One Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesd...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:57hrs | 4767 | by Staff reporter
Anti-Mnangagwa demo in his backyard of Gweru
A POLICE ban on an anti-government demonstration in Harare has not broken the spirits of party loyalists in Midlands who have vowed to stage their own protest in Gweru, the capital of Midlands, widely...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1764 | by Staff reporter
IMF warns Zimbabwe against pay boost as living standards crash
The International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Zimbabwe warned the government against boosting wages for state workers after the introduction of a new currency pushed up inflation and re...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 2292 | by Bloomberg
Zimbabwe eyes US$2bn from G7 nations
Zimbabwe will borrow US$1,9 billion from the Group of 7 industrialised nations to clear debts to the African Development Bank (AfDB) and World Bank, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Nc...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 312 | by Staff reporter
South African buffalo is nakéd, media goes on mute
The silence of the South African leadership on the ongoing revelations of gross corruption and subversion of good governance is treasonous. Since the damning findings of the Public Protector, Busisiwe...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 20:47hrs | 2438 | by Zanele Lwana
Bulawayo mayor speaks on his two days of horror
Bulawayo City Council was recently rocked by unrest after a coterie of councillors led by deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami tried to oust town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami last month took adv...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:52hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1015 | by Kennet Mufuka
US role in MDC demonstrations unmasked
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:37hrs | 362 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala accuses Chamisa of cowardice
Details of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:23hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
USA role in MDC demonstrations exposed
DETAILS of how the United States of America Ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols actively encouraged senior MDC officials to press on with Friday's demonstrations by assuring them that Washington "wou...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | 1455 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube has a plan, but is it gobbledegook?
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube has laid out a plan to end the nation's two-decade stand-off with international creditors and has dismissed rapidly accelerating inflation as "wage compression...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:08hrs | 4163 | by Bloomberg News
Old Mutual responds to Zimbabwe shareholder who want the Board to resign
Thank you for responding to my request for the Chair and the Board to resign. I am aware that you could not say much because this issue is before the High Court. For you to suggest that these court pr...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2361 | by Old Mutual
Buyanga refutes accusations of land graft in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's anti-corruption drive has sucked in a businessman from that country who is based in South Africa, but the well-established entrepreneur denies any wrongdoing.Reports from that count...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 17:36hrs | 451 | by ANA
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 tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1533 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe loses US$34m through illicit financial flows - Report
SOUTHERN Africa is prejudiced of a staggering US$30 billion annually as a result of illicit financial flows, with Zimbabwe losing US$34 million every year due to trade under-invoicing while also losin...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:24hrs | 139 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to establish Offshore Financial Centre in Zimbabwe
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is "very serious" about establishing an Offshore Financial Centre (OFC) in the country, but analysts say given the country's handli...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1399 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget gets Parliament's thumbs up
FINANCE Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube's Finance Bill and $10,62 billion Supplementary Budget as well as measures proposed in the mid-term budget to boost production and revenue inflows sailed past t...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:00hrs | 327 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cash crisis spirals out of control
IT is an August morning in Harare. Winter winds are blowing cold. Samuel braves the cold, wakes up at 3am from his Kuwadzana home and treks to the central business district to look for cash at the ban...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 954 | by Staff greporter
Fact-checking Mthuli Ncube
"It's early days, we just introduced the new currency regime a little over a month ago, so it (the new currency) is trying to find its way, it is trying to find equilibrium; it will get there and clos...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's special envoy on regional offensive
ZIMBABWE'S Special Envoy, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday met Mozambique President Filipe Jacinto Nyusi and delivered a special message from President Mnangagwa. Ambassador Khaya Moyo further di...Published: 15 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans bracing for fresh unrest as Chamisa plan protests
Zimbabweans are bracing for fresh unrest after the main opposition party unveiled plans for a series of major rallies starting this week and unions called for strike action.Any demonstrations ...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 17:06hrs | 2833 | by The Guardian
Zimbabwe in new wave of price increases
ZIMBABWE is witnessing another wave of massive price increases, following the presentation of the 2019 mid-term fiscal policy review, which are further decimating citizens' incomes.In the mid-...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 2646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for high lithium export dividends
Zimbabwe is primed to draw significant benefits from one of its lithium assets after an independent market report for the country's brightest lithium project, Arcadia, certified the mineral as premium...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 446 | by Staff reporter
Technology has transformed financial trading for investors
Whether you are a retail or institutional investor planning to buy equities, property, currencies, commodities or futures in the coming months, technology will play a vital role in your attempts to al...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 14:34hrs | 659 | by Staff Writer
Man stabbed to death over snooker game
A MAN from Plumtree has been arrested after he allegedly stabbed his friend to death in a dispute over a snooker game. Matabeleland South provincial police spokesperson Chief Inspector Philisa...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:13hrs | 424 | by Staff reporter
Economic reforms are necessary, says Mnangagwa
Economic reforms being undertaken by Government are necessary to guarantee sustainable development and prosperity for the country and efforts should now be on national peace, unity and increasing prod...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:12hrs | 325 | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo meets Lesotho PM
ZIMBABWE'S special envoy to Lesotho, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday met with Prime Minister Dr Thomas Thabane and delivered a special message from President Mnangagwa. A statement from ...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:11hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Interbank trades hit US$5m daily
Over US$5 million is now being traded daily on the interbank foreign exchange market as business confidence on the platform continues to grow. President Mnangagwa revealed these statistics in ...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:07hrs | 523 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash agents make a killing
ECOCASH agents have turned their booths into illegal selling points of cash at exorbitant premiums ranging from 30 to 40 percent. For one to get bond coins and notes from EcoCash agents, he or...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is a unitary state, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe remains a unitary state, adding that tribalism, violence, disunity and regionalism have no place in the new dispensation.In his speech during the Her...Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 15:10hrs | 1951 | by Staff reporter
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