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ZUPCO buses disappear
ZUPCO buses reportedly disappeared from the road in Bulawayo and some parts of Harare on Tuesday rendering commuters stranded.ZUPCO buses were introduced by government under a special fa...Published: 6 hrs ago | 6236 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe FCA deposits hit US$600m
The decision to separate real time gross settlement (RTGS) foreign currency accounts from actual United States dollar accounts is beginning to pay dividends amid indications that deposits for the latt...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2676 | by Staff reporter
Thabitha Khumalo barred from visiting MDC Alliance looters at Bulawayo prison
STAFF at Mlondolozi Women Prison in Bulawayo on Saturday barred MDC national chairperson Thabitha Khumalo and her delegation from visiting party members incarcerated at the penal facility.Khum...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 06:50hrs | 336 | by newzimbabwe
Pre-monitory policy statement expectations
Expectations are high as the market awaits the presentation of the first monitory policy statement (MPS) of 2019 by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe in the coming days. The bank knows the weight of hyperi...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 22:58hrs | 1015 | by Victor Bhoroma
Masowe woman in record breaking home deliveries
AT 30, Vongai Matara Gondo, a midwife of the Johanne Masowe ye Chishanu apostolic sect, has helped 157 women to deliver.Vongai says midwifery is her calling.Despite the high risks that...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | 373 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe pesters South Africa for lines of credit
Zimbabwe's government continues to explore avenues of attracting lines of credit from neighbouring South Africa after the continent's most prosperous nation rebuffed an earlier request by Harare for a...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:26hrs | 366 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Mangudya in bitter fight over new Zimdollar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been forced to intervene in a growing turf war between Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya and his boss Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on the path Zimbabwe ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 15:51hrs | 19270 | by Staff reporter
All aboard Zupco: Is this a rebirth or stillbirth?
This article is a follow-up to my previous one, Kombi nation: Re-imagining our urban transport system.In that article, I presented a number of options on how we could improve our public transp...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1386 | by Mike Murenzvi
Econet injects $45 million in solar project
UGESI Energy, a pan-African company within the Econet Energy Group, is targeting to invest $45 million in the first phase of its community solar programme launched in Bulawayo yesterday, an official h...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | 249 | by Staff reporter
Bank cashier in court over $1m fraud, money-laundering
A FIRST Bank cashier stationed in Harare yesterday appeared in court facing fraud and money-laundering charges involving $1 million.Bangiso Shield Tafirei (30) appeared before Harare magistrat...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 2129 | by Staff reporter
ZBC takes 5 ex-bosses to court over $6m prejudice
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has dragged its four ex-senior executives and former board chairperson Cuthbert Dube to court for allegedly illegally benefitting themselves from $6 million...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1688 | by Staff reporter
Exam fees remain unchanged
LOCAL examination fees will remain unchanged after Cabinet resolved to retain the 2018 fee structure. Advanced Level exam fees were pegged at $26, while Ordinary Level pupils paid $15 per subject, wit...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:51hrs | 3107 | by Staff reporter
Passports backlog hits RG's office as dollar crunch bites
Delays in the processing of passports have hit Zimbabwe, with Registrar General Clemence Masango blaming a worsening foreign currency crisis which has sparked the downsizing of operations fearing a st...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1770 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean community that identifies with SA, Botswana
Arriving at Khalanyoni Business Centre in Plumtree, Mangwe district in Matabeleland South about 200 kilometres south of Bulawayo, one is greeted by a huge election billboard of a beaming President Emm...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2728 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF feeds Govt economic drive
The ruling party last December held its Annual People's Conference in Esigodini where a number of resolutions that centre on the economy were passed.But over and above the resolutions, we had ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:49hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
Nurse in court for stealing drugs, wheelchair
A man from Bulawayo was arraigned for allegedly stealing a wheelchair and drugs.Ronald Sunduza, 33, of house number 312 Ntabazinduna flats Bulawayo, and is employed as a Registered General Nur...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 21:24hrs | 1876 | by Staff reporter
Unrepentant Mnangagwa flies with expensive jet again
Mnangagwa has once again demonstrated his lack of care for the mounting economic woes in Zimbabwe.He once again flew in a hired Swiss Dreamliner which will cost the fiscus millions. When...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 12:04hrs | 13901 | by Bekithemba Mpofu
$5 million availed for construction of Umzingwane Hospital
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has allocated $5 million towards the construction of a new district hospital for Umzingwane under the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP).The curren...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:42hrs | 707 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's worst British nightmare
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's quest to re-engage the international community suffered a severe blow this week after his key Western backer Britain expressed support for additional European sanctions ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:53hrs | 3447 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's unskilled ministers to be sent to China
THE Chinese embassy is organising seminars in Beijing for Zimbabwean cabinet ministers and bureaucrats to help them learn how to engage top investors and financial institutions in the world's second l...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2262 | by Staff reporter
Hospital fees skyrocket
ZIMBABWE has been plunged into yet another health crisis as hospital fees have sharply risen, well beyond the affordability of most citizens, with most private health institutions now demanding paymen...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:49hrs | 1803 | by Staff reporter
Puppets polluting Harare, Caracas
Before making his transition to our ancestors on November 15, 1998, the revolutionary Pan Africanist organiser Kwame Ture warned Africans everywhere with his rather unique blend of passion and caution...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:38hrs | 374 | by Obi Egbuna Jnr Simunye
Afreximbank avails $255m letters of credit to Zimbabwe
The African Export Import Bank (Afreximbank) has availed US$255m letters of credit to Zimbabwe for fuel imports and the production of basic commodities in a bid to ensure adequate input supplies to th...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 08:06hrs | 1780 | by Staff reporter
A letter to Mugabe that could have changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
An Eritrean diplomat friend sent the attached letter to me last night and I was blown away by how prophetic it was to Zimbabwe's situation, and how if Robert Mugabe had applied the advice given to him...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:22hrs | 11819 | by An introduction by Hopewell Chin'ono
Tajamuka to continue protesting outside Groote Schuur over Chiwenga
Social movement Tajamuka says Zimbabwean nationals will continue protesting outside Groote Schuur Hospital until vice president Constantino Chiwenga returns homes.This despite confirmation fro...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 12:51hrs | 2659 | by Reuters
Chiwenga must be deported back to Zimbabwe
DISGRUNTLED Zimbabweans living in South Africa yesterday ratcheted up pressure on President Cyril Ramaphosa's government to deport Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who was reportedly admitted to a...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 06:49hrs | 5509 | by Staff reporter
Zimra mum on Beitbridge warehouse inferno
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has declined to disclose the value of goods lost in three fire incidents in which its warehouses at Beitbridge Border Post were razed to the ground, saying the i...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:13hrs | 967 | by Staff reporter
Teachers strike called off
The government committed itself to continue implementing non-monetary incentives to civil servants, with teachers now having called of the strike which was planned to begin tomorrow, the 5th of Februa...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1491 | by Staff reporter
Comedian's Chiwenga hospital visit picture goes viral
Comic Pastor on Sunday caused an internet splash after pictures of him emerged showing the comedian outside a Cape Town Hospital where Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is being treated for an undis...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 09:19hrs | 16404 | by ZimLive
UK-based school crowdfunds for Mat South boarding facility
A UNITED KINGDOM-BASED school, Christs Hospital in Horsham, West Sussex, has launched a crowd-funding campaign to raise funds for the construction of Advanced Level boarding facilities at Kafusi High ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 482 | by Staff reporter
$46million drawn-down for RGM Airport facelift
Government has drawn-down $45,9 million, representing 30 percent of the total project cost for upgrading and modernisation of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The RGM Internati...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Hwange extension project underway
The actual construction works for Zesa's US$1,4 billion Hwange Power Station (HPS) 7 and 8 extension project have started, giving hope the project will be completed within time and original budget, a ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:43hrs | 102 | by Staff reporter
Female British Airways Zimbabwean engineer inspires other women to fix jets
A female engineer with British Airways is helping inspire other women to fix jets.Tsungi Maruta, 22, fell in love with aircraft from the age of five when her mother Violet was regularly flying...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 06:37hrs | 4050 | by Staff reporter
No pay for striking doctors
Government has said it will not pay doctors for the days they were absent at their work stations during the 40-day long industrial action which started early in December and ended at the start of last...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 13:29hrs | 1258 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ failure to maintain airports under spotlight
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ)'s failure to maintain the country's airports has come under spotlight after a Bulawayo-bound Fastjet airline was forced to abort landing at Joshua Mqabuko N...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 09:50hrs | 659 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire says hundreds in jail need aid
A pastor and activist charged with subversion was released on bail after more than a week on Wednesday and said he needs a doctor - as do hundreds of people still in jail with wounds from beatings by ...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1536 | by AP
Mnangagwa gets 500 buses for mass transport
Belarus has offered Zimbabwe a facility of 500 buses to modernise its mass public transport system, as the recent visit by President Mnangagwa to Eurasia begins to yield fruit. The Head of Sta...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 23:26hrs | 5608 | by Staff reporter
$60m housing deal for civil servants
Government will tomorrow unveil a $60 million housing facility for civil servants as part of non-monetary incentives to its workers. Tomorrow's event will see the Government signing a Memorand...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:47hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Introduction of new currency needs strong back facility and increase in production levels
School of thought Introducing our own currency is a good idea but ill-timed and a misplaced and misguided priority. The focus for now should be increase...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 20:54hrs | 2392 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Can currency reforms save the Zimbabwean economy?
There is no doubt that the unresolved currency issue lies at the heart of Zimbabwe's economic meltdown in the past 3 years and the price distortions in the local market. The origins of the currency cr...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 16:46hrs | 1513 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe fuel import bill normalises'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has assured all fuel companies that a sustainable foreign currency facility has been put in place to ensure that petrol and diesel will be readil...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:50hrs | 4796 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants' salary demands should be reasonable
Although civil servants play a critical role in the provision of essential services by Government ministries and departments and are entitled to the right to fight for the improvement of their salarie...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 11:44hrs | 3767 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC Alliance dossier exposes the army
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has submitted a dossier to the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) detailing alleged gross human rights violations by the security forces as pressure mounts on ...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:13hrs | 2493 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's visit to Russia unlocks $300 million
President Emerson Mnangagwa's visit to Russia has unlocked $300 million that will trigger implementation of the $2 billion Great Dyke Investment (GDI) platinum mining venture in Darwendale.GDI...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 18:59hrs | 888 | by Staff reporter
Re-introducing local currency, not so fast
THE government recently pledged to re-introduce a local currency to replace the current multi-currency regime within 12 months in its efforts to address a mounting economic crisis.Making the a...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:31hrs | 860 | by Tinashe Kaduwo
Katsande swindled PetroZim of $156 000
Catherine Katsande, the PetroZim general manager, has been arrested and is facing charges of fraud after allegedly conniving with Zadzisai Chizema, the Kaltrade Investments manager, in swindling Petro...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:36hrs | 4143 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's FDI drive off the rails
The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) has capacity to provide cover on transactions worth $116 million into Zimbabwe this year out of the $1,6 billion in the pipeline due to the country's low contr...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:32hrs | 1456 | by Staff reporter
Beatings by soldiers continuing unabated
Rights lawyers yesterday accused the military and police of savagely assaulting 28 people who were receiving treatment in hospital after suffering severe injuries in previous beatings - before going o...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:45hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
Can currency reforms save the Zimbabwean economy?
There is no doubt that the unresolved currency issue lies at the heart of Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown in the past 3 years and the price distortions in the local market. The origins of the currency ...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 14:11hrs | 3468 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe electricity imports to continue until 2027'
Zimbabwe is expected to continue relying on electricity imports for the next eight years due to lack of investment in the sector, a leading international think-tank has said.The southern Afric...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 12:46hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
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