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Chivayo rescues ailing gukurahundi cover-up editor
BUSINESSMAN Mr Wicknell Chivayo has donated US$15 000 to help assist in the medical needs of veteran journalist and former Chronicle Editor, Geoff Nyarota.Nyarota is arguably known for exposin...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:56hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi cover-up editor urgently needs medical help
Geoffrey (Geoff) Nyarota is in critical health and urgently requires medical treatment for a trio of serious conditions: cancer, heart disease, and kidney failure. Nyarota, who has a long career in jo...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 15:54hrs | 745 | by Staff reporter
Fingaz grovels after 'rest in peace' error in Mnangagwa advert
The Daily News's sister paper, The Financial Gazette, published a birthday congratulatory message to President Emmerson Mnangagwa by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) with a serious error in its editi...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:27hrs | 1496 | by Editor
Editor hounded after 'rest in peace' error in Mnangagwa advert
Armed men claiming to be law and order police raided the home of Daily News editor Guthrie Munyuki at dawn on Friday after sister publication The Financial Gazette made an error in an advert which sug...Published: 20 Sep 2024 at 09:20hrs | 1865 | by Staff reporter
Nyarota's latest book takes aim at opposition
Journalist Geoffrey Nyarota has released his latest book, 'The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimbabwe.'Alpha Media Holdings chairman, Trevor Ncube was the gues...Published: 25 Feb 2024 at 09:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Geoff Nyarota to launch his fourth book
Award-winning veteran Zimbabwean journalist Geoff Nyarota, one of the best local scribes, will tomorrow launch his fourth book, The Journalist as an Outcast: Perils of Investigative Reporting in Zimba...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
2 Mutsvangwas, 6 women and 3 Mnangagwas
With former television personality Tatenda Mavetera thrown into the mix, one needs very little imagination to describe Zimbabwe's Cabinet that was sworn into office early this week following a sham el...Published: 15 Sep 2023 at 22:09hrs | 11 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
'If Auxillia Mnangagwa does not want you at her events, then don't go'
DEPUTY Information Minister Kindness Paradza has told journalists not to force themselves on First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, who has developed a habit of hand picking reporters she wants and chasing so...Published: 20 May 2023 at 19:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa son-in-law appoints AMH board rep
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son-in-law, Gerald Mlotshwa, who recently acquired shares in Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of NewsDay, The Zimbabwe Independent and The Standard, has appointed ...Published: 11 Oct 2022 at 19:47hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son-in-law captures Trevor Ncube's media group
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son in-law Gerald Mlotshwa - a prominent lawyer married to the ruling Zanu-PF leader's daughter Farai - has now formally bought a significant equity stake at the private...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:19hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Protraz Hackathon: $175m up for grabs
THE Post and Telecommunications Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has launched this year's Hackathon, with $175 million up for grabs for outstanding innovations.To participate in the Hackathon on...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Former Financial Gazette Editor Sunsleey Chamunorwa dies
Former Financial Gazette Editor Sunsleey Chamunorwa has died, journalist Rashweat Mukundu has reported. Posting on Twitter Mukundu said, "Sad to hear about the death of Mukoma Sunsleey Chamuno...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 09:43hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 405 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Winning the masses for positive change
I had received satisfactory results from my Advanced Level exams at Ruya Adventist High School in early 2003. Due to my contiguity to the seat of educational power, I had been informed that Nathan and...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Mutsa Murenje Sydney, Australia
Penchant for luxury in midst of abject poverty
Back in 2000 the BMW people in Harare, along Samora Machel Avenue invited a selection of business executives and motoring journalists to test-drive the first-generation BMW X5 luxury Sport Utility Veh...Published: 15 Aug 2021 at 08:58hrs | 14 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Econet Wireless wins back-to-back Top Companies Award for 2021
HARARE - Econet Wireless Zimbabwe last night won the 2021 Top Companies Survey Award for an unprecedented second year running. The telecommunications company, winner of the same award in 2020,...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 14:17hrs | | by Agencies
Govt probes fuel companies
THE government has ordered a probe into oil companies accused of abusing a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) foreign currency facility that allows them to secure fuel - but which they are now allegedly s...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 15:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mystery of the Mberengwa 'ambula-cart'
AS Zimbabweans wallowed over the weekend in the boredom induced by the second coronavirus lockdown, an unusual but interesting picture went viral on social media.The image featured an ordinary...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:57hrs | 21 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Econet, Cassava bag top business awards
HARARE - Telecommunications giant Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (EWZ), and its sister company Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe (Cassava), last week clinched top business leadership and merit awards at separate ev...Published: 15 Dec 2020 at 14:26hrs | 10 | by Agencies
Zanu-PF emerges biggest winner in major scandal
THE ruling Zanu-PF, which thrives on a chokehold grip on airwaves to win elections by hook or crook, has emerged as the biggest winner in the controversial awarding of six new free-to-air licences to ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 19:28hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Govt to liberalise gold sector
The Financial Gazette reports that Zimbabwe is seriously contemplating to liberalise its gold sector, as part of measures to stem black market leakages and attract capital into the key mining industry...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa creating a bourgeoisie class
WHEN it staged the November 2017 coup, the military was very candid in its statement that the grave action was an effort to "restore Robert Mugabe's legacy", a heritage that over time had been reverse...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Zesa sets the record straight on levels of load shedding
The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) says it has noted with concern gross misrepresentations by the Financial Gazette (Page 2 - 11th July 2019 edition) that ZESA Hold...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Can cryptocurrency help Zimbabwe's economy?
Africa has been slow to respond to the cryptocurrency industry. Many of the local governments have shot down claims that it could harness their economy and its individuals. They have refuted digital c...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 17:33hrs | 13 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabwe journalist, one of the first black female journos to report on the genocide in Rwanda
Long-time Southern African regional correspondent Susan Njanji from Zimbabwe was one of very few black African female journalists to cover the genocide in Rwanda. Here she reflects on the challenges t...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa: cunningly succeeded in harmonising independent press
I used to send some of my articles to Alpha Media Holdings subsidiaries through Trevor Ncube and they would be published. But as soon as he was roped into the ED Mnangagwa President's Advisory Council...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:38hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Mnangagwa's govt lauds Fingaz
GOVERNMENT on Friday congratulated the Financial Gazette for standing the test of time and making an immense contribution to the country's economy.The iconic weekly, popularly known as the Fin...Published: 05 May 2019 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Peasant farmers now driving Zimbabwe's economy'
THE agricultural sector, seen as the mainstay of the country's economy, is now being powered by peasant farmers following the chaos that decimated commercial farming, the Daily News on Sunday can repo...Published: 21 Apr 2019 at 16:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forcing countries to pay debt in currency it denies them - that's the US!
ONE thing for sure is that Zimbabwe is not short of real original thinking to counter the West's capture of some Zimbabwean minds.Because of donor funding, too many politicians (naturally more...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 06:02hrs | | by Conway Tutani
Zimbabwe 'shadow minister of finance' wants the country to adopt SA rand as currency
Zimbabwe should adopt South Africa's rand as its currency, one of a series of fundamental reforms needed to restore economic stability in the country, former Finance Minister Tendai Biti said....Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:54hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Kunaka's Zanu-PF died last November
WHO does Jim Kunaka think he is fooling and for how long? For those who do not know who he is, Kunaka, was the leader of the infamous Chipangano, a gangster group based in Mbare that caused untold suf...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:47hrs | 1 | by Tendai H. Manzvanzvike
Zimbabwe tax system hit by low compliance levels
Zimbabwe's tax system is characterised by low compliance levels as registered corporate taxpayers are not remitting their dues, a tax expert has said.Speaking at The Financial Gazette tax revi...Published: 20 Oct 2018 at 13:59hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
PPC mulls cement price increase
PPC Zimbabwe (PPC) is mulling an increase in cement prices to hedge against rising inflation, The Financial Gazette has learnt.In the wake of runaway United States dollar (USD) parallel market...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZSE ranked best African market
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has been ranked as the best performing market in Africa in the last five years.The local bourse has intermittently surged on the deterioration of economic fun...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Karikoga Kaseke set to leave ZTA
ZIMBABWE Tourism Authority (ZTA) chief executive officer (CEO) Karikoga Kaseke is set to leave the institution he has led for 13 years.Kaseke, who took the role of CEO in July 2005 on reassign...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:08hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube running out of time
AS ZIMBABWE'S economy continues to lurch from one crisis to the other, business leaders and economists say the government is running out of both time and "rope" to turn the situation around.Th...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube fuelled parallel market rates, price increases
UNCERTAINTY hangs over the future of bond notes and real time gross settlement (RTGS) transfers, as more businesses are rejecting the two payment methods and the economy is effectively re-dollarising....Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 18:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
KFC Zimbabwe runs out of money to buy chickens
Leading fast-food chains in Zimbabwe have shut their doors as the cash crunch in the country worsens - just two months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa won elections.KFC put up notices at it...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 16:21hrs | 2 | by BBC
Chamisa 'is not the answer to Zimbabwe's economic challenges'
The Zimbabwean government has reportedly dismissed claims by the opposition that the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa holds the keys to the current economic problems affectin...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 09:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nyarota launches 'The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe'
VETERAN journalist Geoffrey Nyarota last week officially launched his second book - The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe: The End of a Dictator's Reign - published by Penguin in August 2018.Geo...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fixing Zimbabwe doable but ‘very hard', experts say
THE job to rebuild Zimbabwe's broken economy is achievable, although it will take time and sacrifice from all stakeholders, analysts and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya say.Thi...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 14:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Forex crisis vexes Mnangagwa
AROUND mid-day on Tuesday, a decorated procession blasted off State House, its lash green lawns and flowering jacaranda trees complimenting to give breathtaking scenery.It was a long processio...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 18:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to 'Scrap bond notes'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new administration should consider scrapping bond notes, as a way of restoring confidence in the economy, industrialists have said.Zimbabwe introduced the surrog...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businessman's death exposes South Africa's murky world of pension funds
HARARE - The death of South African based Zimbabwean businessman Abraham Ndoro has opened a can of worms, shedding light on the murky pension industry in the Southern Africa powerful economy.E...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 10:10hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe's country risk improves significantly
ZIMBABWE'S country risk has gone down in the past eight months, with investor interest growing following deposition of the country's former president Robert Mugabe, a British-owned stockbroking firm h...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 06:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe plans to clear debt arrears in six months
ZIMBABWE is planning to settle its debt arrears with multilateral institutions in the next six months, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya has said.The southern African count...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 06:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe stock-broking backward'
ZIMBABWE's stock-broking is backward compared to regional players, with the sector lacking product diversification, recently-established broker Morgan & Co Zimbabwe (Morgan) has said.David...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
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