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Minister Machakaire Just Discovered What the Rest of Us Live With
I saw the post on X just after 9 a.m., while waiting in a queue for my grandmother's antibiotics at a local clinic. The power had gone out, again. There was no doctor on duty, again. And someone's mot...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:13hrs | 229 | by Kumbirai Thierry Nhamo
Why is the greed of Zimbabwe's leaders so insatiable - even at the cost of the nation?
Killing the goose that lays the golden egg! There is a peculiar kind of greed that afflicts some leaders - one so insatiable it defies logic. It is a form of acquisitive madness that t...Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 09:17hrs | 78 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cyber criminal faces arrest
Fugitive cyber-criminal Trynos Muzanenhamo (25) was arrested on Friday for allegedly duping companies and individuals of more than USD$27 million after being on the run since last year.Acting ...Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 12:37hrs | 11 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
$27 million identity fraud suspect arrested
POLICE have arrested a suspected cyber-criminal who allegedly hacked WhatsApp accounts, cloned bank cards, and stole people's identities to commit fraud.Trynos Muzanenhamo (25) was arrested af...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 18:11hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking ZIDERA, atrocities of sanctions
It is without doubt that sanctions are a crime against humanity, an unfair treatment of race against race, nation against nation, the strong against the presumably weak, all with the intention to crea...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:38hrs | 12 | by Takasununguka Ziki
Zimbabwean vampire elites stash millions of dollars in foreign countries
I thought I had seen it all in Zimbabwe until 24 July 2021 when I saw this, "ZIMBABWE's Foreign Affairs ministry claims it has begun a process of documenting the number of fellow citizens residing in ...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 14:30hrs | 3 | by Sam Wezhira
Zimbabwe mines, banks in crunch talks over US sanctions
ZIMBABWE'S mines said on Friday they had kicked-off crunch meetings with banks, government and the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) to find a solution after operators reported that th...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions: The unfair comparison between Zimbabwe and Rhodesia
MANY Zimbabweans often bring up the comparison between Rhodesian and Zimbabwean sanctions to drive the narrative that Rhodesia had more stringent sanctions that they managed better than Zimbabwe is ma...Published: 11 Jun 2021 at 06:35hrs | 6 | by Rutendo Bereza Matinyarare
'ZANU PF steals US$9 Billion from Treasury'
Professor Jonathan Moyo has alleged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa presided over the theft of Treasury bonds worth USD$ 9 billion through the controversial Command Agriculture program.Moyo ...Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ban businesses without bank accounts, says Zanu-PF Youths
Zanu-PF youths have called for the government to come up with a statutory instrument mandating business operators including foreigners to open local bank accounts and ensure that tax evasion and curre...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dissecting the recent Monetary Policy Statement
Summary - The central bank policies on safeguarding financial stability through monitoring and increasing capital adequacy...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 13:08hrs | 2 | by Dr. Tutsirai Sakutukwa & Dr. Marshall Makate
Woman externalises $6m to Botswana
A BULAWAYO businesswoman, who had been on the police wanted list for allegedly externalising more than $6 million to Botswana, appeared in court yesterday. Delny Deanna Ashley Davies (41) of M...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
5 arrested in $4 million, 98kg gold haul
POLICE raided a Harare house following a tip-off on Thursday and recovered US$4 million in cash and 98 kilogrammes of gold stashed in suitcases. National police spokesman Chief Superintendent ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa will not persecute Kasukuwere
Popular social media analyst Antony Taruvinga believes President Emmerson Mnangagwa will never persecute Saviour Kasukuwere because of his involvement in unorthodox deals.In his hard-hitting F...Published: 30 May 2018 at 16:32hrs | | by A Mhlongo
African politics: Why corruption grows more than reduce in nations developing? (part one)
International Transparency defines corruption as… the abuse of entrusted power for private gain. It can be classified as grand, petty and political, depending on the amounts of money lost and the se...Published: 23 May 2018 at 19:02hrs | 2 | by Andrew Manyevere
Consider Zanu-PF, She Has Not Changed and No Change Is Coming
This paper could simply start with nothing ending up with nothing shows any differences between presidencies of Emmerson Mnangagwa from that of Robert Mugabe. The party is still Zanu-PF minus Kasukuwe...Published: 13 May 2018 at 21:44hrs | 1 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Mnangagwa will never fool us - MDC-T Youth Assembly.
The MDC-T Youth Assembly has warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he can not fool them by pretending to be open for democracy yet there is clear selective application of the law in the country....Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 07:23hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabweans stash $1 billion offshore
FUNDS held by Zimbabweans in offshore banks rose to US$1 billion last year, having declined to US$300 million four years ago, following escalating political risk and uncertainty at home, Reserve Bank ...Published: 14 Dec 2017 at 14:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe: Asifuni Bumbulu - Give us a cabinet that places uMthwakazi in key Government and State positions!
First things first: re-shuffle yourself first, Mr Mugabe! At a 100, you have no place (forget, right) being there. Retire yourself to your rural home and leave State House. We all know you are...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 10:41hrs | 2 | by Xoxani Ngxoxo
Dealing with financial sabotage in our economy
IT is possible to curb the current financial cash sabotage menace bedeviling our economy. Whilst the market is facing unpredictability, reminding the innocent citizens of the economic crisis of the la...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 06:56hrs | | by Chris Ndlovu
Zimbabwe engages Interpol over ‘externalising' fugitives
The Zimbabwe Republic Police has activated Interpol in its quest to locate three businesspeople who are wanted on allegations of externalising over $7,3 million to Botswana this year.The inves...Published: 04 Sep 2017 at 07:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police hunt three businesspeople for externalisation
Police have launched a massive manhunt for three businesspeople on allegations of externalising over $7,3 million to Botswana this year.The investigation is part of stern efforts to deal with ...Published: 19 Aug 2017 at 12:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Manhunt for cash smugglers
Police have launched a massive manhunt for three Bulawayo businesspeople on allegations of externalising more than $7,3 million to Botswana this year.The probe is part of stern efforts to deal...Published: 17 Aug 2017 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZB regains foreign accounts after removal from US sanctions
ZB Financial Holdings has regained use of most of its foreign correspondent banking accounts since its removal from the US sanctions list in October last year, a senior bank official said.The ...Published: 16 May 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Agencies
RBZ cracks whip on foreign firms
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has ordered all companies operating in the country to open local bank accounts as it steps up efforts to fight illicit financial flows which continue to bleed the economy....Published: 07 May 2017 at 08:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
EcoCash reduces monthly transaction limit again
MOBILE money service EcoCash has announced a further reduction in the monthly transaction limit under its MasterCard debit card from $500 to $400.In December EcoCash reduced the monthly tr...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 05:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
RBZ scraps Rand, Euro plan
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has with immediate effect scrapped the apportionment of foreign exchange receipts into rand and euros and applied the five percent export incentive in US$ into autho...Published: 11 May 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Prosper Ndlovu
Fly Africa squabbles take new twist
Local Fly Africa shareholders Nu Aero Pvt Limited, have accused their foreign partners, FlyAfrica.com of externalising money from the business, in a sensational twist to squabbles that have rocked the...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Discrimination minimises the potential of our country
"The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities; that makes it seem inc...Published: 02 Jul 2015 at 10:35hrs | | by Vince Musewe
MP's Must Reject Chinamasa's Shocking Irresponsibility
The MDC-T UK hereby registers our shock at the ZANU's government's proposal that the nation should take on a $1,2 billion Reserve Bank debt which includes $200 million dished out to Zanu (PF) bosses...Published: 07 Feb 2015 at 04:55hrs | | by Tonderai Samanyanga, MDC-T UK chairman
Zimbabwe losing millions through the borders daily
The country is facing serious cash leakages which have resulted in millions of dollars passing through the borders into neighbouring countries on a daily basis, an official said.Zimbabwe Reven...Published: 08 Apr 2014 at 15:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Gono helped themselves to Gaddafi's millions
President Robert Mugabe and his close personal banker, himself a former central bank governor, Gideon Gono, have allegedly helped themselves to millions of dollars invested in Zimbabwe by late Libya...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 13:55hrs | 7 | by Itai Gwatidzo Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
CBZ Bank to clear RTGS payments
CBZ Bank has stepped up efforts to clear all its outstanding payments through the Real Time Gross Settlement system by the end of this week. The bank indicated that it had put in place measures to mai...Published: 06 Feb 2012 at 20:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ sets $10 000 cash withdrawal limit
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has set US$10 000 as the cash withdrawal limit with amounts exceeding this threshold now requiring prior notice to the processing bank. Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor ...Published: 02 Feb 2012 at 05:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
CIA chief says Gadhafi alive after hit on house
TRIPOLI, Libya – The CIA chief says he believes Moammar Gadhafi is still alive, despite a NATO airstrike that reduced much of the Libyan leader's family compound to rubble.Ga...Published: 04 May 2011 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by AP
Zanu-PF MPs must defect to MDC- T to avert a Tunisia
Any hopes that the Troika would read the riot act to Robert Mugabe were dashed before the meeting had even started when Zambian Foreign Minister indicated that SADC was likely to stick to prev...Published: 01 Apr 2011 at 08:25hrs | | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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