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Chihuri failing to feed family
FORMER Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri has disputed the valuation done on his vast properties describing it as mischievous political persecution that has compromised his family's surviva...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:56hrs | 8917 | by newzimbabwe
Zimdollar continues to tumble
A forex dealer brandishes wads of $2 and $5 notes in Harare. The Zimdollar has continued losing value against stronger currencies like the rand and the United States dollar.THE Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4258 | by Staff reporter
Pessimism grips forex platform
Business wants more "transparency more than promises" on the foreign currency auction system for the platform to succeed as the parallel market continued unabated yesterday, a day after monetary autho...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:36hrs | 2184 | by Staff reporter
Forex exchange auction trading system off to a good start
The foreign exchange auction trading system has made a good start when it kicked-off in Harare today (June 23, 2020), without any great difficulty.On its first day, bids worth about US$11,4 mi...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 19:33hrs | 3024 | by Nathan Gurira
PHOTO: Gideon Gono's weight loss picture breaks the internet
A photo of former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono who seems to have lost weight has gone viral on the internet. In 2019 Gono told Nehanda Radio that his weight loss was a resu...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 17:21hrs | 14277 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 21:05hrs | 1244 | by Toby Sithole
Zimbabweans must desist from negativity before it spreads like a disease
LAST week, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Dr John Mangudya, announced the introduction of a foreign exchange auction trading system with effect from June 23, 2020, which effectively means th...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 20:32hrs | 289 | by Toby Sithole
Zimbabwe forex auction system ill-advised: Analysts
GOVERNMENT'S re-introduction of the forex auction system as Zimbabwe effectively re-dollarises could have disastrous consequences because the country does not have adequate sources of foreign currency...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1320 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF regime plunging people into poverty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a self-destruct mode and unfortunately his Zanu-PF supporters are cheering him on like they used to do to the late former President Robert Mugabe.It looks li...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 476 | by Tofa Dapi
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
WHO bewitched our once beautiful country? The only inspiring words from President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at his inauguration speech at the giant National Sports Stadium, when he said: "The voice of th...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 257 | by Leonard Koni
How Zimbabwe can return to economic glory days
Former Economic Planning and Investment Promotion minister Tapiwa Mashakada (TM) believes Zimbabwe can return to its glory days of the early 1980s when the economy was stable and end poverty. He discu...Published: 01 Jun 2020 at 08:51hrs | 508 | by Staff reporter
Insights into Mangudya's era of fibs, fiddling
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya (pictured) says he has been praying for Zimbabweans to understand economics. Zimbabweans, in turn, have been making the same prayers - for him.T...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1311 | by newZWire
Is our money safe in this lockdown?
JUST recently, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya blamed a faceless devil for the economic crisis that a whole new generation now takes as custom.He was right. There is cert...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:41hrs | 983 | by Tawanda Majoni
Operation restore legacy a failure
Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dismally failed the litmus test.The progressive Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the knock out p...Published: 22 May 2020 at 11:37hrs | 1341 | by Leonard Koni
Operation Restore Legacy a failure
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Operation Restore Legacy has dis-mally failed the litmus test. Zimbabweans are sick and tired of this regime and are ready to give the system the proverbial suck...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:04hrs | 441 | by Leonard Koni
RBZ not printing more money, says Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has said the printing of new $10 and $20 denominations does not translate to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) printing more money, but it was merely swapping RTGS balan...Published: 21 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 2404 | by Staff reporter
Banks to swap RTGS for new notes: RBZ
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says banks will have to swap RTGS balances for new higher denomination notes, as part of the bank's strategy to keep a firm grip on money supply growth. The ...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:50hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
We always get a govt we deserve
"EVERY nation gets the government it deserves."These words by philosopher Joseph de Maistre might be sarcastic, but are a sober reminder for introspection today.Zimbabwe is touted as o...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:44hrs | 882 | by Cliff Chiduku
If Ian Smith rises from the dead & contest Mnangagwa, he would win with majority
Ian Smith is the devil in demand right now in Zimbabwe. If he were to wake up from the dead and contest Robert Mugabe, Emmerson Mnangagwa or any other Shona leader in a free and fair election, he woul...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:31hrs | 9451 | by Israel Dube
Zimbabwe is not a family company
PEOPLE with little minds do not know the difference between a constitutional democracy and a monarchy. In a constitutional democracy, leadership is by election. It is not bequeathed like in a monarchy...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 22:32hrs | 4404 | by O Gutu
Gono angrily denies claims Mugabe told him that Mnangagwa was a ticking time bomb
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor, Gideon Gono, has angrily denied claims that the late President Robert Mugabe had confided in him to warn then Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander Co...Published: 26 Apr 2020 at 17:15hrs | 3165 | by Lance Guma
Fiscal indiscipline still rampant in govt
ZIMBABWE'S 2019 Consolidated Financial Statement (CFS), in which government expenditure skyrocketed to ZW$22,53 billion against a target of ZW$17,64 billion, shows that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:45hrs | 102 | by Tinashe Kairiza
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of Zanu-PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may not like, it is not because I belong to the oth...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:54hrs | 424 | by Moses Chamboko
Constitutionalism not populism will take Zimbabwe forward
From the outset, let me make it abundantly clear that I am neither a member of ZANU PF nor of any permutation of the MDC. If I say anything that you may n...Published: 07 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 846 | by Moses Chamboko
Mnangagwa not the change that Zimbabwe needs!
During the course of my life I heard three stories that I dismissed as mere jokes. Firstly a human resources lecturer once told us that he once came come across a white colour employee that did not kn...Published: 02 Apr 2020 at 11:17hrs | 1046 | by Ishemunyoro Mupokosera
Gono pleads for arrested thieves
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono was at the Murambinda Magistrates' Courts on Thursday where he pleaded for the release of four of his workers who face prison terms for stealing pr...Published: 27 Mar 2020 at 12:28hrs | 10113 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo clamps down on forex dealers
Police in Bulawayo have launched a blitz against illegal foreign currency dealers operating in the environs of the Tredgold Magistrate's Court.Police said 150 dealers, known locally as 'osipha...Published: 18 Mar 2020 at 18:02hrs | 3462 | by Staff reporter
Rumour of another Zimbabwe coup swirl
Zimbabwe may be gearing up for its second army-driven removal of a sitting president in the past two-and-a-half years.The economic meltdown in the country constitutes the biggest threat to Zan...Published: 09 Mar 2020 at 06:42hrs | 20411 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's doctor quizzed
Members of Parliament have questioned ZBC chairperson Josiah Tayi's credentials, saying he does not have qualifications to lead a media entity.Tayi is a Gweru-based medical doctor, and is repo...Published: 02 Mar 2020 at 08:55hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on Chiwenga, Mnangagwa, Cartels and own future
Former cabinet minister, Jonathan Moyo (JM), speaks to Spotlight Zimbabwe Editor, Itai Mushekwe (IM).Professor Jonathan Moyo, thank you for giving us your time, to attend to this your first ev...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:45hrs | 16143 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo speaks on his alleged gay affair with Alum Mpofu
Professor Jonathan Moyo has for the first time opened up on the long standing allegations that he is a homosexual oriented person who was caught in a gay storm with one ZBC employee Alum Mpofu. ...Published: 26 Feb 2020 at 08:31hrs | 7702 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Battle for the RBZ and the 'Judas Iscariot' within?
One of Zimbabwe's financial publications had a very interesting, though not unusual story of one of the two Deputy Governors of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), Kupukile Mlambo, almost trashing the...Published: 25 Dec 2019 at 10:12hrs | 4184 | by Anthony Matutu
Its flawed macro-economic governance systems, Stupid!
PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC) chairperson, Honourable Tendai Biti is not only an accomplished lawyer but has also authored a book with Greg Mills and former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo. ...Published: 23 Dec 2019 at 14:44hrs | 277 | by Jameson Dapi
PHOTO: Gideon Gono loses weight?
Zimbabweans on social media have expressed concern over the latest image of former Reserve Bank Governor Dr Gideon Gono who has seemingly lost weight. The image was posted by Temba Mliswa on T...Published: 22 Dec 2019 at 09:35hrs | 11482 | by Mandla Ndlovu
This is how the cash gets onto the black market
The question is, how on this cursed land is money that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is busy printing getting onto the black market in such huge amounts? The answer is, it's taking quite a team â...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:11hrs | 3302 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mugabe's riches to be made public
Former President Robert Mugabe's wealth will be revealed in a few days, putting to rest much speculation and conjecture.This week the Master of the High Court is expected to give the full list...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:57hrs | 2221 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans uninspired by new money
MOST Zimbabweans feel the new currency which will start circulating today will not change anything as long as government has not implemented economic and political reforms to generate market confidenc...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:50hrs | 2204 | by Staff reporter
Big shots to lose Bulawayo properties
FORMER Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko's wife Laurinda is among bigwigs that include former ministers, business people and sport personalities who stand to lose their properties if they do not pay B...Published: 18 Oct 2019 at 04:02hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga to finish off Mnangagwa's Presidential term?
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is increasingly set to finish off beleaguered President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential term, through a vicious military coup said to likely involve...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:18hrs | 26186 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Storm brews over nostro accounts
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s decision to tighten regulations on withdrawals of foreign currency by Zimbabweans who earn their salaries in foreign currency faces litigation, while analysts warn...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 09:34hrs | 3172 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe accuses Leo of bribery
FORMER President Robert Mugabe's nephew, Leo, and some close relatives snubbed the former president's burial in Zvimba last Saturday after being accused by ex-first lady Grace Mugabe of taking bribes ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe, Gono in serious fallout
Former first lady Grace Mugabe and ex-Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono reportedly had a massive fallout over the decision to bury the late president Robert Mugabe in Zvimba, it has emerge...Published: 01 Oct 2019 at 13:20hrs | 4479 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's estate: The skeletons are also hiding
Years ago, the late former president Robert Mugabe furiously denied that he owned properties or bank accounts outside Zimbabwe. He challenged sceptics to bring back even a pin belonging to him, if the...Published: 29 Sep 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1306 | by Tawanda Majoni
Zimdollar plunges after weekend gains
The value of the Zimbabwe dollar yesterday plunged against the United States dollar after stabilising at the weekend following the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s decision to freeze bank accounts of ...Published: 25 Sep 2019 at 20:11hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
The new dispensation is following footsteps of the previous regime
IN the next six weeks, it will be two years since the nation went into a frenzy celebrating the departure of the late former President Robert Mugabe. He had stayed in power for more than 37 years. His...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 08:29hrs | 277 | by Tapiwa Gomo
Mugabe buried secretly in Zvimba
Former President, Robert Mugabe, has reportedly already been buried in secret at a mysterious location, in his rural home of Zvimba, Spotlight Zimbabwe reported.Mugabe died on 6 September at G...Published: 23 Sep 2019 at 06:09hrs | 27986 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga rejected Mugabe's offer feared trapping
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga turned down an offer by the late president Robert Mugabe to take over the presidency at the height of the coup as he feared it might be a trap to rubberstamp the mi...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 5302 | by Staff reporter
How Mnangagwa arm-twisted Mugabe family to force Heroes Acre burial
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government used strong-arm tactics to force Robert Mugabe's family to lift their objections to his burial at the National Heroes Acre burial, it was reported on Sunday....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:08hrs | 5036 | by ZimLive
Inside the fight over Robert Mugabe's body
Former president Robert Mugabe's family was told that they risked losing his Harare mansion and other Harare properties if they did not accede to government's demands that the long-time ruler should b...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 06:59hrs | 2168 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe offered Chiwenga presidency
FORMER president Robert Mugabe, who died in Singapore last Friday, offered Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to take over from him at the height of the coup, the Zimbabwe Independent can reveal....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:50hrs | 7187 | by Staff reporter
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