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China's 'juicy' deal with Zimbabwe set to benefit citrus farmers
MBUYA Rosemary Tendi (70) of Rusitu Valley in Chimanimani, eastern Zimbabwe, has been braving crispy cold mornings in the past few weeks to make sure that she monitors the harvesting of oranges from h...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:54hrs | 1162 | by Staff reporter
UAE prince sets up Zimbabwe's FlyStream Airlines
A United Arab Emirates (UAE) prince, who arrived in Zimbabwe last month scouting for investment opportunities has established a new airline, Standardbusiness was told Friday.Prince Sultan Khal...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:19hrs | 1509 | by Staff reporter
Billionaire targets Zimbabwe aviation, real estate business
Prince Sultan Khalil Ibrahim Albalishi, the billionaire founder and chief executive officer of Dubai-based Rind Properties, disclosed Thursday that he was targeting deals in Zimbabwe's real estate and...Published: 22 May 2022 at 19:20hrs | 1504 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rubbishes Mnangagwa's economic hitmen conspiracy
FINANCE minister Mtuli Ncube has said the current economic crisis rocking the country is a result of global upheavals, effectively disputing his principal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | 1377 | by Staff reporter
Foreign banks troop to Zimbabwe forex auction
UNITED States-based multinational investment outfit JP Morgan was among global lenders that repatriated a combined US$30 million through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s forex auction system by th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
'I have little sympathy for South Africans' Eddie Cross says
Leading economist and former Bulawayo South Member of Parliament Eddie Cross says hedoes not feel sorry for South Africans who are crying foreigners taking their jobs because they were not there when ...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 16:10hrs | 5479 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe facing food crisis, says WFP
THE World Food Programme (WFP) has warned of an impending food crisis in the country after global and regional food prices spiked upwards following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.WFP said most h...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Oxford Business Group and Zimbabwe Sugar Association team up for latest focus report
Harare, April 2022: A new focus report, produced by Oxford Business Group (OBG) in partnership with the Zimbabwe Sugar Association, explores the positive impact that the African Continental Free Trade...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 12:21hrs | 233 | by Regional and Global Opportunities Beckon for Zimbabwe's Sugar Industry
Germany's biggest airline dates Victoria Falls
ONE of Zimbabwe's biggest leisure chains yesterday predicted a dramatic upswing in arrivals, as Germany's biggest airline prepared for its maiden adventure on the Windhoek-Victoria Falls route today....Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 07:25hrs | 680 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean toast fuel price cut
The cut in fuel prices by 8 US cents a litre following Government tax cuts has been welcomed by businesses and motorists who have been feeling the pinch after prices rose swiftly following the big jum...Published: 22 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls fuel levy cuts
Zimbabwe has hinted it may further reduce fuel levies to stymie a sustained spike in the domestic price of petroleum products after global prices soared on market uncertainty due to the conflict betwe...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | 230 | by Staff reporter
Headwinds piling up for Zimbabwe
The United States Agency for International Development (USAid)'s food security arm, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) has warned of below average harvests this year and a shortlived i...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1019 | by Staf reporter
World policeman cause oil to soar above US$130
Oil prices soared to their highest since 2008 due to delays in the potential return of Iranian crude to global markets and as the United States and European allies consider banning imports of Russian ...Published: 08 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 153 | by Staff reporter
Russia-Ukraine war disrupts Zimbabwe supply
ZIMBABWE may be far-away from the Russian-Ukraine war, but it is set to suffer the consequences of the bloody conflict within the next few days, as the southern African country largely relies on Russi...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:12hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reshuffles China game plan
ZIMBABWE is to deploy additional manpower to China to give impetus to Harare's two-decade marketing campaign to attract Beijing's travellers to local market, Tourism minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu t...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:11hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa proud of industry revival
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday expressed pride over the positive strides being registered by the country's industries - taking advantage of the supportive Government policy reforms. These have enhanced...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Professor Arthur Mutambara, Dr Nkosana Moyo and Advocate Nelson Chamisa are speaking
I have dwelt a lot regarding Chamisa's infantile approach to politics and his policies that do not make too much sense. However, I wish to commend Chamisa's visit to Matabeleland South two days ago. T...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 17:20hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Zimbabwe industry defies odds, hits 95% capacity'
ZIMBABWE'S industries have emerged from the crossfire of Covid-19-induced lockdowns and forex shortages to extend a bounce-back registered since the second quarter of this year, central bank chief Joh...Published: 27 Aug 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bill Gates should stop telling Africans what kind of agriculture Africans need
Africans have long been told that our agriculture is backward and should be abandoned for a 21st-century version of the Green Revolution that enabled India to feed itself. Western science and technolo...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 22:58hrs | 1 | by Million Belay,Bridget Mugambe
Zim starts paying farmers
ZIMBABWE made its first compensation payment according to an agreement to settle a dispute with white commercial farmers who had their land allocated to indigenous people two decades ago.The S...Published: 25 Jun 2021 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds Buy Zimbabwe initiatives
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lauded the Buy Zimbabwe initiative, which has enhanced the promotion of locally produced goods and services.Speaking during the Buy Zimbabwe awards ceremony re...Published: 30 May 2021 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lauds Buy Zimbabwe initiatives
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has lauded the Buy Zimbabwe initiative which has enhanced promotion of homegrown goods and services. Speaking during the Buy Zimbabwe awards ceremony recently, Mna...Published: 21 May 2021 at 06:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean brands need to step up to the plate
Production seems to be the driving spirit of the new dispensation, as the country pursues a modernisation and industrialisation agenda whose objective is to grow the economy, create rewarding and sust...Published: 09 May 2021 at 08:00hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Buy Zimbabwe' noble initiative, but sub-standard local products threaten success
As the "Buy Zimbabwe" campaign was busy lauding its successes (and, hopefully, also evaluating its failures) over its ten years of existence, my mother wa...Published: 08 May 2021 at 10:18hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Boost local production to save forex, says Mnangagwa
The local manufacturing sector should take advantage of several initiatives by Government to reduce import dependency and boost local production to save the much needed foreign currency, President Mna...Published: 08 May 2021 at 07:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinese vaccines inject fear into West as Zimbabwe rejoices
The coming in of Covid-19 has highly exposed global vulnerability. The pandemic has left the whole world puzzled, without any amenable solution to the devastating effects. But the vaccination ...Published: 11 Mar 2021 at 06:16hrs | 4 | by Dylan Chiwawa
Call for New Legislation Limiting Number of times a political party can shield a presidential candidate in Zimbabwe
Amid Zimbabwe's political landscape at risk of conflict as political violence escalates, Emej Zimbabwe (Economic Movement for Equality and Justice) founder and president Maxwell Teedzai has called for...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:04hrs | 8 | by Agencies
Zimdollar continues fine run
The Zimbabwe dollar saw its smallest move since the start of the auction system yesterday, easing one ten thousandth of one percent and effectively remaining unchanged at $81,67 to the United States d...Published: 11 Nov 2020 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mgodoyi' is Jonathan Moyo's predicate he used to express disgust!
It is one of Professor Moyo's terms to express anything disgusting him.Umgodoyi is an overly thin malnourished dog whose mouth unendingly oozies slummy saliva, a sign of obvious illness relate...Published: 15 Oct 2020 at 06:39hrs | 7 | by Nomazulu Thata
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 | | by Staff reporter
Getting Zimbabwe back on track
IT is extremely frustrating to sit on the sidelines of this game we are all playing called "getting Zimbabwe back on track".We are doing so many of the right things, our team is looking much b...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:16hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Buy local summit kicks off in Bulawayo
THE 9th Annual Buy Local Summit kicks off in Bulawayo this morning with President Mnangagwa expected to deliver the keynote address. The two-day event is being held at the Zimbabwe Internation...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 08:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe leather and tanning industry need to meet international standards to penetrate Global markets
The ZimTrade - PUM Leather Tanneries Seminar workshop which took place on the 20th - 21th May 2019 in Bulawayo demonstrated sigh of relief to local players in leather industry as they rubbed shoulders...Published: 24 May 2019 at 14:44hrs | 952 | by Enos Denhere
Building Zimbabwean Business via Access to Investment & Global Markets
The ZIMDABA Business Platform of Investment Conferences is designed and aligned toward showcasing the variety and depth of business-ready or near-ready opportunities within Zimbabwe and the region....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 08:33hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
The global and technological effect
An extract from a book titled 'The next Zimbabwe'The twenty first century has brought about the idea of globalization were interconnectivity is the new...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:26hrs | 389 | by Terence Simbi
Mnangagwa says his admin will listen to PAC
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has assured the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) that members of his administration, at all level, will be receptive to their suggestions and ideas.The Presiden...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 13:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
The role of peace in the economy
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 14:17hrs | 156 | by Kernan Mzelikahle
The Role of Peace in the Economy - Mthwakazi Forum
We are still struggling, in Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole, when it comes to understanding and executing economic programmes that give sustainable growth. Most analysts tend to paint this poor underst...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 20:52hrs | | by Kernan Mzelikahle
Les Propheties: A peep into the year ahead
FRENCH apothecary and astrologer Michel de Nostredame, commonly referred to as Nostradamus, is best known for his book Les Propheties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains claiming to predict future e...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
A review of Zimbabwe's trade performance in 2018
ZIMBABWE's exports have been on a steady growth path throughout the year but imports rose at a much even faster pace. In this piece, NewsDay's Mthandazo Nyoni looks at how the country has fared in the...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF backs Mnangagwa's economic plan
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been bowled over by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's current economic plan, which has already seen Treasury recording a budget surplus of over $29 million durin...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2561 | by The Sunday Mail
Digital tax headache for small economies
Taxation of digital services like Facebook, e-Commerce, cloud services, video streaming, Twitter and Google advertising is a complex global problem.Countries like Zimbabwe, which are beneficia...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:53hrs | 377 | by Dr Dennis Magaya
Transformation: Imparting depth to the economy
Last week closed on a very good note.First, Government announced the much-awaited Diamond Policy.This new policy protects the National Interest, while meeting the expectations of the K...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
Mthuli Ncube in timely US intervention
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube yesterday made a timely intervention as he submitted a detailed paper on Zimbabwe's economic and political reforms to a United States o...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:18hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa calls for rail network overhaul
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for a total revamp of the country's rail network and re-equipping the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) workshops to enable the parastatal to serve the entire...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
From land-locked to land-linked economy
This week I share my thoughts on changing Zimbabwe from being a land-locked country into a land-linked economy.This subject, among other things, addresses country and regional infrastructural ...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:06hrs | 318 | by President Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
Lithium project to earn Zimbabwe $3bn
Australia Stock Exchange (ASX) listed Prospect Resources Plc says its Arcadia Lithium project, located 38 kilometres east of Harare, has proven capacity to generate nearly $3 billion in export revenue...Published: 22 Nov 2018 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030. This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabil...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 05:35hrs | | by Emerson D. Mnangagwa
Economic Dialogue: Building value chains, skills for Vision 2030
Zimbabwe aspires to be an upper middle-income economy with a per capita income of US$3 500 by 2030.This requires fundamental transformations and shifts in the economy. Our Transitional Stabili...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:29hrs | | by HE Emmerson D Mnangagwa
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