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'Mission: Zanu PF realise link between Z$, knowledge and production' - how, when only they know best
Last month the Mnangagwa government enacted the Statutory Instrument 142 (2019) in which the regime banish the use of the basketful of multi-foreign currencies as legal tender in Zimbabwe leaving the ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 2410 | by Wilbert Mukori
New wave of African stars prepare for debut NBA seasons
There has been a consistent flow of talent coming into the NBA from Africa for more than 30 years now and the continent doesn't look to be running out of quality basketball players anytime soon. ...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:06hrs | 434 | by Staff Writer
A currency backed by nothing
On February 25, 1862, United States President Abraham Lincoln signed the Legal Tender Act, a brainchild of Elbridge Spaulding. Those were terrifying times. The republic was at war with itself and woul...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1350 | by eBusiness Weekly
4 armed robbers shot dead
FOUR suspected serial armed robbers - out on bail facing 24 armed robbery charges involving cash, vehicles, guns and jewellery - were shot dead during a shootout with police in Kwekwe. The sus...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1437 | by Staff reporter
New funding round launched for Zim startups at FasterCapital
On the 11th July 2019; more than 20 African countries bring into effect what is going to be the largest Free Trade Area in the world. A free trade area means an agreement between several countries to ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1104 | by Tawanda Mutukwa
Telecomms a new loss making business in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe mobile network operators have seen revenue decline and reporting break evens, in this highly inflationary environment. If this persists at this rate, they will be soon reporting loses as the ...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:04hrs | 582 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe tobacco sales surpasses 220 million kgs target
ZIMBABWE'S tobacco sales have reached 227,4 million kilogrammes, surpassing the set target of 220 million kilogrammes as at day 80 of trade, data from the industry regulator has shown.Last yea...Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 08:00hrs | 265 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineers and innovators invited to enetre competition
Engineers and innovators from Zimbabwe and other sub-Saharan countries are ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 20:52hrs | 1639 | by Staff reporter
3 cops in 160kg gold ore heist
Three police officers based at Fort Rixon Police Station have been implicated in a 160kg gold ore theft at Sheep Skin A mine, a police report shows.According to a leaked police document dated ...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 919 | by Staff reporter
Women give Gweru council 14-day ultimatum
WOMEN Coalition of Zimbabwe (WCoZ) Midlands Chapter has given Gweru City Council 14 days to explain the source of funding for former town clerk, Daniel Matawu's exit package as well as resolve the cit...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | 451 | by Staff reporter
Kambarami: A limping goat with one horn on its forehead!
The uncanny and hellish school boy behaviour by one Tinashe Kambarami of unknown origin, who by the devil's design, strangely found himself being the self-proclaimed godfather of Bulawayo, is exceedin...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 00:31hrs | 4423 | by Muntukaziwa
Suspected armed robbers, gold dealers in court
TWO suspected armed robbers have been arraigned before a Bulawayo court on charges of illegal possession of gold worth US$37 338.Robson Chatikobo (35) and Brezhnev Maposa (37) appeared before ...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 07:30hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Two husbands woman shocks community
A Lupane woman has left her community shocked after it emerged she was married to two men and had children with both of them. Ms Siphathisiwe Mkandla (48) of Manansa village in Malunku ward co...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 2011 | by Staff reporter
'MDC went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate' - amused and irritated SADC in equal measure
"Chamisa: We went into GNU with no plan, sat and ate!" screamed the headlines in New Zimbabwe.Every SADC leader involved in the Zimbabwe political crisis during the 2008 to 2013 GNU was amused...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 22:41hrs | 2478 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Bosso held by FC Platinum at BF
Highlanders and FC Platinum shared the spoils in a Match-day 14 encounter played at Barbourfields Stadium in Bulawayo on Sunday.Bosso set the pace in the opening moments of the game, launching...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 18:18hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Documentation challenges for ex-Wenela miners
EX-WENELA Miners Association of Zimbabwe is facing challenges in ensuring that its members and dependants of the deceased have the requisite documentation to enable them to receive compensation for re...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:39hrs | 1045 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mineral exports in 9% jump
Zimbabwe has recorded an 8,7 percent jump in mineral exports to $910 million in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, statistics from the Minerals Marketing Corporation of ...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:30hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Chinamasa rallies behind Mthuli Ncube
FORMER Finance Minister, Patrick Anthony Chinamasa, (P.A.C) who is also the ZANU-PF secretary for finance has rallied behind the current Minister of Finance, Professor Mthuli Ncube, saying the country...Published: 14 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
BCC places AmaZulu Sports Club for lease
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has placed the multi-faceted sport facility AmaZulu Sports Club on a tender for lease, giving interested individuals and organisations an opportunity to resuscitate the...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 10:48hrs | 813 | by Staff reporter
Having Zanu-PF and MDC for leaders is like having parents who are not a full shilling - life is hell-on-earth
In the rural village where I grew up lived an odd couple, both the husband and wife were "not a full shilling", people said. As luck would have it, the two were blessed with a child. The two would not...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 19:57hrs | 838 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Suspended Bulawayo Town Clerk opens a case of assault
'SUSPENDED' Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube has opened a case of assault against Bulawayo's Acting Mayor.Bulawayo's acting Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:32hrs | 4358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe poised for gold boom
Zimbabwe is poised for a boom in gold production after Government announced that it will henceforth enforce a clause of the Mines and Minerals Act that gives the state the powers to forfeit mining tit...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:50hrs | 1044 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor dismisses convict Kambarami's actions as a non-event
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:21hrs | 2969 | by Staff reporter
Armed robbers rob Sino Non-Metal Resources of US$44,000
Six armed men robbed four Chinese nationals on Wednesday morning of US$44 200, ZWL$2 920 and 500 Chinese yuan at Sino Non-Ferrous Metal Resources gold milling company in Shurugwi.The robbers a...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:50hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Barbarians at Bulawayo council gate, Bulawayo Town Clerk ejected from office
BULAWAYO deputy Mayor, Tinashe Kambarami, and Ward 4 councillor Silas Chigora yesterday violently ejected Bulawayo City Council Town Clerk, Mr Christopher Dube, from his office after he refused to tak...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull
MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:28hrs | 931 | by Isdore Guvamombe
Kambarami suspends Bulawayo Town Clerk, trying to capture City council
Acting Bulawayo mayor Tinashe Kambarami has reportedly suspended the city's Town Clerk Christopher Dube on allegations of misappropriating council funds.In a letter dated July 11, 2019, Cllr K...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 17:11hrs | 5018 | by Staff reporter
The perfect storm is coming
I do not know what we have to say or do to get those in authority here to get them to understand that if they do nothing, Zimbabwe is headed for a political storm which could change everything or even...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 11:56hrs | 14241 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe trade deficit narrows by 71%
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit narrowed by 71% to $325 million between February and May this year, with analysts attributing the decline to foreign currency shortages as well as a drop in the budget deficit...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:24hrs | 303 | by Staff reporter
RioZim, Zesa to ink power deal
RIOZIM says its US$1,5 billion investment into building a 2 800 megawatts thermal power station in Sengwa, Gokwe North, remains firmly on course with the company now moving to the next phase of prelim...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:41hrs | 444 | by Staff reporter
In Zimbabwe 'war to overthrow is constitutional' just as 'coup is legal' - no wonder we are in a mess
Zimbabwe is in this political and economic mess because our political leaders have no respect for the constitution, the rule of law, the truth, the freedoms and rights of others and not even the sanc...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 06:21hrs | 1417 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bread crews promoting bread shortages for self gain
The bread delivery van crews from the country's three main bakeries are feeding the prevailing bread shortages for personal gains, the Harare Post has established. During the weekend, this pub...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 10:01hrs | 1433 | by Nobleman Runyanga
MDC council engages Mnangagwa's army over panners
BULAWAYO city fathers have resolved to engage the army to deal with artisanal miners working on Upper Ncema, threatening the ability of the dam to supply water to the city.This comes at a time...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:33hrs | 1498 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mining industry set to generate US$3bn
Zimbabwe's mining industry expects to generate US$3 billion in revenue this year, which is short of government’s US$4 billion target, an industry official has said.In 2018, the sector earned...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Trial for fake CIO trio set for July 26
THE trial of three men from Kwekwe who allegedly masqueraded as officers of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) sent by President Mnangagwa to take over a mine in Shangani has been rescheduled...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:20hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo spills more beans on Mnangagwa
Exiled former Cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo has written a Twitter thread exposing how President Emmerson Mnangagwa led his allies in stealing Treasury Bonds through various bogus projects i...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 13:18hrs | 21622 | by Mandla Ndlovu
To compare 1950 USA 'opulence amidst public squalor' to same in Zimbabwe is compare mouldy strawberries to yew berries
"The late JK Galbraith, an influential economist in the US public sphere more than 60 years ago, described Americans' conspicuous consumption in his book The Affluent Society as "private opulence amid...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 08:32hrs | 743 | by Wilbert Mukori
Govt's proposed information law is draconian
The government on July 5 2019 gazetted the Freedom of Information Bill [HB 6 of 2019]. This is the first of three official Bills meant to replace the much-criticised Access to Information and Protecti...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:27hrs | 193 | by Golden Maunganidze
RBZ unleashes monitors
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has dispatched a monitoring team to knock down the last bastions of unscrupulous businesses that are still transacting in foreign currency.Last month, the Go...Published: 07 Jul 2019 at 21:07hrs | 3955 | by Staff reporter
Gold panners a threat to Bulawayo water sources
GOLD panning in and around Bulawayo's supply dams is posing a serious threat to the environment and damaging water supply pipes, the city council has said.Bulawayo mayor Solomon Mguni told sta...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 171 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses billions to illicit financial flows
GOVERNMENT should complement monetary policy changes with an anti-corruption strategy to curb illicit financial flows (IFFs) as the country is losing billions annually, businessdigest has learnt....Published: 05 Jul 2019 at 12:37hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu PF will not turn around economy' said MDC A, gleefully - neither will you, just want TA
MDC Vice President Professor Welshman Ncube says the current Zimbabwean government is poised for failure and anyone pinning their hopes on it will be disappointed."Is there still anyone who st...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 15:18hrs | 1522 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Ndebele 'King' addresses the nation
I would like to make it known that I, as King of Matabeleland alias Mthwakazi, am very much committed to the Restoration of my Kingdom. I also want the whole world to know that the whole Inter-cultura...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7509 | by Stanley Khumalo
Protests: MDC caught between the devil and the deep blue sea
Conversations with insiders suggest that the MDC has been agonising over whether or not to call for protests since the beginning of the year. That no decision has been reached on the matter speaks to ...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 12:29hrs | 3442 | by Tendai Chimunda
Who turned off the water taps at Henderson Research Station at Mazowe?
Most people from Mash. Central know and have passed through Henderson Research Station at Mazowe, that epitome of agricultural research and development. Lush green paddocks and the lively 'app...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 19:32hrs | 1832 | by Thomas Murisa.
The funeral that is refusing to go
I am not a financial fundi neither am I an accounting apprentice, far from it but there is quiet mourning on the forex black market with rates looking the other way. Well, funerals and parties...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 19:30hrs | 5772 | by Thomas Murisa
Who is going to trust Zimbabwe with aid and credit lines?
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagant and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 10:21hrs | 1500 | by Clemen Moyo
Govt institutions doing havoc to our finances and resources
If we are going to be so irresponsible, so reckless, so unaccountable, so extravagent and so unprincipled in handling our meagre resources, who is going to trust us with aid and credit lines? If you w...Published: 03 Jul 2019 at 07:42hrs | 560 | by Clemen Moyo
Machete wielding gangs terrorize villagers in Zvishavane
The 2008 violence that saw most rural Zimbabweans decapitated and maimed by Zanu-PF militia is being relieved in rural and urbanZvishavane and Shurugwi in the Midlands Province following a new wave of...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 18:36hrs | 3099 | by MakhoPrecious Moyo
'Cook Off' movie set for UK premiere
Award-winning local movie Cook Off continues on its upward trajectory as the blockbuster looks to explore the UK market with the UK premiere set for 27thJuly at the exclusive Mayfair Hotel in London, ...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 09:33hrs | 697 | by Agencies
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