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US stung but unfazed over Zimbabwe vaccine rejection
THE United States yesterday said it was unfazed by the Zimbabwean government's actions of undermining their assistance to fight the ravaging COVID19 pandemic and remained committed to assisting millio...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1244 | by Staff reporter
Police implicated in Binga smuggling
THE smuggling of liquor, cigarettes, bags of cement, and building materials through the Zambezi River into Binga has been on the rise, with police accused of facilitating the illegal activity....Published: 5 hrs ago | 168 | by Staff reporter
Aspiring Kariba MP arrested in SA 'smuggling' Broncleer
AN ASPIRING Kariba MP Stanley Kauso was arrested in South Africa recently for attempting to help a Zimbabwean woman smuggle out boxes of cough syrup, Broncleer.The cough remedy, commonly known...Published: 5 hrs ago | 278 | by Staff reporter
Goods smuggled from SA impounded
Police in Bulawayo have impounded a South African truck carrying smuggled groceries worth more than R200 000. The Zambia bound truck was intercepted along the Bulawayo-Harare Road near Zuva ga...Published: 5 hrs ago | 184 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe companies map alternative routes as SA burns
ZIMBABWE'S industry has begun mapping out longer and expensive trade routes to export their products overseas after vital transport corridors via South African ports were hit by two weeks of violence,...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:18hrs | 578 | by Staff reporter
Top cops steal smuggled goods
TWO top Beitbridge cops are in trouble after they allegedly connived to smuggle and steal goods that were later intercepted.The pair, Inspector Elias Maomba (force number 047527J), attached to...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:09hrs | 815 | by Staff reporter
SA unrest cuts off Zimbabwe supply chains
THE manufacturing sector is in disarray following violent clashes in South Africa in recent weeks, which have affected the supply of critical raw materials.The Confederation of Zimbabwe Indust...Published: 23 Jul 2021 at 09:01hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Will Zimbabwe recover and benefit from the AfCFTA?
African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) came at the time when Zimbabwe is at the verge, struggling economically as seen with poverty elongated with COVID-19 dominating the society. AfCFTA is a pr...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 09:37hrs | 449 | by Fifteen Theophelous
Teachers reject 'measly' pay hike
TEACHERS have rejected the 45% to 50% salary increment that government has offered them, saying it was inadequate as it will result in the lowest-paid teacher earning $28 600 against a poverty datum l...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 08:02hrs | 1390 | by Staff reporter
US$4,2m boost for Boterekwa Road dualisation
GOVERNMENT says it has allocated US$4,2 million for the dualisation of the Boterekwa stretch along the Gweru-Zvishavane Highway.A newsletter released by Midlands Provincial Affairs minister La...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
+35 000 apprehended for cross-border related crimes
POLICE have this year arrested nearly 35 000 people for cross border related crimes.Police on January 7 launched operation "no to cross border crimes/ amacala kawaphele emingceleni elizwe/ mho...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 18:17hrs | 838 | by Staff writer
Police, villagers clash
POLICE in Burma Valley have been accused of infringing villagers' right to movement and assaulting them for allegedly smuggling second-hand clothes and other goods from Mozambique through the porous b...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:20hrs | 587 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's desperate security agents claim 'looted SA goods Botswana and Zimbabwe-bound'
SOUTH African security agents have reportedly confiscated several goods worth thousands of rand as smugglers attempted to move the loot into Zimbabwe and Botswana following days of rioting in the neig...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:18hrs | 1912 | by Staff reporter
Diaspora inflows top US$1 billion
Zimbabwe's Diaspora remittances jumped 58 percent last year, to about US$1 billion, a development that helped the country to cover gaps left by trade disruptions caused by the Covid19 pandemic. ...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:11hrs | 218 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe respects rights of citizens, claims Shava
Covid19 containment measures are not an attempt by the Government to curtail the rights of its citizens, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Ambassador Frederick Shava has said. He was sp...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:09hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt VID depots fingered over horror crash
Masvingo and Zvishavane Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) depots are playing the blame game after details emerged that the Toyota Wish that was involved in the Mhandamabwe road carnage which claim...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:07hrs | 747 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over Chitungwiza travel ban
CHITUNGWIZA residents and legislators have criticised the government decision to prohibit travel between Harare and the dormitory town except for essential services and huumanitarian reasons.T...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:10hrs | 862 | by Staff reporter
Notorious robbers' trial stalls
THE trial of alleged armed robbers, who are accused of besieging gold miner and cleric Mathias Madziwanzira's home and stealing cash among other goods two years ago, failed to kick off again last week...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:08hrs | 370 | by Staff reporter
Fresh wave of protests loom in South Africa
SOUTH African authorities fear a new wave of uprisings as networks loyal to jailed former president Jacob Zuma seek to force his freedom.Investigators believe the unrest last week, which kille...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:01hrs | 2558 | by Staff reporter
SA protests to push Zimbabwe prices high
ZIMBABWE could see a spike in prices of imported goods as hundreds of containers with goods destined for the country were stuck along routes and at warehouses in South Africa following last week's pro...Published: 18 Jul 2021 at 08:00hrs | 245 | by Staff reporter
SA police recover R176,00 smuggled goods from Zimbabwe
South African police have intercepted a Zimbabwean bus transporting nine border jumpers and an assortment of smuggled goods worth R175 800 as they clamp down on smuggling.The Johannesburg-boun...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:44hrs | 2932 | by Staff reporter
When South Africa sneezes Zimbabwe catches a cold
HISTORY tells us we owe it to Klemens von Metternich, the distinguished 19th-century Austrian statesman and diplomat, one of the most famous phrases about the global economy and its dynamics.I...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:25hrs | 532 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sweats over SA protests
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has acknowledged that the ongoing violent protests in neighbouring South Africa could trigger regional instability, and called for a peaceful resolution to the impasse....Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:33hrs | 3459 | by Staff reporter
SA unrest further dampens transporters operations
CROSS-border transporters in Zimbabwe say the sector, which has been subdued due to the Covid-19 pandemic, has been dealt another blow as a result of violence and looting in South Africa that is affec...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:04hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fears food disruptions, price hikes; pins hopes on ANC
ZIMBABWE says the ANC has the capacity to deal with South Africa's current turmoil and that for now there's no need for SADC intervention.Speaking to journalists in Harare on Wednesday night a...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 18:57hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
Smuggler granted $50 000 bail
LEADER of a smuggling syndicate, Anyway Chinyanga, yesterday appeared at Rusape Magistrates' Court facing charges of illegal possession of a firearm and smuggling of second-hand clothes, shoes and cel...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:35hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Police probe cross border bus firm
Police have launched investigations into the circumstances that saw a Sables bus passing through all police checkpoints from Beitbridge to Marondera before it was impounded.The concern is that...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 06:56hrs | 1019 | by Staff Reporter
Cyclone Idai medicines were left to expire in warehouses
Auditor-General Mildred Chiri has revealed that some medicines that formed part of donated goods for Cyclone Idai victims were left to expire in warehouse shelves.Cyclone Idai which affected m...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 14:31hrs | 241 | by Staff reporter
South Africa fuel shortages in the next few days
South African Petroleum Refineries (Sapref) has declared force majeure and announced a temporary closure due to the ongoing violence and looting in South Africa, ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:59hrs | 721 | by Staff reporter
Ezra Tshisa Sibanda lashes Zimbabwean idiots living in SA bragging about looting
Veteran radio personality Ezra 'Tshisa' Sibanda has condemned some 'Zimbabwean idiots living in SA bragging about looting and showing off goods they looted.'A number of videos with people spea...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:50hrs | 4640 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe imports increase by 17,6%
Zimbabwe imported goods worth US$2,27 billion in the six months to June 2021, which reflects a 17,6 percent increase on the external sector payments conducted by the country over the same period last ...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:25hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
3 passengers on bus from SA test positive for Covid-19
Police impounded a Sable bus caught offloading passengers and goods in Marondera after entering Zimbabwe without the passengers showing Covid-19 test certificates and then drove most of the way across...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:24hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter
SI 127 ghost still haunting economy
After passing Statutory Instrument (SI) 127 of 2021 on the 26th of May 2021, the Zimbabwean government made a quick summersault on the new regulations through a press statement issued by the Reserve B...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 08:47hrs | 506 | by Victor Bhoroma
A wave of political change blowing over SADC region
The recent events characterizing developments happening in the Sadc region are pointers to a very big change in the political arena of region.The current wave of protests and looting in South ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 21:56hrs | 2602 | by Leonard Koni
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
Crowds clashed with police and ransacked or set ablaze shopping malls in cities across South Africa on Tuesday, with dozens of people reported killed, as grievances unleashed by the jailing of ex-pres...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 19:43hrs | 1112 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new $50 can't buy bread
LAST week, the Zimbabwean central bank introduced a $50 note, the country's highest denomination since a return to Zimbabwean dollars as the main currency in 2019.It joins other denominations ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:15hrs | 2162 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa has no power to change laws, claims a war vet
A WAR veteran, Frederick Charles Moses Mutandah, has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa over his enactment of Statutory Instrument (SI) 127 of 2021 saying only Parliament could change country's l...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:12hrs | 2235 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over Mapostori pilgrimage
LAW enforcement agents have come under fire for alleged selective application of the law after allowing thousands of Johane Marange followers to hold their annual pilgrimage at Mafararikwa village in ...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:10hrs | 1150 | by Staff reporter
War vet asks courts to clip Mnangagwa's wings
CONTROVERSIAL war veteran, Fredrick Matanda, has filed a fresh application challenging as unconstitutional the Presidential Powers Act.In May, Matanda successfully challenged Constitutional Am...Published: 13 Jul 2021 at 09:07hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
Sable bus impounded by police
The ZRP confirmed that a Sable bus plying the South Africa Zimbabwe route which had 38 passengers was impounded whilst offloading goods and some of the passengers at Metro Pitch Marondera. The passeng...Published: 12 Jul 2021 at 19:23hrs | 3484 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe judges in the dock next week
TOP Zimbabwean judges of the highest court in the land - including Deputy Chief Justice Elizabeth Gwaunza - will inadvertently be in the dock next when they hear an application by a Bulawayo man Marx ...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:40hrs | 783 | by Staff reporter
R3m cigarette smugglers nabbed
SOUTH African police have arrested two suspected Zimbabweans caught with R3 million worth of Remington Gold cigarettes they were smuggling into that country through the Beitbridge border post....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:47hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean oil firm expands into Sadc
MATRIX Petroleum, a United Kingdom-based oil firm majority-controlled by Zimbabwean-born Malvin Chiwanga, has announced plans to enter the Namibian and South African markets.The firm has signi...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:45hrs | 808 | by Staff reporter
Robbers loot $55 million in Bulawayo
ARMED robbers in Bulawayo stole cash and valuables worth a total of $54 962 918 between March and June this year, in a four-month crime wave that saw 32 armed robberies committed around the city....Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 10:39hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
27 firms fined for abusing forex auction system
Twenty one more companies have now been found abusing the foreign currency auction system, bringing the total to 39, and of these, 27 have been assessed civil penalties while 12 others have been issue...Published: 10 Jul 2021 at 10:53hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Illicit financial flaws daunt RBZ
THE central bank is facing a gigantic task in curbing illicit financial flows with exporters having devised complex ways of evading high retention thresholds as swap deals top the list of their illega...Published: 09 Jul 2021 at 12:09hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Herd boy on the run after stealing employer's car
A man employed as a herd boy in Empandeni, Plumtree is on the run after reportedly stealing a vehicle belonging to his elderly employer.The vehicle is a red Honda Fit registration number AFH 4...Published: 08 Jul 2021 at 19:50hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
Ban on intercity travel starves villagers
GOVERNMENT'S ban on intercity travel as part of COVID-19 containment measures has plunged villagers in rural Matabeleland North in serious food shortages as they can no longer receive supplies from re...Published: 07 Jul 2021 at 12:19hrs | 1542 | by Staff reporter
Econet set to increase promotional bundle prices
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe will this week review the price of its promotional voice, data and SMS bundles, according to a notice issued to customers by the mobile operator.The adjustment, which ...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 18:23hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Vendors demand to be prioritised during vaccination
INFORMAL traders associations yesterday called on the Health ministry to prioritise its members during the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise.Government has said that vendors would not be a...Published: 02 Jul 2021 at 19:28hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
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