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OK Zimbabwe begins restocking after weeks of empty shelves
Troubled retailer OK Zimbabwe has announced that it has started restocking its outlets following weeks of empty shelves and temporary closures due to macroeconomic challenges, particularly exchange ra...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 12:37hrs | 1675 | by Staff reporter
Internet providers bemoan high taxation
ZIMBABWE'S internet access providers (IAPs) have raised concern about high taxes which they claim are impeding their ability to operate and forcing them to pass the costs to customers, Standardbusines...Published: 07 Apr 2024 at 10:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe rural teachers declare poverty, strike
RURAL teachers have downed their tools after officially declaring incapacitation to the government as a new wave of price increases is pushing the cost of living to astronomical levels.In an i...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC borrows poor language from Nerves Mumba
IN A WHAT COMES ACROSS AS A POOR CASE OF BORROWING poor language from Nerves Mumba's controversial Sadc Electoral Observation Mission on Zimbabwe's 2023 harmonised general election, Nelson Chamisa's C...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 18:23hrs | 13 | by Jonathan Moyo
Zim Independence Celebrations paraded amid unaddressed workers' grievances
HARARE - The president of NMWUZ - (the National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe) has sent His Excellence President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa of the Seco...Published: 17 Apr 2023 at 22:50hrs | 4 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Chamisa says economy will get worse
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday warned that the economic situation will get worse because of the failure by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to manage ...Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sector priorities for NDS implementation
Zimbabwe launched its new 5 year economic blueprint called the National Development Strategy (NDS-1) on 16 November 2020. The new plan succeeds the Transitional Stabilization Programme (TSP) that ends...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 09:17hrs | 9 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Price stability to spill into 2021'
ECONOMISTS and captains of industry yesterday predicted a continued stability of prices of goods and services into next year.During a state of the economy report by Africa Economic Development...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 19:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
High taxation threatens mining viability
Munya Shumba's letter entitled 'Robbing the poor to pay the rich' refers. Outrightly, its mind boggling how the government tax loot from the poor would end up in the purse of a mining company? Secondl...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Dennis Shoko
Import substitution: best remedy to high import bill
Zimbabwe imported goods worth $6.85 Billion in 2018, a 38% increase from 2017. That import figure can go up by 30% if smuggled merchandise and under declared imports at the country's border posts are ...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:15hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Is Mnangagwa's govt pro-poor or Queen B?'
MDC legislators on Wednesday grilled Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs minister, Ziyambi Ziyambi over the effects of government's austerity measures while bigwigs are living an extravagant life...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 14:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
After the demonstrations ED will not put the fuel prices down
The hike in fuel prices, especially diesel, is likely to have a spiralling effect on the surging inflation over the medium-term horizon. The government's step to hike fuel prices would further aggrava...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:27hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
The new dispensation a replica of Mugabe era
The narrative of the November coup which ushered in President Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot be white washed and will remain in the Zimbabwe's history.I now plead with the indulgence of...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 08:48hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
How many times do you tax me?
It's disheartening to believe that when someone's salary is deposited into his bank account, the bank will as usual tell me that they do not have cash. I am left with no alternative than to tr...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 20:04hrs | 2 | by Isaac Nkomah
Zimra has not yet closed any company
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has refuted allegations that it has closed many companies in the country due to high taxation, saying companies were shutting themselves down by failing to liqui...Published: 18 May 2017 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi goes for big UN post
Africa will, for the first time in the 42-year history of the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO), put forward a candidate for the post of secretary-general when Dr Walter Mzembi formally launch...Published: 11 Jan 2017 at 12:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimRights host governmental and non-governmental stakeholders conference
The Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) on Friday, August 21, 2015, in the southern provincial capital, Masvingo, hosted governmental and non-governmental stakeholders at an interactive idea...Published: 27 Aug 2015 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Kisnot Mukwazhe calls for 3 days of prayer
Kisnot Mukwazhe, the Zimbabwe Development Party (ZDP) opposition leader has called on Zimbabweans to fast and pray for peace, economic development and unity for three days beginning on Friday. ...Published: 15 Oct 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
High taxation stifles small business
High taxation levels and inflexible business licensing models are hindering the growth of the SME sector in the country, players in the industry have said.SME sector representatives told S...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 06:51hrs | | by Business reporter
Zimbabwe graduates turn to vending
Many graduates from Zimbabwe's tertiary institutions have lost hope of ever getting formal employment, as the economy continues to shrink.Companies are either downsizing...Published: 09 Feb 2014 at 13:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police ban ZCTU march
Police in Harare have banned a planned march against violation of workers' rights in Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the country's largest labour union, wanted to mark the...Published: 10 Sep 2013 at 08:07hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
MDC-T agrees to mortgage diamonds
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) formation led by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai explicitly backed a US$98 million loan from China to construct the National Defence College (NDC) in Harare...Published: 11 Jun 2011 at 17:44hrs | | by .
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