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The worse ever political year in Zimbabwe
As we come to the wire of the year 2019, there is nothing to write home about as poverty, hunger and unemployment continue to sting the ordinary people in the country.Looking at the political ...Published: 8 hrs ago | 1099 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa gobbles over US$11,4m on foreign trips
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his bloated entourage splashed US$12 million on travel expenses between January and September this year at a time government is battling to contain an intractable econ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 741 | by Staff reporter
Sense of crisis in Zimbabwe worsens
President Emmerson Mnangagwa wants "time, patience, unity of purpose and perseverance", to get Zimbabwe's stuttering economy working again. The economy was "dead" under his predecessor and mentor, the...Published: 15 hrs ago | 895 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe political parties failing citizens
AS the year draws to an end, it has become obvious to millions of Zimbabweans that the prospect of a broad-based, credible dialogue process are fading, further threatening the country's desperately ne...Published: 15 hrs ago | 237 | by Faith Zaba
IMF team jets in for crucial talks
A six member delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Gene Leon jetted into the country this week for crucial meetings to revive the Staff Monitored Programme (SMP), which stalled ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 822 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MPs take Mudenda to court
MDC Alliance MPs have approached the High Court challenging Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda's decision to bar them from receiving their sitting allowances.The 112 MPs are argui...Published: 15 hrs ago | 614 | by Staff reporter
Church leaders are "local midwives delivering home-grown solution" - appeasing Zanu PF is no solution, never was
Zimbabwe's economy is in total meltdown; unemployment has remained 90% plus, 3/4 of the population are living on US$40 per month and the country's estimated 1000% hyperinflation is dragging them even ...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 09:12hrs | 356 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa's govt to engage civil servants over COLA
Government says it is ready to engage civil servants' representatives over the possibility of another cost of living adjustment (COLA) to enable them to have a decent festive season. While ack...Published: 05 Dec 2019 at 06:28hrs | 1738 | by Staff reporter
Cabs to close 4 branches
OLD Mutual subsidiary, Cabs is shutting down four branches by end of January next year as the financial institution streamlines its business model in response to the tough operating environment....Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:21hrs | 2325 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe prisons struggle to feed, treat inmates
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) is struggling to feed and provide medical attention to inmates due to shortages of food and drugs, officials have said.This emerged at a Z...Published: 04 Dec 2019 at 09:19hrs | 389 | by Staff reporter
World Bank rules out financial bailout to Mnangagwa
THE World Bank (WB) has ruled out a possible financial bailout to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government for now, saying Zimbabwe will only continue to benefit from technical assistance, analytical...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:44hrs | 5511 | by Staff reporter
Significant decline in cash premiums: RBZ
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Monetary Policy Committee has said the recent injection of new bank notes and coins into the system has resulted in significant decline in cash premiums. In ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1970 | by Staff rpeorter
Doctors report for duty
SOME doctors reported for duty at Mpilo Central Hospital yesterday following the presidential moratorium which allows them to return to work without reapplying after they were sacked recently for enga...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1636 | by Staff reporter
Outcry as boarding school fees soar
Some parents are in shock after a number of schools hiked fees for next year's first term to as high as $12 000, although Government yesterday said it had not approved any increases. Form Ones...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1510 | by Staff reporter
RBZ tightens monetary policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will take measures to counter the threat of high and potentially inflationary money supply growth from the 2020 growth-oriented budget by maintaining a stran...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 07:04hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Mutendi can't tell ED truth of rigged elections, can't stand political heat - get out of the kitchen
"If you see a frog hoping in the midday heat, you can be certain something is amiss!" so goes the adage. Zimbabwe's economic situation is getting worse and worse. Unemployment still 90% plus; 3/4 ...Published: 03 Dec 2019 at 06:21hrs | 2292 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe's current economic meltdown beyond description
I am writing this piece writhing in agony because I see helplessness in our society with a moribund leadership on a broad scale. The current economic meltdown is beyond description especially given th...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:20hrs | 2592 | by JJD Dube
Ncube hit the poor hard by scrapped grain subsidies and is yet to tax looters
One of the few things Professor Mthuli Ncube did as soon as he was appoint Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance was to introduce the 2% electronic transaction tax. The tax was to raise some revenue from the...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 10:11hrs | 2244 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Homes, land destroyed as gold panners invade region
Under the blazing sun, a group of men use picks and shovels to dig up a bushy patch of land outside Zimbabwe's second-largest city, stopping every few seconds to scan the soil for signs of gold....Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:14hrs | 784 | by Staff reporter
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 | 3209 | by Tawanda Majoni
Ostrich mentality destroying Zimbabwe
United Nations special rapporteur on the right to food Hilal Elver's preliminary report following her 11-day fact-finding mission to Zimbabwe is a poignant reminder of everything that has gone wrong w...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 06:10hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to roll out interbank e-trading platform
Monetary authorities are looking to enhance the efficiency of the foreign exchange interbank market by introducing a new electronic trading platform.The interbank market was introduced this Fe...Published: 01 Dec 2019 at 05:49hrs | 144 | by Staff rpeorter
Patients call for doctors to return
Patients seeking treatment from public health institutions countrywide have pleaded with junior doctors to end their impasse with the Government over salaries and find it in their hearts to assist the...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 10:43hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
ZCC still demanding Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - for 39 years insane set national agenda, enough is enough
Albert Einstein said "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."It is very sad to note that Zimbabwe must have one of the largest number of insane ...Published: 30 Nov 2019 at 06:24hrs | 1817 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe army generals sweat over rampant indiscipline
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant-General Edzai Chimonyo last week convened an emergency staff meeting where he read the riot act over rampant indiscipline, theft of rations and crimin...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:56hrs | 4351 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa peeps into immortality
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent decision to rename 10 streets in key cities in the country portrays him as a leader desperate to cleanse his tainted record, while immortalising his name in the a...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:52hrs | 823 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube burns his house to smoke out a rat
The 2020 national budget statement announced by Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube a fortnight ago was telling in more ways than one. The professor had no qualms to nail his govern...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:43hrs | 1465 | by Cliff Chiduku
State of Zimdollar spells doom
IT can only happen in Africa; and it is, indeed, such a shame that the continent has become world famous and synonymous with leaders who are so crass that they will walk with a swagger while their nos...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
UN warns of turmoil in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE is on the verge of a major man-made famine characterised by partisan food distribution, repeated droughts and years of economic and financial decay that have left nearly eight million people,...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 09:39hrs | 563 | by Staff reporter
Doctors show Mnangagwa the middle finger
The Zimbabwe Hospital Doctors Association and the Senior Hospital Doctors Association have rejected the 48 hours moratorium to return to work. The moratorium was announced by President Emmerso...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 07:34hrs | 10137 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe on brink of man-made starvation, UN rights expert warns
Despite the constitutional protection of the right to food and a sophisticated set of human-rights based national laws and policies, man-made starvation is slowly making its way in Zimbabwe, said the ...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 1407 | by Ms Hilal Elver
Mnangagwa faces ZANU PF Conference price headache
The President heads to a ZANU PF National Conference where the issue of prices is set to take centre stage as prices affect the proverbial bread and butter issues.The President will have addre...Published: 29 Nov 2019 at 06:12hrs | 6762 | by Nicholas Ncube
'Expect steady economic recovery by December 2019' - nonsense, none as long as we remain a pariah state
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 10:52hrs | 1798 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Pepkor exit testifies Zimbabwe not open for business'
The Zimbabwean market exit by South African retailer Pepkor, which runs local retailer Power Sales, is testament that Zimbabwe is not open for business and speaks volumes about the increasingly toxic ...Published: 28 Nov 2019 at 06:44hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's poverty datum line shoots to $3 159
The country's poverty datum line for an average of five persons stood at $3, 159.52 in October, an increase of 44.2% from September's $2 191.62. The increase is in tandem with the sharp rise in the mo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 1237 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe doctors to get 'mushikashika' cars from govt - can this absurdity ever get any worse?
As the Zimbabwe government ups the ante in its concerted efforts in dehumanizing and degrading the people of this country - through its brazenly heartless and cold-hearted economic policies that have ...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 18:37hrs | 1358 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Silent genocide' going on in Zimbabwe's hospitals
Senior doctors in Zimbabwe have gone on strike in protest against the sackings of hundreds of junior doctors who have boycotted work in a pay dispute.The senior doctors' association, SDHA, sai...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1862 | by BBC
Ramaphosa asked to push Zanu PF and MDC dialogue - endorsed rigged elections soiled his hands
There is no denying that President Mnangagwa's trade-mark "Zimbabwe is open for business!" clarion call is dead in the water. Instead of putting the Zimbabwe economy back on track, the economic meltdo...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 09:23hrs | 3246 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimdollar plunges 564% since February
The Zimbabwe dollar has depreciated by 564% to date since its introduction in February this year due to lack of market confidence and nothing to back it in terms of gold reserves and export earnings....Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1434 | by Staff reporter
Gloom as Harare presents $4bn budget
HARARE yesterday presented a $4,5 billion budget amid fears that it will not be sustainable under the current hyperinflationary environment and will need immediate review that will affect hard-pressed...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:45hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Water charges to go up 400%
Harare City Council's budget proposals delivered last night will see the average bill for high-density householders rise to $225 a month. In the budget, council quadrupled water charges, raise...Published: 27 Nov 2019 at 06:18hrs | 527 | by Staff reporter
Senior doctors withdraw labour in solidarity with fired junior doctors
Zimbabwe's public hospitals face a complete shutdown after specialist senior doctors on Tuesday announced that they would stop attending to emergencies in solidarity with over 400 doctors sacked for g...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 20:12hrs | 2241 | by ZimLive
Bulawayo councillors angry at slow pace of Egodini
Bulawayo Councillors are angry at the slow pace in which Egodini Mall project is taking shape, saying the first phase should have been ready for commissioning this November.However from the lo...Published: 26 Nov 2019 at 20:01hrs | 4623 | by Staff reporter
2020 Budget Hits and Misses
Zimbabwe's 2020 National Budget was presented amid high expectations from the market on the urgent need to turnaround the fortunes of the waning economy, restore incomes, and improve productivity and ...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1267 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube clears the air on inflation figures
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said Government had not banned calculations of Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate but the actualities would be determined using the...Published: 25 Nov 2019 at 06:33hrs | 1405 | by Staff reporter
'Cross-border traders to declare forex sources'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government is headed for another clash with cross-border traders and ordinary citizens after announcing plans to compel travellers to disclose their source of foreign cu...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 17:23hrs | 3964 | by Staff reporter
Best path to a prosperous Zimbabwe
The starting point in the journey to a prosperous Zimbabwe is to understand the nature and character of Zimbabwe's problems. The country has inextricably linked, seemingly intractable, political and e...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:47hrs | 68 | by Arthur Mutambara
Khupe ally dismisses Polad
Former Nkayi South legislator and Bulawayo businessman, Abednico Bhebhe has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of running down the economy and challenged him to admit failure.Bhebhe, who is ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:36hrs | 770 | by Staff reporter
Come for more cash: RBZ
Banks have to continuously draw cash from the central bank to ensure uninterrupted supply to depositors, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has said.New cash and coins - ...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 14:03hrs | 1970 | by Staff reporter
Govt nullifies school fees hike
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has ordered that all school fees increases by private schools for next year are null and void, as they have not been approved by the ministry.Th...Published: 24 Nov 2019 at 10:53hrs | 2684 | by Staff Reporter
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