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Zimbabwe shelves plans to join Africa Continental Free Trade Area
GOVERNMENT has shelved plans to fully join the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (ACFTA) so that it could find space to stabilise local industry which is struggling to produce enough quality goods to...Published: 5 hrs ago | 221 | by newzimbabwe
HIFA 2019 cancelled
Harare International Festival of the Arts has announced that it has cancelled its 2019 edition due to the social and economic challenges taking place in the country.In a statement issued on Fr...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:41hrs | 553 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Record rainfall hits Zimbabe, more predicted
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has said a 42-year-old record of heavy rainfall received within a day has been broken and predicted heavy rains that may uproot trees and leave a trail of ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:36hrs | 1677 | by Staff reporter
Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project comes to life, says Mthuli
A flurry of activity over the Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric project is expected in the next few weeks amid indications that the updating of feasibility studies would be concluded at the end of the first...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:33hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Can Air Zimbabwe be run profitably?
AIR Zimbabwe was placed under reconstruction on October 4 2018 after operating for over 51 years in the skies.The airline has debts exceeding US$350 million that are weighing down the restruct...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:25hrs | 94 | by Victor Bhoroma
Frantic talks fail to unlock NRZ logjam
A SERIES of meetings this week aimed at ending the stalemate in the finalisation of the US$400 million National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) recapitalisation deal failed to break the deadlock among the ...Published: 15 Feb 2019 at 08:23hrs | 333 | by Staff reporter
Power to empower ...how energy projects are brightening Zimbabwe economic prospects - Mthuli Ncube
In today's world, energy has revolutionised all of our lifestyles. From the palm of our hands we have instruments more powerful than the largest and most sophisticated computers from just a few ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 18:24hrs | 1435 | by Hon. Prof. Mthuli Ncube
Mnangagwa avails $30m for Matebeleland South roads
Government has availed $30 million for various roads in Matebeleland South Province under the road development programme.The programme was meant to fund the maintenance of roads and other deve...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 17:37hrs | 889 | by Staff reporter
ZESA seeks 52% power tariff increase
The country's integrated power generation and distribution company, ZESA, through its subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC), is seeking a 52% power tariff ...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:09hrs | 1560 | by Staff reporter
Econet injects $45 million in solar project
UGESI Energy, a pan-African company within the Econet Energy Group, is targeting to invest $45 million in the first phase of its community solar programme launched in Bulawayo yesterday, an official h...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:21hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Electricity situation under control: Zesa
Zimbabweans should not panic over the availability of electricity following resumption of rolling power blackouts in South Africa, amid indications the country now has the bulk of its power needs afte...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:10hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Heavy, thunderous rains expected
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of thunderstorms and heavy rains in excess of 50 millimetres in just 24 hours in some parts of the country.In a statement the MSD said t...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 15:32hrs | 2629 | by Staff reporter
10 point plan to save Zimbabwe
Founder of the Coalition for Market and Liberal Solutions (COMALISO) Rejoice Ngwenya says Zimbabwe needs to adopt liberal economics for it to be extricated from its current problemsNgwen...Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 12:35hrs | 4559 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Busisa Moyo bemoans the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses
UNITED Refineries' Chief Executive Officer Mr Busisa Moyo has bemoaned the extent of damages suffered by Bulawayo businesses during last month's opposition-led protests. Through his Twitter ac...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 22:29hrs | 435 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe courts UAE market
Zimbabwe has dangled lucrative tourism opportunities to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Zimbabwean diasporans living in the Middle East amid hope of drawing investments into the tourism industry wh...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 08:55hrs | 597 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs to improve its trade systems
ZIMBABWE needs to improve its trade systems and proffer enabling monetary and fiscal policies designed to promote international trade, Speaker of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has said.S...Published: 12 Feb 2019 at 07:46hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Major trunk roads set for rehab
Government is targeting to construct or rehabilitate three major trunk roads in each of the country's 10 provinces using public-private partnerships (PPPs) and its own resources. In an intervi...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 15:07hrs | 2024 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's ally wants Mnangagwa's govt to pay for Bulawayo looting
Government must pay for the looting that occurred in Bulawayo last month, the secretary-general of the main MDC party Douglas Mwonzora has said.Mwonzora was reacting to sentiments by Zanu-PF p...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 14:07hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
5G transforming tech
5G, which stands for "fifth generation," is an upcoming standard for mobile telecommunications service that promises to be significantly faster than today's 4G technology. It will allow users to brows...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:58hrs | 617 | by Enos Denhere
Zimbabwean community that identifies with SA, Botswana
Arriving at Khalanyoni Business Centre in Plumtree, Mangwe district in Matabeleland South about 200 kilometres south of Bulawayo, one is greeted by a huge election billboard of a beaming President Emm...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 10:05hrs | 2710 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwas donate $60m to fight cholera
The family foundation of Econet founders Strive and Tsitsi Masiyiwa has committed an additional $60 million towards the cholera response in Zimbabwe.The commitment comes on the back of an init...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:33hrs | 576 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa under fire over private jets
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under fire for using expensive chartered flights at a time when the majority of Zimbabweans are wallowing in poverty.Mnagagwa on Friday flew to Ethiopia f...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:23hrs | 2912 | by Staff reporter
MDC-Alliance official confesses
A TOP MDC-Alliance official has conceded that his party was part of the organisers of the January protests that rocked the country resulting in the barricading of roads, destruction of infrastructure ...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:54hrs | 4461 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa secures $500million in lines of credit
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank (TDB) president Admassu Tadesse, and the financial institution made a commitment to arrange lines...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:51hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe can raise 70% funding locally'
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe has potential to mobilise 70 percent of funding needed to finance key infrastructure projects on the domestic market, a s...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:50hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube engages US over reforms, Zidera
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to leave for the United States of America next month to apprise that country's government officials on positive developments the...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:42hrs | 541 | by Staff reporter
Bread price slashed to $1,80
Government and bakers have agreed to reduce the price of bread from $2,20 to $1,80 a loaf, while Cabinet has approved a multi-million dollar package for businesses affected by the recent violent demon...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 05:41hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls provincial airports
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development minister Joel Biggie Matiza has said government is planning to construct provincial airports, with the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe tasked to oversee t...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:15hrs | 1739 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves task forces
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved the establishment of task forces to oversee the execution of certain priority development projects and programmes, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet, Dr...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:06hrs | 1536 | by Staff reporter
$19,5 million for looted businesses
GOVERNMENT will avail $19,5 million from a special fund set up to assist businesses that were looted and destroyed during last month's violent protests, a Cabinet Minister has said. Finance an...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:05hrs | 326 | by Staff reporter
$5 million availed for construction of Umzingwane Hospital
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has allocated $5 million towards the construction of a new district hospital for Umzingwane under the Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP).The curren...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 20:42hrs | 706 | by Staff reporter
Is Zimbabwe ready for online casinos?
Online gambling is a worldwide phenomenon. It's already hugely popular among many Western nations, including across Europe and - increasingly - in the US. The market is set to be worth around ...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 18:23hrs | 487 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's unskilled ministers to be sent to China
THE Chinese embassy is organising seminars in Beijing for Zimbabwean cabinet ministers and bureaucrats to help them learn how to engage top investors and financial institutions in the world's second l...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:50hrs | 2250 | by Staff reporter
$300K BCC infrastructure destroyed during protests
Bulawayo City Council says infrastructure such as road traffic signs worth $300 000 was destroyed in last month's deadly protests, piling more woes on the financially hamstrung local authority, a late...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 08:45hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa gets support from DA to attack Zimbabwe?
The events of the last weeks have been knee shacking and deeply depressing. The peaceful demonstrations in Zimbabwe were hijacked by the regime change financiers. The onslaught Zimbabwe received from ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 12:26hrs | 7282 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe military's record is unquestionable
The security forces have the obligation to defend and safeguard the country and they must carry out their mandates without fear or favour. However, it seems certain sections of the media are on a miss...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:50hrs | 2262 | by Ruvimbo Chivero & Solomon Banda
'No prosperity without pain'
Twenty Thirty Over the past year, there has been much talk about Vision 2030, our national growth strategy to transform Zimbabwe into a Prosperous and Empowered Upper Middle Income Society by the end ...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 22:49hrs | 1717 | by Prof Mthuli Ncube
Cabinet approves parastatal reforms
CABINET yesterday approved a litany of measures meant to strengthen under-performing parastatals such as Air Zimbabwe, the Grain Marketing Board and Zesa Holdings.Addressing journalists soon a...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 453 | by Staff reporter
Cabinet gives nod to POSA amendments
Cabinet yesterday approved principles for the amendment of the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), a development that underscores Government's commitment to the reform agenda in the Second Republic....Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 07:56hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
Breakthrough for AirZimbabwe
The government has announced that it has taken measures to resuscitate the beleaguered national Airline Air Zimbabwe by buying more airplanes to add to the fleet that is currently. In a post-c...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:50hrs | 8534 | by Mandla Ndlovu
A letter to Mugabe that could have changed the course of Zimbabwe's history
An Eritrean diplomat friend sent the attached letter to me last night and I was blown away by how prophetic it was to Zimbabwe's situation, and how if Robert Mugabe had applied the advice given to him...Published: 05 Feb 2019 at 15:22hrs | 11809 | by An introduction by Hopewell Chin'ono
'ICT infrastructure key to national development'
GOVERNMENT has identified the development of ICT infrastructure as central to the realisation of Zimbabwe's Vision 2030 by making it a key priority on the nation's developmental agenda. In thi...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:55hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Number plates shortage: Temporary Identification Cards to work as number plates
VEHICLE importers who have been unable to register them owing to shortages of number plates should obtain Temporary Identification Cards (TICs) for indefinite use, as Government works on addressing th...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 22:39hrs | 573 | by Staff reporter
In Mnangagwa's universe, people are secondary to keeping grip on power
"THE welfare of the people is the highest law," goes a popular Latin maxim by Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero – who lived in the period 106BC to 43BC – that has been adopted by...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 19:10hrs | 319 | by Editorial - NewsDay
Protests leave businesses wallowing
NOT even his military training and war experience could help David Moyo protect his shop from "looters" during recent skirmishes.Moyo, a 58 year-old ex-combatant, tried without success to defe...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:13hrs | 762 | by Staff reporter
$46million drawn-down for RGM Airport facelift
Government has drawn-down $45,9 million, representing 30 percent of the total project cost for upgrading and modernisation of the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport. The RGM Internati...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:57hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Debunking the Chamisa's political persecution claims
Following the violent and destructive protests of January 14 , which were called for by the MDC Alliance, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) and some civil society organisations ostensibly t...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:49hrs | 229 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zimbabwe Economy: Time for efficiency
The flamboyant Victorian British Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, once noted that; "There can be economy, only where there is efficiency".Zimbabwe's economy has been full of inefficiencies f...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 07:30hrs | 466 | by Hon. Prof. Mthuli Ncube
Massive teacher shortage in Matabeleland South
MATABELELAND South Province primary schools are operating with only 210 qualified Early Childhood Development teachers out of an expected 1 294, an education official had said.Presenting a rep...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:54hrs | 427 | by Staff reporter
BCC loses US$300 000 to looters
AS the country continues to count the losses of last month's violent demonstrations that resulted in wanton destruction and looting of shops, it has emerged that the Bulawayo City Council lost infrast...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:53hrs | 403 | by Staff reporter
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