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Mthuli Ncube to present $28,5 billion budget
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube is set to present the 2020 national Budget on Thursday, with industry and citizens expecting better economic fortunes following the num...Published: 19 hrs ago | 407 | by Staff reporter
MPs challenged over Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project
Legislators from across the political divide, who hail from Matabeleland have been urged to unite in rejecting the 2020 budget if it does not address the need to implement the long mooted project to p...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
Policy inconsistency dogs economy
ZIMBABWE is again back in the jaws of policy inconsistency and discord, which characterised the late president Robert Mugabe's administration, pushing away foreign direct investment as a result, analy...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:44hrs | 75 | by The Standard Editorial comment
Zimbabwe pays 400 former white farmers
TREASURY has released $22 million to 400 white former commercial farmers as part compensation for infrastructure developments on farms compulsorily acquired by Government during the Fast Track Land Re...Published: 10 Nov 2019 at 08:21hrs | 404 | by Staff reporter
Police, children rights lobby group target child abusers
POLICE in partnership with Save the Children is working towards connecting its database with the Interpol to track paedophiles and other child abusers and molesters to combat cases of child online abu...Published: 09 Nov 2019 at 10:12hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe - Mozambique discuss fuel pipeline expansion
Zimbabwe wants to pump more fuel from Beira, Mozambique to Feruka near Mutare and then on to Msasa in Harare. This requires upgrading of the pair of pipelines and how this can be done was the ...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:56hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe well advanced in e-payments, says VISA
Zimbabwe is one of the most advanced countries in electronic payments accounting for 90 to 98 percent of all payments made, but reports say the rural economy is still to catch up with the modern trend...Published: 08 Nov 2019 at 04:52hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Intratrek says Gwanda solar power plant can be ready by June
Intratrek Zimbabwe says it is ready to begin the long-delayed construction of the 100MW Gwanda solar power plant.Intratrek says it has secured US$14 million financing for the first phase o...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 14:20hrs | 1003 | by ZimLive
Stanbic unveils low-cost BluEase account
STANBIC Bank has launched a low-cost transactional account to benefit low-income earners, who include university students, informal and sole traders.The financial institution said the initiati...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 1070 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo supply dams run dry
Bulawayo City supply dams are running dry, and if the rains do not fall in the next few weeks, the water situation in the city will become dire, mayor Solomon Mguni has warned.Mguni advised re...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:52hrs | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints deputy chief CIO as perm sec
President Mnangagwa has appointed new permanent secretaries to three ministries, a new Chief of Protocol and a head of the President's Secretariat, both in the Office of the President and Cabinet. ...Published: 07 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 1076 | by Staff reporter
Parliament recommends ZDF to get capital projects tenders
PARLIAMENT has recommended that Government should consider awarding capital projects tenders such as for road construction to the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF). The suggestion was made at the ...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:37hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Measures to embrace ICT on cards
Government - through the Ministry of Information Communication Technology, Postal and Courier Services - is crafting measures to promote smart agriculture for the achievement of Sustainable Developmen...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:32hrs | 56 | by Staff reporter
Livestock Farmers ready to work with CSC
THE Livestock Farmers' Union says it is ready to sell its animals to any bidder including CSC-Boustead Beef Zimbabwe as long as the buyers offer the best prices on the market. Following Cabine...Published: 06 Nov 2019 at 11:09hrs | 214 | by Staff Reporter
Prince Harry invests in Matusadonha
Britain's Prince Harry is the president of the African parks, a company that has acquired a stake in Matusadonha National Park in Mashonaland West Province. Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Auth...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1961 | by Staff reporter
NetOne, HIT in innovation deal
ZIMBABWE'S second largest mobile network provider NetOne, yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) to sponsor the institution in rolling out g...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:55hrs | 749 | by Staff reporter
US$14m funding for Chivayo's Gwanda solar project
The 100 megawatt (MW) Gwanda solar project has received fresh impetus after a local infrastructure fund, African Transmission Corporation (ATC) Holdings, agreed to extend US$14 million to finance the ...Published: 05 Nov 2019 at 06:37hrs | 3056 | by Staff reporter
Starting a Business Abroad? Here's How to Prepare
Opening either a new business or a new branch of an existing business overseas is a major undertaking, regardless of who you are. If you don’t prepare properly, expanding your business can be it...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 18:47hrs | 1316 | by Staff Writer
A view from ko Bulawayo with Discent Bajila
When modernization and digitization deepen marginalization On the day I finished my Advanced Level examinations at Luveve High School in Bulawayo mid November 2006, my loving sister had alread...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 13:02hrs | 2795 | by Discent Collins Bajila
China to fund more projects in Zimbabwe
China says it is considering fresh funding for new projects in Zimbabwe that should help in the economic development of the country, an official has said.China's Deputy Ambassador to Zimbabwe ...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 06:36hrs | 1099 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo running dry
BULAWAYO will run out of water in seven months if it does not rain and residents fail to conserve available supplies, the Mayor, Councillor Solomon Mguni has said. Speaking during the 76th Ann...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:55hrs | 669 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli tax funds roads rehabilitation, construction
GOVERNMENT spent ZWL$465 million rehabilitating road infrastructure in the first 10 months of this year using funds collected through the once contentious Intermediated Money Transfer Tax (IMTT). Gove...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:50hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Modern police college a priority, says Mathema
A modern police college and the provision of tools of the trade remain a priority, Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage Minister Cain Mathema has said. He made the remarks while officiating at the Zimba...Published: 04 Nov 2019 at 05:45hrs | 127 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa alienates China
As President Mnangagwa goes through his pantomime head of state role, flying off all over the place in expensively-hired planes, Zimbabwe slips into mass starvation and hopelessness impelled by incomp...Published: 03 Nov 2019 at 17:13hrs | 6319 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Govt to upgrade 98 000km road network
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday said government was implementing a road development programme which sought to upgrade a 98 133km road network.Ncube said, as part of Zimbabwe's thrust t...Published: 02 Nov 2019 at 07:07hrs | 1533 | by Staff reporter
Zulu King Zwelithini launches his own mobile network
South African Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini has ventured into the mobile network business. The King launched his Bayede Mobile SIM cards on Friday and they will be distributed for the first ti...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 11:18hrs | 3182 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Linda Masarira goes after Mthuli Ncube
LEAD Zimbabwe President has accused Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube of being insincere by telling the nation that the country has achieved a surplus. Said Masarira, "How does one declare a surpl...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 09:41hrs | 6458 | by Mandla Ndlovu
President Mohadi to lead clean-up campaign
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi will today lead the National Clean-Up Campaign at Waverly Bus Stop in Kadoma as the country prepares to mark the campaign's first anniversary. The Office of the V...Published: 01 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Anti-sanctions march a waste of resources, says Mliswa
NORTON MP Temba Mliswa (independent) has said last week's anti-sanctions march was a waste of resources that could have been used to buy medicines and other essentials in the country.His senti...Published: 31 Oct 2019 at 07:22hrs | 2878 | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube a scholar, not Finance minister'
A LOCAL economist Prosper Chitambara has described Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as a scholar, who is not fit to be Finance minister, because he has an academic and theoretical approach to financial a...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3890 | by Staff reporter
'Govt should renegotiate social contract with citizens'
GOVERNMENT has been urged to renegotiate the social contract with its citizens after it failed to reinvest collected taxes into human development initiatives.Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Dev...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 07:48hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Minister puts measures in place to speed up Beitbridge road project completion
TRANSPORT and Infrastructure Development Minister Engineer Joel Biggie Matiza says the Government has come up with a raft of measures to speed up the completion of a 6km road project under the Beitbri...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 06:14hrs | 1143 | by Staff reporter
Choppies plans to exit SA, Kenya as regional expansion drive collapses
TROUBLED Botswana-based retail group, Choppies, is set to pull out of South Africa and Kenya, two of the region's largest markets. Its ambitions to become one of the biggest food retailers in sub-Saha...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 06:00hrs | 1689 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to present budget next week
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has the unenviable task of prescribing a set of policies and measures to breathe life into a sluggish economy beset by galloping inflation and cu...Published: 30 Oct 2019 at 05:50hrs | 881 | by Staff reporter
Govt yet to formally communicate on DIDG contract cancellation
GOVERNMENT has not yet formally communicated to the Diaspora Infrastructure Development Group (DIDG) concerning the termination of the US$400 million deal meant to revive the National Railways of Zimb...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:57hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Zesa vending system crashes
THE Zimbabwe Transmission Distribution Company (ZETDC) has directed consumers to revert to physical banking halls to purchase electricity tokens following technical glitches which have crippled its pr...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:45hrs | 3283 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge-Harare road upgrade begins
CIVIL works on the upgrading of the $600 million Beitbridge-Harare highway have begun in earnest under locally based contractors after Government could not agree on a number of issues with foreign con...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:42hrs | 3517 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to issue 100 000 passports by December
GOVERNMENT has announced an ambitious plan to churn out 100 000 passports by December this year following the delivery of passport paper and consumables. The development is expected to conside...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:39hrs | 903 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions to blame for outdated ICT infrastructure'
THE country requires robust state-of-the-art infrastructure for ICTs to be competitive in line with the global trends, Information Communication Technology and Courier Services Minister Kazembe Kazemb...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:36hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
Chasi proposes 30-year sentence for Zesa vandals
Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has proposed a 30-year mandatory prison sentence for vandalising ZESA infrastructure. This comes after the power utility has suffered losses...Published: 29 Oct 2019 at 06:32hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
SMEs get US$136 million boost
THE Ministry of Women Affairs Community, Small and Medium Enterprises Development has revealed that micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) received loans and grants amounting to US$136 million fr...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Maphisa goes for two months without power
MAPHISA Growth Point in Matobo, Matabeleland South has gone for two months without electricity resulting in the area going without running water for the same period. The electricity outages have been ...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:44hrs | 375 | by Staff reporter
3 Bulawayo firms qualify for SEZs
THREE Bulawayo companies have qualified to operate under the Special Economic Zones (SEZs) model while 15 others have applied for consideration with their documents at different stages of the review p...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:43hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
NUST develops Zimbabwe's first trolley bus
The National University of Science and Technology (NUST) is developing Zimbabwe's first prototype electric bus which it expects to improve the country's public transportation system. Aleck Ncu...Published: 28 Oct 2019 at 06:30hrs | 1027 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga networks with rugby legends
Zimbabwe might have failed to qualify for the Rugby World Cup in Japan, but recently Zimbabwean Ellen Chiwenga got a chance to network with the who-is-who in the world of rugby.She was invited...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 19:41hrs | 3261 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions are a blunt instrument
On Friday the SADC region as a whole mounted a coordinated protest against the European and American targeted sanctions against Zimbabwe. I am a veteran of the UN Mandatory Sanctions program mounted a...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 19:40hrs | 1891 | by Eddie Cross
Countries ponder laws against calling for sanctions
THE illegal sanctions imposed on the country by some Western countries from the turn of the new millennium have in no doubt impacted negatively on the economy and the livehoods of people, with estimat...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:53hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions derail Zimbabwe's economic growth agenda
IT'S almost two decades now Zimbabwe has been alienated from the global financial systems due to sanctions imposed by western countries protesting the land reform programme implemented by the Governme...Published: 27 Oct 2019 at 09:50hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
'Enough is enough, remove sanctions now'
Address by President Mnangagwa during the Anti-Sanctions Day main event at the National Sports Stadium.On 18 August 2019, the SADC Heads of State and Government, meeting in Dar es Salam, Tanza...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:42hrs | 700 | by Emmerson D. Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa heaps all the country's economic troubles on sanctions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday took the occasion of the anti-sanctions march to heap all the country's economic troubles on the Western embargo.He was giving his keynote address in front ...Published: 26 Oct 2019 at 07:25hrs | 198 | by newzimbabwe
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