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5 Unique Cultural Experiences You Can Only Have in Vietnam
Vietnam is a land of contrasts, where old traditions blend with vibrant city life and peaceful countryside. Ancient villages and bustling markets thrive alongside modern skyscrapers and high-tech fact...Published: 4 hrs ago | 36 | by Staff Reporter
8 millions of Zimbabweans still need of food aid
A staggering eight million Zimbabweans remain in urgent need of food assistance following severe crop failures caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon and an extended drought that disrupted food pro...Published: 06 Jul 2025 at 10:13hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Smugglers abandon vehicle, contraband in police chase
Police in Manicaland have impounded an abandoned Honda Fit packed with smuggled bales of second-hand clothes following a high-speed chase involving an anti-smuggling crack team on June 23, 2025....Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:07hrs | 186 | by Staff reporter
Police bust second-hand clothing smuggling syndicate
Police in Gweru have dismantled a suspected second-hand clothing smuggling syndicate following an early morning raid in the Daylesford suburb, which led to the arrest of two suspects and the recovery ...Published: 26 Jun 2025 at 17:21hrs | 215 | by Staff reporter
Cereal imports ban looms in Zimbabwe
The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development has recommended a ban on cereal imports in a move aimed at boosting the local grain market and strengthening Zimbabwe's food ...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:18hrs | 443 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe intensify crackdown on smuggling
Zimbabwe is intensifying its efforts to combat smuggling along its border with South Africa, in response to significant revenue losses reported due to syndicates operating in the area. The national an...Published: 31 Dec 2024 at 13:39hrs | 84 | by Staff reporter
If Smith was an oppressor, then what is Mnangagwa?
As I sit here, my work at a standstill due to the daily power outages we are experiencing in Zimbabwe, most times going for 15 hours or more a day, I can not help wondering.What has this suppo...Published: 30 Oct 2024 at 22:17hrs | 850 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
7 big global companies dump South Africa
Many large global companies, including Shell, HSBC, PNB Paribas, Rolex, AngloGold Ashanti, TotalEnergies, and BP's Aviation Fuel Business, are dumping South Africa.Last week, HSBC announced th...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 12:35hrs | 1205 | by Staff reporter
ZiG fails to break Zimbabwe's cash crunch
Informal traders at Harare's Mbare market, a bustling center of commerce generating millions of US dollars weekly, have revealed their ongoing struggle with a cash shortage, hitting women vendors the ...Published: 18 May 2024 at 12:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans should brace for more price hikes
Government on Tuesday last week promulgated Statutory Instrument 10A of 2024 to re-introduce duty on basic commodities.The affected commodities include maize meal, milk, sugar, rice, flour, sa...Published: 05 Feb 2024 at 04:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
USAid allocates US$1 million to Zimbabwe returnees
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has allocated approximately $1 million to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) to initiate a 14-month project aimed at enha...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 15:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar future hangs in the balance
IT is imperative for every successful and expanding economy in the world to have its own currency and monetary policy. I make that statement because it is important for all Zimbabweans to understand t...Published: 12 Sep 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Opportunity for Zimbabwean Film Industry Professionals
Submissions have opened for the third Creative Producers Indaba (CPI), a film producers' development programme presented by the Realness Institute, in collaboration with EAVE, International Film Festi...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 10:25hrs | 20 | by Agencies
Shelf occupancy of locally manufactured goods rises to 80%
SHELF occupancy of locally manufactured goods has increased to 80 percent, a development which is set to continue bolstering Zimbabwe's comparative, competitive and adaptability advantages to move the...Published: 02 May 2023 at 08:58hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to headline London Zimbabwe capital markets conference
Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, is next month expected to headline the Zimbabwe Capital Markets conference in London which seeks to showcase the opportunities and br...Published: 06 Mar 2023 at 05:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Manhize steel attracts huge interest
DINSON Iron and Steel Company (Disco), the Chinese firm developing the US$1,5 billion steel plant in Manhize, Mvuma, says it has been overwhelmed by inquiries for its products from the local and forei...Published: 30 Jan 2023 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Russia's rouble comes roaring back
The rouble has surged all the way back to where it was before Russia invaded Ukraine, closing at 79,7 in Moscow on Wednesday.In the days after the Ukraine war began, the rouble's collapse was ...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA consumers face higher prices in 2022
Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
MPs push for relief for informal sector
Legislators are pushing for full support to be given to informal traders in the country through flexible banking terms.Zimbabwe's informal sector has grown tremendously due to de-industrialisa...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: A farmer harvests success in refugee camp
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - When Jean Damacene arrived at the Tongogara Refugee Camp in Zimbabwe, he was 38 years old and hoping to return to his country Rwanda soon. Eighteen years later, the maize farmer...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 14:14hrs | 2 | by APO
Challenges facing Zimbabwe's foreign exchange auction
IT is clear that the auction for foreign exchange is in trouble. The arrears now stand at over US$200 million. That is equivalent to nearly Z$18 billion and the delays are having a serious impact on c...Published: 27 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 9 | by Eddie Cross
President Mnangagwa what is our problem?
We are the second largest platinum producer in the world, we have gold reserves around the country, we have chrome, we have alluvial diamonds, we have best human resources skills, we have land and nat...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 08:10hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa
The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying t...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 09:55hrs | 1 | by Enos Denhere
LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa
The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying t...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 14:13hrs | 2 | by Enos Denhere
7 die in Beitbridge road accident
SEVEN people were killed, while nine others were seriously injured yesterday morning when a Toyota vehicle veered off the road and overturned at the 10km peg along Lutumba-Chitulipasi Road in Beitbrid...Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to dump rand, US dollar
Zimbabwean will do away with the multiple currency regime - which includes the rand, US Dollar and other units - currently accepted as legal tender alongside the RTGS$ consisting of bond notes and ele...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
FULL TEXT: President Mnangagwa's full Independence speech
President Emmerson Mnangagwa today delivered his first Independent speech at the national Sports Stadium. In the speech Mnangagwa paid tribute to the victims of Cyclone Idai both from Zimbabwe...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 20:41hrs | 18 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe tourism sector grosses $1 billion
Considerable dividends have begun to accrue to Zimbabwe as Government and the private sector continue to ratchet up efforts to promote Zimbabwe as a safe destination. The tourism sector has since gros...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The Outlook for 2019 is Dismal - unless?
I was called by a major local newspaper this past week and asked what my view of 2019 was? I laughed at the question because right now I do not think anyone could tell you what is going on, let alone ...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 17:05hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Exchange control is the central problem facing Zimbabwe at present
BY introducing exchange control via the Reserve Bank, the State has done the following: Created a system to ‘sweep’ some US$3 billion in direct foreign earnings int...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:41hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Liquid Telecom to invest $400m USD in Egyptian network infrastructure and data centres following completion of 'Cape to Cairo'
Harare, Zimbabwe. December 10, 2018 - Leading pan-African telecoms group Liquid Telecom has announced that it is investing 8 billion Egyptian Pounds ($400m US Dollars) in Egypt over t...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Family-led enterprises can ease the burden on government
IT must be difficult being in the shoes of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube. Being appointed to such a powerful post is an honour, but that power comes with huge responsibilities. His presence on the sce...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Beitbridge businesses decry 6 yrs of power cuts
Businesses operating in the eastern part of Beitbridge's central business district have raised concern over intermittent power cuts, which have become perennial over the past six years. So bad...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 07:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Made in Zimbabwe
The advent of globalization has demonstrated that each country has expertise in a certain trade and there are commodities that resonate with certain nations more than others. It is often argued that t...Published: 18 May 2018 at 17:48hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
War erupts over amacimbi
Villagers in Gwanda are up in arms with people from other provinces who have swarmed the district to harvest mopani worms.Thousands of people drawn from provinces outside Matabeleland South re...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must invest more agriculture to improve food security
Politics of grandstanding should be a thing of the past and must not find its way to the new political dispensation currently prevailing in the country. People now want tangible things.Zimbabw...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 12:40hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
White farmer pins hope on Shiri
A TOP white Marondera farmer, Phillip Worswick, has said he is pinning his hopes on the government to restitute his land so he can resume operations after a huge chunk of his land was grabbed by new i...Published: 10 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The curse of foreign aid
Foreign aid, by design or accident, has unfortunately become the most powerful tool which certain western governments continue to use to keep Africa a begging continent.In his book titled The ...Published: 03 Nov 2017 at 05:08hrs | 12 | by Vince Musewe
No beer price hikes
DELTA Beverages has warned its suppliers to carefully manage their value chain and desist from the temptation to hike prices.In a memo sent out by the company's Supply Chain director Cynthia M...Published: 18 Oct 2017 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimAsset, a failed economic policy
Zim-Asset is an economic policy much celebrated in the political front but with nothing much to bring home from the economic perspective. Zimbabwe has crafted so many economic policies from the early ...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 11:59hrs | 20 | by Blessing Machiva
Why Zimbabwe must remove the Chinese
Throughout history every discussion that have to do with removal of a certain race from a country was and is still believed to be racism, inhumanity and in worst cases as criminal. That makes the whol...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 19:21hrs | 3 | by Believe S. Chikomo
Mystery of the stronger rand
THE South African rand is rallying in the midst of a grave political crisis, confounding many of the experts who expected a disaster after Pravin Gordhan's axing.What is happening in Wonderlan...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 13:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Colonial UK meddles into SA's business, protests Gordhan axing
The first bit of internal diplomatic fallout over the dismissal of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and his deputy Mcibisi Jonas arrived on Friday on the desk of Obed Mhlaba, high commissioner to t...Published: 31 Mar 2017 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF leading Zimbabwe back to 2008
SINCE the end of 2015, the country has seen its cash crisis escalate to the point today when Banks cannot pay out clients more than a small proportion of what is in their accounts.In a "no...Published: 15 Mar 2017 at 07:29hrs | 2 | by Eddie Cross
Drones, the way to go in disaster management
The initiative by the government to introduce drones for border post patrolling is a development long overdue and welcome for different schemes. Recently articles were published on porous bord...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 19:26hrs | 2 | by Tatenda Gono
Downtown shops must pay tax
The trend in town is that unless one wants to buy from a supermarket, he has to be armed with a credit card only east of Julius Nyerere Way. Tradition has it that downtown shops trade only in hard cas...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 14:02hrs | 15 | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
Open Letter to the Member States of the African Regional Protocol for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants
On 5 December, the Administrative Council of the African Regional Intellectual Property Office (ARIPO) will meet to adopt the draft regulations to the Arusha Protocol for the Protection of New Varieti...Published: 02 Dec 2016 at 06:34hrs | | by Hilal Elver
UK increases humanitarian aid to Zimbabwe in response to El Nino induced drought
HARARE - 4.1 million people in Zimbabwe are expected to be unable to meet their food needs during the peak impact of the El Nino induced drought from January to March 2017.The UK was one of th...Published: 07 Nov 2016 at 12:40hrs | | by APO
The Zimbabwe Cash Crisis
At the beginning of this year the Reserve Bank suddenly imposed cash withdrawal limits on local bank accounts. The limit was US$10 000 a day. That may not be enough for Grace Mugabe, but for most of u...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 14:44hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Better alternatives to Zimbabwe import ban exist
In June 2016 the Zimbabwean government instituted the infamous Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 banning the importation of basic commodities such as bottled water, sugar, soap, cooking oil, cellpho...Published: 17 Aug 2016 at 10:52hrs | 1 | by Lovemore Fuyane
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