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Econet shakes up to ride out crisis
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange listed telecoms giant, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe says it is casting its net wide to identify fresh opportunities on the domestic market, while scanning the global terrain to see...Published: 15 hrs ago | 990 | by Staff reporter
Econet withholds dividend
ZIMBABWE'S biggest telecommunications company, Econet Wireless, said on Tuesday it recorded a 6,5 percent decline in revenue to $10,1 billion for the half-year ended August 2020, compared to the same ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 164 | by Staff reporter
Police warn motorists
POLICE in Bulawayo have warned drivers to exercise caution during the rainy season as roads get slippery during this period. The warning follows a Zupco bus accident that occurred on Sunday ne...Published: 16 hrs ago | 552 | by Staff reporter
2 killed in Bulawayo road accidents
TWO people were killed in separate accidents in Bulawayo on Monday, police have said. Provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube said in the first accident, a conductor was killed by a re...Published: 16 hrs ago | 639 | by Staff reporter
Zinara plug revenue leakages
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has moved to combat corruption and plug revenue leakages by introducing a Procurement Management Unit (PMU).Zinara has regularly been in the ...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 18:02hrs | 1242 | 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 | 653 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Dollarisation was our biggest mistake,' says Mthuli Mcube
Dollarisation was a big mistake as it took away the country's monetary autonomy and made industry uncompetitive, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube said yesterday. Besides,...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 2867 | by Staff reporter
NGOs pouring substantial amounts of money to unite MDC factions
SOME Western countries are pouring substantial amounts of money through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to unite feuding MDC factions. If efforts to unite the feuding parties fail, the f...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife donates masks to school children
FIRST LADY Auxillia Mnangagwa, who is the Angel of Hope Foundation patron, yesterday handed over a consignment of face masks to the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education, as she presses ahead wi...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:45hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Tino's Lyon outsmart Munetsi's Reims
TINO Kadewere continued with his dominance over his high school adversary Marshal Munetsi, after his Olympique Lyon side outsmarted Munetsi's Stade de Reims 3-0 yesterday. It was a memorable moment fo...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 06:09hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and Trumpism - Sanctions, Sex and Infiltration
That the MDC-Alliance led by Advocate Nelson Chamisa is an ailing force is no longer a subject for debate.The party suffers mostly from self-inflicted wounds - ones that its opponents are grac...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 20:00hrs | 4378 | by Grace Kwinje
Every Zimbabwean deserves secure land rights
IN 2019, Zimbabwe embarked on a long-awaited land policymaking process.The Land Policy's emphasis on gender sensitivity echoes global recognition and acknowledgement of the strategic importanc...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:05hrs | 278 | by Gaynor G Paradza
Tobacco exports net US$690 million
AT least 168 million kg of tobacco worth US$688 million had been exported across the globe by November 20, Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (Timb) data showed last week.The Timb said shipments for...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 217 | by Staff reporter
Plumtree businessman shot dead by an injiva
A PROMINENT Plumtree-based Zanu-PF businessman was shot dead in cold blood by a Zimbabwean based in South Africa while resisting a robbery at his shop at Ntoli business centre in Bulilima East....Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3779 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's 'fantasy' budget: Here's how it will affect you
THE 2021 budget presented by the finance minister Mthuli Ncube to Parliament shows that the minister was living in a ‘fantasy world,' according to academic, Professor Austin Chakaodza."Some ...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 3114 | by Staff reporter
NRZ courting Turkey, Indonesia investors
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) is courting investors from Turkey, Russia and Indonesia as it continues with efforts to restructure its operations. Despite demand for its services...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:29hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Depositors and pensioners to be compensated for exchange losses, says Mthuli Ncube
Depositors with small bank balances and pensioners whose savings were wiped out by currency changes last year will be compensated from a US$150 million fund, finance minister Mthuli Ncube said on Thur...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:56hrs | 6693 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube piles more misery on Zimbabweans
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday dampened the hopes for a merry Christmas for the majority Zimbabweans after he reviewed the tax-free threshold to $10 000, about half the cost of a monthly bask...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:28hrs | 3934 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube out of touch with reality
SO much was expected from Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube's 2021 national budget, which was presented yesterday. Yet he delivered very little.Zimbabwe has been badly bat...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:26hrs | 1481 | by Staff reporter
Rescue mission for 10 trapped miners starts
Efforts to rescue more than 10 miners that were trapped in a disused mine shaft at Ran Mine in Bindura on Wednesday started in earnest yesterday following the arrival of mining experts and heavy equip...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:59hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Shot women complain against police conduct
TWO women from Hwange in Matabeleland North have petitioned the Zimbabwe Republic Police to carry out investigations into incidents in which they were allegedly shot by law enforcement officers during...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 874 | by Staff reporter
Police to pay $4,3m over 2019 fuel riots killing
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has been ordered to pay $4,3 million, about US$34 000 at the auction rate, to the family of a Kevin Tinashe Choto (22), a talented footballer who was shot dead in Chitunwg...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:17hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 533 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zim dollar continues to firm against the greenback
The Zimbabwe dollar continues to firm against the greenback despite a marginal loss at this Tuesday's RBZ forex Auction after moving from 81.71 to 81.82 per one United States Dollar.A total of...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 19:14hrs | 2033 | by Staff Reporter
Ex-top cop Veterai dies
A former top police officer, Senior Assistant Commissioner Edmore Veterai, who was now a leading sugar cane farmer in Chiredzi, has died. Snr Asst Comm Veterai (Retired) died yesterday afterno...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:25hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside
MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 1489 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Chamisa impoverishing MDC members on the altar of political correctness
A "RATIONAL economic" Zanu-PF has been masterminding massive wealth transfers to their enlightened members since 2000. The ruling party members are winning on the economic front by creating wealth whi...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:58hrs | 2307 | by Brian Sedze
Stolen Zimbabwe cattle rustled into Mozambique
THE rustling of livestock from southeast Zimbabwe to neighbouring Mozambique is a major headache for authorities.It is prevalent in Chiredzi South constituency in the Lowveld.The cattl...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 19:54hrs | 843 | by CAJ News
Chamisa tells Generals to shut up and go back to barracks
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:26hrs | 7533 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's business empire crumbles
THE blistering sun scorches vast swathes of lush green land in the picturesque Mazowe Valley, 40 kilometres north of Harare, as the November heat takes a toll on the baked surface below.It is ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 05:25hrs | 17529 | by Staff reporter
AFM pastor sues church for $13m
AN Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) in Zimbabwe pastor is claiming over $13 million from the church as he accuses it of neglecting him after he was involved in a car accident.Alfred Mujeyi issued...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:57hrs | 1333 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe coups: What now for the legacies?
Three months after President Emmerson Mnangagwa deposed Robert Mugabe on November 15, 2017, Nelson Chamisa applied the same template to supplant Thokozani Khupe, ensuring he replaced Morgan Tsvangirai...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 328 | by Toendepi Shonhe
Chamisa lashes Zimbabwe army
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:24hrs | 1271 | by Staff reporter
Toilet saves family from violent storm
GWANDA villager Absalom Sibanda says his seven-member family survived a recent violent storm by hiding in a toilet.The storm, which flattened the family's house, pounded Gwanda's ward 1 area in Matabe...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:22hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
'Govt must compensate for lost pension earnings'
GOVERNMENT and insurance companies have an obligation to compensate pensioners who lost the true value of their pension savings in two consecutive periods of hyperinflation, 2008 to 2009 and 2019, law...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:20hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Stay out of politics, Chamisa tells army
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday said the military should stay out of politics and allow civilians to define their destiny without fear of the bullet.In an interview aft...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:57hrs | 4226 | by Staff Reporter
'Ginimbi's US$500 000 Rolls-Royce not insured'
THE late socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure's posh US$500 000 Rolls-Royce Wraith was not insured, police have said.National police spokesperson Assistant Commissioner Paul Nyathi yesterday s...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 09:35hrs | 5095 | by Staff Reporter
Young Farmer does wonders in 'dry' Matabeleland
Despite Matabeleland being a dry region characterised by low rainfall and recurrent droughts, 28-year-old Prosper Chikwara (28) has managed to produce wonders, landing the Best Young Farmer of the Yea...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 08:50hrs | 4321 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwean arrested in SA over explosives
POLICE in South Africa yesterday arrested a 27-year-old Zimbabwean national allegedly caught with 115 units of blasting cartridges and 100 units of explosive accessories.The explosives were packed...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:32hrs | 1401 | by Staff reporter
MP fights construction of Zuva service station
MuDZi south MP Jonathan Samukange has approached the High Court seeking an order barring the City of Harare from allowing the construction of a service station at the corner of Sam Nujoma street and J...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:31hrs | 3048 | by Staff reporter
Shocking tollgates, licensing fees hike
THE Government has adjusted vehicle tolling and licensing fees keeping in line with the prevailing economic situation and to ensure that the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) adequately s...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:00hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe MPs demand schools closure
PARLIAMENTARIANS yesterday accused government of rashly reopening schools when it was ill-prepared to deal with COVID-19 outbreaks at institutions of learning after a number of students tested positiv...Published: 19 Nov 2020 at 05:29hrs | 1625 | by Staff reporter
'No cheer under Mnangagwa administration 3 years on'
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation will this month mark three years in office, with analysts saying there was nothing to cheer about as the regime had failedto fulfil most of its promi...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 05:35hrs | 5635 | by Staff reporter
Reviving the rural economy in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's rural economy plays a significant role in national food production, in alleviating extreme poverty and in the attainment of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Zimbabwe National Stati...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 12:37hrs | 2401 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Zimbabwe govt likely to impose lockdown'
HEALTH and Child Care deputy minister John Mangwiro said his hands were clean in the US$6 million COVID-19 procurement scam in which he is implicated. Mangwiro said to date the Zimbabwe Anti-C...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:46hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi burial: Covid-19 regulations ignored
While socialite Genius "Ginimbi" Kadungure was buried at his Domboshava home amid pomp and fanfare on Saturday, the event left concerns on how those who attended disregarded measures to avoid the spre...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 05:43hrs | 1191 | by Staff reporter
Can black arts (Kuromba) be sole source of wealth in Zimbabwe?
According to Colin Powell, the first African-American Secretary of State, diplomat and retired general who served as the 65th United States Secretary of State from 2001-2005, a dream does not become r...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 16:40hrs | 2271 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo (PhD)
BCC fails to meet own water restoration schedule
THE Bulawayo City Council has been slammed by residents for failing to adhere to its own provisional water supply restoration schedule published daily with suburbs tabled to have water supply not rece...Published: 15 Nov 2020 at 06:16hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter
'Rushwaya gold could buy UniFreight, Zeco'
THE gold that underfire Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) boss Henrietta Rushwaya allegedly tried to smuggle out of the country before running into an airport security trap about three weeks ago was e...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:20hrs | 1882 | by Staff reporter
Embassy, bus operators agree to end border chaos
THE Zimbabwe Consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa and cross-border bus operators have agreed to end the chaos at Beitbridge Border Post where the latter was having an impasse with customs authoriti...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 05:27hrs | 1153 | by Staff reporter
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