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Mnangagwa needs correct advice from his team
DEAR President Emmerson MnangagwaYour Excellency, as things stand right now you have to make hard currency decision sooner than later as doing that in 2023 will cause so much economic pain tha...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:06hrs | 1 | by Brian Sedze
Mnangagwa has to make bold currency decision or face political demise
The president has to make hard currency decision sooner than later as doing that in 2023 will cause so much economic pain that may cause a huge protest vote which may send him home.The country...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 12:45hrs | 7 | by Dr Brian Sedze
Mnangagwa tells Judges to behave
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday expressed anger over the conduct of some judges after three of them were dismissed from work while another is under investigation for misconduct.Mnangagw...Published: 07 May 2022 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
CZI hits back at Mangundya over Zimdollar crisis
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has hit back at Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya's suggestion that their position on the crumbling local currency was misinformed....Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 09:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
US$1,6bn Command Agriculture bombshell
A DAMNING parliamentary report on Command Agriculture has exposed how former Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa (pictured) and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe superintended over a murky and illegal proce...Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monetary policy in a complex economy
MAINSTREAM neoclassical economics, which has been the dominant economic thinking for over a century, is no longer an adequate mental model to interpret and shape the socio-economics of a new reality....Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:36hrs | 7 | by Vince Musewe
MDC-T statement on the meeting of POLAD
The Political Actors Dialogue commonly known as POLAD sat on Friday the 2nd of August 2019 to deliberate on the challenges the country is facing, especially the "economy". The meeting was atte...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 22:35hrs | | by Khaliphani Phugeni
BREAKING: RBZ boss sues Zanu-PF
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John Mangudya has slapped Zanu-PF with a $1 million lawsuit over allegations by the youth league that he was engaged in corrupt activities.Mangudya was mentio...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 13:05hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Price stability key to economic recovery
"A more efficient management system of scarce foreign exchange is key to price stabilisation and business growth."According to the "Transitional Stabilisation Programme" (TSP), the aspirations...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 06:52hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Zimbabwe banks plunge deeper into forex crisis
A vendor counts money at a vegetable street market in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. Venezuela's imports from its six biggest trading partners including Brazil, the U.S., China, Arge...Published: 01 Feb 2019 at 14:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe wheelchair-hound, Zimbabweans to foot $4m bill
THE taxpayer continues to foot former president Robert Mugabe's medical bills, as it emerged President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government gave the deposed strongman US$4 million to cover his hospital exp...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fiscal crisis, the role of Parliament
The past two weeks witnessed key policy pronouncements by President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration that Members of Parliament must unpack and debate extensively in order to give impetus to the qu...Published: 06 Oct 2018 at 09:08hrs | | by John Makamure
President Mnangagwa to articulate Zim foreign policy
To most Zimbabweans, the annual United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meetings had become synonymous with controversial and fiery speeches by former President Robert Mugabe which denounced, without f...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
President Mnangagwa debuts at UNGA
Fresh from securing a new mandate to lead Zimbabwe for the next five years, President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in New York to participate in various meetings and engagements ahead of his inaugural a...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 11:53hrs | | by Bevan Musoko
Boeing demands $2,7m for Mugabe Airways plane manuals
AMERICAN aircraft manufacturer Boeing is demanding $2,7 million from the government in order to supply manuals for four Boeing 777 jetliners which Harare is controversially acquiring from Malaysia on ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:28hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabweans told to brace for fuel price hikes
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John Mangudya has warned that foreign currency shortages coupled with the country's shrinking export bill and galloping fuel prices on the global market will continu...Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Begging bowl: Zimbabwe 'coup' architect in China
FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya are in China ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's official visit to the Asian economic giant this month, as pa...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urges chiefs to preach peace
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday presented himself before the country's chiefs where he walked them through last year's transition process that saw him assuming the country's leadership followin...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's cabinet reshuffle paves way for succession plan
SYNOPSIS: Journalist Violet Gonda interviews veteran political analyst Ibbo Mandaza on President Robert Mugabe's recent cabinet appointments and the infighting within...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:43hrs | | by Violet Gonda
A brief focus on Zimbabwe's economy and its outlook
A plethora of policy pronouncements, substantial de-industrialisation and some remarkable and controversial economic events over the years in Zimbabwe have given rise to the question; 'Does Zimbabwe h...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 11:48hrs | | by Shame Mugova
Mnangagwa ally slams Mugabe's nephew for 'scaring away' investors
A PARLIAMENTARY portfolio committee has slammed Youth Development, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister Patrick Zhuwao for adopting a militant attitude towards potential investors, acc...Published: 08 Nov 2016 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ rules out existence of fake bond notes
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has ruled out the existence of counterfeit bond notes in the market, saying only the printers and a few Government officials were aware of the sp...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya warns politicians on bond notes
No amount of political pressure will force the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe into printing bond notes above the US$200 million threshold it has set, RBZ chief Dr John Mangudya has said.Some sceptics fe...Published: 06 Nov 2016 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
How do fake #BondNotes hit the market before introduction?
Harare – Zimbabweans have taken to social media to express their concern over reports that "unscrupulous characters have started printing fake bond notes which they plan to release when the real...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 18:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe deserves our respect- supporter
Zanu PF supporter Sy Tsingo has said that President Robert Mugabe deserves respect and urged the veteran leader to remain focused despite escalating vilification."Shingai Gushungo tava kusvi...Published: 23 Jun 2016 at 07:06hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Civil service salaries dialogue ends in deadlock
Negotiations over salary dates between the government and the civil service apex body ended in a deadlock with the meeting set to resume on Monday, the Minister of Public Service, Labour and Socia...Published: 22 Jun 2016 at 22:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond Notes a political decision
The RBZ governor is a political prisoner, aware of our root problems but unable to apply the necessary economic medicine and is therefore dealing with symptoms.After spending some time with Jo...Published: 17 Jun 2016 at 09:23hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Prophets of doom and limited vocabulary
Yesterday, one newspaper led with the headline, "Panic as Zim economy dies".We were not surprised as such by the headline and the cynicism that is the hallmark of this opposition newspaper....Published: 07 May 2016 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and the curse of confusionists
Action must be taken against corruption and other vices that have bled this country and has now given us dubious characters that are flush with cash and spend thousands of dollars outside the country ...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:26hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
Gono in trouble
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance wants former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr Gideon Gono charged with contempt of Parliament following media reports attributed to him ...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 07:50hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
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