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UN raps Mnangagwa
POLITICAL polarisation, poor governance and a fragile economy have exacerbated people's discontent with government, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the root cause of the problems rathe...Published: 23 mins ago | 115 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's real GDP to contract 15,5%'
ZIMBABWE'S real gross domestic product (GDP) is seen contracting by 15,5% in 2020 as the foreign currency shortage, limited investment, company shutdowns, soaring inflation and lockdown measures to st...Published: 34 mins ago | 39 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe loses US$1 billion to smuggling annually
Smuggling, ineffective border controls and customs loopholes at Beitbridge Border Post might be costing Zimbabwe nearly a US$1 billion a year in unpaid customs duty, industry leaders and authorities c...Published: 38 mins ago | 44 | by Staff reporter
Localised Covid -19 lockdowns to be introduced
CURRENT lockdown restrictions are set to be tightened through the introduction of localised lockdowns to curb the increasing cases of Covid-19 which have now surpassed the 1 000 mark. Cabinet ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 4774 | by Staff reporter
'July 31 demo is not about graft'
THE government has said it is convinced that far from being an anti-corruption demonstration, the planned July 31 protests are meant to remove the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa from power...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2902 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa told to intensify lifestyle audits
THE government has been urged to intensify lifestyle audits for political elites and public office holders to deal with rampant corruption, a local pressure group has said.This comes a day aft...Published: 13 hrs ago | 2186 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar depreciates 4.37% to 68.89 to the real dollar
The local currency depreciated a further 4.37% to the dollar to 68.8879 at the fourth auction as the spread between bids narrowed significantly to just 21 from 35 last week and 65 at the first auction...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1163 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Old Mutual out of Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, fungibility at risk
Zimbabwe's ruling party wants Old Mutual's listing on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange terminated, an official said, clarifying a weekend statement in which it called for the company to be "ejected" from t...Published: 21 hrs ago | 2939 | by Bloomberg
China to impose sanctions on US officials
China has decided to impose sanctions on four United States officials and an institution who have acted viciously on issues related to Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as a reciprocal measure against ...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:46hrs | 1124 | by Staff reporter
Panic Chinamasa and the Old Mutual threat
WHAT did Zanu-PF politburo member Patrick Chinamasa mean when he said the ruling party had endorsed a decision to "eject Old Mutual from the financial system"? Nobody knows. Not even Old Mutual itself...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 08:43hrs | 3664 | by newZWire
Time to redeem Zimbabwe from its political & economic strangulation
The levels of failure by this Zanu PF regime has no comparison. The people have lost faith in the ruling party and whatever the party touches it slips like an eel, hence the majority can no longer tru...Published: 14 Jul 2020 at 07:53hrs | 643 | by Leonard Koni
We are killing humanity with imported vaccine: Moussa Zeguen
The International Coalition Against Corona Virus for Africa (ICAC) Togo based ICAC President Toure Moussa Zeguen has warned that the actions taken by African governments in trying to mitigate th...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 15:21hrs | 2165 | by Stephen Jakes
Millers mull roller meal price hike
GRAIN Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) chairperson Tafadzwa Musarara has announced plans to increase the price of subsidised roller-meal to between US$2,50 and US$3 to cushion millers from infla...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:18hrs | 2479 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa in control over financial sector'
The Government will win the economic war with President Mnangagwa determined to overcome economic challenges arising in the nation, Zanu-PF secretary for science and technology Ambassador Christopher ...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 08:15hrs | 7478 | by Staff reporter
BCC hands over donated COVID-19 materials to traders
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has handed over materials to fight COVID-19 on behalf of Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA).Th...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:54hrs | 320 | by Stephen Jakes
BREAKING: Zindzi Mandela dies
South African media has reported that Zindzi Mandela, daughter of the late Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has died.She was 59. The cause of the death for the South Africa...Published: 13 Jul 2020 at 07:32hrs | 3290 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF SA dismisses July 31 planned demo
ZANU-PF South Africa has dismissed the planned July 31 demonstrations by the opposition as mere attention-seeking manoeuvres meant to cause alarm and despondency.The ruling party's SA district...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 19:50hrs | 4675 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's funeral parlours at full capacity?
The long-feared Covid-19 coronavirus storm has arrived.Funeral parlours are battling to cope with demand as Covid-19-related deaths around the country rise daily, and government is increasing ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 16:46hrs | 2923 | by City Press
Biti roasts 'cruel' Mnangagwa
MDC Alliance vice president and ex-finance minister Tendai Biti says government's controversial closure of the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has vindicated critics' claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:13hrs | 5731 | by newzimbabwe
'Zimbabwe was better under Mugabe,' says Hopewell Chin'ono
PROMINENT journalist Hopewell Chin'ono says Zimbabwe needs political reforms to end the multifaceted crisis facing the country.Chin'ono (HP), who has become a target of Zanu-PF attacks for exp...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 11:02hrs | 2009 | by Staff reporter
It is time for Mthuli Ncube to go
Finance minister of Zimbabwe, Mthuli Ncube, PhD (cantab), has become the poster child of everything that is wrong with the management of affairs in Zimbabwe. He must go. Then and only then, will Zimba...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:58hrs | 5054 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Zimbabwe's reserve money falls to $11,26 billion
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says introduction of the foreign currency market auction system saw reserve money falling by 11% to $11,26 billion as at July 3.Zimbabwe conducted its first ...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:50hrs | 1034 | by Staff reporter
Crossing crocodile-infested Limpopo for survival
A bakkie waits on the Zimbabwean side of the Limpopo River.A number of people sit waiting for their relatives to return from shopping forays into South Africa, especially in the border town of...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:45hrs | 12820 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa against 'catch and release syndrome'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has challenged the justice system to step up the fight against corruption and put an end to the "catch and release syndrome", while the arrest of "small and big fish" shou...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:37hrs | 1268 | by Staff reporter
Millers table US$ price for subsidised mealie-meal
GRAIN millers have tabled a proposal to increase the price of subsidised roller meal from $70 to between US$2,50 and US$3,50 per 10 kilogramme to cushion themselves from operational challenges....Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:36hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
The 'witchcraft' of Nehanda's statue
There is nothing that Bishop Lazarus finds as nauseatingly revolting as the holier-than-thou brigade.Yes, those low-lives that seemingly have the uncanny ability of seeing past the girthy logs...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:35hrs | 559 | by Bishop Lazarus
Thousands tracing their footsteps back home as Covid-19 bites
OVER 11 000 Zimbabweans living in foreign lands have returned home since the Covid-19-induced lockdown, with thousands more still en-route and due to arrive over the next few weeks, official data show...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:26hrs | 426 | by Staff Reporter
Prophet Magaya in stands scam
HUNDREDS of Prophetic Healing and Deliverance (PHD) Ministries followers recently besieged their leader Prophet Walter Magaya's offices in Cape Town, South Africa, demanding refunds following a botche...Published: 12 Jul 2020 at 10:20hrs | 1100 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF to expel Old Mutual from Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling party said it will expel Old Mutual Ltd. from its financial system, sowing confusion over the status of the insurance giant in the country and what will happen next in the government...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 16:47hrs | 10586 | by Bloomberg
Smells like November 2017
WHEN harvesting is completed in many parts of rural Zimbabwe, there are many rituals that take place.Villagers hold night vigils, sing and dance, but more importantly for those who love blood ...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:10hrs | 1966 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Old and homeless abroad
HUNCHED back pensioners hobble between laden supermarket trollies clutching baskets with a few meagre provisions three or four tomatoes, an onion or two for the usual potato broth for three nights' su...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:09hrs | 1443 | by Miriam Tose Majome
Mnangagwa hints at lockdown extension
AMID an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases including deaths, President Mnangagwa yesterday hinted that the Government could scale up preventive and containment measures. Addressing an Or...Published: 11 Jul 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3476 | by Staff reporter
Radical Economic structural Transformation (part 7 of 10)
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those with much, it is whether we provide much to those with too little" Jean Jacques Rousseau.Natural resources have b...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 15:36hrs | 258 | by Vince Musewe
Mthuli Ncube faces uphill task
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube, expected to present his mid-term budget statement next week, faces a daunting task to craft a cocktail of measures to stem the steepest economic decline in Zimbabwe sinc...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:21hrs | 4172 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP approaches court over mandatory fuel blending
HARARE North member of the National Assembly and businessman Allan Markham has approached the High Court for an order to set aside regulations for the mandatory blending of anhydrous ethanol with unle...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2472 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's fuel pricing structure is flawed, uncompetitive'
AS the country reels under acute fuel shortages, compounded by the depreciating Zimbabwean dollar and limited foreign currency, senior reporter Tinashe Kairiza (TK) this week spoke to National Oil Inf...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:11hrs | 1608 | by Staff reporter
Tighter lockdown for Harare, Bulawayo
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has announced plans to tighten lockdown regulations for Harare and Bulawayo after infections spiked to 885 as of Wednesday, with local infections also rising....Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4624 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo instigating mass uprising in Zimbabwe?
Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party on Monday accused exiled former minister Jonathan Moyo of agitating for "mass uprising" in the country and called for his extradition from Kenya.Zanu-PF secreta...Published: 10 Jul 2020 at 06:58hrs | 3693 | by Staff reporter
Pressure mounts on Mnangagwa
Pressure is mounting on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to resolve the economic crisis as the cost of living skyrockets.This comes as the local currency continues to lose value a...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 20:53hrs | 9673 | by Staff reporter
Why is tech so important in business?
Tech has such an important impact on business operations in general. It doesn't matter what size your enterprise is because tech has tangible and even intangible benefits that will help you to make mo...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 16:43hrs | 413 | by Staff Writer
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 836 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
'Zimbabwe has been marking time and going nowhere' - 40 years and still at it, insane
Dear Leonard Koni, "Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere," you wrote in Bulawayo24."Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the m...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1162 | by Wilbert Mukori
Musina businesses face collapse without Zimbabwean customers
The economic sustainability of cross-border feeder towns to neighbouring countries such as Zimbabwe has taken a massive beating during the Covid-19 coronavirus lockdown.In Musina, which is loc...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:52hrs | 6009 | by City Press
Zanu-PF threatens to clamp down on big business
ZANU-PF has threatened to clamp down on big business fond of disrupting government policies by inflating prices of goods and manipulating the black market.Speaking at a policy meeting in Harar...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 07:23hrs | 3044 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt to reallocate unused land
INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa yesterday said the government had adopted the Comprehensive National Agricultural Land Audit which will see 225 abandoned land units being reallocated, while 24 ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 18:30hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
'Occultic Mnangagwa regime kills and destroys to appease Mbuya Nehanda'
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Dr Shingi Munyeza says the government of President Mnangagwa is willing to destroy and kill in order to appease the dead. ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 09:11hrs | 6439 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shoppers influx at supermarkets during lockdown irks council
The influx of citizens at most shops in the city centre during lockdown has irked the city council which is worried that this would increase the spread of the Covid-19.This is revealed in the ...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:50hrs | 3697 | by Stephen Jakes
31 July a defining moment for Zimbabweans
Zimbabwe is a like a soldier marking time and not going anywhere.Our government has been so dysfunctional for a very long time, but the majority of the people feel in the air the winds of chan...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:41hrs | 4175 | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 plunges Zimbabwe into wildlife management crisis - What can be done before vaccine?
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to an almost three-month ban on international and domestic travel to Zimbabwe's prime tourist resorts. This has plunged the country into a wildlife management crisis char...Published: 08 Jul 2020 at 07:34hrs | 1737 | by Emmanuel Koro
Shona girl Nosizi Dube stuck without citizenship in Kenya
A Shona girl Nosizi Dube is failing to secure a place at the University of Nairobi because she does not a citizenship of any country on earth. David Ndii a leading Kenyan economist and public ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 20:50hrs | 8103 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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