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Zimbabwe reserve money supply drops
ZIMBABWE'S reserve money supply growth decreased to $16,66 billion in the week ended July 31 from $17,01 billion the previous week as authorities implement tight policies to control inflation. ...Published: 3 hrs ago | 300 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police fret over curfew breakers
Curfew breaking is widespread in Harare, with a growing number of cars seen driving around northern suburbs late at night, although shopping centres are abandoned in these suburbs, and with vending an...Published: 3 hrs ago | 243 | by Staff reporter
BVTA condemn harassment of vendors by police
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) have strongly condemned an incident of violence that occurred to one of the vendors and the systematic harassment of vendors and informal traders in the...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 807 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's poverty datum line up 33%
THE country's poverty datum line (PDL) rose 33,6 percent to $11,333 in June from $8,483 the previous month, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency has said. According to the agency the PDL measures t...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Police call for attitude change
POLICE have raised concern over the reckless behaviour of some members of the public who continue to violate the Covid-19 lockdown regulations. As at yesterday, 133 407 people had been arreste...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 08:11hrs | 767 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not dollarising, says RBZ
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Dr John Mangudya, insists there is no going back on the process of de-dollarising the economy despite the growing use of the US dollar in most transactions, mor...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 17:12hrs | 1638 | by Staff reporter
13 arrested along Limpopo River
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) on Friday arrested 13 people along the Limpopo River for violating coronavirus (Covid-19) regulations.Among those arrested, one had 125 litres of fuel which ...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 16:14hrs | 583 | by Staff reporter
An MDC Government Around 2025
Whilst the ruling party's nationalist project is by all means still holding forte, the centre is gradually disintegrating. On the other hand, the centre-left MDC's democratic project has been bashed a...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:46hrs | 1406 | by Robert Sigauke
'Mnangagwa must walk the talk on corruption'
TRANSPARENCY InternationalZimbabwe (TI-Z) has decried the deep entrenchment of corruption in the country and bad governance despite a well-articulated Constitution on anti-corruption and President Emm...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:57hrs | 785 | by Staff reporter
Zacc busts illegal diamond syndicate
A FIVE-MEMBER illegal diamond buying syndicate was recently busted and brought before a Mutare magistrate on Saturday.The alleged syndicate involved two Zimbabweans Isaac Nhamo and Shadreck Pu...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe cannot be marketed, ED
President Mnangagwa was in Victoria Falls On Thursday trying to lure tourists into Zimbabwe to solve the economic disaster he has put the country in with his corrupt administration. The irony in his a...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 17:17hrs | 2713 | by Tawanda Muyeye
Counterfeit drugs poses threat to Covid -19 cure
The rise of novel coronavirus Sars-CoV-2 pandemic cases could lead to a spike in counterfeit pharmaceutical deals in Africa and the world over following suggestions that hydroxychloroquine could...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 14:31hrs | 853 | by Liberty Pazvakawambwa
Why US$3.5bn deal for farmers is problematic
PATRICK Chinamasa, acting spokesperson in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF government, has announced that, through the signing of the government's "Global Compensation Agreement" on July 29, 202...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:07hrs | 919 | by Ben Freeth
NetOne crisis deepens
TROUBLED state-owned mobile phone operator NetOne has been beset by a myriad of problems that include network failure and a shortage of airtime recharge cards, which are attributed to a board wrangle....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2660 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries turns the corner
INGWEBU Breweries has returned to profitability following successive years of loss-making and is targeting to achieve revenue of US$24 million this year, the company's MD Dumisani Mhlanga has said....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:01hrs | 763 | by Staff reporter
Uproar over subsidised mealie-meal
Consumers in various parts of the country have decried the alleged abuse of subsidised roller meal by some millers, who are allegedly diverting the basic commodity to the black market.Last yea...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:00hrs | 467 | by Staff reporter
South African Rand on the ropes as emerging market risks increase
South Africa's rand traded nearly 1% weaker early on Friday, near its lowest in 10 weeks, amid souring emerging market sentiment led by Turkey's currency crisis and increased tension between China and...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:58hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
TelOne increases internet connectivity
THE Government through TelOne has continued with its initiative of increasing Internet connectivity in the country, a move meant to tap into the increasing advancement of technology.This comes...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:48hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Bosso's new kit
HIGHLANDERS have given their supporters a glimpse of the club's new kit as well as replica shirts, which should be available for the fans to purchase soon.Bosso have in the past few weeks used...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:46hrs | 1299 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa blocks bread price hike
Government has blocked bakers from increasing the price of a standard loaf of bread to $80 from an average $60 and assured them of more than US$2 million every week from the foreign currency auction....Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 09:44hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
'We want Zanu PF led GNU' ZCC doggedly insist - it's the curse we should never tolerate ever again
One of the most enduring legacy of Mugabe's Zanu PF dictatorship is that it has sired hundreds of thousands of copycat corrupt and incompetent dictators, all with trademark Mugabe mentality that they ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 490 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe Communist Party corners Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni
Controversial Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Madlala Mguni has received a letter from Zimbabwe Communist party requesting him to publicly publish a paper trail relating to his 4 287 square metres ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 08:16hrs | 2073 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Corporate Governance and State Entities Decay in Zimbabwe
The unfolding corporate governance scandal at Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) provides a hint of how the country's State Entities and Parastatals (SEPs) have been run down over the years....Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:11hrs | 1159 | by Victor Bhoroma
Masarira pens open letter to Mnangagwa
Linda Masarira, leader of the opposition LEAD party, has penned an open letter to the country's President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, over the country's status quo.Masarira who some believe is linked...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 22:00hrs | 9657 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Duduzile Shinya new ICAZ President
Medical Investments Limited's chief financial officer, Duduzile Shinya has been elected the new president of the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) for the term 2020/21.She w...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:51hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Protect the rural poor from unscrupulous businesses
The pricing system by some traders seem well calculated and calibrated to circumvent SI 185 that compels using forex auction rate. To avoid being on a collision course with the law, shop owner...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:10hrs | 396 | by Thomas Tondo
Mask up so you can live to tell the tale
This Covid-19 respects no man, knows no class neither does it select who to infect on political grounds. Not even totems or religious denominations can save one, everyone can contract the virus, only ...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:07hrs | 318 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Tagwirei business empire faces tough times
ZIMBABWEAN business tycoon Kudakwashe Regimond Tagwirei, accused of capturing the state for personal gain alongside with the Presidium, has been slapped with sanctions by the United States government,...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:11hrs | 7345 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar return premature, says Gono
FORMER Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono has said the reintroduction of the Zimbabwean dollar, which has been rapidly losing value since its re-introduction in June last year, was pr...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:10hrs | 7384 | by Staff reporter
Strong institutions needed in fight against corruption
WHILE reasonable progress has been made in strengthening capacity to ensure effectiveness, efficiency and accountability in the management of national resources, the institutional framework for dealin...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 473 | by Tawanda Zinyama
Mnangagwa's two-year rule: The verdict is 'total disaster'
TWO years after winning the disputed 2018 poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has performed dismally towards implementing political and economic reforms perceived as key to ending Zimb...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2642 | by Staff reporter
GNU best way out of Zimbabwe crisis
UNITED Kingdom-based lawyer and blogger Alex Magaisa last month published a list of beneficiaries of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) farm mechanisation programme, that included cabinet ministers, Z...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 09:06hrs | 2264 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's tone-deaf speech: A tutorial on 'how not to lead'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday morning had yet another chance to show leadership in a national address. But, as he has done countless times, he squandered it in a tone-deaf statement that onl...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:55hrs | 701 | by newZWire
Residents stampede for subsidised roller meal
GwERu and Bulawayo residents yesterday risked contracting the deadly coronavirus as they jostled to buy subsidised roller meal at DCK supermarkets.Police in riot gear and soldiers had a torrid...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 08:53hrs | 414 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4070 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Mnangagwa's controversial baker reported to ZACC for stealing Bulawayo maize
Controversial Midlands miller Douglas Kwande has again invited limelight after Bulawayo whistleblowers wrote a letter to Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission complaining that he has been fraudulently b...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 15:37hrs | 9520 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Stanbic enhances FCA digital banking
Stanbic Bank has stepped up functionality of Foreign Currency Accounts (FCAs) on their digital banking platforms, in a move that will allow customers to take full advantage of the interbank rates bein...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 08:57hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni gets another huge land from City Council
Bulawayo Mayor His Worship Solomon Mguni has acquired 4 287 square metres of land to construct six townhouses, online publication CITE has reported. According to the publication, the Mayor was...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 14:18hrs | 4814 | by Mandla Ndlovu
High inflation sees Zimra exceed targets in Q2
Increased loss of value in the ZWL saw tax revenue in the second quarter exceed target by 42.75% to $20.11 billion. The tax collector had a target of $14.09 billion after collections amounted to $13.8...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:24hrs | 722 | by Staff reporter
Curfew betrays govt anger towards citizens
HIS Excellency, the imposition of the sunset to sunrise curfew prompts me to write to you, yet again. Notwithstanding the spike inconfirmedCOVID-19cases, the country has long been languishing at a rec...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 999 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Commuters stranded as Zupco fleet is grounded
SCORES of commuters in Bulawayo were left stranded yesterday as fuel shortages grounded most of the Zupco fleet. The city has been facing acute fuel shortages which the Ministry of Energy and Power De...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 727 | by Staff reporter
EIU predicts tough times ahead for Zimbabwe
LONDON-BASED Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) has predicted a gloomy economic outlook for Zimbabwe in the next four years owing to failure by government to manage the tumultuous political and economic...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:19hrs | 1331 | by Staff reporter
Bread flour price to go up 34%
THE price of flour is this week likely to go up by over 30% following the skyrocketing foreign currency auction-rate which is now chasing the parallel market. The government, through the centr...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:09hrs | 847 | by newzimbabwe
Fresh fuel shortages hit Zimbabwe
FRESH fuel shortages have hit the country and in Bulawayo most service stations have been dry for the past week. A news crew took to the streets of Bulawayo and observed motorists queueing for refills...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:08hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Motorists plead for fuel dual pricing
Government should come up with legislation that makes it mandatory for service stations to sell fuel in both foreign and local currency in line with the prevailing exchange rate, motorists have said. ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:07hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter
10 more succumb to Covid-19 in one day in ZImbabwe
Ten more Covid-19 deaths were reported yesterday, the second highest daily toll after 12 passed on last Thursday, taking the death toll to 80 while 154 new cases were confirmed, all local infections, ...Published: 04 Aug 2020 at 08:05hrs | 833 | by Staff reporter
Analysis of Dual Pricing Policy (SI 185 of 2020)
The Zimbabwean government gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 185 of 2020 on the 24th of July 2020. The latest regulation compels sellers of various goods and services to display, quote and offer price...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 17:05hrs | 2956 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe govt's clamp down on protestors a recipe for disaster
The country's constitution allows people to demonstrate and express their grievances anywhere or whether such demonstrations have been called by self-styled activists or have been endorsed by oppositi...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 15:12hrs | 1559 | by Leonard Koni
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1676 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Silandulo leaves Nust
National University of Science and Technology (Nust) director of communications and marketing Mr Felix Moyo has retired after serving the institution for 23 years. Mr Moyo bade farewell to Nus...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 07:50hrs | 2532 | by Staff reporter
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