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Zimbabwe retailers make a case for multi-currency continuation
Retailers in Zimbabwe have urged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to extend the multi-currency regime as official policy until 2030, warning that any abrupt move towards full dollarisation could sev...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 07:52hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean man comes back from the brink after open heart surgery in India
WHEN Mr Wilberforce Matashu (46) of Nkulumane suburb in Bulawayo arrived in India early this year for open heart surgery, which saw him implanted with artificial heart valves to assist the aorta, he h...Published: 06 Oct 2023 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man seeks US$24,000 for heart surgery
A 46-YEAR-OLD man from Nkulumane suburb whose main artery to the heart has a weakened wall and expands abnormally when the heart pumps blood, is seeking US$24 000 to replace the defective valve....Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF councillor bludgeons CCC activist for demanding presidential farming inputs
A CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) activist was Friday seriously injured following a machete attack by a local Zanu-PF ward councillor for demanding free Presidential farming inputs.The vi...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shops continue using 'illegal' rates
WARNINGS by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) Financial Intelligence Unit and the recent arrest of directors of some top companies over foreign currency manipulation seem to have fallen on deaf ear...Published: 21 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
5 die in ambulance crash
A KAROI District Hospital ambulance driver, nurse and two patients died on the spot while another passenger died later after an ambulance they were travelling in collided with a truck along the Harare...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Driver, nurse, patients die in ambulance accident
A Karoi District Hospital ambulance driver, an escort nurse and two patients died after the ambulance they were travelling in collided with a two-tonne truck that was travelling to Kariba at the 196-k...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 18:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reels as 18-hr power cuts
For Cosmas Kabondo, the rolling 18-hour power cuts have made life more expensive as his family is scrambling for alternative sources of energy.Zimbabwe's power crisis deepened early this month...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:17hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabwe retailers project fresh wave of price hikes
RETAILERS have projected another round of price increases after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube unveiled a budget that will see an increase in import duty for fuel and other selected goods.Ncube...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
6 council officials arrested over $63 000
Six top Nyaminyami Rural District Council officials have been arrested on charges of criminal abuse of office involving $63 000 of council funds.The six, who have been languishing in custody s...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Black market rates soar
The bond note has continued to lose ground on the black market, with rates reaching a staggering 100 percent to the United State dollar yesterday.Last week, the bond was trading below 90 perce...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 21:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya threatens to sue Obert Mpofu linked newspaper
The Zimbabwe Mail newspaper is facing a lawsuit from Prophetic Healing and Deliverance Ministries leader Prophet Magaya over a story claiming that he had paid $150,000 to a Denford Matashu who was sui...Published: 20 Sep 2014 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mentally challenged man fatally strikes reveller with iron bar
A mentally challenged Hurungwe man reportedly stormed a bar in Magunje Growth Point holding an iron bar and fatally struck a 29-year-old man who was drinking beer with his friend.The victim, E...Published: 05 Jan 2014 at 09:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's farm invasions bring smiles to new farmers
Bonus Matashu points to a three-tonne truck he bought for $15 000 in cash and says President Robert Mugabe's often violent programme of seizing white-owned farms and giving them to black Zimbabwea...Published: 05 Nov 2013 at 02:26hrs | | by Bloomberg
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