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Binga flood victims decry neglect
Without even narrating her ordeal, Ndubeko Muzamba's blood-flecked eyes told a story of sorrow and suffering.Aged 24 and with three young children aged below 13, Muzamba said at one point she ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 725 | by Staff reporter
RBZ confident of ending cash shortages
BANKS should constantly update the central bank on the amount of money they need to meet demand from depositors, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has said.Ordinary Zimb...Published: 13 hrs ago | 252 | by Staff reporter
IDs, birth certificates to be issued in church
THE Registrar-General's office will start issuing Identity Cards and birth certificates at large church gatherings as it moves to decentralise the process to ensure people have access to key documents...Published: 13 hrs ago | 425 | by Staff reporter
New passport measures will go a long way
On Tuesday, Cabinet reviewed fees for ordinary and emergency passport applications.Under the new fee structure, ordinary passports, which were previously $53, are now $150, while emergency pas...Published: 13 hrs ago | 1124 | by Staff reporter
800 Zimbabwean nationals in coronavirus lockdown
About 800 Zimbabweans are among the 60 million people that are living in Hubei province — the epicentre of the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak — but all of them are currently safe from the respira...Published: 13 hrs ago | 725 | by Staff reporter
'Will not rest until Zanu PF is extinguished' - shadow boxing, failed to implement even one reform in 20 years
As much as Zanu PF thugs would want to believe they will rule Zimbabwe until "donkeys have horns" the reality is that change is coming. The best they have...Published: 13 hrs ago | 230 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mthuli Ncube denies messing up the economy
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has rubbished claims he was behind Zimbabwe's mounting economic problems dramatised by continued prices increases, fuel and cash shortages.Ncube told NewZimbabwe....Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 18:55hrs | 3235 | by Staff reporter
Govt speaks on forex fuel sales
AUTHORITIES say people should not panic over the decision to allow fuel companies with free funds to import and sell petrol and diesel in foreign currency ' as this is part of measures needed to...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:48hrs | 1319 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt warns corrupt fat cats
JUSTICE minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has warned that corrupt fat cats would soon have their assets seized and forfeited to the State should they fail to account for their ill-gotten wealth as government t...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 16:34hrs | 768 | by Staff reporter
Police ban Mthwakazi rally
POLICE in Bulawayo have denied opposition Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) permission to hold its rally in a city high-density suburb claiming there was an outbreak of the deadly coronavirus in a neighb...Published: 22 Feb 2020 at 05:31hrs | 353 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa comes face to face with reality
BUSINESS and labour yesterday openly told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that the mono currency policy was not working and had pauperised many Zimbabweans while scaring away investors.In a candi...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 10002 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Prison mbanje project gets approval
Commercial mbanje production is expected to start on 10 hectares at Chiredzi Prison after the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) completed feasibility studies recently. The inno...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:29hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to recruit 900 nurses
The Health Services Board (HSB) intends to recruit 900 nurses to fully staff referral hospitals, board chairperson, Dr Paulinus Sikosana has said. Dr Sikosana said there were shortages of nurs...Published: 21 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 236 | by Staff reporter
What is the future of the Australian gambling market?
Australia is one of the leading countries, especially if we look at the gambling industry. Almost 80% of the Australian population is involved in one gambling activity or another. It is no surprise th...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 23:18hrs | 359 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IMF meeting on Zimbabwe set for Monday
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) will hold its crucial meeting on Zimbabwe in Washington DC on Monday next week, businessdigest has learnt.The Bretton Woods institution will discuss the economic ...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:32hrs | 1156 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar stays, insists Mthuli Ncube
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday vowed that government will not take the Zimdollar out of circulation despite pleas by MPs across the political divide that it had brought suffering to Zimbabwea...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Is the New Dispensation keen on devolution?
It should be recalled that the nationalist struggle's main focus was the achievement of an electoral system with one person one vote as its basis and the resultant establishment of a newly independent...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 13:25hrs | 68 | by Vivian Viyo Siziba
Mnangagwa must ensure Zupco buses get adequate fuel
Government has intensified efforts to recapitalise the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) as it moves to provide mass public transport to alleviate the plight of commuters. At the weekend 65 bu...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:26hrs | 522 | by Staff reporter
176 Zimra officers fired for corruption
ONE-HUNDRED-AND-SEVENTY-SIX Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) officers were either suspended or dismissed between 2016 and last year for allegedly smuggling 433 vehicles into the country, according t...Published: 20 Feb 2020 at 05:25hrs | 1776 | by Staff reporter
New measures to clear passport backlog
CABINET yesterday approved strategies to clear the passport backlog which will see the fees going up and those with free funds being allowed to pay in foreign currency. A Statutory Instrument ...Published: 19 Feb 2020 at 06:27hrs | 360 | by Staff reporter
Politicians continue to bicker while Zimbabweans are starving
Zimbabwe is teetering on the edge of a large-scale humanitarian crisis and South Africa and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) cannot afford to ignore it. Half the population (7.7 milli...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 22:16hrs | 1090 | by Ringisai Chikohomero
'Free elections are a process not event' - given will, 18/4/1980 event and not 40+ year process
Zimbabwe is facing a very serious social and economic crisis that is now causing untold human suffering and deaths and is threatening the country's stability and that of the whole southern African reg...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 21:42hrs | 459 | by Wilbert Mukori
Lest we forget about Mthuli Ncube
VERY much in our memory and captured on camera, sometime back, Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube referred to our bond notes as "bad money driving out good money" such that he wish...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 20:15hrs | 1086 | by Kurauone Mutemaringa
EU tightens screws on Mnangagwa
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) yesterday tightened screws on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government after they maintained sanctions against the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI), citing human rights abuse...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 13:17hrs | 4920 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa playing dangerous gukurahundi games in Matabeleland - we see blood on the floor
This has to be put as crude as it is. Mnangagwa, Zanu-PF government and the Shona majority that cheered the Zimbabwe National Army 5th Brigade and celebrated the death of innocent Matebeles in the 198...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 09:08hrs | 4734 | by Israel Dube
Tsenengamu trashes Chinamasa
Suspended Zanu-PF Youth League political commissar Godfrey Tsenengamu says he is not apologetic about his anti corruption stance denying Patrick Chinamasa's statement that he has apologised to the par...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:32hrs | 9143 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions against Zimbabwe outdated, says Moyo
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister Sibusiso Moyo says government welcomes the European Union's decision to ease sanctions imposed on the country but felt the measures were unjustified and outdated.On Mo...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 06:30hrs | 2849 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pressured on talks with Chamisa by EU
THE European Union (EU) has indicated that it does not recognise President Emmerson Mnangagwa's pet project, the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) as adequate to resolve the problems in Zimbabwe and s...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:55hrs | 3614 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Ambassador interfaces with nationals in SA
Zimbabwe's Ambassador to South Africa David Hamadziripi on Friday met Zanu PF supporters to update them on the state of the nation. Ambassador Hamadziripi encouraged Zimbabweans living in the ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:37hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
RBZ eyes on cash oligarchs
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will use various open market operation tools to deal with uneven distribution of money in the economy amid indications 50 percent of total bank deposits are ...Published: 18 Feb 2020 at 05:35hrs | 450 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe remains on EU sanctions
LATE former President Robert Mugabe has been removed from the European Union (EU) sanctions list but his widow, Grace remains "restrictive measures".Mugabe died September 6 last year, aged 95....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1249 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe removed from sanctions
The European Union has renewed its arms embargo on Zimbabwe, as well as a targeted asset freeze on the state arms company.In a statement on Monday, the Council of the European Union said the l...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:19hrs | 1420 | by Staff reporter
Grace, Chiwenga, Velario Sibanda, Shiri still in the EU sanctions list
The European Union has announced that four Zimbabwean top officials still remain under its restrictive measures despite them having applied for the suspension of the measures on them....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 19:01hrs | 3247 | by Stephen Jakes
EU not taking Polad seriously
The European Union (EU) has called for "inclusive national dialogue", a clear indicator that it is not taking the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad) seriously and believe dialogue between Mnangagwa and...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:59hrs | 2563 | by Staff reporter
EU sanctions blow for Mnangagwa
The European Union (EU) has renewed its arms embargo on Zimbabwe and sanctions on the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) for one year and lifted restrictions on four individuals following the Council o...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:58hrs | 2459 | by Staff reporter
200 companies control 50% deposits, says RBZ
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will use various open market operation tools to deal with uneven distribution of money in the economy amid indications 50 percent of total bank deposits are ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 12:54hrs | 1278 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Europe renews sanctions against Zimbabwe Defense Industries
The European Union has renewed against the Zimbabwe Defense Industries for a period of one year. In a statement issued on Monday EU said, "Taking into account the situation in Zimbabwe, includ...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 11:34hrs | 13076 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Forex accounts are safe, secure, says Dr Mangudya
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has reassured holders of free funds that their funds are safe and secure in Zimbabwe as the bank has no appetite to temper with the legal status of the public's foreign cu...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:56hrs | 2097 | by Staff reporter
The market has redollarised, says Biti
MDC vice-president Tendai Biti (TB), who during the inclusive government era, served as Finance minister speaks to NewsDay (ND) senior reporter Blessed Mhlanga on the failing Zimbabwe dollar and other...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 10:45hrs | 1950 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commends Matutu, Tsenengamu
Zanu-PF has commended former Youth League leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu for accepting censure and rehabilitation. Matutu was the deputy secretary for Youth Affairs, while Tseneng...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:13hrs | 5657 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army generals running mining, fuel cartels - report
THE influence of the military in Zimbabwean politics is reported to be on the ascendancy in politics, economy and government while the army generals have also been reported to be heavily involved in m...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:12hrs | 8730 | by newzimbabwe.com
Tsvangirai was a 'sell-out' says Mutodi
INFORMATION Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi has described the late MDC founding leader, Morgan Tsvangirai as a ‘sell-out' who invited sanctions imposed by the West and the US against Zimbabwe....Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:06hrs | 1092 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF ex-youth leaders accepts censure, retraining
Zanu-PF has commended the acceptance of censure and rehabilitation by former Youth League leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu. Matutu was the deputy secretary for youth affairs while T...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 06:05hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Britain invests US$1.9 billion to Zimbabwe
United Kingdom Ambassador to Zimbabwe Melanie Robinson says companies from the former colonial power have invested about US$1.9 Billion into Zimbabwe. Robinson however, said the laws of Zimbab...Published: 17 Feb 2020 at 05:40hrs | 7665 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe Industry capacity utilisation to fall to 27%
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has projected that industry's capacity utilisation will fall to 27% this year if the government does not change its policy direction.According to...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt mobilises $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:36hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Government injects $105m for student loans
Government has mobilised $105 million to be accessed as loans by students in tertiary institutions.The loan scheme, which was recently reviewed by removing stringent conditions and introducing...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:34hrs | 192 | by Staff Reporter
Inside the feud around Hlabangana tshisa nyama
WITH the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) throwing the rule book at them as it promises to clamp down on council leased sport clubs that are flaunting regulations, insiders at the Babongile Sikhonjwa-run H...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Monetary policy to focus on rate stability
The exchange rate and its implications on inflation or price hikes is probably the most closely monitored economic factor in Zimbabwe right now, and that is for a very good reason.If one...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:31hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe should brace for more chaos
By now it should be unquestionably clear that there are two things that are bogging down our determined and collective efforts to escape the clutches of begriming poverty: corruption and sanctions....Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:30hrs | 376 | by Bishop Lazarus
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