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Army, police predicament recipe for disaster
IT is quite unfortunate that Zimbabwe's army and police personnel find themselves in this very sorry state whereby they are reportedly practically starving while wearing faded uniforms and using antiq...Published: 10 hrs ago | 721 | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa has failed to improve the economic prospects of Zimbabwe?
It is now more than two years since President ED Mnangagwa assumed power with an ostensible mandate from his backers to improve the country's economic fortunes, the nemesis of his predecessor, RG Muga...Published: 10 hrs ago | 261 | by Martin
Nothing hopeful about Chamisa's HONA
The much hyped, but shallow, so called ‘Hope of The Nation Address', (HONA) by opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa had nothing new in it that Zimbabweans could actually hold on to, and believe t...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2103 | by Sibusiso Ndlamini
Mthuli Ncube speaks on money recieved from China
Officials from the Chinese Embassy and Government of Zimbabwe met on Wednesday and after discussions reached an agreement on the facts and figures contained in the 2020 Budget Statement which was deli...Published: 23 hrs ago | 9037 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Biti slams 'amateurish' accounting
Former finance minister Tendai Biti said the omission of Chinese development assistance in the 2020 budget statement was "amateurish" after China made a strong protest on Tuesday.The Chinese e...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 04:21hrs | 2892 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's govt embarks on 2nd round of ease of doing business
GOVERNMENT has embarked on the second round of Ease of Doing Business Reforms targeting 16 areas seen as critical in expediting the implementation of reforms aimed at creating a conducive environment ...Published: 21 Nov 2019 at 04:01hrs | 850 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army, police morale hits rock bottom
Parliament yesterday heard that soldiers and police officers' morale had hit rock bottom due to a shortage of food and uniforms, with a meagre 39 cents being spent on each soldier's daily diet, causin...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 19:45hrs | 3016 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF grand heist, autocracy writ large
IN the aftermath of Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's budget that sounded more like was crafted in some Western world capital and delivered in Harare, many people may have missed the assault on our parl...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 08:01hrs | 1396 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
United Arab Emirates to send opportunity scouts to Zimbabwe
A high-powered business delegation from the United Arab Emirates will soon visit Zimbabwe to scout for potential business opportunities offered by the country under the new dispensation, Finance and E...Published: 20 Nov 2019 at 04:04hrs | 504 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to expend 5% fuel levy on Chirundu Highway
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has allocated 5% of the excise duty revenue collected on fuel towards the construction of the Beitbridge-Harare-Chirundu Highway as international...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:35hrs | 385 | by Staff reporter
China shreds Mthuli Ncube's budget statement
The Chinese Embassy in Zimbabwe says the figure of the Chinese bilateral support that was announced by Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube during his budget statement is a mis...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 11:04hrs | 6933 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Nightmare is madman wielding a stick - pity Zimbabweans have corrupt president wielding absolute power, for 39 years counting
"If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 09:15hrs | 1202 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mnangagwa to reform at his own pace
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that he will implement political and economic reforms at his own pace, and insisted that the impetus for change and reform comes from within.In ...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 06:01hrs | 3009 | by Staff reporter
2 years on, Mnangagwa remains steadfast
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said he will not waver in his determination to work and achieve the goals and dreams of millions of Zimbabweans who marched in 2017 in a series of events that gave birth to the...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:48hrs | 357 | by Staff reporter
This is how Zimbabwe has changed since I became President
TWO years ago, on November 18th, 2017, hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans took to the streets in the spirit of peace, unity and hope, calling for a new start. For a new Zimbabwe. Coming into...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:47hrs | 877 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa's Cabinet to meet on Thursday
Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda yesterday said this week's Cabinet meeting has been deferred to Thursday. No reason for deferment was given, but President Mnang...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 439 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube tax minimum raised to $100
Government has increased the minimum taxable amounts for intermediated money transfer tax (IMTT), better known as the 2 percent tax, to $100 from $20 per transaction for individuals as it sought...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 2718 | by Staff reporter
Spaced out - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
There was a lot of space in Parliament when Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube delivered his budget. This was partly because the opposition was boycotting the occasion but mainly because of the surprise an...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 09:14hrs | 233 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Zimbabwe, global de-dollarisation case study - Prof Ncube
Zimbabwe is undergoing a de-dollarisation process that very few countries have successfully implemented and will need time to address the lingering effects of dollarisation, Finance and Economic Devel...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 946 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube hails RBZ swift action on CBZ, Ecobank
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has praised the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for swiftly acting against two banks alleged to have allowed their depositors to make wi...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1520 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa courts Dubai investors
Zimbabwe intends to lure cash-rich investors from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to exploit opportunities in mining, tourism and manufacturing when it engages them at the 5th Global Business Forum on ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants can not live on ZUPCOs alone! Zim govt should give them their worthy and dignified salaries
Never in my 46 years of existence have I been exposed to such an ignorant and arrogant government as that of Zimbabwe. Never in my life have I encountered a group of people who are divorced from reali...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 08:45hrs | 2956 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Why Mthuli Ncube will fail
While I wish Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to succeed, the path he has followed is doomed to fail. I will detail the reasons why below. The situation in which he has placed Zimbabwe's finances is not ...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:04hrs | 2662 | by Ken Mufuka
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1197 | by Staff reporter
Not yet time for Zimbabwe to go into space
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has often been accused of being far too removed from what ordinary Zimbabweans are experiencing in the wake of economic turmoil that is taking back the country into the d...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 289 | by Staff reporter
Government underfire over MZWP
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), a technical partner in the ambitious project to draw water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo, has accused government of frustrating its efforts to woo pri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 383 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's wife must step back
Barely two years into her husband's tenure as president, first lady Auxillia Mnangagwa has diminished the little dignity she enjoyed having come into the comforts of State House on the back of a milit...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 3342 | by Edmund Kudzai
MDC demonstrates at Warriors match
AFTER being denied a chance to protest by police with the latest being at Thursday's 2020 budget presentation, MDC youths ambushed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime by demonstrating as the country...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:56hrs | 848 | by newzimbabwe
Millers sell subsided maize at +200% profit
MILLERS are allegedly engaged in massive corruption, where they access cheap maize from Grain Marketing Board, mill a small portion and then divert the rest to rural areas especially those near the co...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:21hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
You have no honour here, Minister Mthuli
Far from the quixotic idealism of city life, the rural setting presents life in its most raw form, including the intimate and inextricable relationship between man and nature.Nowhere is man fo...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:20hrs | 212 | by Bishop Lazi
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2631 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons
THE government has warned that it would embark on a brutal clampdown against cash barons and unscrupulous bank officials who are diverting money to the black market, the Daily News reports.Thi...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:16hrs | 2518 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers and Police must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday. Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:03hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda gets a border post
GOVERNMENT has designated Gwanda District's Mlambapele as an official port of entry and has set up four dry ports to decongest Beitbridge and Forbes border posts. Mlambapele connects Zimbabwe ...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2232 | by Staff reporter
Govt allocates millions to irrigation schemes
TREASURY has allocated nearly $423 million towards the development of irrigation schemes countrywide. Presenting the 2020 National Budget in Parliament on Thursday, Finance and Economic Develo...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 11:24hrs | 809 | by Sta Reporter
Security services must be fully funded, says Mthuli Ncube
The security services must be fully funded to enable them to discharge their constitutional mandates, Finance and Economic Planning Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube said yesterday..Notwithstand...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 07:02hrs | 2264 | by Staff Reporter
Mthuli Ncube disappointed
Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube says he was disappointed by the MDC Alliance Members of Parliament who snubbed his budget presentation on Thursday despite the fact...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:22hrs | 6162 | by Staff reporter
Outrage over bank charges
Depositors have expressed concern over the high banking charges levied by financial institutions.Speaking at a post-2020 Budget breakfast meeting co-organised by Zimpapers and ZBC in Harare th...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 19:20hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
MDC issues statement on boycotting Mthuli Ncube's budget
The Movement for Democratic Change has issued a statement clarifying their absence at the budget presentation held at parliament building on Thursday. The absence of MDC Parliamentarians irked...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 12:11hrs | 3716 | by Mandla Ndlovu
George Charamba opens up on Mthuli Ncube's space satellite
Presidential Spokesperson George Charamba says the government of Zimbabwe has partnered with some Japanese University in launching the space satellite. Charamba said the project is a priority ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 10:16hrs | 4205 | by Mandla Ndlovu
ZANU PF Youth leader calls for Mthuli Ncube to resign
ZANU PF Youth League National Commissariat Godfrey Tsenengamu says the Youth League will be marching to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Monday to push for the resignation of Governor John Mangudya and...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 09:20hrs | 8877 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Zimbabwe to build space satellite
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwe is planning to build a space satellite.Ncube revealed the information during the 2020 budget presentation on Thursday. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:33hrs | 1549 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mthuli's budget a drop in the ocean
The 2020 budget is out but the future of the country still looks all gloom and not inspiring at all.The budget lacks clarity and is full of deception, lies and falsehoods. After austerity meas...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1589 | by Leonard Koni
Chiwenga coup generals declare war on Mnangagwa
VANCOUVER - Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's military generals who were key in executing the November 2017 coup against President Robert Mugabe, have allegedly declared war on Presid...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 07:48hrs | 50871 | by Nancy Mabaya
What they said about 2020 budget
FORMER Finance minister and now MDC vice president Tendai Biti:"A budget of $63 billion is an illusion and unachievable, but also reflects extent of hyperinflation. The Pre-Budget Strategy Pap...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 2322 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls teachers boycott ZimSec exam
TEACHERS at Mosi-oa-Tunya High School in Victoria Falls on Wednesday stayed at home citing incapacitation at a time they were expected to supervise a Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) Ordi...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 1202 | by Staff reporter
Cross now smelling the coffee, but....
IN the Bible, there is a story of the prodigal son who demanded his share of his father's estate, which the father gave him. Shortly after being given his inheritance, the son runs off and squanders t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:27hrs | 911 | by Amos Mazambani
MDC snubs Mnangagwa to bury cadres
THE opposition MDC yesterday continued with its protests against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy and snubbed the 2020 national budget presentation over his presence in Parliament.All...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:25hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube misses fiscal reform targets
ECONOMIC reforms and austerity measures being spearheaded by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) have gone off the rails after it emerged the central ban...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 352 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Cabinet reshuffle sparks uproar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured)'s cabinet reshuffle has caused consternation in government and Zanu-PF as officials believe it was motivated by the need to consolidate and retain power rather ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:20hrs | 1709 | by Staff reporter
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