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Surely, what lessons in business success can Tagwirei teach our youth?
Our youth are the greatest asset to our nation's future, and we cannot afford to lead them astray.Zimbabwe is a nation desperate for authentic leadership, especially for its youth. ...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 11:24hrs | 282 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Fifa to name new Zifa Committee
FIFA is set to replace the current leadership of the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA), led by Lincoln Mutasa, with a new Normalisation Committee due to dissatisfaction with the reform process. ...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'ZiG difficult to accept in US$-dominated market'
RESPECTED businessman and economist Nigel Chanakira says acceptance of the new currency, Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), will be difficult given that the majority still prefer the greenback.The Reserve B...Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mushayavanhu must assert himself as independent'
Businessman and economist, Nigel Chanakira, says the new Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mushayavanhu must assert himself as an independent central banker to stabilise the local currency....Published: 11 Apr 2024 at 08:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'ZiG difficult to accept in US$-dominated market'
Businessman and economist Nigel Chanakira says acceptance of the new currency, Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), will be difficult given that the majority still prefer the greenback.The Reserve Bank of Zim...Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt tightens screws on tenders
CORRUPTION in the awarding of tenders will now be a thing of the past following the launch of the Electronic-Government Procurement (e-GP) system by President Mnangagwa yesterday.The Electroni...Published: 24 Oct 2023 at 05:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
What does another disputed election mean for Zimbabwe?
THE August 23 elections have come and gone, but the result is the same - another disputed poll that has left the country more polarised than ever - and facing a bleak outlook.Last week's poll ...Published: 30 Aug 2023 at 06:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt 'legalises' graft in new law
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has come under attack from anti-graft crusaders after signing a new law which critics say could lead to theft of public funds and lack of accountability.Government...Published: 10 May 2023 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Huge outcry over CCC led city vehicle clamping fine
While the outcry over Harare City Parking's fines continues to grow and a Government investigation has opened, a motorist is trying to get the High Court to rule that Harare City Council has no legal ...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chanakira to address diaspora community
RENOWNED Zimbabwean banker and leadership development facilitator, Nigel Chanakira, will this week address Zimbabweans living in the diaspora during a training session aimed at imparting entrepreneuri...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Education ministry bemoans lack of funding as shortage of schools soars
PRIMARY and Secondary Education permanent secretary, Tumisang Thabela has admitted that the ministry is buckling under pressure due to under-funding consequentially hindering deliv...Published: 26 Jan 2023 at 07:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Is corruption in Zimbabwe because of crooked minds or purely cruel idiocy?
Let us imagine a small town - with residents living on the verge of impoverishment due to the collapse of their only mainstay (an iron and steel making company) over a decade ago - yet, their town fat...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 15:30hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans must stop parroting foreign narratives
ZIMBABWEANS should believe in themselves despite the continued imposition of sanctions on the country and be inspired by the national interest to work harder to develop their own country rather than "...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells profiteers to play fair,
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated the need to adopt fair business practices and urged economic stakeholders to rally behind the country's transformation agenda and leave a legacy of positive im...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's hectic schedule
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today lead key proceedings in a double hectic schedule in the resort city of Victoria Falls where he is set to officially open the End of Term Judges Symposium this morning an...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians
Nigel Chanakira, please leave politics to politicians-no single individual, group, or political party can fight an entrenched dictator alone. One of the requirements of regime change is Unity of Oppos...Published: 28 Jun 2022 at 14:44hrs | 17 | by Sam Wezhira
'Discussions without Chamisa futile,' says Chanakira
Attempts to resolve the country's multi-faceted crises without the involvement of opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa would be futile, Zimbabwe Economic Society (ZES) ...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sought Magaisa's support after coup?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is said to have sought the services of vocal critics to sanitise the November 2017 military coup and while he could have succeeded in luring some, several including the la...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 17:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Currency: The long road of pain awaiting Zimbabwe
IN June 2019, the Zimbabwe dollar was officially reintroduced as the main legal tender for domestic transactions in the country amid scepticism from the general public concerning its sustainability. T...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe industrialists expose gaps in Mnangagwa's re-engagement push
CALLS for government to get serious with its re-engagement drive have intensified, with industrialists and economists reminding President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration to avoid building ties wit...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe on verge of redollarisation?
GOVERNMENT's failure to resolve a perennial currency crisis could push Zimbabwe back into dollarisation, analysts warned yesterday.In the past year, markets have been increasingly rejecting th...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:33hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar's second death seen as only a matter of time
When Zimbabwean businessman Nigel Chanakira asked 100 chief executive officers at a seminar in Harare on January 27 if they were willing to use the local currency, only one raised his hand.Tha...Published: 31 Jan 2022 at 16:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Stability, development attract top investors
ZIMBABWE's stable macro-economic environment and massive infrastructure development, has helped attract the world's top 500 firms to invest in various sectors of the economy.The stability of t...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe bank charges too high'
INVESTMENT banker and business man Dr Nigel Chanakira says the prevailing banking sector charges are still too high and make the formal banking system expensive in an economy trying to rise from turmo...Published: 27 Sep 2021 at 06:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Catholic nuns seize control of US$2m Covid-19 project
CATHOLIC Church nuns, through Sisters of the Little Company of Mary (LCM), owners of St. Anne's Hospital in Harare, have acrimoniously seized control of the refurbished health facility's Covid-19 cent...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 08:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sithembiso Nyoni not fit for the Vice Presidency
Matebeleland North is a hive of activity as ZANU PF prepares for its Annual National People's Conference. There are people on the ground and rumours on the ground , as well as social media articles an...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Terror Ngwenya
Mr President, review your team & apply Strategy
Not much has been done, since the inception of the so-called new dispensation. Now that you have lost key pillars, the likes of Biggie Matiza, Ellen Gwaradzimba and the coup announcer, S.B Moyo, who w...Published: 31 Jan 2021 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
'Serious dialogue critical to end Zimbabwe woes'
ZIMBABWE'S economic woes will persist until there is serious dialogue among key domestic players in politics and the international community, renowned banker Nigel Chanakira has said.Chanakira...Published: 29 Jan 2021 at 07:11hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe printing $1 billion weekly to buy gold'
FORMER legislator and Monetary Policy Committee member Eddie Cross has made sensational claims that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was printing $1 billion weekly mainly to buy gold.At the ...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Hopeless situation for Ziombabwe civil servants
THE strife within the civil service will remain commonplace, as wages continue to be significantly eroded by the country's high inflation.Critical social services such as health and education ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Only 10% of Zimbabweans on medical aid
INSURANCE and Pensions Commission (Ipec) commissioner Grace Muradzikwa says medical cover in the country is not working for the majority of Zimbabweans.Only one in 10 Zimbabweans have medical ...Published: 22 Nov 2020 at 04:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Patson Dzamara dies
Opposition Activist Patson Dzamara has died after battling colon cancer for some time, banker Nigel Chanakira has reported.Announcing the death Chanakira said, "It is with profound sadness to ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:36hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa adviser under siege
A GROUP of suspected Zanu-PF hoodlums yesterday blocked cleric and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's outspoken adviser Shingi Munyeza from addressing a public meeting in Harare.Munyeza, who appea...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:22hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
$8,5m health equipment for Zimbabwe
Celebration Health (CH), the philanthropic medical arm of Celebration Ministries, is seeking partners that will help to bring $8,5 million worth of donated state-of-the-art medical equipment from abro...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 11:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube riles industry
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube was yesterday taken to task by captains of industry for suspending the production of annualised inflation figures, saying the policy move can trigger rampant speculation....Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 13:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube defends decision to suspend annual inflation reporting
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has defended his decision to blackout publication of year-on-year inflation statistics for the next six months, saying continuing to do so does n...Published: 06 Aug 2019 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
South African Airways develops scary fault in Harare
South African Airways flight which as supposed to depart from Harare to Johannesburg at 1305hrs developed a scary fault and is grounded at Harare International Airport.One of the persons onboa...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 15:48hrs | 3 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Meet Strive Masiyiwa and Chanakira's funder
Andrew Young, Jr has been noted as one of the major people who funded Telecoms Guru Strive Masiyiwa and Banker Nigel Chanakira, it has emerged. Shadowy Twitter character Mmatigari revealed thi...Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 14:28hrs | 12 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's aides in turf war
A war of words that erupted between President Emmerson Mnangagwa's propagandists could be indicative of a major turf war among key actors in his administration.Last week, Mnangagwa's spokesper...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 22:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Strategic Advice to President Mnangagwa
I strongly believe one can be a good President by taking heed to people's call, with sincerity. Events leading to the shutdown was a serious security concern which must not be repeated by giving in to...Published: 30 Jan 2019 at 13:23hrs | 10 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
REVEALED: ZANU PF fingered in violent protests and looting
ZANU PF members have been fingered as the ring leaders behind the violent protests and looting that happened in some parts of Harare fueling speculations that the protests were hijacked by criminal el...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 08:49hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa funding ex-ZANU PF chair divorce?
Telecommunications guru Strive Masiyiwa is funding the wife of former Masvingo ZANU PF Chairperson Daniel Shumba it has been alleged.The revelations came when exiled businessman Mutumwa Mawe...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 15:00hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa speaks out on allegations
Founder of Econet Wireless Strive Masiyiwa has recently been accused by business mogul Mtumwa Mawere and politician Daniel Shumba of stealing Econet Wireless from Daniel Shumba and other shareholders...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 20:23hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Strive Masiyiwa - Mawere fight exposes rot in ZANU PF
The fight between Strive Masiyiwa, Mutumwa Mawere and Dr. Daniel Shumba has exposed how ZANU PF system of patronage when it comes to business people works. This was exposed by Norton memb...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 19:09hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutumwa Mawere was a ZANU PF front?
A Zimbabwean activist Rutendo Matinyarare has accused business tycoon Mutumwa Mawere of being a beneficiary of ZANU PF's political patronage which saw him owning over 27 blue chip companies in Z...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 12:10hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ginimbi, Wicknell and the evolution of Zimbabwe's flamboyant businessman
WHEN Zimbabwe's Minister of Finance Mthuli Ncube announced the country's highly anticipated budget last Thursday, it would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall in the residences of the...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 08:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Top entrepreneurs, firms talk service innovation
A CUSTOMER service symposium held last week attracted Zimbabwe's top entrepreneurs and firms, including quoted companies who gathered in Harare to explore strategies on how the country could catch up ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe told to prioritise domestic capital
ZIMBABWE should seriously consider boosting its economy by placing more emphasis on domestic capital over foreign investment through attractive investment packages and other incentives, analysts say....Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA-based patriots have lofty economic ambitions for Zimbabwe
IN December last year, a month after taking over the reins from longtime leader Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa visited South Africa to woo investors.After meeting Zimba...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 16:43hrs | 1 | by CAJ News
Chanakira vies for Harare town clerk job
Nigel Chanakira headlines a stellar cast of top names vying for the coveted Harare town clerk Job.The Daily News can report that Chanakira, founder of the now defunct Kingdom bank and current ...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
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