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Jacob Mudenda blocks fuel situation debate
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda yesterday shot down a request by MPs to discuss the fuel situation in the country as a matter of urgency, saying legislators will get a chance to grill E...Published: 11 hrs ago | 1850 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rivals call for dialogue
Opposition political parties have renewed their appeal for inclusive national dialogue in the wake of the worsening economic crisis, with Nelson Chamisa's MDC party warning of calamitous demonstration...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3147 | by Staff reporter
Go to rural areas if tap water is expensive, says Zanu-PF MP
SEKE MP Munyaradzi Tobias Kashambe (Zanu-PF) yesterday caused a storm in Parliament after he suggested that residents who cannot afford to pay for tap water should relocate to rural areas where the re...Published: 20 hrs ago | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo's bribe trial postponed
The trial of businessman Wicknell Chivayo who is facing charges of paying $10 000 to former Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) board chairperson Stanley Kazhanje to allegedly influence him not to cancel a 1...Published: 20 hrs ago | 441 | by Staff reporter
Mangudya's RBZ in trouble over US$27,5m debt
London-based grain and fertiliser exporter, Holbud Limited, has approached the High Court seeking a court order to register a US$27,5 million arbitral award granted against the Reserve Bank of Zimbabw...Published: 21 hrs ago | 910 | by Staff reporter
Air Zimbabwe gets two Boeing 777-200 ER planes
TWO of the four Boeing 777-200 ER planes purchased by Government from Malaysia are expected in the country within two months, Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister Joel Biggie Matiza has s...Published: 21 May 2019 at 23:26hrs | 1883 | by Staff reporter
Fresh protests loom in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe is now at risk of fresh protests after the cash-strapped government on Monday night unexpectedly announced that it had cancelled fuel subsidies for imports.Caught in a debilitating en...Published: 21 May 2019 at 18:10hrs | 4720 | by ANA
Anti-graft body probes former Gweru commissioners
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, in collaboration with the Special Anti-Corruption Unit in the Office of the President and Cabinet, is investigating allegations of corruption against former Gw...Published: 21 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 719 | by Staff reporter
Parliament wants Zinara boss fired
THE Tendai Biti led parliamentary committee has demanded the firing of one of the senior executives at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara). During yesterday's hearing, Parliamen...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:23hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
Briefcase company fraudsters arrested
POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested two Harare suspected fraudsters who allegedly used a briefcase company to swindle two chemical supplying companies of products worth more than $32 000.Elton Ch...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:23hrs | 1140 | by Staff reporter
Govt slashes Zupco fares
Government has, with effect from today, slashed Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (ZUPCO) bus fares by 50 percent, for both urban and rural trips, a situation that will see urban travellers paying 50 ...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1535 | by Staff reporter
RBZ scraps 1:1 rate for oil marketing firms
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has directed banks to discontinue twinning arrangements for their customers, with a view to promote efficient functioning of interbank market and willing-buyer willi...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:20hrs | 856 | by Staff reporter
Fuel procurement now via interbank rate
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, removed the 1:1 foreign currency exchange rate for the procurement of fuel by Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs), which will result in the interbank market being use...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:19hrs | 666 | by Staff reporter
Trust new dispensation, says Mthuli Ncube
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube has called on citizens to trust the new dispensation, saying since coming into office, it has "walked the talk" and is determined to tu...Published: 21 May 2019 at 06:19hrs | 1209 | by Staff reportetr
RBZ statement on the payment arrangements for fuel through interbank foreign exchange market
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has advised the public that with effect from 21 May 2019, the procurement of fuel by the Oil Marketing Companies (OM.) shall be done through the interbank foreign exchange...Published: 20 May 2019 at 17:29hrs | 2873 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe business agree on price stabilisation process
BUSINESS organisations have agreed on a process to arrest the economic decline and stabilise prices of basic commodities.At the end of last week, the forex parallel market rates had jumped to ...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:59hrs | 2656 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station funding under threat
Zimbabwe might face challenges accessing the US$1 billion loan facility from China Eximbank for Hwange Power Station expansion following the change of functional currency that resulted in funds that w...Published: 20 May 2019 at 06:28hrs | 507 | by Staff reporer
Making things simple
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has a droll sense of humour. He says he decided to name Zimbabwe's latest local currency the RTGS dollar so as not to confuse the public! Of course, even tho...Published: 19 May 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3386 | by ZimVigil
Same crime two laws, what a shame!
Dear ZRP Commissioner GeneralThe publication in today's Chronicle of the arrest a fraudster who cheated a home seeker of R470 000 left me with a lot of questions on the universal application o...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:49hrs | 2318 | by Munya Shumba
MDC secretary-general hopefuls speak out
The MDC today enters into a crucial week in which it holds its elective congress. Several positions are up for grabs and many officials are jostling - fair and foul - to fill them up. One of t...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:35hrs | 1207 | by Staff reporter
Secret payments to Nikuv exposed
Former president Robert Mugabe's government made a series of secret payments to a company linked to controversial Israeli firm Nikuv, which was accused of manipulating the country's elections in the p...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:31hrs | 2483 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo City Council to repossess 2 000 stands
THE Bulawayo City Council has resolved to advertise with the intention to repossess and auction more than 2 000 properties including residential stands that have gone for between five to 50 years with...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:13hrs | 6260 | by Staff reporter
Ex-white farmers hail Mnangagwa
FORMER commercial farmers have praised President Mnangagwa and his Government for taking the initiative to compensate their members who lost land and property during the country's land reform programm...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:12hrs | 4069 | by Staff reporter
Shops refuse bond notes
COMMUNITIES in rural areas such as Bulilima and Mangwe districts of Matabeleland South Province are at the mercy of unscrupulous businesspeople who are refusing to accept RTGS dollars, demanding consu...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:06hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
ZESA sue Minister for $414k – load shedding is collective punishment for untouchables' sins
The tragedy in Zimbabwe is that those who can least afford it have again and again been forced to subsidise the filthy rich. One prime example is Finance Minister, Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax on all electro...Published: 18 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 3063 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mangudya to release US$500m for interbank forex
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has confirmed that it will be drawing US$500 million on Monday to supply the interbank forex market.The interbank market has for the past few weeks not been all th...Published: 18 May 2019 at 18:36hrs | 9451 | by Staff reporter
Zesa pursues Mnangagwa ally over $414,000 electricity debt
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA), which announced rolling power cuts early this week, is owed millions of dollars by top government officials.Reduced electricity production at ...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:20hrs | 1350 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF Mutoko district 'mutiny'
SOME 30 Zanu-PF district chairpersons in Mutoko have petitioned the party secretariat to rein in senior party leaders who they accused of creating chaos.According to a petition dated January 2...Published: 17 May 2019 at 17:31hrs | 2490 | by Staff reporter
RBZ fast tracks fuel deliveries
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it has worked out a mechanism to ensure Letters of Credit (LCs) for the procurement of fuel overlap to minimise supply side gaps causing shortages that manifest...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:22hrs | 3620 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa govt's failures may trigger public anger
Over the past year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government have totally ignored calls from Zimbabweans to change the corrupt and inefficient way in which government is run. Zimbabweans from a...Published: 17 May 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1302 | by Martin Tarusenga
Zimbabwe's white farmers: Who will pay compensation?
In Zimbabwe, thousands of white farmers were forced from their farms, sometimes violently, between 2000 and 2001 under a government programme of land reform. The seizures were blamed for destroying Zi...Published: 16 May 2019 at 20:25hrs | 1746 | by BBC
Mzi Khumalo's company sues Zimbabwe for failing to pay for gold
Metallon Corporation ("Metallon"),the leading gold mining company in Zimbabwe, has served legal notice to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and Fidelity Printers and Refiners Limited, (FPR) for lack ...Published: 16 May 2019 at 18:01hrs | 2834 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU fires warning shots at Mnangagwa
ZANU is a criminal organization built on a foundation of lies, conspiracy, treachery and a network of bought puppets masquerading as all sorts of officials. These officials are found on all strata of ...Published: 16 May 2019 at 09:38hrs | 5333 | by ZAPU
Terrence Mukupe faces jail over debt
Former Finance deputy minister Terrence Mukupe is facing jail over a US$24 237 debt after Quality Insurance Company approached the High Court seeking an order to have him caged over a 2012 debt....Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:09hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's beef industry stampedes back to life
After more than a decade in limbo, beef farmers are back in business Zimbabwe's famed beef industry, which collapsed in the 2000s following outbreaks o...Published: 15 May 2019 at 20:50hrs | 1849 | by Ray Mwareya
Zimra moves on amnesty headache
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is working on legislation which will help the tax collection agency reconcile recent tax amnesty transactions amid revelations that business is losing millions i...Published: 15 May 2019 at 09:30hrs | 1185 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa sacks Gumbo, NOIC boss
Amid a deepening electricity and fuel crisis, President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Tuesday reshuffled Energy and Power Development Minister Jorum Gumbo and appointed Zanu-PF's rising star Fortune Chasi, fo...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 3119 | by ZimLive
Nature and function of 'Alien Spirits' in the Shona/Ndebele traditional religion
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion.The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 483 | by Brian Maregedze
How Mnangagwa's government is perpetuating fuel crisis
When the fuel crisis escalated last January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa was forced to announce a 150% price increase.Amid the outrage and riots which followed, one important detail went larg...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:11hrs | 1641 | by newZWire
Zimbabwe Warriors promised residential stands
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo has promised the Warriors huge incentives, including residential stands, if they progress beyond the group stages at the 2019 AFCON finals.Kamambo, who came into ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:33hrs | 432 | by Staff reporter
Bryn Mteki assaulted at court
Harare lawyer Moses Nkomo yesterday appeared in court for allegedly assaulting presidential aspirant Mr Bryn Taurai Mteki over a money dispute.Nkomo (40), a senior partner with Donsa-Nkomo and...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:30hrs | 641 | by Staff reporter
Hospitality workers demand salaries in forex
WORKERS in the hospitality industry are demanding that their salaries be paid in foreign currency, saying their employers have the capacity to do so as most of their transactions are in foreign curren...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:38hrs | 358 | by Staff reporter
Fidelity dangles incentive for gold
Fidelity Printers and Refiners Limited (FPR) says it will pay an incentive for gold deliveries as government tries to ramp up output of the yellow metal.In a statement, FPR, a subsidiary of th...Published: 14 May 2019 at 07:31hrs | 487 | by Staff reporter
Mazibisa blasts ZBC
The Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cooperation has come under fire over its story that said spike in fuel demand a reflection of increase in industrial productivity.The story quoted on Mr Everton Mlala...Published: 13 May 2019 at 13:45hrs | 3234 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF fearful of mass demos
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's ruling Zanu-PF party is struggling to deliver on its election promises, nearly 10 months after winning a controversial election in July last year and says it is scared s...Published: 13 May 2019 at 09:07hrs | 9616 | by Staff reporter
Soldier up for car smuggling
POLICE in Beitbridge are holding a member of the Zimbabwe National Army in connection with the smuggling of a South African motor vehicle worth R200 000.The car was smuggled into the country t...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:52hrs | 1315 | by Staff reporter
SA company wants MDC-T garnished over R4m debt
A SOUTH African wholesale textile company and a Bulawayo garment manufacturing firm which supplied MDC-T with 200 000 T- shirts and head scarves in 2008 have approached the High Court seeking an order...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:46hrs | 803 | by Staff reporter
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, diviniti...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:29hrs | 2211 | by Brian Maregedze
Tsvangirai's widow appeals sentence
A BULAWAYO woman Aquilinia Kayidza Pamberi, who at one time was among different women suspected to be in a relationship with the late MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai, has challenged a court's decisi...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 1614 | by Staff reporter
Town clerk, senior officials schemes to increase their salaries
BULAWAYO Town Clerk Mr Christopher Dube and senior workers who fall under the council "executive group" have had a cap on their salaries and allowances removed, a move that will see their perks review...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:48hrs | 682 | by Staff reporter
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