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Zimbabwe govt defends car import ban
The import ban on vehicles older than 10 years, which came into effect in January 2022, is part of Zimbabwe's strategy to protect and revitalize the country's motor manufacturing industry, which has b...Published: 13 May 2025 at 10:14hrs | 19543 | by Staff reporter
SA extends visa, permit deadline for Zimbabweans
South Africa's Ministry of Home Affairs has granted a temporary reprieve to thousands of foreign nationals, including Zimbabweans, by extending the deadline for visa and permit holders whose documents...Published: 02 Apr 2025 at 08:54hrs | 300 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Health ministry in budget quandary
The Ministry of Health and Child Care has called for a supplementary budget to mitigate the impact of the withdrawal of United States funding, particularly towards HIV and Aids programmes. The funding...Published: 27 Mar 2025 at 06:18hrs | 253 | by Staff reporter
Schools directed to completely phase out CALA
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has called on schools across Zimbabwe to swiftly implement the new policy of school-based projects and completely phase out Continuous Assessment Learni...Published: 23 Feb 2025 at 09:50hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles to promote ZiG
THE Zimbabwean government faces challenges in promoting the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG) currency for financial stability, as some businesses remain reluctant to accept it, preferring the U.S. dollar, which re...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:52hrs | 584 | by Staff reporter
9 power stations planned for Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's energy sector is poised for a significant transformation next year, as nine new public and private power projects are expected to add 2,690 megawatts (MW) to the national grid. This increas...Published: 29 Oct 2024 at 07:32hrs | 704 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt happy with mismatch in deployment of ECD teachers
The article below was published by the government controlled Chronicle 2 years ago but Shona supremacists are today firing Ministers for implementing the same policy....Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 09:35hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
South Africa's green ID books to be phased out
The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) in South Africa is significantly delayed in its plan to replace green ID books with smart ID cards. Initially intended to be completed by 2022, the slow adoption r...Published: 20 Jun 2024 at 17:02hrs | 86 | by Reuters
African countries stand firm on fossil fuels
The African Group of Negotiators is calling for an outcome that allows Africa to exploit its fossil fuels including coal, oil and gas to eradicate poverty while also funding renewable energy projects....Published: 12 Dec 2023 at 17:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reiterates call for mono-currency
President Mnangagwa has announced that Zimbabwe will transition back to using its local currency as the exclusive legal tender, discontinuing the multi-currency system. He emphasized that a country's ...Published: 13 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'Phase out single-sex schools in Bulawayo'
EDUCATION authorities are considering transforming single-sex Government schools in Bulawayo into mixed ones as part of measures to address gang-related violence in learning institutions.Bulaw...Published: 01 Mar 2023 at 07:01hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Plastic carrier bag ban postponed
THE Zimbabwe Environmental Management Agency (Ema) has indefinitely postponed a ban on plastic carrier bag use, which was initially scheduled for December 31 this year.In a letter to the Confe...Published: 19 Nov 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Germany wanted South Africa to get away from coal but itself is back on coal fired power plants
Germany which was reported to be availing €700 million (R12.5 billion) towards helping South Africa phase out the use of coal has started up its Coal-fired power plants again as the country compensa...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 14:16hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF uses State funds to buy votes'
LEGAL think-tank, Veritas says the Zanu-PF government is likely to ignore recommendations by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to resuscitate the economy in favour of "populist" policies that will...Published: 25 May 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF presses govt on currency reforms
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called on the Zimbabwe government to implement outstanding structural reforms, including the removal of exchange rate restrictions.The recommendations...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Fresh trouble for Zimbabwe
AT least a third of Zimbabwe's estimated 16 million people face starvation as a result of high inflation and exchange rate fragilities, which have been compounded by a poor rainfall season, the Intern...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
IMF sees positive economic recovery signs in Zimbabwe
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says there are positive signs of the economic recovery in Zimbabwe starting last year after two years of recession, adding that Government had done well in addres...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
US hijacks European allies on Russian energy ban
Russia and the US showed no signs of stopping biting each other's head off despite progress to a certain extent in Russia-Ukraine talks, with a Russian official announcing Moscow's readiness to respon...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Russia/ Ukraine crisis is a manufactured one to sabotage ties
THE Russian Defence ministry on Thursday morning announced that it had taken on Ukraine's air defences and its Air Force with a series of precision attacks, after airports and runways across the count...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Old Zimbabwe passports to work until they expire
THE Government has set in motion plans to bring the application of e-passports to Bulawayo before mid year, and later to other provinces as part of decentralising the processing of the new travelling ...Published: 06 Feb 2022 at 06:55hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reignites national clean-up campaign
President Mnangagwa yesterday led the fourth anniversary commemoration of the national clean- up campaign in Kwekwe where he reiterated the need to keep a clean environment in line with the Government...Published: 08 Jan 2022 at 06:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Lawyers challenge CBZ e-passport deal
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) yesterday challenged a move by the government to award CBZ Holdings a monopoly to collect application fees for the e-passport.The lawyers also chal...Published: 16 Dec 2021 at 23:30hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to ban plastic bags next year
USE of plastic carrier bags will be banned by December next year, with retail outlets urged to find environment-friendly alternatives, NewsDay has learnt.The ban is meant to protect the enviro...Published: 23 Nov 2021 at 05:59hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Worthless Zimdollar notes clog banks
BANKS have requested the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to decommission $2 and $5 bond notes, saying smaller denomination currency ranges have turned into a burden for financial institutions to keep....Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bring back kombis
Banning commuter omnibuses which were serving most routes in Zimbabwe without a viable alternative was an ill timed thought which lacked scientific research.Current Zimbabwean leadership is gr...Published: 09 Sep 2021 at 11:02hrs | 8 | by Leonard Koni
Retailers rejecting $10-dollar notes
The transacting public has been urged to report all business entities rejecting the 10-dollar notes to the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.Barely two weeks after th...Published: 22 Jul 2021 at 17:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Defying global trends, Zimbabwe bets on coal
COAL dust fouls the air in Hwange, a mining town in the Matabeleland North province, about an hour's drive southeast of Victoria Falls. Black smoke and a throat-closing odour saturate the atmosphere....Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:39hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Scramble for Hwange
COAL dust fouls the air in Hwange, a mining town in the Matabeleland North region of Zimbabwe, about an hour's drive southeast of Victoria Falls.Black smoke and a throat-closing odour saturate...Published: 02 May 2021 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliament supports ban of mercury use in mining
PARLIAMENT has moved to ratify the Minamata Convention on Mercury, with legislators taking turns to condemn the use of the highly toxic element in gold extraction because of the serious environmental ...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:26hrs | | by Nigel
Zimbabwe crafts e-vehicles policy
Zimbabwe has commenced the drafting process of an E-Mobility Framework that will guide the use of electric vehicles and benchmark the phasing out of fuel powered automobiles. The framewo...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Matimaire
It's squeaky bum time for unsung Mangudya
Like many Manchester United fans around the world missing the good old days, I also regularly find myself reminiscing about the managerial prowess of Sir Alex Ferguson, whose inimitable success at one...Published: 19 Feb 2019 at 17:13hrs | | by Guthrie Munyuki
'No plans to ban kombis'
Government has no immediate plans to phase out kombis, an official has said. In an interview, Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development Fortune Chasi said the reintroduction...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's megaphone economics will not solve Zimbabwe's woes
Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube is in Davos at the World Economic Forum, and as expected he is selling Brand Zimbabwe, projecting that he will bring down inflation from 42% to 1...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 00:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe not ready to liberalise bond note exchange rate'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said the country is not ready to liberalise the bond note exchange rate or introduce a new currency as this will raise inflation and worsen the economic situatio...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget is usual voodoo economics to cause pain but no gain and 'spike' in avoidable sufferings and deaths
On Wednesday 21 November 2018, Professor Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe's minister of Finance, presented his maiden national budget. There are many things one can say about the budget, I will just say five th...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe to phase out under qualified police prosecutors
THE Government is working on phasing out all non-degreed police public prosecutors seconded to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA), Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyam...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 05:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to demilitarise NPA
Government will soon remove all prosecutors seconded to the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) from State security agencies with no law degrees, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyamb...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel supplies back to normal
Petrol supplies have returned to normalcy at most service stations, while diesel is still in short supply.Zimbabwe was rocked by fuel shortages soon after Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announc...Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Dembare' condoms to be phased out
The National Family Planning Council is in the process phasing out the blue and white or Panther condoms which are also known as 'Dembare' in the social circles and replacing them with a more colourfu...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs leaders not rulers, says Chamisa
MDC Alliance took its campaign trail to Keara Business Centre in Mberengwa West with their presidential candidate Advocate Nelson Chamisa saying the country needs leaders not rulers.The rally ...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The top 5 party manifestos
LAST week's column looked at the Build Zimbabwe manifesto which I ranked third . This week we examine a fourth manifesto.Paul KasekeNumber 2: People's Rainbow CoalitionThe coal...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Cash shortages now Zimbabwe's major election issue
The leader of Zimbabwe main opposition party, Nelson Chamisa, alighted from his car, grabbed a microphone and made a bold promise to scrap bond notes if he wins the July 30 presidential election to st...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why digital money makes sense
William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist compl...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Bulawayo to host CEO Africa Roundtable indaba
MORE than 50 business executives from companies in Bulawayo will tomorrow converge in the city for a roundtable meeting to discuss financial market distortions and prospects of currency reform....Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cheap Chinese imports killing Zimbabwe industry'
THE Democratic Opposition Party (DOP), one of the several opposition parties contesting the July 30 harmonised elections, has blamed company closures and resultant high unemployment on the importation...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
WHO bans hot chips
THE World Health Organisation has banned industrially produced chips and other fatty fried foods from the global food supply to eliminate the risk of non communicable diseases that are killing million...Published: 17 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa promises to phase out bond notes
MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has pledged to retire Zimbabwe's surrogate currency, the bond notes, which are pegged at par with the United States dollar, by September ...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Secondary prepares to write AutoCAD online exams
Secondary schools Computer-Aided Design (CAD) instructors will, this year, sit for an Autodesk International online examination to get certification in teaching software packages that are distributed ...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 13:12hrs | 5 | by Farai Shawn Matiashe and Lisa Tazviinga recently in Harare
New Zimbabwe without discrimination
Zimbabwe have been divided into segments in the past four to five decades. Firstly it was whites against blacks, until blacks united to fight the injustice by the British.After attaining indep...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 17:47hrs | | by Lameck Zapu Ncube
Khupe's speech - Bulawayo Rally
Salutations Today I stand in front of you as a proud legitimate and constitutionally elected Acting President of the MDC, because of the unconditional l...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
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