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'Economy will grow 6%' insist Ncube (Tsvangirai mark 2) - not without real political change first
"Zimbabwe will be joining the group of six countries which have the fastest growing economies with a growth rate of six percent per annum which comprise Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania and Ivory Coast," said ...Published: 6 hrs ago | 1493 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mugabe turns tables against potato firm
Former president Robert Mugabe company's Gushungo Holdings (Private) Limited has turned the tables against a potato producing company that supplied it with seed on credit in 2015, accusing the firm of...Published: 10 hrs ago | 3961 | by Staff reporter
Zidera 2018 amendments Act, What does this mean for Zimbabwe?
TWO years ago, I completed my undergraduate studies and thus attained a Bachelor's Degree in Applied Accounting. The process towards attaining this qualification involved completing a research report ...Published: 16 hrs ago | 805 | by Terence Simbi
'Strong US$ bad for Zimbabwe,' says Mthuli Ncube
ZIMBABWE is building blocks towards a credible economic transformation programme that will anchor a return of the local currency and counter the negative effects of using a strong United States dollar...Published: 23 hrs ago | 7749 | by Staff reporter
ED offers Chamisa 'opposition leader recognition' to buy legitimacy – a hyena is a hyena with or without ticks
President Mnangagwa and his Zanu PF junta rigged the 30 July 2018 elections, that is a fundament truth at issue here. If the truth must be told; here, the truth will be told even if it makes s...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 16:49hrs | 1985 | by Wilbert Mukori
Zimbabwe Churches, CSOs press panic button
Churches and civic society organisations have expressed concern at the rate at which Zimbabwe is plunging into political and socio-economic decay following the disputed July 30 elections and slammed c...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:16hrs | 857 | by Staff reporter
Questions over AMA bills
ANALYSTS have raised concern over public debt sustainability after the Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA), a wholly-owned State institution, announced it was issuing commercial bills of up to $75 ...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:06hrs | 196 | by Staff reporter
Cement supplies improve
THE cement supply situation has improved following a temporary shortage that hit the country early this month. Although hardware retailers have confirmed the availability of the commodity, Business Ch...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 09:56hrs | 936 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's currency options
IT goes without saying that pursuant to the adoption of the multi-currency system in Zimbabwe in January 2009 until about 2015, one could withdraw up to US$5 000 from an automated teller machine. Over...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 07:28hrs | 8103 | by Colls Ndlovu, Economist
Open letter to Finance Minister Ncube - Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
You may remember the ever-popular Hollywood film Groundhog Day. (It seems to shown every day!) The film tells the story of a man who had to repeatedly relive the previous day until he finally learnt t...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 07:18hrs | 629 | by Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Remembering Sidney Malunga
TWENTY-four years ago on August 28 my father died. It was sudden, unexpected, shocking!BY SIPHOSAMI MALUNGAHe had endured and survived much suffering in his lifetime. He had struggled ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 15:47hrs | 2350 | by Siphosami Malunga
MDC Alliance council's grand corruption, shady deals exposed
Corruption and bad governance are rife at Gweru City Council (GCC) and its management has no problem admitting that, albeit behind closed doors.This publication, working in collaboration with ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 15:20hrs | 1733 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu denies growing rich off govt corruption
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu sits down for a wide-ranging interview with the Daily on Sunday's Mugove Tafirenyika. Find below excerpts of the interview.Q: Zanu-PF has intro...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 1966 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube striking the right note
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has hit the ground running, infusing some urgency into President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration in dealing with Zimbabwe's multi-layered economic crisis.Ncub...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 09:02hrs | 1120 | by Editorial - The Standard
'Production costs push price of bread up'
THE country's bakeries have attributed the recent 10 percent bread price increase to operational costs.National Bakers Association of Zimbabwe president Mr Ngoni Mazango said bakers were strug...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:50hrs | 328 | by Staff reporter
Raw sewage in streets of Harare
Raw sewage flows freely in some streets of Zimbabwe's capital, posing a deadly challenge to the recently elected president who has promised the troubled country a new dawn.A cholera outbreak h...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 12:28hrs | 4178 | by AFP
Kombi operators hike fares
Committee omnibus operators in Bulawayo have hikes fares this evening citing fuel shortages and claiming that they are now buying it from black market at exorbitant prices despite the fact that servic...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 20:40hrs | 5602 | by Stephen Jakes
Anxiety as Mnangagwa 'visits' RBZ
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa made two surprise visits to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Tuesday, which generated a lot of anxiety among staff and the public after he spent a combined four hours at th...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:11hrs | 8506 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans want US or Zim dollar only, not SA Rand
THE majority of Zimbabweans would be happy to adopt the United States dollar or the Zimbabwe dollar as only currency and are adverse to the use of bond notes, according to a recent public opinion surv...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:52hrs | 3001 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube faces tough choices
Professor Mthuli Ncube, the new Finance and Economic Development Minister, is a nice man who would not want to ruffle any feathers. But he must be prepared to be branded an enemy by certain individual...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 06:43hrs | 1160 | by Lovemore Chikova
Forex crisis vexes Mnangagwa
AROUND mid-day on Tuesday, a decorated procession blasted off State House, its lash green lawns and flowering jacaranda trees complimenting to give breathtaking scenery.It was a long processio...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 18:56hrs | 5124 | by Staff reporter
Harare City Council to apologise to Econet
The Harare City Council has said it will apologise to Zimbabwe's largest mobile telephone company Econet Wireless after municipal officials attempted to steal humanitarian aid meant to stem Zimbabwe's...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 3364 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe resumes diamond sales
ZIMBABWE has resumed diamond sales and hopes to build a sustainable market following the merger of diamond companies which operated in Chiadzwa under a State-owned company called Zimbabwe Consolidated...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 07:01hrs | 524 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund cheats named and shamed
Harare City Council has named the four officials it suspended on allegations of inflating the prices of goods that were supposed to be bought to combat the cholera outbreak. The four are Phili...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:35hrs | 1298 | by Staff reporter
Motorists fume over new tollgate
MOTORISTS have expressed dismay over the establishment of the Colleen Bawn tollgate along Bulawayo-Beitbridge Road, saying they were already paying too much at existing tollgates. Government y...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 952 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council bans school feeding programme
Bulawayo City Council has temporarily banned the school feeding programme amid reports that the number of suspected cholera cases in the city has risen to 21.Speaking during a Zimbabwe Medical...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:24hrs | 257 | by Staff reporter
Selborne Hotel in massive upgrade
THE Selborne Hotel, one of Bulawayo's oldest accommodation facilities, has embarked on a massive upgrade of its infrastructure in anticipation of increased business and attracting more clients. ...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:22hrs | 488 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's impressive cabinet line-up under a severe parliamentary vaccuum
For the first time in history, the new president has made constructive use of the specially elected parliamentarians window.From this window the president has addressed key discrepancies to br...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1759 | by Reginald Thabani Gola.
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1229 | by Daniel Ngwira
Long fuel queues resurface
Long fuel queues resurfaced in Harare and other parts of the country yesterday as most service stations went dry, with many motorists resorting to panic buying.Motorists queue for fuel at a se...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1157 | by Staff reporter
Mnanagwa's turning point
PRAGMATISM. That could be the word we were looking for to describe President Mnangagwa's approach and philosophy as he conducts business as leader of both Zanu-PF - the ruling party - and Government. ...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 2671 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mnangagwa must consider Mthuli Ncube's proposals
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the nation yesterday, there was hope that he would give a clear strategy towards addressing the currency distortions that have left the country on an econom...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | 319 | by Editorial - newsday
Cholera: Harare City Council caught sleeping on the job
The ongoing cholera outbreak started on 1 September in Glen View 3, Harare and has since spread, killing 30 people with 5 463 cases having been reported to date. As usual opposition elements hav...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 14:28hrs | 4185 | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe needs its billionaires back
Outspoken Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has called for the return of Zimbabwean billionaires to come back home and revive the economy ."Zim needs its billionaires like @Strive Masiyiwa back i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 10:22hrs | 7424 | by Simbarashe Sithole
US$ black market rate spirals
Exchange rates on Zimbabwe's parallel market have risen sharply in the past week to 100% for real time gross settlement (RTGS) transfers, triggering fears of more price increases.Zimbabwe's ch...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:42hrs | 4477 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mobile data charges second highest in Africa - report
Zimbabwe has the second most expensive mobile data in sub-Saharan Africa after Equatorial Guinea at $25 for one gigabyte, a technology report released last week has shown.Despite the spread of...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:41hrs | 758 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2741 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Warrant of arrest for Ginimbi
A warrant of arrest has been issued against businessman Genius Kadungure after he failed to pitch for his fraud trial yesterday. Kadungure, who is jointly charged with Wicknell Chivayo, was su...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:17hrs | 3653 | by Staff reporter
Ginimbi, Chivayo R1,5m fraud trial moved
A HARARE magistrate yesterday issued a warrant of arrest to businessman Genius Kadungure, popularly known as Ginimbi, who is accused of swindling Zanu PF member of Parliament Dexter Nduna of R1 581 89...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:56hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
Cholera fund 'fraud', Harare City Council workers suspended
SOME Harare City Council officers have been suspended from work with immediate effect following allegations of overcharging for goods and services to cash in on a $10 million donation from Econet Grou...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1075 | by Staff reporter
What does investment look like on the ground in Zimbabwe?
LAST week I was at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASA) conference in Birmingham. I was co-hosting, with my colleague Jeremy Lind (whose earlier blog this one draws from), a fantastic strea...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 356 | by Ian Scoones
Driving policies towards Vision 2030
Zimbabwe has a new socio-political order. This has been dubbed the Second Republic, which is under the new dispensation. A new national policy is being crafted and hopefully will soon be unveiled. ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 191 | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe inflation breach danger zone
Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate rose 0,54 percent to 4,83 percent in the month of August, latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) show. This was a marginal uptu...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | 663 | by Staff reporter
Econet celebrates 20 years of ZSE listing
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe yesterday reached a major milestone after completing 20 years since its shares were listed and first publicly traded on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE); a month after Zimbab...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Do not deny our children bread
Well, to begin with, I need my bread and I am sure we all do. As for the kids I shall not speak, a day without bread is like a day 'never lived'. Now, who is taking away bread from us by raisi...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1607 | by Tondo Murisa
Zivhu calls for probe into cash vending
CHIVI SOUTH legislator Killer Zivhu (Zanu-PF) feels the government and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) must investigate circumstances resulting in the current cash crisis in the formal banking syst...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1360 | 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 | 209 | by Staff reporter
Remittance income drives Africa's economic growth - Report
A report launched by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) has said that despite an economic slowdown, most African countries are having a positive economic outlook. ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 06:46hrs | 97 | by Staff reporter
Govt speaks on fuel situation
Erratic fuel supplies being experienced throughout the country have now been addressed, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday.Zera chief execu...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 13:28hrs | 1040 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's five big challenges
NEWLY-APPOINTED Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube faces the unenviable task of navigating Zimbabwe's stuttering economy through serious challenges and will need to make tough deci...Published: 16 Sep 2018 at 09:11hrs | 3602 | by Staff reporter
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