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Bread price hike looms

Consumers should brace for an increase in bread prices starting November 1, 2025, following the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 87 of 2025 by Industry and Commerce Minister Mangaliso Ndhlovu last month.The statutory instrument manda…

Published: 26 Oct 2025 at 08:00hrs | 195 | by Staff reporter

Dairy farmers cry foul over low milk prices

Dairy farmers in Bubi district are struggling to stay afloat as they face a worsening mismatch between the prices offered by milk processors and the rising costs of production, particularly for supplementary feeding and water access. Despi…

Published: 03 Aug 2025 at 18:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's agric producer prices surge 36.4%

Zimbabwe's agricultural producer prices spiked sharply in May 2025, with the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) reporting a 36.4% year-on-year (YoY) increase in the Producer Price Index for Agriculture (PPIA), signalling growing…

Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 08:03hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter

Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2025 queens receive prizes

The newly crowned Miss Universe Zimbabwe 2025 winners were officially honoured with their prizes on Saturday, marking a key milestone in their journey toward representing Zimbabwe on the global stage later this year.In a celebratory ceremo…

Published: 17 Jun 2025 at 07:35hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter

Diesel prices fall slightly

Local motorists and businesses are enjoying a modest but welcome reprieve as diesel prices steadily declined over the first half of 2025.From January to June, the price of diesel dropped by about 2 percent, easing from US$1.53 to US$1.50 p…

Published: 09 Jun 2025 at 08:40hrs | 178 | by Staff reporter

DStv Zimbabwe hikes price

DStv subscribers in Zimbabwe will see slight increases in their subscription fees beginning June 1, 2025, following an official price adjustment announced by MultiChoice Zimbabwe.In a notice released on Monday, the broadcaster confirmed th…

Published: 21 May 2025 at 12:38hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter

Tackling Zimbabwe's property price surge

The Zimbabwean property market is facing significant challenges, marked by skyrocketing property prices that seem incongruous when compared to those in neighbouring South Africa.These challenges stem from a complex interplay of factors, in…

Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 10:13hrs | 99 | by Dr Bekithemba Mpofu

Blitz exposes unregistered medicines

A JOINT operation between the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ) and the police this week uncovered an illegal distribution network of unregistered and expired medicines including illicit products such as skin lightening creams…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 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 Zimbabwe (RBZ) launched ZiG and scrapped the Zimdo…

Published: 10 Apr 2024 at 06:02hrs | 41 | by Staff reporter

Prices, currency manipulation is corruption, says Zacc

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has described the country's rampant price hikes and alleged currency manipulation as corruption.Speaking during a National Anti-Corruption Strategy Steering Committee meeting for 2023, Zacc ch…

Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

RBZ in bid to calm run on banks over currency fears

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on Friday sought to calm a run on banks, insisting that depositors' funds were safe.Thousands of panicky Zimbabweans lined up in bank queues to withdraw their United States dollar balances, fearing a new bankin…

Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa reads riot act on prices

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday read the riot act on businesses that are working behind the scenes with vested foreign countries to hike prices to make the people suffer and turn against the Zanu-PF-led Government, especially as the country …

Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube threatens crackdown on businesses

THERE was drama around Tredgold Building that houses the Bulawayo Magistrates Courts yesterday, as illegal money changers ran away at the sight of the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, who promised a cra…

Published: 28 May 2023 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Farmers defend raw sugar price increase

Small-scale sugarcane farmers, who supply 45 percent of raw sugar in Zimbabwe, have defended the new price of the commodity after Gold Star suspended production at its refinery in Harare this week citing high prices and unfavourable tradin…

Published: 17 Feb 2023 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter

Gold Star Sugars shuts Harare refinery in Tongaat Hulett price row

Gold Star, a subsidiary of ZSE-listed StarAfrica, has temporarily closed its Harare refinery and placed employees on indefinite leave, citing a sharp increase in raw sugar prices by its supplier Tongaat Hulett.Gold Star commercial executiv…

Published: 14 Feb 2023 at 19:30hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Road works breathe life into Matebeleland South economy

GOVERNMENT has stepped up the rehabilitation of critical roads in Matabeleland South province under the Emergency Roads Rehabilitation Programme (ERRP2) with motorists praising the Second Republic for transforming the road network. Works o…

Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

SA consumers face higher prices in 2022

Various product prices are rising rapidly across the globe as the world opens after months of lockdown. As a result, food prices have been in the headlines, and SA is no exception.As a case in point, consumer food price inflation averaged …

Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Fuel prices hiked

Fuel prices have been adjusted slightly upwards to $97,93c for petrol and $83,36 for diesel, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) announced last night, while US dollar maximum prices have been reduced to US1,18 for petrol and US…

Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff reporter

Competition and Tariffs Commission exposes consumers

The Competition and Tariff Commission has banned the self regulation mechanisms which had been setup by the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe and other retailers in a bid to cushion the consumers from over pricing. In a statement relea…

Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 13:30hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Duping the public through false presentation

The gas outlet at Chadcombe Shopping Centre in Harare is selling the commodity at 20 RTGS per kg yet the sign on-site displays 8.88 RTGS per kg. Informal outlets around the area are selling the same at 19 RTGS per kg. The public are blindl…

Published: 20 Jul 2019 at 19:24hrs | 1 | by Gabarinocheka

Acting President Mohadi appeals to businesses on prices

Vice President Kembo Mohadi has appealed to local businesses to support the Government's economic realignment measures through implementing a fair pricing model to avoid causing unnecessary suffering of the people. In a speech read on his …

Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe retailers in major price climbdown

THE price hike madness that had manifested in the country in recent weeks appears to be dissipating with some of the major players in the economy starting to see reason following the gazetting of Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019, whic…

Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 07:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt subsidises mealie-meal prices

GOVERNMENT has stepped in to subsidise mealie-meal production and pricing so as to ensure the commodity is accessible to every household. Essentially, Treasury is paying about RTGS$10 for every 10kg of mealie-meal sold by retailers as a wa…

Published: 25 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

Tongaat gazettes retail sugar prices

Tongaat Hulett has gazetted recommended retail sugar prices for the commodity which is being overpriced. The prices for brown sugar are $4,99 for 1kg, $9,98 for 2kg, $24,95 for 5kg and $49,90 for 10kg. White sugar recommended prices are $5…

Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:29hrs | | by Staff reporter

High prices can be stopped

Price madness, some businesses may be 'fighting' government using the public (consumers) as pawns on a political chessboard. The dog eat dog price race calls for sober minds to restore sanity. Someone correctly pointed out that as long peo…

Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 18:53hrs | | by Tondorindo

Zimbabwe prices shock!

ZIMBABWEANS yesterday woke up to more retail shops charging in US dollars, with government joining in the bandwagon, amid shortages of basic commodities such as cooking oil and sugar.The development comes as another wave of price increases…

Published: 31 May 2019 at 18:21hrs | | by Staff reporter

Fuel prices go down

THE price of fuel has slightly gone down after the Government announced an increase in the blending ratio of petrol from five percent to 10 percent last week.In a notice, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority said starting tomorrow the …

Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zimpapers hike Herald and Chronicle prices by 100%

Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Ltd has with immediate effect reviewed the cover prices of its eleven newspapers as it seeks to weather the current economic storm, Zim Techreview reported.To that effect, the daily newspapers, The Herald, The Ch…

Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 13:19hrs | 7 | by Staf reporter

Is it 2008 all over again for Zimbabweans?

Even though government is claiming to be on top of the situation, Zimbabweans are panicking because events from the past few weeks have an eerie similarity to what happened in 2008 when the country tumbled to the worst economic and politic…

Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by Cecilia Kamputa

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Price hikes

Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 12:38hrs | | by Concerned Citizen

Zimbabwe to face inflationary spirals

In order to maintain a sustainable purchasing power equal to the rising cost of living reflected by a Consumer Price Index (CPI), a taxable salary or wage must increase faster than the increase in the CPI itself. This will result in after-…

Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:54hrs | | by George Musvovi

Consumers raise concern over high levels of Service Charge

Central government and local authorities are mandated by the general populace to provide and deliver quality, essential and cost effective services that are necessary for sustaining decent livelihood.Naturally as consumers contribute to th…

Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 19:14hrs | | by Givestar Kamuzonde

Airlines slash prices by half to woo passengers

The year 2017 has opened with heavy discounts on air tickets bordering on a fare war of sorts to woo passengers back to flying.Average fares have fallen by 50 percent as airlines cut prices to boost market share amid intensifying competiti…

Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter

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