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More trouble for Zimbabwe as Trump makes return
The incoming administration of Donald Trump in the United States has sparked significant interest across Africa, as analysts speculate on how his second presidency will affect the continent's security...Published: 14 Dec 2024 at 12:34hrs | 765 | by Staff reporter
'Mentally-ill people also enjoy sex'
HIGH Court judges of appeal have said mentally-ill people also enjoy sex in their own right.The court said it could not be dispelled, where there was no evidence, that the mentally-ill are inc...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:54hrs | 825 | by Staff reporter
CCC recalls: Hope is a finite resource
HOW is one Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls of Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) Members of Parliament a dress-rehearsal for politics of manipulation and inconsistence in Zimbabwe?For students of...Published: 18 Nov 2023 at 19:44hrs | | by Sharon Hofisi
Embracing deglobalisation in a globalised world
"The more things change, the more they stay the same ..." is a commonly used quotation coined by the French writer Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.The saying implies that even the most turbulent o...Published: 06 Jun 2023 at 06:50hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Proudly made in Zimbabwe
The advent of globalization has demonstrated that each country has expertise in a certain trade and there are commodities that resonate with certain countries more than others. It is often argued that...Published: 02 Feb 2021 at 00:25hrs | 2 | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe trends in US elections for wrong reasons
THE confirmation of Joe Biden as the 46th President of the United States of America on the evening of November 7 put paid to the anxiety that gripped the world in what almost appeared to be a tumultuo...Published: 09 Nov 2020 at 20:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Policy implementation key in reindustrializing economy
The re-industrialization of the economy is a vital piece in the achievement of Zimbabwe's sustainable economic development goals and effective participation in the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 16:15hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Africa'second revolution whose time has come: Breaking-away from oppressive partisan poverty politics
The high-sounding and inspirational liberation of the entire of Africa by political parties and liberation movements that lost its cause! The law-abiding citizens that have been reduced to the level o...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 21:20hrs | 3 | by Reginald Thabani Gola
Squabbles rock MDC Manicaland structures
CHAOS is reigning supreme in MDC Manicaland provincial structures as top officials are clashing over the Mutasa Central district congress held recently.This came after a faction aligned to new...Published: 22 May 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF aim to break the urban jinx
Zanu-PF is aiming to break the jinx and reclaim support in urban constituencies as it sells President Mnangagwa's transformational vision of growth and industrialisation, Politburo member Chris Mutsva...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Beggar-thy-neighbour protectionist policy is decadent
Reports that the Zimbabwean government wants to liberalize fuel imports is a very significant development that will go a long way towards solving the country's artificial fuel shortages once and for a...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 11:06hrs | 8 | by Colls Ndlovu
Chamisa gets support from DA to attack Zimbabwe?
The events of the last weeks have been knee shacking and deeply depressing. The peaceful demonstrations in Zimbabwe were hijacked by the regime change financiers. The onslaught Zimbabwe received from ...Published: 07 Feb 2019 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa risks capture by corporate leaders
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's idea that the industrialists and bankers he met on October 29, 2018 should constitute and second some advisers from within their ranks to his office stinks of inviting c...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 06:02hrs | | by Brian Sedze
The perils of trade protectionism
The recently gazetted import tariffs imposed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority on almost all major food items and non-food items — trade protectionism - is a dangerous drift towards the dreaded begg...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 11:36hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu Financial Analyst
The US Dollar or the South African Rand - Let's examine the facts
Dollarization, it has come as a popular term for currency substitution. This is a term mostly used when a foreign currency is used instead of the domestic currency as legal tender. In this instance, t...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 09:32hrs | | by Dr. Tutsirai Sakutukwa
Product dumping killing Zimbabwe industry
As local manufacturers struggle to raise foreign currency to import raw materials and equipment on one end, another uncontrolled delinquent flourishes on the other to their detriment. Cheap imports ha...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 3 | by Victor Bhoroma
Josh Mhambi makes promises to Bulawayo Central constituency if elected MP
The aspiring house of assemble candidate for Bulawayo Central, Joshua Mhambi has made an array of promies to the constituency if he got elected into office."When I am elected to parliament pri...Published: 28 Jul 2018 at 11:55hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa performance: Is it worthy second chance?
ZIMBABWEANS will on Monday hold crucial elections, where they will be choosing the country's next President and Members of Parliament to guide the nation in the next five years.NewsDay will, i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Mthandazo Nyoni
China dumps dollars
SOME Chinese banks today sold off large amounts of dollars to devalue the yuan, further rattling investors.The move by Chinese banks was likely at the behest of the Chinese government, analyst...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 15:36hrs | | 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
Mnangagwa's New York pitch reveals his post-election game
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's op-ed piece he penned for the New York Times, published online on March 11 and 12 in the print version, supplies the chess pieces of how he intends to play the political...Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by The Brett Chulu Column
Banning second hand car imports not fully thought out
THE government, has for the second time in eight years, mooted the idea of banning second hand car imports, an idea that is not fully thought out and needs to be dropped in its infancy.While t...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe immigration staffers lament 'pre-colonial slavery' conditions
IMMIGRATION staffers have requested to meet Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu to voice their concerns over alleged unfair treatment by their bosses.The staffers, in a leaked memo dated Decembe...Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe immigration staff complain about corruption
IMMIGRATION department employees have written to Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and parliament asking them to urgently investigate allegations of rampant corruption, nepotism and abuse of state ass...Published: 12 Jan 2018 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa is the honourable leader that Zimbabwe needs
Emmerson Mnangagwa, the new President of Zimbabwe, is not an ogre with evil intent as his detractors make him out to be. He is a courteous, amiable, honest to goodness person, who is now on a ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Jacky Seroke
Zimbabwe's dollar inflation to hit 6.6%
Zimbabwe's annual inflation is expected to hit 6.6 percent next year due to rising food prices and election spending the International Monetary Fund has predicted. In its World Ec...Published: 20 Apr 2017 at 07:18hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mangudya attends IMF, WB Spring meetings
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya is in Washington DC, United States of America attending the 2017 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Ban...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF revises Zimbabwe growth upwards to 2%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) continues to be bullish on the 2017 global growth and has marginally reviewed upwards Zimbabwe's real gross domestic product projections from the -2.5% it...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 17:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Regional airlines flock to Zimbabwe
RwandAir and Ethiopian Airlines are the newest airlines to fly to Zimbabwe, as the government opens up its skies to other players after years of state protectionism for the country's ailing flag carri...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 13:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
So how was America on November 9, and thereafter?
No surprises for me. Hopefully none for you too, gentle reader, if you didn't miss my September 24 and October 21 instalments. September 24 piece in part read: "However rough one finds him [Donald Tru...Published: 12 Nov 2016 at 18:41hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Lindiwe Zulu supports Zimbabwe's Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016
Lindiwe Zulu, the South African Government Minister of Small Business Development, gave a refreshing declaration when she announced that her government supports the Zimbabwe Government's Statutory Ins...Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 12:04hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
Govt was right on banning imports - Mangawa
The Zanu PF UK Chairperson Nick Mangwana has said the government was right by banning some imports saying though the move was hash is was meant for the good of the local industry and the people ...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 07:25hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa scoffs at Beitbridge rioters
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has scoffed at the recent import restriction protests that rocked Beitbridge Border Post in which a warehouse was torched and 72 people were arrested as ''petty;' whi...Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 15:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Do not do as the English tell you to do, do as the English do
Figures from industry indicate that since the migration to a multiple currency regime in early 2009, Zimbabweans have spent more than US$50 billion importing things like toothpicks, onions, tomatoes a...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 09:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
A warning to Zimbabwean Ministers, all of them
The current political picturesque has Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the focal point and going into 2016, much is expected to add to the drama, mainstreaming a handful of government officials to...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 16:29hrs | 7 | by Zisunko Ndlovu
COMESA: We risk being a supermarket economy
The government often makes us believe that we are the blessed and lucky beneficiaries of serendipity and benevolence where correlation is actually causation such that economic policies we choose are n...Published: 13 Oct 2015 at 12:58hrs | | by Dr Brian Sedze
Zimra's tariffs bill is a dangerous drift towards the dreaded beggar-thy-neighbour policy
The recently gazetted import tariffs imposed by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority on almost all major food items and non-food items - trade protectionism - is a dangerous drift towards the dreaded be...Published: 18 Sep 2015 at 10:18hrs | | by Colls Ndlovu
Botswana's hospitality stunned Mugabe
Zimbabwean president, Mr Robert Mugabe, has been left stunned by the hospitality he received from Botswana a nation which has been held for being critiques of the veteran and long time serving pre...Published: 27 May 2015 at 07:21hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Xenophobic Attacks in SA - Blame the politicians and their politics of redistribution and patronage
Yesterday, the war cry was "kill the Boer." Today, the cry is "kill the BLACK immigrant." Black on black violence. Tomorrow, the war cry would be "kill the Indian," and finally "kill the white ...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 06:15hrs | 8 | by Tendai Kwari
Africa's economy set for dramatic changes - Carlos Lopes
Following the launch of the 2014 Economic Report on Africa in Abuja, Nigeria, Mr. Carlos Lopes, the executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, att...Published: 08 Nov 2014 at 06:59hrs | | by Africa Renewal
Intra-Africa trade: Going beyond political commitments
Progress will come when agreements are implemented Among Africa's policy wonks, underperforming trade across the continent within the region ...Published: 23 Aug 2014 at 09:01hrs | | by Masimba Tafirenyika
Zimbabwe should make hay while the SADC Chairmanship shines
Visitors help hosts straighten up very quickly. In anticipation of any guests, we find ourselves cleaning those crevices of our homes that we ordinarily would not attend to, so as to make a good impre...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 18:47hrs | | by Victor Kgomoeswana
'High import duty fuelling smuggling,' says Zimra
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is proposing to lower import duty on finished clothes to reduce smuggling and increase tax collection.Gershom Pasi, the Zimra Commissioner General, this wee...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 13:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Full text Dabengwa's speech: International Conference on Zimbabwe
International Conference on Zimbabwe: Consolidating the Democratization Process and Reinforcing Re-Engagement with the Global Community5-6 May 2014Rainbow Towers, Harare(SAPES...Published: 13 May 2014 at 07:04hrs | | by ZAPU President Dr. Dumiso Dabengwa
Plunder of timber and fisheries is holding Africa back - Kofi Annan
This year's Africa Progress Report calls on African leaders to tackle inequality and demands global community tackle plunder of continent's natural resources Afri...Published: 08 May 2014 at 07:11hrs | | by APP
Uncertified water brands continue to flood the market
Uncertified brands of bottled water will continue to flood the market as the authorities responsible for taking them off the shelves are struggling to carry out their mandate due to "inadequate resour...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 04:01hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Kasukuwere wants mandatory 50% local procurement quotas
The Minister of Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Saviour Kasukuwere has said his ministry would soon gazette a statutory instrument to give effect to the 50% local procurement clause ...Published: 27 May 2013 at 14:08hrs | 9 | by Business reporter
Adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos
The import of the topic before us must be understood. We are discussing the importance and impact of identifying, designing and adopting national winning and empowering beliefs and ethos that will all...Published: 28 Apr 2013 at 07:14hrs | | by DPM Prof Arthur Mutambara
Tsvangirai urges the nation to unite for economic growth
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai on Wednesday Urged Zimbabweans to unite so that the country's educational dominance can be translated into economic growth.In a speech read on his behalf by D...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'The time to invest in Zimbabwe is now,' says Tsvangirai
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai says the time to invest in Zimbabwe is now and not after the elections.Tsvangirai said this in a speech read on his behalf at the national business conference ...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 07:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
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