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MP raises alarm over Kwekwe Council's 'exorbitant' rates

Member of Parliament for Mbizo Constituency, Corban Madzivanyika, has raised alarm over what he described as exorbitant municipal rates being charged by Kwekwe City Council, saying the current billing system is overwhelming residents and n…

Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 11:36hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter

ZITF urges hotels, lodges to moderate rates

The Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) has urged the hospitality industry to reconsider its pricing structure, as exhibitors and visitors have raised concerns over high accommodation rates during the annual trade event.This issue was…

Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:39hrs | 168 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's central bank claims success in stabilising rate and inflation

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has announced significant progress in stabilising the country's exchange rate and inflation following a series of monetary policy interventions, including a cumulative injection of US$150 million into the…

Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 14:23hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter

Bosso fans plan Bulawayo city council rates 'boycott'?

Highlanders Football Club fans are considering a boycott of their remaining Castle Lager Premier Soccer League (PSL) matches at Barbourfields Stadium and halting payment of Bulawayo City Council rates in protest against a contentious decis…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:23hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter

Harare pegs 2023 rates in forex

Harare City Council yesterday announced its 2023 budget that has rates indexed in US dollars with a high-density suburban holder set to fork out a minimum of US$23,15 in rates and fees a month, although the law insists that the payments ca…

Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 04:54hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Bulawayo residents force council to shelve rates increase in 2023 budget

The City of Bulawayo is proposing a US$158 million budget for 2023 â€“ the same as this year's budget.Isaac Matare from the council's finance department said Monday that they had decided to stick to last year's budget as residents had indi…

Published: 25 Oct 2022 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Interest rate hike haunts black market kingpins

Interventions by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to stem prolonged currency battering have sent black market rates tumbling by over 50 percentage points within a month, Inter Horizon Securities (IH) has said, but cautioned against early…

Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

RBZ summons retailers, manufactures

RETAILERS and manufacturers have been summoned to a no-holds-barred meeting on price hikes by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a unit of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, especially against the backdrop of revelations that some leading c…

Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The proposed 1000% rates hike by BCC is madness

It is totally surprising to note that Bulawayo city council wants to increase rates by 1000 percent, while the residents are waiting the out come of corruption report.Ladies and gentlemen if  we check what the council have done so far…

Published: 12 Aug 2019 at 21:46hrs | | by Nothisa Dube

Zimbabwe black market forex rate should drop to 60%

THE eagerly anticipated Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) for 2019 was finally delivered by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya on Wednesday this week, the same day the budget statement of South Africa (SA) was being pr…

Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:09hrs | | by Brett Chulu

Amakhosi Cultural Theatre survives closure

BULAWAYO-BASED Amakhosi Cultural Theatre has survived closure after city fathers agreed to exempt the arts centre from paying rates to the local authority amid indications water supplies had already been cut over outstanding payments, Sout…

Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:03hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter

Rates exemption for Nkomo Museum

THE Bulawayo City Council has exempted the Joshua Nkomo Museum in Matsheumhlope from paying rates.The Joshua Nkomo Museum is a public museum for natural history and gallery chronicling the history of the liberation struggle.According to th…

Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 15:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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