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Zimra defends aggressive tax enforcement
Foreign currency-generating sectors such as tourism and agriculture are being choked by excessive regulations, multiple taxes, and bureaucratic red tape, industry experts have warned. Despite being cr...Published: 12 hrs ago | 134 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt warns Chinese firms over illicit deals
The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has issued a sharp and public rebuke to Chinese businesses operating in Zimbabwe, warning them to immediately halt illicit financial activities, environme...Published: 16 Jul 2025 at 07:41hrs | 515 | by Staff reporter
Zinara starts enforcing radio licence requirement
The controversial Broadcasting Services Amendment Act of 2025 has officially come into effect and is now being enforced by the Zimbabwe National Road Authority (ZINARA), sparking ...Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 21:57hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over new Zinara vehicle exemption rules
There is growing outrage among Zimbabwean vehicle owners following the introduction of a new, cumbersome vehicle licence exemption policy by the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara)....Published: 13 Jul 2025 at 11:42hrs | 567 | by Staff reporter
Delta slams local sugar producers over poor quality
Delta Corporation Limited has raised alarm over the poor quality of sugar supplied by Zimbabwe's top producers, accusing them of delivering a product that fails to meet global standards required for b...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 07:50hrs | 273 | by Staff reporter
Teen Zimbabwean karateka wins silver at regional tournament
Seventeen-year-old Zimbabwean karateka Bongeka 'Mbokodo' Mguni defied the odds and controversy to win a silver medal at the 2025 African Union Region 5 Youth Games in Namibia, capping off an emotional...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 10:46hrs | 75 | by Staff reporter
Harare council faces scandal over $500m lost on delays
Harare City Council has allegedly lost close to US$500 million since 2019 due to the delayed implementation of a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, amid explosive allegations of corrupt...Published: 07 Jul 2025 at 08:40hrs | 77 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe losing billions in tax revenue to informal sector'
Zimbabwe is losing between US$7.5 billion and US$8 billion in potential tax revenue every year due to the dominance of its informal sector, according to new estimates by the African Development Bank (...Published: 04 Jul 2025 at 14:22hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Outdated regulations stifling development in Zimbabwe
Councils across Zimbabwe must urgently modernize and adopt private sector-friendly reforms to eliminate bottlenecks in local government systems that threaten the country's ambitious economic transform...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 15:03hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
Prospectors slam Zimbabwe 'secretive' Mines and Minerals Bill
Zimbabwe's long-anticipated Mines and Minerals Bill is under fresh scrutiny, with industry stakeholders warning that the proposed legislation remains opaque, exclusionary, and dangerously susceptible ...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 17:35hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to slash regulatory fees for beef, dairy and food processing sectors
The Government will soon gazette a revised schedule of regulatory fees for three key agricultural sub-sectors - beef, dairy and food processing - in a move designed to enhance the competitiveness of l...Published: 08 Jun 2025 at 11:55hrs | 134 | by Staff reporter
ZIDA to rollout e-regulation portal next month
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) is set to launch a new e-regulation portal by mid-July, in a major digital reform aimed at improving the ease of doing business and enhancing tran...Published: 05 Jun 2025 at 11:35hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
South African hospital faces legal action for refusing liver transplant to Zimbabwean teen
Bureaucratic red tape is standing between 15-year-old Vanessa Mafu and the liver transplant that could save her life.Diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis that has progressed to liver cirrhosis,...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 08:02hrs | 621 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo steps up efforts to revive Central and Centenary Parks
The City of Bulawayo has launched a major initiative to restore Central and Centenary Parks, two of the city's most iconic recreational spaces, following years of neglect that left the once-vibrant pa...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 08:20hrs | 1919 | by Staff reporter
Zapu bemoans Zimbabwe's ailing health sector
The recent death of uGogo Rose Nyathi, "a Bulawayo celebrity, human rights activist, and informal comedian", who was laid to rest at Lady Stanley Cemetery highlighted some of the anomalies in our heal...Published: 16 Mar 2025 at 13:06hrs | 417 | by Dr Themba Bulle, ZAPU Deputy Secretary for Health and Welfare
Zimbabwe ranks highest corrupt country in SADC for 2024 by TI
Zimbabwe has come out as the worst corrupt country in SADC in 2024, according to the latest data from discredited Transparency International coming only ahead of a war-torn DRC.This was also t...Published: 22 Feb 2025 at 09:52hrs | 1312 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Must Seize the Opportunity to Attract Investment as South Africa Faces Agricultural and Economic Shifts
The ongoing upheaval in South Africa regarding the removal of white farmers and the broader implications for the country's investment climate present a unique opportunity for Zimbabwe. While the polit...Published: 19 Feb 2025 at 13:13hrs | 496 | by Marilyn Mutize
BCC forges ahead with privatisation of water
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has proposed the establishment of a corporate water utility company as a critical step toward addressing the city's aging water and sewer infrastructure, which requires...Published: 08 Feb 2025 at 12:37hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
2025 Gambling News: The Rise of the Emirates
One of the most fascinating developments in recent years has been the step change in culture that has occurred in the Middle East. Because we're passionate about bringing you the latest news and m...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:17hrs | 72 | by Staff reporter
Why Zimbabwe's push for youth entrepreneurship is misguided
The Zimbabwean government's recurring call for recent college graduates to become entrepreneurs instead of seeking employment is a glaring abdication of responsibility. In a country where mill...Published: 23 Dec 2024 at 00:57hrs | 168 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Confusion reigns as Friday ZEP deadline looms
Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa are raising concerns that they will be unable to meet the Friday, November 29 deadline to apply for a further one-year exemption due to signific...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 1714 | by Staff reporter
Climate finance and mismanagement in Zimbabwe: Bridging the gap between promises and accountability
As the world grapples with the escalating climate crisis, financial commitments to support developing nations in climate change mitigation and adaptation have taken center stage in international negot...Published: 24 Nov 2024 at 17:40hrs | 253 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Elon Musk leaps onto stage at Trump rally
The tycoon hailed the Republican presidential candidate as a champion of democracy and the US ConstitutionTesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made an appearance at a Donald Trump rally, endorsi...Published: 06 Oct 2024 at 11:13hrs | 1388 | by Staff reporter
African-American investors eye Zimbabwe opportunities
Zimbabwe is set to benefit from investments valued at more than US$500 million in several sectors of the economy from a group of African-American owned businesses that have set their eye on the local ...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:52hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF and CCC must read this article
NOW that the elections are over, there is need for us to make a critical analysis of our country's political leadership. Zimbabwe has its fair share of problems.My wish is that the two leading...Published: 09 Sep 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Jonah Nyoni
Mnangagwa's defining moment
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is soon expected to appoint members of his Cabinet to drive his agenda for the next five years as Zimbabwe seeks to attain an upper middle-income economy status by 2030....Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly mulls returning voter registration to RG's Office
The position taken during the inclusive Government to migrate voter registration from the Registrar-General to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has created a lot of red tape through duplication of du...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Starlink rattles Zimbabwe internet service providers
The era of hanging emails, failed file downloads, and unstable internet will soon be a thing of the past if Starlink's global satellite internet service is rolled out in Zimbabwe. Elon Musk's Starlink...Published: 13 May 2023 at 18:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa disowns public procurement disclosures decree
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has disowned a controversial order issued through his office directing blocking of public disclosure on government procurement of construction, medicines and drugs in a bi...Published: 10 May 2023 at 19:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baby refused birth registration in South Africa because dad is a Zimbabwean
With the intervention of the court, a child born nearly four years ago will, for the first time, officially have a name and legal standing in South Africa after bureaucratic red tape has denied him of...Published: 06 May 2023 at 06:38hrs | 35 | by Zelda Venter for Pretoria News
What draws the gold mafia to Dubai?
An Al Jazeera investigation shows how criminals use the city's pro-business policies to smuggle gold, clean dirty cash.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 20:23hrs | 13 | by Al Jazeera Investigative Unit
New tech to reform Zimbabwe IDs, passports and policing
Zimbabweans will soon be able to access Government services such as passport and ID applications online, while borders will become more secure, under a new game-changing integrated digital system set ...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:40hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's presidential envoy abuses his position
CHARISMATIC Zimbabwean evangelist and President Emmerson Mnangagwa's special envoy on Trade and Investment, Uebert Angel, is embroiled in a money laundering scandal involving the abuse of diplomatic p...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 18:24hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera exposé: 'A fiction D grade movie' with 'over exaggerating pastor'
The chairperson of Zimbabwe Anti-Sanctions Movement and founder of Zimbabweans Unite Against US War Sanctions, Rutendo Matinyarare, has described the 1st episode of Al Jazeera exposé Gold Mafia docum...Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 07:20hrs | 4 | by Ndou Paul
Mnangagwa likely to feature in Al Jazeera exposé episode two
AL JAZEERA finally dropped its explosive documentary exposing how hundreds of millions worth of gold was being smuggled out to Dubai by a well knit circle of high ranking officials who include Ambassa...Published: 23 Mar 2023 at 19:50hrs | 2 | by AFP
Mnangagwa's name mired in underworld gold activities
FROM the Macmillan family and their gold-smuggling activities to the Kwekwe underworld mining adventures and Henrietta Rushwaya's sensational arrest three years ago, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's nam...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 14:00hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Al Jazeera documentary is likely to cause fallout between Mnangagwa and Chiwenga?
A MAN is like the company that he keeps. This old adage is coming to haunt President Emmerson Mnangagwa as his re-election campaign, six months before the polls, hit a huge pot-hole after Al Jazeera p...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 08:06hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Al Jazeera puts Zimbabwe corruption documentary on hold
Al Jazeera on Thursday said it had put a pause on a broadcast of a four-part investigation into official corruption in Zimbabwe without giving reasons.The first episode of Gold Mafia, a two-ye...Published: 02 Mar 2023 at 19:17hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe diplomats told to engage diaspora
DIPLOMATS posted to various countries should engage Zimbabweans living abroad and use their experiences and expertise to attract investments and create trade opportunities for the country.This...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Operation Dudula challenges ZEP extension
SELF-APPOINTED illegal immigrant watchdog Operation Dudula says it is heading to the apex court to interdict the Home Affairs minister's extension of Zimbabwean Exemption Permits (ZEP).Zandile...Published: 07 Sep 2022 at 06:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
RG's Office frustrating urban voters, claims CCC
THE opposition Citizens Coalitions for Change (CCC) yesterday accused the Registrar-General (RG)'s Office of deliberately frustrating urban voters by taking long to issue national identity cards...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to calm Zimbabwe investors
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week moved to calm market concerns over the obtaining business climate, as he gave fresh undertakings to iron out hurdles to investment under his "Zimbabwe is Open fo...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Assessing the US$12 billion mining industry target
The Zimbabwean government launched an ambitious plan to transform the mining sector into a US$12 billion export industry by end of 2023. The plan was launched in October 2019 as a key pillar to sustai...Published: 11 Aug 2022 at 12:01hrs | 6 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Continued detention of Sikhala and Sithole a travesty of justice' - CCC
Citizens Coalition for Change Deputy Spokesperson Gift Ostallos Siziba has described the continual detention of Job Sikhala and Godfrey Sithole as a trave...Published: 06 Jul 2022 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by George Swarei
Miners approach Mnangagwa over Bill
ZIMBABWE'S small-scale miners, agitated by government's attitude towards their input into the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, have taken their issue to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The Bill...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Red tape blights civil servants' vehicle import scheme
EVERAL civil servants' vehicles imported under a duty-free scheme are stuck at the country's borders accumulating storage costs as the Finance and Economic Development ministry has not yet processed e...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranks lowly on Fitch political, economic risk
PROMINENT American market research firm, Fitch Solutions, has ranked Zimbabwe as a country that poses the highest political and economic risk in Southern Africa, a major indicator that poi...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 20 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Chiefs compile database of undocumented citizens in Matabeleland
CHIEFS in Matabeleland region have started compiling a database of community members who have no national identity documents as part of efforts to address challenges arising from Gukurahundi.T...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe firms predict gloom
MORE than three quarters of businesses across various sectors of the economy have said the ease of doing business in Zimbabwe was unfavourable as a result of policy inconsistencies and limited financi...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 19:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
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