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New currency regime averts re-dollarisation
The abolishment of the multi-currency system by Government will avert the country from plunging into full re-dollarisation at a time the economy does not have enough United States dollars to support i...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1746 | by Staff reporter
All hail Mthuli, Zimdollar will boost competitiveness
The rate at which the black market value of the RTGS dollar (now Zimbabwean Dollar) has been fast sliding against the US dollar was no longer sustainable and the move by Government to abolish the mult...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1547 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa's fight reaches boiling point
The country's presidency is now reportedly paraplegic thus causing tectonic divisions in government, amid disclosures that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his second in charge, Vice President, Rtd Ge...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:34hrs | 22134 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zanu-PF UK gears up Vision 2030 diaspora promotion
ZANU-PF United Kingdom branch has moved a gear up to promote Vision 2030 by mobilising Zimbabweans in the diaspora to invest back home as well as spearheading self-help income generating projects in t...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 09:32hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army offloads stake in $4bn project
Zimbabwe's military has disposed of its stake in a $4 billion platinum joint venture with Russian investors, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has said.Mnangagwa revealed this in an interview with...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 21:16hrs | 1997 | by Staff reporter
ED now faces tough political choices
AS Zimbabwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequen...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:23hrs | 7248 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa faces riots, palace coup and impeachment
AS Zimbababwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:58hrs | 9573 | by Staff reporter
US tells Mnangagwa to arrest killer soldiers
A TOP United States official has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa that he must hold to account members of the security forces involved in the killing of civilians during public disturbances in August...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 10:41hrs | 2827 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa meets General Electric officials
President Mnangagwa yesterday met officials from US industrial giant, General Electric (GE), who have expressed a strong commitment to supply medical equipment for the country's major hospitals includ...Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa meets US Africa chief
Zimbabwe's re-engagement with the West went a gear up yesterday when President Mnangagwa had a historic meeting with United States assistant secretary (Bureau of African Affairs) at the US State Depar...Published: 20 Jun 2019 at 07:54hrs | 426 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa splurges US$1m to re-engage US
GOVERNMENT has hired a second American consultancy firm, Avenue Strategies Global LLC, for US$1 080 000 to lobby the United States government to drop sanctions against the southern African nation, New...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:42hrs | 869 | by Staff reporter
US-Africa summit boost for Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa yesterday flew to Mozambique for the 12th edition of the US-Africa Business Summit, which provides Zimbabwe a platform to engage with United States of America and African private s...Published: 19 Jun 2019 at 07:34hrs | 462 | by Staff reporter
Can cryptocurrency help Zimbabwe's economy?
Africa has been slow to respond to the cryptocurrency industry. Many of the local governments have shot down claims that it could harness their economy and its individuals. They have refuted digital c...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 17:33hrs | 1383 | by Staff Writer
Mnangagwa pays US$1 to have sanctions lifted nicodemusly - proof does not want free elections, ever
"Mnangagwa blows US$90k Monthly on another US lobbyist," reported Zimeye. The Americans were very clear what they wanted the Zimbabwe government to do for them to lift the sanctions - hold free, fair ...Published: 18 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | 9884 | by Nomusa Garikai
ZANU PF Youths to invade Grace Mugabe's farms
ZANU PF Deputy Secretary for Youth Affairs Lewis Matutu has given a former First Lady Grace Mugabe two weeks to hand over 15 farms that she owns so that they can be given to the Youths. Matutu...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:24hrs | 5106 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mbeki speaks on Zimbabwe dialogue
Former South African president Thabo Mbeki has said President Mnangagwa is correct in convening the Political Actors Dialogue (POLAD) despite winning the 2018 harmonised elections, and advised other A...Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 09:18hrs | 901 | by Staff reporter
Hope emerges in Zimbabwe
Nearly two decades after the European Union imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, a thaw in relations is palpable, following praise by the EU ambassador and head of the EU-Zimbabwe Delegation Timo Olkkonen....Published: 17 Jun 2019 at 08:29hrs | 7271 | by EU Today
'Chefs seized farms, Grace got 16' - precursor economic meltdown, why blame sanctions
After decades of blaming the sanctions imposed by West for Zimbabwe's economic woes Mugabe stop doing so in 2016 after he admitted the country was swindled of US$15 billion in diamond revenue. Even he...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:05hrs | 504 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zanu-PF will 'solve corruption by making it fair' - 'No, it will work. Simple!'
The one thing Robert Mugabe has instilled in his Zanu-PF cronies is the believe that they know what they are doing when in reality they have no clue. Who can ever forget Mugabe's long speeches "full o...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 19:03hrs | 273 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Mugabe to blame for Zimbabwe crisis'
Zanu-PF's new commissar Victor Matemadanda has dismissed claims that his recent appointment was meant to address growing concerns about the re-emergence of factionalism in the party.President ...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | 2171 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says, 'no going back on currency'
THE public will soon access cheaper basic commodities at Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots throughout the country as the Government moves to mitigate the wanton price increases by unscrupulous busine...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:37hrs | 1660 | by Staff reporter
'Sanctions alone not the cause of Zimbabwe economic woes'
Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development executive director Janet Zhou has said while Western sanctions imposed on the country were negatively affecting the economy, it was trite to note that gross ...Published: 15 Jun 2019 at 08:55hrs | 212 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa invites major Chinese company
President Mnangagwa has invited Chinese construction firm, Shanghai Construction Group, to establish offices in Zimbabwe in preparation for future infrastructure construction projects, as the country ...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 07:48hrs | 339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe under confused leadership
People elect the kind of leadership they want and in most cases, unless forced otherwise, they are never wrong. If leadership imposes itself upon a people usually chaos is born and eradicating it will...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:24hrs | 2824 | by Clemen Moyo
Mnangagwa's political dialogue immobilises Chamisa's divisive politics
While Zimbabweans have largely moved on with life, following the 30 July 2018 harmonised elections, which President ED Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF won resoundingly, MDC- Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has a...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:05hrs | 1795 | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Deny, deflect and divert: Zanu-PF's flawed approach to governings
When the news that the Association of Rural Teachers of Zimbabwe (Artuz) boss, Obert Masaraure had allegedly been kidnapped, brutalised and left for dead first filtered in, the government and by exten...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:20hrs | 153 | by Nqaba Matshazi
UN urged to support Zimbabwe sanctions removal
Newly-appointed Zanu-PF secretary for War Veterans Affairs Douglas Mahiya has said the United Nations (UN) should play an integral part in influencing the removal of illegal sanctions in Zimbabwe. ...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:13hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Extraordinary measure for extraordinary: A case of Zimbabwe's austerity measures
In the Bible when Jacob was faced with a situation he was supposed to meet Esau his brother he was so afraid knowing that he had subtly stolen the latter's blessing. During the night, Jacob wrestled a...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 15:34hrs | 804 | by Elijah Chihota
Fix politics, not currency, says Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's plans to abolish the multi-currency system in favour of a new local currency could spectacularly fail, resulting in more catastrophe for troubled Zimbabwe if fundamental...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:04hrs | 6901 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must step down'
NEWLY-formed Zimbabwe Total Independence party leader Elias Tapfumaneyi Mbabvu has called for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's resignation, accusing him of failing to resolve the country's economic cris...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 07:04hrs | 3131 | by Staff reporter
Biti, Mthuli in nasty exchange
Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube and MDC vice president Tendai Biti - who held the Finance portfolio during the inclusive government between 2009-13 - have engaged in a war of wo...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | 13078 | by Ndou Paul
Strategic planning, management needed in our electrical energy sector
Just after the Second World War, political leaders in what was Southern Rhodesia started to think about how they would meet the needs of the country for electrical energy.After that, the debat...Published: 10 Jun 2019 at 07:19hrs | 162 | by Eddie Cross
Churches pay homage to Mnangagwa
Representatives of all sects of apostolic church organisations under the banner of the Zimbabwe Inter-denominational Council of Churches (ZICC) met President Emmerson Mnangagwa at State House on Wedne...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 08:07hrs | 359 | by Staff reporter
'Ncube, like Moses, deserves a chance to lead' - to tax the poor whilst protect looters
"Well, this is not a pie in the sky. What is our attitude to Mthuli Ncube's Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP)? A lot of us really want us to go back to the hiatus," is the latest diatribe fro...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 19:12hrs | 1863 | by Nomusa Garikai
Give Mthuli a chance!
The story is told that Moses undertook the dangerous assignment to relocate the children of Israel to the Promised Land. The Red Sea, that vast water body, presented an intractable obstacle. T...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:50hrs | 492 | by Staff reporter
'Abducted Teachers Union leader is a school dropout'
Deputy Government Spokesperson Energy Mutodi has alleged that Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe leader Obert Masaraure is a school dropout masquerading as a teacher. Mutodi was spea...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 19:01hrs | 2722 | by Mandla Ndlovu
US Congresswoman against sanctions on Zimbabwe
A delegation led by the December 12th Movement International Secretariat attended the Gentrification Roundtable to discuss the "ethnic cleansing of Black communities nation-wide and had the opportunit...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 18:00hrs | 2842 | by Staff reporter
Churches to expose people plotting to remove Mnangagwa
WE, the collective of over 100 likeminded peace loving Civic Society Organizations, Community Based Organizations and churches across denominations from across Zimbabwe that are representative o...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 14:00hrs | 5675 | by CSCJF (Pastors and Bishops)
No one has the right to cause anymore bloodshed in Zimbabwe
CHURCHES AND CIVIC SOCIETY FORUMPRESS STATEMENTON THECURRENT SOCIO, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWEReleased at BULAWAYO, this 6th day of J...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 12:55hrs | 1582 | by Pastors and Bishops
Ndiweni, the chief who dared bell the cat
IF ever you did history in a Zimbabwean school or at least watched ZBC-TV, you are sure to have come across the name of Manicaland traditional leader Chief Rekayi Tangwena, who is famed for helping Ro...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1841 | by Nqaba Matshazi
EU presses for Zimbabwe political reforms
ZIMBABWE and the European Union (EU) yesterday kicked off their first formal dialogue in 17 years, which Harare hopes will thaw frosty relations and lead to resumption of direct aid to its battered ec...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | 997 | by Staff reporter
Foreign aid dreadful, unnecessary!
ZIMBABWE does not need foreign aid to escape this economic malaise. Our leaders have been saying it so many times that the country's hope lies on a bailout package; the quicker we get it, the better, ...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 07:30hrs | 338 | by Blessing Machiva
You will never walk alone, Comrade President
Events of the 18th to the 24th November 2017 in Zimbabwe are still vivid in the minds of many people across the world. The events were greeted by many with jubilation, tears of joy, all night celebrat...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 23:09hrs | 4703 | by Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza
Muzamhindo Presents a 10 point Plan as Zim Implode !!!
We have a very unfortunate situation on the ground, and it requires urgent attention to curb the crisis. This is where Political leadership must show it's sincerity and diligence on Zim situation. We ...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2131 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Zimbabwe, EU to officially launch formal political dialogue
Zimbabwe and the European Union (EU) will officially launch formal political dialogue in Harare tomorrow as relations continue to improve between the two parties.The development was confirmed ...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 21:17hrs | 6856 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF UK slams Chamisa
THE United Kingdom branch of the Zanu-PF Youth League has slammed MDC Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa for inciting violence in the country saying acts of destruction will not help solve the country'...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 452 | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni soils the role of traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe
The duties of a chief are enshrined in the Traditional Leaders Act chapter 29:17 which was enacted in 1998.As Head of his or her chieftains the chief has to remain strictly neutral with respec...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:35hrs | 5828 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'Let's develop and not fear of sanctions' - said so for decades still no development
"While indeed we still say to those who imposed sanctions on us, remove them because there is no justification for the embargo, we should not bury our heads in sand because of those sanctions," said P...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 21:04hrs | 177 | by Nomusa Garikai
Chasi refuse to answer questions about the pricing of ethanol supplied by Billy Rautenbach
ENERGY minister Forune Chasi has refused to answer questions about the pricing of ethanol supplied by business tycoon Billy Rautenbach's Greenfuel, which legislators said was overpriced.Greenf...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 17:07hrs | 1696 | by Staff reporter
Fortune Chasi is not the right Minister for Energy Docket
I want to take this opportunity to blame President ED Mnangagwa for appointing a wrong person to the Ministry of Energy. If the appointment was not a 'political trap', the President should have consid...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 16:24hrs | 3803 | by Don Chigumba
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