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Zimbabwe army, police morale hits rock bottom
Parliament yesterday heard that soldiers and police officers' morale had hit rock bottom due to a shortage of food and uniforms, with a meagre 39 cents being spent on each soldier's daily diet, causin...Published: 3 hrs ago | 646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police use force to disperse MDC crowd
Riot police in Zimbabwe's capital have forcefully dispersed supporters of the main opposition party who had gathered to listen to a speech by their leader.Hundreds of police officers on Wednes...Published: 3 hrs ago | 204 | by Aljazeera
No Chamisa, Mnangagwa talks anytime soon
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will not enter into dialogue with his arch-rival President Emmerson Mnangagwa as long as Zanu PF keeps on scoffing at the opposition party's preconditions, an MDC executive h...Published: 14 hrs ago | 2513 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa needs support in anti-corruption battle
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa needs the full support of other members of the executive for the Government's fight against corruption to succeed. Stakeholders speaking yesterday at the end of a two-day n...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1011 | by Staff reporter
United Arab Emirates to send opportunity scouts to Zimbabwe
A high-powered business delegation from the United Arab Emirates will soon visit Zimbabwe to scout for potential business opportunities offered by the country under the new dispensation, Finance and E...Published: 18 hrs ago | 423 | by Staff reporter
Gloomy festive season for Zimbabweans
The National Consumer Rights Association (Nacora) and the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have predicted a gloomy festive season for ordinary citizens. They have also blamed the government fo...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:38hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
South Africa offers to mediate in Zimbabwe political crisis
South Africa announced a major recalibration of its Zimbabwe diplomacy on Monday with a new push for dialogue between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition rival, Nelson Chamisa.Internat...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 20:37hrs | 2036 | by Mduduzi Mathuthu I ZimLive
Business suffers as EcoCash still down
Retailers and other business entities may have lost potential revenue running into hundreds of millions of dollars after Zimbabwe's biggest mobile money platform, EcoCash, remained largely out of serv...Published: 19 Nov 2019 at 05:42hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
Patients share wards with dead bodies in Zimbabwe
The medical personnel industrial action in Zimbabwe is blamed on the country's crumbling healthcare service, poor governance and corruption.The lack of response of the international community ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 13:29hrs | 2777 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Civic groups blasts government for sidelining health declaration
ZIMBABWE'S Civic groups have blamed Government for failing to uphold international declarations on health through implementation at national level, a predicament which has landed country's health syst...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 08:56hrs | 355 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Govt to raise passport fees
Govt to raise passport feesTHE registrar-general(RG)'s office says it will hike up its fees in a bid to marshal enough foreign currency needed to produce sufficient passports for Zimbabweans, the ...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:39hrs | 3930 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, global de-dollarisation case study - Prof Ncube
Zimbabwe is undergoing a de-dollarisation process that very few countries have successfully implemented and will need time to address the lingering effects of dollarisation, Finance and Economic Devel...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 942 | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland North remains without provincial hospital
MATABELELAND North Provincial Medical Director Dr Purgie Chimberengwa has appealed to Government to urgently complete construction of Lupane Provincial Hospital as the province faces a critical shorta...Published: 18 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 396 | by Staff reporter
RBZ Autonomy and Quasi-Fiscal Activities
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned the Zimbabwean Government that it needs to give autonomy to its central bank if it is to avert the risk of plunging the economy into hyperinflation aft...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:46hrs | 1109 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's govt misses passport deadline
THE government will miss its audacious target of clearing the passport backlog by year end after it emerged that a combination of delays in shipping material and foreign currency was standing in its w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 18:21hrs | 1316 | by Staff reporter
300 jobs at BCC
THE Bulawayo City Council is set to employ more than 300 professionals as the local authority seeks to address under-staffing within its departments and subsequently improve service delivery.O...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:05hrs | 3341 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up battery storage
As a worsening drought slashes the country's hydropower production, creating lengthy power cuts, Zimbabwe's industries are beginning to turn to solar panels and battery storage systems to keep busines...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 2034 | by Staff reporter
Ncube's budget gets thumbs down
Zimbabwe's month-on-month inflation rate quickened to 38,75% in October from 17,7% the previous month as analysts warned that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget will be rendered useless by so...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:03hrs | 1192 | by Staff reporter
Chief Mathema laments lack of dams
Aprominent Matabeleland South traditional leader Chief Mathema has urged the government to ensure that people in the province benefit from the vast water bodies in their region.Chief Mathema w...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 06:00hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Government underfire over MZWP
THE Matabeleland Zambezi Water Trust (MZWT), a technical partner in the ambitious project to draw water from the Zambezi River to Bulawayo, has accused government of frustrating its efforts to woo pri...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:59hrs | 382 | by Staff reporter
Red flag over city roads
BULAWAYO councillors are agonising over the city's measly road maintenance budget for the remainder of the year saying that with the rainy season setting in, the city's already bad road network will b...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:57hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Zupco new buses unleashed
THE first batch of the 76 Zupco buses that were commissioned by President Mnangagwa to service Bulawayo and other southern parts of the country will start plying their routes this week after the compl...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 2670 | by Staff reporter
New primary school for Gwanda
THE Gwanda Municipality has started constructing a primary school in the Garikai/Hlalani Kuhle suburb, a development expected to help decongest schools in the mining town.Last year, the munici...Published: 17 Nov 2019 at 05:43hrs | 417 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti dismisses Ncube's budget as 'cocktail of cowardice, falsehoods'
The MDC on Thursday dismissed Mthuli Ncube's 2020 budget statement as a "cocktail of cowardice, deception, delay and delusion."Ncube announced a ZWL$63.6 billion budget which he said also mark...Published: 16 Nov 2019 at 19:19hrs | 2629 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's budget a drop in the ocean
The 2020 budget is out but the future of the country still looks all gloom and not inspiring at all.The budget lacks clarity and is full of deception, lies and falsehoods. After austerity meas...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 08:13hrs | 1589 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe to enforce 'use it or lose it' policy for mining assets
Zimbabwe will vigorously enforce a policy to force companies to develop their mining assets and not keep the land for speculative purposes, Mines minister Winston Chitando said on Wednesday.Ch...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:32hrs | 384 | by Staff reporter
8 Beitbridge bodies face pauper's burial
GOVERNMENT officials in Beitbridge, who are grappling with a mortuary crisis following the suspension of morgue services at the 160-bed Beitbridge District Hospital last week, are seeking authority to...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:29hrs | 588 | by Staff reporter
Can new Zimdollar relieve the chronic cash crunch?
Gason Mukuvadzi, a lanky man with boyish looks, sits behind a makeshift desk in Mbare's Mupedzanhamo centre. An umbrella canvas shelters him from the blistering sun as he waits for customers looking t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:19hrs | 278 | by Staff reporter
Ecobank, CBZ fingered in new notes, coins withdrawal scandal
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has said appropriate disciplinary measures will be taken against Ecobank Zimbabwe and CBZ Bank after two clients withdrew $15 000 and $44 180 respectively from the t...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:14hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter
Zesa struggles to service ring-fenced clients
Zesa Holdings says it is shovelling 400 megawatts towards ring-fenced customers, mainly exporters, but cannot guarantee supply agreements due to depleted capacity to generate or import power. ...Published: 15 Nov 2019 at 06:13hrs | 132 | by Staff reporter
The Budget 2020 - Which way Zimbabwe
In the darkness of the Zimbabwean economy with ordinary people grinding beans using their back Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube casts a very bright light at the end of the tunnel. He said the count...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 23:50hrs | 2037 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa govt warms to Chamisa talks
THE Zanu-PF government has warmed up to dialogue with opposition leader Nelson Chamisa following his "conciliatory tone" over President Emerson Mnangagwa's legitimacy, but rejected foreign mediation i...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 21:42hrs | 8878 | by Staff reporter
CAAZ mourns funds repatriation
Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) says failure to repatriate funds to international airlines has piled on to challenges that are discouraging the firm from efficiently discharging duties in ...Published: 14 Nov 2019 at 05:31hrs | 299 | by Staff reporter
BCC tells ratepayers to engage private plumbers
BULAWAYO city fathers have advised ratepayers to engage private plumbers to attend to leaking and burst pipes because the local authority is battling manpower shortages.This came to light yest...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:40hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Technical fault plunges Zimbabwe into darkness
Eastern Zimbabwe lost electric power for almost three hours from 1am yesterday when a regional interconnector tripped and stopped generation at Kariba South Power Station. Consumers in Harare,...Published: 13 Nov 2019 at 06:31hrs | 409 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans angered by $300 bank withdrawal limits
Zimbabweans finally got access to new low-denomination currency on Tuesday that authorities hope will end chronic cash shortages, but banks maintained an existing weekly withdrawal limit of $300 (US$2...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 18:08hrs | 4006 | by Staff reporter
ZESA's corruption & incompetence an unwarranted burden on Zimbabweans - need for urgent accountability
As I write this article, we are just seated, or milling around, incapable of engaging in any meaningful productive work. Why? Because there is no electricity - which, we desperately need for our effec...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:58hrs | 1930 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe banks begin disbursing new notes
Depositors in Harare have started accessing new notes as promised by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, Dr. John Mangudya.A snap survey in Harare's Central business district revealed that ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 17:50hrs | 1103 | by Staff reporter
Long queues as Zimbabwe releases new bank notes, coins
New bank notes and coins finally hit the streets of Zimbabwe on Tuesday after a false start the day before, with depositors forming long queues at banks and ATMs. The new notes are part of Pre...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 12:07hrs | 3370 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa MDC admits to not having sound rural structures
THE Nelson Chamisa-led MDC has admitted that it has no sound structures in rural areas, a move that has allowed Zanu-PF to have a stroll in the park in many council and parliamentary by-elections....Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1118 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces mealie-meal shortage
ZIMBABWE faces mealie-meal shortages after government cut maize supplies to local millers by 40% citing funding constraints.Millers get maize from the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) although gove...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:24hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Hospital official up for ARV drugs theft
MVURWI District Hospital administrator Florence Makombe is in soup after she allegedly tried to steal a box of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs which were kept at her office due to lack of storage space at ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:23hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
RBZ seeks to raise $300m through TBs
GOVERNMENT is seeking to raise another $300 million through Treasury Bills (TBs) to finance its programmes, a month after issuing a sovereign paper with the same amount.In a statement yesterda...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:22hrs | 183 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government deluded about doctors
This has been one of the most deluded period for the Zimbabwe government – even by its own inherently schizophrenic standards — firstly claiming that providing low salaries to workers was economic...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:19hrs | 1088 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Top hotelier, Radisson, eyes Bulawayo
NEGOTIATIONS between the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and international hotel group, Radisson Group, for construction of an upmarket hotel in the second city have started inearnest.Radisson...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:18hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
Farmers face draught power challenge
AS the 2019/2020 cropping season gets underway, the Zimbabwe Farmers' Union (ZFU) says its members lack adequate draught power given the poor state of livestock following the severe drought experience...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:17hrs | 103 | by Staff reporter
Zesa reverts to Stage 2 load shedding
ZESA Holdings yesterday said it is implementing prolonged load shedding following a technical fault at Hwange Power Station. The power utility said it was moving to Stage 2 load shedding that ...Published: 12 Nov 2019 at 07:13hrs | 280 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans uninspired by new money
MOST Zimbabweans feel the new currency which will start circulating today will not change anything as long as government has not implemented economic and political reforms to generate market confidenc...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 21:50hrs | 2191 | by Staff reporter
Banks start collecting new notes from RBZ
BANK customers will be able to access cash at institutions they bank with starting tomorrow morning after the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe began dispensing notes and coins to all banks across the country,...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1714 | by Staff reporter
The source of the Zimbabwean people's misery
All of Zimbabwe is talking about the US sanctions and depending where you come down on the political divide you will have different views on it.Everyone knows the current economic reality faci...Published: 11 Nov 2019 at 11:29hrs | 1774 | by Chipochashe Mariga
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