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Mnangagwa returns with battered image?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially returned to active duty after his annual leave, but his comeback is marred by intense political and economic turbulence. While Mnangagwa was on leave, Vice ...Published: 05 Feb 2025 at 12:11hrs | 1668 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's economy shrinks 0.3%
The South African economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.3% from the second to the third quarter this year.Economists polled by Reuters expected growth of 0.5%.In the third quarter, the ...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 15:39hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mbalula remarks reflect how Zimbabweans are weighing on SA's public service delivery
NOTWITHSTANDING massive infrastructure projects and other developmental initiatives being undertaken in Zimbabwe, the Zimbabwean development question remains debatable.A majority of the ongoin...Published: 04 Jul 2023 at 07:07hrs | 3 | by Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development
Amnesty International pleads with Mnangagwa
A non-governmental organisation, Amnesty International, has pleaded with President Mnangagwa to reject the contentious Private Voluntary Organisation amendment Bill saying it shrinks the democratic sp...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 06:18hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
SA personal tax shrinks
Personal income tax (PIT) collection, the largest source of tax revenue in South Africa, has fallen in recent years. Between 2003 and 2012, the number of PIT taxpayers grew by 7 percent. Since 2012, h...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia hurtling towards contested elections
THERE is something to a name after all, it seems.The late "King Cobra", Michael Sata, broke away from the Movement for Multi-Party Democracy (MMD) and formed his own party, the Patriotic Front...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Peasant voter conundrum
Sometimes you wonder if there are people who still believe that elections will change the fortunes of a country such as Zimbabwe. But again, political change is what is needed to take this country for...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 05:40hrs | 3 | by Tapiwa Gomo
A tale of Zimbabwe's oxymoronic justice system
THE justice system in Zimbabwe is an oxymoron. It's difficult to understand how the law operates, but one is tempted to conclude that incarceration in Zimbabwe is just designed for the poor and those ...Published: 21 Dec 2020 at 06:35hrs | 3 | by Muchemwa Silence Mugadzaweta
Scrapping of multi-currency regime: The implications
ON Monday, the government announced major changes in the monetary policy of Zimbabwe, highlighted by the ending of a 10-year multi-currency system.Further measures announced include the intend...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Respect Gwenzi
MDC against IMF's support for Zimbabwe
The proposed IMF Staff Monitored Program is an entry point for full support of the regime and it ignores the factors arresting the Zimbabwean economy. Zimbabwe has had a stolen election; ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 15:56hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume
Zimbabwe's national budget shrinks to US$2bn
Zimbabwe's US8,2 billion 2019 national budget, presented by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube at a time the UD dollar was officially trading par with the country's quasi-currencies on November 22 last yea...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Godmother Queen Wezhira defiantly sits bare on Mthwakazi
In our culture, when the legendary flowery Eve sits bare and exhibits her rhino horn, the descendants of Adam have to look aside and scurry for cover! Conversely, this time it should be a different ba...Published: 10 Apr 2019 at 09:41hrs | 1 | by Muntukaziwa
Zimbabwe inflation to drop by October
Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation will drop drastically to single digit levels in October this year because the disparity between the baseline index for that month compared to the same period last y...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monetary, fiscal policies: The equivalent of a two legged stool?
ON October 1, 2018, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) issued its rather long monetary policy statement (MPS).Empirical evidence has shown that ordinarily, the length of such a statement is in...Published: 11 Oct 2018 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Nyandoro
100-year-old man ready to vote in Zim election
AT 100 years old, John Makanjera is still full of life. You could say he is young at heart.He is a registered voter, an avid newspaper reader, and does not shy away from expressing his thought...Published: 27 May 2018 at 10:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Man seeks help to cure celoids
A 29 year old man, Evans Mutodza is seeking help to be able to buy medication that shrinks celoids he has been suffering from for the past 19 years....Published: 02 Jan 2018 at 15:41hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
South Africa has reached its Mugabe moment
Jeffrey Herbst is president and chief executive of the Newseum. Greg Mills is director of the Brenthurst Foundation in Johannesburg. They are co-authors of "How South Africa Works" and the forthcoming...Published: 08 Apr 2017 at 12:20hrs | | by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills
University graduates take fight to Mugabe
September 29 made a mark in Zimbabwe's history as University of Zimbabwe (UZ) graduands literally spat in President Robert Mugabe's face by expressing their displeasure at the escalating rate of u...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 12:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The ZANU (PF) kleptocracy will never reform voluntarily
"All political lives unless they are cut off mid-stream at happy junctures always end in failure because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs" Enoch Powell. I said it more than ...Published: 08 Sep 2016 at 11:05hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Professor Moyo, 'Mujuru saga or Tajamuka' are NOT the causes of the now certain regime change
Zanu PF has weaved a web of lies for decades and it is not surprising that the regime is now caught in its own web."According to Prof J. Moyo, who spoke as the Tsholotsho North MP, the governm...Published: 03 Sep 2016 at 16:52hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Tax arrears balloon to $2.58 billion, says Zimra
Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says tax arrears have ballooned to $2,58 billion from $1,97 billion last year as privately-owned enterprises are increasingly failing to service their tax obligation...Published: 13 May 2016 at 16:19hrs | | by Staff repoter
Forecast: Bank failure to hit Africa
AFRICA, through drastic banking sector overhauling initiatives may indeed recover all, including her debased economy and soon turn around her fortunes to become the world's fastest growing economy, al...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 18:50hrs | 2 | by Maxwell Teedzai - Southern Africa Political Analyst
Mugabe warms to the West
ROBERT Mugabe's anti-Western rhetoric has been conspicuous by its absence of late, a sign the 91-year-old leader has mellowed or realised that Zimbabwe may need financial help.A year ago, the...Published: 22 Oct 2015 at 17:04hrs | | by Reuters
Govt's position paper on Civil servants confirms serious economic crisis
The government' position paper that indicates that says the wage bill is unsustainable exposed the fact that the economic crisis in the country is escalating, an MDC-T official has said.MDC-T ...Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 07:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Robert Mugabe defies gravity again
Against all odds, President Mugabe yesterday bagged the African Union chairmanship. He did not waste time, immediately striking the tenor as to the nature of his year-long leadership of the continent...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 09:52hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Khaya Moyo's biggest misfortune: Matabeleland dumps him
MATABELELAND NORTH - ZANU PF chairman Simon Khaya Moyo has been rejected by Zanu PF Matabeleland province headed by his counterpart politburo member Obert Mpofu, in a new twist which further shrin...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 03:20hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Is Mugabe aware of Zimbabwe's dire straits?
Industrialists have questioned President Robert Mugabe's awareness of Zimbabwe's economic dire straits.This comes as the country's industry is in a deplorable state, with many companies shutti...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 16:04hrs | 1 | by Ndakaziva Majaka
Prostitution market shrinks
BRANDED the oldest profession in the world, commercial sex work has become a vital source of living in the small agro-based town of Chipinge as well as fast growing industry as evidenced by a swarm of...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 20:04hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Witchcraft scare as $300 airtime money 'shrinks' to $26
A Shurugwi Econet shop operator was left literally clutching thin air after selling mobile phone credit recharge cards worth $300 to three men before the money miraculously "shrank" to $26.One...Published: 14 Sep 2013 at 04:40hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
'Miracle money shrinks economy'
ANY currency put into circulation without legal sanction would have negative effects on the economy and the general social life of Zimbabweans, financial experts have said.The experts were rea...Published: 11 Jan 2013 at 09:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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