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Ramaphosa fall: Mnangagwa scared
SOUTH AFRICA held general elections on Wednesday and results trickling in are sending shivers down the spines of regional liberation movements.The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is set...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 08:16hrs | 2 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Tshabangu says he will not pursue partisan politics
CCC secretary general Mr Sengezo Tshabangu said yesterday he would not pursue partisan politics, but will push the national agenda interrogating issues that will help improve people's lives.In...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe treasury lost $1,6 trillion to tax exemptions'
TREASURY, always in financial distress, lost about $1,6 trillion last year, up 312% compared to the prior year, through tax expenditures consisting of uncollected tax due to exemptions and incentives ...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parly approves Mthuli Ncube's 2022 supplementary budget
PARLIAMENT has approved the 2022 supplementary budget presented by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube two months ago.In July, Ncube announced a $929 billion supplementary budget, with 53% ($492,8 b...Published: 03 Sep 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches countdown to census
The 50-day countdown to the 2022 population and housing census started yesterday with President Mnangagwa marking the countdown and stating that his Government was ready to address gaps in services an...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube lines up TBs to fund deficit
GOVERNMENT is set to float Treasury Bills (TBs) to finance the 2021 budget deficit, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said last week.Last week on Thursday, the minister unveiled a ZW$421,6 billion...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 07:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
After TSP, diaspora engagement critical, says Mthuli Ncube
AS government winds up the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) amid a plethora of challenges it faces in turning around the economy, the Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) caught up with Finance ministe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
ZCTU urges Zanu-PF to respect people's rights
The ZIMBABWE Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has implored the Zanu-PF-led government to respect people's rights and stop using intimidation tactics and abductions ahead of next week's planned demonstr...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube raises electricity tariff
Zimbabwe government has introduced new power tariffs aimed at capacitating ZESA to mobilize requisite resources through appropriate and cost recovery tariffs implemented through a differentiated scale...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 15:03hrs | | 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 | | 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 | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZAPU's independence day message
As Zimbabweans remember the end of colonialism and the advent of independent rule on 18 April 1980, it is saddening to note that what every citizen celebrated as a new chapter has in actual fact been ...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 12:33hrs | 1 | by Iphithule Maphosa
Pay the doctors and save lives
The government must quickly and effectively resolve the issue of Medical practitioners' welfare to avoid further crippling of the health delivery system and avoid loss of life.The ongoing medi...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 5 | by Dr. Henry Madzorera, MDC National Secretary for Health
Chamisa, Mnangagwa front runners in Zimbabwe's election
Presidential politics appear to be taking shape in Zimbabwe ahead of this year's elections.President Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling ZANU-PF and Nelson Chamisa of the opposition Movement for ...Published: 15 May 2018 at 09:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T dream of a $100 billion economy
Daily News staff writer Blessings Mashaya speaks to the opposition MDC shadow Finance minister Tapiwa Mashakada. Below are excerpts of the interview.Q: Do you think Finance minister Patrick Ch...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe receives $7,6m from OPEC
Government has received a $7,6 million loan from the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID), for on-lending to co-operatives and other income generating projects, Finance Minister Patrick ...Published: 12 Sep 2016 at 23:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
PDP gives weekly economic policy Brief
People's Democratic Party (PDP) has said social services delivery in Zimbabwe has inevitably collapsed for many reasons the major one being a collapsing economy and the resultant decline in inco...Published: 07 May 2016 at 10:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
PDP Weekly Economic Policy Brief - Social Services Delivery
Social services delivery in Zimbabwe has inevitably collapsed for many reasons the major one being a collapsing economy and the resultant decline in incomes. Zimbabweans have generally become unhealth...Published: 06 May 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Who has ruined Zimbabwe's economy?
President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday displayed his lack of confidence in the economy, which he presided over its demise, when he told the media that Zimbabwe will never equal the growth and scope of t...Published: 11 Apr 2015 at 09:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T: Last Supper Petition - Step down Mr Mugabe
THE OFFICE OF THE Movement for Democratic ChangeYouth Assembly South Africa MDC-TSVANGIRAI 20th Febr...Published: 26 Feb 2015 at 20:52hrs | 2 | by Tapiwa Diamond Chadya
2015 National Budget is nothing but hot air, Zanu PF remains clueless
The 2015 National Budget presented late November is another clear indication that Zanu PF government continues to run the country in a toxic and retrogressive manner.Sadly, for the people of Z...Published: 03 Jan 2015 at 05:02hrs | 1 | by Elton Mangoma
Zanu-PF Congress update 6 December 2014 - Live
Congress update 6 December 20141000: Delegates are flocking in for the 5th day of the Zanu-PF congress. Among them are Simbaneuta Mudarikwa, Sydney Sekeramayi, Biggie Matiza, David Chapfika, A...Published: 06 Dec 2014 at 16:51hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ultimatum for President Robert Mugabe to step down
A Harare based journalist and publisher Itai Dzamara has delivered by hand in person a letter to President Robert Mugabe demanding him to step down from government.Dzamara has given the Pr...Published: 17 Oct 2014 at 16:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Conflicts in the MDC and Zanu-PF built over decades are divine
When the indigenous people are at the fore front of the struggle for economic, social and political freedom, then we are in the true atmosphere for Real Change. When the poor people, jobless...Published: 16 Sep 2014 at 13:36hrs | 5 | by Bishop Happison Chikova
'700+ companies shut down since the election,' says Tsvangirai
1. IntroductionIt is not every day that a people gather to commemorate theft but only last month, our colleagues in Zanu PF chose to hold a grossl...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 10:55hrs | | by Morgan Tsvangirai
Non-Governmental Organizations not living up to their mandate
The term Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) encompasses a wide variety of organizations which include Private Voluntary Organization (PVOs), Civil Society and Non-Profit Organizations which are...Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 20:24hrs | 2 | by Peacemaker Zano
'Mugabe is going nowhere'
Despite his advanced age and the mounting economic woes the country is grappling with, President Robert Mugabe is not leaving office yet, with his closest ally in Zanu-PF Didymus Mutasa yesterda...Published: 11 May 2014 at 14:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Experts question Afro Barometer 'findings' in Zimbabwe
The Afro-Barometer study released on Tuesday suggests that there's been a rapid fall in poverty in Zimbabwe since 2008.Neither those living in exclusive gated communities nor corporate compani...Published: 06 Oct 2013 at 17:09hrs | 1 | by SABC I Shingai Nyoka
Thokozani Khuphe on rising maternal mortality in Zimbabwe
Statement by Deputy Prime Minister, Thokozani Khupe on rising maternal mortality in ZimbabweIt is disheartening to note that the number of women in Zimb...Published: 26 Apr 2012 at 11:40hrs | | by Thokozani Khuphe
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