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Parliament wants Zinara boss fired
THE Tendai Biti led parliamentary committee has demanded the firing of one of the senior executives at the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara). During yesterday's hearing, Parliamen...Published: 17 hrs ago | 1617 | by Staff reporter
Kombi operators hike fares
Transport operators in Mutare have hiked fares for short distance trips by 50 cents, claiming loss of business due to fuel shortages. Commuter omnibuses to Dangamvura, Fern Valley and Zimunya yesterda...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1718 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube secured $500 million loan using platinum as collateral?
Bloomberg has reported that the much hyped $500 million loan that is supposed to be injected in the market from Tuesday was acquired from the African Export-Import Bank by offering platinum prod...Published: 20 May 2019 at 21:57hrs | 2370 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Load shedding and the long fuel queues
Zimbabwe has been gripped by the shortage of food stuffs unprecedented price hikes of two hundred percent and fuel drought. Each and every Zimbabwean feels the sharp impact of the economic chaos and s...Published: 20 May 2019 at 10:57hrs | 2731 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF welcomes back prodigal son, Didymus Mutasa
Long-serving Zanu-PF member Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the party at the height of factionalism and readmitted in October last year after spending two years in the wilderness is retracing hi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 619 | by Staff reporter
Kapini not happy about Bosso situation
FORMER Highlanders' eccentric goalkeeper and captain, Tapuwa Kapini, has added his voice to the growing concern over the Bulawayo giants' poor start to the 2019 season, urging the entire Bosso family ...Published: 15 May 2019 at 23:47hrs | 2102 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans spend $1,5m on candles
THE majority of people in rural areas who have no access to electricity are spending at least $1, 5 million on candles annually, an official has said.Zonful Power Energy products' chief execut...Published: 15 May 2019 at 07:35hrs | 240 | by Staf reporter
Revival bus crew arrested in Beitbridge over 900 twists of mbanje
Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported that they have arrested a Revival bus crew who were travelling from South Africa to Bulawayo after a contraband of dagga was discovered in the luggage compartmen...Published: 14 May 2019 at 15:39hrs | 6070 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How Mugabe destroyed Zimbabwe
What do Slobodan Milosevic, Robert Mugabe, and Nicolás Maduro have in common? Other than being leaders who kept the Communist Manifesto at their bedside, all three ushered in devastating hyperinflati...Published: 14 May 2019 at 10:14hrs | 5282 | by Prof. Steve Hanke
Outrage over Zesa 'load-shedding'
ROLLING power cuts have intensified across the country despite repeated denials by Zesa that it has re-introduced load-shedding.Zesa last week issued a statement where it distanced itself from...Published: 12 May 2019 at 23:19hrs | 2052 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube speaks on military communication
Rtd Col Tshinga Dube speaks on military communication Military radio communicationToday we continue with our interview with Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube, the former Zipra chief of communicatio...Published: 12 May 2019 at 06:59hrs | 2323 | by Staff reporter
Pan African Parliament considers engaging civil society organisations wider
The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) members have requested the Bureau to consider civil society organisations from other countries rather than always using South African based ones.While debating...Published: 11 May 2019 at 18:53hrs | 338 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu PF has no intentions of solving Zimbabwe challenges
AS long as Zimbabwe remains a pariah State ruled by corrupt and vote-rigging people, there will be no meaningful economic recovery, that is a fact.If the nation is spending 44% of its income o...Published: 09 May 2019 at 18:56hrs | 1567 | by Wilvert Mukori
Chamisa's MDC not going back on congress
THE High Court yesterday nullified Nelson Chamisa's MDC presidency and ordered the party to organise an extra-ordinary congress to choose a new leader within a month, but the youthful opposition polit...Published: 09 May 2019 at 18:54hrs | 1849 | by STaff reporter
'GNU is the solution to disputed elections' - rigged, can't even get that detail right
It has taken nearly 40 years for some people to formulate the outline root causes of the country's economic meltdown and political paralysis - a pariah state ruled by corrupt and vote rigging thugs. A...Published: 08 May 2019 at 00:11hrs | 2566 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
'Zimdollar' talks gain momentum
PROMINENT industrialist and Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) member, Mr Busisa Moyo, has pleaded with Zimbabweans to have confidence in the ongoing processes of resolving prevailing currency distor...Published: 07 May 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1745 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean woman jailed 6 years for R720K SA auction fraud
A Johannesburg auctioneer still hasn't received a cent back from the Zimbabwean granny who defrauded him of antique goods and jewellery worth more than R700 000.Elizabeth Nyathi, 53, the forme...Published: 06 May 2019 at 22:05hrs | 2276 | by The Star
Chamisa betrays himself at Tsvangirayi's memorial
The global policy community has focused on the political challenges facing the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and paid little attention to the economic challenges.Yet without...Published: 06 May 2019 at 13:07hrs | 8604 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabweans eating less as economy deteriorates
THE widening gap between prices of food and stagnant wages has led to 44% of poor households in the urban areas spending more of their incomes on food, from 16% in 2016, a USAID official has said....Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:16hrs | 1005 | by Staff reporter
Belarus to set up state-of-the-art dairy facility in Zimbabwe
BELARUS has set sights on establishing a state-of-the-art dairy facility in Zimbabwe as part of efforts to improve milk production in the country.Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural R...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:48hrs | 476 | by Staff reporter
Faith is for low level Christians, to know God is the Apex
No one has ever seen oxygen, and yet, every second, we all breathe in oxygen. A very basic learner, needs to have Faith, as transition to know that oxygen exists. A lower than basic person, does not e...Published: 04 May 2019 at 23:44hrs | 1365 | by Ryton Dzimiri
Discipline key to new Zimbabwe economy
As Minister of Finance, I often feel frustrated that we don't live in a perfect world with perfect conditions. So many factors are out of our control; from natural disasters, to global events; from oi...Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:26hrs | 356 | by Professor Mthuli Ncube
Tsvangirai unites Mnangagwa, Chamisa supporters
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa's supporters have put aside their differences to attend today's high profile memorial service for the country's much-loved f...Published: 04 May 2019 at 19:42hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa spends $100 000 on talks
GOVERNMENT had by end of March spent at least $100 000 on luxurious hotel accommodation and meals for the losing July 30 2018 presidential election candidates involved in a dialogue process initiated ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 20:39hrs | 4109 | by Staff reporter
Discipline key to new economy
As Minister of Finance, I often feel frustrated that we don't live in a perfect world with perfect conditions. So many factors are out of our control; from natural disasters, to global events; from oi...Published: 03 May 2019 at 15:22hrs | 1807 | by Professor Mthuli Ncube
NetOne concerned about Bosso situation
HIGHLANDERS' sponsors NetOne are closely following events at the country's oldest club, which has been plunged into chaos over chief executive officer Nhlanhla Dube's contract and suspension of vice-c...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:40hrs | 908 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube says 'TSP reforms led to growth'
Implementation of reforms under the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) has averted the economy from being weakened by adverse exogenous factors, Finance and Economic Development Minister Profe...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:32hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
Workers not intimidated by Mnangagwa govt threats
IN SPITE of the hair-raising threats issued by Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema on Monday, government has been told to brace for wildcat protests as the country's embattled workers demand solutions ...Published: 01 May 2019 at 17:12hrs | 2938 | by Staff reporter
Dirty, dirty Harare water
The toxicity levels in Lake Chivero have reached alarming levels, twice the stipulated minimum, with Harare City Council spending US$3 million monthly on a cocktail of water treatment chemicals to rem...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:24hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Worsening period poverty in Zimbabwe calls for urgent action
For the first time since 2009, Zimbabwe's economy is projected to slide into a recession this year, with real GDP going down to -5.2%, the lowest economic growth rate in Africa this year. Inflation is...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 10:58hrs | 2771 | by Theresa Nyava
RBZ sabotaging Zimbabwe economic recovery
WHEN Mthuli Ncube was appointed Finance and Economic Development minister, he quickly took charge at the ministry, appointing a new permanent secretary and several directors and publishing a Transitio...Published: 29 Apr 2019 at 07:10hrs | 2168 | by Eddie Cross
Mugabe gets rare praises
If there is one thing that former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is commendable for – and coming from me, such a compliment is a bit of a jaw-dropping, tide turner – was his unwavering comm...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 14:02hrs | 10126 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
'If Mnangagwa rigged elections, leave him why put sanctions' argue Museveni - to stop him rigging again and again, idiot
There are many reasons why Africa is a continent dogged by poverty, war, corruption, disease, bad governance, etc., etc. One of the many reasons this is so is our inability to pay attention to detail....Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:00hrs | 3848 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tighten your belts till 2020, says Mthuli Ncube
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has said austerity measures adopted by government to cap expenditure and free up funds for capital projects are expected to ease the burden on the taxpayer next year....Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | 5630 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Chiwenga's armed convoy of 22 cars in Bulawayo
Exiled Professor Jonathan Moyo has posted a video footage of a convoy of 22 cars which was seen on Thursday in Bulawayo.Professor Moyo suggested that the convoy belongs to Vice Preside Rtd Gen...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 21:51hrs | 22809 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Realizing your dreams in the age of austerity
Zimbabwe's 2019 National Budget Statement, which was presented under the theme "Austerity for Prosperity," is generally aimed at correcting the fiscal imbalance that is mainly responsible for high inf...Published: 25 Apr 2019 at 08:59hrs | 893 | by Mapozho Saruchera
Mutodi tells Mnangagwa to form Inclusive Government with Chamisa
The Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity & Broadcasting and a well established Mnangagwa ally Energy Mutodi has implored on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to consider setting up an inclusive go...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 19:54hrs | 23294 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Can Zimbabwe manage to de-dollarize
The Zimbabwean government has indicated that a local currency will be introduced in the next 12 months in a move widely believed to be a precursor to joining the Common Monitory Area (CMA), also refer...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 15:18hrs | 6152 | by Victor Bhoroma
Banks move to arrest card cloning incidents
AN increase in cases of bank card cloning fraud has resulted in some banks suspending balance inquiry on all merchant point of sale (POS) devices. Card-cloning is the production of counterfeit...Published: 23 Apr 2019 at 07:04hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Where is Mnangagwa taking us to?
I DROVE up the window of the tollgate and the man on duty asked me: "Eddie, where are we going?" He was not asking what my destination was, but where did I think the country was going.Last nig...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 8797 | by Eddie Cross
It's time for South Africa to rethink the economy
ON May 8, South Africans go to the polls to choose their next governing party for the next five years. The election this year marks the country's sixth general election since the dawn of democracy in ...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:37hrs | 235 | by Tapiwa Gomo
'Zimbabwe public finances in bad shape'
ZIMBABWE'S public finance management is characterised by growing fiscal leakages, lack of transparency, accountability and continuous violation of legal and constitutional provisions, the Zimbabwe Coa...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:36hrs | 420 | by Staff reporter
Death stalks Mnangagwa family
President Emerson Mnangagwa, former president Robert Mugabe, and all the architects of Gukurahundi - the 1980s massacre of unarmed civilians in Matabeleland and the Midlands - carry a deadly curse tha...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:35hrs | 47986 | by Methusi Ncube
Chamisa is Ndebele Closest Saviour, Dear Thulani
Thulani Nkala, I have always respected your passion for Zimbabwe to succeed, and I still do, apart from the fact that...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 17:00hrs | 4268 | by Multiverse Dungani
Rebirth of the Zimdollar
Zimbabwean central bank authorities have a traceable record of overnight monetary policy changes. Memories of the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono era of monetary policy hip-...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1418 | by Paddington Masamha
Can Zimbabwe manage to de-dollarise?
THE Zimbabwean government has indicated that a local currency will be introduced in the next 12 months in a move widely believed to be a precursor to joining the Common Monetary Area (CMA), also refer...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:08hrs | 760 | by Victor Bhoroma
Freebie-hunting teens raped after binge
TWO teenagers believed they could get drunk without spending their money but feeding off grown men until tragedy struck.The two (names withheld) from Pumula suburb one day found their target a...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:52hrs | 3277 | by Staff reporter
Woman in false maintenance suit
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.A bitter woman from Kwekwe sued a former boyfriend for $230 maintenance for a non-existent eight-year-old child.Her reason for the strange suit w...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 07:50hrs | 1251 | by Staff reporter
MDC official finally buried
THE family of an MDC Highfield district executive who reportedly died after being abducted during Shutdown Zimbabwe protests in January finally managed to bury their relative yesterday following an in...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:19hrs | 882 | by Staff reporter
Meat shortages loom
ZIMBABWE'S livestock industry is under strain and shortages of pork, chicken and beef are imminent after the price of feed shot up following the removal of grain subsidies by government, an industry o...Published: 18 Apr 2019 at 07:09hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
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