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How to access regulated platforms and manage desktop-based trading safely
Online trading has developed into a widely used financial activity supported by various technologies. Traders now rely on structured platforms and tools to carry out transactions securely and effe...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:17hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
BCC considers blacklisting debtors
THE Bulawayo City Council is reportedly considering blacklisting some of its bad debtors as it continues to explore avenues of boosting revenue collection.The move comes as the city's debtors ...Published: 25 Jun 2023 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Man in court for defrauding civil servants
A KUWADZANA man is in court facing charges of defrauding a civil servant after claiming that he had a company that could issue them with loans.The accused, Wylie Ligomeka (41) was today remand...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa chides CCC MPs for getting US$40 000 loans
CITIZENS' Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says the US$40 000 loans given to legislators were in fact bribes to stop the MPs from speaking out against ongoing looting.He says a...Published: 03 Dec 2022 at 18:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
80-year Mtshabezi dream comes to life
MTSHABEZI Irrigation Scheme in Gwanda District, Matabeleland South, had been a pipe dream for over 80 years, but is now up and running, as has become the norm under the Second Republic.Last ye...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
All Zimbabweans must benefit from mineral Resources: Zimcodd
THE Zimbabwe Coalition of Debt and Development has reported that in the week under review, Zimbabwe registered a big milestone in the mining of Platinum Group Minerals (PGMs) with the addition o...Published: 07 Apr 2022 at 11:08hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Economic crisis: MPs feel the heat
LegisLaTors are failing to visit their constituencies because of inadequate fuel as well as failure by Parliament to pay their sitting allowances on time due to economic hardships.The legislat...Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maize deliveries exceed targets
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) says it has received deliveries of 56 000 tonnes of maize and is anticipating the deliveries to reach 65 000 tonnes by the end of May, an increase from their projected ...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sugarcane farmers to fund Zanu-PF
The Commercial Sugarcane Farmers Association of Zimbabwe (CSFAZ) chairperson Addmore Hwarare has suggested a stop order facility for members of his organisation who mill their cane with Tongaat Hulett...Published: 22 May 2021 at 19:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reprieve for Command Agric 'looters'
Farmers under Command Agriculture who failed to repay their loans at the end of last season owing to drought and the Covid-19-induced national lockdown, have been granted a huge relief after Governmen...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 07:50hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Expelled MDC lawmakers taken to court over vehicles
Zimbabwe's parliament has gone to court to demand back vehicles issued to 19 former MDC Alliance MPs and Senators who were controversially expelled by the MDC-T party.Also being sued with the ...Published: 15 Mar 2021 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean agriculture recovery in motion
ZIMBABWE is an agrarian economy and has huge potential to produce enough for its people and surplus that can be exported to generate foreign currency. However, there is a puzzling divergence between i...Published: 28 Feb 2021 at 10:43hrs | 3 | by Dr John Basera
Mine defies order to remit $152 000 union dues
Rio De Ore Mine in Inyathi, Matabeleland North has defied a court order compelling it to remit outstanding dues amounting to $152 000 deducted from employees' salaries and payable to the National Unio...Published: 16 Feb 2021 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
150 jobless as Inyathi mine closes
RIO De Ore Mine in Inyathi, Matabeleland North province, has terminated employment contracts for 150 workers saying it was winding down operations.This came soon after it was served with a cou...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's recalled MPs refusing to return 'Parliament' vehicles
THE GOVERNMENT has issued a stern warning to recalled MDC legislators who are refusing to return vehicles they got under parliament's car loan scheme.Thokozani Khupe, who was declared the legi...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco income down 76%
TOBACCO sales have generated $19,4 million in the first 17 days of the marketing season this year compared to $81 million realised over the same period last year, statistics from the industry regulato...Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt, Zimra authorities in standoff over 2% tax
A standoff - which disrupted the start of the tobacco marketing season last week - has erupted between the Finance Ministry and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) over the operationalisation of th...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Food security, cornerstone of Zimbabwe economic growth
The rains which have been falling since Thursday signal the commencement of the 2018/19 farming season. It is now incumbent upon every able-bodied Zimbabwean to put their shoulder to the wheel and hel...Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 14:03hrs | 9 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa puts Mutsvangwa to the sword
Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet responsible for presidential communications George Charamba (GC) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former special advisor, Chris Mutsvangwa, shoul...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 18:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to realign Stop Order Act
GOVERNMENT has been urged to revisit the Farmers Stop Order Act, in order to protect contractors and all financial institutions against small scale tobacco farmers who are side-marketing their crops....Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa seeks to recover US$1bn
ZIMBABWE'S power utility, Zesa, is ratcheting up pressure on its defaulting consumers to cough up more than US$1 billion in unpaid bills by, among other measures, getting into stop order arrangements ...Published: 18 May 2018 at 08:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chihuri, mistress in messy child support row
Retired Commissioner General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP), Augustine Chihuri is embroiled in a messy maintenance wrangle, B-Metro can exclusively reveal.In court documents exclusively...Published: 16 Feb 2018 at 06:28hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt recovers 66% Command Agric loans
THE Government has so far recovered $47,7 million of the loans it issued under Command Agriculture Revolving Fund, which translates to 66 percent of its target of $72 million, while 10 000 farmers are...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police stop teachers' demo
POLICE last week stopped a march by teachers who intended to protest the continued deduction of money from some civil servants' salaries through the Salary Services Bureau (SSB) stop order system by l...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 13:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt deploys soldiers to supervise harvesting of maize
HARARE - Government has deployed soldiers to supervise the harvesting of maize produced under the Command Agriculture programme in a bid to prevent side-marketing of the crop.The move is also ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:59hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants defrauded by loan sharks
LOAN sharks are deducting money from civil servants salaries through the Salary Services Bureau (SSB)'s stop order system ostensibly to service non-existent loans without prior approval from the worke...Published: 16 Jul 2017 at 13:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Command Agric to be audited
THE Command Agriculture Programme will be subjected to an audit by the Auditor-General's Office to ensure transparency and accountability, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has said. Th...Published: 07 Jul 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's command agriculture exposé in full
Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa last week reacted angrily to a report by The Standard revealing that his ministry had ignored internal advice that the command agriculture financing model was flawed...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Command Agriculture bombshell
The government's claims that its much-touted command agriculture is funded by a private company are false and the programme could sink Zimbabwe into bankruptcy, this paper reveals today.Vice-P...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Farmer in trouble for side marketing
A Tobacco farmer from Mvuramachema farm in Guruve, Mashonaland Central was fined $150 for side marketing.He is accused of contravening section 24(1) (a) of Stop Order Act chapter 18:11....Published: 08 May 2017 at 22:23hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
New housing scheme set for civil servants
Civil servants will buy residential properties under the State-administered National Housing Scheme at between US$5 100 and US$72 000.A schedule from the Local Government, Public Works and Nat...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 00:58hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Civil servants stands scheme begins
THE Government will roll out the civil servants housing scheme this month and the process begins with workers signing stop order forms, an official has said.Local Government, Public Works ...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Olivia Muchena sued
FORMER Higher and Tertiary Education minister, Olivia Muchena has been dragged to court by Parliament of Zimbabwe which is seeking to recover $32 653 the ex-Mutoko MP still owed under a vehicle lo...Published: 08 Mar 2017 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accuse Chidyausiku of violating the constitution
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has accused Retired Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku of violating the constitution by appointing retired judge, Justice Vernanda Ziyambi to serve as an acting ju...Published: 07 Mar 2017 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sipepa Nkomo sued over $44 000 loans
PARLIAMENT has filed a combined $44 361 lawsuit against former Water Resources minister Samuel Sipepa Nkomo and his wife, Roselene, over outstanding vehicle loans advanced to them during their ten...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly sues former MPs
AT least 19 former legislators who were expelled from Parliament two years ago have been dragged to court over failure to repay vehicle loans totalling $364 000.The loans were extended to all ...Published: 18 Feb 2017 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chinamasa stealing from government workers
Recent confessions by the Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, that the government is in arrears to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars in remittances for civil servants pensions, medical a...Published: 08 Feb 2017 at 12:45hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
Parliament sues ex-MPs over $258,000 car loans
PARLIAMENT has descended heavily on six former legislators, who left without servicing their vehicle loans.Former Zanu-PF chief whip, Kudakwashe Bhasikiti (Mwenezi East) and ex-Energy mini...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
900 000 farmers queue for Command Agric
Over 900 000 farmers have so far applied to participate in Government's Command Agriculture programme, with Zesa pledging to ensure consistent electricity supplies to farming areas this season. Go...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:09hrs | | by Livingstone Marufu
UZ flushing out lecturers without at least a PhD
University of Zimbabwe Vice Chancellor Professor Levi Nyagura has defended the institution's decision to introduce a second intake per year, at a time it has also embarked on flushing out lecturers wi...Published: 08 Mar 2016 at 05:28hrs | 1 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Stop Order Act to be amended
Government will amend the Stop Order Act in an effort to protect lending institutions and curb side marketing of crops.It is anticipated that the move will help improve financing of agricultur...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
GMB pays $67,8m to farmers
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) has cleared $67,8 million it owed to farmers for grain deliveries made between 2013 and this year. Announcing the 2016 national budget last week, Finance and Economic D...Published: 30 Nov 2015 at 05:42hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Bulawayo business mogul dragged to court
Bulawayo businessman Raj Modi has been dragged to court by a local company dealing in electronic cash transfers for failing to remit almost $300,000 in unpaid commission for services rendered. ...Published: 21 Sep 2015 at 07:24hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
Chinamasa speaks out on Mugabe's bonuses directive
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday said President Mugabe's directive to reinstate civil servants bonuses will be implemented as directed saying the announcement of ...Published: 20 Apr 2015 at 08:32hrs | | by Tendai Mugabe
Stranded MPs refuse to pay for air-tickets
The 27 Members of Parliament who got stranded in China after missing their flight back home have said they will not pay the balance left for the cost of their air-tickets covering the trip organised b...Published: 08 Jul 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
Steward Bank launches product suite for Zimbabweans living in the Diaspora
Steward Bank has launched a suite of innovative Diaspora Banking products targeted at Zimbabweans living, working or studying abroad. The product suite was unveiled by Steward Bank CE...Published: 11 May 2014 at 13:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in economic, political crisis - Biti
THIS is the first part of a series of MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti's address to a SAPES Trust Policy Dialogue on March 6, 2014 in which he gives his take on th...Published: 17 Mar 2014 at 09:41hrs | | by Tendai Biti
Zim govt rips off civil servants
The cash-strapped Zimbabwe government is failing to remit money deducted from civil servants' salaries for credit facilities, straining relations between the State and its workers.As a result,...Published: 06 Mar 2014 at 11:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Two in court for defrauding a finance company
TWO suspected Harare fraudsters appeared in court last Friday charged with defrauding a finance company, Cover Link Finance, of thousands of dollars through a dubious loan scheme.Ishmael Muta...Published: 11 Nov 2013 at 03:27hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Mutodi late for court, prosecutor applies for warrant of arrest
FLAMBOYANT Rhumba musician Energy Mutodi, who is facing allegations of defrauding desperate home seekers of close to US$2 million, yesterday was late at court prompting the prosecutor to apply for a w...Published: 01 Oct 2013 at 02:54hrs | | by Staff Report
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