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Zimbabwean loan shark jailed in the UK
A Birmingham caregiver who engaged in illegal loan shark transactions, collecting £350,000 and charging a 20% interest rate, has been sentenced to jail.Tecla Bandawe, driven by greed, provide...Published: 02 Oct 2023 at 09:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt turns heat on land barons
GOVERNMENT has warned that it would soon impose harsh measures against land barons if they continue causing land degradation and exploiting home seekers.Addressing a Press conference in Harare...Published: 28 Feb 2023 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Spilling Umguza dam reignites hope for good harvest
THE spilling of Lower Umguza Dam in Matabeleland North province has brought smiles among farmers and rekindled their hope of recording a bumper harvest. Lower Umguza Dam is a major source of p...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 07:32hrs | 73 | by Staff Reporter
National dam levels start to rise
The national dam level has risen to 81,2 percent compared to 57,9 percent normally expected during this time of the year following the rains that have pounded the country.Most cities and towns...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 21:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Residents resist BCC tariff hikes
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) yesterday bowed to pressure from residents and slightly slashed its proposed 2022 budget by $900 million, with the tariff regime going down by 16 percent.During las...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mosquitoes give Bulawayo residents sleepless nights
HOVERING seamlessly at ear level with a persistent and incommodious whine, mosquitoes leave you with bites that subsequently lead to itchy and puffy welts.With their slender segmented body, a ...Published: 07 Oct 2021 at 07:28hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo records rise in malnutrition
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) says it has recorded a sharp increase in malnutrition cases in the past few months owing to a prolonged Covid-19-induced lockdown. This comes as at least2 0...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo wetlands houses saved
THE Bulawayo City Council has reassured residents that not all the 460 houses built on wetlands will be demolished as the local authority is working with the Environmental Management Agency (Ema) to c...Published: 28 Mar 2021 at 06:48hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo sued over floods
TWO Chitungwiza residents have taken Local Government minister July Moyo and the local authority to court over the poor drainage system in the town, which is causing flooding. Several houses i...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 09:48hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe likely to lose wetlands by 2040'
AT least 61% of wetlands in Zimbabwe are moderately degraded and the country is likely to lose its entire natural water reservoirs by 2040 if efforts to conserve them are not strengthened, Environment...Published: 03 Feb 2021 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Demolitions for wetland settlers
PEOPLE that built houses and businesses on wetlands must expect demolitions after the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) ordered them to vacate the land before it institutes prosecutions or demolit...Published: 18 Jan 2021 at 05:54hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Steer clear of loan sharks
"Sir, if those assets just decrease by 25% and they remain on our books, that loss will be greater than the entire market capitalisation of this company," said a young risk analyst named Peter Sulliva...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:48hrs | 9 | by Batanai Matsika
Chiwenga's 'brother' implicated as foreign firms defy govt ban on river bank mining
FOREIGN-LINKED companies - particularly from China and Belarus - are deploying heavy machinery to river banks to mine for gold under the guise that they are desilting the watercourses, it has emerged....Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:21hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Senditoo becomes cheapest money remittance service after slashing all fees
Senditoo has cut its remittance fees meaning that all customers who send money to Zimbabwe will not be charged for their transactions. This will make the money transfer company one of the cheapest mon...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 09:07hrs | 2 | by Loma Media
Zimra collects US$18,5 million forex from retailers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has so far collected almost US$18,5 million in value added tax (VAT) from retailers selling goods and services in foreign currency, it has been learnt.Go...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF meets as tension rises
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow chair two crucial Zanu-PF meetings in Harare as he battles to deal with the twin challenges of Zimbabwe's worsening economic crisis, as well as mounting disc...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will tomorrow chair two crucial Zanu-PF meetings in Harare as he battles to deal with the twin challenges of Zimbabwe's worsening economic crisis, as well as mounting disc...Published: 24 Oct 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZAPU/ZIPRA opens fresh probe into Kezi human bones saga
Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) war veterans association have opened a fresh probe into Kezi human bones saga.This comes after the conti...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 07:30hrs | 11 | by Bakidzanani Dube
Govt targets value addition says Mnangagwa
Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa says government is targeting value addition and penetrating the export markets as there is potential of increased agricultural production under the command agricult...Published: 07 Jun 2017 at 19:09hrs | | by Staff Reporter
New suburbs for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has identified land adjacent to Cowdray Park high-density suburb and Ngozi Mine for development into a residential area to reduce its housing waiting list.The p...Published: 22 Mar 2017 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Council to slash residents' maize
Bulawayo City Council is planning to carry out its traditional slashing of maize cultivated along streams and open spaces in the city.Council officials say they have no regrets about the...Published: 19 Jan 2017 at 03:25hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Harare drinking water polluted - UZ
An environmentalist and professor with the University of Zimbabwe, Christopher Magadza has claimed that millions of Harare residents are drinking contaminated water.He said most of the city's ...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 09:41hrs | 14 | by Staff Reporter
Court order against illegal settlers ignored by police
A court eviction order to seventy illegal settlers in ward 29 Edmond stone farm Mvurwi has since been swept under the carpet by law enforcement agents.Police told Bulawayo24 that there have no...Published: 30 Sep 2016 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Komboni Yatsva
Govt looking for funds to drill boreholes in need areas- Minister Muchinguri
Environment, water and climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri has said the government is still mobilising funds for the drilling of boreholes in needy areas such as Hwange West.Speaking in parliame...Published: 21 May 2016 at 10:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mahindra Comviva Wins the Kalahari Awards 2016 for EcoCash Savings Club in Zimbabwe
New Delhi/Lagos - Mahindra Comviva, the global leader in providing mobility solutions, and EcoCash, the leading mobile money service provider in Zimbabwe are the joint winners at the 6th edition of th...Published: 04 Feb 2016 at 13:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Hike in Bank Charges Ugly
I wish to sound disgruntlement with the recent hike of bank charges by banks. So far I haven't found any proper justification why they effected that at a time when the economy is on the decline....Published: 24 Sep 2014 at 09:55hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Could steward bank be to Zimbabwe what Equity bank is to Kenya?
Though the economies of Zimbabwe and Kenya may be following different paths altogether, parallels can be drawn between the two Sub Saharan Africa countries. Like most African countries, the Financial...Published: 23 Jan 2014 at 08:27hrs | | by Perry Munzwembiri
'Council to slash maize'
Harare City Council has called upon residents to stop growing crops in unsanctioned areas, warning they risk having their crops slashed.The start of the rainy season has seen residents plantin...Published: 13 Nov 2013 at 01:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Climate change migration in Zimbabwe
A community meeting at a remote business centre south-east of the city of Mutare in September this year was highly charged. Villagers from some parts of Mpudzi Resettlement Scheme in Mutare distri...Published: 06 Nov 2013 at 03:13hrs | 9 | by Andrew Mambondiyani
RBZ to raise minimum capital requirements for microfinance institutions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe plans to raise minimum capital requirements for microfinance institutions from the present US$25 000 to US$5 million as part of a cocktail of measures the central bank sai...Published: 13 May 2013 at 19:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Relief as heavy rains pound Bulawayo
HEAVY rains yesterday pounded Bulawayo and parts of Matabeleland North and South provinces, breaking the dry spell that had dominated most parts of the Southern region in the last two months.T...Published: 16 Jan 2013 at 03:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Econet set to be the biggest bank in Zimbabwe
Mobile operator Econet Wireless is venturing into the financial services sector after the success of its money transfer service Ecocash and its reported acquisition of a stake in TN Bank.Deput...Published: 29 Apr 2012 at 15:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
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