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NRZ eyes new passenger coaches to win back public trust
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) urgently needs new passenger coaches to resume its transportation services and compete with private buses in terms of ambience and speed, according to General M...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 15:29hrs | 3507 | by Staff reporter
Mr Kudzai Mutisi, the German 'Economic wonder' after the WW2 had multiple favourable factors!
I am writing this article as a reply to your article you wrote last week: My article is not in any way or form critiquing your own but including factors that must be known, but, however, adding to wha...Published: 20 Mar 2024 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
'Parents can pay examination fees in Zimdollar'
The Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council has opened a one week window for parents and guardians to pay examination fees for the June 2024 Ordinary and Advanced Level examinations in local currency at ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a good farmer but then...
While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Sherwood, near Kwekwe, is doing well and is often used to showcase isolated success stories of the state-sponsored chaotic land reform p...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parents call for a downward review of Zimsec exam registration fees
WITH about a month left before the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) 2024 examination registration deadline, parents have called for a downward review of the registration fees.Whil...Published: 22 Feb 2024 at 04:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec opens registration for June and November 2024 examinations
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has announced the opening of registrations for the ZIMSEC June and November 2024 Examinations.The registration fees are now pegged in USD but ...Published: 19 Feb 2024 at 16:03hrs | 34 | by Staff reporter
Parents plead for reduction of exam fees
PARENTS and guardians have implored the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to consider reviewing downwards the June and November examination fees for Ordinary and Advanced level candidates,...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec sets registration dates
Dates for the registration of those sitting the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) examinations in June and November this year have now been set and parents and guardians need to be in cont...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 04:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec announces 2024 exam fees
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (ZIMSEC) has unveiled the examination fees for the 2024 Ordinary and Advanced Level exams. The government will subsidize 55 percent of the total cost for stude...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 09:36hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
How is the world combating rising energy prices?
Every country is approaching higher than typical energy prices we’re all facing right now in different ways. Rather than compare one country with another and create a piece that can be out of date t...Published: 07 Feb 2024 at 12:42hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Lake Gwayi-Shangani completion date unknown, might take decades
THE completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani which might take ages will see Matabeleland South also benefiting from the project through increased land under irrigation as dams which are currently supplying B...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 04:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani to benefit Matebeleland South
THE completion of Lake Gwayi-Shangani will see Matebeleland South also benefiting from the project through increased land under irrigation as dams which are currently supplying Bulawayo with water wil...Published: 29 Jan 2024 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why ZANU-PF Wins elections
Since 1980, ZANU PF has lost in two elections. They lost the 2000 referendum which forced the incumbent president to go with the old constitution albeit with later amendments which largely undermined ...Published: 02 Sep 2023 at 10:43hrs | 1 | by Moses Moyo
Multichoice believes Zimbabwe may prove a better market than Nigeria
Multichoice, which is banking on economic and monetary policy reforms in Nigeria to offset exchange rate losses, considers Zimbabwe an important market that is better than its West African counterpart...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 09:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
President Ruto asks Africans to ditch the US Dollar
President William Ruto has asked African leaders to take first steps towards ditching the globally-bullish US dollar by signing up to a pan-African payments system to facilitate trade within the conti...Published: 30 May 2023 at 22:32hrs | | by Erick Matotoba
Are investors in African equities poised for wins amidst global turmoil?
It has been a tumultuous first quarter of 2023, and African equities have not been spared.Global markets started the year on a very positive note, with the S&P 500 up 9.0% at its peak in e...Published: 12 May 2023 at 11:17hrs | 7 | by Rami Hajjar, portfolio manager of the Allan Gray Africa ex-SA Equity Fund
Zimbabwe electricity supply improves
With the Zambezi River Authority having just allocated Zesa extra Lake Kariba water to generate an average of 500MW at Kariba South, and Hwange 7 generating its designed net output of 300MW, the gener...Published: 26 Apr 2023 at 06:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimsec extends June registration deadline
PARENTS have welcomed the extension of the June examination registration period for Ordinary and Advanced level by the Zimbabwe School Examination Council (Zimsec) from 15 March to Friday this week....Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 07:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Public workers want Parly to investigate PSMAS
The civil service workers umbrella body has called on Parliament to probe into just what is happening at Premier Service Medical Aid Society that has resulted in health facilities owned by its subsidi...Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 05:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Causes of food inflation in Zimbabwe
The World Bank recently released a report of the countries hardest hit by food inflation in the world. Zimbabwe tops that list with food inflation of 353% in the month of August 2022, beating Lebanon ...Published: 16 Dec 2022 at 00:11hrs | 9 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnagagwa's son and Mrs Tagwirei added to US sanctions list
WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated four Zimbabwean individuals and two Zimbabwea...Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 22:40hrs | 1 | by Staff Reports
Zimbabwe now one of the fastest growing African economies
ANALYSING Zimbabwe's unconventional economy always proves somewhat cumbersome because it is a country bridled with policy inconsistency, unfavourable operating conditions buoyed by decades of unilater...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 19:32hrs | | by Respect Gwenzi
Civil servants get lion's share
SALARIES for civil servants are set to go up markedly after the Government allocated the biggest chunk of the 2023 National Budget towards the public sector wage bill to cushion workers from the negat...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's draft electric vehicles policy ready
Zimbabwe is almost ready to adopt the electric vehicles (EVs) technology, with the draft Electric Mobility Policy Framework and Roadmap now in place but being refined.This was said by Ms Munas...Published: 18 Nov 2022 at 05:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Drones help NRZ recover stolen equipment
THE National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has recovered the bulk of its stolen equipment following the massive capacitation of its loss control unit in terms of human resources and acquisition of drones...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zambia bails out starving Zimbabwe
NEIGHBOURING Zambia has come to the rescue of Zimbabwe with 200 000 tonnes (t) of maize to feed millions currently facing hunger in the country, NewsDay has gathered.Plans by Zimbabwe to impor...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's son-in-law captures Trevor Ncube's media group
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son in-law Gerald Mlotshwa - a prominent lawyer married to the ruling Zanu-PF leader's daughter Farai - has now formally bought a significant equity stake at the private...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:19hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Panic over Zimsec exams deadline
THOUSANDS of pupils and parents throughout the country are in panic mode after failing to secure registration fees for the 2022 Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) examinations whose deadlin...Published: 28 Jul 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parents worry about exam fee payment dates
Parents and guardians of children writing national public examination in November are concerned over the day when the local currency fees are set and the very narrow one-week window given to pay these...Published: 05 Jul 2022 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec clears air on forex exam fees
SCHOOLS that are pegging examination fees exclusively in foreign currency are flouting regulations set by the Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 06:55hrs | 16 | by Staff Reporter
Parly decries exorbitant Zimsec fees
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Primary and Secondary Education chairperson, Torerai Moyo says the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) November examination fees are beyond the reach...Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs wants govt to reduce exam fees
MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) in the National Assembly yesterday pleaded with government to reduce the 2022 Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) examination fees announced last week, saying the...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Food insecurity now a perennial threat
Zimbabwe is set to import 400 000 metric tonnes (MT) of Maize from Zambia and Malawi to be delivered this June to alleviate a food crisis in the country. This will cost the country at least US$120 mil...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 07:12hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Uproar over Zimsec US$ exam fees
AN announcement by the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to peg examination fees in United States dollars has sparked uproar from parents and guardians.They described the fees as u...Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec announces exam fees
The Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has announced November 2022 US$ pegged examination fees with the Government maintaining the 55 percent subsidy for candidates writing examinations in ...Published: 02 Jun 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
PTUZ appeals high exam fees
THE Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ) has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to intervene and reduce the recently announced examination fees because the majority of learners cannot a...Published: 12 May 2022 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Examination fees shocker
GOVERNMENT has raised examination fees by up to three times, and immediately attracted brickbats from weary parents.Many parents, still to come to terms with school fees hikes and already batt...Published: 09 May 2022 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco, NRZ in huge debt
AUDITOR-GENERAL Mildred Chiri has questioned the going concern status of four parastatals whose current liabilities exceed current assets and have been incurring losses running into millions of dollar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco costs Zimbabweans $1,2 billion in 1 year
GOVERNMENT pumped up to ZWL$1,2 billion (US$10 million) to subsidise the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) in 2020 alone without any supporting documents, Auditor General Mildred Chiri has dis...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 19:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube says was ‘wrong' to back Mnangagwa, renews Chamisa criticism
Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) owner Trevor Ncube has admitted he was "wrong" to assume President Emmerson Mnangagwa would govern better than Robert Mugabe.Ncube, one of Mnangagwa's biggest cheerl...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mulls fuel levy cuts
Zimbabwe has hinted it may further reduce fuel levies to stymie a sustained spike in the domestic price of petroleum products after global prices soared on market uncertainty due to the conflict betwe...Published: 21 Mar 2022 at 06:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube says Zimbabwean economy remains solid
Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube, has said the economy remains solid and on track to achieve projected growth rate despite threats of a subdued rainfall season as well...Published: 20 Mar 2022 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube sends mixed signals on fuel
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube this week sent mixed signals over the country's neo-liberal policy on fuel subsidy as policy inconsistency remains one of the major sources of concern for investors....Published: 19 Mar 2022 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Monetary Policy Analysis
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) presented its first monetary policy statement for 2022 on the 7th of February. The monetary policy comes after a 53.5% surge in foreign currency receipts from US$6.3...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 10 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mealie-meal price hike looms
A MASSIVE retail price hike for mealie meal is looming in Zimbabwe starting Friday after the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) substantially increased the price of maize.The price is set to rise by ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Policy incentives to reindustrialization lacking
Zimbabwe aspires to create an upper middle income economy with a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of US$65 billion by 2030. This vision is premised on the reindustrialization strategy where competitivenes...Published: 24 Nov 2021 at 10:35hrs | 11 | by Victor Bhoroma
Milling company splits groceries unit
LISTED milling company, National Foods Limited, is splitting its groceries unit into the down-packed and traded goods units while US$4 million has been planned for investment into additional cereal ma...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ speaks on Wheat pricing
The Grain Millers Association,in a statement,said,the recently announced producer price of wheat,which will see the commodity selling at ZW$55.517.69 per ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 15:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole / Tarisai Mudahondo
Sakunda seals record sponsorship with Bosso
A company linked to corruption involving billions of dollars is set to be unveiled as the flagship sponsor of Zimbabwe's two biggest football clubs, Dynamos and Highlanders.Sakunda Holdings, w...Published: 12 Sep 2021 at 12:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
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