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15 Muzarabani villagers drink contaminated water
FIFTEEN Muzarabani villagers from Muringazuva village in ward 8 allegedly stole builders' water which was in a drum used for construction before drinking it and got seven others hospitalised due to co...Published: 7 hrs ago | 445 | by Simbarashe Sithole
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areas
The MDC's chequered stewardship of our urban areasNobleman RunyangaThe opposition party, the MDC cut its teeth into elections in 2000. Since then it has been winning almost the same lo...Published: 10 hrs ago | 422 | by Nobleman Runyanga
FSG distances itself from a funeral business
Fert Seed and Grain (FSG) managing director Steve Morland yesterday distanced his company from a funeral business with a similar name as Parliament grilled him over the $400 million the fertiliser fir...Published: 14 hrs ago | 481 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar crashes further
THE Zimbabwean dollar this week continued its downward spiral after a momentary lull last week following the central bank moved to freeze bank accounts of companies believed to be exerting downward pr...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 19:39hrs | 5240 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa and the demon of patriarchy
In the past few weeks – ironically as late as last Friday – Zimbabwe's restive but graphically acerbic social media has been abuzz with one subject – the seemingly endangered rights of women and...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 11:54hrs | 4501 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Questions arising from Treasury's strategy paper
THREE official documents published in recent weeks paint a different, but fundamentally depressing pictures of Zimbabwe's economy. All pose more questions than answers, leaving readers to ponder the m...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 323 | by Tony Hawkins
Parliament probes botched govt truck deal
SOLUTIONS Motors owner Patrick Siyawamwaya yesterday came under fire in Parliament after his company got a US$518 850 contract from the Department of Irrigation to supply 10 trucks in 2017, but only s...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:49hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
All bark, no bite: The case of Zacc
THE November 2017 coup brought new dreams and hopes among the citizens, many who believed the new regime would knock corruption off very high perch. However, after ad infinitum calls against the corru...Published: 15 Oct 2019 at 07:46hrs | 204 | by Cliff Chiduku
Chemplex to supply water chemicals to all local authorities
Government has reappointed Chemplex Corporation, the country's largest chemical and fertiliser maker as the sole water chemicals' provider for all local authorities as a measure to promote import subs...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:25hrs | 114 | by Staff reporter
Unlocking Zimbabwe's dead capital
Agriculture remains central to Zimbabwe' economic revival hopes even though its contribution has declined to less than 12% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2018. Agriculture has strong backward and ...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 15:18hrs | 77 | by Victor Bhoroma
Rural Namibians pin hopes for prosperous future on tourism lodges & hunting despite animal rights' anti-use threats
Namibian rural communities are impressively running lodge and hunting agreements to reduce poverty in seemingly lifeless but wildlife rich semi-desert landscapes, despite the western animal rights gro...Published: 14 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 56 | by Emmanuel Koro
RBZ's TBs auction hit by low uptake again
A paltry $72 million out of the $150 million Treasury Bills (TBs) auctioned last week was subscribed, an apparent indication the market has no appetite for the sovereign paper.This is the seco...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 08:14hrs | 646 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to ratify business agreement with UK
Zimbabwe has begun the process of ratifying a bilateral trade agreement signed with Britain, as Harare moves to fully join other countries lined up by London, in its economic link plan under the Brexi...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:59hrs | 210 | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station set for US$3,6m refurbishment
Power utility, Zesa, is undertaking a US$3,6 million refurbishment of Hwange Thermal Power Station Unit 6 expected to be complete in December.Completion of the works will pave way for the Zimb...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter
How Nhari, Badza rebels were 'crushed'
Last week, freedom fighter Parker Chipoyera told Levi Mukarati of an uprising famously called the Nhari-Badza rebellion during the liberation struggle. The revolt, according to Parker, s...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:54hrs | 486 | by Staff reporter
Harare dirty water recycled thrice daily
Massive pollution and "heavy siltation" of Harare's main source of drinking water, Lake Chivero, is now forcing the Harare City Council (HCC) to clean its filtration plant - which treats water that co...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:53hrs | 122 | by Staff reporter
Price madness continues
Prices of goods and services in Zimbabwe are pegged at an average of 50 percent above those obtaining in South Africa despite relative convergence between the Rand and the local unit on the interbank ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:38hrs | 751 | by Staff reporter
Harare's disgraceful water can be clean
Greater Harare's water supply is probably the worst managed and the most unfairly distributed in Zimbabwe; yet even in a severe drought, it should be possible to provide every household and every busi...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:37hrs | 110 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says 'Science education way to go'
President Mnangagwa has said science education is critical for Zimbabwe to achieve rapid modernisation, urging institutions of higher learning to churn out graduates capable of producing transformativ...Published: 13 Oct 2019 at 07:36hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MaShurugwi are mere peace loving hardworking mortals!
In recent months our public media has been awash with stories of a group of artisanal miners by the name MaShurugwi, who for unfair reasons have come to be associated with a streak of cases of violenc...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 16:23hrs | 1921 | by Sizalobuhle Khumalo
Harare water crisis case dismissed
HIGH Court judge Justice Owen Tagu has dismissed as not urgent, a chamber application that was filed by Community Water Alliance Trust (CWAT) seeking an order to compel President Emmerson Mnangagwa an...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Impact of sanctions on Zimbabwe, region
Sanctions have led to the drying up of traditional sources of external finance from the International Financial Institutions (IFIs), with the country receiving no support from the African Development ...Published: 11 Oct 2019 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe needs to move beyond uncertainty
"Climate change in Zimbabwe. You can hear it on the banks of Lake Kariba up north and feel it in the fields of Beitbridge in the south. You'll see it in the classrooms of rural Gokwe, where the succes...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:57hrs | | by Pearl Matibe
Zimbabwe drafting new coal tariffs
GOVERNMENT has paid tribute to Makomo Resources for keeping the nation's lights on by continuously supplying coal to the Zimbabwe Power Company at a time the country's economy and coal mining sector a...Published: 10 Oct 2019 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa takes over at BAT Zimbabwe
British American Tobacco Zimbabwe (BATZ) has appointed South African Kimesh Naidoo as its new managing director.Naidoo takes over from Clara Mlambo who stepped down this year to join a regiona...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1804 | by Staff reporter
Why big business is a threat to Zimbabwe's revival
ZIMBABWE has entered a new frightening phase, a phase of unbridled capital that has become a State in itself in pursuit of profit and nothing else.This has been compounded by a weak government...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 08:08hrs | 633 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
Doctors lament 'dead' hospital services
Doctors are being forced to watch their patients die from avoidable conditions as fundamentals for safe provision of healthcare are not in place.In a shocking revelation, senior doctors said t...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Arcadia leads Zimbabwe's mega mine projects
Prospect Resources has registered significant progress on its Zimbabwe-based electric vehicle batteries lithium project just outside Harare, which it says will become the first major mining project to...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:59hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
Discharged patients seek hospital readmission
MENTAL patients who say they are starving at their homes are seeking re-admission to Ingutsheni Central Hospital where food supply is better, the hospital's clinical director Dr Wellington Ranga has s...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe targets single digit inflation'
THE economy is projected to grow by 4,6 percent next year, building on the ongoing reform initiatives and broader positive assumptions in the domestic sector and favourable global trade indicators, ac...Published: 09 Oct 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube told to scrap 2% tax
CAPTAINS of industry and commerce yesterday asked Treasury to scrap or lower the controversial 2% intermediated money transfer tax (IMTT) imposed last year by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, saying it ...Published: 08 Oct 2019 at 14:45hrs | 4238 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo gets US$34 million for service delivery
GOVERNMENT has allocated US$34 million and ZWL$18 million to the City of Bulawayo to improve service delivery.This was revealed by Bulawayo Metropolitan Affairs minister Judith Ncube while add...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:45hrs | 2604 | by Staff reporter
Telecoms sector posts revenue growth
Zimbabwe's telecommunications sector registered growth in revenues for the quarter ending June 30, 2019, mainly on the back of upward tariff reviews as economic headwinds persisted. The sector...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hwange Power Station increases output after refurbishment
THE Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) says Hwange Power Station is now generating an average 500 megawatts per day after the refurbishment of unit 5, easing electricity shortages in the country following m...Published: 07 Oct 2019 at 07:20hrs | 1209 | by Staff Reporter
Forex shortages derail Paramount Garments
LEADING textile firm, Paramount Garments' exports have dropped by 14 percent while prospects of growing its Bulawayo clothing manufacturing unit, Archer Clothing Manufacturers are in limbo due to adve...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Roadworks scandal hits Harare
Harare City Council (HCC) is reeling from yet another controversy after an internal audit unearthed a major scandal through which some road contractors engaged to rehabilitate 43 selected roads in the...Published: 06 Oct 2019 at 16:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa to review power tariffs monthly
Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) holdings acting group chief executive officer, Engineer Patrick Chivaura says electricity tariffs will be now reviewed monthly at inter-bank market rates a...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 21:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'MDC with no eyes supported ED's coup' - double jeopardy, failing to see being led by the blind
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (The truth will always come out no matter how much one tries to conceal it!) so goes the Shona adage. After 20 years of blundering from pillar to post the truth is now comi...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 18:20hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
24 suburbs on 48hr water shutdown
Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday effected a 48-hour water shutdown affecting 24 suburbs mostly in the western areas to stabilise water supply at one of its reservoirs that has fallen to critical ...Published: 05 Oct 2019 at 06:52hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
China - Zimbabwe's 40-year relations
ON May 15 1981, former president Robert Mugabe - then Zimbabwe's prime minister - held a meeting with legendary Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in Beijing, China, which could have changed Zimbabwe's cour...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now a truly cashless society
THE monetary system the world over, including in Zimbabwe, over has undergone a sea of change in the past century. From barter trade, a world without money, there have been many other means of exchang...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:52hrs | 315 | by Staff reporter
'Economic environment in Zimbabwe difficult to operate in'
THE Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Zimbabwe (Icsaz) held its annual conference in Victoria Falls last week under the theme "Chartered Secretaries Influencing Economic Success...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe fuel situation improves'
THE country has registered a positive improvement in fuel supplies and measures are being taken to restore normal services, the chairperson of the National Oil Infrastructure Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:28hrs | 313 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube faces 2020 Budget headache
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube faces a daunting task of structuring the 2020 National Budget in the wake of spiralling inflation now reportedly the highest in the world.Felix Mhona, the chairpe...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti sues Duly's Motors over defective truck
Former Finance minister Tendai Biti has taken Duly's Motors (Pvt) Ltd, to the High Court demanding a US$60 000 refund and a $400 000 compensation after the company allegedly sold him a defective Ford ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK firm begins cannabis farming in Zimbabwe
A United Kingdom (UK)-based medicinal cannabis firm, Eco Equity has begun work on its first state-of-the-art greenhouse here in preparation for the cultivation of cannabis (mbanje) for health purposes...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's govt slams Cross over new currency announcement
The government on Thursday failed to deny claims by central bank adviser Eddie Cross that a new currency will come into circulation in November.Cross, recently appointed to a newly-established...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1772 | by ZimLive
Ex-MDC legislator fights for pension
FORMER MDC legislator for Mutasa North, David Anthony Chimhini has approached the High Court seeking an order by the courts to compel the public service minister to pay him his pension.In his ...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:00hrs | | by newzimbabwe
New Zesa board will have its work cut out
The tough talk by Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi to appoint a new Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (ZESA) board is a noble idea because the country has been battling acute el...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 08:00hrs | 11 | by Beaven Dhliwayo
Zimbabwe waters down new currency speculation
Government has refuted claims that it is introducing a new currency next month as alleged by Mr Eddie Cross in an interview with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation earlier this week. Econom...Published: 04 Oct 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
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