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ZETDC suspends nine managers
NINE senior Zimbabwe Electricity, Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) managers have been suspended pending investigations over allegations of spearheading illegal power connections. ...Published: 01 Jul 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1631 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe security chefs fingered in mobile money suspension
Zimbabwe's security force leaders sidelined the nation's economic chiefs and forced the government to close the stock exchange and halt most mobile-money transactions, people familiar with the situati...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 22:44hrs | 5518 | by Staff reporter
Currency is not stabilised by stern policy: MDA tells Zanu PF
The leader of the Mthwakazi Democratic Alliance Hloniphani Ncube has warned Zanu PF government that currency is not stabilised by stern policies.This was after the government announced the sus...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1462 | by Stephen Jakes
EcoCash suspends agent, bulk payer lines
DOMINANT mobile money service provider, EcoCash, says all of its agent and bulk payer lines have been suspended until further notice in compliance with the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) directive. ...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 2094 | by Staff reporter
Plot to destabilise Zimbabwe economy exposed?
AS Government intensifies efforts to close channels that are fuelling the black market and other illicit financial activities, it has emerged that some foreign nations and individuals have been trying...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to tumble
A forex dealer brandishes wads of $2 and $5 notes in Harare. The Zimdollar has continued losing value against stronger currencies like the rand and the United States dollar.THE Zimbabwe dollar...Published: 29 Jun 2020 at 07:46hrs | 4209 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe mobile operators called to further national interests
The Zimbabwean government has been commended for its firm stance in fighting illegal dealings connected with the foreign currency black market to restore mobile money platforms to their original purpo...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 20:05hrs | 1175 | by Staff reporter
'Mobile money suspension will bury Zimbabwean economy'
THERE is a debilitating mixture of chaos, confusion and panic among both consumers and businesses across the country, after the government made a surprise announcement late on Friday evening that it w...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 17:41hrs | 1884 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash ignores govt ban amid
ECOCASH has continued offering its services despite a shock government ban on mobile money services on Friday.The government said it had suspended all mobile money services as it battles again...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:17hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money transactions not to blame for economic woes
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti has called government's ban on trading on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) and all mobile money transactions as "madness" with terrible consequences.The ba...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 551 | by Staff reporter
Mobile money suspension drastic
The move on Friday night by government to suspend, with immediate effect, all monetary transactions on mobile money platforms, left the country confused and in shock.President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 08:03hrs | 157 | by Staff reporter
RBZ confirms mobile money ban but keeps platforms open for small transactions
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has suspended all money agents from mobile financial transactions but the general public can still continue to transact using the platforms.In a statement ye...Published: 28 Jun 2020 at 07:18hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clarifies phone based mobile money platforms position
Below is a statement released by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on the suspension of phone based mobile money platforms.On the Suspension of Monetary Transactions on Phone Based Mobile Money Pla...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:42hrs | 5069 | by Staff reporter
Govt suspends EcoCash, 3 other platforms
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, suspended all monetary transactions on mobile money platforms "to deal with malpractices, criminality and economic sabotage perpetuated by the wolves in sheep sk...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 17:03hrs | 1090 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to the Minister of Local Govt and Rural and Urban Development Hon. July Moyo
As concerned citizens, it is our belief that Local Government refers to the establishment of participatory and democratically elected structures that can identify with the needs of people at grassroot...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 1811 | by Concerned citizens of Bubi Rural District
Education ministry, parents at cross roads over opening of schools
Matabeleland North stakeholders have called for the further suspension of the opening of schools and postponement of June examinations until it is safe to open.They threatened to withhold thei...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:41hrs | 1889 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe's economists query China's friendship
Some of the country's economists have raised their eyebrows with regards to China's debt cancellations in Africa which were revealed earlier on this week.China's cancellation of debt towards r...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 10:35hrs | 1491 | by Daniel Itai, Harare, Zimbabwe
Mobile money brewing storm
Suspension of mobile money transfer platforms is one of the latest unorthodox means of chocking the people of Zimbabwe. The clueless government is running away from the actual problem and culprits deg...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:56hrs | 2408 | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
Mobile money services banned
THE Government has suspended phone-based money transactions with immediate effect as investigations into allegations that they fuel black market transactions that have caused runaway inflation gather ...Published: 27 Jun 2020 at 08:08hrs | 697 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe suspends phone based mobile money transactions - Fulltext
The Statement of Suspension on Monetary Transaction on Phone-Based Mobile Money TransactionsThe government of Zimbabwe has with immediate effect suspended all mobile money services and trading...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 19:41hrs | 7630 | by Staff reporter
ZBC SAGA: Auxilia Mnangagwa steps in
Ministry of Health and Child Care Ambassador Auxilia Mnangagwa has reportedly intervened in a cooperate disciplinary case by the state broadcaster ZBC TV which had saw Cameraman Stan Marodza being sus...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 12:43hrs | 12719 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NRZ to reintroduce passenger train
GOVERNMENT has said the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) passenger train is coming back soon to relieve commuters who have been facing transport challenges since the lockdown came into effect in Ma...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:58hrs | 1424 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF lifts Gomwe's suspension
ZANU-PF has resolved that disciplinary proceedings that were instituted against Harare's Zone 2 District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairperson Godwin Gomwe be withdrawn. This comes after Ha...Published: 26 Jun 2020 at 06:55hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
No respite for Robin Vela
A special anti-corruption unit in the Office of President will pursue criminal charges against individuals implicated in the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) audit report despite High Court s...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 16:36hrs | 557 | by Staff reporter
Willard Katsande set to release music album
FORMER Zimbabwe Warriors captain and current Kaizer Chiefs midfielder, Willard Katsande has made a surprise announcement to release a music album as he edges closer toward the end of his football care...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 12:23hrs | 1247 | by Staff reporter
Heads roll at ZBC over Mnangagwa, Nguwaya video
HEADS are rolling at the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) over a video of President Emmerson Mnangagwa which appeared on the 8pm news bulletin sometime in April, where he told the nation that t...Published: 25 Jun 2020 at 07:04hrs | 4239 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe embassy reopens in SA
ZIMBABWE'S consulate in Johannesburg, South Africa, has resumed the issuance of Temporary Travel Documents (TTDs) and repatriation certificates which had been suspended owing to a coronavirus (Covid-1...Published: 23 Jun 2020 at 14:54hrs | 1201 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-China to meet on debt relief
ZIMBABWE and China will soon begin talks to implement a directive by President Xi Jinping for Beijing to cancel financial obligations owed to African countries.It is anticipated that the debt ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:08hrs | 406 | by Staff reporter
ZEC speaks on pending by-elections
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) this week said all pending by-elections will only proceed after it has finished working on a draft Covid-19 electoral practice policy that will guide electoral ...Published: 20 Jun 2020 at 08:06hrs | 227 | by Staff reporter
Elections remain banned: Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has said electoral activities remain banned following the introduction of lockdown measures by the government to curb the spread of the coronavirus (Covid-19)....Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:18hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa faces sterner test
EMBATTLED President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing his sternest economic test since assuming power in 2017 as the crash of the Zimbabwean dollar pushes up prices, amid growing disenchantment with his le...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:26hrs | 9721 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe instability blights Common monetary Area prospects
FORMER Finance minister Tendai Biti says Zimbabwe's economic crisis, characterised by currency volatility, 785% inflation, a gargantuan debt stock estimated at US$10 billion and dwindling exports, hin...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 08:25hrs | 789 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF knives out for Gomwe
Zanu-PF Harare Province has issued a prohibition order against its District Coordinating Committee (DCC) chairman Godwin Gomwe for indiscipline pending a determination by the ruling party's National D...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 07:30hrs | 961 | by Staff reporter
Residents fume over corruption web at Gokwe town
GOKWE residents have petitioned Local Government minister July Moyo to institute investigations into allegations of corruption levelled against town council administrator Alexander Nyandoro.Ac...Published: 16 Jun 2020 at 09:33hrs | 214 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA boss unfazed by mass resignations
REINSTATED ZIFA Bulawayo provincial chairman, Francis Ntutha, says he is unmoved by the mass resignation of all but one of the other board members. He says, in any event, his office has not yet receiv...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:16hrs | 425 | by Staff reporter
Outcry over suspension of door-to-door roller meal sales
The door-to-door sale of subsidised roller meal in Mutare has been stalled, triggering an outcry from residents who say it is difficult to buy the basic commodities in supermarkets. For over a...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:10hrs | 268 | by Staff reporter
MDC MPs in trouble
MORE than 100 MDC legislators are set to appear before the Parliament's Privileges committee this week charged with contempt of Parliament for successive incidents of disrespect for the President. ...Published: 15 Jun 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1216 | by Staff reporter
National Unemployment Benefit Scheme in pipeline
WORKERS who are temporarily out of employment may soon start drawing benefits from a fund being set up by the Government.The National Unemployment Benefit Scheme is designed to protect workers...Published: 14 Jun 2020 at 08:37hrs | 296 | by Staff Reporter
Guvamatanga throws top govt officials under the bus
MINISTRY of Finance and Economic Development Secretary George Guvamatanga has this week absolved himself from any wrongdoing in the controversial procurement of COVID-19 medical supplies from Swiss-ba...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 10:06hrs | 7924 | by Staff reporter
Zec urged to find ways to conduct polls during COVID-19
LOCAL election watchdogs have called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to pilot innovative ways of running elections during COVID-19 pandemic saying an indefinite suspension of polls was a vi...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:35hrs | 277 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF plunged into corruption storm
ZANU-PF has once again been plunged into a corruption storm after expelled Chivi South legislator Killer Zivhu accused a senior party leader (name supplied) of demanding a US$1,5 million cash induceme...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1398 | by Staff reporter
Exposing corruption got Killer Zivhu fired
OUTSPOKEN Chivi South legislator, Killer Zivhu, who was expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party on Wednesday, says his "crime" was trying to recover US$1,5 million owed to him by an unnamed politburo m...Published: 12 Jun 2020 at 07:57hrs | 1516 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC takes ZEC head on
The opposition MDC has accused Zimbabwe Electoral Commission of using the COVID-19 regulations to suspend political rights of Zimbabweans. The accusations come after President Emmerson Mnangag...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 15:00hrs | 4719 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Gift Banda's endless saga spills into FIFA corridors
THE endless saga related to the suspension of ZIFA vice-president, Gift Banda, who clocked 509 in football wilderness yesterday, has now spilled into the FIFA corridors. The world football gov...Published: 11 Jun 2020 at 07:36hrs | 316 | by Staff reporter
Miners' boundary dispute escalates into armed conflict
A Penhalonga gold concession boundary deteriorated into an armed underground gold ore heist after a rival miner burrowed through an underground tunnel into a neighbour's claim taking away 92 sacks wor...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 10:47hrs | 1258 | by Ngoni Shumba
Zec defends suspension of electoral activities
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) yesterday denied any wrongdoing in suspending all electoral activities over COVID-19 after an independent electoral watchdog red-flagged the move as potentially...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 710 | by Staff reporter
Biti's six conditions for World Bank aid to Zimbabwe
Dear President Malpass IAM a senior official in Zimbabwe's largest opposition party and the chairman of the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee, but I am writing to you today as a private ...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:58hrs | 1914 | by Tendai Biti
Gift Banda calls for Zifa audit
YESTERDAY marked exactly 507 days since the Zifa executive committee suspended its vice-president Gift Banda over a litany of charges, chiefly allegedly usurping their powers by unilaterally making se...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 07:42hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu savages Mnangagwa over corruption
Former Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu deleted his Twitter account on Saturday, hours after appearing to take aim at President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family for corruption....Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 10:50hrs | 11014 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti in crusade to deny Zimbabwe World Bank support
AT a time when the country is grappling with devastating effects of Covid-19, opposition officials are working flat out to ensure that Zimbabwe does not get assistance from international lenders such ...Published: 09 Jun 2020 at 07:52hrs | 960 | by Staff reporter
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