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Residents slam prepaid water meters plan
Harare residents have strongly opposed the government's plan to roll out prepaid water meters in the capital, saying the move will do little to resolve the city's deepening water crisis and instead ri...Published: 09 Jul 2025 at 08:00hrs | 163 | by Staff reporter
Mafume defends Harare's water quality
Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, along with senior city officials, on Thursday appeared before the Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission (ZHRC) to respond to allegations of violating residents' environmental and...Published: 05 Jul 2025 at 10:25hrs | 58 | by Staff reporter
Skills audit for Harare council staff
Harare City Council has announced plans to undertake a comprehensive skills audit as part of efforts to address persistent concerns over poor service delivery and a possible mismatch between staff qua...Published: 07 May 2025 at 15:48hrs | 734 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo council officer vanishes after church booking fraud exposed
A Bulawayo City Council clerical officer has reportedly gone absent without official leave (AWOL) after being implicated in a church booking scam that cost the council over US$2,000 in losses....Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 22:55hrs | 918 | by Staff reporter
Cost-cutting money transfer facility launched
In the wake of liquidity crunch, economic meltdown and massive transaction taxation on remittances, TX Money Transfer has been launched this Wednesday to ease doing of business.The facility ha...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 14:36hrs | 216 | by Edson Mapani in Buhera
TX Money Transfer vow to end 'hidden costs' in remittance market
Bard Santner, a prominent financial services firm specializing in asset management, corporate finance, and wealth management, has launched TX Money Transfer, a new remittance platform aimed at revolut...Published: 11 Jul 2024 at 07:30hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo landlords renting out verandas and toilets raises concerns
In Old Lobengula, Bulawayo, reports indicate that some property owners are resorting to renting out their verandas and toilets to desperate individuals seeking housing, raising concerns about the pote...Published: 21 Feb 2024 at 09:23hrs | 6 | by Stephen Jakes
Collapsed drainage system worries Bulawayo residents
BULAWAYO ward one residents have expressed concerns over the collapse of the drainage system during this rain season and national outbreak of the Cholera ...Published: 21 Jan 2024 at 08:13hrs | 5 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe Warriors off to Botswana
The Warriors are likely to host Nigeria in Botswana for their 2026 World Cup home qualifier after Zifa Normalisation Committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa yesterday had "positive engagements" with Bots...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Water crisis overwhelms BCC
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) says a deadly mix of challenges such as system failures among others were crippling its capacity to quench the thirst of residents who are going for several days without wa...Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zambian Hakainde Hichilema unhappy with Zimbabwe regime?
Zambia is unhappy that Zimbabwe has ignored a demand by the Zambezi River Authority to stop generating electricity from the shared Lake Kariba's hydroelectric power facility due to a water capacity cr...Published: 09 Jan 2023 at 20:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimsec extends examinations registration
THE Zimbabwe School Examinations Council (Zimsec) has extended the registration period for Grade 7, Ordinary and Advanced Level candidates to next Friday giving examination centres a week-long window ...Published: 30 Jul 2022 at 19:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Let's stand with banking sector - Shutdown Chinese Mines Exploiting Workers - Union
NMWUZ - National Mine Workers' Union of Zimbabwe President Mr Kurebwa Javangwe Nomboka has said that his organization is in solidarity with striking teach...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 08:25hrs | 11 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Telecel's monumental collapse
TELECEL Zimbabwe's troubles have continued to mount with indications that the telecoms firm is now recruiting graduate trainees to plug the staff exodus necessitated by the company's unsustainable deb...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 21:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
State diamond company fails to account for US$400m
THE Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) has failed to account for the use of money exceeding US$400 million, while also failing to properly account for 352 583.11 carats of diamonds wor...Published: 19 Jun 2021 at 15:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra system disruptions affect business
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) could have lost millions of dollars in the past two months following glitches in its information technology system which threatened to cripple financial transact...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe stops issuing passports
THE crisis at the passport offices is far from over, with Registrar-General Clemence Masango failing to give an estimate timeframe of when the processing of travelling documents will resume following ...Published: 27 Apr 2019 at 14:26hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Upgrading of border posts systems hailed
THE Government has been commended for upgrading clearance systems at border posts across the country a move that is already benefiting local and regional traders.According to ZBCtv, the Zimbab...Published: 15 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldier 'steal' $237 000 from his account
A soldier reportedly stole $237 000 that had been mistakenly transferred into his bank account during a system failure at Cabs Bank Limited last year, a court heard.Arnold Lethlale Pullen, 27,...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 15:33hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Student nurse jailed 6 years
A 24-YEAR-OLD student nurse at Gweru Provincial Hospital was last week jailed for an effective six years after he squandered $54 000 that was mistakenly deposited into his CABS account.Kelvin ...Published: 09 May 2018 at 07:08hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NO democracy under Zanu PF govt
Leader of Coalition of Democrats Elton Mangoma has said there is no democracy under a Zanu PF led Government."Nurses in Zimbabwe went on a protected strike in terms of Labour Act of Zimbabwe. ...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Nurse convicted of $54 000 theft
A 24-YEAR-OLD student nurse at Gweru Provincial Hospital was yesterday convicted of theft after he squandered $54 000 that was mistakenly deposited into his CABS account.Kelvin Kutadza, a fina...Published: 13 Apr 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimra computer system goes down at Beitbridge, Kazungula
HUNDREDS of commercial car importers are stranded at Beitbridge and Kazungula border posts where cargo has been stuck for more than a week due to a system breakdown.The Zimbabwe Revenue Author...Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 23:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Confidence in the financial sector
At the heart of the economy, is the financial system. And at the heart of the financial system, is the confidence in the sector. However the system is sensitive to the expectations of the unknown and ...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 11:19hrs | 4 | by Tryson G. Dube
US dollar notes disappear, authorities fingered
ZIMBABWE'S fragile economic situation is lurching towards fresh depths amid indications that small United States dollar denominations are disappearing from circulation, thereby raising the possibi...Published: 29 Sep 2016 at 10:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
System failure cost Zesa 1,000MW
POWER utility Zesa Holdings lost nearly 1,000 megawatts, equivalent to Zimbabwe's current internal output, after a system disturbance that cut imported power supplies from Mozambique and Zambia on Tue...Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 08:52hrs | | by Business Reporter
'Ghost workers' haunt government
THE Auditor-General's Office has confirmed 12 500 people are providing services to Government chewing about $85 million annually yet they are not on its payroll. In her audit report, Mrs Mildred Chiri...Published: 25 Jun 2016 at 09:10hrs | 38 | by Lloyd Gumbo
Police, Zinara clash over fines
POLICE will continue to arrest and fine motorists whose licence discs expired on Tuesday despite the Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara)'s vehicle licensing system experiencing technical ch...Published: 03 Jun 2016 at 06:35hrs | 1 | by Bianca Leboho
Morgan Tsvangirai: Stepping down now is not an option
IT IS A PLATITUDE INGRAINED in the biblical doctrine times that where there's no vision the people perish. It will be a travesty of justice for President Morgan Tsvangirai to step down before he bankr...Published: 06 Oct 2015 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Ntate Moruti Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Zimra suffers major system failure
Cargo trucks destined for various countries across the region are stuck at border posts as the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority struggles to upgrade its System for Customs Data known as ASYCUDA.The...Published: 14 May 2015 at 08:36hrs | | by Thupeyo Muleya
New Year Message by his Worship the Mayor of Bulawayo, Councillor Martin M Moyo
The just ended year has been a remarkable year for the City of Bulawayo, as we commemorated our 120th Anniversary Celebrations and successfully hosted the African Union Sports Council Region Five Unde...Published: 31 Dec 2014 at 18:00hrs | 8 | by Mayor of Bulawayo, Councillor Martin M Moyo
A Revolution must take place now
Is the Zimbabwean powerless over evil?.Last week's ZRP action to prohibit the march to mark world press freedom day should ring bells in the min...Published: 10 May 2014 at 21:30hrs | 2 | by Zanda Shumba
U.S. stocks ground to a 3-hour halt
Trading in thousands of U.S. stocks ground to a halt for much of Thursday after an unexplained technological problem shut down trading in Nasdaq securities, the latest prominent disruption to the oper...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 04:00hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra's continuous system failure affects car importers
CAR importers using Beitbridge Border Post continue to encounter delays in clearing their vehicles due to a continuous system failure of the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)'s, newly introduced clea...Published: 25 Apr 2013 at 10:21hrs | 1 | by Beitbridge Reporter
Three years on, no justice for murdered Kaizer Chief's Dlodlo
According to the Department of Justice, "Non availability of the Attorney on several occasions, absence of the Assessors and absence of the Prosecutor" has led to the delay of finalisation of the case...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 18:49hrs | 9 | by Mkhululi Chimoio
SA BlackBerry users could claim refund
South Africa - BlackBerry users affected by the recent outage should seek recourse from the National Consumer Commission, SA Business Day reported on Thursday....Published: 13 Oct 2011 at 09:13hrs | | by -
ZIMRA fails to run Asycuda World
All border posts have been on hault due to the ZIMRA Asycuda world new system failure since yesterdayThe network has always been up and down but this time its worse and at the same time t...Published: 04 Aug 2011 at 08:17hrs | | by Mbizi
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