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Mthuli Ncube should learn a lesson
EVEN though High Court judge Justice Happius Zhou's ruling this week that the 2% intermediated transaction tax imposed by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under a statutory instrument (SI) last year was ...Published: 19 hrs ago | 2698 | by Editorial - The Independent
Woman smashes boyfriend's car
A local bar waitress in Matsheumhlope, Siphathisiwe Moyo (30) cracked the court open last Friday when she told the court that it was her right to smash her boyfriend's car bonnet after she found him i...Published: 19 hrs ago | 395 | by Staff reporter
ZIMRA CORRECTION: 'Tax-free threshold now $3500'
AS A MATTER OF FACT: CORRECTION OF POSSIBLE MISINTERPRETATION THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY THE HERALD IN THE 20 SEPTEMBER 2019 ISSUE ON PAGE ONE TITLED...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 14:55hrs | 4592 | by Zimra
Chiwenga rejected Mugabe's offer feared trapping
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga turned down an offer by the late president Robert Mugabe to take over the presidency at the height of the coup as he feared it might be a trap to rubberstamp the mi...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:47hrs | 5125 | by Staff reporter
Tax free threshold increased
GOVERNMENT has extended a huge lifeline to employees after increasing the tax-free threshold to $3 500 with effect from August 1, 2019, in order to improve disposable incomes in the face of price incr...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1121 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax to stay despite High Court ruling
High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou yesterday scrapped Statutory Instrument (SI) 205 of 2018, which enabled Government to levy 2 percent tax on electronic money transactions above $10. The t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1479 | by Staff reporter
'2% tax collection not affected'
The Finance and Economic Development Ministry has issued a statement stating that the High Court judgment suspending the two percent tax on electronic transactions will not affect the collection and l...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 19:42hrs | 3596 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pisses on the graves of Provincial and District Heroes Acres
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:36hrs | 3459 | by Zororo Shumba
Mthuli Ncube a disappointed man
If the minister of finance was serious about his 2 percent transaction tax (si205), he was supposed to have approached the Parliament, to gazette a bill in respect of that.We can not hav...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:34hrs | 4188 | by Nothisa Dube
High Court outlaws Mnangagwa government's illegal tax
In a landmark case argued by MDC Vice President Hon. Tendai Biti, the High Court today outlawed government's two per cent tax on despondent Zimbabweans in a move that vindicated the MDC position that ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 12:35hrs | 2805 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
BREAKING: High court embarrasses Mthuli Ncube over 2% taX
High Court Judge Justice Zhou has reportedly set aside SI 205/2018 on the 2% transaction tax. The case against the controversial tax was argued by MDC Vice President Tendai Biti. Under...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 10:43hrs | 3425 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In Zimbabwe, surviving means improvising, and some luck
In crisis-stricken Zimbabwe, where prices are soaring, the local dollar is plummeting and time is always short, even a trip to the gas station can be an adventure in the struggle to survive.Fi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 679 | by AFP
German national missing in Bulawayo
POLICE in Bulawayo are appealing for information that may lead to the location of a 37-year-old German national who went missing in Bulawayo last week. Bulawayo acting provincial police ...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1434 | by newzimbabwe
RBZ introduces US dollar savings bond
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has brought to the market a United States dollar-denominated savings bond with an interest rate of 7,5 percent per annum to promote a savings culture among Zimbabwea...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:44hrs | 3026 | by Staff reporter
Govt pisses on the graves over Mugabe
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 12:24hrs | 4251 | by Zororo Shumba
Tendai Biti led team queries 'rogue' RBZ payments
Parliament yesterday slammed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for carrying out quasi fiscal activities outside its mandate and using taxpayers and pensioners' money to fund government activities....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1057 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa owns CBZ bank?
One of the country's leading commercial banks CBZ is now owned by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. This was revealed by exiled former cabinet Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo.Moyo was responding ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 05:59hrs | 11324 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga to kick out Mnangagwa?
Recuperating Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly going to use the country's dreaded Joint Operations Command (JOC), to forcefully kick out President Emmerson Mnangagwa from...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:16hrs | 25454 | by Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Mnangagwa heartless
Dear EditorIt saddens me to see that E.D. Mnangagwa has seen it fit to spend over $25 million dollars on a corpse. Tax payers money was spent on chartering a plane for the delegation that went...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 6337 | by Vusa Sigola
No to Mugabe mausoleum
The Zimbabwe Campaign for Good Governance (ZCGG) would like to express its displeasure and dismay over the proposal to build a MAUSOLEUM for Robert Mugabe at the National Heroes Acre. The Symb...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 01:14hrs | 3324 | by Morgan Changamire
Zvimba chiefs felt betrayed over Mugabe controversy
The late former President Robert Mugabe, who passed on 10 days ago, has courted controversy even in death with speculation over his burial, place of burial and his place in the history of Zimbabwe....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 00:50hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's 'dodgy donator' 'already dead' at time of crash - report
A private pathology report has reportedly revealed that former Bosasa boss Gavin Watson was already dead before he crashed his company car into a concrete pillar at the OR Tambo International Airport ...Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 07:24hrs | 5563 | by Staff reporter
Join me in condemning Gushungo Clan & Mnangagwa over Mugabe's Mausoleum (Blue Roof)
The decision by president ED's government to construct a Mausoleum for our dictator RG Mugabe should be condemned by right thinking Zimbabweans. The hospitals have no medicine, parents are struggling ...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 4081 | by Don Chigumba
Zimbabwe govt expenditure problem
The Zimbabwe Government has a constitution which should control expenditure to avoid haphazard uses of funds, treasury instructions for accounting purposes and the auditor general for checks and balan...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 21:39hrs | 752 | by Clemen Moyo ka Mangena
City women face sex abuse in Zupco buses
When Zimbabwe's government started running a bus system earlier this year with fares on average one-third lower than those of private bus companies, Thandekile Gama was excited.The 33-year-old...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 08:03hrs | 7825 | by Thompson Reuters Foundation
South Africans need a history lesson
JULIUS Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has tried telling his countrymen that the borders they are so fond of were imposed by racist imperialists.He has also told them th...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:45hrs | 376 | by Mtandazo Dube
Zinara looters put on notice
A team of experts assembled by Government from both the private and public sector to pore over the recent Zinara forensic audit has recommended the recovery of funds that were allegedly bilked from th...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans now living in extreme poverty as economy declines
With Zimbabwe's economy all but confirmed to contract by at least 8% in the year 2019, households are feeling the heat as poverty levels surge at alarming levels. Zimbabwe's last recession cycle occur...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 20:32hrs | 1304 | by Victor Bhoroma
Top 5 free online slots of the summer 2019
Summer is a time of vacation, flowers, love and ... free online slots without registration! It's time to play and win! This is not time ...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 08:19hrs | 135 | by Staff Writer
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 498 | by Staff reporter
Mapeza explains shock departure
NORMAN MAPEZA says the need for rest, after five demanding years in the trenches at FC Platinum, finally forced him to end his successful marriage with the Zvishavane miners. The Zimbabwe cham...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:53hrs | 2305 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe died in exile!' - Rubbish, Singapore was dictator's haunt and very costly one to the nation
The sheer arrogance, contemptuous disregard for the truth and heartless indifference to the suffering of the masses by the Zanu-PF thugs has never seize to amaze me. Never!Zimbabwe's former dictat...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 549 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Prices up 100% in one week
PRICES of basic commodities have increased by up to 100 percent this week thereby pushing the prices beyond the reach of most consumers. Shops, including big supermarkets, have increased price...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 20:54hrs | 219 | by Staff reporter
Of the South African confusion
South Africa has two current types of politically inclined confusions that we are witnessing as Zimbabweans. The first one of course is this primitive but very costly xenophobic crusade against largel...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 09:28hrs | 1337 | by Wiston Mazhandu
Prices for basic commodities go up 100% in one week
PRICES of basic commodities have increased by up to 100 percent this week thereby pushing the prices beyond the reach of most consumers. Shops, including big supermarkets, have increased price...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 3038 | by Staff Reporter
ZCTU members trial in false start
THE trial of 20 Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) activists who were arrested in Mutare in October last year failed to commence yesterday following the death of one of the accused persons, Tens...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:33hrs | 57 | by Staff reporter
Airports told to revamp emergency services
THE Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Infrastructural Development has expressed concern over lack of proper emergency services at the country's major airports. Speaking after ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:05hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF headquarters built using civil servants money?
The infamous ZANU PF Jongwe house was built using money deducted from tax civil servants it has emerged. A 1988 payslip posted by journalist Mthulisi Mthuthu on social media shows a deduction ...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 10:12hrs | 3727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimra fraud millionaire to lose mansions & car
A FORMER Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) employee who is alleged to have fraudulently siphoned about US$1,2 million from the taxman's bank account and went on a property buying spree, is set to los...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:13hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
RMS Vehicle pushing tribalism
It has come to my attention that there is a spirited effort by a Mr Chifamba and a Mutakaya and previously "Taruvinga who have since retired, to eliminate all Ndebele people from work at RMS. The case...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 11:00hrs | 1551 | by Mbonisi Gumbo
Robert Mugabe: A product of a vicious system
The death of former President Robert Mugabe at a hospital in Singapore on Thursday September 6, 2019 rang memory bells about the hush-hush, but spirited conversations that Zanu-PF comrades used to hav...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1211 | by Jonathan N. Moyo
Parliament crafting law to investigate ill-gotten wealth
Parliament is currently crafting a Bill which will empower law enforcement agents, such as the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Zimbabwe Revenue A...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:48hrs | 614 | by Staff reporter
Xenophobia - Afrophobia unrest flares up in Joburg CBD
Businesses in parts of the Johannesburg city centre and surrounding areas have shut their doors as a group of men, believed to be mostly hostel dwellers from Jeppestown, march and protest on Sunday af...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 17:26hrs | 3084 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube: Fixing Mugabe's mess
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube may not have realised quite what he was letting himself in for when he took the job of Zimbabwe's Treasury boss in September last year.With his impeccable CV - he...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:50hrs | 693 | by Financial Mail
Cash shortages choking tourism
ZIMBABWE Independent deputy editor Faith Zaba (FZ) last week attended the 2019 Africa Tourism Leadership Forum and awards at the Durban International Convention Centre (ICC) whose theme was "Stimulati...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:42hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Call for meaningful reforms grow louder for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent jaunt to Japan in search of elusive investment has once again brought to the fore the futility of his numerous trips outside the country without introducing polit...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Minor dies after rape attempt
A BABY died when a Mvurwi woman jumped off a moving vehicle as she tried to escape from two men who were allegedly trying to rape her.The woman had boarded a lift on an unregistered white Hond...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:20hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
MDC demands return of US dollar
GOVERNMENT's decision to scrap the multi-currency regime that had worked for a decade was a mistake, former Finance Minister and MDC vice president Tendai Biti has said.Biti was addressing a p...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:12hrs | 448 | by newzimbabwe
Dear Mthuli Ncube: Just having a weak currency alone may not boost exports
Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe's Finance minister, wrote an interesting article in the Financial Times, defending the re-introduction of a local currency. His argument was primarily premised on the theory tha...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:08hrs | 1114 | by Perry Munzwembiri
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