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RBZ plots ambush to rein in exchange rates
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will henceforth use 'ambush raids' as a strategy within its array of policy interventions as the monetary authorities battle to break persistent buffeting of the dom...Published: 17 hrs ago | 997 | by Staff reporter
Catastrophe looms in Zimbabwe, says SA's BusinessDay
As Zimbabwe enters the next phase of its coronavirus-induced lockdown - a partial but indefinite hold on economic activity - fears for the country’s economic future are rising.The economy wa...Published: 28 May 2020 at 20:45hrs | 3589 | by Chris Muronzi I BusinessDay
Mnangagwa to launch livestock scheme
President Mnangagwa is today expected to launch the Presidential Livestock Scheme at Cleveland Range in Harare to support livestock farmers. Speaking at a post-Cabinet briefing yesterday, Info...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:32hrs | 264 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: IMF hammers country already on its knees
Mercifully, Zimbabwe's infection and death rates from Covid-19 are so far very low but the economy, already labouring under the effects of drought, has been hit by the lockdowns. Worse, the IMF has de...Published: 27 May 2020 at 07:12hrs | 693 | by Baffour Ankomah I New African Magazine
Fixed Exchange Rate: More harm than good
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe suspended the new managed floating exchange rate and introduced the fixed exchange rate of 1 US Dollar to 25 Zimbabwean Dollars on the 26th of March 2020. Two weeks earlie...Published: 25 May 2020 at 13:24hrs | 1751 | by Victor Bhoroma
Weakening Zimdollar wreaks havoc
MARKET forces have caused havoc on the Zimbabwe dollar on the parallel market, with the exchange rate shooting to US$1:$70.Last week, from Monday to Saturday, the US$:Zimdollar rate plunged ne...Published: 25 May 2020 at 08:02hrs | 1986 | by Staff reporter
Wolves are at it again, destroying Zimbabwe's currency
Once again, officials at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development, along with the honchos at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) find themselves on the back foot of powerful forces that are man...Published: 24 May 2020 at 22:03hrs | 2846 | by Andrew Lampard
The excitement is difficult to hide
The tobacco selling 'season' is upon us and with it, 'Dollars are in the air'. There is visible excitement in the village, even kids are now laughing louder than before as if aware that once the tobac...Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 106 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Scapegoating Africans as a lazy lot unable to use land
THE war of words against African holders of land continues unabated as government finds itself in an embarrassing situation after the land reform programme of the year 2000. In an extremely disquietin...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:39hrs | 234 | by Jonathan Maphenduka
'Zimdollar under siege again'
The Zimbabwe dollar is once again reeling under unrelenting pressure from speculative activities by crafty individuals seeking personal gain, it has been learnt.The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (R...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:10hrs | 650 | by Staff reporter
South Africans to start drinking alcohol only at Level 1
South Africa media have reported that the country's Cooperative Governance Minister Nkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma has told the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC) that the sale of tobacco and...Published: 22 May 2020 at 14:35hrs | 2568 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Money printing impact is worse than Covid-19'
THE Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) has warned government against printing money to fund the ZW$18 billion Covid-19 Economic Recovery and Stimulus Package saying to do so will have a more...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 1360 | by Staff reporter
Zimpost considers solar-powered vehicles
STUNG by perennial fuel and electricity shortages affecting its operations, Zimpost a quasi-government institution is planning to invest in solar power and electric-powered vehicles to combat the chal...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 207 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's politics, priorities (I)
A NEW Zimbabwe is struggling to be born. Up till now, Zimbabwe has still been living with the visions of the 1950s and 1960s, tempered by the visions of the liberation struggle of the mid-1960s and 19...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:17hrs | 391 | by Fay Chung
German firm prints, delivers 60 tonnes of Zimbabwe's new bank notes
Zimbabwe on Thursday received 60,000kg (60 tonnes) in freshly-printed higher denomination bond notes, which the central bank says will go into circulation at the end of the month.The RBZ annou...Published: 14 May 2020 at 13:07hrs | 16126 | by Staff reporter
Bosso admit financial woes
HIGH LANDERS have admitted that they have been plunged into financial problems due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Bosso lost coach Mark Harrison who left the club to return home to B...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:55hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmers withhold crop
TOBACCO farmers in most parts of the country have reportedly withheld their crop, refusing to release the golden leaf to transporters to be sold at the auction floors in their absence.Transpor...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:53hrs | 1539 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco contractor fights Covid-19
Tobacco farmers in Mashonaland Central province contracted to Voedsel company, Mvurwi branch are going through serious screening as the tobacco &nbs...Published: 13 May 2020 at 20:42hrs | 1543 | by Simbarashe Mwandipendaa
Zimbabwe fails to make lockdown payments to 'vulnerable'
Zimbabwe has not made any disbursements from a Z$600 million fund announced in March to support vulnerable people affected by the coronavirus lockdown, ministers admitted on Tuesday.Finance mi...Published: 13 May 2020 at 16:49hrs | 738 | by Staff reporter
'ZANU PF - MDC in GNU talks....elections to be suspended for 7 years'
The ruling ZANU PF is currently negotiating with the smaller MDC faction led by Thokozani Khupe in a bid to forge a government of national unity, main MDC Vice President Tendai Bit has sensationally c...Published: 12 May 2020 at 13:06hrs | 10555 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Dembare moots salary cuts
DYNAMOS are contemplating cutting players' salaries in an effort to remain afloat if the local soccer season does not start in the "next few months" following a delay caused by the coronavirus pandemi...Published: 08 May 2020 at 00:34hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Mashonaland Central malaria cases blamed on artisanal mining, proximity to Mozambique
THE record increase in malaria cases in Mashonaland Central has been attributed largely to widespread socio-economic activities such as mining and farming that predisposed populations to malaria....Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:58hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco deliveries increase, prices firm
The volume of flue-cured tobacco being delivered to the floors continues to increase as prices firm. By day three of the opening of the 2020 marketing season, farmers had sold 694 496 kilogrammes of t...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 322 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Zuma takes over power from Ramaphosa?
South Africa's eNCA anchors Xoli Mngambi and Jane Dutton have come under fire for using the channel to incite the public to turn against Co-operative governance and traditional affairs minister ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 10:19hrs | 4315 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kudos to Minister Shiri and his team
IT pains a lot when a person knows swimming is the only way to survive drowning or being carried away by a flooded river, but denied by a stagnant log that pins one of his legs against the surface. ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:54hrs | 1380 | by Isaac Mupinyuri
Zupco buses overwhelmed
FOLLOWING the relaxation of the lockdown guidelines by Government, there was an increase of human traffic in Bulawayo yesterday. President Mnangagwa on Friday extended the lockdown by a furthe...Published: 05 May 2020 at 07:38hrs | 786 | by Staff reporter
'We are relaxing lockdown to level 2' - is WHO even trying to stop a covid-19 epidemic here
"We have gradually lifted lockdown restrictions in some sectors such as mining and the marketing of tobacco. Noticing that there is now a gradual increase of infections, the lockdown will continue for...Published: 03 May 2020 at 10:12hrs | 1905 | by Nomusa Garikai
COVID-19 virus no match for global political thuggery
Clearly, the world has been turned upside-down, inside out.The new coronavirus - Covid-19 - has made possible what we previously thought unimaginable.It has weaned sports junkies from ...Published: 03 May 2020 at 08:56hrs | 88 | by Bishop Lazi
WATCH: Mnangagwa addresses the nation
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reduced the level of Zimbabwe's lockdown from 3 to 2. Mnangagwa said the move was informed by the scientific evidence from the Coronavirus committee. "We have ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 20:33hrs | 1678 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Government explains the lockdown levels
Secretary for Information Ndabaningi Nick Mangwana says Zimbabwe's lockdown period started on level 4 and has been reduced to level 2 by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Zimbabweans had taken to ...Published: 01 May 2020 at 20:21hrs | 5732 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa mourns Minister Mavima's father
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday sent a condolence message to the family of Midlands Provincial Affairs Minister Cde Larry Mavima following the death of his father, sekuru David Zizirayi Mavim...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 17:45hrs | 1878 | by Staff reporter
Farmvest seals moringa contract, eyes global markets
Farmvest Agricapital a local agricultural investment promotion and facilitation firm. announced that they have sealed a 5-year offtake agreement contract for the production and processing of Moringa i...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 14:09hrs | 1206 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe reopens tobacco auction floors
Zimbabwe farmers started selling their tobacco crop on Wednesday after the coronavirus outbreak delayed the opening of auctions, which provide vital foreign currency inflows, by more than a month....Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 13:45hrs | 465 | by Reuters
Tobacco fetches US$4/kg on opening day
The 2020 tobacco marketing season opened yesterday, amid calls for farmers to draw lessons from the lucrative and successful tobacco industry and apply their skills towards production of other crops t...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:07hrs | 531 | by Staff reporter
Domestic football calendar could switch by default
THE suggestion by the FIFA medical chief to shelve professional football activities for, at least another four more months, could take domestic football into the August to May European calendar by def...Published: 30 Apr 2020 at 07:04hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
34 leave quarantine centre
Thirty-four of the 73 returning residents in quarantine at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Administration and Management (ZIPAM) in Darwendale were allowed home on Saturday. Of the 34 dischar...Published: 27 Apr 2020 at 09:30hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must introduce wealth tax and improve our health sector as Nguwaya donates drugs
Mr D Nguwaya a Zimbabwean business man has challenged other Zimbabwean businesses to come together and help the government to fight COVID 19. Mr D Nguwaya is a decorated dedicated Zimbabwean business ...Published: 25 Apr 2020 at 17:45hrs | 2216 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Virus that halted Zimbabwe from dreaming
IT is a common sight for torrential rains to show up uninvited to Samba dance ceremonies in Rio de Janeiro. The authorities in Brazil used to publicise meteorological information to allow for spiritua...Published: 24 Apr 2020 at 08:48hrs | 320 | by Christopher Mugaga
Calls grow to reopen parts of Zimbabwe's crisis-ridden economy
A tall, medium build security guard stands behind a large steel gate at Boka Tobacco Auction Floors on the outskirts of Harare, his face partially covered by a white surgical mask and his hands encase...Published: 23 Apr 2020 at 19:46hrs | 2023 | by Al Jazeera
Basic food price freeze agreed
Private sector producers and retailers have agreed with the Government to freeze prices of essential foods as part of measures to cope with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown measures r...Published: 22 Apr 2020 at 07:26hrs | 590 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 lockdown: Coercing the poor, coddling the rich?
From the perspective of reducing the negative public health effects of the coronavirus, national lockdowns will almost certainly - if adhered to - reduce the number of coronavirus transmissions while ...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 22:21hrs | 903 | by Seán Muller
40 000 mine workers to undergo COVID-19 testing
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says mines are to resume operations during an extended lockdown, a plan that would need at least 40 000 mine workers to be immediately screened and tested for COVID-19....Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 08:05hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
Opening of tobacco sales floors put on hold
The 2020 tobacco marketing season which was scheduled to open yesterday has been postponed to allow stakeholders to devise mechanisms to sell the crop while ensuring minimum risks of spreading the Cov...Published: 21 Apr 2020 at 07:06hrs | 345 | by Staff reporter
What 40 years of Independence has meant for Zimbabwe
Today marks Zimbabweans 40th independence anniversary. This day four decades ago was a jubilant day as Zimbabweans looked forward to a brighter and fruitful future. The declaration of independ...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 09:53hrs | 315 | by Prince Njagu
Covid-19: Tobacco auction floors to be decentralised
Tobacco auction floors will be decentralised this year to avoid concentrations of people with accommodation modalities and the days on which farmers should visit the auction floors now being worked ou...Published: 20 Apr 2020 at 07:55hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe@40: Still standing . . . going strong
APRIL 18 marks Zimbabwe's Independence Day.We commemorate this auspicious national occasion heroically fighting Covid-19, a global pandemic that has claimed and is still claiming thousands of ...Published: 19 Apr 2020 at 07:46hrs | 104 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
Zimbabwe shall rise again. . .
INDEPENDENCE Day speech by His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, April 18, 2019 I welcome you all ...Published: 18 Apr 2020 at 08:35hrs | 802 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa,
Smuggling cigarettes lands man in trouble
A Malawian man has been arrested in Botswana for possession of 84 boxes containing 4 200 cartons of Chele Chele cigarettes suspected to have been smuggled through Zimbabwe. The cigarettes are ...Published: 15 Apr 2020 at 07:28hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
'Bosso, Dembare not in panic mode'
HIGHLANDERS and Dynamos are not raising the red flag on contractual issues with their sponsors and players despite world governing body Fifa last week opening up avenues for clubs to renegotiate agree...Published: 13 Apr 2020 at 07:59hrs | 222 | by Staff reporter
Free funds & tacit Re-Dollarization of the economy
The Zimbabwean government has made another tacit admission on losing the de-dollarization war to the market by gazetting Statutory Instrument (SI) 85 of 2020 which allows citizens to use foreign curre...Published: 10 Apr 2020 at 10:02hrs | 2021 | by Victor Bhoroma
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