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Rights group chides Zec over polling station toilets
THE Matabeleland Institute for Human Rights (MIHR) has revealed that there was a massive shortage of mobile toilets during the December 2023 by-elections which, according to a survey, negatively affec...Published: 15 Jan 2024 at 05:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why Mnangagwa blocked Mthuli Ncube's export tax
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa recently blocked Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 10% tax on mining exports to pay arrears on the country's debt overhang - which makes it difficult for the government to b...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 17:27hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube banks on new currency measures
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube on Monday announced new measures to encourage the use of the Zimbabwe dollar as opposed to the U.S. dollar, in a bid to boost the local unit and tame rising consumer infl...Published: 30 May 2023 at 15:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube announces further measures to contain runaway inflation
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube has announced a new series of measures to stabilise the economy amid hyperinflation fears.This comes barely two weeks after the Treasury boss scrapped duty on all...Published: 30 May 2023 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fresh Zimbabwe farm invasions loom
RULING Zanu-PF members have formed a shadowy group dubbed "Land for Economic Development (ED)" to fast-track parcelling out of "unutilised" land to party youths ahead of next year's crunch polls....Published: 12 Dec 2022 at 18:39hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe central bank hikes interest rates to 200%
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Monday hiked interest rates from 80% to 200% in a bid to block cheaper speculative borrowing which has adverse effects on exchange rates.The developments ...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:08hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
RBZ to introduce gold coins, hikes interest rates
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it will be introducing gold coins as part of measures to ensure investors and the general public have alternative means to preserve value, cushioning them from the ...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 19:05hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Ex-DPC boss charged for 'looting' spree
FORMER Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) chief executive officer Vusulizwe Vuma has been charged with criminal abuse of office after the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) exposed how he al...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:17hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Private doctors approach Mnangagwa over land
PRIVATE medical players under the Medical and Dental Private Practitioners Association of Zimbabwe (MDPPAZ) banner have asked President Emmerson Mnangagwa to expedite issuance of land to their members...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt, workers sign salary deal
SERVICE Commissions secretary Jonathan Wutawunashe on Monday said workers unions had signed for the salary deal tabled by government last month to improve workers conditions of service.In a st...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
High Court prosecutor to know his fate tomorrow
PRINCIPAL public prosecutor at the High Court Henry Mugove Muringani will know his fate tomorrow on charges of illegally assisting an armed robber to be granted bail after manipulating the charge shee...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa goes after unutilised farms
GOVERNMENT has said underutilised land will be repossessed and redistributed to people on the waiting list during the on-going land audit to flush out multiple farm owners.Farms allocated to i...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Evictions fiasco rocks Mnangagwa govt
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was forced to hold crisis meetings after a controversial edict paving the way for the eviction of thousands of Chiredzi villagers caused an uproar.The...Published: 08 Mar 2021 at 13:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Medium-scale commercial farming in Zimbabwe post-land reform programme: A new picture is emerging
WE have a new open access paper out in the Journal of Modern African Studies "Medium-scale commercial agriculture in Zimbabwe: The experience of A2 resettlement farms".Contrary to assertions t...Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 05:02hrs | 2 | by Ian Scoones
Plans to repeal crippling taxation on cards
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development is currently engaged in major discussions with fiscal and monetary authorities to address the issues of the punitive tax regime and surrender thresholds th...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 06:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Forex auction resumes
THE Foreign Currency Auction Trading System resumes today after the festive season break amid expectations the exchange rate will have less pressure as demand for forex is traditionally low during thi...Published: 12 Jan 2021 at 08:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ backs down on exporters' free funds
THE central bank has made a raft of major reforms to stabilise the foreign exchange market, including immediately scrapping the much-loathed compulsory requirement to liquidate unutilised export proce...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Audit exposes shocking govt rot
GOVERNMENT last year overspent by more than $2 billion without seeking parliamentary approval, while various departments and local authorities flagrantly flouted accounting procedures, Auditor-General...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiredzi farmers lose unutilised land
SCORES of Chiredzi A1 farmers in Essenby have received letters of withdrawal from the Lands ministry after failing to utilise the land allocated to them during the fast-track land reform programme....Published: 25 May 2019 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land Audit: A true test of national empathy
The ongoing land audit breathes a new ray of hope to landless masses who hope to chance their first immovable property in a landmass collectively owned by all daughters and sons of the soil, Zimbabwe....Published: 25 Feb 2019 at 12:55hrs | | by Chigumbu Warikandwa
'Zimdollar returns'
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has effectively brought back the local currency after denoting the existing electronic balances, bond notes and coins in circulation as real time gross settlement (R...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Land audit to end next month
GOVERNMENT is set to complete the national land audit next month, an exercise expected to address the issue of multiple farm ownership and underutilised land. Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climat...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Impending drought: Farmers should plan carefully
The Meteorological Services Department (MSD) report released on 28 August 2018 showed that from October to December (OND) 2018 and January to March (JMF) 2019 periods will be characterised by "normal ...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 11:36hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Chamisa struggles to pay for adverts
THE MDC Alliance has given up some of the advertising slots that it was offered by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Authority on both radio and television, as it is still struggling to raise funding to pay f...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:24hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance too broke to pay for ads
The MDC Alliance led by Mr Nelson Chamisa yesterday admitted it was struggling to raise money to pay for advertising slots availed by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation on both radio and television...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Mnangagwa's crony gets Zimplats claims
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's crony Lucas Pouroulis, whose company, Karo Resources, recently signed a controversial US$4,2 billion platinum deal with government, has grabbed mineral claims stretching...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Econet to leave Zimbabwe?
Economic think tank, Business Monitor International (BMI), has not ruled out that Econet Wireless Zimbabwe might decide to exit the market, especially as recent decisions by the regulator impact its p...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 12:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is unlikely to license new mobile firms
Zimbabwe is unlikely to license new entrants in the mobile telecoms sector in the foreseeable future, with the regulator saying due to limited electro-magnetic spectrum, which carries sound and data, ...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 05:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
We are all dynamites
I BELIEVE everyone carries great potential inside of them, it is like a dynamite.A dynamite can do wonders in the right hands. It can pave the way for new explorations, highways and numerous o...Published: 15 Jan 2018 at 14:56hrs | 1 | by Clive Chiridza
Indigenisation Act amendment set to boost mining
THE removal of the local ownership requirement for foreign investment by the Government will be a springboard for a huge boom in the country's mining sector, officials have said.Zimbabwe Miner...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 12:16hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Max Mkandla warns Matabeleland politicians to stop fighting against each other
Former National People's Party Matabeleland North Chairperason Max Mkandla has warned the politicians in Matabeleland region to stop fighting over flimsy position issues in the view that this has devi...Published: 10 Aug 2017 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Joshua Nkomo's ethics of liberation
Since his sad passing away on 1 July 1999 Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's name and life have continued to arrest public attention and imagination at a world scale.As I write the Zimbabwean historian an...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:18hrs | | by Cetshwayo Mabhena
Zimbabwe to issue deadlines for idle chrome ground
THE Government says it will prescribe deadlines for chrome mining companies to release unutilised reserves this year with a target to reclaim 40 000 hectares of chrome-rich idle ground.Min...Published: 23 Jan 2017 at 05:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe sues Zimplats
President Mugabe has filed an application at the Administrative Court seeking confirmation of the compulsory acquisition of the unutilised 28,000 hectares of mining land in Kadoma, held by Zimplats Ho...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Dangote gets green light
PRESIDENT Mugabe has issued Special Grants to four new companies to explore and extract coal and coalbed methane gas in Matabeleland North Province, bringing the number of firms to exploit the resourc...Published: 07 Feb 2016 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Dumisani Nsingo
Zanu-PF will never declare Matabeleland a disaster zone
While I cannot speak with authority regarding the rest of the country, Matabeleland is in the grips of one of the worst droughts we have suffered since 1991/1992.Aside from the poor rainfall, ...Published: 03 Jan 2016 at 11:05hrs | | by David Coltart
Businesses desert Bulawayo's CBD
A NUMBER of businesses once housed in buildings in Bulawayo's Central Business District have either closed or relocated to suburban locations because of increasing rentals and lack of business. A surv...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:51hrs | | by Ngonidzashe Chiutsi
Time for the Zimdollar to make a reappearance?
Maybe not yet, but there are glimmers of hope for the country, argues Andrew Robinson.On the back of news that foreign investment into Zimbabwe fell 59% to a mere $67 million in the first half...Published: 12 Oct 2014 at 22:28hrs | 1 | by Andrew Robinson|
Zim govt reads riot act on new farm invaders
THE two new deputy ministers of Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development have called for a stop to renewed illegal farm invasions, saying the country was now a laughing stock for failing ...Published: 13 Oct 2013 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Masimba Holdings to create construction opportunities
Masimba Holdings will focus on developing adequate long-term funding structures in order to help the group exploit developing opportunities in the country as well as to match long term requirements ...Published: 14 Mar 2013 at 12:10hrs | 2 | by Business reporter
Global Fund agrees to release US$236m for Zimbabwe
THE Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria (GFATM) has agreed to release US$236 million for Zimbabwe’s health sector to combat the three diseases...Published: 27 Apr 2012 at 05:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe at 32 - toasting to looting, lies and hunger
Zimbabwe's 32nd anniversary of independence is sadly no cause for celebration as it comes at a time of deeper crisis of governance and the rule of law.It is sad that Zimbabwe is toasting to "l...Published: 17 Apr 2012 at 19:37hrs | 7 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri | Political Analyst, London,
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