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Zimbabwe's tax plan has informal traders tangled up
Mediline Sibanda opened her hairdressing business 13 years ago in Bulawayo's bustling central business district where she operates alongside other vendors and traders that are part of the country's th...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:28hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora calls for Zimbabwe to rejoin the club of ex-British colonies
Douglas Mwonzora, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance, has called for Zimbabwe to rejoin the Commonwealth of Nations to promote economic prosperity. Speaking in Bulawayo, Mwo...Published: 08 Jul 2024 at 10:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's an anti-poor budget
Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion minister Mthuli Ncube yesterday presented the ZWL$58,2 trillion 2024 national budget.According to the Treasury chief, the economy is proj...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 04:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners fuel Zimbabwe's wildlife illicit financial flows
It was business as usual for Mgcini Ncube when he was caught by detectives while skinning an impala deep inside Victoria Falls' Zambezi National Park.Ncube (37) had set up a temporary structur...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in a crisis of Mnangagwa's own making
ZIMBABWEAN electoral processes have in recent years become the reason for its strife and ostracisation from the Commonwealth of nations.None more so that the bitterly fought and fraught electi...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 07:10hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
Commonwealth has appalling human rights record
This written article by Professor Jonathan Moyo, then an academic at the University of Zimbabwe, was published by the Financial Gazette on 10 October 1991, a few days...Published: 04 Feb 2023 at 20:07hrs | 51 | by Jonathan Moyo
MPs scrimmage for US$40 000 loan shows how we all are dependent on the dictator's benevolence
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to the...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 10:49hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Commonwealth: Let's not take chances
SPEAKING at the National Sports Stadium to mark Zimbabwe's 24th independence anniversary on April 18, 2004 and four months after the southern African nation withdrew from the Commonwealth of Nations a...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SRC's adamant stance a real shame
IT is now six months since Zimbabwe was kicked out of the international football family after the Sports and Recreation Council (SRC) thought it was acting macho by suspending the Felton Kamambo-led Z...Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF on murdered CCC activist
Attempts by opposition political formations and foreign agencies to place blame for the kidnapping and subsequent death of Moreblessing Ali on Zanu-PF is perfectly choreographed to destabilise Zimbabw...Published: 13 Jun 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The death of the Zimdollar shows the King has no clothes
The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is proof that with all our education, there is something terribly rotten in Simbao (ancient name for Zimbabwe).I want to make an apology to Sister Fay Chun...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 27 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Mnangagwa, is Zimbabwe a sovereign state or a pariah, failed state?
What is sovereign about Zimbabwe whose government fails to give its people basics such as food securities for all, good education for all, basic health facilities, good all-weather roads, water & ...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 11:48hrs | 13 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe's quest to re-join the Commonwealth is set to hit a snag
ZIMBABWE'S quest to re-join the Commonwealth is set to hit a snag, following revelations during a debate in the British House of Lords this week that the United Kingdom is far from supporting the coun...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 07:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's upper-middle income economy plans in disarray
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has said his administration will be able to push to fulfil its long-term plan of transforming Zimbabwe into an upper-middle income economy in line with Vision 2030 if the illegal e...Published: 15 Nov 2021 at 05:26hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Lift sanctions against Zimbabwe, says Ramaphosa
SOUTH AFRICAN President Cyril Ramaphosa repeated his call to the United States and its allies to lift sanctions imposed against neighbouring Zimbabwe.The United States and the European Union (...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'It is not from the benevolence of corrupt and vote-rigging politicians we expect our dinner' to paraphrase A Smith
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest (profit). We address ourselves not to their humanit...Published: 25 Feb 2021 at 13:11hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 5 | by Samantha Power
Electronic Fund Transfers fuel money laundering in Zimbabwe
CROSS-BORDER money traders are collecting huge sums in foreign currency in Zimbabwe and smuggling it into South Africa through the use of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).The illegal traders tu...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Smuggling: the new corruption frontier in Zimbabwe
As the Zimbabwean economy rapidly slides into hyperinflation induced recession, the levels of smuggling at the country's border posts has reached alarming levels. Cross border traders, foreign nationa...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 20:27hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
VACANCY: Thomson Reuters Foundation is employing
Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the Media Institute of Southern Africais looking for Zimbabwean journalists who are motivated to understand how their country could be losing money via i...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's victory not free, not fair, not credible
When Zimbabwean soldiers shot civilians during riots against alleged election-rigging on August 1, 2018, many Zimbabweans were horrified - but they weren't surprised.The previous November, the...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:11hrs | 2 | by Rahul Nagvekar
Thabo Mbeki's attempt to torpedo a people's agenda
"I am of a nation that would not allow that fear of death, torture, imprisonment, exile or persecution should result in the perpetuation of injustice. "I owe my being to the Khoi and the San w...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Gibson Nyikadzino
Sanctions affect the man on the street sir
The newly appointed United States ambassador to Zimbabwe, Mr Brian Nicholas had an interesting interview with one of the pirate radio stations, Voice of America, wherein he was very economic with the ...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 11:50hrs | 2 | by Tafara Shumba
Zanuism - Lets just make stuff up
In several remarks, Mr Mnangagwa has continued to peddle the argument that the west imposed economic sanctions on Zimbabwe because of Zanu PF's land reform program. For him to be respected by the loca...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 15:24hrs | 1 | by Gus Manatsa (PhD)
Mnangagwa meets white Zimbabweans - report
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for collective efforts by all Zimbabweans regardless of colour or race in solving the challenges bedevilling the country.President Mnangagwa made the re...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 16:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Davison Kaiyo
US issues Zimbabwe travel alert
THE United States government has called on its citizens travelling to Zimbabwe to exercise extreme caution, saying they anticipated a spike in the crime rate and civil unrest ahead of the July 30 elec...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Davison Kaiyo
How Zimbabwe loses millions to smuggling syndicates
THE government could be losing millions of dollars in revenue via its north-eastern port of entry at Forbes Border Post due to under-declaration and false classification of goods by importers to evade...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's mining sector illicit financial flows
Soon after his inauguration the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that he has a list of individuals and corporates that has been externalizing money and assets and granted them a thre...Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:00hrs | 3 | by Davison Kaiyo
The woman who sold Zimbabwe
The place is Durban.The weather is curiously autumnal for a city that knows not winter. Not as we know it anyway.A man with a clean shaven head and bright multi-coloured scarf beckons ...Published: 19 May 2018 at 14:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
How diamond smuggling is thriving in Zimbabwe
SITTING under a shade with eyes glued on a road in Mozambique's Manica town's affluent suburb, a group of five young men scans all directions for potential suppliers of diamonds.The street is ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | 12 | by Wealth of Nations
WATCH: Whither Zimbabwe's Nationalist Project
Good Evening everyone, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to share my ideas and views with you on the state of the Nationalist project in Zimbabwe. As I prepare to make my remarks I note that i...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Zimbabwe we want demands a civilized populous and not a naive and gullible one
It was the great Economist Adam Smith who said in his great work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker...Published: 03 Oct 2016 at 09:02hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
Statement on Zimbabwe State of Affairs
(The Zimbabweans in The Diaspora)WHEREASLike many other Nations We differ in political views and life outlook,WHEREASMany of us have left our country in circumstances more crue...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 10:19hrs | | by Andrew Manyevere.
Zimplats implicated in Panama report
Impala Platinum (Implats), the second-largest miner of the precious metal, was yesterday battling to contain a potentially bitter fallout with Harare after documents showed the company's unit in Zimba...Published: 05 Apr 2016 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beautiful ones not yet born
The launch in Harare earlier this week of a new-but-not-so-new party on Zimbabwe's political landscape left this pen, an avid student of liberation politics, with a feeling of déjà vu all the way....Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Stephen Mpofu
Durban to host 2022 Commonwealth Games
The city of Durban, South Africa, has been confirmed as the first African city to host the Commonwealth Games.Durban will host the 22nd edition of the Commonwealth Games, where all 71 member t...Published: 02 Sep 2015 at 06:33hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Zimbabwe: Memory, Knowledge and the difficult Future
Sometime in a lonely day in 1749, a small scale thinker with a taste for music and a reputation for familial irresponsibility was walking on a foot path in a village a few miles from Paris in France. ...Published: 19 Jan 2015 at 14:30hrs | 2 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Gambia pulls out of Commonwealth
Banjul - The Gambian government announced on Wednesday that the former British colony is pulling out of the Commonwealth with immediate effect, saying it would "never be a member of any neo-colonial ...Published: 03 Oct 2013 at 05:39hrs | | by AFP
Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab Republic
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Statement of the Africa Forum on the situation in the Syrian Arab RepublicWe, members of the Forum for Former African Heads of State and Government, commonly referr...Published: 09 Sep 2013 at 10:46hrs | | by APO
Mugabe's selective memory
In an article published in the Herald on Saturday, July 20, 2013, titled: "President pledges to resuscitate ailing industries"; President Robert Mugabe who addressed a star rally at Somholo Stadium i...Published: 22 Jul 2013 at 05:37hrs | | by Mutumwa Mawere
Sata's support for Mugabe irks Zimbabweans in the UK
Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom are planning to hold protests against Zambian President Michael Sata when he visits London this week, the Watchdog understands.Sata is expected to tra...Published: 03 Jun 2012 at 15:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe won't rejoin Commonwealth: Khaya Moyo
Zanu PF National Chairman, Simon Khaya Moyo says Zimbabwe has no intentions of re-joining the Commonwealth of Nations despite calls by its members for the Southern African nation to be re-admitted....Published: 05 Nov 2011 at 15:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Caveats and opportunities of secret Zanu-PF, MDC talks
There is every reason to worry whenever there are talks between Zanu-PF and its opponents and the reported secret talks with the two MDC formations (The Zimbabwean 30/07/11) are no exception. The expe...Published: 31 Jul 2011 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
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