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Windfall for 33,000 pensioners
The Mining Industry Pension Fund (MIPF) is preparing to compensate pensioners who lost benefits during Zimbabwe's hyperinflationary period between 2006 and 2009. The initiative comes amid reports that...Published: 11 hrs ago | 658 | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu in bruising tussle over windfall
Employees of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) have turned to Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi, appealing for assistance in recovering approximately US$1.2 million in outstanding sala...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:29hrs | 4449 | by Staff reporter
Dynamos eye windfall
Zimbabwean football giants Dynamos FC are on the brink of a significant financial boost as they close in on a potential US$400,000 windfall if they advance to the group stages of the TotalEnergies Caf...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:34hrs | 938 | by Staff reporter
Last-minute back-to-school shopping rush hits Harare
As the new school term approaches, parents and guardians in Harare are grappling with skyrocketing costs for uniforms and stationery, as retailers seize the opportunity to profit from last-minute shop...Published: 09 Sep 2024 at 07:54hrs | 152 | by Staff reporter
Harare city council workers in residential stands windfall
Workers at Harare City Council (HCC) will benefit from residential stands through an agreement with a local land developer, addressing the issue of many retiring homeless. ...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 06:59hrs | 1066 | by Staff reporter
Chivayo hijacks US$40m corrupt ZEC deal
CONTROVERSIAL businessman Wicknell Chivayo, who is close to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other high-profile government officials, corruptly got a windfall from a murky Zimbabwe Election Commission...Published: 28 May 2024 at 12:47hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra fighter receives mysterious US$400 windfall
A former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) liberation war veteran, Godfrey Mlalazi, who recently raised concerns about a prominent insurance company offering him a meager ZiG200 and US$50 a...Published: 20 May 2024 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Lady Chevrons
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed the national women's cricket team for winning gold at the ongoing African Games in Accra, Ghana.The Lady Chevrons made history by becoming the first team to win ...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshabangu faction lays claim to government 'windfall'
CITIZEN Coalition of Change (CCC) self-imposed interim secretary-general Sengezo Tshabangu's faction has written to the government requesting for the disbursement of a "windfall" due to the party unde...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 05:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's third-term bid gathers pace
THE dolling out of top-of-the-range all-terrain vehicles to 100 chiefs from across the country by the government has raised eyebrows amid revelations that the traditional leaders are being rewarded fo...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zinara tightens screws on road contractors
THE Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has tightened its screws on companies contracted by the government to rehabilitate national roads after some companies were blamed for substandard wo...Published: 24 Feb 2024 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Withdraw Zimdollar from circulation
GOOD day, President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Your Excellency, it is my conviction that the Zimdollar, all things considered, is a swine. It is the epitome of voodoo economics, based on implausible assumpti...Published: 14 Feb 2024 at 19:25hrs | 1 | by Cyprian Muketiwa Ndawana
ZWL$12b windfall for Bulawayo roads
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) is set to receive a ZWL$12 billion windfall from the Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) for road rehabilitation.According to latest council minutes, Zi...Published: 07 Jan 2024 at 17:38hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
US$32m windfall for Zimbabwe education sector
The United Kingdom has unveiled a whopping US$32,4 million to Zimbabwe's education sector specifically to benefit disadvantaged schools, support a new curriculum and improve student retention....Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 16:40hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Woman murdered for her 'millions'
A 39-year-old Bulawayo woman was jailed for 25 years on Friday over the murder of Thulisile Dube, who vanished after a night out with friends before being found dead in an abandoned car in August last...Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 11:01hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Soldier forges prescriptions, claims $23 quadrillion
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army allegedly falsified documents to claim $23,160 quadrillion during the hyper-inflationary era for injuries sustained during the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...Published: 21 Jul 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament turns heat on Mthuli Ncube
LEGISLATORS have taken Finance and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube to task over the galloping inflation and the crumbling local currency, which they say has eroded salaries of government wo...Published: 15 Jun 2023 at 06:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mliswa demands Mthuli Ncube explanation over unbudgeted US$400k judges pay-outs
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has demanded the summoning of Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to parliament to explain how he bestowed unbudgeted US$400,000 pay-outs to each of the country's judges....Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 19:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US$400 000 windfall to judges is electoral gambit
THE recent gifting of US$400 000 housing loans to judges has underlined the executive's keenness to extend favours to the judiciary, particularly during elections, as they play a key role in mediating...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC in parking management system revenue windfall
BULAWAYO'S parking management company Tendy Three Investments (TTI) continues to witness growth in revenue with a rise of over 400 percent compared to the first month they started operations.T...Published: 21 May 2023 at 08:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt charms war collaborators ahead of 2023 general elections
GOVERNMENT has been frantically charming war veterans, ex-political prisoners, detainees, restrictees, non-combatant cadres and war collaborators by increasing pensions ahead of polls later this year,...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe chiefs, headmen get a windfall
CHIEFS and village heads are set to receive a one-off Covid-19 allowance backdated to May 2022 which is essentially yet another vote-buying exercise by the Zanu-PF government to win the support of 26 ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 20:11hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Senior CIO directors given US$350 000 cash windfall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's financially struggling administration has given senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors US$350 000 housing loans each in a desperate bid to appease crit...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Teachers4ED is a trade union, claims Ministry of Education
Teachers4ED, an association of teachers widely known to be supporting President Mnangagwa's bid for re-election in 2023 is a trade union organisation and teachers are free to attend its meetings durin...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC, Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF unite to 'loot' State coffers
GIVEN the fluidity of Zimbabwean politics, one can only second guess President Emmerson Mnangagwa's 2023 elections strategy.Cabinet ministers have been offered US$500 000 "loans" they have not...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:09hrs | | by Sibanengi Mswazi Dube
An acid test for Zimbabwe's opposition parties
EVERY institution is bound by a code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations.There are several kinds of codes of conduct which the ...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zanu-PF defends MPs' US$40,000 windfall
Zanu-PF national spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday defended the US$40 000 housing loan facility for legislators saying the money was not even enough.Government has offered a US$40 ...Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 05:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rebukes party MPs who accepted government loot
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa Wednesday issued a guarded condemnation of party MPs who have joined the queue to receive government's US$40,000 windfall issued generously to...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chisora to use £2m Fury pay-day to keep kids in private school and away from his old dangerous neighbourhood
DEREK CHISORA will use his £2million Tyson Fury windfall to keep his daughters in private school and away from his old dangerous neighbourhood.The 38-year-old heavyweight moved to North Londo...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 05:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US$40 000 windfall for Chamisa and Mnangagwa's MPs
LEGISLATORS are reportedly set to receive US$40 000 each from government for their welfare, NewsDay has learnt.This was after the Members of Parliament's Welfare Committee, which includes part...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans flock to cruise ships amid vast job opportunities
Zimbabweans are leaving the country in their droves to secure vast employment opportunities that have emerged on cruise ships in the United Kingdom, America and the Caribbean, among other places....Published: 29 Nov 2022 at 17:51hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Govt to recruit 7 000 teachers
The GOVERNMENT will recruit an additional 7 000 teachers next year to enhance the delivery of quality education, with special focus on infant education.In the 2023 National Budget tabled in Pa...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sakunda windfall for Bosso
CHARMED by Highlanders' improved second half of the season performance in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League, the club's principal sponsors, giant energy company Sakunda Holdings has offered 250 p...Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 04:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches 'presidential bonus' charm for civil servants
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pledged a surprise US$200 bonus top up for civil servants in an apparent bid to charm the country's restive public workforce while putting one foot into his 2023 re-el...Published: 13 Nov 2022 at 17:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF is not in power but only its leaders are!
It is not unsurprising encountering the rank and file of the ruling ZANU PF party bragging over how they are in power - going to the extent of threatening unbearable brutality upon any and all who may...Published: 02 Nov 2022 at 16:38hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure
Born-Again Nelson?I NOTICE Nelson Chamisa is trying to re-brand himself as a constructive opposition figure, constructive in the mould of his bete noire...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 19:06hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda2
Zimbabwe chefs attempt to sneak to UN
SENIOR government officials reportedly secretly contacted the United Nations (UN) secretariat seeking to attend the UN General Assembly and other routine meetings, a leaked memo from Agriculture perma...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
A truly selfless leader would sacrifice himself for the sake of the country - so why doesn't Mnangagwa?
Zimbabwe's ruling elite just love lecturing us about sacrifice - touting themselves as the epitome of selflessness and devotion towards the nation - whom, at some point in their lives, were ready to d...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:49hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe tax-free threshold doubled, bonus windfall for workers
The tax-free threshold for income tax was doubled to $50 000 a month yesterday by Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube as part of the doubling of all tax bands to improve disposable ...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chikwata set for financial windfall
STRUGGLING former giants Zimbabwe Saints could be set for a financial windfall after the club successfully negotiated a new deal with a diaspora-based company.The club appears to have turned a...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
African Mining Sector Set for Strong Growth in 2022
Johannesburg - 16 May 2022 - With mining companies currently enjoying high prices, exceptional production performance and robust supply chains, the mining team from Stanbic Bank's parent company, Stan...Published: 16 May 2022 at 11:52hrs | 11 | by Mark Buncombe, Head of Mining and Metals at Standard Bank Group
Zimbabweans in diaspora not cash cows but should have their democratic rights respected!
There was much excitement in the corridors of power when it became apparent that diaspora remittances into Zimbabwe had surpassed the US$1.4 billion mark ...Published: 24 Apr 2022 at 06:25hrs | 5 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mwonzora, Khupe fight over US$1,3m windfall
FRESH fissures have rocked the opposition MDC-T camp over management of a whopping $150 million (about US$1,3 million at the official exchange rate) released yesterday by Treasury under the Political ...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare sign three West Africans
PREMIERSHIP football giants Dynamos continue to make a loud statement of intent after they completed the signing of two Ghanaian strikers and a Nigerian yesterday.The Glamour Boys have been ac...Published: 28 Jan 2022 at 05:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economist questions govt use of IMF money
A LEADING economist, Gift Mugano has questioned government's plans to disburse substantial amounts drawn from the nearly US$1 billion special drawing rights (SDR) from the International Monetary Fund ...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:33hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday November 14 1997
The day the Zimbabwe currency tumbled or hit the lowest mark was in 1997 when war veterans got Z$50 000 in gratuities each from the former late President Robert Mugabe’s government after they embark...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 19:08hrs | 11 | by Leonard Koni
Trust gets US$5million, collapses in 3 years
THE Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Trust (MZCSOT) has collapsed only three years after the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamonds Corporation (ZCDC) injected US$5 million to prop it, a Zimbabwe Ind...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 18:58hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Parly demands role in IMF windfall use
ZIMBABWE'S parliament wants a huge say in the way government will distribute a nearly US$1 billion windfall injected recently into the economy by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).The wind...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt lavishes Mthuli Ncube with a US$200 000 hotel stay
GOVERNMENT allegedly splurged over US$200 000 on Finance minister Mthuli Ncube (pictured)'s accommodation after his lengthy stay at a five-star hotel in the capital before he relocated to a plush home...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
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