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Mnangagwa's govt sees urgency of controlling public transport
The need for the government to be a key player in the country's public transport system is very urgent following the abuse of such privilege by private transport operators who are collaborating with c...Published: 2 hrs ago | 979 | by Staff reporter
Five people feared dead as protests hit Zimbabwe
FIVE people reportedly died while 24 others were injured as police clashed with protesters across the country yesterday as anger over the worsening economic crisis spilled onto the streets with busine...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 06:25hrs | 1511 | by Staff Reporter
Chiwenga slams use of social media to cause panic buying
ACTING President Constantino Chiwenga has castigated abuse of social media to cause panic buying of fuel and other basic commodities. Officiating at the launch of the second phase of the centr...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:23hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Everybody in Bulawayo supports Orlando Pirates, claims Kuda Mahachi
Kuda Mahachi says Bulawayo is a second home for Orlando Pirates because they have a huge fan base in the City of Kings. The Zimbabwe international midfielder even says all the people of Bulawayo suppo...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:12hrs | 1595 | by Staff reporter
'Go to hell Strive Masiyiwa' Jonathan Moyo says as he spills more beans
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Zimbabwean hotel adopts clinic maternity wing
Hospitality concern Holiday Inn Mutare has adopted Sakubva Clinic's maternity wing where it has have since invested over $2 000 in renovations and linen donations.Holiday Inn general manager C...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:28hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's defining moment
GOVERNMENT will today meet its restive employees in a crunch meeting for salary negotiations in a desperate bid to stop a full-blown strike that could cripple State operations.This comes as wo...Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 3515 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo's lies on Masiyiwa exposed?
On Monday exiled Former G40 Kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo wrote a scathing statement on Twitter seeking to expose how Telecoms Guru Strive Masiyiwa funded ZANU PF campaign during the bloody 200...Published: 09 Jan 2019 at 13:07hrs | 4584 | by Mandla Ndlovu
FAO Supported Irrigation Scheme Wins First Prize in National Competition
Masvingo - Stanmore B, an irrigation scheme which was rehabilitated by FAO working directly with Government of Zimbabwe and with support from the Swiss Development and Cooperation (SDC) was judged the...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:40hrs | 579 | by Agencies
Bond notes unsustainable, fuel inflation, claims Fitch
Fitch Solutions, the macro-economic arm of global rating agency says Zimbabwe's currency regime is highly unsustainable and will continue to fuel inflationary pressures going forward.In 2009, ...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 09:16hrs | 653 | by Staff reporter
Many Zimbabweans in the UK abandon their professions to become nurses
Nurses do enjoy a diverse and rewarding career that really makes a difference. Nurses act as leaders, carers and clinicians, taking responsibility for the care they provide to patients. They are life ...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:51hrs | 7452 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Trafigura give Zimbabwe more time to pay for fuel
Zimbabwe has reached flexible payment arrangements with some fuel importers that will ensure it stabilises supplies amid a foreign-currency shortage that threatens economic growth.The governme...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 09:07hrs | 2005 | by Bloomberg
'Mnangagwa's 'Smart cities' concept plucked from MDC manifesto'
THE MDC has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration "stole" the opposition party's smart cities concept and factored it into his recently-launched national clean-up campaign which h...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:40hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge border post queues stretching for more than 2 kms
The volume of vehicles and people passing through Beitbridge border post to South Africa has started increasing as Zimbabweans who had come back home for the holidays are returning to base. Ov...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1855 | by Staff reporter
Foreign satellite service providers to pay tax
The cash-strapped government has amended the Finance Bill to enable it to tax foreign satellite service providers such as Multichoice.Parliament has acceded to the amendment of Section 14 of t...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 17:53hrs | 1073 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean men more concerned about their in-laws
IT has become a truism that Zimbabwe needs all the investment it can garner via the usual foreign direct investors; the foreigners with money to put into productive ventures and make more money for th...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 12:19hrs | 6969 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
REVEALED: G40 tried to form a communist party in Zimbabwe
The former G40 faction of ZANU PF was on the tracks of forming a new political party called the Communist Party of Zimbabwe which was going to be in charge of ideological training for ZANU PF cadres a...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 21:13hrs | 5245 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chiwenga claims that 'Vision 2030 is on track'
Vice President Retired General Constantino Chiwenga says nothing can stop Zimbabwe from attaining middle income economy status even before the year 2030 given the resilience of the Zimbabweans people....Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 15:35hrs | 1087 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa's Econet stranglehold challenged as shareholder tussle breaks out
AFTER years of brutal hyperinflation, Zimbabwe became known as a place where cash was almost worthless. Now, investors are fighting over EcoCash, the country's homegrown PayPal-like service that has z...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 09:32hrs | 5139 | by Gabriele Steinhauser I The Wall Street Journal
The primacy of regime survival: State Fragility and Economic Destruction in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe crisis has been analysed from varying stand points among researchers. State fragility as analytical and conceptual framework is deployed by the duo of Mark Simpson and Tony Hawkins (2018)...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 07:52hrs | 677 | by Brian Maregedze
Strive Masiyiwa struggles to stomach criticism
In what started as a routine interview with continental business television channel CNBC Africa, Strive Masiyiwa, Econet founder and Executive Chairman describes the political changes being witnessed ...Published: 02 Jan 2019 at 08:46hrs | 8305 | by Willliam Muchayi
Chamisa's 2019 plot laid bare
MDC-Alliance says it will this year embark on mass action to remove President Mnangagwa and his Government from power in order to effect the regime change agenda bankrolled by some Western nations. ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:49hrs | 1246 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe inflation rate drops'
The country's inflation rate has dropped by over seven percent as government has been working tirelessly to contain price increases, Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has said....Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:44hrs | 1128 | by Staff reporter
IsiZulu and Zimbabwean Ndebele controversy
The use of isiZulu in Matabeleland as a language of both evangelization and education dates back to the earliest works of missionaries under the London Missionary Society in the 1850s. The approach ha...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:07hrs | 1944 | by George Mkhwanazi
Democrat or Closet Dictator
As I reflect on what is going on in Zimbabwe, I could not help but turn to the best democratic nation in the world - USA. As I embarked on this journey, I had many questions on my mind and just wonder...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 14:37hrs | 1775 | by Sam Wezhira
Is production a pre-requisite for Rand usage in Zimbabwe?
Firstly the bond note needs to be abolished or removed from the multicurrency system.Once you have removed the bond note, you have restored credibility in the currency (that is US$s, Rands, et...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 09:42hrs | 2083 | by Colls Ndlovu
Chamisa banks on NGOs
Six Western nationals have been working with local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) led by Crisis Coalition in Zimbabwe (CCiZ) to fight what they claim is "a crisis of legitimacy" following Presi...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 22:07hrs | 1190 | by Staf reporter
Chamisa so obsessed with power
As Tsvangirai lay dying in a posh hospital in South Africa on a fully government funded health trip, against all African ways Nelson Chamisa was in the arms of the soon to be widow scheming ...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 18:18hrs | 4557 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Botswana firm eyes Zim diamond cutting
DIVERSIFIED Botswana headquartered group Hangana Private Limited plans to establish a diamond cutting and polishing centre in Bulawayo as part of its long-term investment in Zimbabwe. Last wee...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 15:33hrs | 474 | by Staff Reporter
Political studies 101 on how Zanu failed itself, the country, and the masses
Politically I wonder if it is the morning, afternoon and evening in Zimbabwe, to Africa and, to the Diaspora community who watch yet emotionally as tangled in as anyone at home. The Christmas message ...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:32hrs | 3074 | by Andrew M Manyevere
Chamisa's date of birth causes trouble
Sometime in 1978 Chamisa was born. That time his date of birth was not significant and nobody ever thought that there will be a minute put aside to coin discussions bordering on his age or indeed the ...Published: 26 Dec 2018 at 07:56hrs | 35562 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MPs say 'Yes' to Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax
The 2019 National Budget sailed through the National Assembly on Thursday with legislators adopting the two percent intermediated tax which was one of the contentious issues in the Finance Bill. Parli...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 08:00hrs | 2215 | by Staff Reporter
BCC offers 50% discount for forex payments
BULAWAYO City Council has started implementing a 50 percent debt cancellation policy but only for those paying their bills in foreign currency, while all international organisations operating in the c...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 07:53hrs | 2042 | by Staff Reporter
Zimra to up surveillance on businesses
ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) says it will embolden its surveillance on companies and closely monitor businesses trading in forex in order to compel them to pay taxes in foreign currency....Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:25hrs | 276 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa acts on ghost workers
Government plans to roll out the biometric registration of workers in the civil service within the first three months of next year, in an exercise that is largely expected to help streamline the publi...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:00hrs | 905 | by Staff reporter
Empower Bank to introduce agency banking
EMPOWER Bank has set sights at introducing agency bank as part of its efforts to reach out to all marginalised youths across the length and breadth of the country.Empower Bank head of marketin...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:50hrs | 295 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF girds loins for major economic uplift
An army donning nothing remotely linked to a camouflage – apparels made from a tapestry of red, yellow, black and green colours – invaded the usually sleepy environs of Esigodini, Matabeland South...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:33hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
MDC senator moves motion to probe ZC
SENATE this week moved a motion calling on the forensic investigation of alleged rampant corruption and maladministration at Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) as pressure continues to mount on the country's crick...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:10hrs | 288 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pushed Chiwenga against the wall
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa used last week's Zanu-PF annual conference week in Esigodini to further push his main internal rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga against the wall in a major move t...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 19:05hrs | 12949 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe inquiry report in brief
Executive SummaryZimbabwe held its national elections on the 30th of July 2018. The electoral process was generally peaceful until the 1st of August 2018, when many demonstrators took to the s...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:50hrs | 267 | by Motlanthe
Mthuli Ncube engages diplomats on reforms
ZIMBABWE'S international re-engagement programme and debt clearance plan are facing renewed headwinds with the United States government maintaining a hardline stance, insisting on tangible reforms, wh...Published: 22 Dec 2018 at 18:46hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
I thought I saw Jessie Majome in Bremen/Germany; No: it was Manuela Fischer
The similarities of these two great African women cannot be summarized in a single sentence because there is a lot in them that define them as true African woman and African in them both. These two wo...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 20:36hrs | 1764 | by Nomazulu Thata
MDC names school after Tsvangirai
The Movement for Democratic Change National Council recently adopted a resolution to set up a political school which shall be named after the late Founding President Morgan Richard Tsvangirai....Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 08:54hrs | 4441 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Why Beitbridge should fit into National Ports Authority scope
The quest to boost productivity in industries and to grow the national economy has seen Zimbabwe, like any other progressive nation in the world, coming up with a raft of measures to remove trade barr...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:50hrs | 516 | by Thupeyo Muleya
ZANU PF resolutions spot on the economy
The ZANU PF 17th Annual People's Conference adopted an array of resolutions which are in sync with President Emmerson Mnangagwa's focus on the economy more than politics. For sure at this year's confe...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 11:50hrs | 968 | by Elijah Chihota
Mnangagwa fails to shake off Mugabe dust
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa took over from former president Robert Mugabe, he was received with much zeal and hope.In his inaugural speech, he promoted the slogan the "Voice of the peopl...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:26hrs | 2415 | by Staff reporter
Local firms in SOS over forex crunch
Local manufacturers have asked government to liberalise the foreign exchange market as most companies continue to face challenges in accessing the elusive greenback from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe a...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 09:02hrs | 897 | by Staff reporter
Exchange control is the central problem facing Zimbabwe at present
BY introducing exchange control via the Reserve Bank, the State has done the following: Created a system to ‘sweep’ some US$3 billion in direct foreign earnings int...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:41hrs | 990 | by Eddie Cross
Gaddafi son refuses deportation from Zimbabwe to Libya
THE late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's adopted son, Abdallha Moussa Mone Yousuf Mouammare Aboutminiyare Al Gaddafi, who is detained at Harare Remand Prison as an illegal immigrant, was at one time d...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:58hrs | 1982 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF resolves to block MDC Alliance MPs
ZANU-PF has passed a resolution recommending a constitutional amendment to exclude MPs from Bulawayo and Harare from provincial councils so that they are constituted by elected councillors. Go...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 05:52hrs | 1702 | by Staff reporter
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