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Parliament flags Gweru, Hwange councils' finances
Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised serious concerns regarding financial management in the Hwange and Gweru municipalities, highlighting significant delays in submitting financial ...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 10:15hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Confusion reigns as Friday ZEP deadline looms
Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders in South Africa are raising concerns that they will be unable to meet the Friday, November 29 deadline to apply for a further one-year exemption due to signific...Published: 27 Nov 2024 at 07:14hrs | 1700 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans to endure 6 more years with load shedding
The Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) is undertaking energy generation projects worth 3,000MW to eliminate load-shedding and achieve universal electricity access by 2030. The initiatives ar...Published: 20 Nov 2024 at 06:49hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs Minister enhances work permit process for ZEP holders
Leon Schreiber, the Minister of Home Affairs, unveiled a new technical directive aimed at expediting the work permit application process for Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders. Currently, about 1...Published: 14 Aug 2024 at 09:54hrs | 1472 | by Staff reporter
SA Home Affairs to clamp down on visa corruption
Home Affairs Minister Leon Schreiber said measures were in place in his department to clamp down on fraudulent activities in the issuing of visas to foreign nationals.He was responding to parl...Published: 02 Aug 2024 at 08:07hrs | 988 | by Sgtaff reporter
Reprieve for SA migrant workers
South Africa's new Minister of Home Affairs, Dr. Leon Schreiber, has extended the temporary concession for migrant workers awaiting visa, waiver, and appeal outcomes until December 31, 2024. This exte...Published: 05 Jul 2024 at 10:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
NRZ targets US$100m revenue in 12 months
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) aims to generate approximately US$100 million in revenue by 2025 by leveraging its extensive real estate holdings. While cargo transportation remains a key reve...Published: 04 Jul 2024 at 09:02hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe escalates crime prevention, justice delivery
Home Affairs Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Raphael Faranisi, announced the revision of several laws and the introduction of new policies to enhance crime prevention and justice delivery in Zimbabwe....Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Increase in sugar prices unwarranted'
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has expressed concern over speculative pricing of sugar on the local market.In a statement yesterday, CZR president Denford Mutashu said the recen...Published: 12 Apr 2024 at 09:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean permits: Helen Suzman Foundation takes on Motsoaledi in Constitutional Court
The Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) has gone to court to oppose a bid by Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi to appeal against a ruling that he may not terminate the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP)...Published: 21 Mar 2024 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Residents raise concern over councillors' stands
In the face of worsening basic service delivery in many local authorities, including Bulawayo, ratepayers have raised concerns about certain privileges granted to serving councillors. Specific...Published: 31 Jan 2024 at 04:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt is crippling local authorities
The government has been accused of crippling the local authorities' operations on conditions that are run by the opposition.This was revealed recently by the Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Dev...Published: 10 Dec 2023 at 13:09hrs | 11 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans welcome another ZEP permit's life line
ZIMBABWEANS working and living in South Africa on the strength of a special three years' permit have welcomed its extension by the host government for another two years.South Africa's Home Aff...Published: 01 Dec 2023 at 18:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Gwanda mayor says, 'I am Mnangagwa's first-born-mayor'
The only mayor from the ruling Zanu-PF party in Zimbabwe, Thulani Moyo of Gwanda Municipality, expressed his excitement at being referred to as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "first-born mayor" follow...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 13:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Shut down RBZ's irrelevant forex auction system'
ECONOMIC analysts this week said the central bank must close the foreign exchange auction system, saying it was no longer serving its purpose.The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) last month limi...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'RBZ directive to trigger more power cuts'
EXPERTS have warned of more power outages after the central bank ordered non-exporters to settle their energy bills in Zimbabwean dollars in a bid to keep the under-fire local currency relevant....Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC rakes in US$8,4m from plan approvals
BULAWAYO City Council raised over US$8,4 million revenue after approving 156 building plans out of the 237 submitted in March this year.This was revealed in the latest council minutes in which...Published: 08 May 2023 at 06:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive staff turnover hits Zimbabwe's National Prosecuting Authority
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has lost more than half the prosecutors recruited since last year, a development that threatens the efficiency of the justice delivery system.Acting De...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 08:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar official rate converges with black market premium on RBZ Auction
THE Zimdollar official exchange rate has converged with the parallel market premiums while at the same time falling within internationally acceptable margins the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Foreign...Published: 15 Feb 2023 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe monthly inflation rate drops to 0,7%
MONTHLY inflation declined to 0,7% in January 2023 shedding 0,6 percentage points in a development which comes on the back of economic reforms aimed at easing inflationary pressures, Zimbabwe National...Published: 02 Feb 2023 at 08:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hit by driver's licence disc shortage
GOVERNMENT says it is failing to procure raw materials for the production of metal driver's licence discs, citing sanctions.This was revealed in an exclusive interview with NewsDay by Transpor...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'SA's Home Affairs lacks capacity to deal with Zimbabwean permit holder'
Immigration stakeholders such as the Helen Suzman Foundation contend that the Department of Home Affairs lacks the capacity to deal fairly with Zimbabweans seeking to regularise their stay in South Af...Published: 10 Nov 2022 at 05:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fails to process IDs, birth certificates for over 2 months
CITIZENS wishing to obtain birth certificates and national identity cards (IDs) have endured two months of travelling back and forth to the Registrar General's (RG) offices nationwide, only to be info...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar shortage bites
THE government will today give an update on contracts it suspended last month pending a pricing review as pressure mounts for it to honour its obligations.Last month, as part of measures to sa...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA friction laid bare as tensions rise
SIMMERING tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa this week exploded after an outburst by a top provincial health official in the neighbouring country who took swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners
South Africa plans to end most special permits for foreigners as it revamps its immigration policies to manage an influx of economic migrants.The government announced that a special dispensati...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 20:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must fix healthcare system
THE Zimbabwean government has been challenged to fix the country's ailing healthcare system, which has forced citizens to cross the border to neighbouring South Africa to access better health services...Published: 26 Aug 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Phophi slams Mnangagwa's allies for seeking private hospitals in South Africa
Under fire MEC for Health in Limpopo, Phophi Ramathuba has defended her fierce rants at a Zimbabwean patient and further slammed Zimbabwe government officials for brazen free spending on their own tre...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar depreciation on parallel and RBZ markets eases
THE depreciation of the Zimbabwean dollar has begun to ease on both the parallel and official market following months of a sustained downward spiral which saw the local currency losing more than half ...Published: 18 Aug 2022 at 06:48hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe exemption permits: Motsoaledi hires private lawyers
Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said that they have hired private lawyers to address backlogs as the expiry of Zimbabwean exemption permit looms.The future of thousands of Zimbabweans h...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 18:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA's Zimbabwe exemption permit scheme is a money racket and a ‘fraud'
The Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) scheme is the "largest case of fraud and theft ever committed by the government of one country over nationals of its neighbouring country in African history", accor...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 07:02hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Blitz targets top-of-the-range cars
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) is conducting a joint operation with the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) targeting top-of-the-range vehicles believed to have been stolen in ne...Published: 21 May 2022 at 17:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ auction rate reaches $258
The auction rate, the weighted average of successful bids on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe foreign currency auction for productive businesses, fell from $173,2685 to the US dollar last week to $258,540...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'RBZ's currency auction a headache'
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) yesterday told Parliament that the country's foreign currency auction system was problematic, resulting in a huge backlog.Giving oral evidence be...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Foreign banks troop to Zimbabwe forex auction
UNITED States-based multinational investment outfit JP Morgan was among global lenders that repatriated a combined US$30 million through the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s forex auction system by th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
John Mangudya and CZI kiss and make up
In its position paper on the sensitive issue leaked to the media on Friday, CZI called on the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to suspend the foreign currency auction system after the Zimdollar fell to ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 11:39hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bedbug outbreak hits WhaWha Prison
Whawha Prison, outside Midlands province capital Gweru, has been infested by bedbugs, Southern Eye has learnt.According to families of inmates at the jail, who spoke on condition of anonymity,...Published: 15 Apr 2022 at 08:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lithium: Chinese lead scramble for Zimbabwe assets
CHINESE firms have invested over US$570 million in Zimbabwe's lithium mines since the last quarter of 2021, as the rush for Zimbabwe's resource escalates.It is not only the Chinese who have st...Published: 11 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces cooking oil shortage
Zimbabwe is facing fresh cooking oil shortages following a sharp increase in edible oil prices on the international markets and foreign currency shortages leading to viability challenges f...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy urgently needs tax reforms
For the fourth consecutive year, the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has been exceeding budgeted quarterly and annual revenue targets (in ZW Dollar and in US Dollar terms). Even though the economy ...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 12:40hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Stanbic posts impressive results for year end 2021
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank has shrugged off the adverse effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdowns to post an inflation adjusted ...Published: 30 Mar 2022 at 08:12hrs | 4 | by Agencies
Forex backlog dents machinery imports
ZIMBABWE'S industries are still battling to access millions of United States dollars allocated through the foreign currency auction system, Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) president, Kurai ...Published: 17 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs propose 60-year sentences for rapists
Members of Parliament have called for 60-year mandatory sentences for rapists saying the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform Act) Chapter 9:23 does not prescribe deterrent sentences.This cam...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 07:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biological lab found in Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the issue of biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.We confirm that, during the special military operat...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clears US$200m auction forex backlog
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it has cleared the nearly US$200 million ring-fenced foreign currency backlog on the auction system.Governor, Dr John Mangudya said in an interview that...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube to headline CZI conference
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube is set to headline the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) annual economic outlook symposium next Thursday, which is expected to seek solutions to price hikes and ...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 05:46hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
CZI urges RBZ to fine tune auction
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) should only sell foreign currency that it has already received to avoid creating backlogs from auctioning unreali...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Key expectations from upcoming monetary policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is expected to present the first monetary policy statement of 2022 within the next 30 days amid rising inflationary pressures. The monetary policy comes after the de...Published: 19 Jan 2022 at 11:52hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Covid-19 protocols remain in force
Cabinet received an update on the country's response to the Covid-19 pandemic, procurement and roll-out of vaccines, as presented by chairman of the Ministers' National Committee, Vice President and M...Published: 17 Nov 2021 at 05:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's banks overwhelmed
ZIMBABWE'S banking system has been overwhelmed by rocketing demand for United States dollars on the foreign currency auction system, the central bank said on Tuesday, as it moved to adjust bidding lea...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 05:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
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