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Matebeleland villagers appeal for govt intervention
VILLAGERS in Matebeleland region are appealing to the government to immediately intervene and save them from starvation as the food crisis reaches alarming levels.Several villagers have alread...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 11:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals
From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral v...Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Nkayi Villagers cry for help
Villagers under Headman Manguni in Nkayi have requested urgent government assistance and help towards tackling challenges that have made life difficult for the people of Nkayi. Villagers r...Published: 05 Apr 2023 at 11:52hrs | | by Nkululeko Nkomo
Allow the masses to trade in precious minerals, to bring stability to our Zim$ currency
Zimbabwe has had, what is now Refered to as a merry-go-round foreign currency policy, which has a five year cycle of a Zim$, dual currency and a USD$ and then back to Zim$. These cycles have been cons...Published: 25 Apr 2022 at 07:09hrs | 1 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Gwanda villagers drive out amacimbi harvesters
VILLAGERS from the Dombo area in Gwanda District are driving out mopane worm harvesters from their areas saying they are depleting their wealth.Traditionally, mopane worms (amacimbi/madora) ar...Published: 12 Feb 2022 at 16:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Minerals and natural resources a solution to Zimbabwe’s economic turnaround program
We say Zimbabwe's minerals and natural resources belong to the people and we continue to allow colonial and oppressive laws that do not allow the natural black landowners to take advantage of the God-...Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:37hrs | 10 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
'Zimbabwe coup a harvest of empty promises'
WHEN Solomon Muzanenhamo (39) trudged from Highfield high-density suburb to central Harare with a Zimbabwean flag draped around his neck in November 2017, 15 kilometres became like a stroll down his s...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:16hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Amacimbi processing plant set up in Beitbridge District
GOVERNMENT in conjunction with development partners has set up the country's first state-of-the-art mopani worm processing plant in Matshiloni area in Beitbridge District, Matabeleland South. The amac...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chombo wants passport released
FORMER Cabinet Minister Ignatius Chombo, on bail over a slew of corruption-related charges wants his passport back temporarily to travel to South Africa for medical attention. Chombo, through ...Published: 15 Jul 2021 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Midlands farmers bartering grain for a song
FARMERS in the Midlands province are engaging in barter trade, exchanging grain for groceries, risking making their families food insecure, Southern Eye has gathered.Traditional leaders said s...Published: 14 Jun 2021 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brisk business for umtshiphela/ harurwa vendors
SCORES of villagers in Bikita district in Masvingo province are making brisk business from selling edible insects - commonly known as harurwa/ umtshiphela (Encosternum delegorguei) – along the Masvi...Published: 22 May 2021 at 19:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mealie-meal price to go down
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe has welcomed Government's position to stop issuing maize and mealie-meal import permits with effect from end of the month, as the country is on course for a m...Published: 16 May 2021 at 09:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mastercard and Network International Pioneering Africa's digital payment revolution
Civilization has transformed trading and commerce from the prehistoric means which involved barter trades facilitated by the item-to-item exchange. The discrepancies and inconsistencies of goods valu...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 12:27hrs | 3 | by Staff Writter
Jobless and witless Sikhala
Well, when I see jobless and witless Sikhala what comes to mind are Tom and Jerry gimmicks! The MDC-Alliance might have tried hard to openly disown him on his utterances, but we are not fooled...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti claims abandonment of the multi-currency system is illegal
FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has described the abandonment of the multi-currency system by government as a disaster while urging its reversal.The MDC MP for Harare East w...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 07:31hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa's maize stolen
POLICE have arrested three men - two drivers and a suspected buyer - who were in the habit of stealing part of President Mnangagwa's maize deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board depot in Chegutu. ...Published: 22 May 2019 at 10:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Allow Zimbabweans to trade in Gold, Diamonds and other minerals
Lets empower the people of Zimbabwe and allow them to trade in gold and diamond. I have travelled throughout Zimbabwe, and some of my family members are geologists and miners.I have seen some of them ...Published: 16 Apr 2019 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe's central bank to allow US dollar trading
Zimbabwe's central bank says it has upgraded its RTGS platform to allow the settlement of transactions in dollars and trading will go live on February 1.Trading is currently in test mode, it s...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | | by Bloomberg news
Zimbabwe's (Criminal) Record Check!
Chronicling abuses on women in Zimbabwe Dear Zimbabwean Women, It is high time we chronicled all abuses...Published: 15 Sep 2018 at 06:53hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Deploy Tonga-speaking teachers to Gokwe
CHIEF Siyamchembo of Gokwe North has appealed to Government to deploy Tonga-speaking teachers in his area amid revelations that pupils were performing badly due to a serious shortage teacher-pupil lan...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 15:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Why digital money makes sense
William Arthur Ward was an American who contributed a lot to the Reader's Digest. His main genres were inspirational maxims and meditations and poems. One of the things he said was: "A pessimist compl...Published: 19 Jun 2018 at 06:56hrs | | by Nick Mangwana
Why Mnangagwa won't prosecute Kasukuwere for graft
A week before the military intervention that toppled ex-president Robert Mugabe in mid-November last year, Saviour Kasukuwere was addressing a Zanu-PF crowd in Harare, and yelled: "Down with Emmerson ...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 19:46hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Villagers survive on selling cow dung
VILLAGERS in the drought-prone Chief Mvuthu's area in Victoria Falls have resorted to selling cow dung manure and firewood to eke a living after most of their crops were destroyed by wild animals from...Published: 18 Apr 2018 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Indians mull barter to ease forex woes
The Indian business community has proposed the use of barter trade with their Zimbabwean counterparts, to ease the foreign exchange crisis bedevilling the economy.In an interview on the sideli...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
A day in the life of a Lupane beekeeper
Promoting apiculture as an environment-friendly livelihood alternative Dressed in an overall and a protective h...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 09:47hrs | 2 | by Gabriele Ranieri
'Distribution of condoms to prisoners morally wrong'
Chief Ngungumbane of Midlands has expressed concern over government plans to distribute condoms to prisoners, saying the move was morally wrong.Speaking during a legislators' workshop held in ...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 05:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chinx's farm groans under the burden of neglect
"KUTORA minda kukanganisa, aiwa hakusi kukanganisa..." (It's not wrong to reclaim the land) sang the late musician Dickson "Comrade Chinx" Chingaira in one of his songs.The musician was one of the...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 10:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZETDC and CAFCA under probe
The Competition and Tariff Commission is probing Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) and CAFCA on a case of suspected anti-competitive behaviour.ZETDC is a...Published: 11 May 2017 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff Reporter
The Boer, donkeys and Zimbabweans
Over the Easter holiday, while most good Christians were looking up in the sky, I went home in Mberengwa.That journey would take me as far as Bulawayo, along the Beitbridge Highway, from the s...Published: 28 Apr 2017 at 06:59hrs | | by Joram Nyathi
Zimbabwe, a must fall state - MLF
Mthwakazi Liberation Front has declared that Zimbabwe is a must fall state especially in the control of the Matabeleland region.MLF spokesperson Ndabezihle Fuyane said Mashonaland people will ...Published: 22 Apr 2017 at 07:37hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe regresses to barter trade
Zimbabwe, currently facing its worst cash shortage since the adoption of the multi-currency regime in 2009, now has a new medium of exchange, which is too big to be added to a basket of curren...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Independence Day Celebrations or Mourning
What is independence? Independence is defined as a state of being objective, impartial or neutral among other phrases that define it. It is closely defined as self-government, sovereignty or s...Published: 18 Apr 2017 at 10:56hrs | | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Amacimbi invaders warned in Kezi
Amacimbi harvesters from other regions who have descended at Matopo district have been banned and ordered to leave with immediate effect by area leader, Chief Nyangazonke of Maphisa in...Published: 12 Apr 2017 at 03:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Olinda and Stunner: A classic case of bedroom barter trader
Olinda Chapel Chideme is not an idiot, she is not a weakling either, nor is she a victim, or a naïve saint at the mercy of a conniving cunning wolf. By her own admission, she is a very hard working a...Published: 13 Feb 2017 at 14:13hrs | | by Maynard Manyowa
We can't keep complaining, and protesting, its time to start providing solutions
The problems facing Zimbabwe are not an act of God, or the sad eventuality unforeseen circumstances. They are manmade disasters. This is not a new analysis, or a space found analysis. It is common kno...Published: 29 Jan 2017 at 20:59hrs | | by Patson Dzamara (Khuluma Afrika)
Zimbabwe companies face closure
A payments gridlock within the banking sector threatens to ground the economy, already troubled by a liquidity crunch and an emerging foreign currency crisis, industry players warned this week....Published: 15 Dec 2016 at 05:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
1 300 cattle killed by drought
CHIPINGE'S resource poor smallholder farmers are accruing huge livestock losses due to drought and diseases, with the latest statistics indicating that more than 1 300 cattle have died in the past few...Published: 02 Jan 2016 at 10:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Hookers offer free rounds to lure clients
Sex workers in Bindura have fallen on hard times as a vast number of them now offer new clients one free sex round in a bid to lure more customers.Other have resorted to barter trade.T...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 13:10hrs | 5 | by Staff Reporter
Synopsis of Carl Joshua Ncube's motivational book
HOW TO START ANYTHING FROM SCRATCH WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING I have been placed in a few positions where I had to start from scratch. When I came back from England, when I started my advertis...Published: 19 Jun 2015 at 20:05hrs | | by Carl Joshua Ncube
Ministry, ZBC sue Cuthbert Dube and five top managers
The Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, together with the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, have filed a lawsuit demanding $58 million from the public broadcaster's former chair...Published: 26 Mar 2015 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top lawyer dupes woman of house
A SENIOR Bulawayo lawyer has been sucked into a fraud scam after allegedly forging documents used in duping a city businesswoman of her house. According to Chronicle, Godfrey Nyoni, 32, a part...Published: 27 Feb 2015 at 06:27hrs | 29 | by Thandeka Moyo
Zimbabwe moves back to stone-age
MORE and more local companies are resorting to barter arrangements to escape an unrelenting liquidity crunch that has resulted in the closure of several firms. Bartering is defined by online site Inve...Published: 27 Nov 2014 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'North Korea to secure land in Zimbabwe'
COLOGNE/HARARE - The secretive and ostracised, North Korean regime of Kim Jong-Un has reportedly moved to secure massive tracks of agricultural land from President Robert Mugabe, to grow that country...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 07:12hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe / Mary-Kate Kahari
'Patrick Chinamasa, How do you sleep at night?'
There comes a time in one's life where a line has to be drawn in terms of what's acceptable anymore and what is not. I, for one, have had it and am saying ENOUGH to the Zanu PF government an...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Emilia Mukaratirwa, Zapu Vice President
Barter trade resurfaces in Zimbabwe
BARTER trade, an archaic system of exchanging good or services before money was widely accepted as medium of exchange, has resurfaced in Zimbabwe.To circumvent prevailing liquidity challenges,...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe totally detached from reality
President Robert Mugabe' statement that the country's failing economy is on a recovery path is a clear indication he's detached from reality, analysts said on Monday.The 90 year-old Zanu-PF le...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 21:24hrs | | by Tichaona Sibanda
Man steals doors to 'save them from termites'
A GOKWE man shocked the courts on Thursday when he claimed that he was doing an environmental management exercise by stealing three doors from his employer in an effort to save them from being destroy...Published: 01 Jun 2014 at 09:22hrs | | by Fairness Moyana
Sex workers slash prices to $1 due to hard times
Due to the economic challenges that the country is currently facing, prostitutes in Marondera have fallen on hard times.The rise in prostitution in Marondera is due to a number of reasons, chi...Published: 24 May 2014 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why Muchechetere, Dube are not in jail
What is stopping the police from arresting suspended Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation chief executive Mr Happison Muchechetere and beleaguered Premier Service Medical Aid Society boss Dr Cuthber...Published: 16 Feb 2014 at 16:08hrs | | by Makomborero Mutimukulu
San people face severe food crisis
TSHOLOTSHO - The NewsDay reports that the one-time hunter gatherers in the Mazibulala and Dlamini villages in Tsholotsho North under Chief Tategulu area are facing a severe food crisis.Accordi...Published: 04 Oct 2013 at 02:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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