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Zimbabwe govt mobilises for timely grain payments
The government is mobilising resources to ensure prompt payment for up to 150 000 metric tonnes of grain and oilseed deliveries following an improved 2024/25 agricultural season, Information, Publicit...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 18:51hrs | 50 | by Staff reporter
PSC rolls out biometric system
THE Public Service Commission (PSC) is working on rolling out a biometric system to all civil service offices as part of digital efforts to implement performance-based remuneration for Government work...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe civil servants abuse car import facility
THE Government has expressed concern over the continued abuse of the duty-free car import facility for civil servants amid revelations that more than 14 000 vehicles have been unprocedurally imported ...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge modernisation winds up
THE US$300 million Beitbridge Border Post modernisation project has reached its final stage with contractors now winding up construction works, ZimBorders Consortium general manager, Mr Nqobile Ncube ...Published: 22 Jun 2023 at 06:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Modernisation of Beitbridge border enters homestretch
The Zimborders Consortium says it is now at the final stage of the construction and transformation of the Beitbridge Border Post.The Government and the consortium have been transforming the po...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biometric system improves efficiency at Beitbridge Border Post
THE modernisation of the Beitbridge Border Post has become a practical example of how to improve efficiency and curtail corruption at the country's ports of entry.Touts swarming travellers lik...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 15:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Beitbridge Border Post automation a game-changer, says Mthuli Ncube
THE automation of services and the implementation of traffic separation at the Beitbridge Border Post have ushered in a new era of efficiency at Zimbabwe's busiest port of entry. Professor Mthuli Ncub...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 08:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
By-elections went according to plan
LAST week, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) held by-elections to fill 28 National Assembly seats and 122 council vacancies which had arisen due to opposition recalls as well as deaths. The much...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:22hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Touts resurface at passport office
CORRUPT syndicates that wake up early morning to join the queue at the passport office in Harare have resurfaced and are targeting impatient applicants whom they are charging between US$10 and US$20 t...Published: 28 Feb 2022 at 05:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe E-passport now in use
The new electronic passport (e-passport) is now acceptable as an official document at all ports of entry and travellers can safely use it for their foreign trips, the Immigration Department has said....Published: 19 Feb 2022 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Let's modernise our ICT systems at the London embassy
There is great news coming from Zimbabwe on how the Government has made it "easy" to obtain identification documents, especially the passport. We ICT professionals feel very excited ab...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 11:41hrs | 2 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe's e-passport comes on stream to ease travel
FROM next Monday e-passports that were launched by President Mnangagwa in December last year will be accepted as an official travel document at all ports of entry, the Civil Registry Department (CRD) ...Published: 03 Feb 2022 at 05:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches Zimbabwe's e-passport
A nationwide campaign to issue primary identity and registration documents will be launched next year, coinciding with the voter registration blitz ahead of the 2023 harmonised elections, President Mn...Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 22:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Truckers face Beitbridge chaos
When it was controversially awarded a US$240 million contract to upgrade the Beitbridge border post in 2018, the Zimborders Consortium said it would provide "world class border facilities that optimis...Published: 18 Oct 2021 at 19:32hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Civil service biometric system goes live
THE Public Service Commission(PSC) has begun undertaking periodical audits of the public sector staff compliment through a high-tech biometric authentication system that is anticipated to help weed ou...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Ministers face contempt charge
Speaker of Parliament Advocate Jacob Mudenda was apoplectic at an age-old delinquency that has plagued the National Assembly for years truancy.He warned some Government ministers against conte...Published: 13 Sep 2020 at 07:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil service undergoing massive overhaul
Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has revealed that the civil service is under massive transformation to improve professionalism and efficiencies.In an exclusive inter...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Political Reforms can UNITE Zimbabwe
President Mnangagwa and Zanu-PF always complain that the main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and MDC Alliance are cry-babies who never accept electoral defeat and hence they are holding the country ...Published: 24 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya And Farai Maguwu
Call for Zimbabwe banks to embrace digital technologies
The banking sector has been called upon to embrace digital technologies which will enhance strategic partnerships and ensure efficient services to clients. The call was made at the 25th WSBI Africa Re...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants storm out of talks
NEGOTIATIONS between civil servants and government ended prematurely yesterday with representatives of the workers storming out of talks in protest after being told that there would be no new offer on...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parliament urged to oversee govt spending
PARLIAMENT has to keep strict checks and balances on government expenditure to control the budget deficit, economists have advised.Last week, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube presented his maiden...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget: The good, bad and ugly
In September, while meeting fund managers in New York, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said what the economy needed was a "big bang", a shock to the system. A week later, he brought that big bang; on th...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 06:08hrs | 4 | by NewZWire
New structure for Zimbabwe public service
The Public Service Commission is examining the roles, functions and mandates of Government ministries and departments as part of a process to come up with a new civil service structure.Governm...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 08:44hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'A political watershed in Zimbabwe's history' International Monitors Bless Elections
On the back of the Indian delegation's report yesterday, today SADC, the regional body representing our neighbouring countries also chimed in.With ZANU and ED running away with a seeming lands...Published: 01 Aug 2018 at 10:29hrs | 1 | by Joice Tsitsi
ESR calls on Zec to ensure 'sufficient transparency'
The Election Situation Room (ESR) has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to ensure sufficient transparency prevails in this year's election results aggregation, tabulation and publicati...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZEC gives 5.4 m TEN (10) days to correct voters' roll - proof Zanu PF does not want verified roll, never did
There was no way that ZEC was ever going to produce a verified voters' roll in the time allowed. The Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) should have started by January 2015, at the very latest, it was ...Published: 04 May 2018 at 20:34hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
SA immigration BVR system under attack for business slump
BUSINESSMEN in Musina, South Africa, have vowed to take on their government over the Immigration Department's poor and slow service at Beitbridge Border Post, which they say is ruining their businesse...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South Africa bans mobile phones at border
South Africa has with effect from Wednesday last week, banned the use of cellphones by travellers within the immigration halls. Sources at the border said the ban was a reaction to the leaking...Published: 02 Apr 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gigaba probes abuse of Zimbabweans at SA border
SOUTH Africa's Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba on Thursday visited Beitbridge Border Post following alleged abuse of Zimbabwean travellers by South Africa immigration officials.His surpris...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 07:27hrs | 3 | by Chronicle Editorial Comment
2018 election no easy walk to freedom
THE 2018 election is winnable on issues and strategy, but the opposition must make no assumptions about a clear and easy victory. Historically, all great moments of great oppositional momentum have be...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 16:43hrs | 2 | by Brian Kagoro
Court upholds ZEC decision
The Administrative Court has upheld a decision by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to award a tender to a New York-based company, IPSIDY, to supply a biometric voter registration (BVR) de-dupli...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
US firm gets Zimbabwe BVR tender
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has given an American company the nod to supply biometric voter registration (BVR) de-duplication hardware and software notwithstanding the court challenge of t...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Attempt to smear ZEC's decision is unfortunate PDP
The attempt to crank a smear campaign against ZEC's decision to award a tender to IPSIDY is unfortunate.As a point of clarity, the de-duplication process is meant to eliminate repeated copies ...Published: 08 Jan 2018 at 11:56hrs | | by PDP
BVR blitz: Absence of Commissioners of Oaths worrying
THE Zimbabwe Human Rights Association (ZimRights) has noted with concern the absence of commissioners of oaths at many Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) centres in the ongoing blitz to register voter...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Teachers cry foul over CCTVs at schools
Teachers in Bulawayo have castigated some schools that have adopted a biometric system for logging in and the use of close circuit television system (CCTV) in classrooms saying this is a calculative m...Published: 05 Jul 2017 at 18:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo schools adopt biometric clocking system for teachers
MOST Bulawayo schools are adopting the biometric clocking system for teachers to promote accountability at the institutions.With the new system, teachers scan their fingers on the machine whic...Published: 15 May 2017 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Biometric data capture existed during Rhodesian era'
A TOP MDC-T official in Bulawayo has said the biometric data capturing system, currently under consideration for implementation by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) was not a new phenomenon, as ...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
First Mutual Health Medical rolls out Biometric identification method
The First Mutual Medical Aid has rolled out a biometric medical health enrolment facility which will see members m=being identified through the system biometrical.The institution revealed this...Published: 27 Apr 2017 at 07:41hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Election must ensure 'Mugabe goes!' but also stop proliferation of future mediocre regimes
"Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved," said Jesus. Ma...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 09:26hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
Biometric voting system: To what extent is this feasible in Zimbabwe
Democracy and Civil rights activist Linda Masarira has said explained that theoretically or on paper the Biometric voting system uses a thumb print or eye scan.She said the system uses thumb i...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
SA introduces biometric capturing system at Beitbridge border post
South Africa has introduced a biometric capturing system for travellers visiting or leaving that country via Beitbridge Border Post.Pretoria adopted the new programme in July 2014, but its impleme...Published: 20 Mar 2017 at 06:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Biometric voting no silver bullet'
The Biometric Voter Registration system was used in the 2013 Kenyan elections where Uhuru Kenyatta became president. Ambassador Simbi Mubako headed a joint election observer mission of Comesa, EAC and...Published: 19 Mar 2017 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Christopher Farai Charamba
Growing fears of election rigging by Zanu-PF
There are growing fears that Zanu PF is already busy preparing to steal next year's elections. Suspicions have been heightened by the government's move to seize control of the new biometric voter ...Published: 05 Mar 2017 at 16:34hrs | | by ZimVigil
Zimbabwe to use biometric border identification scanners
THE Government has secured 70 iris recognition scanners that will be installed at all the country's major ports of entry and will see all travellers having their eyes scanned to allow the biometri...Published: 19 Feb 2017 at 09:19hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
'Blood will spill should they vote for Tsvangirai in 2018' says Kasukuwere's brother
Zanu-PF supporters in Mashonaland Central are preparing to unleash a reign of terror on opposition supporters ahead of the 2018 harmonised election. The 2018 polls are now likely to be the blo...Published: 17 Jan 2017 at 22:18hrs | 2 | by Ruzvidzo Jena
Makarau can register in the black-box BVS we demand meaningful democratic reforms
Zimbabwe Election Commission (ZEC) chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau, announced on Monday, with the usual fun-fare, that the country will be using the new biometric voting system (BVS). The Zanu PF pr...Published: 12 Oct 2016 at 16:54hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Breaking vicious cycle of bad governance, failed economy and rigged elections
ZEC chairperson, Justice Rita Makarau, says everyone must register if they want to vote in the 2018 elections."The voter's roll that we are going to use in 2018 will not make any reference to ...Published: 11 Oct 2016 at 19:55hrs | 1 | by Wilbert Mukori
MDC cast doubt on Biometric voting system
Opposition MDC has cautiously welcomed the planned Biometric voting system. It said it is important to note that the biometric system alone cannot address the plethora of challenges currently affectin...Published: 12 May 2016 at 10:20hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
MDC welcomes Biometric voting system
The MDC has welcome plans by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to introduce the biometric voting system for the 2018 elections.In a statement MDC spokesperson Kurauone Chihwayi said however wh...Published: 12 May 2016 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Govt urged to undertake biometric payroll
Stakeholders in the labour industry have implored Government to undertake a biometric payroll registration of the civil service to weed out alleged ghost workers. Government has been making efforts si...Published: 08 Apr 2016 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Makichi
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