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Mthuli Ncube out of touch with reality
The Finance Minister Muthuli Ncube has forgetten what he was really appointed for and needs somemone to spell out his duties.The Finance Minister is now behaving more like a politician than a ...Published: 30 May 2023 at 09:36hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa govt fails to rig price hikes
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has frozen bank accounts of four major distributors of basic commodities as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government scrambles to find solutions to soaring prices a...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's central bank moves to control price of bread
Zimbabwe's central bank said Monday that the price of bread will go down after it held talks with an association of bakers.Governor John Mangudya said bakers had complained over lack of access...Published: 20 Jun 2022 at 18:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa tells Mnangagwa to throw away the Zimdollar
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to throw away the Zimbabwe dollar as a matter of urgency."Stop the auction syst...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa advises government on solving economic crisis
CCC President Nelson has called upon government to abolish the auction system and go for full dollarization in order to stop multiple pricing and bring stability in the market. In a Twitter th...Published: 29 Apr 2022 at 08:46hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's growing love for rule-by-decree
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been increasingly making use of Statutory Instruments (SI units) during his tenure as head of State. Analysts are describing it as a form of command politics steering ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 06:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
'Government is best which Governs Least,' Nelson Chamisa
The untimely and unplanned introduction of Statutory Instrument 127 (SI 127) 2021 by the ZANU PF regime shows how Zimbabwe is being run as a mafia state. A dictatorship state, ran by clueless an...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Prince Njagu
'I am coming for you' Mnangagwa fires warning shot
President Emmerson has fired warning shots at shop owners accusing them of increasing the prices of commodities in their shops. In a video that ahs gone viral on social media, the President is...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 14:00hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Local currency comeback most welcome
The madness seems relentless across all platforms.One school of thought is that sooner than later, the RTGS rate to the US dollar will reach its full elasticity, beyond which it will not...Published: 05 May 2019 at 09:42hrs | 1 | by Garikai Mazara
Mnangagwa's govt clueless on economy
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration looks increasingly clueless on how to contain consequences of its disastrous economic policies introduced by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube through the Tra...Published: 03 May 2019 at 20:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Command economics no longer hold sway
When President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced his Cabinet in September last year - following his hotly-disputed July 30 poll victory - there was generally wide approval from Zimbabweans.The reas...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 21:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa statement on the prevailing economic, political and humanitarian situation
Fellow Zimbabweans! 1.1 I have taken time to assess the environment in the country to have a first-hand account of the economic, political and humanitarian situation. Indeed,...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 14:24hrs | | by Adv. Nelson Chamisa MDC President
Chamisa demands 2% tax refunds
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, has demanded that government reverses and refund Zimbabweans all the money they lost following the introduction of the infamous tax regime, which milks two cents on every do...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 14:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Daniel Ngwira
Chamisa vows to discard worthless bonds
MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has vowed to remove the controversial Zimbabwe's bond notes, should he win the upcoming harmonised elections.Describing the curre...Published: 03 May 2018 at 08:34hrs | | by Mhlongo
Chamisa promises to phase out bond notes
MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa, has pledged to retire Zimbabwe's surrogate currency, the bond notes, which are pegged at par with the United States dollar, by September ...Published: 03 May 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Only Chamisa can be an instrument of change'
At a time frustration at Zimbabwe's political class is running high, Nelson Chamisa (NC) who has emerged as the MDC's presidential candidate is hoping to tap into a desire for wholesale change in the ...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 17:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'An old person cannot be an instrument of change,' says ageist Chamisa
HARARE - At a time frustration at Zimbabwe's political class is running high, Nelson Chamisa (NC) who has emerged as the MDC's presidential candidate is hoping to tap into a desire for wholesale chang...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 11:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa can be derailed by economic woes
In the wake of Operation Restore Legacy, the ranks of the young, educated and angry is swelling.The economic boom they anticipated when they marched on that historic November 18 Saturday has r...Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 09:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'New Zimbabwe is coming'
In the most comprehensive policy speech of the presidential campaign, MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa has presented an opposition MDC Alliance vision of a growth and fairness economy, an economic ag...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
In this present crisis, govt is not a solution to our problem: govt is the problem
When Shingai Sibanda, a family man and school teacher since the early 1990s is struggling to secure high school, college and university fees for his three daughters: is it fair to deduce that life wil...Published: 28 Dec 2017 at 07:45hrs | 1 | by Tafi Mhaka
Is Mnangagwa Zimbabwe's Kagame?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's inauguration speech was full of promises on the economy, good governance, international relations and a promise to smoothen relations with multi-lateral financi...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 10:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Whither Zimbabwe's Nationalist Project
Good Evening everyone, I'm very pleased to have this opportunity to share my ideas and views with you on the state of the Nationalist project in Zimbabwe. As I prepare to make my remarks I note that i...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Prof Jonathan Moyo
Chamisa blasts Mnangagwa cabinet
The Movement for Democratic Change vice president Nelson Chamisa has urged youths to take charge in the looming 2018 elections following the much anticipated cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 10:53hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Nothing inherently wrong with command economics
A political analyst Vince Musewe has said there is nothing inherently wrong with command economics.He said Zimbabwe, is operating way below its full potential and it is critical that at some s...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Mugabe not convinced about Mnangagwa as successor'
IN a new twist to President Robert Mugabe's protracted succession battle, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, also a Zanu-PF politburo member, has endorsed Defence minister Sydney Se...Published: 02 Jun 2017 at 10:49hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A command economy will not work - PDP
The People's Democratic Party is irked by the threats to introduce command economics by ZANUPF, we view the move as ill informed, ignorant and bound to fail.Mnangangwa recently told a gatherin...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 12:00hrs | | by Jacob Mafume
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