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BCC forgoes US$14million revenue
The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has decided to maintain its 2024 commercial non-domestic property tax tariffs for the 2025 financial year, foregoing potential revenue exceeding US$14 million.T...Published: 11 Jun 2025 at 08:31hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora, Mashakada in court over US$22,000 fraud case
MDC leader Douglas Mwonzora and senior party official Tapiwa Mashakada yesterday appeared before Harare Magistrate Lisa Mutendereki facing fraud charges involving US$22,000 related to a commercial pro...Published: 28 Apr 2025 at 21:29hrs | 1042 | by Staff reporter
Cars firebombed outside Chivayo, Tagwirei's properties
A series of deliberate firebomb attacks rocked Harare's central business district overnight, targeting commercial properties linked to influential businessmen Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei,...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:40hrs | 3578 | by Staff reporter
Critical evaluation of the South Africa's 2025 Budget effect on the property market
The 2025 Budget presents a multifaceted impact on South Africa's property market, balancing fiscal stability, infrastructure development, and housing affordability with rising taxation, debt-servicing...Published: 14 Mar 2025 at 06:43hrs | 78 | by Dr Bekithemba Mpofu
4 banks quit in South Africa in 2024
BNP Paribas, HSBC, Sasfin Bank, and Bidvest Bank have all announced massive changes to their South African operations in 2024.French-based BNP Paribas was the first bank of the four to announc...Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 15:19hrs | 782 | by Staff reporter
London declining as financial center
The number of companies listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) is decreasing at the quickest pace in more than ten years, Bloomberg has reported, citing data compiled by the outlet.In 2024,...Published: 06 Dec 2024 at 14:20hrs | 282 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's disqualified ally takes case to Supreme Court
The disqualified independent candidate for the Victoria Falls City Council Ward 1 by-election, Ephias Mambume, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court's decision to bar him...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 15:10hrs | 254 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents face rates hike
Bulawayo residents may face higher rates and rentals next year as the city council considers revising various levies, along with introducing special road and water levies. This was revealed during the...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 09:58hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Plot to hide ex-CIO boss's vast wealth
Allegations have surfaced that the widow of the late Maynard Muzariri, deputy director general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), deliberately underestimated the value of his assets, pote...Published: 26 May 2024 at 13:44hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
Suspended Nssa boss mired in US$353 000 luxury cars scandal
SUSPENDED National Social Security Authority (Nssa) boss Arthur Manase was removed partly due to a scandal over two top-of-the-range cars valued US$353 000 which he bought in violation of company poli...Published: 28 May 2023 at 17:22hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in spotlight over the massive Nssa corruption
THE National Social Security Authority (Nssa) has presented its forensic audit which unearths corruption and names individuals implicated in the pensions fund's latest scandals to the Office of the Pr...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister forced to reverse his corrupt mansion deal
PUBLIC Service minister Paul Mavima could be forced by President Emmerson Mnangagwa or top officials to reverse his corrupt US$400 000 upmarket house purchase deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, ...Published: 05 Mar 2023 at 15:20hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal
PUBLIC Service, Labour and Social Welfare minister Paul Mavima is caught up in a US$400 000 corrupt upmarket house deal in Quinnington, Borrowdale, Harare, involving the National Social Security Autho...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 10:41hrs | 48 | by Staff reporter
Probe red flags Zec ahead of polls
Zimbabwe Civil Society Anti-Corruption Coalition (ZCSACC), a grouping of 22 organisations drawn from diverse sectors, has produced a damning report on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec), saying t...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Voters roll a mess, claims Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF has admitted that the voters roll to be used in next year's polls is a mess and needs serious scrutiny and audit for it to be credible.Section 35 of the Electoral Act gives the Zimbabw...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Stanbic targets diaspora property investment through UK expos
Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe is taking part in two property, trade and investment expositions to be held in the United Kingdom (UK) this week and next to unlock investment in residential and commercial prope...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Stanbic targets diaspora property investment
STANBIC Bank Zimbabwe is taking part in two property, trade and investment expositions in the United Kingdom (UK) this week targeting investment in residential and commercial property for Zimbabweans ...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic Bank assists more than 600 individuals and companies with residential and commercial property needs
Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe has assisted over 600 individuals and corporates acquire residential and commercial properties over the last year as part of its efforts t...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 21:49hrs | 19 | by Agencies
Chidawu leaves bitter-sweet legacy
THE untimely death Tuesday of Harare Metropolitan Provincial Affairs minister, Oliver Chidawu (68), due to suspected cardiac arrest, ignited social media amid revelations the top engineer-cum-politici...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 08:19hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
2 businessmen take top cop head-on in property fight
PROMINENT Harare businessmen Nyasha Watyoka and Gilbert Muponda have written a letter of complaint to the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over the conduct of officers investigating a couple accused of ...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 06:09hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
How am I making the life of my Mthwakazi brother better
I appreciate the reality of Shona hegemony, however it does not justify the levels of hatred that we exhibit here. Secondly, none here has been able to convincingly articulate the direction of a Shona...Published: 21 Apr 2018 at 07:40hrs | 2 | by unknown
'Harare commercial property sector to expand'
Borrowdale and Mount Pleasant provide Harare's top office stock, with the level of commercial properties in the two suburbs likely to expand in the near future, according to a new Africa-wide report b...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi sues Lesabe estate executor
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has filed an $11,7 million litigation against the executor of the late Thenjiwe Lesabe's estate, together with one Reginald McGillivray Dawson, accusing the latter of fraud...Published: 08 Feb 2018 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Meet Southern Africa's billionaires
There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is sti...Published: 08 Aug 2017 at 08:07hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Victoria Falls to get $10m mall
CONSTRUCTION of a $10 million up-market shopping mall in Victoria Falls is expected to start anytime soon.The complex will be built by Zimre Property Investment (ZPI). ZPI chief executive offi...Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 08:06hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Landlords in a fix as rentals drop
Landlords in Harare are in a fix as the prevailing cash shortages has triggered a reduction in both residential and commercial property rentals. A survey of estate agents and landlords by...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 11:47hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Fight over Zanu-PF Rusape property
THE High Court has granted Mandi Majoni a provisional relief order allowing her 10 days access to a Zanu-PF commercial property at the heart of Rusape – whose ownership wrangle pits her and the part...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 08:32hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Fight over Zanu-PF property
THE High Court has granted Ms Mandi Majoni a provisional relief order allowing her 10 days access to a Zanu-PF commercial property at the heart of Rusape - whose ownership wrangle pits her and the par...Published: 26 Mar 2016 at 10:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Prominent Zimbabweans sink in debt
As the economic climate in Zimbabwe gets more unforgiving, a number of prominent citizens are failing to service their debts, resulting in many of them losing their assets.Last week, the Sheri...Published: 01 Nov 2015 at 16:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Woman takes Zanu-PF to court
ZANU-PF has kicked out businesswoman Mrs Mandi Majoni from its commercial properties in Rusape, but the woman has since filed an urgent High Court application to interdict the party from evicting her....Published: 14 Mar 2015 at 16:18hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ugly fight over Zanu-PF property
THERE was drama at Edro Motors - a Zanu-PF commercial property at the heart of Rusape - last Saturday, after two sides claiming right over it, Ms Mandi Majoni and Cleopas Mugomba clashed over rentals ...Published: 06 Feb 2015 at 15:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF assets looted'
Disgraced former Zanu-PF national secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa is in the eye of a possible corruption storm as party insiders demand an audit to verify the status of Zanu-PF assets in ...Published: 17 Jan 2015 at 11:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
UK-based real estate firm partners local estate agents
A UK-based real estate firm, Pennant Home Estate agents has positioned itself to strengthen its foothold in Zimbabwe after announcing a strategic alliance with local land developers Larob Real Estate ...Published: 04 Aug 2013 at 21:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why you should invest in property
A real estate investment trust (REIT), is generally defined as, a company that owns manage and operates income-producing real estate or real estate-based/linked assets such as mortgage loans. ...Published: 01 Aug 2013 at 04:30hrs | 3 | by GMRI Real Estate
Thousands illegally connected to Zesa
Thousands of residential and commercial property owners are reportedly illegally connected, while others bypass electricity meters. The state controlled Herald on Thursday reported that ZESA Holdings ...Published: 29 Jun 2012 at 05:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
TA posts an improved operating result
TA posted an improved operating result to record an attributable profit of $1.2 million from a loss of $1.1 million. Revenue growth of 17% year on year was driven by a 32% increase in hotel revenues a...Published: 02 Sep 2011 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Business reporter
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