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What the hack is an 'upper middle-income society', Mr. Mnangagwa?
Let's be careful of trickery. When President Emmerson Mnangagwa began his first five-year term in 2018, he introduced an economic program called "Vision 2030." This vision promised Zim...Published: 27 Jan 2025 at 18:02hrs | 727 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mthuli Ncube's Ministry fails to provide Zimbabwe's basic economic data
Officials from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance faced sharp criticism on Monday during a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance meeting after arriving unprepared for the 2025 budget con...Published: 23 Oct 2024 at 15:58hrs | 269 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe inflation rate at 747%'
ZIMBABWE'S annual inflation could be over 20 times higher than the official rate of 34,8%, an independent advisory estimated this week, as it gave glimpses into fundamentals behind deeper turbulence c...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe economic data questionable'
A team of technical experts from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) this week called into question the authenticity of economic data compiled by the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat), r...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 18:14hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
UK based World Economics says Zimbabwe's economic data unusable
UNITED KINGDOM-BASED economic researcher, World Economics, has rated the country's official gross domestic product (GDP) and population data as "unusable", a week after State media applauded the UK-ba...Published: 29 Nov 2023 at 12:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gets Western funding despite sanctions outcry
ZIMBABWE has so far received US$647.6 million in development assistance from Western countries in the period from January to September 2021 despite claims by the government that it is barred from rece...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe food security remains low,' says USAid
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) food security arm, Famine Early Warning Systems Network (Fewsnet) says household food stocks are beginning to run low as the surging cost...Published: 14 Sep 2021 at 06:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Ignore critics, says Mnangagwa
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on his party members to ignore critics who have been blasting the Zanu-PF government over its failures, describing them as prophets of "doom".Mnangagwa s...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministry opens online applications for Form One
THE Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education has opened online applications for 2021 Form One boarding places. The Electronic Ministry's Application Platform (Emap) for Form One boarding en...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in state of radical uncertainty, says Prof Hawkins
Zimbabwe is in a state of radical uncertainty, economic consultant Tony Hawkins told an Association of Healthcare Funders of Zimbabwe (AHFoZ) all stakeholders webinar on health on Wednesday."I...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 12:50hrs | 1 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe: Is it worse off than under Mugabe?
Claim: Life in Zimbabwe is now worse than under former President Robert Mugabe, according to Fadzayi Mahere of MDC.Verdict: It's true that in recent months, the economic situation has worsened...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fully utilizing ZIDA to promote economic growth
The Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency (ZIDA) Bill was gazetted on the 5th of April 2019. The purpose of the bill is to establish a single focal point that facilitates entry and implementation...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 21:46hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
How professionals predict stock market moves
For more than 130 years traders have been trying to find effective ways to predict the movement of the stock market. There are, literally, hundreds of different so-called "indicators" that professiona...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 07:11hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa urged to hike public sector salaries
A Zimbabwean businessman has urged government to raise wages in a bid to prevent the meagre income of public sector workers becoming a source of anger for citizens.In a letter to President Emm...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 14:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's New Currency: If your Government is honest here is the Solution
Let me sell you a million dollar worth of game for a dollar ninety-nine, The economic data released by the government at the end of the fourth quarter shows we aren't deep in the quagmire as we think ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 08:34hrs | | by Simplisio Mudzingwa Muvunde
Mthuli Ncube has invited to his breakfast table ingredients from both the chicken and the pig
The unmistakable, yet inevitable atmosphere of limbo, utter despair, confusion and analytic paralysis engulfs the nation yet again. It has become our accustomed portion.The triumphant arroganc...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:06hrs | 1 | by Zifiso Masiye
Zimbabwe rebases economic data
The Zimbabwe Statistical Agency has rebased some of its economic statistics, in an unexpected move that finance minister Mthuli Ncube said on Friday had increased the nominal size of the struggling ec...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 08:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
African governments urged to integrate statistics and geospatial information for sustainable development
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, October 5, 2018 - The Regional Committee of the United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management in Africa (UN-GGIM: Africa) ended Thursday with experts urging African le...Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 09:47hrs | | by APO
Vendors key part of Zimbabwe's informal economy
THERE'S no debate that vendors had become an eyesore and somehow a nuisance on the streets of urban centres around Zimbabwe, because of their tendency to invade pavements and large swathes of streets ...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not poor, not by a long shot
In 2013, a research website by the name New World Wealth published a "survey" report which bogusly claimed that Zimbabwe was the poorest country in Africa because of its "controversial indigenisation ...Published: 04 May 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Trump talks, British pound drops
UK Prime Minister Theresa May won endorsement from US President-elect Donald Trump over her Brexit course but sterling plunged on Monday on fears that Britain could be on a collision course with its E...Published: 16 Jan 2017 at 15:35hrs | | by AFP
#ThisCity gains momentum
Unravelling the marriage of convenience between "shut-up and shutdown" in #ThisCity!For too long the politically motivated "shut-up" and economically charged "shutdown" have co-operated in suc...Published: 14 Jul 2016 at 12:00hrs | | by Mthokozisi Ndiweni
Zimbabwe is not the world's second poorest country - FACT
News media reported recently that Zimbabwe is the poorest country in the world after the Democratic Republic of Congo. But Africa Check discovered the ranking is flawed.Is Zimbabwe really the ...Published: 17 Sep 2015 at 14:13hrs | | by Researched by Lebohang Mojapelo
IMF delegation to visit Zimbabwe
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund is expected to visit the country in March to assess progress following the six months extension of Zimbabwe's staff Monitored Programme recently....Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
IMF delegation expected in Zimbabwe tomorrow
A DELEGATION from the International Monetary Fund is expected in the country tomorrow to assess progress made in implementing its Staff Monitored Programme and mapping a way to clear the country's deb...Published: 05 Nov 2013 at 02:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe census to exclude those in diaspora
The population census, which will be conducted next month, will see all Zimbabweans who will be in the country between the 17th and 18th of August being counted but those who would have visited neighb...Published: 09 Jul 2012 at 16:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to slash economic growth projections by almost 4%
Government is planning to revise the country's economic growth rate downwards from 9.4% to 5% amid failure by the agricultural sector to perform as anticipated while revenue collection has also declin...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 09:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe's 32nd Independence Day speech - full text
President Robert Mugabe's speech at the National Sports Stadium delivered on April 18, 2012, to mark Zimbabwe's 32nd Independence anniversary:Honourabl...Published: 18 Apr 2012 at 13:26hrs | 2 | by Robert Mugabe
Berlusconi's days look numbered
The Italian government's victory in the parliamentary vote today does nothing to alter the view that Silvio Berlusconi's days as Prime Minister are numbered. Although the Government won the vo...Published: 08 Nov 2011 at 14:49hrs | | by -
UZ scientist develops a drought and climate change adaptation game
When we visited the Research and Intellectual Expo at the University of Zimbabwe last week, we saw some very interesting displays. One such display was at the UZ Soil Science and Agriculture Engineeri...Published: 22 Feb 2011 at 05:10hrs | | by techzim
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