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Khaya Cement to de-list on ZSE
KHAYA cement is set to de-list on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) as part of the resuscitation strategy amid indications that the major shareholder, Fossil Mines, will sale its shares at a loss as s...Published: 19 Feb 2025 at 20:21hrs | 594 | by Staff Reporter
US makes piecemeal adjustments to Zimbabwe sanctions
THE United States yesterday made piecemeal adjustments to its targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe signalling the success of the country's engagement and re-engagement drive under President Mnangagwa....Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 04:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa reads riot act on prices
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday read the riot act on businesses that are working behind the scenes with vested foreign countries to hike prices to make the people suffer and turn against the Zanu-PF-led...Published: 10 Jun 2023 at 17:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions eroding value of Zimdollar
The depreciation of the Zimbabwe dollar is partly due to illegal economic sanctions imposed on the country by Western countries, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said in its African Economic Outloo...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fossil retrenches 2000 employees
The recent placement of Fossil Group on Sanctions by United States has pushed the firm to lay off more than 2000 employees. United States of America put Fossil on sanctions list ami...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:35hrs | 9 | by Simbarashe Sithole in Harare
Top US official challenged on Zimbabwe sanctions
A SENIOR United States official recently struggled to provide a comprehensive explanation on factors that influenced their decisions to impose sanctions on poor countries whilst turning a blind eye on...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 09:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions weighing on Zimbabwe banking sector
ILLEGAL sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by western countries, led by Britain and America, have had a detrimental impact on the country's financial services sector as the embargo has seen the number of c...Published: 17 Oct 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
UN reviews Zimbabwe sanctions
THE impending visit by the United Nations Special Rapporteur to review the impact of the illegal and unilateral sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the Western world signals a new dawn in the relentless ...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt will only buy locally-manufactured PPE
Only locally-manufactured personal protective equipment (PPE) for the health sector will be bought by Government as part of efforts to boost local production, Vice President and Minister of Health and...Published: 21 Aug 2021 at 07:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ANC piles pressure on US sanctions against Zimbabwe
ANC piles pressure on US sanctions against Zim The African National Congress (ANC) Gauteng branch members and Zanu-PF Mzansi District members protest demanding the removal of evil US sanctions imposed...Published: 27 May 2021 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reform and sanctions will go
Barely a week after President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sworn in Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ambassador Dr Frederick Shava, Joseph Biden the United State of American President sla...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 08:34hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe slowly going down under the new dispensation
The livelihoods of the people of Zimbabwe had been brought back and down to the levels of 1953.For the last fourty years ZANU PF government has lept from one corruption scandal to the other. I...Published: 17 Nov 2020 at 08:52hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni
Russia backs Zimbabwe
THE Russian Federation will continue standing by Zimbabwe and assist in overcoming the "pernicious" effects of the illegal economic sanctions that were imposed by the West. This follows the su...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes Africa
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted SADC, the African Union and the world at large for standing by Zimbabwe in calling for the unconditional removal of the Western imposed illegal economic sanctions...Published: 27 Oct 2020 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
US claims that sanctions don't affect Zimbabwe economy
THE United States of America (US), the United Kingdom and the European Union (EU) remain adamant that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has not done enough to have sanctions imposed on the...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sadc pushes for removal of sanctions on Zimbabwe
THE Sadc region has once again called for the immediate lifting of Western sanctions on Zimbabwe on account of their adverse effects on ordinary citizens.This comes as the United States of Ame...Published: 25 Oct 2020 at 14:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe needs sanctions lifted to develop'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has called on the world to rally behind SADC's quest to have illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West removed to enable the country to realise its full potential. ...Published: 24 Oct 2020 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blames everything on sanctions
The sanctions which were imposed by the British, the Americans and European countries on Zimbabwe were as a result of human rights abuses and the land which was taken from the white farmers.I ...Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:29hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Mnangagwa undeterred by sanctions
Zimbabwe will leverage on its natural resources and will not be deterred by the economic embargoes imposed by Western nations, President Mnangagwa has said. The Head of State and Governm...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Youth poverty and unemployment: Revisiting the January 14 violent protests
The violent disturbances that rocked Harare and other major cities in August 2018 and January 2019 saw an unprecedented numbers of youths participating. To ignore the reasons why these young people to...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 11:24hrs | | by Brightface Mutema
Chamisa told to denounce sanctions
MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa must openly denounce the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the United States of America if he cares about the welfare of the country's war veterans, Zimbab...Published: 13 Mar 2019 at 22:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in watershed deals with Botswana, South Africa
ZIMBABWE and Botswana will establish trade on at least five value chains across the two countries' borders.Zimbabwe and Botswana last week signed a number of agreements meant to further cement...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 01:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Surviving under sanctions 101
Cuba was under US economic embargoes for 50 years but managed to erect firewalls around its sovereignty . Zimbabwe needs to do the same - we have the brains and the capacity to do so. The mini...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 09:27hrs | 5 | by Never Maswerasei
There's a lot to celebrate on Workers' Day
Whenever the country moves towards a commemoration of a national event such as the Independence Day holiday, it has become the norm for some habitual doomsayers to not only write obituaries about the ...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 15:33hrs | | by Gwinyai Mutongi
ZANU-PF Government defying all odds in the face of its adversaries
The ZANU-PF Government should not be wrongly judged as it has been made a sacrificial lamb by the tyrannical western governments which crippled its operations by imposition of illegal sanctions. ...Published: 12 Aug 2015 at 13:19hrs | 1 | by Suitable Kajau
Tsvangirai on another anti-Zimbabwe trip to Germany
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's visit to Germany last week and his other previous visits to the West as part of his so-called diplomatic offensive raise questions on the actual purpose of the visits ...Published: 11 May 2015 at 10:16hrs | 1 | by Benny Tsododo
Why does the mantra, 'Mugabe must go' not matter anymore?
Translating loosely from General Carl von Clausewitz and his philosophy on war; we begin from a premise, which presumes that violence is the continuation of politics by other means, controlling the me...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 17:17hrs | 1 | by Tsungai Chipato
Mugabe defies the odds
President Robert Mugabe's vow to accord civil servants their 13th cheque has re-ignited hope in the civil service silencing the prophets of doom who had already begun touting of a perceived failed sta...Published: 21 Apr 2015 at 11:22hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
'They can keep their sanctions,' says Mugabe's Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF says it is not worried by the United States' decision yesterday to maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe, but confirmed Mugabe's threats to retaliate.The Unite...Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 09:18hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, US tiff deepens
President Mugabe's Zanu-PF says it is not worried by the United States' decision yesterday to maintain sanctions against Zimbabwe, but confirmed Mugabe's threats to retaliate. The United Stat...Published: 05 Sep 2013 at 05:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF legislator praises Ian Smith
For many inside Zanu-PF, Ian Smith is a contemptible human being who symbolised the loathed colonial government.But not for Japhet Madubeko, who hero-worships the former prime minister of Rhod...Published: 07 Feb 2013 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe’s Look East Policy bearing fruits
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Tsvangirai: A deviant in government!
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Early elections will make Zimbabwe working again
National governance goes beyond the scope of any political party in any particular given society. A political party is a minor organisation composed of a defined ideological thrust which is backed by ...Published: 15 Jul 2011 at 13:03hrs | | by Hilton Munendoro
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