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Is Mnangagwa's tariff capitulation a dangerous gamble to appease Trump at Zimbabwe's economic expense?
Has Zimbabwe's backbone finally cracked? President Emmerson Mnangagwa's latest decision to suspend all tariffs on United States goods, announced in response to new U.S. tariffs on Zimbabwean e...Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 21:43hrs | 1072 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
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
Gold coins: Broadening and cementing economic confusion
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe really loves to lie to the people and then start believing its own lies.This thing of gold coins to preserve value does not make any economic logic and I will say ...Published: 01 Jul 2022 at 07:24hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Authorities unleash sweeping crackdown on forex market
IN a renewed bid to contain the runaway foreign exchange rate - now trading at double the official rate around US$1: ZW$170 - the government has launched a fierce crackdown on currency traders in a mu...Published: 03 Oct 2021 at 08:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
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
Patriotism can save Zimbabwe economy
IN the last few weeks, particularly after elections, Zimbabwe's economy has undergone a material and rapid negative transformation, leaving business, government and labour in a crisis. The biggest dip...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:40hrs | 2 | by Daniel Ngwira
Zanu-PF cash crisis myths
The People's Democratic Party is irked by Zanu-PF's unrepentant denial of the fact that they are the creators of the current cash crisis.We believe the biggest job in providing any solution st...Published: 11 Apr 2017 at 08:00hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume
Mugabe's populism haunts govt
When Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa two years ago announced that he would depart from government's long-standing tradition of paying out an annual bonus to public sector employees due to an ec...Published: 11 Mar 2017 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond notes will spell disaster for Zimbabwe's economy - MDC-T
The MDC-T, as a social democratic political party that has always identified with the plight of the poor and down – trodden of society, is deeply concerned and indeed, extremely saddened by the Zanu...Published: 27 Sep 2016 at 10:41hrs | 15 | by Obert Gutu
As the end of the road nears for Mugabe regime, IMF must resist prolonging our suffering
Robert Mugabe's regime has reached the end. Out of money, out of friends, imploding from within - freedom beckons for Zimbabwe. The IMF's proposed plan to loan Mugabe...Published: 14 Sep 2016 at 16:56hrs | 1 | by Patson Dzamara
Zanu-PF regime should timeously pay civil servants salaries
Civil servants in Zimbabwe continue to struggle under the weight of a collapsing economy brought about through decades of Zanu PF misrule,rampant corruption and a generalised derelection of govern...Published: 20 Jul 2016 at 09:32hrs | 1 | by Obert Chaurura Gutu
RBZ Governor is part of the crisis
The desperate move by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor, John Mangudya, to try and arrest the prevailing debilitating financial crisis has all but exacerbated the situation. From the beginning, Ma...Published: 09 Jun 2016 at 13:43hrs | | by Obert Gutu
Emptiness is MDC-T's bond-age!
So much has been said about the proposed introduction of bond notes by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. A fortnight ago, RBZ chief John Mangudya announced that the central bank would inject more bond cur...Published: 14 May 2016 at 09:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's bond notes demo unjustified
News that the MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai and his opposition companion, Professor Lovemore Madhuku, are severally planning protest demonstrations against Government over the introduction of bond n...Published: 12 May 2016 at 10:36hrs | | by Gwinyai Mutongi
Tsvangirai's MDC to stage anti-bond notes demo
MDC-T on Monday criticised the government's plan to introduce bond notes labelling it as "madness". In a statement, MDC-T hinted it will mobilise locals to stage demonstrations in protest. ...Published: 09 May 2016 at 17:03hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Tsvangirai convenes urgent Shadow Cabinet meeting
MDC-T President Morgan Tsvangirai will tomorrow convene an urgent Shadow Cabinet meeting to discuss pressing national issues; top of which is government’s ill-advised move to bring back the Zi...Published: 09 May 2016 at 12:12hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Cecil John Rhodes: Keeping watch over his remains
A story is told of a young Zimbabwean who finds himself in America, finds himself part of a white American crowd. He sticks out, thereby attracting some attention. After a while one white American ap...Published: 21 Sep 2013 at 10:39hrs | 4 | by Nathaniel Manheru
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