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Mnangagwa urges timely distribution of food aid amid drought
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called for timely and efficient aid distribution to people facing food shortages resulting from an El Nino-induced drought."The timely delivery of f...Published: 19 Dec 2024 at 16:53hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
RBZ predicts further Zimbabwe economic downturn
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has revised its 2024 economic growth forecast down to 2%, citing the severe drought's impact on economic activity. This is a sharp decline from earlier estim...Published: 06 Sep 2024 at 14:42hrs | 2589 | by Staff reporter
Machacha calls on Zanu-PF to welcome back returnees, new supporters
ZANU-PF National Political Commissar Munyaradzi Machacha has urged party members to use the ongoing cell restructuring exercise for mobilization and recruitment to expand the party's support base. ...Published: 15 Jul 2024 at 08:05hrs | 68 | by Staff reporter
Corruption tarnishing Zimbabwe's image
ON April 18, 2023, Zimbabweans from all walks of life thronged different venues across the country to celebrate Independence Day.The day is a milestone in the history of the country as it acco...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mnangagwa to announce elections date soon
Election dates will be announced soon, President Mnangagwa hinted at the weekend, but urged everyone to remain peaceful and shun violence as the country gets into election campaign mode.Addres...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe struggles with daily blackouts
ZAMBIA'S integrated power utility ZESCO has declared that the country how has surplus capacity of about 1,000 megawatts (MW) at a time the country is also enjoying an economic rebound.Across t...Published: 22 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 25 May 2022 at 10:26hrs | 1 | by John Mbizvo
ZANU-PF MPs want 2023 elections postponed
With the party popularity nosediving from 51% in 2018 down to below 30% at present due to poverty, unemployment and poor economic policies, ZANU PF Members of Parliament (MPs) are sensing danger and w...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:05hrs | 10 | by John Mbizvo, Political Analyst
Godfrey Kanyenze says sanctions are not the biggest problem
Godfrey Kanyenze has dismissed claims that sanctions are the biggest albatross to Zimbabwe's economy, opting to put the blame on government mismanagement.The remarks, premiered in the academic...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
RBZ calls for Zimdollar pricing
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has implored public entities including local authorities to price their services in local currency. Speaking at the ongoing 2022 pre-bu...Published: 25 Oct 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's State of the Nation address
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa delivered a State of the Nation Address and officially opened the Fourth Session of the Ninth Parliament of Zimbabwe yesterday. He tackled a wide r...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 06:27hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says living in Zimbabwe a struggle
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration of making citizens' lives a living hell, especially with the underperforming economy turning the...Published: 21 Sep 2021 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blue chips shine in Africa
AT least five of Zimbabwe's biggest stock exchange-listed firms have made it to the list of Africa's best performing companies, defying storms stemming out of a two year old economic crisis, which was...Published: 03 Sep 2021 at 06:56hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Millers back fresh policies
ZIMBABWE'S milling industry have showered praises on under fire Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube for "continued strenuous efforts" in maintaining fiscal discipline to rebuild the troubled economy....Published: 29 Aug 2021 at 07:13hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MDC's Dr Mashakada praises economic reforms
FORMER Minister of Economic Planning and Investment Promotion and a key member of the MDCT party, Dr Tapiwa Mashakada has heaped praises on the country's economic revival efforts under the Second Repu...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe upbeat about economic rebound
Zimbabwe is hoping for economic rebound this year as Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube expects the economy to grow by 7.8%.For two consecutive years, the country's economy has been shrinking. Even...Published: 10 Jun 2021 at 21:23hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
PPC boss puts 'Zimbabwe first' under robust plan
PPC Zimbabwe managing director, Kelibone Masiyane said on Thursday that the country's largest cement maker had invested almost US$120 million across its Zimbabwean operations to ramp up production....Published: 31 May 2021 at 06:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Workers have kept us going, says Mnangagwa
THE nascent economic rebound being witnessed in Zimbabwe, characterised by increasing industrial capacity utilisation and a stable macro-economic environment, is a product of the country's dedicated a...Published: 02 May 2021 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
NMBZ realises $705 million pre-tax profit
NMBZ Holdings realised a profit before taxation of ZWL 705 414 282 last year, in what the group's chairman, Mr Ben Chikwanha, described as a remarkable performance, despite the difficult operating env...Published: 07 Apr 2021 at 10:36hrs | 3 | by Agencies
Civil servants reject 70% pay hike offer, teachers call strikes
Government workers on Wednesday rejected a staggered salary hike of 25 percent this month and 45 percent in July for a cumulative total of 70 percent.Teachers warned they would work a three-da...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans demand US dollar budget
ZIMBABWEANS have expressed mixed feelings on the 2021 national budget presented by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube in Parliament yesterday, saying it should have been configured in United States dollars...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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
IMF lowers Zimbabwe GDP growth further
THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) says Zimbabwe's economy will contract by 10,4% this year, much higher than its earlier prediction of 7,4%, but expects a rebound next year.It also expects...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti allegations are baseless
MDC-ALLIANCE co-vice-president Tendai Biti has on countless occasions made unsavoury and bald assertions, mainly to his gullible supporters, that "Zanu-PF may rig elections, but it cannot rig the econ...Published: 05 Oct 2020 at 06:41hrs | 3 | by Rutendo Jiri
Mthuli Ncube unveils foreign currency income tax thresholds
Treasury has unveiled foreign currency denominated income tax bands that will see the tax free threshold pegged at US$350 while the highest bracket will be for those earning more than US$15 000 per mo...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Economy to contract 3,1%
The country's economy is expected to contract 3,1 percent this year as activities remain subdued due to rising inflation and crippling foreign currency shortages, according to the World Bank. ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mangudya deserves our support'
Zimbabweans must support the country's recently announced monetary policy measures because they are "meant to preserve people's savings at banks", a youth empowerment activist has said.This al...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths gun for forex dealers
Zanu-PF youths have declared war on illegal traders and ruling party bigwigs suspected of being behind the country's thriving foreign currency black market.Their warning comes as bond notes co...Published: 07 Oct 2018 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bleak Workers Day Celebrations
Tomorrow, the working people of Zimbabwe will again converge to celebrate workers day or rather to interrogate the plight of the working people of Zimbabwe.38 years after independence the peop...Published: 30 Apr 2018 at 23:29hrs | 1 | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson, MDC Alliance Information Committee
Mugabe's sentiments were based on jealous
Former Zambian Police and Prisons Commissioner Mr Richard Shamillimo Chella has said President Mnangagwa should ignore a sideshow by former President Mugabe on Thursday when he described the November ...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Govt growth rate too optimistic'
At least five institutions have since December made much lower projections of this year's economic growth than the 4,5% announced by government.In his 2018 National budget statement, Finance m...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Prophet Magaya predicts economic rebound under Mnangagwa
PROPHETIC Healing and Deliverances (PHD) Ministries leader, Walter Magaya, has predicted an economic rebound under the new political dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Addressing...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 11:12hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe economic rebound, apie in the sky
ZIMBABWE'S economy continues to be in the doldrums despite the government claiming it is on the rebound, industry officials have said.Over the years, government officials have been talking abo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff repoprter
Zimbabwe leads, Sub-Sahara follows
Zimbabwe's economy has maintained a downward toll over the past decade. However, a glimpse of hope beams on the country's economy evidenced by the recent 2% positive prediction by the International Mo...Published: 17 May 2017 at 15:17hrs | 2 | by Rungano Dzikira
Mugabe living in cloud cuckoo-land
President Robert Mugabe (93) in his election manifesto ahead of the 2013 general elections, promised to create 2,2 million jobs under an ambitious programme known as the Zimbabwe Agenda for Sustainabl...Published: 07 May 2017 at 22:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Will China save Zimbabwe?
I think that there is this wide misconception in Zimbabwe that since the Chinese President has visited, we will see an economic turnaround spurred by Chinese investment. Nothing can be further from th...Published: 02 Dec 2015 at 11:49hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Mugabe's incomprehensible optimism
Zimbabwe's future prosperity cannot be engineered through economic blue prints or development aid.It is shocking, disappointing, insensitive, naive and utterly disconcerting for President ...Published: 31 Jul 2014 at 13:52hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Mugabe's economic rebound claim defended
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa on Thursday defended his boss, President Robert Mugabe, following his recent declaration that the economy was on the rebound. Chinamasa was responding t...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe requires 7% average growth rate
Zimbabwe needs a medium and long-term average growth rate of 7 percent if the Government is to significantly reduce poverty and improve the standard of living, an expert has said. African Institute fo...Published: 04 Jul 2014 at 17:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe clueless, stuck on the economy, says Biti
Seven months into the new Zanu-PF administration, the country is slowly but surely grinding to a debilitating halt while the economy sinks into a comatose position in the midst of clueless hand-w...Published: 15 Feb 2014 at 21:38hrs | | by Tendai Biti
'Zimbabwe not ready for elections,' says EU
Zimbabwe still has much work ahead of it if the country is to hold a fair election this year, a top European Union official told journalists in Harare on Tuesday."I think there is still a lot ...Published: 28 May 2013 at 19:18hrs | | by Sapa
Zimbabwe stirs back to life
A cacophony of blaring horns and revving engines drown every other sound as frustrated motorists battle to negotiate a downtown intersection where the rush-hour traffic converges into gridlock....Published: 23 Jul 2012 at 05:58hrs | | by Sapa-AFP
In Zimbabwe, a hungry man is a docile man, not an angry man
As their country's economic decline continues to gather speed, Zimbabweans of all walks of life increasingly adopted creative coping mechanisms, captured succinctly in the phrase "make a plan" that is...Published: 19 Sep 2011 at 12:26hrs | 1 | by Dell
Zim economic rebound needs a stable political environment
Zimbabwe's economy is on a rebound that now needs to be sustained by a more stable economic and political environment. This came out clearly at the World Economic Forum on Africa dinner hosted on Wed...Published: 07 May 2011 at 18:51hrs | | by Victoria Ruzvidzo
South African tycoon snubs Zimbabwe International Trade Fair
Cyril Ramaphosa has reportedly snubbed an invitation to be the guest of honour at this year’s Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) being held in Bulawayo.The independen...Published: 03 May 2011 at 12:45hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
ZITF begins in Bulawayo this morning
The 52nd edition of the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair begins in Bulawayo this morning with a view to reposition the country as a prime investment destination and lure foreign direct investment t...Published: 03 May 2011 at 05:20hrs | | by Moyo Roy
BMW workers trade holiday time for shifts making hot cars
BERLIN - German autoworkers are this year swapping some of their Christmas break with family for time at the factory assembling someone else's gifts - and they don't have a problem with it.Ger...Published: 23 Dec 2010 at 04:02hrs | 3 | by Byo24
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