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'Focus on delivering campaign promises and 2030' said ED - no, focus on BROKEN free election promise and 2023
"As we officially open the 9th Parliament, our focus is on delivering the promises made during the campaign period," said President Mnangagwa in his speech marking the official opening Zimbabwe's parl...Published: 1 hr ago | 279 | by Nomusa Garikai
UK to support Zimbabwe IMF programme
Britain will support Zimbabwe to get on an interim IMF staff programme to help the country quickly clear its foreign arrears, Britain's ambassador in Harare said on Tuesday. Clearing the $1.8 ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 1525 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube, Mnangagwa in bond notes U-turn
Both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and new Finance minister Mthuli Ncube have ruled out the immediate return of the decommissioned Zimbabwe dollar, saying the country will for now continue to use bond ...Published: 4 hrs ago | 5341 | by Staff reporter
Open for business starts with health funding, Mr Mnangagwa
ONE death is a death too many to justify. As the cholera outbreak ravaged populous Harare high-density suburbs Glen View and Budiriro for the second time within a decade, my heart grieves and prays th...Published: 4 hrs ago | 451 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Zimbabwe teachers unions call for schools closure over cholera
Faced with a nationwide cholera outbreak that has claimed 31 lives and left thousands others infected, two leading teachers' unions have called for the closure of all schools until the disease is cont...Published: 4 hrs ago | 385 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy in safe hands
THE appointment of a leaner Cabinet by President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not only welcome, but also goes a long way in demonstrating that the President listened to the people, mindful of the need to man...Published: 4 hrs ago | 727 | by Daniel Ngwira
Mthuli Ncube's economic stabilisation programme out next month
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube will next month unveil a transitional economic stabilisation programme that will address fiscal and monetary reforms as well as an arrears clearance programme.Zim...Published: 4 hrs ago | 470 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa approves cholera fund
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has approved a budget of nearly $64 million for immediate needs in the fight against dual outbreaks of cholera and typhoid in Harare and other parts of the country, chairperson of ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 219 | by Staff reporter
UK hails setting up of Mnangagwa's Commission of Inquiry
OUTGOING United Kingdom Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Catriona Laing, says her country was encouraged" by the setting up of a Commission of Inquiry into the political violence of August 1, which led to the ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 252 | by Staff reporter
'US dollar to anchor Zimbabwe economic recovery'
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has reassured the nation that the United States dollar will remain the bedrock of Government plans for accelerated reforms to address the multiplicity of challenges besetting the e...Published: 5 hrs ago | 990 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes flood Zimbabwe border towns
The Zimbabwe Cross Border Traders Association has called on Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube to investigate the source of bond notes and other currencies that have flooded the bl...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1361 | by Staff reporter
The Second Constitutional Amendment
A constitution, written or unwritten, is a blueprint on various national aspects such as freedom, aspirations or governance issues. Put simply, an amendment is an addition or alteration to a constitut...Published: 5 hrs ago | 284 | by Sharon Hofisi
Mnanagwa's turning point
PRAGMATISM. That could be the word we were looking for to describe President Mnangagwa's approach and philosophy as he conducts business as leader of both Zanu-PF - the ruling party - and Government. ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 1325 | by Tichaona Zindoga
MDC-Alliance's infantile stunt self-defeating
ON our equivalent of 9/11, that is September 11, 1999, the MDC was launched in Harare by a combination of Western powers, white commercial farmers and industrialists opposed to Zanu-PF's decision to a...Published: 5 hrs ago | 215 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must consider Mthuli Ncube's proposals
WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the nation yesterday, there was hope that he would give a clear strategy towards addressing the currency distortions that have left the country on an econom...Published: 5 hrs ago | 237 | by Editorial - newsday
Chamisa's MPs walk out on Mnangagwa
THE government has secured $500 million in foreign credit facilities to ease a cash crisis that has crippled local industry, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday at the official opening of the ...Published: 5 hrs ago | 566 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to return of Zimdollar
According to Zimbabwe's new president, conditions are not yet right for foreign currencies to be replaced by the Zimbabwean dollar.Zimbabwe's new president on Tuesday ruled out an early return...Published: 16 hrs ago | 9039 | by AFP
Zimbabwe to continue using multicurrencies
Zimbabwe's use of the multicurrency system will continue until such a time that the country's macroeconomic fundamentals have re-aligned, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said today in his inaugural State...Published: 16 hrs ago | 1848 | by Staff reporter
UK to support Zimbabwe clear its arrears
The United Kingdom says it will support Zimbabwe to clear its arrears with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.Outgoing British Ambassador Catriona Laing advised on this d...Published: 17 hrs ago | 2875 | by Staff reporter
Stench of sewage in cholera-hit Harare
Zimbabwe is struggling with its worst outbreak of cholera in a decade, which has killed at least 28 people. An emergency has been declared and public gatherings banned in the capital, Harare.L...Published: 19 hrs ago | 1367 | by BBC
UK want 'serious dialogue' with ED on debt but not vote rigging - history repeating itself
The British are not helping Zimbabwe get out of the economic and political mess the country is in. Not at all!"Ambassador Catriona Laing said an International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme wou...Published: 19 hrs ago | 3519 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Outrage over govt spending
Zimbabweans have expressed outrage over the government's poor planning and unnecessary expenditure at the expense of preventing medieval diseases like cholera, which has so far claimed the lives of at...Published: 19 hrs ago | 513 | by Staff reporter
'What can deadwood cabinet advise dream team?' ask ZCTU - no ask; what will we do if it fails, yet again?
"The reshuffle of cabinet actually promoted all those deemed 'excess baggage' by certain sections of the media. The big boys whom the majority called dead wood were actually reassigned to full time jo...Published: 21 hrs ago | 749 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Schools should close shop to avert the cholera crisis
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ has concluded its research on the state of preparedness of schools to handle the cholera outbreak. Our Schools are not safe and have no capacity to...Published: 22 hrs ago | 1167 | by ARTUZ
Mnangagwa lays down legislative agenda
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially opened the 9th Parliament of Zimbabwe, and pronounced the legislative agenda which is guided by the need to align laws to the new constitution, to further d...Published: 23 hrs ago | 5844 | by Staff Reporter
The truth behind Team Pachedu
Once upon a time, there was a source with credible information online. It started as a mysterious micro-blog, but their simple numbers were objectively verifiable. Even though no one really knew who t...Published: 24 hrs ago | 3024 | by Anthony Mkondo
Mnangagwa on real economic test
Barely in less than month since the president has Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed the office, a number of striking developments have taken place. In his November inaugural speech last year, the focus was o...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 11:12hrs | 3146 | by Sithabile Mafu
Paul Siwela pens letter to Mnangagwa, Demands immediate restoration of Matabeleland State
Dear President ED Mnangagwa, Ref: Demand for Immediate Restoration of Matabeleland StateYour Excellency, I am writing to you in my capacity as t...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 10:57hrs | 4159 | by Paul Siwela
38 years of Zanu PF tyranny has sucked all marrow out of life - We are living dead
"Insanity," said the great Physicist Albert Einstein "in doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result" Talk of insanity and one immediately thinks of the mental patien...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:28hrs | 2171 | by Wilbert Mukori
Mnangagwa must take a chance on Mthuli Ncube's ideas
It is clear that Zimbabwe's new Finance minister Mthuli Ncube is not a shy man and neither is he a coward. He would have been aware, weeks in advance, that he would be appointed Zimbabwe's Treasury ch...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 08:25hrs | 4570 | by Staff reporter
Stunted exploration to stifle Zimbabwe gold output growth
Fidelity Printers and Refiners (Fidelity), the country's sole gold buyer, says gold output could hit 50 tonnes in two years on the back of a central bank support to the small-scale mining sector, but ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:43hrs | 377 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's mobile data charges second highest in Africa - report
Zimbabwe has the second most expensive mobile data in sub-Saharan Africa after Equatorial Guinea at $25 for one gigabyte, a technology report released last week has shown.Despite the spread of...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:41hrs | 714 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economy on the mend
Zimbabweans have entered the most anxious week. The new cabinet flew into a cholera crisis and from nowhere prices sky rocketed and rates came to obnoxious stinking levels. Mthuli Ncube's first week i...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:32hrs | 2371 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MDC plans to embarrass Mnangagwa today
Opposition legislators are planning to humiliate President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he presents SONA in Parliament today, as the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance continues to refuse to accept his July 3...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:15hrs | 1891 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to be heckled by Chamisa's MPs?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces the prospect of being heckled by opposition members of the National Assembly when he opens the Ninth Parliament today, a sign that the country remains deeply polaris...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter
Vendors blitz spreads to Masvingo as soldiers, police clear city
THE police blitz on vendors in major towns has spread to Masvingo, with soldiers and the police clearing the city at the weekend as government responds to the outbreak of cholera that has claimed 30 l...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
'Banks have let Bulawayo down'
A NUMBER of viable manufacturing projects in Bulawayo have remained stagnant and failed to take off for years due to lack of affordable credit lines from banks, entrepreneur and one of Bulawayo's few ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:33hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
What does investment look like on the ground in Zimbabwe?
LAST week I was at the African Studies Association of the UK (ASA) conference in Birmingham. I was co-hosting, with my colleague Jeremy Lind (whose earlier blog this one draws from), a fantastic strea...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:31hrs | 336 | by Ian Scoones
Driving policies towards Vision 2030
Zimbabwe has a new socio-political order. This has been dubbed the Second Republic, which is under the new dispensation. A new national policy is being crafted and hopefully will soon be unveiled. ...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:29hrs | 188 | by Nick Mangwana
Zimbabwe inflation breach danger zone
Zimbabwe's annual inflation rate rose 0,54 percent to 4,83 percent in the month of August, latest figures from the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStats) show. This was a marginal uptu...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:28hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa chairs first Second Republic Cabinet
President Mnangagwa yesterday chaired the first Cabinet meeting under the Second Republic where he introduced a new approach on the conduct of Government business and tasked the new ministers to ident...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:25hrs | 449 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA, set agenda
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa is today expected to deliver his first State of the National Address (SONA) and officially open the first session of the Ninth Parliament during which he will set the legislative a...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:20hrs | 205 | by Staff reporter
Econet celebrates 20 years of ZSE listing
Econet Wireless Zimbabwe yesterday reached a major milestone after completing 20 years since its shares were listed and first publicly traded on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE); a month after Zimbab...Published: 18 Sep 2018 at 06:17hrs | 54 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube secures $250m loan
The new Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube has secured a $250 million commercial loan facility from an international finance company, Gemcorp through the Reserve Bank...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 19:58hrs | 9706 | by Staff reporter
Do not deny our children bread
Well, to begin with, I need my bread and I am sure we all do. As for the kids I shall not speak, a day without bread is like a day 'never lived'. Now, who is taking away bread from us by raisi...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 18:48hrs | 1603 | by Tondo Murisa
Workforce experiences to match customer experiences: the next frontier for telco success
Since GSM was first demonstrated in Cape Town in 1993 and the first GSM networks launched the next year, the telco industry has fundamentally transformed every country on the African continent. As som...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 12:16hrs | 223 | by Mariam Abdullahi, Telco Industry Lead at SAP Africa
Mliswa laments killing of a Norton resident
Norton legislator Temba P Mliswa has lamented the killing of a Norton resident Sydney Kumbanga."It's very disturbing to hear that there has been another stabbing incident in Norton at Katanga ...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 08:56hrs | 3428 | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa now talking dialogue
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to "come to the negotiating table" or face the real prospect of driving the country down the abyss.In a...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:19hrs | 7656 | by Staff reporter
Zivhu calls for probe into cash vending
CHIVI SOUTH legislator Killer Zivhu (Zanu-PF) feels the government and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) must investigate circumstances resulting in the current cash crisis in the formal banking syst...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:10hrs | 1353 | by Staff reporter
MDC Alliance Kariba District Chairperson Mr George Masendu elected Kariba Mayor
Finally Kariba Municipality has a set of new councillors, 8 from the MDC Alliance and one from ZANUPF who has claimed such ward from the former deputy Mayor in ward 6. The fresh set brought about a lo...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:07hrs | 416 | by John T Chirinda
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