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Objection to recently imposed US$92 radio licence fee
HIS Excellency, The President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, Office of the President and Cabinet, Munhumutapa Building, Harare, Zimbabwe.Your Excellency Sir,...Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:24hrs | 542 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle rebate abuse: 34 convicted, 3 000 cases under probe
Authorities in Zimbabwe are investigating over 3,000 cases of alleged abuse of the civil servants vehicle rebate scheme, with 34 individuals already convicted. The government is intensifying its effor...Published: 21 Jan 2025 at 13:42hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe puhes for mandatory jail terms to curb corruption
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) is advocating for mandatory jail sentences for individuals convicted of corruption to deter the crime and overcome challenges in asset recovery.S...Published: 16 Jan 2025 at 07:05hrs | 263 | by Staff reporter
Traffic chaos as Honda Fit runs out of fuel on Victoria Falls bridge
The Victoria Falls Bridge was brought to a standstill this afternoon when a motorist abandoned his newly imported Honda Fit in the middle of the bridge after it ran out of fuel. The incident occurred ...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 14:33hrs | 3952 | by Staff reporter
How Zimbabwe's ruling elite fund their luxuries at the expense of ordinary citizens
They live a tax-free lifestyle, do not pay duty to import vehicles and yet they introduce a new tax every year to fund their luxurious lifestyle. In Zimbabwe, the stark contrast between the lifestyles...Published: 29 Nov 2024 at 12:38hrs | 831 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zimbabwe scales up fight against fraudulent vehicle imports
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has enlisted the help of the police in a new operation to track down fraudulently imported vehicles in the capital. The exercise, which runs from October to Dece...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 16:27hrs | 4223 | by Staff reporter
Zacc recovers 350 corruptly imported vehicles
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has recovered more than 350 vehicles that were illegally imported through the abuse of the civil servants' vehicle rebate scheme that allows established ...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 07:43hrs | 233 | by Staff reporter
Allow all Zimbabweans to import vehicles DUTY FREE your current policy is discriminatory
Zimbabwe, a country grappling with economic challenges, has recently made headlines with a policy decision that has sparked both debate and controversy. The government has partially lifted the ban on ...Published: 16 Jul 2024 at 20:58hrs | 954 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Ex-Zimra staffer falsified import of over 400 cars
Yvonne Tambudzai Musoni, a former employee at the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), allegedly hacked her supervisor's electronic signature to fraudulently approve the importation of over 400 vehicle...Published: 03 Jul 2024 at 10:23hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Fugitive ex-Zimra officer's property frozen
Former Zimbabwe Revenue Authority official, Tambudzai Yvonne Musoni, who is currently on the run, has been barred from selling or transferring her family house at Mabvazuva Estate and had US$47,500 in...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:27hrs | 67 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle rebate haunts civil servants
CIVIL servants are under probe for allegedly abusing the vehicle rebate system as it emerged that some government employees were importing cars duty free on behalf of other people for a fee.St...Published: 12 Mar 2024 at 05:14hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube extends car import deadline for former MPs
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has decided to extend the deadline for former legislators to import cars, while assuring the 10th Members of Parliament (MPs) that they will receive vehicles valued at US...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 09:14hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Zimra opens window for improperly imported vehicles
A NARROW window has been opened by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) for the public, companies or any other entities with vehicles not properly cleared through the tax collector, to regularise th...Published: 07 Dec 2023 at 05:25hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
ZACC and Zimra net 19 000 civil servants in corruption probe
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC), in collaboration with the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA), is conducting investigations into approximately 19,000 cases of corruption involving civil...Published: 26 Oct 2023 at 14:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ZACC recovers 36 vehicles from bogus civil servants
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission and the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority have joined forces to curb the abuse of tax rebates extended to civil servants by the Government so they could import vehicle...Published: 21 Jun 2023 at 06:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Parliamentarians request extension of duty-free vehicle import facility
OUTGOING legislator for Buhera South Joseph Chinotimba has appealed to the Minister of Finance and Economic Development to allow MPs to import vehicles duty free upto December.The provis...Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 07:55hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Man up for civil service rebate abuse
A HARARE man appeared in court early this week facing five counts of fraud and a money laundering charge after he allegedly used forged civil service rebate letters to import vehicles for resale....Published: 09 Jun 2023 at 06:48hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dangles duty-free cars for councillors
GOVERNMENT has reviewed councillors' allowances as President Emmerson Mnangagwa said he had approved a scheme to import vehicles duty free.Mnangagwa also said councillors would get special ter...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants abusing vehicle import rebate
Some of the civil servants recently allowed to import vehicles duty-free are now abusing the privilege, importing vehicles for other people and charging a "fee" of between US$700 and US$1 500 dependin...Published: 02 Aug 2022 at 06:43hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Screws tightened on 'dishonest' civil servants
GOVERNMENT has tightened the duty-free rebate scheme on motor vehicles for civil servants following reports that unscrupulous car dealers were importing second-hand vehicles duty free after conniving ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 12:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Red tape blights civil servants' vehicle import scheme
EVERAL civil servants' vehicles imported under a duty-free scheme are stuck at the country's borders accumulating storage costs as the Finance and Economic Development ministry has not yet processed e...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 20:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Govt to revive civil servants' loan facility
GOVERNMENT has said it will soon revive a civil servants loan facility to enable them to purchase vehicles and houses, as well as carry out other empowerment projects.This was said last Wednes...Published: 22 Feb 2022 at 05:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 'high-sounding nothing'
The government on Tuesday announced minor adjustments to civil servants' pay and a battery of non-monetary incentives in a move aimed at breaking a paralysing strike by teachers.Finance minist...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 18:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get more US$
Treasury has announced a 20 percent salary increase for all civil servants plus an additional US$100 cash allowance, as well as school fees allowance among other non-monetary benefits.This fol...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Improved package for civil servants
Civil servants and teachers have been awarded a lucrative package that includes a 20 percent increment across the board backdated to January 1, with the equivalent of US$100 of this in foreign currenc...Published: 09 Feb 2022 at 05:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants withdraw forex bonuses
CIVIL servants were smiling all the way to the bank yesterday as they started receiving their bonuses in foreign currency.They are receiving up to a maximum of US$700 and civil service pension...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:29hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Civil servants assured of 13th cheque
Government has assured civil servants that they will receive their bonus this year while conditions of service will continue to be improved.Bonus payments are usually made in November and Dece...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
Civil servants get 50% salary increment
THE GOVERNMENT has increased civil servants' salaries by between 45 percent to 50 percent as it fulfils a promise to stagger the wage increment for employees. In April, Government increased civil serv...Published: 21 Jul 2021 at 07:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe curbs importation of older vehicles
IT IS now illegal to import vehicles that are more than 10 years old, after the government gazetted a new law yesterday aimed at curbing the purchase of battered cars into the country.The new ...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jailed Mnangagwa aide might get seized vehicles
Douglas Tapfuma, the former director of state residencies, has failed in his bail application pending an appeal against his six-year imprisonment for corruption.Justice Pisirayi Kwenda of the ...Published: 01 Oct 2020 at 07:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa aide denied bail
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top aide Douglas Tapfuma, who briefly served as principal director of State Residences, was last Friday denied bail by the High Court after making a determination that h...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government, labour back to negotiating table
GOVERNMENT will this week bring its employees under the auspices of the Apex council to the negotiating table to discuss the August to December cost of living adjustments.This comes after Gove...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Shot in the arm for war vets
Government has unveiled an additional $15 million budget towards war veterans to cater for their health, school fees and other welfare issues, a Cabinet Minister has said. Finance and Economic...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has abandoned war veterans, says Chinotimba
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration has abandoned veterans of the country's liberation struggle and needs to copy from other countries that have social safety nets to carters for those that ...Published: 08 Aug 2019 at 07:52hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Biti tears into Mthuli Ncube's 'lipstick and mascara'
HARARE East MP Tendai Biti yesterday tore into Finance minister Mthuli Ncube's 2019 supplementary budget, describing it as a big fraud and misrepresentation of the true state of the economy.He...Published: 07 Aug 2019 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets demand employment for their children
Veterans of the 1970s liberation struggle, have called on government to ensure their children are given jobs despite lack of qualifications, claiming their offsprings have been denied a lot of chances...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fresh civil servants salary talks
GOVERNMENT has invited the Apex Council for fresh civil servants salary talks tomorrow (Wednesday) after indicating that salaries would be adjusted against the prevailing inflation levels not the fore...Published: 04 Jun 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
June pay rise for civil servants
SALARY negotiations between the Government and civil servants are ongoing with another review expected next month as promised by the Government. In March, civil servants received a salary incr...Published: 28 May 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra throws lifeline to civil servants
Government has thrown a lifeline to its restive workers by operationalising a law that will ensure that those with a minimum 10 years in service can import vehicles duty-free, a week after the workers...Published: 21 May 2019 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa working on salary review, incentives for civil servants
THE Government has come up with a comprehensive consultative strategy with its employees that will see an establishment of a platform for engagement, every fortnight, on issues affecting the workers a...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Vehicle import scheme to only benefit top civil servants
GOVERNMENT's car scheme, which will allow civil servants to import vehicles duty-free, is a pie in sky and will not benefit the majority of its workers, but a select few senior members.The con...Published: 03 Apr 2019 at 08:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Free duty car imports for civil servants
FINANCE Minister, Mthuli Ncube has given civil servants the greenlight to import vehicles without paying duty in a move aimed at placating distressed government workers.Statutory Instrument 52...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 07:11hrs | 9 | by newzimbabwe.com
Doctors strike symptom of bigger malaise
THE ongoing strike by doctors in the country's hospitals is just but a symptom of the bigger illness plaguing Zimbabwe.The doctors are demanding payment in US dollars, stocking of medicines an...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:45hrs | | by Editorial - newsdsay
Doctors' strike: A balancing act of ethics and rights
ON March 1 this year, junior doctors downed their tools in protest over deteriorating working conditions, on-call allowances, a facility to import vehicles duty-free and poor remuneration. Senior doct...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 20:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's blow hits car sales
CAR dealers in Bulawayo have lamented the decline in sales since Government announced that people importing vehicles will now pay duty in foreign currency. In his 2019 National Budget statemen...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 06:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
2019 National Budget an insult to Civil servants
Amalgamated Rural Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe, ARTUZ is irked by the anti-worker budget presented by the Finance Ministry, the Union is calling for the third phase of the fight for salaries in United ...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by ARTUZ
Used car imports surge 40%
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has recorded a 40,9 percent increase in imports of pre-owned vehicles at Beitbridge border post in the last eight months, it has emerged.Officials statis...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 23:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Could the Bulawayo Zanu-PF skirmish be internal or staged however we view it?
The violence perpetrated at the Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo on Friday 22 June 2018 is an act of barbarism founded on fear to promote instability against excellent prospects for a successful and peaceful...Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 08:13hrs | 11 | by Andrew Manyevere
Zimbabwe losing millions in border scandal
GOVERNMENT is losing millions of dollars in potential revenue to syndicates abusing the immigrants' rebate facility (Returning Resident) to clandestinely import vehicles duty free across most ports of...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deploy soldiers at hospitals
The government has put Zimbabwe National Army doctors on standby as the situation at the country's public hospitals continues to deteriorate due to a month-long strike by doctors, Health and Child Car...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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