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Zimbabwe cannot fund large-scale projects without monetary autonomy
Zimbabwe's economic debate is often framed through the lens of inflation control, exchange rate stability, and the day-to-day functionality of the US dollar in domestic transactions.Yet, benea...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 12:05hrs | 194 | by Brighton Musonza
Tax evasion bleeds Zimbabwe economy
Humanitarian organisation ActionAid Zimbabwe has expressed deep concern over the rampant levels of tax evasion in the country, warning that this undermines the pool of funds available for national dev...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:44hrs | 89 | by Staff reporter
Manicaland ready for Hlanganani
Manicaland Province has declared its full readiness to host the prestigious Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo for the first time outside Bulawayo, with extensive upgrades to key infrastructure, t...Published: 21 Jun 2025 at 09:35hrs | 53 | by Staff reporter
Boreholes are not the solution to Zimbabwe's water crisis - they may worsen it
There has been a growing disturbing trend.The Zimbabwean government has, in recent years, taken to vigorously drilling boreholes across the country as its signature approach to solving the cou...Published: 05 May 2025 at 23:30hrs | 991 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's Victoria Falls tax haven takes solid shape
The Zimbabwean government has taken a bold step toward transforming Victoria Falls into a leading regional financial hub with the establishment of the Victoria Falls International Financial Services C...Published: 29 Apr 2025 at 12:06hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
Dragnet closes in on Zimbabwe money launderers
The dragnet is closing in on money launderers as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration yesterday resolved to strengthen the enforcement of anti-money laundering legislation,Business Times repo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 14:43hrs | 1127 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe politics derail anti-corruption fight'
At a national anti-corruption conference in Harare, Transparency International Zimbabwe (TI-Z) board chairperson Isheanesu Chirisa highlighted several challenges hindering the fight against corruption...Published: 18 Jul 2024 at 06:50hrs | 395 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses note low activity
THE business sector has reported a decline in activity since the announcement of the 2024 National Budget in November last year, NewsDay Business has learnt.Most firms found the 2024 Nat...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mining sector grows about 10%
The Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development has said the latest ZimStat statistics show that the mining sector grew by 10.5% in 2022, up from 5.9% in 2...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 17:13hrs | 16 | by Stephen Jakes
Cabinet approves National Migration Policy
CABINET has approved the National Migration Policy whose thrust will inform the number of Zimbabweans in the diaspora and their contributions to the country through remittances. The policy wil...Published: 31 May 2023 at 07:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube says currency manipulators won't rest
Currency manipulators and economic saboteurs will always be lurking about looking for opportunities and loopholes to unjustly profiteer but authorities will also be always ready to institute measures ...Published: 31 May 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
We must create the Zimbabwe we truly want
READING the book Why Nations Fail by authors Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson continues to confirm my observations which I have been sharing with my readers for some time.The challenge we fac...Published: 10 Mar 2023 at 05:20hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Zimbabwe's road traffic accidents stats worrying
ZIMBABWE has recorded 1 559 deaths while 7 851 were injured in 38 776 road traffic accidents from January to September this year. The statistics translate to a traffic collision after eve...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:37hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
CCTV Surveillance Technology in Africa needs a national policy
African countries are installing closed circuit television cameras (CCTV) and surveillance technologies without regulation frameworks and national CCTV and surveillance national policies. The sp...Published: 29 Oct 2022 at 11:28hrs | 4 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Zanu-PF bigwigs 'blocking' parastatal reforms
CONCERTED efforts by Treasury to push for key parastatal reform and privatisation of the loss-making entities have been frustrated by some hawkish cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats, who have fo...Published: 17 Jun 2022 at 08:58hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe financial flows under scrutiny
A HIGH level Financial Action Task Force (FATF) team is in the country to meet private and public sector institutions to assess implementation of Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Financing of T...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zanu-PF govt has failed democratic test'
GOVERNMENT was yesterday blasted for inheriting and maintaining colonial civic suppression tactics 41 years after independence.This came out during a virtual meeting conducted by SIVIO Institu...Published: 20 Apr 2021 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The Zimparks, Lake Kariba Fisheries Research Institute (LKFRI) has launched small-scale fisheries (SSF) project that support loc
Titled, "Setting the stage for successful and sustainable management, development and utilisation of the small-scale fisheries of Lake Kariba, Zimbabwe" is the project that was launched yesterday by t...Published: 27 Mar 2021 at 06:39hrs | 6 | by MuHwisiry Chaiyeiye a Patsaka Nyaminyami Community Radio correspondent
'Weak policies fuel food insecurity'
WEAK policy implementation, climatic shocks and natural hazards have made it impossible for Zimbabwe to ensure food security, local civil society groups have noted.In a recent joint report tit...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:18hrs | 3 | by Stephen Mpofu
President's wide powers on mining fuel extractive resources corruption
THE excessive, wide and discretionary powers of the President of Zimbabwe and Minister of Mines over the country's vast mineral resources and their allocation is perpetuating rampant corruption in the...Published: 30 Jan 2021 at 17:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Will Potraz or govt check compliance of WhatsApp Ts&Cs with AIPPA?
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) is yet to confirm whether it is discussing whether a revised WhatsApp privacy policy complies with local laws. The Cons...Published: 14 Jan 2021 at 09:55hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes notes from China SEZs model
Government has engaged Chinese experts to train officials and the private sector on designing, planning and implementation of Special Economic Zones (SEZs).The online training workshop, which ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Both MDC and Zanu-PF lacks structural constraints and Organizational Barriers
Arrogance does not pay in politics. The biggest enemy of Zanu-PF now is the mouths of specific spin doctors and bad mouthing. The most important thing is to respond to a problem in a proper way. The m...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 20:20hrs | 1 | by Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes:
Both MDC and Zanu PF lacks structural constraints and Organizational Barriers
Academic Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo writes: NB: A balanced analysis without taking sides Arrogance does not pay in politics. The...Published: 31 Aug 2019 at 08:58hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Gukurahundi offered a subtle entry point for disempowering the USSR's ideological strength
I CONCLUDED the previous article of this series by exploring how Zapu was a victim of neo-colonial treachery which was brazenly targeting its Matabeleland and Midlands strongholds. The aim of this pol...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Dr Obert Mpofu
Change: Wither Zimbabwe?
I had to go cross to check the theory. What is the change we have been sold? Or is this another war-time dummy!Particularly when the quality and magnitude of change is huge and transformationa...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:22hrs | | by Zifiso Masiye
Legislative reform agenda buttresses Mnangagwa's sincerity
This is the second part of a trilogy of articles that I am writing outlining the reform agenda being pursued by President Mnangagwa in the Second Republic. In the previous article I dwelt on political...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:16hrs | 3 | by Nick Mangwana
Mthuli Ncube's speech to AfDB boards of governors - Fulltext
Speech by the minister of finance and economic development, Hon. Prof. Mthuli Ncube during the 2019 annual meetings of the boards of governors of the African Development Bank Group: Malabo, Republic o...Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 20:03hrs | 11 | by Mthuli NCube
New currency unlikely to perform miracles for Zimbabwe
GOVERNMENT'S plans to unveil a new currency by year-end without addressing macro-economic fundamentals could be catastrophic, while the proposed local unit risks suffering the same fate as the defunct...Published: 14 Jun 2019 at 08:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Political party leaders must be exemplary
Address by His Excellency, the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, E. D. Mnangagwa, at the launch of the National Political Actors Dialogue at the Harare International Con...Published: 18 May 2019 at 08:00hrs | 12 | by E. D. Mnangagwa
'Zimbabwe public finances in bad shape'
ZIMBABWE'S public finance management is characterised by growing fiscal leakages, lack of transparency, accountability and continuous violation of legal and constitutional provisions, the Zimbabwe Coa...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 08:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Privatization is key to Zimbabwe's economic recovery plan
The microeconomic foundations of economies ensure that macroeconomic objectives are achieved. Stated differently, macroeconomic goals can only be achieved if there are robust institutions ensuring tha...Published: 04 Apr 2019 at 08:16hrs | | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Anti Zanu-PF figures targeted for Zimbabwe 'political dialogue'
Former Botswana President Ian Seretse Khama and South Africa's former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela are among some of the names being considered to mediate talks between President Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:36hrs | 1 | by ZimLive
Muzamhindo pushes for a Policy Indaba
Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo's initiativeI'm driving a national agenda which has no political affiliation, but to assist on enhancing development. We simply ...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 22:31hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
EFF calls for sanction removal in Zimbabwe
Following their inclusion into the Institutional Framework Committee (IFC) of the National Dialogue spearheaded by President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has underline...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 16:49hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Opposition parties walk out of Mnangagwa's post-election dialogue meeting
The second session of the national dialogue with July 2018 presidential candidates at State House in Harare on Friday got off to a rocky start, with some candidates and their representatives walking o...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 20:59hrs | | by TimesLive
MDC-T supports dialogue with Mnangagwa
We the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) restate our well documented position that we are part of the on going national dialogue process to focus on salient national issues that continue to imped...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 16:20hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
Mnangagwa meets opposition leaders
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday met with leaders of opposition political parties that contested the 2018 Presidential elections to discuss the way forward as far as the National Dialogue is con...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 13:49hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Kasukuwere and Chombo will not be convicted, this is why?
You often hear about politicians facing public corruption charges in the news. Public corruption refers to any time of instance in which a government official abuses their position of power or public ...Published: 05 Nov 2018 at 20:12hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Central bank's independence, benefits to Zimbabwe
WITH the recent developments at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), it is now public knowledge that four directors were suspended from there on allegations of corruption. The worrying aspect is the so...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2 | by David Mhlanga
Calls to combat Zimbabwe graft grow louder
INDICATIONS from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government currently show that he has taken a tough stance against corruption, a cancer that has done significant damage to the country's socio-economic...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 10:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Education system poised for major overhaul
As the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education our objective is to take Zimbabwean education to the 21st century and there has to be an educational transformation and full implementation of the co...Published: 20 Sep 2018 at 06:40hrs | | by Prof Paul Mavima
A new transformational paradigm for Zimbabwe
"The future of our country Zimbabwe depends on how we, Zimbabweans, imagine it through a new transformational consciousness"I truly believe that Zimbab...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 09:56hrs | 2 | by Vince Musewe
Zimbabwe lags behind on electricity regulatory index
THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has ranked the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) and Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) as having an average level of deve...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking BEST Manifesto
Restructuring and Rehabilitation of the NRZ (National Railways of Zimbabwe) Considering the current state of the National Railways of Zimbabwe, the firs...Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 09:28hrs | | by Linda Tsungirirai Masarira
'Special anti-graft unit to reinforce Zacc operations'
The Special Prosecuting Unit is not meant to supersede or undermine the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, but to reinforce its operations by ensuring a well-coordinated and comprehensive approach w...Published: 23 May 2018 at 07:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Street money changers face prosecution
GOVERNMENT, through the Judicial Services Commission, is finalising administrative mechanisms for establishment of the Commercial Court, which will prosecute offenders for commercial crimes, among the...Published: 08 May 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe government to open airwaves
GOVERNMENT will soon craft a law that will accommodate new broadcasting players as well as protect content producers in the new digital era, a senior official said yesterday. Speaking at the e...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 06:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
FDI expert to address Cabinet
Visiting Rwandan investment expert Ms Clare Akamanzi has said political will to make bold decisions and listening to concerns of the private sector were some of the cardinal principles Zimbabwe could ...Published: 12 Apr 2018 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a 'Mugabe look-alike'?
A top government official in Zimbabwe has defended President Emmerson Mnangagwa against claims he is "a Mugabe look-alike", saying that the new president is driving changes aimed at redefining the cou...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 11:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
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