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Weakening Zimdollar wreaks havoc
MARKET forces have caused havoc on the Zimbabwe dollar on the parallel market, with the exchange rate shooting to US$1:$70.Last week, from Monday to Saturday, the US$:Zimdollar rate plunged ne...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1447 | by Staff reporter
US praises Zimbabwe
THE coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has wreaked havoc world-wide with countries such as the United States (US) being one of the most affected. Zimbabwe has so far recorded over 50 confirmed cases, 18 ...Published: 23 hrs ago | 3160 | by Staff reporter
The international elites are at the gate!
AS the month of November draws near and the United States national elections in the first week of November become a reality, it behoved me to search with diligence why this is an explosive season. The...Published: 24 May 2020 at 09:22hrs | 649 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Kasukuwere farm standoff threatens crop
The tussle over former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's farm, involving a top war veteran, has taken a new twist following revelations that disruptions at the Mazowe property could resul...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:44hrs | 920 | by Staff reporter
117 diasporans apply for land
Zimbabweans living in the United Kingdom have submitted at least 117 applications for farmland, as the diaspora community angles for opportunities in the agriculture sector.Zimbabwe's Embassy ...Published: 24 May 2020 at 08:15hrs | 768 | by Cetshwayo Zindabazezwe Mabhena
Zimbabwe diasporans eligible for land allocation back home
ZANU PF United Kingdom and Europe chair, Marshall Gore has encouraged the Diaspora Community at large to apply for land back home during the build-up to the second phase of the equitable land redistri...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:39hrs | 2800 | by newzimbabwe
FIFA agree to bail out ZIFA
FIFA have agreed to bail out ZIFA by approving a package to cater for the association's crippling legacy debt which had now ballooned to $10 million and stifled various development programmes over the...Published: 23 May 2020 at 19:32hrs | 605 | by Staff reporter
Queen B in Zupco buses procurement scandal
LEAKED government documents this week confirmed that buses initially said to belong to Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) were imported by a private company Landela Investments (Landela), befor...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:18hrs | 4580 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere farm take-over scuttles US$5m investment
THE invasion of former Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere (pictured)'s thriving Cornucopia Farm in Mazowe in Mashonaland Central province by a war veteran comes after the Reserve Bank of Zim...Published: 22 May 2020 at 07:14hrs | 4094 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans billionaire's company takes over SA data centre
AFRICA Data Centres, part of the Liquid Telecom Group, has completed the acquisition of a state-of-the-art Tier IV data centre in Johannesburg from Standard Bank, Africa's largest bank. The ac...Published: 22 May 2020 at 06:24hrs | 2661 | by Staff reporter
The Zimbabwean dilemma: Currently there is no alternative to Zanu-PF
The dilemma of the suffering Zimbabweans who have hope in the opposition is engraved in class struggle spiced up by intra-party fighting, tribalism, nepotism, domination for purposes of exploitation w...Published: 21 May 2020 at 19:42hrs | 4099 | by Chadya Tapiwa Diamond
Handover of COVID 19 donations at Large City Hall Foyer
Bulawayo Mayor Solomon Mguni will tomorrow received donations for the fight against Covid 19 at the Large City Hall.According to the notice, the Mayor will be receiving donations at 12 noon at...Published: 21 May 2020 at 15:38hrs | 450 | by Stephen Jakes
Vic Falls foreign exchange: A potential game Changer
The Zimbabwean government announced that it will soon launch the Victoria Falls Securities Exchange (VFEX) as part of a broader plan to turn the renowned resort town into an offshore International Fin...Published: 20 May 2020 at 20:51hrs | 2378 | by Victor Bhoroma
Agriculture equipment from Belarus arrives
THE country has received the first batch of agriculture equipment from Belarus procured under an inter-governmental agreement worth 51 million United States dollars, as the government steps up efforts...Published: 20 May 2020 at 17:22hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
Vic Falls foreign exchange: A potential game Changer
The Zimbabwean government announced that it will soon launch the Victoria Falls Securities Exchange (VFEX) as part of a broader plan to turn the renowned resort town into an offshore International Fin...Published: 20 May 2020 at 14:39hrs | 2938 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mnangagwa's son in gunning totting storm
RESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's son, Tarirai, has landed himself in trouble after he reportedly fired into the air repeatedly, threatening to shoot a Zesa employee deployed to record the meter reading a...Published: 20 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 7351 | by Staff reporter
Chihuri up for diverting US$32m
Former Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri is suspected of diverting US$32 million of public funds into family companies and buying a large swathe of property, which the State now wants froz...Published: 20 May 2020 at 06:49hrs | 810 | by Staff reporter
Everything you need to know about PPSR Australia
Buying a used car is challenging, but if you have all the right information in your hands, it won't be such a hassle. Many people invest in the wrong one and regret it later because they didn't spend ...Published: 19 May 2020 at 18:33hrs | 574 | by Staff writer
'Zimbabwe can outpace South Africa'
Zimbabwe has potential to be an investment hub for platinum mining ahead of South Africa, which can enhance export earnings and drive economic growth, according to analysts. Fermain Limited mining and...Published: 18 May 2020 at 07:23hrs | 1270 | by Staff reporter
Financial literacy: Why it matters the most
Imagine not ever having to worry about money or that bills being due ever again. It is most people's dream but one that few people ever achieve. Financial literacy is understanding money and being abl...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:53hrs | 714 | by Nobuhle Zondo
Shifting Attitudes on Higher Education: A Radical Approach to Bridging the Critical Skills Gap
Young people are Africa's most valuable and the single most important key to unlocking sustainable economic growth. The United Nations' Strategic Development Goals (SDG 4) commits countries to ensure ...Published: 17 May 2020 at 21:05hrs | 557 | by Nkosilathi Lesley Ngwenya
War vet feasts on Tyson's oranges
MAZOWE district war veterans chairman Ephanos Mudzimunyi is harvesting where he did not sow as he defies a High Court order barring him from interfering with operations at a sprawling farm belonging t...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:29hrs | 1451 | by Staff reporter
'Bulawayo water woes to ease by monthend'
WATER problems bedevilling Bulawayo are expected to ease before the end of the month as the Government has moved swiftly to augment supplies through rehabilitating more boreholes at the Nyamandlovu Aq...Published: 17 May 2020 at 09:21hrs | 965 | by Staff reporter
Liquid propane could supply Zimbabwe with fuel
Gift Chitanda remembers the day in 2019 the Zimbabwe company Intergas Zimbabwe offered him an interview for the lucrative job as the company's chief operating officer.The day before his interv...Published: 16 May 2020 at 09:07hrs | 8797 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF govt scares away investors
WHAT is the point of investing in Zimbabwe, if one cannot take out the proceeds of such investments, or if you get the central bank's permission it can be reversed without any Act of Parliament, that ...Published: 16 May 2020 at 07:43hrs | 551 | by Mbire
EU refuses to fund Mnangagwa's administration
THE European Union (EU) has ruled out prospects of providing budgetary support to the broke Zimbabwean government, citing "massive misuse" of public funds as exposed by various audits and the failure ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 08:07hrs | 2175 | by Staff reporter
Settle your US$ debt in US$, say Zimbabwe court
THE High Court yesterday ruled that the monetary changes made by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe on October 1, 2018, including the conversion of the US dollar account balances into RTGS and the Finance m...Published: 15 May 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1224 | by Staff reporter
'Gwayi-Shangani dam to solve Bulawayo water problems’
GOVERNMENT is committed to permanently addressing Bulawayo's perennial challenges through the construction of the Gwayi-Shangani Dam project with at least US$122 million having been channelled so far ...Published: 15 May 2020 at 06:56hrs | 830 | by Staff reporter
Botswana moves to stage 3 Coronavirus lockdown
Botswana has announced that it will be entering Phase 3 of the Coronavirus lockdown on Friday. The phase will see the government lessening restrictive measures that came with the lockdown regulations....Published: 14 May 2020 at 22:28hrs | 3852 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Infrastructure investments would bolster the Zimbabwean economy'
LISTED financial institution, BancABC, has resolved to prioritise financing infrastructure development projects of national significance as this would boost economic growth. In its financial r...Published: 14 May 2020 at 07:27hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
In Era of COVID-19, Russia's Strategic Politics of Coronavirus Aid Takes the Stage in Africa
With coronavirus rapidly spreading among the population of 148 million, Russia took the third position in the world. According to the official data provided on May 11, Russia had an aggregate total of...Published: 13 May 2020 at 07:02hrs | 474 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Perence Shiri goes after Kasukuwere's oranges
The High Court of Zimbabwe has barred Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate and Rural Resettlement Air Chief Marshal Perence Shiri from interfering with the citrus farming land belonging form...Published: 11 May 2020 at 18:43hrs | 7453 | by Mandla Ndlovu
COVID-19: Urgent Need for African Governments to Upgrade the Health Systems
Amid multifold theories and disinformation spreading around the COVID-19 in Africa, it is important for African governments to consider strengthening the existing health systems and infrastructures, a...Published: 11 May 2020 at 16:24hrs | 152 | by Kester Kenn Klomegah
Chiredzi residents resist eviction for lucerne project
CHIREDZI, (CAJ News) - VILLAGERS in Chiredzi have vowed to resist reported plans to evict them from their ancestral lands and make way for a project to produce stock-feed.This puts the Chiredz...Published: 11 May 2020 at 08:38hrs | 1372 | by Sheluzani Makhese
A new voice in the face of the old guard
Before the 2017 coup and for decades, this country had been referred to as "robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe". Now with the late former president gone and his former lieutenants in charge, we need new names a...Published: 10 May 2020 at 08:16hrs | 599 | by Maxwell Zeb Shumba
Billiat's mentality questioned
Khama Billiat is heading for arguably his worst season in the South African Absa Premiership football and apart from injuries hampering his form, there have been questions about the player's mentality...Published: 09 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 5430 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's controversial 'baker' buys state owned Zimglass
The name Douglas Kwande has, in the past months, been associated with a controversial picture of him and President Emmerson Mnangagwa seated inside a car with bread awkwardly placed between them. ...Published: 08 May 2020 at 10:03hrs | 12686 | by Mandla Ndlovu
NUST student defrauds CIMAS
A MOBILE banking transaction alert message gave away a National University of Science and Technology (NUST) student who had allegedly stolen more than US$6 000 from Cimas Medical Aid Society which hol...Published: 07 May 2020 at 16:37hrs | 1300 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe not recognised among emerging economies
ZIMBABWE has failed to make it to the list of the world's top 66 emerging economies - a list topped by neighbouring Botswana - due to high public and foreign debts and insufficient foreign reserves, a...Published: 07 May 2020 at 00:12hrs | 418 | by Staff reporter
Nelson Chamisa a stone in Zanu-PF's shoes
I am not a fundi or guru in constitutional law but I feel like unpacking some of the ruling done by our Supreme Court which has a little bearing on people's lives.Putting my political&nb...Published: 06 May 2020 at 12:07hrs | 6562 | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe standing on its last leg, says Think Tank
NKC African Economics says that Zimbabwe's economy is on the verge of collapse and there is need for other countries to help resurrect it. NKC says that the coronavirus had worsened the situat...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:09hrs | 4340 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube explains stimulus package
THE foreign currency earning sectors of manufacturing, tourism and mining will receive just $4,52 billion, the shorter end of the $18 billion stimulus package despite the impact of COVID-19 being more...Published: 06 May 2020 at 08:04hrs | 1871 | by Staff reporter
Don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg
MOST formal businesses resumed operations on Monday after being shut down since March 30 when the national lockdown to contain the potential spread of coronavirus came into force.But the resum...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 613 | by Staff reporter
3 private Covid-19 testing labs identified
GOVERNMENT has urged companies to buy rapid test kits and arrange with designated testing facilities for their employees to be tested for Covid-19 with three private medical laboratories in Bulawayo h...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 559 | by Staff reporter
Bailout for stranded Nust students
NATIONAL University of Science and Technology (Nust) students who did not manage to travel to their homes outside Bulawayo when the national lockdown was announced on March 30 are now stranded and run...Published: 06 May 2020 at 07:42hrs | 1011 | by Staff reporter
Chinese help in Zimbabwe's Covid-19 fight raises suspicions
China is publicly handing out money and equipment to help fight the spread of coronavirus in Zimbabwe. But Beijing's generosity has made some very wary.Until now most in Zimbabwe have accepted...Published: 05 May 2020 at 16:27hrs | 4082 | by Staff reporter
Rise and shine Zimbabwe
After attending a burial of my sister in February, in Plumtree, it was only normal that we would gather, lighten the moment a little bit and catch up as close family and extended family alike. It was ...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:18hrs | 870 | by Mandlenkosi Siziba
Digital library implementation and roll out - Case for Zimbabwe
There are basically 2 routes to do this. Do it your self or hire a pro. Which ever way you opt for a few things remain the same;(1.) If you choose to implement your own library, the first step...Published: 05 May 2020 at 08:14hrs | 165 | by Robert Ndlovu
Zimbabwe pleads for aid to avert 'collapse' and fight Covid-19
Zimbabwe has pleaded with international institutions to help it clear billions of dollars in debt arrears so the country can avoid economic collapse and unlock funds to fight the coronavirus pandemic....Published: 04 May 2020 at 11:05hrs | 1639 | by James Cotterill I Financial Times
Chiwenga courts private sector, commercial farmers
FACED by a huge food import bill, government is retracing its steps by inviting the private sector and white commercial farmers to grow the staple food.This was revealed by Vice-President Cons...Published: 04 May 2020 at 08:24hrs | 4523 | by Staff reporter
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