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'Zimbabwe inflation rate at 747%'
ZIMBABWE'S annual inflation could be over 20 times higher than the official rate of 34,8%, an independent advisory estimated this week, as it gave glimpses into fundamentals behind deeper turbulence c...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:22hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jitters over army hand in polls
OPPOSITION parties and analysts yesterday condemned attempts by the ruling elite to politicise the country's military, with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) promising to reform the army once el...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:50hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter
EFF shutdown knocks the rand
The JSE was lifted by rand hedges and precious metals miners on Monday, amid global jitters over recent banking crises abroad, with the rand showing some pressure. This was as the EFF pressed ahead wi...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 14:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jitters over Al Jazeera exposé telling
GOOD day President Emmerson Mnangagwa,Your Excellency, rarely has Zanu-PF and the said new dispensation been in jitters as they are now. Contrary to their characteristic obstinacy, they are un...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:53hrs | 1 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Jitters over Gwai-Shangani Dam relocations
A MATABELELAND based human rights group has accused government of dithering on plans to relocate hundreds of villagers in Lubimbi, Binga in Matabeleland North to pave way for the Gwayi-Shangani Dam....Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean minister, foreigners in messy fight over mine
MINES and Mining Development minister Winston Chitando has been entangled at the centre of a vicious fight with international investors over vast lithium claims in Mutoko, Mashonaland East.Alt...Published: 09 Dec 2022 at 17:55hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere appealed to Mnangagwa over return from exile
Exiled former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere bristled on Monday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa's spokesman claimed he had "appealed" to be allowed to return.George Charamba...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 19:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 2023 re-election bid causes jitters
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is pulling all stops to win a second full term in next year's elections amid fears that some of his initiatives will leave the economy in ruin.Mnangagwa's governme...Published: 30 May 2022 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cancelling CCC congress will not only 'keep infiltrators stewing' but citizens and democracy itself too
"KEEP THEM GUESSING & TOSSING, STEWING & ROASTING! THROW THEM OFF-BALANCE … Remember they infiltrate, manipulate and capture using 4 things ..1.Structures 2. internal Processes 3. Law-fare 4...Published: 21 May 2022 at 16:10hrs | 6 | by Wilbert Mukori
Hyperinflation headache for accountants
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) last week cast doubts over the validity of financial statements, citing hyperinflation and exchange rate volatilities.It has been a re...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 07:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CCZ slams 'record breaking' super-profits in sea of poverty
THE Consumer Council of Zimbabwe (CCZ) yesterday slammed business for abetting hardships, saying a significant number of firms accessing cheap foreign currency at the auction market were indexing pric...Published: 17 Feb 2022 at 05:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Petrol getting too expensive in SA
Oil running to nearly US$90 per barrel has pushed fuel prices sharply higher, and the trajectory looks set to continue.The increase in the petrol price of 53 cents a litre and that of diesel o...Published: 07 Feb 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reserve Bank panics as exchange rates spiral
MONETARY authorities revised annual inflation targets upwards on Monday before lining up a sea of fresh policy proposals to government, as they scurried to stem a "worrisome" surge in parallel market ...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cost of living hits $40 680
THE cost of living for a family of six surged by 13,4% to $40 680 this month, from $35 877 in April following relentless price hikes stemming from currency volatilities and market jitters triggered by...Published: 21 Jun 2021 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
IMF rules out Zimbabwe bailout
Fund International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Wednesday said it would not move an inch from its position that Zimbabwe did not qualify for financial bailouts even after clearing its debts to the global le...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 07:24hrs | | 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 | | by Staff reporter
PPC rebounds after pandemic setback
PPC Zimbabwe, the country's biggest cement maker, said on Friday it had posted strong first quarter recoveries as the Covid-19 scourge appeared to be under control, with abandoned projects now back on...Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition worried about recurrence of Mugabe era barbarities
THE imminent return of the national youth service training programme has triggered jitters among many in the opposition who have bad memories of the project's cadets.The programme's recruits w...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
RBZ projects inflation fall
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) yesterday forecast annual inflation to plummet to less than 10% this year, driven by a good agricultural season, fiscal and financial sector stability.Zimbab...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
'RBZ keeps black market guessing over $50 note'
ZIMBABWE'S markets are struggling to work out the full impact of a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) move to inject a $50 note, which it sees as vital for stemming a dire liquidity crunch, according to r...Published: 22 Jan 2021 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mwonzora 'backtracks' on new purge?
A letter purportedly signed by disputed MDC-T secretary general Douglass Mwonzora notifying the Minister of Local government, Public Works and National Housing of the recall of 87 MDC Alliance council...Published: 14 Nov 2020 at 21:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
De-listing wave hits ZSE
FIVE counters have announced plans to de-list from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), precipitating fears that a new forex-denominated bourse planned for Victoria Falls could ground one of Africa's ol...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 07:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimplats sinks US$200m in Zimbabwe
AUSTRALIAN Stock Exchange-listed resources giant Zimplats is scouring Zimbabwean landscapes to unlock fresh opportunities, possibly bolstered by fresh policies giving foreign investors the right to ho...Published: 12 Oct 2020 at 06:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
PHOTO: Zimparks fails to catch large python at Zinwa offices
Zimparks only managed to catch the smaller of the two pythons spotted at Zinwa officesThe Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Authority (Zimparks) was recently called to catch two large pythons spotted at...Published: 18 May 2019 at 10:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Re-dollarisation of economy: Wrong turn for Zimbabwe
There is an effervescence in the economy – an imperceptible but definite shift towards re- dollarisation of the economy.Initially a trickle, this will soon turn into a mighty tide in one dir...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | | by Joseph Mverecha
Mugabe law haunts Zimbabwe
Terrence Mkhwananzi feels trapped and unsafe in what is now regarded as the new Zimbabwe.Bailed out from remand prison, the 32-year-old activist makes weekly visits to the police station while...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 10:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Panic as military chopper lands in Jerera
People at Jerera growth point and surrounding areas were thrown into jitters last Thursday after an army helicopter landed twice in the area.Various leaders in Zaka confirmed that there was an...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 10:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dembare outclass Bulawayo City
Dynamos 4 - 3 Bulawayo CityDYNAMOS were in party mood again yesterday after they overcame their defensive jitters to record their fifth successive win in this high-scoring Castle Lager Premi...Published: 26 Jun 2017 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
New salary model for Zimbabwean civil servants
THE Government has introduced a new civil servants remuneration system that will see teachers, nurses and other health workers being paid or allocated resources through their specific programmes and s...Published: 18 Jun 2017 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Warriors dismiss Liberia
Zimbabwe 3 - 0 LiberiaKNOWLEDGE Musona has played many memorable games for his country but his performance yesterday is likely to leave a lasting impression on the minds of many Zimbabweans after ...Published: 12 Jun 2017 at 07:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Election already in Zanu-PF's bag'
PRESIDENT Mugabe's Youth Interface Rallies in the country's 10 provinces, which started in Mashonaland East with a bumper crowd two weeks ago, will serve to confirm Zanu-PF and its leader's victory in...Published: 11 Jun 2017 at 11:03hrs | | by Tinomuda Chakanyuka
Ghost of 2008 spooks Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe's savagely-contested succession - as well as the recent concrete moves by the country's resurgent opposition to work together ahead of the eagerly-anticipated 2018 nati...Published: 23 Apr 2017 at 14:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-SA special permit holders edgy
BULAWAYO - Zimbabwe Special Permit (ZSP) holders are nervous about their future in South Africa as it remains unclear whether Pretoria would renew their documents, which expired at the end of Dece...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bond note jitters and investor fears hits the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange
A nosedive in turnover on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) as well as apprehension over the introduction of local bond notes next month are worsening investor apprehension and denting confidence ...Published: 06 Sep 2016 at 18:44hrs | 3 | by Online
Jitters as shutdown leader locked up
Zimbabwe is expected to shut down again today and tomorrow in protest against President Robert Mugabe's ruinous policies, but the police have descended heavily on the strike's supposed leader, cle...Published: 13 Jul 2016 at 08:43hrs | | by Staf reporter
BCC dep mayor in deep trouble, 'begs' Kasukuwere for mercy
Bulawayo Deputy mayor Gift Banda, who stand accused of being a land baron in the city is allegedly begging Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere for 'leniency'.Banda, a MDC-T Bulawayo p...Published: 19 May 2016 at 10:25hrs | | by Mbuso Nxumalo
Mnangagwa begs Mugabe
Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is apparently taking serious strain from the post-congress Zanu-PF's worsening and seemingly-unstoppable factional and succession wars.Well-placed s...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe is an intellectual novice
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe may have proven she is an intellectual novice in matters political with her knee-jerk and furious pronouncements over the importation of foreign products during a rally in Mure...Published: 06 Dec 2015 at 09:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
State media parrots Grace Mugabe's shameful lie
That former Vice President Joice Mujuru has rattled the cage of the warring post-congress Zanu-PF, after she dramatically and unexpectedly announced her re-entry into formal national politics last Mon...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 20:52hrs | | by Staff writer
Zanu-PF demise is nigh
Battered and deeply polarised, Zimbabwe's ruling party, Zanu-PF, triumphantly continues to rule the roost. However, all signs seem clearer than before that the centre is no longer holding and the par...Published: 28 Jan 2015 at 16:56hrs | | by Grace Kwinjeh
Mugabe's threats damaging
ALTHOUGH President Robert Mugabe has cemented his reputation for empty rhetoric following his speeches about weeding out corruption and getting rid of so-called "weevils" within his ruling Zanu-PF pa...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 09:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Amai Jukwa' charged with plotting insurgency and terrorism
The editor of the Sunday Mail, Edmund Kudzayi, spent the night in police custody, with little information coming out from the authorities about his incarceration. He was arrested when he handed hi...Published: 20 Jun 2014 at 18:37hrs | | by Tichaona Sibanda
Zanu-PF war escalates
ZANU-PF factions, individuals and interest groups within the party have started positioning themselves for the December elective congress amid indications that the battle for Central Committee positio...Published: 12 Jan 2014 at 22:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
US shutdown looms as Congress hits a stalemate
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Congress, still in partisan deadlock on Monday over Republican efforts to halt President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, was on the verge of shutting down most of the U...Published: 30 Sep 2013 at 19:40hrs | | by Reuters
Panic withdrawal hit Zimbabwe banking sector
The banking sector has reportedly been hit by panic withdrawals. Sources said anxiety had gripped the public following uncertainty surrounding the outcome of the just-ended general elections. ...Published: 07 Aug 2013 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
PM Tsvangirai's speech on the overall conference theme of "Peace, Security and Human Development" at the World Summit
To our hosts, the co-founder of the Universal Peace Federation, Dr. Mrs. Hak Ja Han Moon The Chairman of UPF-International, Dr Hyung Jin Moon The ...Published: 25 Feb 2013 at 13:56hrs | | by Ndou Paul
Mugabe to face a united MDC - report
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is preparing to face a united Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in forthcoming elections - despite seemingly unbridgeable differences between the leaders of the former oppos...Published: 18 Feb 2013 at 04:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
7 life-changing foods
Seven foods to enhance your success in lifeThroughout your lifetime you will probably encounter many life-changing events and make-or-break opportunities, and preparing for these moments ...Published: 27 Jul 2012 at 09:46hrs | 4 | by RealBuzz.com
Mugabe's party wants the army to campaign for it in the coming elections
The Daily News on Saturday reported that President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party wants the army to campaign for it in the forthcoming elections, in a situation that has sent serious jitters among Zim...Published: 16 Jun 2012 at 09:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fails to attract FDI inflows
ZIMBABWE continues to wobble in attracting Foreign Direct Investment, drawing in a mere US$250 million against US$55 billion that went into African economies last year, according to a research report....Published: 20 Mar 2012 at 21:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
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