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Kasukuwere hints at seeking SADC protection
Presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere on Thursday hinted at seeking SADC protection from vengeful Zimbabwean authorities as he announced a slew of promises to the electorate while launching his am...Published: 23 Jun 2023 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, Zambia collaborate to replenish Kapenta stocks
ZIMBABWE and Zambia are working together in a bid to regulate fishing rigs on the largest water body, Lake Kariba, to try and replenish Kapenta stocks.This comes as a measure to reduce over-fi...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why a Formula One racetrack in Zimbabwe is a pipe dream
It was all a dream for Zimbabwe to have a Formula One racetrack.A dream sold by politicians who argued it could be a major tourist attraction, especially if it was built near the country's pri...Published: 12 Oct 2022 at 19:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Pandemic jump-starts Zimbabwe online retail sales
Kenneth Mudzingwa has worked and studied in Turkey for five and a half years. To help his two siblings with groceries, the Zimbabwean citizen used a money transfer service that sometimes took days....Published: 03 Aug 2021 at 08:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zim students' battle to get internship
NGQABUTHO Mhlophe spends his days at home, burrowing around the internet in search of a marketing internship.A second-year student at the National University of Science and Technology, he need...Published: 25 Jul 2021 at 08:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo businesses must ride on ZITF, exploit regional market opportunities
WITH only a few weeks left before the country hosts the annual Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), Bulawayo once again comes under spotlight, not only as a host to the prime trade showcase, but ...Published: 24 Jun 2021 at 10:11hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Hit and run economics haunting Mthuli Ncube
The prices of basic commodities have gone up and the cost of living is sky rocketing because of this ridiculous Statutory Instrument 127 of 2021 recently introduced by Minister of Finance Dr Mth...Published: 01 Jun 2021 at 07:58hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Covid-19 vaccine to jump-start tourism sector
On January 30, 2020, the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern....Published: 23 Apr 2021 at 20:10hrs | | by Tirivanhu Kateera
African 'Dead Aid' will stop within 5 years: Part Two
In part one I concentrated on Dr. Dambisa's "Dead Aid" book she passionately wrote in 2009 highlighting the need for Africa to shift its focus away from foreign Aid and instead, seeking solutions that...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 10:12hrs | | by Nomazulu Thata
Austerity measures causing more suffering to Zimbabweans
Emmerson Mnangagwa's led government must come clean on the austerity measures implemented by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube.Zimbabwe announced austerity measures to spur the economic ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:47hrs | | by Leonard Koni
Zimbabwe frustrates Chinese investors
ZIMBABWE must improve its business environment if it is to receive any meaningful investment from China, a senior diplomat has said.Following years of condemnation by international financiers ...Published: 26 May 2019 at 13:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA sets tough terms on US$1.2bn Zimbabwe loan request
Zimbabwe's debt-ridden government is in a dilemma after South Africa asked her northern neighbour to securitise mineral proceeds in exchange for a US$1,2 billion (R17billion) bailout package, it...Published: 16 May 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Harare should not expect bailout from Ramaphosa
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa arrives in the country today to co-chair the Bi-National Commission (BNC) with President Emmerson Mnangagwa whose administration is desperate for a cash injecti...Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa on his own after UK ditches him
BRITAIN, Zimbabwe's only most promising ally in its quest to re-join the Commonwealth and pay arrears to international financial institutions says it will not be supporting Harare following the brutal...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Editorial - Newsday
Mnangagwa's choreographed plan to carve out his image as a reformer up in smoke
When Emmerson Mnangagwa took over the leadership of Zanu-PF and became the head of state there was a perfectly choreographed plan to carve out his image as a reformer.He would be presented to ...Published: 27 Jan 2019 at 19:15hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says Zimbabwean must take the pain
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday declared that there is no going back on the raft of economic measures that his government is implementing despite a public outcry and skyrocketing prices, saying...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:01hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Boost for Zimbabwe industry
Government is considering providing credit guarantees for offshore borrowings by private firms seeking funding amid reports local industries require at least $2 billion to retool.Industry and ...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's son-in-law under probe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption unit has reportedly opened investigations into former President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law, Simba Chikore's involvement in the botched ZimAirways deal, N...Published: 17 Sep 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Vice Presidents' appointments failed to jump-start our bedridden economy
I am convinced that ED is not alone to blame for the recent appointments of our two Vice Presidents in Zimbabwe. ZANU PF should shoulder the responsibility and blame (for appointing Vice Presidents wh...Published: 30 Aug 2018 at 22:16hrs | 7 | by Don Chigumba
Mugabe 'had no vision', claims Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly accused his predecessor Robert Mugabe of "stalling investment" that could have "jump-started" the country's economy "over the past decades".Accordin...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 09:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, MDC-T receive $9m
Zanu-PF and the MDC have received about US$9 million under the Political Parties (Finance) Act with the money expected to jump-start the two political parties' campaigns ahead of elections this year....Published: 22 Apr 2018 at 10:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mixed reactions to Mnangagwa's Uhuru speech
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday pledged to urgently address the cash crisis and improve civil servants' working conditions, but remained mum on government's stand-off with striking nurses at pu...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Buyanga offers R1 billion for Zimbabwe's sovereign wealth fund
The African Medallion Group (AMG) says it has mobilised Rand 1 billion worth of gold assets, which can be leveraged to jump-start Zimbabwe's sovereign wealth fund (SWF).This also comes as the ...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai must work with Mnangagwa
Veterans of the country's liberation struggle are making overtures to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa through a yetto-be-tabled arrangement that might result...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudzuri to Replace Tsvangirai, or Who Else?
The opposition party, Movement for Democratic Change (MDCT), has found itself in an ugly quandary yet again. It is a crisis symptomatic of the post - 2013 general election which splintered the MDC and...Published: 17 Jan 2018 at 06:12hrs | | by Raphael Gore
Mnangagwa seeks to reset Chinese ties
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's upcoming State visit to the People's Republic of China will seek to upgrade economic ties with the Asian giant, building on an excellent political relationship.C...Published: 11 Jan 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF hopes for economic turnaround
Less than a month after a military intervention forced longtime leader Robert Mugabe to step down, the new leaders of ruling ZANU-PF party have big plans for Zimbabwe.Retired General Sibusiso ...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff Reporter
No Woman is a sex toy!
TALKING about sex issues is not taboo, get that right, even though it has never been the easiest topic in conservative societies, couples should discuss it for women not to feel like sex toys....Published: 29 Sep 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff writer
Zifa - Warriors war ensues
Only four locally-based players are in camp ahead of the Warriors' weekend fixture against the Comoros in an Africa Nations Championships (CHAN).It is back to a bigger crisis on the footba...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 08:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Cricket OB van impounded
Zimbabwe Cricket's mounting debt problems came to a head on Tuesday afternoon, when the deputy sheriff in Harare impounded its Outside Broadcast van, as well as vehicles used by managing director Wilf...Published: 17 Dec 2014 at 16:35hrs | | by Liam Brickhill
ZIM-ID: The beginning of the end of blank 'bearer's' cheques era in Zimbabwe!
A new era has dawned for all Zimbabweans who belong to any square inch of the beautiful land stretching from Zambezi to Limpopo in the horizons of its politics. The era is of a new democratic disp...Published: 26 Sep 2014 at 07:20hrs | 2 | by ZIM-ID
Zimbabwe pays almost R2 billion to service Chinese loans
Zimbabwe has spent $180m (about R2bn) in unbudgeted expenditure to service outstanding loans from China in an effort to improve relations and encourage new financial support, Finance Minister Patrick ...Published: 10 Sep 2014 at 10:44hrs | | by Reuters
China to help Zimbabwe build economic zones
Harare - China will help Zimbabwe build special economic zones and industrial parks to jump-start exports and a struggling economy, its ambassador to Harare said on Thursday as a Chinese firm starte...Published: 05 Sep 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe China trip a success'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe returns from China today after a week in the Asian nation on a state visit to scrounge for a bail-out to save Zimbabwe's faltering economy from total collapse.After bea...Published: 31 Aug 2014 at 16:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
All eyes on $1 trillion
African agribusiness is set for a huge leap, according to a World Bank report Imagine for a moment the impact of a $1 trillion African agribusiness...Published: 12 Apr 2014 at 06:39hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor and Aissata Haidara
Bulawayo out of emergency contraceptives after sex-fuelled Christmas
BULAWAYO has run out of emergency contraceptives, better known as ‘the morning after' pill after sex-fuelled Christmas and New Year's holidays celebrations, pharmacists warned yesterday....Published: 08 Jan 2014 at 16:18hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Robber attempts to commit suicide in court
THERE was drama at the Marondera Magistrates' Court yesterday when a 24-year-old robber, Michael Ziira, attempted to commit suicide after being slapped with a 10-year-jail term for robbery.Acc...Published: 30 Oct 2013 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Barack Obama to seek opening with Republicans
Washington - US President Barack Obama is hosting top House Republicans on Thursday to seek an opening in an impasse that has shut down much of the government and threatens a catastrophic federal defa...Published: 10 Oct 2013 at 03:06hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe: 'We cannot continue working for the whites'
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe yesterday took a swipe at unproductive new farmers, whom he alleged were using outdated farming techniques.Officially opening the Harare Agricultural Sho...Published: 01 Sep 2013 at 03:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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