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The soft peg and local economic stability
Zimbabwe introduced the Dutch inspired foreign exchange auction system on the 23th of June to replace the fixed exchange rate (hard peg) of US$1: ZW$25 that had been in existence since 26 March 2020. ...Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 20:58hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Denials of a crisis don't wash it away
ZIMBABWE is in crisis. Daily power cuts have returned, long fuel queues have refused to disappear while the country is facing what the United Nations has called its "worst ever hunger crisis". The pol...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet panics
Zimbabwe's thermal power stations may soon fail to feed onto the national electricity grid after coal suppliers warned their stockpile lasts for 12 days, plunging the country into colossal power crisi...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ministerial taskforce for fuel, electricity crises
Government has set up an inter-ministerial taskforce to deal with the fuel and energy crises which have seen most companies closing shop and production declining.Addressing a post Cabinet Pres...Published: 25 Jul 2019 at 08:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Load shedding and the long fuel queues
Zimbabwe has been gripped by the shortage of food stuffs unprecedented price hikes of two hundred percent and fuel drought. Each and every Zimbabwean feels the sharp impact of the economic chaos and s...Published: 20 May 2019 at 10:57hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zimbabwe fuel crisis could get worse, warns Mnangagwa ally
Long fuel queues formed around Zimbabwe on Monday, on the same day that the Energy Minister Joram Gumbo warned it might get worse.Zimbabwe's problem is simple: Trafigura and Glencore have mil...Published: 07 May 2019 at 06:12hrs | 6 | by ZimLive
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reaches out to Mnangagwa
IN A positive development, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has dropped most of the demands that he had set as fundamental conditions for him to have direct talks with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, th...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 15:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Long fuel queues resurface...frustrate citizens
Long fuel queues have resurfaced all over the country and have irked citizens who have to stop their productive lives and spend the time queuing for the precious liquid. Zimbabweans have taken...Published: 06 Apr 2019 at 17:57hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bio-fuel projects remain redundant
The long fuel queues being experienced across the country coupled with shortages of critical energy needs like electricity indicate mammoth challenges facing Zimbabwe, despite the abundance of alterna...Published: 05 Mar 2019 at 07:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe fuel queues ease after prices rise
Long fuel queues were once among the most common sights on Zimbabwe's busy streets, but the snaking lines of cars waiting to refuel have disappeared in the past week following a 150 percent price hike...Published: 28 Jan 2019 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zupco partners private players on urban routes
STATE-OWNED bus operator, Zupco has partnered with private public transport operators in a mass transportation exercise to ease urban transport woes, which spiked last week following a massive hike of...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:23hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC meets over economic crisis
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC will this week meet to discuss the way forward on how to put more pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to solve the current economic crisis.MDC spokesperson Jaco...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 22:22hrs | 1 | by Staff repoirter
Zanu-PF youth leader targets Chamisa
With a few days to go into the new year, the omens don't look good politically in 2019, following the Zanu-PF youth league's ominous threats this week against the country's opposition forces, the Dail...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa ramps up Mnangagwa pressure
HARARE - Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa is ratcheting up the pressure on President Emmerson Mnangagwa in a bid to energise the frustratingly slow tempo of the much-talked about national dialogue mea...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 19:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Unequal marriage triggered Mugabe’s fall'
ZANU-PF national chair Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has chided elderly male politicians who targeted ambitious young women for marriage and warned that they risked having their political careers derailed....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Long fuel queues blamed on panic buying
Fuel service stations are getting the normal supplies of a combined eight million litres daily but panic buying by motorists in anticipation of price increases and the festive season has resulted in l...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's first 50 days: Zimbabwe sinks deeper into abyss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this week completed 50 days in office, but in that short stint, the negatives have so far outweighed the positives amid indications he faces a herculean task in his bid to...Published: 19 Oct 2018 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Fuel situation steadily improving in Zimbabwe'
Energy and Power Development minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said the fuel situation in the country was "steadily improving", although the start of the agriculture season presented a challenge as deman...Published: 18 Oct 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Is it 2008 all over again for Zimbabweans?
Even though government is claiming to be on top of the situation, Zimbabweans are panicking because events from the past few weeks have an eerie similarity to what happened in 2008 when the country tu...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 07:10hrs | 4 | by Cecilia Kamputa
Bread, transport fares up
The price of bread has gone up while transport fares have also moved northwards, a clearest sign of increased economic turmoil coming on the back of recent monetary and fiscal policy measures....Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Long fuel queues resurface
Long fuel queues resurfaced in Harare and other parts of the country yesterday as most service stations went dry, with many motorists resorting to panic buying.Motorists queue for fuel at a se...Published: 19 Sep 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Beer, soft drinks shortage looms this festive season
HARARE - The good cheer that normally comes with the festive season risks being dampened by shortages of beer and soft drinks because of serious constraints in the supply chain, the Daily News reporte...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 17:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe in crisis!
In a shocking move, police yesterday arrested outspoken cleric Evan Mawarire as he conducted a church service - fuelling fears that authorities are now in full panic mode over the country's collapsing...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 11:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now back to 2008 doom
Experts have issued a fresh warning that the country is now a touch away from an economic disaster similar to the meltdown of 2008 when local inflation hit world record levels and supermarket shelves ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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