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3 Zimbabweans shortlisted for World Remit-Arsenal coaching programme
UNITED Kingdom: Three of the 25 shortlisted applicants for the WorldRemit Future Stars soccer coaching programme are from Zimbabwe, it has emerged.The Future Stars programme was launched in Au...Published: 25 Sep 2018 at 08:46hrs | 701 | by Agencies
Mthuli Ncube gets shock reality check
NEWLY-appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube - who arrived in the country from Switzerland early this week amid a populist storm and blaze of publicity on how to fix Zimbabwe's critically broken econ...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:27hrs | 13088 | by Staff reporter
Govt goes after businesses as cash crisis gnaws
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has threatened to go after businesses that do not bank cash proceeds as well as financial institutions that allegedly channel cash into the informal sect...Published: 06 Sep 2018 at 07:02hrs | 2121 | by Staff reporter
Schools urged to embrace mobile cash
GOVERNMENT has instructed schools to open mobile money accounts and create more options for parents to pay school fees besides cash and bank transfers. A snap survey in Mutare yesterday showed...Published: 05 Sep 2018 at 06:34hrs | 144 | by Staff reporter
Express Links International Statement on Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase
Statement Express Links International Limited (www.expresslinksintl.com) are, honoured and delighted to be...Published: 01 Sep 2018 at 11:41hrs | 533 | by Agencies
Express Links International announced as Zim Fashion Showcase headline sponsor
Money transmittance company, Express Links International Limited are this year's headline sponsor for popular clothing tradeshow, Zimbabwe Fashion Showcase, the organisation announced early on Friday....Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 07:05hrs | 488 | by Tidi Kwidini
ZB Bank trade profitability continues
ZIMBABWE'S ZB Bank, continues to trade profitably and is ahead of its year-to-date budget projections, group chief executive officer Ronald Mutandagayi has said.Ron MutandagayiAddressing deleg...Published: 06 Aug 2018 at 07:26hrs | 244 | by Staff reporter
Too poor for periods, Zimbabwe's girls rely on rags
When her monthly period comes, 17-year-old Maria Chaodza dismantles a home-made pillowcase and picks out pieces of its worn stuffing – an old, cloth rug – which she uses in place of the sanitary p...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 07:42hrs | 335 | by Reuters
MDC Alliance candidate in stands scandal
MDC Alliance's council candidate for ward 3 in Gwanda has been named in a scandal involving the illegal sale of repossessed housing stands in the Matabeleland South capital.The alleged scam wa...Published: 18 Jul 2018 at 06:39hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga embraces Chamisa's 'spaghetti roads'
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga yesterday unwittingly embraced MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa's "spaghetti roads" idea saying they were the only viable solution to the country'...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 14:50hrs | 895 | by Staff reporter
Cash crisis, blackmarket rates cripple economy
FEWSNET says the macroeconomic environment remains stressed due to cash shortages and high parallel market rates.Uncertainty around the upcoming elections has caused the parallel market rates ...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 07:54hrs | 825 | by Staff rpeorter
How Robert Mugabe is buying your vote
There are a few certainties in life. Firstly, and unfortunately, money talks.Secondly, Robert and Grace Mugabe need to be in positions of power at all cost, and will do almost anything to reta...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 11:37hrs | 8519 | by Mike Tawanda
Ecocash causes stir in Zimbabwe as customers cry foul of being swindled of their money
The Econet mode of money transfer, Ecocash has caused a stir in Zimbabwe since Monday as many users of the mode of transfer complain that they are failing to buy goods using it.Some complained...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:46hrs | 4308 | by Stephen Jakes
EcoCash glitches leave thousands stranded
THOUSANDS of Econet customers have been stranded in recent days as the popular EcoCash mobile money transfer platform has been misfiring.Subscribers have been struggling to make payments via E...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:17hrs | 465 | by Staff rpeorter
Prices of basic goods shoot up
Prices of basic consumer goods have gone up sharply over the past few weeks, on the back of worsening foreign currency shortages in the country.At the same time, experts warn that the price in...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:02hrs | 1442 | by Staff reporter
Lawyer nabbed over $64 000 fraud
HARARE lawyer, Auther Roy Mabhena, appeared in court yesterday facing fraud allegations after he duped home seekers of $64 315 in botched land deals.Mabhena of T Kadhau and Associates was not ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:33hrs | 438 | by Staff reporter
US dollar black market rate soars
A crazed pre-election demand for the United States dollar has pushed the black market premium to an all-time high as shortages of foreign exchange fuels a roaring currency black market now driving up ...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 16:11hrs | 5700 | by Staff reporter
Senditoo to give away another £1000 and return ticket to Zimbabwe
Fintech Company, Senditoo has announced that it is running another competition, where one lucky winner will walk away with a return ticket to Zimbabwe and £1000 to splash.Launched in March 20...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:15hrs | 689 | by Tidi Kwidini
EcoCash deliver real-time mobile digital payments between Botswana and Zim
Orange Money Botswana and EcoCash earlier this year launched a partnership to enable better and more affordable access to digital money transfers between Zimbabwe and Botswana.The service now ...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 19:57hrs | 354 | by Staff reporter
'It's time to clear MDC-T rot,' says Chiwenga
It is now time to clear the rot perpetrated by MDC-T councils in cities and towns and President Mnangagwa's administration will not evict residents duped and illegally settled by land barons before Go...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:24hrs | 655 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga puts land barons on notice
It is now time to clear the rot perpetrated by MDC-T councils in cities and towns and President Mnangagwa's administration will not evict residents duped and illegally settled by land barons before Go...Published: 14 Jun 2018 at 07:16hrs | 314 | by Staff reporter
DStv should stop abusing its customers, or get out of Zimbabwe!
Digital television satellite service provider, DStv - which is operated by MultiChoice Zimbabwe - has had a pride of place in Zimbabweans' homes for a long time, and had always been regarded as an alt...Published: 13 Jun 2018 at 08:23hrs | 4301 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
NMB Bank partners World Remit, Small World
NMB Bank has partnered with global money transfer agents World Remit and Small World Financial Services to provide further options for Zimbabweans wanting to receive money from other countries....Published: 01 Jun 2018 at 14:18hrs | 390 | by Agencies
Nominations now open for Zim Achievers USA third edition
The US edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards has returned for its third year,with organisers announcing that nominations are now open.Nominations opened across 15 categories on 21 May and t...Published: 31 May 2018 at 11:23hrs | 554 | by Tidi Kwidini
Schools defy Govt on mobile money transfers
SOME schools in Mutare are resisting fees payments through mobile money transfers despite a directive by the parent ministry that they acquire merchant codes and cushion parents from the cash crisis, ...Published: 11 May 2018 at 07:11hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
Econet gets broadcasting licence
GOVERNMENT has awarded Econet Media a broadcasting licence allowing the giant telecoms firm to offer web casting, content distribution and video on demand services."Take notice that Econet med...Published: 04 May 2018 at 07:21hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Soldier in court over Mugabe laptops
A SENIOR member of the Presidential Guard allegedly broke into Zimbabwe House early this month and stole over 119 computers and accessories belonging to former President Robert Mugabe.Corporal...Published: 17 Apr 2018 at 07:22hrs | 787 | by Staff reporter
Telcos, banks profit from cash shortages
When Kenya initiated the mobile money revolution through M-Pesa a decade ago, few gave it a chance of success.But then it did succeed, and phenomenally so.Spurred on by that success, S...Published: 16 Apr 2018 at 08:32hrs | 1071 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings the money
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's amnesty for illegal externalisation of money has shored up Zimbabwe's foreign currency reserves – and has also exposed the impunity with which companies and individual...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 07:08hrs | 16352 | by Staff reporter
Firm smuggles $25M cash across border
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's amnesty for illegal externalisation of money has shored up Zimbabwe's foreign currency reserves - and has also exposed the impunity with which companies and individuals ...Published: 01 Apr 2018 at 08:27hrs | 2863 | by Staff Reporter
Presidential guards rob NGO of $21 000
THREE members of the Presidential Guard and a civilian teamed up and allegedly robbed a non-governmental organisation of $21 000.Ekem Zvomuya (34), Nabal Prosper Moyo (24) and Innocent Mutimut...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 08:20hrs | 2045 | by Staff reporter
'Soldiers' rob NGO $21 000
A 21-YEAR-OLD woman appeared at the Harare Magistrates' Court yesterday facing robbery allegations after she and her three accomplices, who are still at large, pounced on a local non-governmental orga...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:29hrs | 378 | by Staff reporter
Churches externalise cash from Zimbabwe
PROMINENT churches - among them the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Zaoga and United Methodist Church - have been named among organisations that have externalised large sums of money from Zimbabwe in re...Published: 25 Mar 2018 at 08:48hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
US dollar floods market as farm workers get paid in cash
FOREIGN currency dealers in Marondera are feasting on the United States dollar that has flooded the market as more than 1 500 workers at the country's leading horticulture farms are now being paid in ...Published: 24 Mar 2018 at 10:18hrs | 2961 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'looters' pushed into defence corner
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Monday released a list of business entities and individuals alleged to have "externalised funds" and may have inadvertently given the foreigners on that list a plausibl...Published: 21 Mar 2018 at 05:52hrs | 865 | by Staff reporter
Fake VID official defrauds teachers of $880
A MUTARE man who masqueraded as a Vehicle Inspection Department (VID) official and duped four Rusape teachers about $880 via Ecocash mobile money transfer has been arrested and arraigned before the co...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 06:08hrs | 301 | by Staff reporter
Going Digital- Removing the hassle out of school fees payments in Zimbabwe
Cash is a crisis in Zimbabwe. Depending on where you stand on the digital financial inclusion discussion, this could be a great opportunity or a great inconvenience. One thing that canno...Published: 07 Mar 2018 at 07:18hrs | 455 | by Agencies
ZimAchievers South Africa unveil 2018 finalists
Roll out the red carpet, the nominees for the 2018 South African edition of the Zimbabwe Achievers Awards have been announced. Organisers of the high profile event announced over 60 nominees a...Published: 01 Mar 2018 at 07:48hrs | 1108 | by Tidi Kwidini
Econet creates 60 000 jobs
ZIMBABWE largest telecommunications company, Econet Wireless, says it has paid $1.3 billion to Government in taxes since 2009 and created over 60 000 jobs directly and indirectly in the economy throug...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:55hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
'Zacc cops' kidnap RDC boss, demand ransom
FOUR former police officers posed as Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) investigators and allegedly kidnapped Mutoko Rural District Council chief executive officer, Peter Sigauke, accusing him...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 05:39hrs | 250 | by Staff reporter
Mobile network operators directed to tackle money transfer hiccups
GOVERNMENT has directed mobile network operators to integrate services and facilitate interoperability of mobile money in line with the country's financial inclusion strategy.In view of the pe...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 08:00hrs | 604 | by Staff reporter
Land dispute turns nasty
A dispute over land, in Harare's high density suburb of Budiriro 4, has degenerated into a nasty battle between apostolic sect members, leading to one being dragged to court over rape.Herbert ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 10:31hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe keeps Zim1 Mercedes-Benz limo
FORMER president Robert Mugabe has been given the iconic Mercedes-Benz S600 Pullman Guard limousine he was using for official duties as part of his exit package following his dramatic ouster last Nove...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 16:01hrs | 6872 | by Staff reporter
Econet dismisses social media reports on EcoCash
ECONET Wireless has dismissed social media claims regarding the security around EcoCash transactions after allegations that people can easily manipulate the system went viral.In some of the me...Published: 02 Feb 2018 at 05:57hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
StanChart riles depositors over Ecocash
STANDARD Chartered Bank has riled its depositors after taking long to integrate its system with Ecocash, to enable them to transact with others who do not have formal bank accounts.Ecocash is ...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 05:24hrs | 1310 | by Staff reporter
Banks scrap tax on transactions below $10
GOVERNMENT has, with immediate effect, directed banks not to levy 5 percent tax on all transactions below $10 as a way of promoting financial inclusion. This comes as Government moves to provide safet...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 06:04hrs | 1284 | by Staff reporter
CABS, ZymPay in Diaspora mortgage deal
HARARE - Cross border bill payment business ZymPay has entered in a strategic partnership with Central Africa Building Society (CABS) in Zimbabwe to facilitate payments from their Diaspora mortgage cu...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 11:48hrs | 2140 | by Staff Reporter
Illegal cash traders in Zimbabwe - An economic analysis with Tryson Dube
In this crippled economy of Zimbabwe that is barely surviving. 'A lot' of people depend on the informal sector. Many of these people are living with income below the poverty datum line; 'plastic money...Published: 20 Dec 2017 at 05:42hrs | 2126 | by Tryson G. Dube
A cashless solution for Zim's crippling cash-crisis
Thousands of Zimbabweans are celebrating the resignation of Mugabe and renewed hope can be seen everywhere. Unfortunately, the overnight departure of a dictator doesn't extend to the crippling legacy ...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 08:22hrs | 1825 | by Brian Richardson, CEO of WIZZIT International
'Measures being taken to address cash shortages'
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said Government is working on a raft of measures aimed at improving the availability of cash in the country's banking system.Pre...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 05:20hrs | 2754 | by Staff reporter
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