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RBZ tightens rules for currency exchanges with immediate effect
Zimbabwe's central bank has tightened the rules governing the trade of foreign currency by money exchange offices with immediate effect.The rates offered by exchange offices must be 7% above o...Published: 3 hrs ago | 2261 | by Bloomberg
'Mthuli Ncube a complete failure'
KAMBUZUMA legislator Willias Madzimure (MDC Alliance) on Thursday described Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as a complete failure, claiming Members of Parliament have managed to "put him where he belong...Published: 3 hrs ago | 831 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Ncube speaks on criminals around Mnangagwa
Member of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Presidential Advisory Council Trevor Ncube has suggested that the criminals around President Mnangagwa are the ones who were involved in the increase black mar...Published: 10 hrs ago | 8277 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe exchange rate Armageddon near
THE Monetary Policy Statement (MPS) released last Friday supplied data which when analysed show that unless drastic measures are taken, our local currency will take a heavy battering in the coming wee...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3367 | by Brett Chulu
Mthuli Ncube should learn a lesson
EVEN though High Court judge Justice Happius Zhou's ruling this week that the 2% intermediated transaction tax imposed by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube under a statutory instrument (SI) last year was ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 2522 | by Editorial - The Independent
Chief attacks Zimbabwe army for abusing 'illegal immigrants'
Chief Sengwe has dismissed accusations that he is working with soldiers and police officers to exploit vulnerable illegal immigrants, and has blamed government for failing to stop what he called were ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 720 | by Staff reporter
7 Chinese 'felons' flee Zimbabwe
SEVEN Chinese nationals facing charges of money laundering and illegal possession of more than 20kg of rhino horn pieces with an estimated street value of about $1 million are feared to have fled the ...Published: 13 hrs ago | 717 | by Staff reporter
Masiyiwa-Chamisa fired
ZINARA has fired its suspended chief executive officer Engineer Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa and finance director Mr Simon Taranhike for gross incompetence and abuse of office, our Harare Bureau can reveal....Published: 13 hrs ago | 497 | by Staff reporter
Harare expenditure outstrips income
Beleaguered Harare City Council is collecting between $13 million and $20 million monthly, while spending $12 million on salaries and $8 million on fuel, leaving the council with no money earmarked fo...Published: 13 hrs ago | 100 | by Staff reporter
The rise of online traditional healers
Stories have been told about how people from various parts of the region used to frequent popular late traditional healer Sekuru Ndunge's homestead in Chipinge for various consultations. It is said th...Published: 13 hrs ago | 320 | by Staff reporter
Madzibaba pummels rival in love triangle
A well-known Apostolic Sect leader, Madzibaba Innocent Nyamande (47), of Magwegwe North in Bulawayo has been caught up in a love triangle over a woman that claims to be married to a foreign-based husb...Published: 13 hrs ago | 212 | by Staff reporter
Cradle and creche robbers must be stopped
The little girl (hardly twelve years old) ducked behind the 'gonyeti' giggling rather stupidly. Caught between the shame of being too young for the trade and the desire to parade 'her assets' to attra...Published: 24 hrs ago | 1442 | by Tondorindo
Stop corruption in its tracks
The mobile cash-out agent why are you 'robbing' the poor? Forget about robbing Peter to pay Paul you are stealing from the transacting public. The surrogate parent company offering the service...Published: 24 hrs ago | 746 | by Tondorindo
Mohadi, ex-wife showdown over post-divorce maintenance
A judge has summoned vice president Kembo Mohadi to appear in court on October 4 for a showdown with his ex-wife who is claiming monthly maintenance of US$13,394.Mohadi was expected in court o...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 19:23hrs | 1222 | by ZimLive
Zanu-PF official threatens to expose cash barons
Zanu-PF youth league deputy secretary Lewis Matutu has threatened to expose the name of two prominent individuals behind the spiraling exchange rate betwe...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 16:50hrs | 5077 | by Staff Reporter
When the government chooses to be the third force
The reports by the government that there is a third force operating in Zimbabwe are just fat lies and can be dismissed with all costs.Doctors in Zimbabwe have been going on industrial action f...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 14:59hrs | 1355 | by Leonard Koni
Zesa reports $4bn exchange losses since February
Power utility ZESA Holdings yesterday revealed that it had incurred exchange losses of up to $4 billion since February, when the central bank liberalised the exchange rate.The Reserve Bank of ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:33hrs | 456 | by Staff reporter
'Mbanje licensing cumbersome'
THE country could lose out on the multi-billion dollar global medical cannabis revolution due to cumbersome licensing conditions set by the Ministry of Health and Child Care, an official has said. ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 229 | by Staff reporter
Minister sues bank over US$1,6m student funds
Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Amon Murwira has approached the High Court seeking to recover about US$1 600 000 student funds from Metbank Limi...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 364 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe delayed land reform for SA
FORMER South African President Thabo Mbeki said the late former President Robert Mugabe delayed embarking on the land reform programme to allow successful negotiations between the African National Con...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | 916 | by Staff reporter
Tax free threshold increased
GOVERNMENT has extended a huge lifeline to employees after increasing the tax-free threshold to $3 500 with effect from August 1, 2019, in order to improve disposable incomes in the face of price incr...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:43hrs | 1119 | by Staff reporter
Kamambo to have the last laugh
ZIFA president Felton Kamambo insists he remains the right man to take Zimbabwean football forward and the fierce criticism he has received will only transform him into a better leader of the game. He...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 07:36hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF official jailed for fraud
A ZANU-PF district chairman in Mhangura was recently sentenced to an effective six months in prison after defrauding two people of about US$342 in botched land deals.Harmony Mavesere (40) of T...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:12hrs | 3039 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's 2% tax to stay despite High Court ruling
High Court Judge Justice Happias Zhou yesterday scrapped Statutory Instrument (SI) 205 of 2018, which enabled Government to levy 2 percent tax on electronic money transactions above $10. The t...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 1476 | by Staff reporter
EcoCash suspends 4 000 agents
The country's largest payment platform, EcoCash, has suspended over 4 000 of its agents on allegations of participating in the now rampant trend of charging excessive premiums for customers intending ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 07:49hrs | 1907 | by Staff reporter
'2% tax collection not affected'
The Finance and Economic Development Ministry has issued a statement stating that the High Court judgment suspending the two percent tax on electronic transactions will not affect the collection and l...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 19:42hrs | 3594 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa pisses on the graves of Provincial and District Heroes Acres
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 16:36hrs | 3458 | by Zororo Shumba
BREAKING: High court embarrasses Mthuli Ncube over 2% taX
High Court Judge Justice Zhou has reportedly set aside SI 205/2018 on the 2% transaction tax. The case against the controversial tax was argued by MDC Vice President Tendai Biti. Under...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 10:43hrs | 3424 | by Mandla Ndlovu
In Zimbabwe, surviving means improvising, and some luck
In crisis-stricken Zimbabwe, where prices are soaring, the local dollar is plummeting and time is always short, even a trip to the gas station can be an adventure in the struggle to survive.Fi...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:40hrs | 678 | by AFP
Chamisa $720k richer as Mnangagwa's treasury releases $3.4 million to MDC
TREASURY has released $3,4 million to the opposition MDC under the Political Parties Finance Act.The money was released two weeks ago following months of bickering, with the opposition party a...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:37hrs | 10962 | by Staff reporter
Guvamombe, 'small house' clash at court
There was a near fistfight at the Harare magistrates' Court yesterday when suspended Chief Magistrate Mishrod Guvamombe's alleged mistress demanded US$10 000 she claimed to have paid to lawyers to fac...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1309 | by Staff reporter
Abuse of mobile money platforms symptomatic of a failed currency regime
IT is a good thing that the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Corruption (Zacc) has finally taken interest in the stinking corruption that has been going on through some mobile money platforms on which members...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 346 | by Editorial - Newsday
African Dream boat spurs growth at Kariba Airport
THE Kariba Airport has started witnessing growth in passenger traffic following the launch of the African Dream boat in Kariba Dam in 2017, Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (Caaz) has revealed....Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 08:21hrs | 485 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to deliver SONA
President Mnangagwa will deliver the State of the Nation Address on October 1, the same day he will officially open the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament, Clerk of Parliament Mr Kennedy Chokuda h...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1441 | by Staff reporter
Omega Sibanda ordered to pay $6,750 debt
THE High Court in Bulawayo has ordered the MP for Vungu in the Midlands Province, Omega Sibanda to pay back a personal loan of US$6 750 which he got from a local freelance photographer eight years ago...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:55hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC slams Mnangagwa for spending on 'funny' Mugabe museum
THE MDC Tuesday slammed government for dedicating loads of taxpayers' money to construct a burial shrine for late former President Robert Mugabe.At a party media briefing, MDC secretary for he...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1434 | by newzimbabwe
Man flees undressed from lover's house to hospital
A GOLD panner from Esigodini has been arrested for allegedly beating up his older lover's boyfriend, forcing him to flee undressed to Mpilo Central Hospital to seek medical attention. Ja...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:53hrs | 1068 | by Staff reporter
Gweru to lease mayoral mansion
ABOUT three companies have expressed interest in renting Gweru City Council's mayoral mansion, which had become a white elephant, town clerk Ms Elizabeth Gwatipedza has said. In an interview y...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:50hrs | 98 | by Staff reporter
Trevor Manuel proves that he is a delinquent
Old Mutual chair Trevor Manuel, who proved that he is a delinquent, has apologised for his remark about a judge who delivered a ruling against the company in litigation involving its axed CEO Peter Mo...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 22:08hrs | 2782 | by Staff reporter
Govt pisses on the graves over Mugabe
I was recently at the Harare Provincial Heroes Acre to put flowers on the grave of one of my relatives and what I saw shocked me. There was a half drunk middle aged gentleman casually urinating on the...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 12:24hrs | 4251 | by Zororo Shumba
Tendai Biti led team queries 'rogue' RBZ payments
Parliament yesterday slammed the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) for carrying out quasi fiscal activities outside its mandate and using taxpayers and pensioners' money to fund government activities....Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 11:01hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Harare house burns with US$200 000 inside
The Zimbabwe Republic Police says a Harare house was burnt to ashes with money valued at US$200 000 inside. Posting on Twitter the ZRP account said Police are investigating circumstances surro...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 09:41hrs | 4738 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa, Mugabe T-shirts divide mourners
ZANU-PF factional fights nearly marred former President Robert Mugabe's largely low key funeral wake at Murombedzi Growth Point in Zvimba yesterday as the late leader's followers protested against dis...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:36hrs | 2110 | by Staff reporter
ZBC bosses bail ruling today
HARARE magistrate Vongai Muchuchuti-Guwuriro yesterday said she would today make her bail ruling on two Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation bosses, Patrick Mavhura and Benania Shumba, who stand accused ...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 361 | by Staff reporter
Only 76 Zimbabwean xenophobia victims back home
THE body of a Zimbabwean man who died during the recent xenophobic attacks in South Africa and 76 Zimbabweans affected by the mayhem, were yesterday repatriated back home through Beitbridge.Th...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:35hrs | 685 | by Staff reporter
Zacc pounces on EcoCash agents
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has instituted a major probe into the operations of the country's EcoCash agents who are being accused of fleecing citizens of their money.Zacc s...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:32hrs | 1291 | by Staff reporter
Ndiweni assaults ex-wife over money
A MAN from Inyathi has been fined $100 for beating his ex-wife over US$700 he gave her five years ago when they were still married. Macloud Ndiweni (38) struck Ms Sifiso Sibanda (33) with a st...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1177 | by Staff reporter
Motorists urged to name & shame cash only fuel service stations
MOTORISTS should report to authorities all fuel service stations that refuse swipe and mobile money payments from motorists, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera), said yesterday. Re...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:30hrs | 294 | by Staff reporter
18 more counts for ex-ZBC bosses
FORMER Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive Patrick Mavhura and ex-head finance, administration and human resources manager Benenia Shumba are likely to be charged with 18 more case...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 297 | by Staff reporter
Zvimba bid Mugabe farewell
Scores of people gathered at Murombedzi Business Centre and former President Robert Mugabe's rural home in Zvimba yesterday to bid farewell to the African icon. Speakers described former Presi...Published: 17 Sep 2019 at 08:27hrs | 461 | by Staff reporter
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