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Are Zimbabwe economic growth rates real?

Every year, the Zimbabwean government and multilateral financial institutions project that the economy will grow by huge margins, yet the current economic situation does not meaningfully change, and if it does at all, it is marginal and ne…

Published: 21 Aug 2025 at 13:08hrs | 292 | by Delani Mangena

Govt workers stage a flash protest at Mthuli Ncube's office

Civil servants staged a flash protest yesterday at the New Government Complex before marching to the offices of the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion in Harare, pressing Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube to pri…

Published: 15 Jul 2025 at 08:20hrs | 696 | by Staff reporter

Treasury launches last-ditch push to stabilise Zimbabwe economy

Zimbabwe's Treasury has embarked on a last-ditch effort to stabilise the country's fragile economy, amid growing fears that policy inconsistency, inflation, and currency volatility could derail industrial recovery and drive businesses into…

Published: 22 May 2025 at 11:33hrs | 623 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube's 2025 Budget to increase cost of doing business

Leading retailer OK Zimbabwe has expressed concern that the 2025 National Budget, as outlined by Finance Minister Prof Mthuli Ncube, will increase business costs, further exacerbating an already challenging operating environment.The budget…

Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:12hrs | 581 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's 'pizza budget' proves economy on the verge of collapse

Zimbabwe's 'pizza budget,' presented two days ago by Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube as the 2025 National Budget Proposal, is a stark illustration of an economy on the verge of collapse. Among the many proposals, the announcement o…

Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 19:01hrs | 557 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Bulawayo City Councilors complain about Dr Mthuli Ncube's road rehabilitation project, is unconscionable to him

In my view, those councilors in Bulawayo who are opposing Dr Mthuli's road rehabilitation programme, are wrong to blame him for that.To have progress in the development of our country, all people have to work together and put aside their p…

Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:24hrs | 2 | by Njabulo

Parly summons Mthuli Ncube

PARLIAMENTARIANS have summoned Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to explain what measures he was implementing to tame inflation and stabilise the free-falling Zimdollar.The local currency, reintroduced in 2019, has been on a free-fall, pushing…

Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF heavyweights displace settlers

A Zanu-PF MP, a top government official and a business mogul with links to the ruling party are accused of displacing villagers at two farms in Chegutu under controversial circumstances.One of the victims, a 66 year old woman, is said to h…

Published: 25 Dec 2022 at 14:15hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube adds impetus to Nust projects

GOVERNMENT is placing special attention on construction works at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) as it is poised to be a bedrock of the country's industrialisation and mordenisation, which has seen it receiving the…

Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt draws down US$311m from IMF kitty

ZIMBABWE has drawn down US$311 million from the US$958 million it was allocated under extra Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund in August last year, an automatic allocation along with the rest of the IMF membership.Th…

Published: 14 Nov 2022 at 05:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube sued 120 times over unpopular policies

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube says he has been sued over 120 times over his unpopular economic measures.Since becoming the Treasury boss in September 2018, Ncube has implemented several controversial decisions mostly related to currency. O…

Published: 05 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mthuli Ncube told to come clean on IMF funds

FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has been told to come clean on the utilisation and disbursement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Special Drawing Rights (SDR) funds.The Budget and Finance Portfolio Committee chairperson, Matthew Nyash…

Published: 22 Aug 2022 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

High Court scraps Mthuli Ncube's 2020 taxes on fuel

The High Court has refused to endorse a new carbon tax on fuel and the redemption levy of the National Oil Company of Zimbabwe imposed two years ago on the grounds that these could not be levied by executive action through a statutory inst…

Published: 04 May 2022 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Zimbabwe yet to discover real exchange rate'

Faced by persistent macro â€“ economic instability from parallel market exchange rate volatility, Zimbabwe introduced the foreign currency auction system in June 2020.Authorities were convinced the auction system would facilitate and exped…

Published: 13 Mar 2022 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

US$ as deity in Zimbabwe

THE Zimbabwean government recently did the unfathomable, at least according to social media pundits, some civil society organisations, unions and influential urbanites. It arbitrarily and abruptly re-introduced a local currency for all dom…

Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Takura Zhangazha

Mnangagwa, Mthuli Ncube must 'unscramble the egg and go back to the basics'

I THOUGHT we had seen everything that this country of ours could throw at us, but the situation right now looks like nothing we have seen before.Prices have quadrupled and continue to rise inexorably. Incomes remain fixed or at least only …

Published: 21 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross

Please Mthuli, tax these bastards!

"The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; may the name of the Lord be praised."Hallelujah!A story is often told of how Charles Mungoshi was once invited for a book reading of his Shona novel "Makunun'unu Maodzamoyo" at Rakodzi High Schoo…

Published: 24 Feb 2019 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Bishop Lazarus

Quick austerity measures to avert imminent economic collapse

Austerity is described as sternness, severity of manner or attitude. In other manner it is described difficult economic conditions created by the Government measures to reduce public expenditure. The question lies then is, those measures w…

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 20:27hrs | 5 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo

Mnangagwa has unveiled beacons of hope

The Second Republic under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has unveiled beacons of hope which, if not sabotaged by indolent or mischievous workers put in office by God to help rule this country, will go a long way in healing ills that bedevil …

Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:26hrs | 5 | by Stephen Mpofu

Mthuli Ncube sweats over funding

NEWLY-MINTED Finance minister Mthuli Ncube this week set sail for the United States, together with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for the United Nations General Assembly in New York where he will engage potential funders and investors on th…

Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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