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Zimbabwe miners propose royalties linked to metal prices
Zimbabwe's Chamber of Mines has put forward a proposal to the Ministry of Finance suggesting that royalty payments be linked to the market prices of metals, including lithium and platinum group metals...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:27hrs | 100 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, central bank deliver damp squibs
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent State of the Nation Address (Sona) has come under heavy criticism from leading economists, who say it lacked concrete solutions to arrest the nation's spiraling e...Published: 11 Oct 2024 at 18:33hrs | 1321 | by Staff reporter
Maize, mealie meal prices skyrocket
The prices of mealie-meal and maize have gone up by over 100% amid indications that the commodity is fast disappearing from shop shelves as the effects of drought set in.Indications are that t...Published: 31 Mar 2024 at 15:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Prices skyrocket in Zimbabwe
The ongoing depreciation of the local currency is plunging Zimbabweans further into economic hardship, causing prices of essential goods and services to soar beyond the means of most low-income famili...Published: 27 Oct 2023 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Holy Ten endorses Mnangagwa 'huchi', gets lashed
NETIZENS have fired salvos at hip hop chanter Holy Ten calling him a selfish opportunist while unanimously stripping him of the title ‘leader of the youth' after he endorsed President Emmerson Mnang...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:53hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
US$12 billion minerals export revenue surpassed says Ziyambi
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chief election agent and Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Ziyambi Ziyambi has said export revenue in the mining industry has more than doubled, surpa...Published: 27 Jul 2023 at 06:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents boycott anti-sanctions campaign
THE anti-sanctions provincial campaign scheduled for Bulawayo Tuesday attracted a paltry crowd with ordinary citizens and opposition parties boycotting the event.The function, which was initia...Published: 26 Oct 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
If Mnangagwa is unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why?Simpl...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:12hrs | 13 | by Tendai Mbofana
If Mnangagwa unable to explain 'sanctions on Zimbabwe' then just how real are they?
Did you know that countries that have genuine economic sanctions imposed on them by world powers, oftentimes, actually deny their true impact on the affected nation's economy?Why? Simp...Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 20:54hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe targeting key role in global electric car industry
ZIMBABWE is poised to become a key player in the global transition to green energy, not only through lithium mining, but its beneficiation that can empower local communities and develop the nation as ...Published: 18 Jun 2022 at 07:24hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Grain runs out in Zimbabwe?
MILLIONS of Zimbabweans will go hungry as the country faces a severe grain shortage.A poor rainfall season and hoarding of maize by farmers demanding payment in United States dollars have exac...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:35hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rubbishes Mnangagwa's economic hitmen conspiracy
FINANCE minister Mtuli Ncube has said the current economic crisis rocking the country is a result of global upheavals, effectively disputing his principal, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's claim that th...Published: 13 May 2022 at 19:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Putin's war sends global food prices skyrocketing
Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine is contributing to rising food prices and threatening food supplies around the world. In Ukraine, Russia's forces have destroyed farms, bombed warehou...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 11:45hrs | 14 | by Leigh Hartman, ShareAmerica Correspondent
Drug prices skyrocket
ZIMBABWEAN drug retailers are selling medicine using exchange rates of between US$1:$220 and US$1:$230, sparking fears that the sector could become one of the driving forces behind an extensive deprec...Published: 29 Dec 2021 at 05:25hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
RBZ summons businesses over price madness
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya yesterday said his meeting with business this morning is not a witchhunt, but an effort by authorities to grasp the root cause of the prevailin...Published: 11 Oct 2021 at 05:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa presides over gross abuse of human rights'
During his first year as President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa has presided over a systematic and brutal crackdown on human rights, including the violent suppression of protests and a witch-hunt a...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 18:53hrs | | by Agencies
Zimbabwe dollar strengthens in parallel market
For Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa, the re-introduction of the country's currency after a decade of US dollar dominance marks a return to normalcy.To many others, however, it heralded u...Published: 06 Jul 2019 at 10:32hrs | 3 | by The East African
The day Cyclone Mthuli came to town
Well, this Mthuli Ncube guy is bad news.Witty and cunning are his attributes! He had an afternoon outing with journalists, last weekend, shared jokes and ideas, while he kept his joker to his ches...Published: 29 Jun 2019 at 16:39hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Coffin prices skyrocket
THE prices of coffins has gone up by more than 100 percent in recent months forcing dozens whose relatives are dying without funeral covers to turn to small entrepreneurs whose prices are still afford...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to Mnangagwa: From frying pan into fire?
A time comes when overwhelmed Africans desperately desire to see a change in leadership and don't pay rapt attention to the details of the next leadership provided it is a new face. This despe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Omolola Lipede
How cryptocurrencies can rescue Zimbabwe
On September 17, 2018 media houses were abuzz with the news that the then newly appointed Finance minister Mthuli Ncube was considering cryptocurrencies as an option for Zimbabwe's economic turnaround...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:00hrs | 3 | by Masotsha Charles Matlobo
What the fuel protests mean for Zimbabweans
Zimbabweans had been hoping for a fresh start when Robert Mugabe's 38-year rule came to an end in November 2017.But 14 months on, a brutal crackdown on fuel protests, which has left 17 people ...Published: 09 Feb 2019 at 07:17hrs | 15 | by IRIN
'Mnangagwa is insicere and selfish'
Mnangagwa's dialogue is an in-genuine, insincere and selfish attempt to save face for his gross failure to implement his much touted reforms; political, economic, constitutional and governance reforms...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 07:32hrs | 2 | by Makomborero Haruzivishe
Mnangagwa bombing victims send SOS
TWO people who were injured after a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo was bombed weeks before the July 30 elections are appealing for assistance to settle medical bills and school fees f...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 17:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Farm inputs prices skyrocket
The farming inputs such as fertilizer and maize seeds prices have escalated to unbearable levels as the farmers prepare for the farming season this year.The increases come at a time when the c...Published: 26 Oct 2018 at 17:01hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
RBZ bosses suspension laudable, but ...
YESTERDAY'S suspension of four senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) directors fingered in fuelling the parallel market rates between the United States dollar and the bond notes, which has resulted in...Published: 23 Oct 2018 at 06:34hrs | | by Editorial - newsday
Contraceptives prices shoot up
For the average Zimbabwean, birth control pills are lifestyle drugs while condoms are one of those accessories many would put into the shopping basket without considering the cost.Well, that w...Published: 15 Oct 2018 at 12:31hrs | 52 | by Staff reporter
Bond notes disaster: Zimbabweans count costs after a week of madness
Mary Muchenje bolted out of a pharmacy in Harare's Avenues area, only to stop a few metres away scratching her head.Muchenje's world had just crumbled after the pharmacists informed her she ne...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe faces worst economic crisis in a decade
As Zimbabwe plunges into its worst economic crisis in a decade, gas lines are snaking for hours, prices are spiking and residents goggle as the new government insists that the country - somehow - has ...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 14:36hrs | | by AP
Producers speak on cement crisis
National cement demand has surged since the second half of last year, driven by a reported bubble in mortgage and construction activity, amidst mounting supply-side challenges related to foreign curre...Published: 04 Sep 2018 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fuel prices skyrocket
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has blamed skyrocketing fuel prices on the surge in crude oil prices in recent weeks.Petrol prices have gone up from $1,33 to between $1,39 and ...Published: 13 May 2018 at 11:53hrs | 1 | by staff reporter
'New Zimbabwe is coming'
In the most comprehensive policy speech of the presidential campaign, MDC vice president Nelson Chamisa has presented an opposition MDC Alliance vision of a growth and fairness economy, an economic ag...Published: 20 Jan 2018 at 13:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Private sector should play ball in 2018
At a time when Zimbabwe is celebrating the dawn of a new era, the people's mood has been dampened by ridiculous price increases across various sectors of the economy, ranging from building and constru...Published: 30 Dec 2017 at 23:02hrs | 2 | by Dr Gift Mugano
Govt engages industry, RBZ over commodity shortages
GOVERNMENT yesterday engaged captains of industry and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials with a view to locating and solving the challenges that caused the recent spate of price increases togeth...Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Attempt to sabotage Zimbabwean economy and create instability before elections
Scientists believe that the fastest thing ever lived is light. But Zimbabwe has proved that wrong, gossip and rumour travels faster than light in Zimbabwe. It took one idiot to fly a video and two lun...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 16:20hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
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