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Dirty things happen at Mnangagwa's State House
An unsaid but angry war is raging in the State Residences department as you fret over the prices of essential commodities, government's cluelessness to fix the economy and, of course, the swarm of cor...Published: 10 hrs ago | 5114 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mamombe bemoans violent politics
Harare West MP Joanah Mamombe says Zimbabwe's politics is very violent in nature with women and the opposition being the biggest victims.The country's youngest legislator made the remarks in a...Published: 10 hrs ago | 149 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa urged to put price control measures: ZIMTA
Civil servants have pleaded with Government to set a control framework that safeguards the value of salaries following the latest adjustments.Government has tabled a 76 percent salary adjustme...Published: 10 hrs ago | 247 | by Staff reporter
We cannot afford to have idle, unproductive land - Mnangagwa
Address by His Excellency, President Mnangagwa at the official opening of the inaugural Zimbabwe Agricultural Show at the Harare Showgrounds on Friday....Published: 20 hrs ago | 1166 | by Emmerson D Mnangagwa
More flights for Bulawayo
THE Government has increased flight frequencies for low-cost airline, Fastjet Zimbabwe, in a move which will play a huge part in improving connectivity and growing of the country's economy.Civ...Published: 20 hrs ago | 547 | by Staff reporter
'Austerity ends in 2019,' says Muthuli Ncube
While Government has instituted a batch of key macro-economic reforms since late last year, which analysts say have set the economy for recovery and sustainable growth, the chief architect of the chan...Published: 20 hrs ago | 3165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's latest bid to arrest price distortions
THE National Competitiveness Commission (NCC) is currently engaging manufacturers and producers countrywide to establish pricing formulae , a strategy meant to arrest the current distortions on cost o...Published: 20 hrs ago | 794 | by Staff reporter
SMM to resume asbestos exports
Awakening asbestos mining giant Shabanie Mashaba Mines (SMM) is set to resume chrysotile asbestos fibre exports for the first time in over a decade as Government's master plan to revive the mine begin...Published: 20 hrs ago | 303 | by Staff reporter
Kazembe Kazembe fights for his party position
EMBATTLED Zanu-PF chairperson for Mashonaland Central province Kazembe Kazembe has warned ruling party members against remaining in the campaign mode and urged them to accept the current party leaders...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:14hrs | 1065 | by Staff reporter
Solar products still expensive despite duty waiver
The prices of solar panels, batteries and other accessories have remained high despite the recent move by Government to remove duty on all imported solar kits. This means the high prices of so...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 09:00hrs | 416 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-Iran scholarship goes 19 months without stipend from govt
To the minister responsible for students on govt scholarships We were awarded Government Sponsored Scholarships to study in various Engineering disciplines in the Islamic Republic State of Ira...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:59hrs | 321 | by Student
Old Mutual adopts hyperinflationary accounting for its Zimbabwe unit
SOUTH AFRICAN-HEADQUARTERED insurance company, Old Mutual Limited (OML) says it will apply hyperinflationary accounting for its Zimbabwe business unit in light of the runaway inflation plaguing the ec...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 631 | by Staff reporter
Minister Cain Mathema professes ignorance of rampant abductions
GOVERNMENT is unaware of any cases of abductions despite the numerous claims from prodemocracy groups as well as the opposition, Home Affairs minister Cain Mathema said Thursday.Numerous oppos...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 163 | by newzimbabwe
'Fuel queues disappear in Zimbabwe'
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa says fuel queues have disappeared in Zimbabwe due to the sharp increase in the price of the precious commodity. Price of fuel has been increasing weekl...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 05:33hrs | 12845 | by Mandla Ndlovu
University lecturers to go on strike
The Zimbabwe State Universities Union of Academics (ZISSUA) has instructed all lecturers to down their tools on September 8, citing incapacitation to keep up with the economic crisis.ZISSUA Pr...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 16:25hrs | 3952 | by Staff reporter
Repression and dialogue in Zimbabwe: twin strategies that aren't working
Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy of coercion and dialogue has hit a series of hurdles. These include the continued opposition by the MDC and on-going scepticism of ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 08:50hrs | 864 | by Brian Raftopoulos
'More Zimbabwean families survive on diaspora remittances'
THE majority of poverty-stricken Zimbabwean families are now heavily dependent on diaspora remittances for their upkeep as the economy continues on a nosedive, with the value of the local currency fai...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:47hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt must address economic fundamentals
As prices of basic commodities continue to skyrocket amid indications that a family of six now requires at least $1 684 to be able to survive through just one month, there is need for stakeholders —...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:46hrs | 230 | by Editorial - Newsday
BCC mulls tuition fee hike
BULAWAYO city fathers are considering hiking tuition fees at council-run schools next term, arguing the cost of subsidising education, among other services, had sunk the local authority into a $2 mill...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Binga bemoans high telecoms costs
BINGA residents have expressed concern over the high cost of voice calls and data and also accused service providers of failing to respond on time to their concerns. Speaking during a co...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:37hrs | 42 | by Staff reporter
Monthly inflation drops: ZimStat
ZIMBABWE's month-on-month inflation for July slid 18.22 percentage points to 21.04 percent showing a slowdown in increases in the prices of goods and services. In June, month-on-month inflation stood ...Published: 22 Aug 2019 at 07:35hrs | 337 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe family food basket hits $1 684,45 mark
CONSUMER rights watchdog, Poverty Reduction Forum Trust (PRFT), says during the month of July, an average family of six required at least $1 684,45 to sufficiently source food and non-food items....Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:53hrs | 896 | by Staff reporter
Teachers threaten chalks down
TEACHERS have threatened to withdraw their labour when schools open for the third term next month to force government to pay them in United States dollars or the equivalent of US$550 at the interbank ...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:48hrs | 479 | by Staff reporter
US regime change in Zimbabwe getting brazenly silly
Some of us were not surprised because there was really nothing to be surprised about! When Job Sikhala announced his party would remove constitutionally elected President Mnangagwa before 2023, we kne...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:39hrs | 760 | by Isdore Guvamombe
The Crocodile in Crisis
Editorial by The Times newspaper, Britain's newspaper of record, on Zimbabwe under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a "state that is close to collapse"ZIM...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 18:01hrs | 5171 | by The Times
'Zimbabwe not heading towards hyperinflation'
Government says the country is not heading towards hyper-inflation but is experiencing wage compression as a result of big, painful but necessary micro-economic decisions that the government shall con...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 16:10hrs | 1322 | by Bloomberg
Austerity measures: Is Zimbabwe drinking poisoned chalice?
On September 7, 2018, Mthuli Ncube was appointed as Zimbabwe's Finance minister. Being a technocrat he is, his appointment brought a breath of fresh air. At least, Zanu-PF was breaking with its past o...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:18hrs | 393 | by Cliff Chiduku
Zanu-PF's economic policy record 'poor': US think tank
UNITED States research arm, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), has condemned the Zanu-PF-led government's economic policy record as "poor".The CRS is a public policy research arm of the...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 15:17hrs | 365 | by Staff reporter
Auxillia Mnangagwa slams corrupt business people
FIRST Lady, Auxillia Mnangagwa, has castigated some businesspeople that are creating artificial shortages of products in the market through unjustified price increases and corrupt tendencies saying th...Published: 20 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 2856 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe troops and police deployed in force
Troops and police deployed in force in Zimbabwe's second city of Bulawayo on Monday in a bid to deter a planned opposition march, three days after brutally dispersing a banned protest in the capital H...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 14:07hrs | 2379 | by AFP
New fuel prices unveiled
The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority has announced new prices for fuel starting Monday 19 August 2019. In an announcement posted on Twitter on Sunday midnight, ZERA said diesel will be sol...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 10:06hrs | 5114 | by Mandla Ndlovu
IMF warns Zimbabwe against pay boost as living standards crash
The International Monetary Fund's resident representative in Zimbabwe warned the government against boosting wages for state workers after the introduction of a new currency pushed up inflation and re...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:41hrs | 2292 | by Bloomberg
Business against MDC demo, police bans it
BULAWAYO police yesterday issued a prohibition order banning MDC's planned protests set for the city today and threatened a one-year jail term for those that defy the ban.The MDC had lined up ...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:40hrs | 306 | by Staff reporter
Huge payout plan for civil servants
GOVERNMENT is understood to be preparing a "meaningful offer" for civil servants as it seeks to address the challenges they face of high prices of goods and services. The offer is set to be ta...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 07:27hrs | 1499 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: MDC Bulawayo demonstration stopped
A section of Bulawayo business community has filed an urgent chamber application at the High Court of Zimbabwe pleading with the court to ban the MDC demonstration planned for Bulawayo tomorrow....Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 11:41hrs | 9886 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa off globe-trotting to be declared winner of 2018 - if one leader does, will eat my hat
"Hupenzi inyama yegakava!" (There is no one more stubborn than a village idiot!) so goes the Shona maxim. The MDC leaders are village idiots and they are very stubborn too."On the 31st of July...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 10:15hrs | 5278 | by Nomusa Garikai
Bulawayo mayor speaks on his two days of horror
Bulawayo City Council was recently rocked by unrest after a coterie of councillors led by deputy mayor Tinashe Kambarami tried to oust town clerk Christopher Dube.Kambarami last month took adv...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:52hrs | 534 | by Staff reporter
Does Brother Mthuli Ncube live in Zimbabwe?
Hope is the expectation, against all rational considerations, that desires will be fulfilled miraculously.When the "new dispensation" was introduced in Zimbabwe, we hoped against past experien...Published: 18 Aug 2019 at 09:51hrs | 1017 | by Kennet Mufuka
Mthuli Ncube has a plan, but is it gobbledegook?
Zimbabwean finance minister Mthuli Ncube has laid out a plan to end the nation's two-decade stand-off with international creditors and has dismissed rapidly accelerating inflation as "wage compression...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 11:08hrs | 4163 | by Bloomberg News
We need Zupco buses in Chiwesh, Mashonaland Central
The frequency of kombi arrivals and departure in rural Chiweshe, Mash. Central are not amusing. This is one area where tobacco farming was 'born' and got 'raised' elsewhere. The communal farme...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:49hrs | 139 | by Thomas Murisa
'Solve socio-economic crisis' prescribe UN - rubbish, treat disease, bad governance, not the symptom
Zimbabwe is a pariah state ruled by corrupt, incompetent, vote rigging and murderous thugs. The ruling party, Zanu-PF, has captured all state institutions so that the Police, Army, Judiciary, etc. are...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:48hrs | 315 | by Wilbert Mukori
United Nations statement on MDC demonstration
We understand that today's planned protests in Harare have just been called off by the organisers, following a High Court decision to uphold a Government ban. The crowds that had already gathered were...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 10:47hrs | 2456 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Go home Nero! The demons are with you
We are told sister Piri, as Prisca Mupfumira was known in her close circles, is demanding too much luxury behind bars. Yes, she has not yet been convicted, but it could be her insatiable quest for swa...Published: 17 Aug 2019 at 07:58hrs | 802 | by Staff reporter
Does MDC demo concern us as uMthwakazi people
I have been asked by a lot of people regarding my views on the planned MDC demonstrations, while others were and are seeking for MRP position which I am not authorized to give, others are howeve...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 15:43hrs | 851 | by Mbonisi Solomon Gumbo
Mnangagwa presents new coup-proofing measures
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa - under siege in the face of worsening economic hardships fuelling a groundswell of social discontent - is coup-proofing his regime by giving the security forces preferent...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1514 | by Staff reporter
Khupe youths vow to join Chamisa demo
YOUTHS from the Thokozani Khupe led MDC-T have vowed to defy a party directive not to participate in a demonstration organised by the rival MDC, insisting the protest was necessary because people are ...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:27hrs | 848 | by newzimbabwe
This Zimbabwe situation simply cannot go on
THIS is a message to those who currently hold power in Zimbabwe. I do not really care about how you got into this position, but now that you are there, we need to ask you what you are going to use tha...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1533 | by Eddie Cross
Mnangagwa threatens to unleash army on businesses
As the military government becomes clueless on how to control the wayward economy, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reverted to what he knows best, the military – as he has threatened the business c...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 07:33hrs | 364 | by Makho Precious Moyo
Mnangagwa says sanctions wont deter Zimbabwe economic reforms
President Mnangagwa says he understands the hardships that citizens are facing as a result of austerity measures, which have been compounded by natural disasters. He said although the Transiti...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:05hrs | 907 | by Staff reporter
Free condoms
THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has said sexually active people should not panic over a recent increase in price of condoms as the organisation continued to issue them free of ch...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:03hrs | 1085 | by Staff reporter
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