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Zimbabwe's tax plan has informal traders tangled up
Mediline Sibanda opened her hairdressing business 13 years ago in Bulawayo's bustling central business district where she operates alongside other vendors and traders that are part of the country's th...Published: 20 Jan 2025 at 10:28hrs | 2088 | by Staff reporter
Fraudsters exploit Zimbabweans seeking UK health and care jobs
When Zimbabwean mother-of-four Eunice Sinoya enrolled in a first aid course near the capital Harare, she was lured by the college's promise of a job in Britain's care sector. But more than a year on, ...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:57hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's internet costs surge
When a sharp hike in Zimbabwe's internet costs drove Joyce Kapvumfuti's small catering enterprise offline for a week, orders for her wedding cakes, business lunches and frosted cupcakes collapsed....Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:52hrs | 36 | by Staff reporter
Foreigners fuel Zimbabwe's wildlife illicit financial flows
It was business as usual for Mgcini Ncube when he was caught by detectives while skinning an impala deep inside Victoria Falls' Zambezi National Park.Ncube (37) had set up a temporary structur...Published: 30 Jul 2023 at 09:00hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Fuel smuggling hampers growth
FUEL smuggling into Zimbabwe is hampering the Government's revenue collection, and has become a threat to economic growth, despite tax and law enforcement authorities' efforts to curb the scourge....Published: 20 Jun 2023 at 06:46hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's cyber city: Urban utopia or surveillance menace?
In a fertile stretch of fields and farms dubbed New Harare, Zimbabwe is building a high-tech "cyber city" a world away from the traffic-clogged streets and overcrowded slums of the country's nearby ca...Published: 25 Feb 2023 at 16:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
English language test dashes nurses' hopes of filling UK jobs
As a fluent English speaker, Indian-trained nurse Deepa was surprised to learn she had to sit a language test to practise in Britain, her home for many years. She was even more shocked when she failed...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hit hard by storms and forest loss, Zimbabweans building stronger homes
For Florence Panda, the best thing about her new house in eastern Zimbabwe is not the modern design or the size, big enough for her family of nine.It's the fact that the house is built with ce...Published: 22 May 2022 at 08:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Runaway inflation, Covid-19 fuel rise in malaria cases in north-eastern Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE has made giant strides in malaria control, but runaway inflation coupled with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic may derail progress made in the last 17 years - moving the country away from ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:15hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Electronic Fund Transfers fuel money laundering in Zimbabwe
CROSS-BORDER money traders are collecting huge sums in foreign currency in Zimbabwe and smuggling it into South Africa through the use of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT).The illegal traders tu...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 07:13hrs | | by Vusumuzi Dube
Covid-19, collapsing health systems reverse Zimbabwe's malaria gains
A collapsing health system, healthworker strikes and the advent of Covid-19 have fuelled a resurgence of malaria in Zimbabwe, with deaths from the disease rising by more than 50% from the previous yea...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans turn to sex work amid economic crisis and COVID-19
DRESSED in a mini-skirt and blouse, Esther Kamupunga stood in semi-darkness waiting for men looking for sex the latest Zimbabwean to lose her job in a deepening economic crisis, worsened by the new co...Published: 31 Oct 2020 at 06:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women's fight for property
When Smangele Tshuma got divorced after five years of marriage, her in-laws forced her out of the home that she had been living in with her husband in southwestern Zimbabwe and took the three donkeys ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 17:28hrs | 2 | by Reuters
Zimbabwe removes barriers to solar energy expansion
Power-short Zimbabwe has removed import duties on solar-energy-related products, from batteries to cables, and mandated that all new construction in the country include solar systems, government offic...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:18hrs | | by Thompson Reuters Foundation
VACANCY: Thomson Reuters Foundation is employing
Thomson Reuters Foundation in partnership with the Media Institute of Southern Africais looking for Zimbabwean journalists who are motivated to understand how their country could be losing money via i...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 11:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Heatwave threatens to slash harvests in drought-hit Zimbabwe
Despite a dry year, Sazini Moyo's maize crop had been pushing up tassels and she anticipated a decent harvest -- until her farm outside Bulawayo sweltered through a record five-day heatwave in late Fe...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 16:53hrs | | by Reuters
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 | 1 | by Reuters
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Davison Kaiyo
Impact of illicit financial flows on socio economic development
While the "Zimbabwe is open for business" mantra is good in attracting foreign investors the government of Zimbabwe need to step up efforts to curtail illicit financial flows (IFFs) by enforcing anti ...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Davison Kaiyo
How Zimbabwe loses millions to smuggling syndicates
THE government could be losing millions of dollars in revenue via its north-eastern port of entry at Forbes Border Post due to under-declaration and false classification of goods by importers to evade...Published: 17 Jun 2018 at 11:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Zimbabwe's mining sector illicit financial flows
Soon after his inauguration the President of Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that he has a list of individuals and corporates that has been externalizing money and assets and granted them a thre...Published: 31 May 2018 at 12:00hrs | 3 | by Davison Kaiyo
How diamond smuggling is thriving in Zimbabwe
SITTING under a shade with eyes glued on a road in Mozambique's Manica town's affluent suburb, a group of five young men scans all directions for potential suppliers of diamonds.The street is ...Published: 11 Mar 2018 at 09:26hrs | 12 | by Wealth of Nations
Women march to demand free education
Thousands of women took to the streets of Bulawayo on Thursday to demand free education for their children as protests against the government mount across Zimbabwe.The protest dubbed #Boyc...Published: 19 Aug 2016 at 12:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mystery disease kills Zimbabwe's baobabs
CHIMANIMANI: A black baobab tree stands forlornly on the side of a highway in Chimanimani district, in the east of Zimbabwe. The tree is one of many in this region afflicted by a mysterious disease, w...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 08:24hrs | | by Andrew Mambondiani
Why Zimbabwe sex traders ignore condoms
In the heart of Bulawayo's central business district, a group of young women lurk below the giant jacaranda trees that shut out the street lights, daubing their faces with makeup and adjusting their s...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 15:16hrs | | by Marko Phiri
Zimbabwean women flock to cross-border trade
After her husband died in 2011, Theresa Matanda looked for a job in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, but with no success despite being a qualified accountant.With two young children to support, Mat...Published: 21 Jul 2015 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Andrew Mambondiyani - Thomson Reuters Foundation
Zimbabwe roads 'not for amateurs'
The state of Zimbabwe's roads is the stuff of legend.From whole trucks submerged in water-filled craters right in the central business district to gruesome road accidents, motorists must navig...Published: 07 Jul 2015 at 11:10hrs | | by Marko Phiri I Reuters
Teens' demand for illegal abortions soar
The death of a 15-year-old Zimbabwean schoolgirl during an apparent botched abortion this month has spurred calls for stronger efforts to prevent teenage pregnancies and unsafe terminations.He...Published: 26 Jun 2015 at 20:04hrs | | by Reuters
Stateless Shona still trapped in Kenya's shadows
IN A village on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi, 53-year-old Margaret Maposa embroiders seat covers for a customer, sitting with her niece Elizabeth Moyo, who is weaving a multi-coloured bask...Published: 30 May 2015 at 16:57hrs | | by Thomson Reuters Foundation
'The Source' hits brick wall in Econet case
A BID by Source-Net (Pvt) Ltd - a Reuters-affiliated business news agency, whose newsroom was raided by Econet recently - to have the matter referred to the Constitutional Court last week hit a brick ...Published: 08 Apr 2015 at 08:15hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Newswire raid widely condemned
The offices in Harare of Zimbabwean business and financial news agency The Source were raided by police and lawyers from Zimbabwe's largest mobile phone operator on March 26, an act condemned by the T...Published: 30 Mar 2015 at 10:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Reporters humiliate Econet
ANGRY journalists from all the country's national newspapers yesterday humiliated Econet Wireless and walked out of a press conference called by executives of the mobile phone operator's banking unit...Published: 28 Mar 2015 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Felex Share
Prof Jonathan Moyo outraged as Econet raids news agency
Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo says he is outraged by Econet Wireless's raid on Reuters affiliated news agency, The Source, saying the constitutionality...Published: 27 Mar 2015 at 05:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF need to harvest the fear of 2008-9
IN less than three weeks, Zimbabweans will go to the polls for the first time since a violent, disputed vote in 2008 forced President Robert Mugabe to form a coalitio...Published: 18 Jul 2013 at 15:13hrs | 6 | by Thomson Reuters
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