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Zimbabwe's resilience: A nation's ability to overcome economic challenges, from sanctions to currency instability
For over two decades, Zimbabwe has been a nation under siege. Economic sanctions, imposed primarily by the United States and its Western allies, have crippled the country's economy, creating one of th...Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 11:56hrs | 154 | by Michael Badze
Zimbabwe is undermining the ZiG by overspending
Zimbabwe's new gold-backed currency is likely being undermined by the state tapping the central bank for funding and selling Treasury bills to pay for its overspending, Imara Asset Management said....Published: 18 Oct 2024 at 08:54hrs | 1264 | by Staff reporter
ZiG's false promise: Debunking the gold-backed myth
Some of us said it from day one, but we were accused of being 'prophets of doom'.When the Zimbabwe authorities declared war on illegal money changers, ostensibly, in order to 'defend' the stab...Published: 07 Oct 2024 at 16:36hrs | 1399 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mr. President, you'll never fix the economy when you behave like a witchdoctor!
When I was listening to President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa delivering his State of the Nation Address (SONA) yesterday, I hoped he would finally provide solutions to the country's economic crisis....Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 10:45hrs | 791 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Exposing economic saboteurs threatening Zimbabwe's future
THE introduction of the Zimbabwe Gold Currency (ZiG) symbolised a shift toward economic sovereignty, self-reliance and stability. Yet, instead of celebrating this monumental effort, some individuals w...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 07:49hrs | 248 | by Innocent Mujeri
Zimra goes after businesses rejecting ZiG
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has launched a sweeping operation targeting businesses that are evading taxes and undermining the Zimbabwean currency (ZiG or ZWG) by rejecting the local currenc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 12:29hrs | 1395 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's feja-feja economics not working'
Major retail shops in Zimbabwe adjusted their exchange rates to ZiG30 per dollar yesterday as the local currency continued to falter, a day after President Emmerson Mnangagwa accused economic "saboteu...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:26hrs | 284 | by Staff reporter
Zimra launches crackdown on economic saboteurs
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has launched a nationwide blitz targeting businesses that evade taxes and undermine the local currency, the Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), by either rejecting it or falsel...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 08:16hrs | 142 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa addresses Zanu-PF factionalism amid 3rd-term speculations
President Emmerson Mnangagwa took decisive action to quell rising factional tensions within Zanu-PF during the 378th ordinary session of the party's politburo yesterday. This comes in the wake of incr...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 09:58hrs | 1154 | by Staff reporter
Suspected Arson Attacks Target National Railways of Zimbabwe Premises
The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has reported a series of suspected arson attacks on its premises, with fires breaking out at key sites in Bulawayo...Published: 19 Sep 2024 at 20:13hrs | 525 | by Staff Reporter
CIA plot to kill Venezuela's Maduro foiled
Diosdado Cabello claims the arrested suspects, including a US serviceman, were planning to conduct acts of terrorismVenezuela's security service has thwarted a CIA-backed plot to assassinate P...Published: 15 Sep 2024 at 20:34hrs | 867 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe economic saboteurs go after Finance ministry?
Despite the significant strides made by Zimbabwe's Second Republic in reviving the economy and spearheading widespread infrastructural development, detractors continue to work hard to discredit these ...Published: 13 Sep 2024 at 08:01hrs | 651 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must fire Mthuli, Mushayavanhu & Guvamatanga, says Zanu-PF activist
South African-based Zanu-PF supporter Kudzai Mutisi has urged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to remove Minister of Finance, Economic Development and Investment Promotion Mthuli Ncube, the Ministry's per...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 14:59hrs | 3794 | by Staff reporter
Zacc claims Chimombe, Mpofu are economic saboteurs
Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, both accused in a fraud case involving over US$7 million intended for the Presidential Goat Pass-on Scheme, faced a bail hearing where the investigating officer, Henry C...Published: 09 Jul 2024 at 05:56hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Second investigating officer testifies in Chimombe, Mpofu case
The bail hearing for businessmen Mike Chimombe and Moses Mpofu, accused of a US$7 million fraud, continued yesterday. The Investigating Officer (IO) from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC)...Published: 02 Jul 2024 at 06:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
FIU targets informal sector ZiG manipulators
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), part of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), is intensifying efforts against the informal sector to combat currency manipulation aimed at undermining the Zimbabwe...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
FIU sufficiently resourced to fight ZiG saboteurs
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a division of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), is well-equipped with skilled personnel and advanced hardware to tackle financial crimes. Recent recruitment ef...Published: 18 May 2024 at 10:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti, Ncube, Kore named CCC co-leaders
Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) named Welshman Ncube, Tendai Biti and Karenyi Kore as its co-leaders after Nelson Chamisa quit the party last month. Leadership will rotate every 90 days u...Published: 17 Feb 2024 at 14:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Opposition Politics in Zimbabwe, 1999 - 2024: An Obituary
Advocate Nelson Chamisa's capitulation last week at the behest of the fifth column led by Sengezo Tshabangu was the final nail in opposition politics in Zimbabwe. Armed with state institutions and exp...Published: 03 Feb 2024 at 09:09hrs | 4 | by Innocent Mpoki
Obert Mpofu storms GMB depot
ZANU-PF Secretary-General, Dr Obert Mpofu, stormed the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) Lupane depot last Thursday after learning that three truckloads with Presidential inputs had been parked there for ab...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 04:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new Members of Parliament sworn-in
Members of Parliament for the 10th Parliament took their oaths of office yesterday and committed themselves to work towards the fulfilment of Vision 2030 enunciated by President Mnangagwa to make Zimb...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
A free and fair election will heal Zimbabwe
The Zanu PF's government crack on the opposition, abuse of human rights, and failure to embrace and tolerate divergent views makes it harder for the party to appeal both to regional and international ...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 21:27hrs | | by Leonard Koni
So Mnangagwa govt finally admits local currency wasn't sabotaged after all!
We have said it numerous times before.The Zimbabwe government is lying about saboteurs - who are usually faceless so-called 'regime change agents', supposedly operating in cahoots with 'our de...Published: 11 Aug 2023 at 16:26hrs | 6 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF youth bashed for pasting Mnangagwa poster at Chicken Inn outlet
POLICE in Chegutu have launched an investigation following the assault of a Zanu-PF youth for putting President Emmerson Mnangagwa campaign posters outside a fast food outlet, Chicken lnn.The ...Published: 24 Jul 2023 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF targets 80% vote
Zanu-PF is targeting 80 percent of the vote during the August 23 harmonised elections to deal the country's detractors and their regime change puppets a lethal blow, the party's Vice President and Sec...Published: 19 Jul 2023 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe partners AU countries to shut safe havens for illicit financial flows
ZIMBABWE has reportedly made tremendous progress in combating corruption, having recorded numerous cases of forfeiture of assets derived from illicit financial flows.Over the last five years, ...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands bussed to Mnangagwa rally
Zanu-PF yesterday flaunted its riches when it held its star rally in Magunje, Mashonaland West that saw the party bus thousands of supporters from across the province.The rally, which was marr...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 10:42hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accuses Indian business people of hoarding basic goods
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to the business sector and specifically targeted Indians, accusing them of stockpiling basic supplies to create artificial shortages and boost p...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 16:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa barking up the wrong tree
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's first five-year term in office ends in a little less than two months, but his message against so-called "economic saboteurs" remains the same and one wonders if he reall...Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns economic saboteurs
President Mnangagwa has issued a stern warning to some businesses that have, in the past few weeks, devised new measures to cripple the economy by creating artificial shortages of goods, saying Govern...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Will the next ZANU PF leader call Mnangagwa a 'dimwit'?
The ruling ZANU PF is always full of drama, which never ceases to amaze, if not bemuse.So, after current President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa's monumental failure to resuscitate the country's...Published: 29 Jun 2023 at 13:05hrs | 8 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe opposition party in shock Mnangagwa endorsement
Two weeks after criticising the government and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) for setting excessive candidate nomination fees, the Zimbabwe Republicans Front (ZRF) endorsed President Emmerson...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 17:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cost-of-living nightmare terribly deepens
NINE weeks before Zimbabwe's general elections, President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a moment of truth as the imploding economy plunges the country into its third hyperinflation in 15 years amid rising ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zesa, police joint operation nets transformer vandals
Police in Harare this week arrested four suspects in Epworth who are linked to a syndicate that vandalised a Zesa Holdings transformer at Wengi Farm, Zanadu in Concession, Mashonaland Central province...Published: 16 Jun 2023 at 07:57hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Madinda sacking divides opinion
HIGHLANDERS Football Club coach Baltemar Jose De Oliveira Brito's alleged decision to freeze out assistant coach Madinda Ndlovu on suspicions of sabotage have divided opinion among followers who feel ...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans will always suffer with a govt perpetually crying over sanctions!
As Zimbabweans continue to suffer through unmitigated poverty, under the ZANU PF regime, for the past two decades - do they honestly see any light at the end of the tunnel?Surely, every time I...Published: 11 Jun 2023 at 10:06hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zanu-PF dishes out free-range chickens
Zanu-PF Churu constituency candidate, Ephraim Fundukwa, has hit the ground running after rolling out several projects in the area in line with President Mnangagwa's clarion call of leaving no one and ...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube says currency manipulators won't rest
Currency manipulators and economic saboteurs will always be lurking about looking for opportunities and loopholes to unjustly profiteer but authorities will also be always ready to institute measures ...Published: 31 May 2023 at 06:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli's theatrics expose government lack of seriousness in addressing Zim economic crisis!
So, finance minister Mthuli Ncube, over the weekend, went around shops in Bulawayo, like a crazed vigilante, tearing down tags displaying prices strictly in US dollars!He even berated a haples...Published: 29 May 2023 at 23:02hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimdollar not going anywhere
THE Treasury has assured the market of continued usage of the local currency and that deliberate steps are being taken to strengthen its value so as to restore consumer purchasing power and buttress t...Published: 29 May 2023 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo says economic saboteurs should not contest elections
Political commentator and Former Cabinet Minister, Professor Jonathan Moyo has said that economic saboteurs should not be allowed to contest in local elections.Writing on his Twitter handle ye...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mthuli Ncube sabotaging Mnangagwa re-election bid'
FORMER Tourism minister Walter Mzembi has blamed Mthuli Ncube for failing to tame spiralling prices of basic commodities, which are militating against President Emmerson Mnangagwa's re-election bid fo...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
To see the saboteur, Mr President, look in the mirror
NewsdayHAVE we seriously gone back to blaming ghosts and shadows for the economy bottoming out?Are we going to be turning every stone, nook, and cranny looking for perceived "saboteurs...Published: 23 May 2023 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans won't support leaders who don't accept culpability for economic ruination
As Zimbabwe commemorates 43 years of independence today (18th April), the indifference, bordering on pure disdain, by ordinary citizens toward this day is quite obvious.But why?Why are...Published: 19 Apr 2023 at 22:49hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
What's the point of 'performance contracts' when the regime always blames sanctions for its failures?
How do you measure a cabinet minister's performance over a particular period?How does one judge whether a local government CEO (chief executive officer) has done a good or terrible job?...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 10:16hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Surely, does ZANU PF need 100 years to build electricity infrastructure?
ZANU PF never ceases to amaze! Always full of excuses - some just incredible, others pure madness, whilst there are downright stupid!I always say to myself, 'if ZANU PF had been a man,...Published: 13 Dec 2022 at 14:13hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Critiquing and exposing flaws in government policies central to 'development journalism'
Lately, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls - more specifically from Zimbabwe government officials - for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.The latest...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 09:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimbabwe's ailing economy troubles Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF remains worried by the state of the economy ahead of general elections next year, with ruling party officials believing economic hardships will present a big hurdle for the party's quest to wi...Published: 06 Nov 2022 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tragedy - when the victims actually defend the perpetrators!
The social justice work I do can be both exciting and troubling. In fact, it can warm my heart, or leave me near to tears. It is immensely enjoyable and heartwarming when I am speaking...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 11:48hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF fears economic implosion
Zanu-PF has admitted that economic implosion is a big threat to its bid to retain power in next year's general elections.In its central committee (CC) report released last week, Zanu-PF said h...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 05:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
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