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100 000 urbanites to get food aid
Government, working with development partners, has intensified the provision of food aid in all parts of the country, including the less privileged in urban areas, to ensure that no one dies of hunger...Published: 6 hrs ago | 558 | by Staff reporter
New heart surgery centre set to open
As Zimbabwe battles to rebuild its broken health delivery system, Parirenyatwa Hospital is set up a centre to perform open heart surgeries. This comes as the country's public health system has...Published: 6 hrs ago | 734 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army generals running mining, fuel cartels - report
THE influence of the military in Zimbabwean politics is reported to be on the ascendancy in politics, economy and government while the army generals have also been reported to be heavily involved in m...Published: 6 hrs ago | 4142 | by newzimbabwe.com
Transport crisis hits Zimbabwe prisons
The Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) has been hard hit by a transport crisis, amid reports that the country's 46 prisons are being serviced by 11 security vehicles. Mechanical...Published: 6 hrs ago | 166 | by Staff reporter
StanChart has no plans to exit Zimbabwe
One of Zimbabwe's oldest financial institutions, Standard Chartered Bank, has reiterated it has no plans to exit the country but is rationalising its distribution channels, becoming more digital as it...Published: 6 hrs ago | 262 | by Staff reporter
Does Trafigura have a monopoly on the fuel pipeline?
The agreement between Government through the National Oil Infrastructure Company and Trafigura does not permit the commodities firm to exceed 40% market share. This has resulted in capacity utilizatio...Published: 18 hrs ago | 1485 | by FinX
Zimbabwe recession deeper than thought?
Nyasha Mutseyekwa, a minivan transporter in Zimbabwe's capital Harare, cannot afford new tyres for his ramshackle kombi, selling at US$45 for a good second hand.Whether he opted to pay in US c...Published: 18 hrs ago | 734 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Industry capacity utilisation to fall to 27%
The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has projected that industry's capacity utilisation will fall to 27% this year if the government does not change its policy direction.According to...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:44hrs | 131 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe's economy most vulnerable in the region'
ZIMBABWE'S economy is vulnerable, with its growth trends now 2% below the average of sub-Saharan Africa's economic expansion, partly due to exchange rate misalignment, volatile weather patterns, and u...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:43hrs | 170 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secures more maize from Uganda
ZIMBABWE has secured maize from Uganda, a development that will go a long way in reducing mealie-meal shortages that have been exacerbated by recurrent droughts over the last three years. Pres...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:33hrs | 175 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo abandons solar traffic light installations
THE Bulawayo City Council has expressed concern over the rampant vandalisation of solar traffic lights in the city forcing the municipality to abandon new installations.Addressing journalists ...Published: 16 Feb 2020 at 08:28hrs | 254 | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa fails 'ungovernable route' now wants to smoke peace pipe
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has insisted that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his party must dialogue in order to end the suffering of Zimbabweans as the economy crumbles at an alarming rate...Published: 15 Feb 2020 at 11:25hrs | 363 | by Staff reporter
Mobile banking, FinTech services under threat as critical upgrade costs soar
Digital mobile banking in Zimbabwe has matured beyond the proof-of-concept stage into mainstream adoption where it is servicing millions, driving local transaction volumes and furthering financial inc...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 12:14hrs | 1202 | by Agencies
MP holds school heads to account for 0 to 3% pass rate - real change guaranteed is when people hold MP to account
"Chiredzi South legislator Kalisto Gwanetsa last week called a meeting with all school heads in his constituency after it recorded poor results during the 2019 Grade 7, Ordinary Level and Advance Leve...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 08:58hrs | 741 | by Nomusa Garikai
Fresh Zanu-PF factional fights crippling economic recovery
THE factional fights which have erupted yet again in Zanu-PF following the suspension of youth league leaders betrays the ruling party's pre-occupation with power struggles at the expense of an implod...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:52hrs | 1289 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt taken to task over health workers capacitation
GOVERNMENT has been urged to devise a sustainable plan that ensures health workers have adequate tools of the trade to avoid recurrent strikes by doctors and nurses.In a statement, Community W...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:29hrs | 248 | by Staff reporter
Parirenyatwa requires US$31m to function optimally
PARIRENYATWA Group of Hospitals requires US$31 million if it is to operate efficiently as a central hospital, the hospital’s group chief executive officer Ernest Munyawu told Parliament last...Published: 14 Feb 2020 at 06:28hrs | 111 | by Staff reporter
Short-term fuel structures causing fuel shortages
Zimbabwe is facing fuel shortages which have been attributed to the short nature of structured agreements between government and oil companies while other firms are offering conditions which are beyon...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 13:43hrs | 1361 | by Paul Ndou
No rescue for marooned Binga families
FOUR days after the Binga flash floods, government is still battling to rescue the estimated 21 marooned and displaced families.Information minister Monica Mutsvangwa told a post-Cabinet Press bri...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 08:07hrs | 1311 | by Eddie Cross
Constitution amendment a reversal of the gains achieved through constitution - ZPP
The Zimbabwe Peace Project has reported that the Constitution of Zimbabwe Amendment (No.2) Bill is largely a reversal of the gains that were achieved thro...Published: 13 Feb 2020 at 06:43hrs | 297 | by Stephen Jakes
Cattle slaughters decrease 11%
THE total number of cattle slaughtered last year decreased by 11% to 236 781 compared to the previous period, in the wake of a tightening operating environment characterised by uncertainties over pric...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:08hrs | 347 | by Staff reporter
Axed Zanu-PF youth leaders in extortion storm
TWO of the three former Zanu-PF youth leaders, who were axed from their positions last week, allegedly extorted goods and services from businessman and Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) cha...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 06:07hrs | 4215 | by Staff reporter
CBZ bows down to client backlash
FINANCIAL services group, CBZ Holdings, says it will review downwards its Point of Sale (POS) charges following a backlash from its customers. Frustrated consumers took to social media platfor...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 3059 | by Staff reporter
Employers oppose blanket minimum wage
EMPLOYERS have said they prefer a sector-specific wage review mechanism as opposed to a national minimum wage policy being advocated by social partners under the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF). ...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:38hrs | 599 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar stability key, says Mthuli Ncube
ONE of Government's main priorities this year is exchange rate stability that Treasury says will be achieved through the Reuters Trading System and keeping an eye on money supply growth, a Cabin...Published: 12 Feb 2020 at 05:34hrs | 440 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa lashed over limited reforms
AN INFLUENTIAL American think-tank has laid into Harare over the economic hardships that Zimbabweans continue to experience — which it says have worsened under President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 18:17hrs | 3037 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe NPA, judiciary captured by 'cartels'
Prosecutor General Kumbirai Hodzi on Monday made startling revelations that key institutions mandated to fight corruption, including the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) which he heads, had been c...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1708 | by Staff reporter
Zacc, NPA claims to be fighting cartels
THE National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) and the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission have said they are taking the corruption fight to cartels that have captured various institutions including the jud...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:39hrs | 319 | by Staff reporter
Nurse syndicate channel ARVs to black market
Anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs that are supposed to be dispensed for free by public health institutions are being diverted to the black market by some unscrupulous nurses, who are selling a month's suppl...Published: 11 Feb 2020 at 05:28hrs | 526 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF's Togarepi accepts fate
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for the youth league Pupurai Togarepi, who was demoted from the politburo last Wednesday, says he has accepted his fate and will now serve the party in the central committee....Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 15:10hrs | 4289 | by Staff reporter
RBZ clears Dubai firm in US$20 million deal
Zimbabwe's famous five-star hotel, the Meikles Hotel, is finally set to change hands after the current owner Meikles Limited last week received approval from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)'s excha...Published: 10 Feb 2020 at 08:18hrs | 3218 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF fears an uprising against Mnangagwa govt
Zimbabwe's economic meltdown constitutes the biggest threat to Zanu-PF's continued hold on power, the ruling party has admitted.The country is going through one of the worst economic crises si...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 14:54hrs | 5872 | by Staff reporter
ZPP remembers January 2019 stay away violence
The Zimbabwe Peace Project in its latest Januiary 2020 report has remembers the January 2019 stay away which resulted to state sponsored violence that claimed 17 lives as the citizens took to the stre...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 12:17hrs | 439 | by Stephen Jakes
US dollar payouts spread to Insiza
MORE than 2 461 households from Insiza, in Matabeleland South province will receive monthly payouts of US$9 per person in each household with effect from this month as part of alleviating food shortag...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2466 | by Staff reporter
Zacc corners GMB workers
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has cornered officials at the Grain Marketing Board and discovered that some employees were allegedly channelling as much as 10 000, 20kg bags Government...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:59hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Shambolic billing system cripples Harare
For the past four months, Harare City Council (HCC) has been struggling to provide bills to ratepayers owing to billing system glitches.City fathers decided to ditch the BIQ billing system aft...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to pardon 5 000 inmates
GOVERNMENT is in a dilemma as it tries to find a quick solution to decongest local prisons that are now overcrowded, thereby creating all sorts of challenges.Previously, the State has tried to...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:56hrs | 1109 | by Staff reporter
Zacc busts roller meal syndicate
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has busted a syndicate involving Grain Marketing Board (GMB) workers who are allegedly hoarding mealie-meal for resale on the black market at extortionat...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:49hrs | 295 | by Bishop Lazarus
'Mono-currency here to stay'
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube on Friday said Government has no intention to change its policy on the mono-currency and will introduce stiff penalties against those w...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:47hrs | 924 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steps up grain imports
Maize imports have been stepped up to 110 000 tonnes per month to guarantee food security, especially at a time when the 2018-2019 drought - regarded by the United Nations as the worst in 40 years - i...Published: 09 Feb 2020 at 05:46hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's apocalyptic end as Zimbabwe President
BERLIN - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly going to be viciously toppled from power in a catastrophic manner, that will include a combination of mass civil revolts and militia-like insurrect...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 11:14hrs | 22425 | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe army chiefs panic, deploy special forces
MILITARY commanders have deployed large numbers of officers from the Zimbabwe Intelligence Corps (ZIC), commonly known as military intelligence (MI), the elite Special Air Service (SAS) and the Specia...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:14hrs | 9898 | by Staff reporter
Indicators point towards further Zimdollar loss
CURRENCY instability remains one of the fundamental challenges the Zimbabwe economy is facing. The lack of a stable exchange rate stems from weak economic fundamentals such as high inflation, cash sho...Published: 07 Feb 2020 at 06:09hrs | 1211 | by Respect Gwenzi
'ZANU PF Youth leaders pose threat to national food security'
Suspended ZANU PF Youth leaders Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being a threat to national food security after they accused Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe Boss Tafadzwa Masarar...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 09:10hrs | 2250 | by Mandla Ndlovu
BCC threatens to engage soldiers to deal with lawlessness
Bulawayo City Council has threatened to engage the members of the Zimbabwe National Army to deal with lawless residents if the level of lawlessness keeps ...Published: 06 Feb 2020 at 07:13hrs | 4391 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabwe to host high-level UN conference on SDGs
Zimbabwe will at the end of this month host the high-level Sixth Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD).In that regard, Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 19:16hrs | 759 | by Xinhua
Zanu-PF headed for another split?
ZANU-PF Youth League deputy secretary Lewis Matutu allegedly walked out of a Politburo meeting held at the party's headquarters in Harare on Wednesday afternoon.According to journalist Hopewel...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 15:25hrs | 5107 | by Staff reporter
BCC suspends rodent control services
Bulawayo City Council recently suspended rodent control services due to chemicals shortages.This is revealed in the latest council minutes."Servicing of the rodent belt as the rodentic...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 13:26hrs | 523 | by Stephen Jakes
'Zanu-PF disintegrating'
ZANU-PF Youth leaders Godfrey Tsenengamu and Lewis Matutu have been accused of being the foot soldiers in a new plot to oust Vice President Constantino Chiwenga by a faction linked to Defense Minister...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 12:16hrs | 1664 | by Staff reporter
Lewis Matutu, Godfrey Tsenengamu sued over press conference
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) Boss Tafadzwa Masarara has announced that he is instituting legal proceedings against ZANU PF Youth leaders Lewis Matutu and Godfrey Tsenengamu over allega...Published: 05 Feb 2020 at 09:55hrs | 3182 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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