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Zimbabwe trade deficit narrows to US$137,7 million
Zimbabwe's trade deficit shrank to US$137.7 million in October 2024, marking a 34.3% decrease from the US$209.5 million recorded in September. This positive trend is attributed to a significant growth...Published: 07 Dec 2024 at 10:33hrs | 517 | by Staff reporter
Ramaphosa's economy shrinks 0.3%
The South African economy unexpectedly contracted by 0.3% from the second to the third quarter this year.Economists polled by Reuters expected growth of 0.5%.In the third quarter, the ...Published: 03 Dec 2024 at 15:39hrs | 309 | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 15 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
By-elections: The morning after
ZANU-PF's Wednesday St Mary's rally was a turning point in several ways. Of course, the most obvious marker were the numbers that attended, something even the blind could see and feel.I cannot...Published: 26 Mar 2022 at 06:14hrs | | by @Jamwanda2
Telecel still viable, says Potraz
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says Telecel Zimbabwe remains a viable business entity as long as it accesses foreign currency timeously.Potra...Published: 14 Feb 2022 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Half a million Zimbabweans lose jobs
ABOUT 500 000 Zimbabweans have lost their jobs since the Covid-19 pandemic broke out last year igniting de-industrialisation, the World Bank (WB) said, as it revealed extensive food shortages and wors...Published: 13 Jun 2021 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube may massage his ego, and praise-worship his master, but Zimbabweans know that nothing has improved for them
I am one of those people who find immense joy and pleasure from reading, especially immeasurable delight in continually acquiring new knowledge everyday - but, when I set my eyes on a recent article b...Published: 22 Mar 2021 at 16:14hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
South Africa economy shrank by 7% in 2020
The SA economy contracted by 7% during 2020, as expected given the unprecedented impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on economies worldwide.Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) on Tuesday released t...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Govt has failed to resolve strike by teachers, and all civil servants
The major reason why the Zimbabwe government is failing is in whole part for its reason to resist the tide. For a start, the government has over the decades tried and failed dismally to control th...Published: 18 Nov 2020 at 12:29hrs | 1 | by Zanda Shumba
Reviewing Zimbabwe's austerity reforms
Zimbabwe launched its austerity measures under the Transitional Stabilization Programme (TSP) in October 2018. The stabilization programme itself is running from October 2018 to December 2020. Austeri...Published: 02 Sep 2019 at 09:37hrs | | by Victor Bhoroma
Zimbabwe six months on: Life in the fast lane
In October 2017, just six months ago, Robert Mugabe was state president and it looked as if we were stuck with him for another five-year term after elections in 2018.There seemed to be no poss...Published: 29 Mar 2018 at 13:50hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Zim has opportunity to break the stranglehold of kleptocracy
Robert Mugabe, one of Africa's longest-serving, and worst, presidents is gone after 37 years of misruling the southern African country of Zimbabwe.That is cause for rejoicing. It was not...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 15:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's liberator and, for many, its oppressor
When he came to power, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was feted as an African liberation hero in a nation that had endured nearly a century of white colonial rule. Mugabe has not been seen since the...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 08:44hrs | | by Cris Chinaka
Tsvangirai and Khupe just have to work it out
I have never claimed to be neutral - so here I go!The standoff between MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai and one of his three deputies, Thokozani Khupe, over the political trade-offs with other o...Published: 08 Sep 2017 at 06:39hrs | | by Conway Tutani
'Mugabe also fearful'
President Robert Mugabe - like the majority of Zimbabweans who told pollsters that they fear criticising him - is also scared of the future, former Finance minister Simba Makoni has said.This ...Published: 12 May 2017 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
POEM: When I lived
When I Lived The girls where all over meOther men could not get over itMy friends were mad with envy.My mother knew nothing of itIn me she s...Published: 18 Mar 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Carlo-Marcel Dube
Woman gives birth to 'frog'
In an incident that has baffled Gokwe villagers, a 36-year-old woman gave birth to a frog-like creature after she suddenly got into labour while at home. The expectant mother, who was eight months...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 07:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mawarire left Zimbabwe under hard-to-understand circumstances
One basic rule in politics is never to concede ground, still less to allow shrinkage of the space you hold or dominate.You live true to this motto both by being careful not to tread on doubtfu...Published: 25 Sep 2016 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Nathaniel Manheru
Mugabe's vultures descend on London
Mugabe's Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has admitted that Zimbabwe is broke. 'Right now we have nothing', he said on a visit to France to beg for money. Asked in an interview with Radio France Int...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:47hrs | | by Zimbabwe Vigil
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 8 | by Nomazulu Thata
Don't mess with Grace Mugabe
During a state banquet in Pretoria, South Africa, in April 2015, I had a brief encounter with Grace Mugabe, the first lady of Zimbabwe. I was asking her husband, Robert Mugabe, about the question of ...Published: 16 Jul 2015 at 08:47hrs | | by David Smith
Promiscuity in Zimbabwe: any near solution to it?
Sibusisiwe: Well this is the only job I can do, sell at the market. At least you have a husband, if you cannot get any sales there is a second income, a backup income. You are not left on y...Published: 01 Jun 2015 at 13:33hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata taken from the ebook:
Xenophobic Attacks in SA - Blame the politicians and their politics of redistribution and patronage
Yesterday, the war cry was "kill the Boer." Today, the cry is "kill the BLACK immigrant." Black on black violence. Tomorrow, the war cry would be "kill the Indian," and finally "kill the white ...Published: 15 Apr 2015 at 06:15hrs | 8 | by Tendai Kwari
Zimbabwe making headway, same as that of the Israelites
After breaking ranks from the West's exploitative machinations, Zimbabwe had to be a practical example of the misguided and evil wrath of Britain and her allies, but fortune has a way of finding Zimba...Published: 03 Feb 2015 at 17:00hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
Robert Mugabe defies gravity again
Against all odds, President Mugabe yesterday bagged the African Union chairmanship. He did not waste time, immediately striking the tenor as to the nature of his year-long leadership of the continent...Published: 31 Jan 2015 at 09:52hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Majestic Victoria Falls - 'Zimbabwe's goldmine'
CNN - (CNN) -- Spray from Victoria Falls hits the faces of tourists and locals as they look down at Africa's most famous waterfall. The water acts as a wake-up call, but this spectacular sig...Published: 19 Nov 2014 at 14:59hrs | | by The-CNN-Wire
Tobacco surge 'justifies Mugabe's land grabs'
Zimbabwe's biggest tobacco sales in 13 years vindicate the land transfer campaign pursued by President Robert Mugabe's government, according to Agriculture Minister Joseph Made.The more than ...Published: 07 Jul 2014 at 16:56hrs | | by Bloomberg
IMF to appoint its first country head for Zimbabwe in a decade
The International Monetary Fund is appointing a resident representative in Zimbabwe for the first time in 10 years as the southern African country seeks to mend relations with the lender.C...Published: 13 Jun 2014 at 15:22hrs | | by Bloomberg
Nigeria surpasses SA as Africa's biggest economy
LAGOS - New data has revealed that Nigeria has overtaken South Africa as the continent's largest economy after a rebasing calculation nearly doubled its GDP. Gross Domestic Product (G...Published: 07 Apr 2014 at 07:57hrs | | by Reuters
Urban decay grips Harare
On Harare's hardscrabble streets, college graduates compete with peasants scratching out a living selling anything from mobile phone cards to herbal sex tonics, a measure of the decline of Zimbabwe's ...Published: 03 Apr 2014 at 10:31hrs | | by Reuters
Zimbabwe bans imports of fresh fruits and vegetables with immediate effect
Harare - Zimbabwe has banned imports of fresh fruit and vegetables with immediate effect, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday, arguing that increased local production will meet domestic demand....Published: 02 Apr 2014 at 15:20hrs | 10 | by Reuters
2000 workers to lose their jobs in Zimbabwe
Over 2000 workers are set to be laid off this month with more companies earmarked to retrench more workers in the coming months, The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has revealed.ZCTU...Published: 12 Mar 2014 at 08:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe says Zanu-PF will choose successor
President Robert Mugabe said on Friday members of his party would choose his eventual replacement, but gave no time line despite a mounting succession battle triggered by long-denied reports he is suf...Published: 14 Dec 2013 at 16:00hrs | | by Reuters
Freedom, a key to development
History has shown us that freedom is the key to development. Liberating parties in Africa have claimed to represent people but in actual fact they have made the lives of Africans far worse than at...Published: 26 Nov 2013 at 01:07hrs | | by Zanda Shumba
Zimbabwe's rusting factories put Mugabe in a bind
Across Zimbabwe, dozens of factories lie idle with peeling paint, rusting machines and broken roofs in once bustling industrial districts, symbols of the huge economic challenge facing President Rober...Published: 15 Nov 2013 at 06:20hrs | | by Reuters
Witchcraft scare as $300 airtime money 'shrinks' to $26
A Shurugwi Econet shop operator was left literally clutching thin air after selling mobile phone credit recharge cards worth $300 to three men before the money miraculously "shrank" to $26.One...Published: 14 Sep 2013 at 04:40hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Asian shares climb to a two-week high, yen retreats, yen retreats
Asian shares climbed to a two-week high on Monday, and the Australian dollar and copper gained, as China said its manufacturing expanded in August at the fastest pace in more than a year.A de...Published: 02 Sep 2013 at 04:19hrs | | by Staff Report
Mugabe victory, fears Zim economy could be up for another bumpy ride
Robert Mugabe's apparent landslide election victory has prompted fears that Zimbabwe's barely resuscitated economy is in for another bumpy ride.The full results are not yet in, but Mugabe's tr...Published: 03 Aug 2013 at 04:57hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Tsvangirai's bid to end Mugabe's rule fades
Five years ago Morgan Tsvangirai was leading Zimbabwe's presidential vote and appeared set to end Robert Mugabe's rule of the southern African nation before violence cut short the balloting. With new...Published: 11 Jul 2013 at 05:56hrs | | by Brian Latham I Bloomberg
US jobless rate falls to 7.5%
The US jobless rate fell to 7.5% in April with 165,000 jobs added, the Labor Department said Friday. The news prompted the Dow Jones to rise more than 140 points on the day and the dollar spiked ...Published: 05 Jun 2013 at 09:10hrs | | by News Wires
MDC-T, Zanu-PF economic blueprints: Big on style, weak on form and substance
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party last week launched its new economic blueprint, Jobs, Upliftment, Investment, Capital and the Environment (Juice) to succeed the Reconstruction Stabilisat...Published: 08 Jan 2013 at 12:14hrs | | by Clive Mphambela, The Independent
Zuma is coming on a rescue mission
Russia's Putin has won a new term into Presidential Office. With that victory comes a new ogre for Europe and America, both of which are already talking of discovering Putin's vulnerabilities for a co...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 07:24hrs | | by Nathaniel Manheru
Africa's economy rebounds without jobs
The 2011 Economic Report on Africa predicts a steady growth of African economies. Indeed, the report announces a 5% increase rate for the continent this year compared to the 4.7% recorded in 2010....Published: 28 Jun 2011 at 16:53hrs | | by Kingsley Ighobor
Botswana strikers to re-apply for jobs
Gaborone - Botswana will allow more than 1 400 health workers to re-apply for their jobs after they were sacked for ignoring a court order to end a strike, an official said on Tuesday.But the ...Published: 07 Jun 2011 at 13:38hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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