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Zimbabwe records massive jump in trade surplus
ZIMBABWE will record a trade surplus for the second year running, after recording a threefold-increase in its current account to US$939 million in the first nine months of the year, Finance and Econom...Published: 1 hr ago | 75 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic continues with digital banking agenda
HARARE - 30 NOVEMBER 2020 Stanbic Bank continues to implement its digitization strategy as it seeks to remain in sync with the futuristic need for technological advancement as well as the dictates of ...Published: 10 hrs ago | 705 | by Agencies
Chief Charumbira finally confirms that 5th Brigade targeted Ndebeles only
"We have heard lies being thrown around in the media. They are saying we have been captured to white-wash the gukurahundi reburial. Well let me make it clear that is not the case. Only Chiefs from Mat...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4075 | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa's ministers blasted over reckless no mask Covid-19 'superspreader' birthday party
Several ministers and guests gathered in Harare on Saturday to celebrate the 60th birthday of information minister Monica Mutsvangwa with no mask in sight.Zimbabweans reacted with anger after ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 3880 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa honours King Lobengula's commander
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1665 | by Staff reporter
COVID-19 increases vulnerability to HIV infection
COVID-19 is said to be increasing vulnerability to HIV infection, increasing the need for Zimbabwe to scale up its fight against the epidemic.This was revealed by the National Aids Council in ...Published: 14 hrs ago | 354 | by Staff reporter
Zesa apologises to residents
ZESA has apologised to residents of suburbs that have spent a week without power after it failed to meet a Saturday deadline to restore power following a major fault at Glenville Substation in Richmon...Published: 14 hrs ago | 1621 | by Staff reporter
Met Dept warns of countrywide flooding
FLASH FLOODS are expected countrywide this week as the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) has warned of thunderstorms and heavy rains. The department advised resumption of insecticide sp...Published: 15 hrs ago | 988 | by Staff reporter
National Hero status for Gen Mtshana Khumalo
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has posthumously conferred National Hero status on revered military tactician, General Mtshana Khumalo ahead of the unveiling of a monument at the site where the commander won his ...Published: 15 hrs ago | 616 | by Staff reporter
Corruption: Mayor back in court
The ruling on the bail application by Harare Mayor Jacob Mafume, who allegedly corruptly allocated Westlea stands to his sister and his law firm's secretary, is likely to be given today by deputy chie...Published: 15 hrs ago | 244 | by Staff reporter
ZIFA come out guns blazing
THE ZIFA board have come out with guns blazing, accusing the Sports and Recreation of angling for the dissolution of their leadership, and saying the suspension of chief executive, Joseph Mamutse, wil...Published: 15 hrs ago | 243 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube targets US$1bn from Cannabis Levy
THE Government will next year introduce a Cannabis Levy as it angles to tap into the envisaged boom in the production of the crop in the country following the decision to legalise and commercialise it...Published: 15 hrs ago | 199 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga camps clash over G40
Outbursts by a top ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa declaring that G40 elements remain firmly within Zanu-PF's top levels have heightened fears in the party that the president's loyalists are targ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 6794 | by Staff reporter
Covid-19 certificates needed to cross Beitbridge border
South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Dr Aaron Motsoaledi said people entering and leaving South Africa through the Beitbridge border post this festive season would now be required to produce Covid-19 ...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 07:11hrs | 2099 | by Staff reporter
We're not the first lady's cronies, says MP
MIDLANDS proportional representation MP Perseviarance Zhou says first lady Auxilia Mnangagwa is only a patron of PPAC Investments Private Limited, which runs a recreational park in Kwekwe.Zhou...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:53hrs | 1761 | by Editor
Zimbabwe puts cap on sugar imports
THE Government has capped free sugar imports under the Open General Import Licence in a bid to encourage consumption of the locally produced commodity.In the recently announced 2021 National B...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 06:47hrs | 261 | by Staff reporter
Imports of old second hand cars banned
Imports of second-hand vehicles more than 10 years old are to be banned to contain the import bill and promote the domestic motor industry, while all vehicles imported from Japan now require prior cle...Published: 28 Nov 2020 at 07:08hrs | 883 | by Staff reporter
'No 2021 tax clearance certificates to improperly fiscalised operators'
Zimbabwe's tax collector has threatened to withhold 2021 tax clearance certificates to all registered business operators that have not properly fiscalised as most operators are not remitting taxes in ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:23hrs | 2678 | by Staff reporter
ZRP urges caution during rainy season
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police has warned citizens to remain vigilant and avoid risky behaviour during the upcoming rainy season in order to save lives and property.Zimbabwe was expected to start re...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 17:15hrs | 238 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC fires executive over 'leaked audio'
THE MDC Alliance national standing committee yesterday recommended the expulsion of Bulawayo province women's assembly chairperson, Tendai Masotsha over her utterances in a leaked audio that the oppos...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:30hrs | 9392 | by Staff reporter
Zifa, SRC bosses suspended
THE Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) board last night suspended Zifa chief executive Joseph Mamutse from all football activities amid reports that the Under-17 boys and girls teams travelled to ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:25hrs | 777 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga, nurses headed for another showdown
A legal showdown is looming between Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga (pictured below), who doubles as Health minister, and public hospital nurses, with the health professionals vowing to continue f...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:15hrs | 1932 | by Staff reporter
RBZ swoops on foreign entities
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has launched an investigation into the conduct of at least 15 foreign-owned companies, which have allegedly externalised millions of United States dollars, according...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 4124 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's security related ministries to gobble $61 billion
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Thursday allocated a combined $61.4 billion towards the three key security ministries while allocating just 5 kilogrammes of maize seed for poor and vulnerable households...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:04hrs | 741 | by Staff reporter
Girls College closed over Covid-19 case
GIRLS College in Bulawayo has indefinitely closed following a Covid-19 case which was detected after the school held a leavers' party for Upper Six students. This development comes at a time w...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:02hrs | 731 | by Staff reporter
Prince Dube in injury setback
IN-FORM Zimbabwe international forward, Prince Dube, is likely to be out of action for a number of weeks. He suffered a left arm fracture in a league match between his club Azam and Young Africans in ...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:59hrs | 243 | by Staff reporter
Govt to centralise control of State firms
THE Government will adopt a centralised ownership model for State-owned enterprises (SOEs) to eliminate inconsistencies in governance and ministerial interferences, Finance and Economic Development Mi...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 06:54hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter
Mamombe a metal case, says Chinotimba
BUHERA South legislator Joseph Chinotimba yesterday caused a storm in Parliament after he described Harare West Legislator Joanah Mamombe as mentally ill.Chinotimba made the remarks after Mamo...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:25hrs | 3762 | by Staff reporter
Alarm over Harare flyover bridge
HARARE City Council yesterday admitted it was not inspecting its infrastructure due to resource and skills constraints, a development that could prove disastrous following claims that a bridge on a bu...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:20hrs | 1290 | by Staff reporter
All eyes on Mthuli Ncube's budget
VENDORS, teachers and retailers are pinning their hopes on today's budget presentation by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to address key issues affecting their constituencies that have been hard hit by ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:16hrs | 774 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC morphs into a terrorist ragtag?
A young politician with vibrancy is what many people thought of the advocate-cum-pastor and leader of a party that some believed was the true voice of an alternative logic. Nelson Chamisa foun...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:10hrs | 523 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Bere contests JSC recommendation
SACKED Supreme Court Judge Francis Bere on Monday contested the recommendation by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) that a tribunal should inquire into his fitness to hold the office of a judge, t...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:09hrs | 569 | by Staff reporter
Air Force of Zimbabwe mourns crash victims
An Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) aircraft, SF 260 Genet trainer, crashed near Dabuka Railway Siding in Gweru around 2pm on Tuesday killing instructor Squadron Leader Mkhululi Dube (37) and trainee pilot...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:07hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
Social impact report disclosure for Batoka Gorge electricity scheme begins
The Zambezi River Authority is embarking on the public disclosure of the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment Report for the development of the billion-dollar Batoka Gorge Hydro-Electric Scheme ...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 06:00hrs | 1089 | by Staff reporter
2 Zimbabwe students awarded Rhodes scholarships
THE list of Zimbabwe Rhodes 2021 scholarship beneficiaries has been unveiled with the scholarship targeting to promote outstanding postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford in the Uni...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:47hrs | 1339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Airforce plane crashes
AN Air Force of Zimbabwe instructor and a female student pilot died when a training plane they were flying developed a technical fault and crashed at Dabuka in Somabula on the outskirts of Gweru yeste...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:42hrs | 3692 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Politburo on tomorrow
The revolutionary ZANU-PF party is holding its Politburo meeting tomorrow at its headquarters in Harare.In a statement, the party`s Acting Secretary for Information and Publicity Patrick China...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 21:37hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Fitch and Moody's downgrade South Africa's credit ratings further
In a move that Finance Minister Tito Mboweni described as 'painful', rating agencies Fitch and Moody's pushed South Africa's credit rating deeper into the scrap heap of junk with downgrades announced ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 05:04hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Activist demands govt to disclose Zimbabwe's total debt
A HARARE lawyer, who is also a disability rights activist has approached the High Court demanding to know the total amount of debt that Zimbabwe owes to internal and external creditors.The act...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:55hrs | 700 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe minister linked Zinara workers in $2 million fuel levy scandal
The Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) allegedly lost US$21 000 ($2 million) to a syndicate of employees working in its cash office through misrepresentation of money paid for fuel levies....Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:54hrs | 2284 | by Staff reporter
They want me dead, says Matemadanda
ZANU-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda, who was allegedly poisoned during a party meeting a fortnight ago, yesterday claimed that there were people in the ruling Zanu-PF party that wanted him d...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:41hrs | 6797 | by Staff reporter
Zacras tells govt to license more community radio stations
THE Zimbabwe Association of Community Radio Stations (Zacras) has called on government to license more community radio stations to assist in the fight against COVID-19.Government in February a...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:38hrs | 136 | by Staff reporter
Sheriff accused of dereliction of duty
THE Deputy Sheriff of Bulawayo Nathaniel Bhunu has been accused by the Anglican Province of Central Africa Church Diocese of Matabeleland of abandoning the eviction of illegal settlers at Cyrene Farm ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:35hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC failure-bound foray to the countryside
MDC-Alliance's youth assembly held a national executive council meeting in Bulawayo two weeks ago where it resolved to boost the party's electoral fortunes in 2023 by moving to rural areas to recruit ...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:24hrs | 1485 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Matemadanda back at work
Deputy Minister for Defence and War Veterans Affairs Victor Matemadanda is out of danger after a health scare.Matemadanda who was at some point last week hospitalised following a sudden illnes...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:32hrs | 944 | by Staff reporter
3 more Covid-19 deaths
THREE Covid-19 deaths and 48 new infections were recorded in Zimbabwe in the past 24 hours with reports that the national recovery rate is now at 85.9 percent.Two of the deaths were reported i...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 17:30hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
Trump, Chamisa birds of the same feather
Outgoing United States (US) president, Donald Trump and Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa both refused to concede defeat, in their separate elections. The world is surprised by...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 14:38hrs | 809 | by Prosperity Mzila
Chiwenga goes after fake Covid-19 certificates conmen
VICE President and Health minister Constantino Chiwenga has vowed to bring to book people who are selling fake Covid-19 certificates.Zimbabweans intending to travel out of the country are requ...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:02hrs | 2509 | by Staff reporter
More confusion about Cosafa disqualification
A CONFEDERATION of African Football (Caf ) official says being disqualified from the Cosafa Under-17 competition does not imply age-cheating, creating more confusion about Zimbabwe's disqualification....Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:17hrs | 1920 | by Staff reporter
Botswana lifts cross border travel restrictions
Botswana announced yesterday that it is re-opening some of its borders to passenger traffic from December 1. This comes a few weeks after Zimbabwe's Cabinet approved the gradual re-opening of its land...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 05:02hrs | 2440 | by Staff reporter
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