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Zimbabwe land reform scam - 13 years after the genocide in Matebeleland and Midlands
This article intends to capture the poignant moment when Zanu began its unpunished abuse of public office soon after Zimbabwe's independence.All along Zanu felt a false sense of achievement in...Published: 14 May 2025 at 21:00hrs | 355 | by Moses Mzila Nkalange (Ndlovu)
Zanu-PF-induced pain not ending anytime soon
THE Zanu-PF government is very playful. The State of Nation Address (SONA) be President Emmerson Mnangagwa is a signal that the perpetual evil and pain induced on the people is not going to end any ti...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:43hrs | 173 | by Brian Sedze
'Zimbabweans are already overtaxed'
AMERICAN financial literacy website, Investopedia defines 'wealth tax' as a tax based on the market value of assets owned by a taxpayer.A wealth tax is typically put on a 'high-net-worth' indi...Published: 03 Dec 2023 at 17:37hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Doctors accused of diverting attention to private business
MEDICAL doctors across the country have been accused of diverting their attention to their private businesses at the expense of the tax payers who fund the salaries they get while working in gov...Published: 30 Nov 2023 at 15:05hrs | 10 | by Stephen Jakes
Strategic ambiguity costly to Zimbabwe
CCC's lack of a party constitution and established structures under the guise of "strategic ambiguity" is costing Zimbabweans US$5,3 million from the fiscus to run the December 9 by-elections, which w...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa has learnt nothing from the MDC etal vs Mashavira etal court judgement
CHAMISA HAS LEARNT NOTHING FROM THE MDC ET AL VS. MASHAVIRA ET AL 31 MARCH 2020 SUPREME COURT JUDGMENT NELSON CHAMISA:"We have not officially launched the Triple C in terms of the structur...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 11:53hrs | | by Jonathan Moyo
Parliament petitioned to change car scheme
When political parties recall and replace parliamentarians, the old and new legislators should not both be able to benefit from the Parliamentary vehicle loan scheme, Progressive and Patriotic Citizen...Published: 07 Jun 2023 at 06:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Health workers trained using tax payers' money owe us,' says Chiwenga
VICE President Constantino Chiwenga has said health workers trained locally using Zimbabwe's resources must ‘pay back' through working in public hospitals.Chiwenga added that in the future w...Published: 05 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Malema in soup for fighting Ramaphosa
South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader Julius Sello Malema has come under fire on social media after he said President ...Published: 22 Dec 2022 at 08:25hrs | 30 | by Simbarashe Sithole
A clinical test for the opposition
Every institution is bound with the code of conduct which helps an organisation to run professionally and within the parameters of operations....Published: 02 Dec 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
Exposing Mudenda and Chokuda double standards
Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda and the Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Mugove Chokuda have been exposed as being corrupt and dishonest in executing their duties and functions at Parliament.Th...Published: 21 Sep 2022 at 11:22hrs | | by Maxwell Chaunoita
New parastatals on cards, restructuring continues
GOVERNMENT will continue to restructure and partially privatise parastatals including establishing new ones in order to buttress the ongoing economic transformation drive in line with Vision 2030....Published: 16 Aug 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Foul play disguised as incompetence at the Competition and Tariff Commission
I am an avid reader and consumer of all things Competition and Anti Monopolies related. I believe in healthy competition and have learnt a thing or two from watching the American Sherman act evolve in...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 12:48hrs | 5 | by Thabo Nkiwane
Mthuli Ncube told his tricks are not working
LEGISLATORS took Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube to task in Parliament Wednesday, challenging him over the government's "failed" NDS-1 economic blue-print and the administration's apparent lac...Published: 16 Jun 2022 at 08:34hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army will step in if Zanu-PF loses in 2023, calls for dialogue'
LITTLE known opposition Ideas Party for Democracy (IDP) president, Herbert Chamuka, has warned Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) commander, Valerio Sibanda, might step in to save ruling Zanu-PF if it lose...Published: 10 May 2022 at 07:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mayors, council chairpersons sign performance contracts
MAYORS and council chairpersons from the country's urban and rural authorities yesterday signed performance based contracts in line with Government's thrust of monitoring to ensure all arms of governm...Published: 01 May 2022 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo queries Mnangagwa's wasteful use of resources
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been advised to do away with the culture of splurging on top of the range vehicles for ministers and top bureaucrats and instead use the funds to develop the country....Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:43hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Chaos rocks Mwonzora's MDC
CONFUSION is regining supreme in the opposition MDC Alliance in the aftermath of a heavy deafeat in the Saturday by-election, with a senior party official purporting to have suspended embattled leader...Published: 28 Mar 2022 at 06:54hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Egg on face for Mnangagwa in Glasgow
The much anticipated COP26, UN Summit in Glasgow (Scotland) has turned tables upside down on ED and his entourage who were expecting merry-making at the expense of suffering tax payers back home. Inst...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:18hrs | 11 | by Zakhele Maphosa
Disgraceful Mnangagwa Delegation on a Shopping Spree in Glasgow
Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ZANU PF delegation are on a shopping spree in Glasgow as the vast of Zimbabweans languish in poverty.Instead of attending the COP26 summit and contribute meaningful ...Published: 02 Nov 2021 at 13:49hrs | 11 | by Prince Njagu
Women Organisation Petitions Parliament
The women's Reform Network Representative yesterday handed over their petition to the Parliament of Zimbabwe and Ministry of local government over the women's representation in local government. ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 08:03hrs | 4 | by Shelton Muchena and Tarisai Mudahondo
Zimra registers 21 643 new tax payers
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) says a total of 21 643 enterprises were registered as new tax payers in the year 2020 as the Government's efforts to widen revenue collection bear fruit. ...Published: 06 Sep 2021 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Import Substitution: A case for soya beans
For the past 10 years, Zimbabwe has produced an average of 56 000 metric tonnes (mt) of soya beans per year against national demand of 240 000 mt for food, animal feed and industrial consumption. In t...Published: 01 Sep 2021 at 15:26hrs | 36 | by Victor Bhoroma
Do we need more diseases that freak out our leaders for them to finally attend to crumbling health care system?
It is really strange, in fact, creepy, how people appear freaked out and terrified by the thought of death and dying.Honestly, as much as most of us are not suicidal, and not actively seeking ...Published: 30 Aug 2021 at 17:37hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
UK deportees: Rapists, murderers leave trail of broken lives
Zimbabweans in the United Kingdom are divided on the deportations of their counterparts, mainly criminals living in that country who have served more than a year in prison. Many opposition group...Published: 24 Jul 2021 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
'State firms' crisis can be averted'
ZIMBABWE'S rundown state enterprises can bounce back without being transferred to private hands, a new report indicated last week, discounting the long –held view that privatisation presented the be...Published: 06 Jun 2021 at 10:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Business escalates rice tax deadlock
ZIMBABWE'S retail and wholesale industries, under pressure from Treasury to pay a controversial tax on rice in retrospect, have approached President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Vice-President Co...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 07:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A political crisis looming in Zimbabwe ahead of 2023 election
The once prosperous southern African country's economy is now at its weakest point with low investment, low exports and very high debts. Corruption is ripping the country apart with little effort bein...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 12:05hrs | 2 | by Leonard Koni
Mafume exposes MDC Alliance's poor leadership pedigree
Last week, social media was on fire when the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana revealed that despite getting three times less in ...Published: 19 Feb 2021 at 06:48hrs | 1 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Poor grain production hurting Zimbabwe economy
Zimbabwe has been a net importer of food for the past 2 decades and the country's import bill has increasingly featured grain imports with maize imports averaging 1.1 million Metric Tonnes (MT) per ye...Published: 25 Jan 2021 at 13:18hrs | 1 | by Victor Bhoroma
Fake 'unity' gestures will never bring Zimbabweans together, but urgent need for real leadership
My views on political parties are very much on public record - as, I consider them the main drivers in dividing a nation apart, through purely artificial plots, deliberately designed by politicians in...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:10hrs | | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zimra 'clarifies' backdated VAT on rice
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has maintained that the collection of Value Added Tax (VAT) on rice packages of 25 kilogrammes and below, which is being backdated to February 2017, is in line w...Published: 25 Dec 2020 at 07:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Economic growth stimulus precedes taxation
Zimbabwe's 2021 national budget paints a picture of sustained austerity in the mid-term, with increases in taxes for various sectors of the depressed economy. A 126% jump in budgeted tax revenue colle...Published: 22 Dec 2020 at 19:28hrs | 12 | by Victor Bhoroma
Lessons Learnt from WaMagaisa's Farm Mechanisation Expose'
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted peoples' lives in an unimaginable way, unless you are Bill Gates who anticipated the scourge. This disruption has forced organisations and governments across the gl...Published: 18 Dec 2020 at 11:11hrs | 1 | by Edzai Zvobwo
Govt's shoddy road-job exposed by torrent rainfall
A Government project to tar the 57 km Gutu-Buhera Road has been shambolic. To start with the site engineer was suspended one-year into the project after he allegedly abused millions of dollars' worth ...Published: 16 Dec 2020 at 14:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Govt investigates corona donations
AUTHORITIES are launching a nationwide probe into donated coronavirus funds and other materials, amid fears that significant portions of these gifts were looted by politically-connected individuals, t...Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 06:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Retailers seek tax exemption on rice
RETAILERS and suppliers have approached Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's office seeking exemption from paying value-added tax (VAT) on rice.Government recently ordered them to pay VAT on ...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra intensifies audits
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) has intensified audits as part of efforts to plug revenue leakages on Zimbabwe's ports of entry amid indications the economy is losing billions annually through ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dealers appeal for removal of VAT on rice
Players in the rice supply chain have appealed to Government to reconsider a 14,5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charge on the commodity. A Government VAT payment request in retrospect, for a p...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unpacking Professor Stephen Chan's interview with Bernard
There are no imaginative skills on how to move the country forward internally and externally, be it economic and political in both the ruling party and the opposition of Nelson Chamisa. In 2018,...Published: 17 Oct 2020 at 11:58hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Mthuli Ncube clarifies 2% tax
WHILE the objective of Intermediate Money Transfer Tax (IMTT) was to bring the previously untaxed informal businesses under the tax bracket, captains of industry claim it has had double taxation effec...Published: 16 Oct 2020 at 06:52hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe to keep getting IMF technical support'
GOVERNMENT has said it will continue working with international financial institutions (IFIs), including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after its aborted Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP) with th...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:45hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
After TSP, diaspora engagement critical, says Mthuli Ncube
AS government winds up the Transitional Stabilisation Programme (TSP) amid a plethora of challenges it faces in turning around the economy, the Zimbabwe Independent (ZI) caught up with Finance ministe...Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 07:43hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube unveils foreign currency income tax thresholds
Treasury has unveiled foreign currency denominated income tax bands that will see the tax free threshold pegged at US$350 while the highest bracket will be for those earning more than US$15 000 per mo...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe is doomed
Zimbabweans are a doomed people for as long as this ZANU PF is in power. We live in a country where the ruling party tops corruption tendencies. And they force the media to keep quiet about it...Published: 07 Sep 2020 at 22:58hrs | | by Tawanda Muyeye
Cry for the land again
By land is meant not merely land in the strict sense of the word, but whole of the materials and forces which nature gives freely for man's aid in land, water, in air and light and heat.In Eco...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
MP calls for Zifa board dissolution
A National Assembly legislator yesterday called for the dissolution of the Zifa Board following a string of incidents he says have embarrassed the country. Rising through a point of privilege, Souther...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Fifa wants unloved Chiyangwa back at Zifa
FIFA believe a solution could still be found to the crisis engulfing Zimbabwe football and have opened an avenue for dialogue between ZIFA president Felton Kamambo and COSAFA boss Philip Chiyangwa. Th...Published: 04 Sep 2019 at 08:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kirsty Coventry lashes out at Zifa
Sports Minister Kirsty Coventry has lashed out at the Zimbabwe Football Association (Zifa) for the aborted second round Olympic qualifier between Zimbabwe national women soccer team and Zambia....Published: 03 Sep 2019 at 10:50hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
It must be compulsory for Zimbabwe MPs to attend all Parliament sessions: No walk out
The government must make it mandatory or compulsory for all MPs to participate in the debate of all bills or issues concerning our country.That is what those MPs were elected for and are being paid fo...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by Njabulo
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