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Cross-border traders want validity of Covid-19 test certificate extended
CROSS border traders have implored President Emmerson Mnangagwa to extend the validity time frame of Covid-19 tests.Cross Border Traders Association of Zimbabwe president Killer Zivhu said tha...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 18:21hrs | 1813 | by Staff reporter
Chaos as intercity travel resumes
MAJOR bus termini, depots and popular hiking spots in Bulawayo were yesterday a hive of activity as transport operators resumed inter-city routes amid jostling by travellers as they boarded buses. ...Published: 30 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 1004 | by Staff reporter
Cross-border traders worry over COVID-19 testing costs
CROSS-border traders have expressed readiness to jump into action when borders re-open this Thursday and are ready to undergo Covid-19 testing in line with health and safety guidelines. Govern...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 07:37hrs | 834 | by Staff reporter
Ex-police commissioner spills the beans on corrupt top cops
A LEAKED police internal correspondence has exposed how top police fat cats are frustrating criminal investigations by allegedly shielding criminal cartels in return for money and gold.The let...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:48hrs | 2799 | by Staff reporter
Pasture depletion adds misery to Matabeleland South
A serious shortage of pastures for live stock has brought more misery to villagers in Maphisa, Matabeleland South, who are already affected by the socioeconomic im pact of the Covid19 pandemic...Published: 27 Sep 2020 at 07:19hrs | 181 | by Staff reporter
Relief for Zimbabwe cross-border traders
CROSS-BORDER traders across the country are set for a major relief following the unveiling of a cheaper coronavirus (Covid-19) testing facility, in a development that will be cost effective.Th...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 18:57hrs | 1364 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa claims that 'I'm committed to democracy'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday told the world that his government had implemented political and legislative reforms and was entrenching constitutionalism, democracy and rule of law, includin...Published: 26 Sep 2020 at 08:25hrs | 266 | by Staff reporter
SA tightens screws on cross-border trading
SOUTH Africa's Border Management Authority Act 2 of 2020 enacted on July 21, 2020 could severely restrict Zimbabwe's cross-border traders as the neighbouring country prepares to open its borders start...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3973 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar gains against the US dollar
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe held its weekly foreign currency auction today, which saw the local currency maintain its appreciation trend against the US dollar after it gained 0.26% to 81.4965 from 81...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 18:42hrs | 7065 | by Staff reporter
'Worn out US dollar notes notes acceptable'
BADLY damaged, dirty or even torn United States dollar notes remain valid for all transactions and can be exchanged as legal tender. This comes as some businesses and individuals have been rej...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:27hrs | 1647 | by Staff reporter
75% Zimbabwe urban workers jobless, says WFP
THE World Food Programme (WFP) has disclosed that three quarters of Zimbabwe's urban workers have lost their jobs due to the deteriorating economic situation and the COVID-19-induced restrictions whic...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 06:52hrs | 693 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa still to decide on Beitbridge Border Post re-opening
THE Government is still deliberating on whether to re-open its land borders especially Beitbridge Border Post to international travellers following an announcement by South Africa that it will re-open...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:35hrs | 4517 | by Staff reporter
BCC fails to relocate vendors
BULAWAYO city fathers are failing to re-allocate vending bays owing to lack of financial resources needed for marking the trading spaces to meet COVID-19 guidelines on social distancing.The Bu...Published: 19 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 304 | by Staff reporter
BCC launches virtual 2021 budget consultations
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has launched a virtual 2021 budget consultation programme with residents through its WhatsApp platform as public gatherings remain banned under government's COVID-19 contai...Published: 16 Sep 2020 at 06:22hrs | 167 | by Staff reporter
Zimdollar continues to regain strength
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe allotted its highest foreign currency to date at the weekly foreign currency auction today as the local currency continues to regain strength. The Zimbabwe do...Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 17:40hrs | 3347 | by Staff reporter
We can not all go to OK
Prophets of doom taking their first bite of the proverbial humble pie, may be also taking a face cloth to remove egg from their murky faces, york, white and its all. Who ever thought the forex...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:08hrs | 857 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Some rural shops have rendered e-wallets redundant
Most rural traders and general dealer shop owners order their goods from N. Richards and Mahomed Mussa Wholesalers where they buy using e-wallets. On reaching the countryside they fleece the m...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:03hrs | 229 | by Tondo
Beitbridge Border Post, the epicentre of graft
Beitbridge border post ranks first as the busiest inland port of entry in the rest of Southern Africa, between South Africa and Zimbabwe, and Second busiest inland post of entry after Egypt's Taba. ...Published: 09 Sep 2020 at 08:16hrs | 1326 | by Stephen Jakes
Beitbridge blockade flops
A bid to block commercial traffic from entering or leaving Zimbabwe via Beitbridge Border Post failed dismally yesterday after the organisers of the planned demo never managed to get support.T...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:35hrs | 2417 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders dump Matabeleland Collective
BULAWAYO'S informal traders representative organisation has cut ties with the Matabeleland Collective (MC), a grouping of civic groups and the clergy that has been meeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 10:50hrs | 603 | by Staff reporter
Donkey cart traders invade Bulawayo with cheap goods
DONKEY cart operators from Bulawayo's nearby peri-urban areas have invaded low-income suburbs in the city selling mostly cheap firewood and vegetables to hard-pressed residents.The cart operat...Published: 30 Aug 2020 at 08:29hrs | 831 | by Staff reporter
Businesses warned for flouting forex auction rate
GOVERNMENT has condemned the practice by some businesses to charge people paying in local currency using rates that are above the foreign currency auction rate. Most shops are not adhering to ...Published: 26 Aug 2020 at 07:07hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
More forex for auction system
More foreign currency will now be pumped into the weekly forex auction system, as it has become critical in stabilising the exchange rate and consequently prices. Further, the Government will ...Published: 25 Aug 2020 at 07:01hrs | 3032 | by Staff reporter
ZRP, SAPS steps ups joint border patrols
The Zimbabwe Republic Police and their South African counterparts have intensified joint border patrols to curb border jumping and smuggling activities, which have been on the rise along the border. ...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 07:08hrs | 371 | by Staff reporter
2 women hit by stray bullets during police raid
A Hwange woman had her stomach ripped open while another what hit in the chest by stray bullets reportedly fired by police officers who were dispersing illegal coke traders in Madumabisa village on Sa...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:25hrs | 3702 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo groups blast 'provocative' Mnangagwa meeting
SOME Bulawayo based civic society groups and political parties have described President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Saturday's meeting with fellow organisations as provocative to the people of Matabeleland w...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 15:51hrs | 4288 | by newzimbabwe
SA police arrest 6 Zimbabweans for smuggling
SOUTH African police (SAPS) have arrested six men believed to be Zimbabweans after they intercepted haulage trucks carrying cigarettes worth millions of rand that had been smuggled into that country....Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 19:36hrs | 2275 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe church leaders, hiding behind Bible, to defend regime brutality and corruption have sold souls to devil
I have always asserted that the Holy Bible is the most perverted book in the history of mankind, as it has found itself at the mercy of all manner of scandalous individuals - from abusive husbands, an...Published: 21 Aug 2020 at 09:19hrs | 1810 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Cross-border traders push for border re-opening
VENDORS and cross border traders in Bulawayo who are facing starvation have appealed to the Zimbabwean and South African governments to partially re-open Beitbridge Border Post to enable them to resum...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 07:09hrs | 1017 | by Staff reporter
Zera warns errant service stations
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has warned service stations not using their own offshore funds against charging fuel in forex only. Zera said it is illegal for service stations...Published: 12 Aug 2020 at 06:46hrs | 826 | by Staff reporter
BVTA condemn harassment of vendors by police
Bulawayo Vendors and Traders Association (BVTA) have strongly condemned an incident of violence that occurred to one of the vendors and the systematic harassment of vendors and informal traders in the...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 09:39hrs | 846 | by Stephen Jakes
Vending tariffs hike will fuel bribery: Wild
Bulawayo City Council (BCC)'s recent Hawkers and Vendors' tariff hikes, will encourage bribery and sextortion scandals as female informal traders are incapacitated to pay these fees.This came ...Published: 11 Aug 2020 at 07:34hrs | 457 | by Stephen Jakes
We remain a nation of heroes
Today, Zimbabweans celebrate Heroes Day; that day when national valour is honoured and cherished on our land.It is that day when we remember, salute and commemorate the huge sacrifice th...Published: 10 Aug 2020 at 15:21hrs | 264 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
#Blacklivesmatter: Slavery and the church
SLAVERY can be defined as a form humanto-human captivity to extract some servitude of one kind or another. A human thus becomes the property of another. Since time immemorial, slavery has existed for ...Published: 09 Aug 2020 at 10:04hrs | 429 | by Prosper Tingini
Do not be a statistic, stay safe
The figures on Covid-19 infections continue to rise and as if not to be out done, so are the fatalities. The lackadaisical approach by some rural folk on precautions against the disease may see the pa...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 21:55hrs | 1112 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Protect the rural poor from unscrupulous businesses
The pricing system by some traders seem well calculated and calibrated to circumvent SI 185 that compels using forex auction rate. To avoid being on a collision course with the law, shop owner...Published: 07 Aug 2020 at 18:10hrs | 397 | by Thomas Tondo
Zimbabwean state capture
In my weekly political review show on the Gambakwe media platform two Sunday ago, we discussed about the planned demonstration on the 31st of July 2020. During the interview I invok...Published: 06 Aug 2020 at 22:59hrs | 4219 | by Terence. T. Simbi
Curfew betrays govt anger towards citizens
HIS Excellency, the imposition of the sunset to sunrise curfew prompts me to write to you, yet again. Notwithstanding the spike inconfirmedCOVID-19cases, the country has long been languishing at a rec...Published: 05 Aug 2020 at 08:15hrs | 1000 | by Cyprian M Ndawana
Analysis of Dual Pricing Policy (SI 185 of 2020)
The Zimbabwean government gazetted Statutory Instrument (SI) 185 of 2020 on the 24th of July 2020. The latest regulation compels sellers of various goods and services to display, quote and offer price...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 17:05hrs | 3256 | by Victor Bhoroma
Government must be taken to task over informal traders
Zimbabwe has been on an economic free fall since the turn of the millennium. The comatose economy led to most industries closing shop and as a result countless jobs have been lost. The persisting and ...Published: 03 Aug 2020 at 09:08hrs | 1686 | by Nkosikhona Dibiti
Fake fertilisers floods the market
AN influx of fake fertilisers has hit the market in Zimbabwe as bogus dealers take advantage of the product's expensiveness in the formal market to the unsuspecting farmers, Standardbusiness has estab...Published: 02 Aug 2020 at 09:15hrs | 355 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo residents fume over steep council fines
RESIDENTS here have shot down proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other by-laws governing the operations of informal traders.The proposal by...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:09hrs | 890 | by Staff reporter
Police's new lockdown measures nullified by court
THE High Court has nullified a decision by the police to announce measures tightening the coronavirus (Covid-19)-induced national lockdown after the Young Lawyers Association of Zimbabwe (YLAZ) filed ...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 17:08hrs | 1274 | by Staff reporter
Formation of ZACC was a sign there is rampant corruption: Ndiweni
The Bulawayo Traders and Vendors Association Director Micheal Ndiweni has said the fact that Zimbabwe set up a Zimbabwe Anti Corruption Commission (ZACC) in 2013 was a realisation of deep rooted, perv...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:17hrs | 446 | by Stephen Jakes
New fines proposals unsettle Bulawayo vendors
BULAWAYO residents have reacted angrily to proposals by the local authority to hike fines for alleged illegal vending and flouting other bylaws governing the operations of informal traders.The...Published: 28 Jul 2020 at 09:30hrs | 772 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police sued for tightening COVID-19 lockdown measures
A Harare woman has approached the High Court seeking an order to set aside increased demands by police officers enforcing the country's Covid-19 lockdown measures at checkpoints.In her court c...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 19:44hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
Informal traders defy Mnangagwa
INFORMAl traders, who are currently unable to ply their trade on the capital's pavements, have invaded open spaces around industrial areas, mainly in Graniteside, posing a COVID-19 health hazard as th...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:51hrs | 3923 | by Staff reporter
Stiffer conditions to pass roadblocks
Police at roadblocks will now be seeking more detailed documentation signed by an employee's chief executive officer or general manager so that those legitimately going to work in an essential service...Published: 27 Jul 2020 at 08:45hrs | 1051 | by Staff reporter
Was the shutting down of mobile money, ZSE a necessary evil?
ON June 26, 2020 the Information ministry announced in a tweet that all mobile money transactions and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) would stop transacting forthwith.The authorities halted ...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 11:11hrs | 2709 | by Admire Maparadza Dube
Zimbabweans companies want to trade in Rand
CAPTAINS of industry in Bulawayo have pleaded with the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube, to promote the wide use of the South African rand to complement the multi-f...Published: 26 Jul 2020 at 10:57hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
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