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Herbalists dismiss claims bute heals Covid-19
AS the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to hit the country with record infections and deaths being recorded, some desperate locals have resorted to using Bute in the hope the traditional...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:26hrs | 656 | by Staff reporter
Government to arrest those spreading falsehoods about Covid-19 and the vaccine
The CORONA VIRUS pandemic has shaken the world and gripped it with fear. In the last 24 hours I lost people very close to me due to COVID. there is no one who can say he does not know a family which l...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 18:39hrs | 1231 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 215 | by Livingstone Kazizi
SA's budget deficit worsens under Ramaphosa
By the end of November, South Africa's main budget balance had a deficit not far under R440 billion, new figures published on Wednesday show – an increase of 77% over the year-to-date deficit at the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 17:10hrs | 648 | by Staff reporter
US wasting millions on Zimbabwe election process - Report
THE United States (US) Senate has predicted Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mngangagwa, would win the 2023 presidential election despite Washington pouring in millions of dollars to democratise the...Published: 30 Dec 2020 at 07:30hrs | 852 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe braces for new EU export reg system
ZIMBABWEAN exporters are pondering on the new European Union (EU) digital system of certification of origin for goods, which comes into effect next month. The EU has introduced a new system of...Published: 28 Dec 2020 at 07:22hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
Zim Christian Church shouldn't just pray for a better economy and country, but also for better leaders than what we have
I have often been so hard on the Christian community, for their apparent indifference and docility in the face of a relentless, concerted, and evil campaign of terror and injustice callously unleashed...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:28hrs | 327 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
ZACC probes Judiciary, churches
THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has opened investigations into judges, magistrates and church leaders over a slew of graft allegations.ZACC chair Justice Loyce Matanda-Moyo said...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 07:57hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
Hopeless situation for Ziombabwe civil servants
THE strife within the civil service will remain commonplace, as wages continue to be significantly eroded by the country's high inflation.Critical social services such as health and education ...Published: 11 Dec 2020 at 19:02hrs | 2055 | by Staff reporter
Zacc recovers 501 cars, seizes US$5m properties
More than US$5 million worth of corruptly-acquired property, including 501 vehicles, have been seized by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission in the past 18 months as Zimbabwean authorities intensi...Published: 10 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 429 | by Staff reporter
Parly gets the very short end of stick
FINANCE and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube needed to be at his frugal-best when he was crafting the 2021 National Budget.Funding requests to Treasury for the 2021 financi...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | 71 | by Staff reporter
Zesa cuts home use power costs
ZESA Holdings(Zesa) yesterday announced a surprise 60 percent power tariff cut on one of its bands for domestic electricity usage.Zesa subsidiary, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Dis...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 20:48hrs | 1695 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube should increase 2% tax to 5%, says Eddie Cross
ECONOMIST Eddie Cross Friday left business executives and other invited guests at the CEO Africa Roundtable in Harare, in shock after he proposed that Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube must increase trans...Published: 05 Dec 2020 at 06:23hrs | 2456 | by Staff reporter
Over 4 million face starvation
OVER 4 million Zimbabweans are facing starvation while the number of food-insecure is set to rise to 8,6 million, about 60% of the population by year-end due to the combined effects of drought, econom...Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:30hrs | 197 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube US$100m for Sovereign Wealth Fund
AN equivalent of US$100 million has been set aside in the National Budget to operationalise the Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF), established about five years ago to build reserves for long term savings, F...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 05:53hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
What Zanu-PF can learn from China
(In December 2016, ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, then the editor of The Southern Times newspaper based in Namibia, was dragged over the coals and subsequently fire...Published: 29 Nov 2020 at 08:59hrs | 1314 | by Ranga Mberi
Biti's sensational take on state of the Zimbabwe economy
MDC-ALLIANCE vice president Tendai Biti painted a bleak picture of the state of the economy this week in what he called the "State of the Economy Address". Many in Zimbabwe and abroad would find his t...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:14hrs | 596 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe eyes 7% growth in year 2021
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube stuck to his 7,4% gross domestic product (GDP) growth target when he presented the 2021 National Budget yesterday, tipping most of the growth to be driven by strong recov...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:13hrs | 92 | by Staff reporter
2021 budget: Fitting a round peg in a square hole
THE 2021 national budget due to be presented this afternoon presents one of the toughest challenges for Finance minister, Mthuli Ncube.He is expected to roll out strategies that will help the ...Published: 26 Nov 2020 at 07:27hrs | 405 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube shoots down $1,1 trillion budget proposal
FINANCE minister Mthuli Ncube has shot down requests by different ministries and departments for a $1,1 trillion 2021 national budget due to inadequate revenue.Ncube is expected to announce a ...Published: 25 Nov 2020 at 04:45hrs | 3563 | by Staff reporter
False start to 'brutal' Beitbridge cops trial
THE trial of two Beitbridge policemen who allegedly assaulted citizens under the guise of monitoring compliance to the COVID-19 lockdown regulations failed to kick off because their lawyer was absent....Published: 12 Nov 2020 at 05:50hrs | 547 | by Staff reporter
Senditoo becomes cheapest money remittance service after slashing all fees
Senditoo has cut its remittance fees meaning that all customers who send money to Zimbabwe will not be charged for their transactions. This will make the money transfer company one of the cheapest mon...Published: 28 Oct 2020 at 09:07hrs | 3637 | by Loma Media
Ramaphosa slammed by black contractors
President Cyril Ramaphosa's endorsement of the R84bn Mooikloof MegaCity Development is a slap in the face, the South African Institute of Black Property Practitioners (SAIBPP) said on Monday night....Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 20:17hrs | 733 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube rules out de-dollarisation
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube says that Zimbabwe is beginning to engage multilateral creditors, with a view of clearing its US$1.8 billion arrears, which will see the country unlock fresh funding to a...Published: 06 Oct 2020 at 07:25hrs | 7081 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may hold solution to Africa's energy crisis
BACK in the early 1990s, Mobil was exploring for oil in Zimbabwe when it came across large hydrocarbon resources in the Cabora Bassa Basin.The petroleum giant explored over an area extending a...Published: 21 Sep 2020 at 20:44hrs | 1971 | by Staff reporter
Gono bitter and lonely outside Government
After a lengthy period of hibernating from the media spotlight, Gideon Gono, the former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor resurfaced in a twitter interview with Alpha Media Holdings' Trevor Ncub...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 09:45hrs | 6729 | by John Mhazo
Mnangagwa thinks white people are stupid!
The former Vauxhall Labour MP Hon. Kate Hoey said: Mnangagwa is Mugabe mark two. This week has been spectacular by proving this statement as more or less correct but in reverse. In a feat of rage, Mug...Published: 02 Sep 2020 at 13:48hrs | 8620 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zimbabwe hit by drug resistance
ZIMBABWE is experiencing a high burden of drug resistance to common antibiotics, a situation which has made disease control difficult and too expensive for the poorly resourced country.Also kn...Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 14:23hrs | 1573 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe problems won't lead to civil war'
AS pressure mounts for the regional grouping Sadc to end Zimbabwe's long running crises, University of Zimbabwe's politics expert, Eldred Masunungure, says South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa and h...Published: 24 Aug 2020 at 19:40hrs | 2098 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe now a trillion dollar economy'
The Mid Term Monetary Policy Statement from the Reserve Bank is well worth a read. This is the first overall review following the formation of the Monetary Policy Committee in August 2019. I was privi...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 20:33hrs | 10221 | by Eddie Cross
Zimbabwe economy finally being 'rigged'
Nelson Chamisa and his MDC-Alliance lost the election in the July 2018 elections of the post-Mugabe era.Reacting to this loss, he cockily pronounced that it was of no consequence.His a...Published: 23 Aug 2020 at 11:10hrs | 817 | by Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa
AfCFTA permanent secretariat a launchpad for Africa's economic transformation
At a ceremony on Monday to commission the permanent secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), Ghana's President Nana Akufo-Addo and Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairperson of the AU Co...Published: 19 Aug 2020 at 07:47hrs | 307 | by Stephen Jakes
RBZ Farm Mechanization Saga: Kasukuwere produces V11s
It is with great disappointment that I learnt RBZ and some former executives of Fiscorp under which we were allocated farm equipment have professed ignorance on there being any payment on my part with...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 21:19hrs | 11637 | by Saviour Kasukuwere
'Kasukuwere didn't pay for farm equipment'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's former subsidiary, Fiscorp, which handled the Farm Mechanisation Programme between 2007 and 2008, has challenged former legislator, Mr Kudakwashe Bhasikiti and self-exil...Published: 29 Jul 2020 at 09:12hrs | 1748 | by Staff reporter
Digital trade is the next big thing in Africa
Wamkele Mene was recently appointed Secretary General of the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. Because of COVID-19, free trade for countries that have ratified the agreement did not beg...Published: 25 Jul 2020 at 07:57hrs | 350 | by Kingsley Ighobor
Why hated Zimdollar is headed in one direction
On July 9, 2020, my young liberal team and I sampled a few of our country's top economic analysts on a Zoom conference on Zimbabwe's precarious currency conundrum.Likely though it seems, one c...Published: 19 Jul 2020 at 18:53hrs | 3654 | by Rejoice Ngwenya
Zimbabweans should refuse to be abused, and used as sacrificial lambs for a self-serving ruling elite opportunist clique
Whenever any government resorts to habitually and incessantly using the 'national interests' tag, then a wise nation should immediately know that their leaders have reached record lows in their parasi...Published: 09 Jul 2020 at 15:32hrs | 850 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
The greatest threat to Zimbabwe's peace and security are not foreign entities, or their 'stooges', but it's ZANU PF itself!
Reading the media in Zimbabwe, even since the November 2017 military coup d'etat - which toppled long-time tyrant Robert Gabriel Mugabe, replacing him with his decades-long right-hand man and protégÃ...Published: 07 Jul 2020 at 14:46hrs | 2062 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Key concerns on the Forex auction system
The Reserve bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is cautiously yielding to free market demands for the complete liberalization of the foreign exchange market and scrapping of various consumption subsidies that were...Published: 30 Jun 2020 at 08:15hrs | 5162 | by Victor Bhoroma
Bulawayo leadership must shape up or ship out
I was born at Mpilo Central Hospital in Bulawayo during the last decade of the infamous Ian Smith Rhodesian regime. In those days black people were banished to the townships. I am not a fan of the Smi...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:40hrs | 399 | by Kevin S Malunga
Same frog now in lipstick
IN more ways than one, courting love is similar to stalking prey.Although motivated by different designs, courting and stalking essentially entail stealthily winning an advantage in order ...Published: 21 Jun 2020 at 11:05hrs | 251 | by Bishop Lazi
The land isn't ours
A few years ago while visiting the city of Jos, which is located in north-east Nigeria, a person pointed to a vast neatly kept area behind a fence. "This ranch belongs to the Queen of England," he rem...Published: 19 Jun 2020 at 17:10hrs | 1787 | by Hadebe Hadebe
Zanu-PF regime plunging people into poverty
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a self-destruct mode and unfortunately his Zanu-PF supporters are cheering him on like they used to do to the late former President Robert Mugabe.It looks li...Published: 18 Jun 2020 at 08:19hrs | 487 | by Tofa Dapi
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
Who bewitched our once beautiful country? The only day I do remember about inspiring words from my President was at his inauguration speech at the giant stadium when he said, " The voice of the people...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 13:24hrs | 2350 | by Leonard Koni
Deepening crisis in Zimbabwe
WHO bewitched our once beautiful country? The only inspiring words from President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at his inauguration speech at the giant National Sports Stadium, when he said: "The voice of th...Published: 13 Jun 2020 at 09:32hrs | 265 | by Leonard Koni
'You have pinned my neck down. I can't breathe!': The spine-chilling cry of Matabeleland
The sad narrative of underdevelopment in the generality of Matabeleland is a horrendous and unattractive delineation of the unceasing marginalisation of the region since the primitive and callous deth...Published: 10 Jun 2020 at 08:00hrs | 738 | by Nhlanhla Moses
Solving political turmoil key to addressing Zimbabwe's economic crisis
ZIMBABWE is experiencing one of its worst economic crises since independence characterised by cash and foreign currency shortages, fuel scarcities, rampant prices hikes, hyperinflation and increased v...Published: 07 Jun 2020 at 16:35hrs | 717 | by Staff reporter
Insights into Mangudya's era of fibs, fiddling
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya (pictured) says he has been praying for Zimbabweans to understand economics. Zimbabweans, in turn, have been making the same prayers - for him.T...Published: 28 May 2020 at 07:59hrs | 1316 | by newZWire
Africa and Africans are never short of ideas
The precautions against Covid-19 are getting more dramatic and bizarre. My toddler neighbour or neighbour's toddler daughter had an idea of Martian ingenuity and innovation of extraordinary dimension....Published: 24 May 2020 at 21:55hrs | 200 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Sue China for Covid-19, I dare you!
No one felt quite pepped up as Bishop Lazarus when he heard news that some European countries and the United States of America were planning to sue China for the fallout caused by the coronavirus....Published: 10 May 2020 at 07:25hrs | 388 | by Bishop Lazarus
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