BUSINESS NEWS

Zimra officers live in fear

ZIMBABWE Revenue Authority (Zimra) officials countrywide in charge of the Electronic Cargo Tracking System (ECTS), which curbs transit fraud, are living in fear after weeks of receiving death threats....

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

External auditors to probe ZRP scam

GOVERNMENT will engage the services of a private audit firm to carry out a probe into the financial irregularities rocking the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) after it emerged that some senior commande...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim to miss 4,5% economic growth projection

ZIMBABWE is likely to miss its ambitious economic growth target of 4,5%, a forecast mainly based on projections of a strong agricultural season, after farmer unions this week revealed that the dry spe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

White farmer pleads for Mnangagwa intervention

THE embattled owner of a wildlife conservancy in Beitbridge district, Ian Ferguson, whose family property has been invaded numerous times since 2000, has made an impassioned plea to President Emmerson...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

OPINION

Zimbabwe to face inflationary spirals

In order to maintain a sustainable purchasing power equal to the rising cost of living reflected by a Consumer Price Index (CPI), a taxable salary or wage must increase faster than the increase in the...

By George Musvovi, Economist | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa commended for fighting corruption

AUSTRALIA and the European Union (EU) have commended President Emmerson Mnangagwa's administration for fighting corruption, but say the blitz against graft should not be targeted at political opponent...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

'Davos a wasted opportunity,' says Biti

FORMER finance minister Tendai Biti has said president Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured in Davos, Switzerland) on Wednesday wasted an opportunity to clearly present Zimbabwe to the world by dodging crucia...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

OPINION

Curing the Zim coup: Polls or transitional govt?

Since our last opinion piece, it is evident that there is growing complacency about both what has taken place and what is likely to take place in the aftermath of the coup last year.If history teaches...

By Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler, Scholars | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe coup general in health scare

VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga was last night spotted coming out of a top private hospital in Borrowdale, Harare, amid reports of a health scare.Chiwenga was being helped by aides, who surrounded...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe gets 7-day ultimatum

FORMER President Robert Mugabe's family has been given seven days to vacate a private land, which they allegedly grabbed from the Reformed Church in Zimbabwe (RCZ)-owned Eaglesvale Senior School in Ha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Tsvangirai's health deteriorates

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai is reportedly battling for his life in South Africa, where he is receiving treatment, as his condition continues to deteriorate amid reports that his doctors have indica...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

$200m Intratrek scandal deepens

THE chairperson of the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC), Engineer Stanley Kazhanje, has been caught in a conflict of interest storm after he was accused of preparing tender documents for Wicknell Chivayo'...

By Zim Ind | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Makarau to be replaced by female judge

President Emmerson Mnangagwa gave his clearest hint that he would appoint another female as the new Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson following Rita Makarau's surprise resignation, with ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

War vets reach out of Tsvangirai

Veterans of the country's liberation struggle are making overtures to MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa through a yet-to-be-tabled arrangement that might result in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe ordered off farm

FORMER President Robert Mugabe's security aides based at Gushungo Holdings (Pvt) Ltd and the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Support Unit have been ordered to vacate Smithfield Farm in Mazowe, which th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa admits to State-sanctioned genocide

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has admitted to the State-sanctioned mass killings of civilians in Midlands and Matabeleland provinces during the Gukurahundi era in the 1980s, but disputed claims that ov...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Chinotimba to be expelled from Zanu-PF?

War veterans in Buhera have called for the expulsion of Zanu-PF's Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba (pictured), accusing him of exhibiting some G40 cabal "divisive" traits.The war veterans alleged tha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa speaks on local currency

GOVERNMENT is working around the clock to address key macro-economic fundamentals, which will pave way for the introduction of a currency that is not collapsible, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa meets heads of World finance institutions

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday held high level meetings with top officials from the world's top multilateral financial institutions on the sidelines of the 48th World Economic Forum in Davos, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

POLITICS

Britain scaling up its re-engagement with Zim

BRITAIN is working on scaling up its re-engagement with Zimbabwe with its new Africa Minister Mrs Harriett Baldwin expected to visit the country soon.The outgoing Africa Minister Mr Rory Stewart was t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zacc official grilled over selective arrests

ZIMBABWE Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) deputy chairperson Nannette Silukhuni was on Wednesday grilled at a corruption debate over the anti-graft body's perceived selective arrests and wasting taxp...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

AfDB invites bids estimated at $36m

The African Development Bank has invited bids to refurbish a water treatment plant in Bulawayo at an estimated cost of $36 million, to help improve water quality in the country's second largest city. ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa can transform economy: UK think tank

British business intelligence firm, Alaco Limited, has released a report giving President Mnangagwa a seal of approval and that he can turnaround the economy in a few months and create gains that can ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe upbeat on Davos meetings

This week, world leaders, bureaucrats and leading global business people are meeting at the 48th session of the annual World Economic Forum from 23-26 January in the resort town of Davos-Klosters, Swi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa employees barred from striking

THE Energy Sector Workers' Union's planned demonstration against Zesa's refusal to implement a 2012 collective bargaining agreement went up in smoke on Tuesday this week, after High Court judge Justic...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 January 2018

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