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Chombo removed from remand

FORMER Local Government minister, Ignatius Chombo, was yesterday removed from remand in a case he is accused of illegally facilitating the sale of a government house in Mutare to ex-Zanu-PF legislator...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

POLITICS

Mudenda blasts Zanu-PF MPs

SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has slammed Zanu-PF MPs for disrupting Parliament's portfolio committee meetings chaired by MDC legislators saying the development contradicted President...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

US$24m for fuel

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has released US$23,89 million for the purchase of fuel to be sold in local currency for the week March 16 to 22. RBZ governor Dr John Mangudya made the announcement ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

COVID-19: Zimbabwe places restrictions on visitors from high risk countries

President Mnangagwa has said that travellers from ‘high risk countries' will be quarantined for 14 days before they can mingle with Zimbabweans as Zimbabwe upped efforts to stop the spread of COVID-...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

Market breadth turns negative as ZSE falls further

The stock market fell further on Tuesday as the market breadth turned negative. Foreign participation remained insignificant and local liquidity remained restricted with turnover closing at $17.9m whi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

ECONOMC INDICATORS

Zimstat says Zimbabwe unemployment rate at 16%

About 1.2 million people in Zimbabwe have given up on securing employment, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has said as it reported that the national unemployment rate stood at 16 per...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

Zimbabwe shuts down main source of hard currency

Zimbabwe has suspended the transfer of local shares in dual-listed companies to foreign bourses, one of the main ways citizens and businesses have been able to obtain dollars as inflation wipes out th...

By Reuters | Published: 17 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

Bureaux De Changes to trade through a centralised system

Bureaux De Changes will be required to trade only through an online retail foreign currency platform with the trades being fed in real-time to a central monitoring server, according to new rules which...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 March 2020

ZSE TODAY

Old Mutual falls 19.91% after Mthuli removes fungibility

Old Mutual Limited fell 19.91% on Monday as the stock market reacted to Government's latest measures to stabilise the exchange rate.  Yesterday, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 March 2020

ECONOMC INDICATORS

Zimbabwe's February annual inflation at 540.16%

Zimstat has resumed the publication of annual inflation data following the lapsing of a twelve-month suspension. The year on year inflation measured by all items CPI came in at 540.16% from 59.39% of ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

Mnangagwa's govt suspends fungibility on dual-listed shares

Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has suspended fungibility on dual listed shares for a period of twelve months as part if efforts to stabilise the exchange rate. This comes as go...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

All deposit classes now indexed to treasury bill yields, say Mthuli Ncube

Government has gazetted a statutory instrument which directs that all classes of deposits in the banking system, should be indexed to treasury bill yields as part of efforts to promote fair compensati...

By Staff reporter | Published: 13 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

SecZim to audit fungible shares trading amid 'cheating' reports

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe says it will undertake an audit of all transaction inflows on dual listed shares that were consummated with effect from June 1, 2019. This comes amid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 March 2020

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

RBZ maintains 50% USD retention for tobacco farmers

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board have announced payment modalities to tobacco farmers although failing to meet all of the demands, which had been put forward by th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 March 2020

ZSE TODAY

ZSE shares continue to advance on mid-cap gains

Zimbabwe Stock Exchange shares continued their advance with the benchmark index rising past the psychological 500 level. This comes as the market is awaiting the introduction of the Reuters market mar...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe introduces Reuters system for forex trading

GOVERNMENT has introduced a Reuters system for foreign currency trading which allows banks to trade freely as a way of stabilising the exchange rate as well as bringing down inflation to sustainable l...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 March 2020

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Econet hikes data tarrifs by 23%

Econet Wireless on Wednesday raised its data prices by 23 percent, as the Zimbabwe dollar continues its slide.According to ZimTechreview, the company said its voice tariffs remained unchanged.Econet, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 March 2020

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Lafarge to double capacity after launching US$25m expansion project

Lafarge has budgeted US$25 million for its expansion project which will double capacity by year-end 2022.  The expansion plan kicked off this morning at a ground-breaking ceremony for a Dry Morta...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

UK cranks heat on Mnangagwa

BRITAIN is turning up the heat on President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government to urgently implement much-needed political and economic reforms, as well as end corruption and human rights abuses in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

POLITICS

Gumbo was never arrested: Lawyer

PRESIDENTIAL Affairs minister Joram Gumbo was never arrested for criminal abuse of office, but he was just being interviewed on the goings on in parastatals which fell under his previous ministry and ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

POLITICS

Govt fires 77 striking doctors

GOVERNMENT has fired 77 doctors who have been on strike for better conditions for over two months while disciplinary action against the other medical professionals on industrial action is still ongoin...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

POLITICS

MDC defends Vic Falls excursion

THE opposition MDC has defended its MPs who recently attended a government organised pre-budget seminar in Victoria Falls, where an estimated US$5 million was blown in less than a week.Amid a backlash...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Decriminalise gold possession: Miners

ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has called on government to re-align mining laws to decriminalise the possession of gold to increase production by artisanal miners.Speaking at ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

'US ban hurts Marange diamonds'

The Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (ZCDC) yesterday said the decision by the United States to issue a withhold release order (WRO) for artisanal rough cut diamonds from Marange was impacting ne...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Riot police block civil servants demo

CIVIL servants have threatened to completely down tools and escalate their fight for better wages after police yesterday blocked their march to hand over petitions to Finance and Labour ministers.The ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 November 2019
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