POLITICS

Mnangagwa goes hard on corrupt bigwigs

ZIMBABWE's reconstituted anti-corruption watchdog has now found its teeth with new commission chair Loice Matanda-Moyo saying they are going after high-profile cases in a bid to stamp out graft. Addre...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Paynet suing Zimbabwe banks for US$100m

Payserv Africa Limited and Paynet Zimbabwe Private Limited have commenced legal action against the Bankers Association of Zimbabwe (BAZ) for anti-competitive practices.The company is seeking damages o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa to meet Ramaphosa over electricity

President Mnangagwa is expected to meet his South African counterpart on Sunday to discuss whether Zimbabwe's neighbour can export more electricity to the country in light of the current shortages bei...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Electricity tariffs hike looms

Government says it will soon review electricity tariffs to reflect costs because current charges are no longer sustainable.Zimbabwe is currently facing its worst power shortages in years after low wat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Chivayo breached solar project contract: ZPC

The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) has accused Intratrek Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd of breaching the parties Gwanda solar project agreement by not contributing $1 million which it was supposed to inject into th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

OPINION

ZCTU can do better than demonstrate for redollarisation

No good deed goes unpunished.Normally, the doer of a good deed expects just a "thank you", but usually someone is adversely affected by the good deed. For example, saving someone's life from a crimina...

By Conway Tutani | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe trade deficit hits $32,15bn

ZIMBABWE has, since 2009, accumulated a trade deficit of $32,15 billion, a development that has left the country battling with persistent foreign currency shortages, a government official has said.Giv...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Beitbridge businessman and Zanu-PF loyalist Chiwa dies

Beitbridge businessman and Zanu-PF loyalist Manu Chiwa has died.Chiwa died on admission at the Beitbridge Hospital after he was involved in an accident on Wednesday night.Matabeleland South police spo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Stanbic, SAZ in solar plant deal

FINANCIAL services institution, Stanbic Bank Zimbabwe, has facilitated the construction of a ZAR7 million 190kw solar plant for Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) as part of interventions to aid ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe can learn from Rwanda

Zimbabwe should take a leaf from Rwanda's post-genocide reconciliation model as it embarks on its own healing process, President Mnangagwa has said. In an interview at Kigali International Airport aft...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Potraz boosts Govt's e-learning initiative

The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) donated 10 computers and 100 backpacks to five schools here on Wednesday to complement Government's e-learning initiative. T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Tony Blair keen to meet Mnangagwa

Former British prime minister Mr Tony Blair, the architect of the standoff between Zimbabwe and the Western world, is keen to meet President Mnangagwa, the Head of State has revealed. In an interview ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Another foreign trip for Mnangagwa

President Mnangagwa will join fellow Heads of State and Government here for the Extraordinary African Union Summit (AU) which starts today. The summit, which is running under the theme: "Refugees, Ret...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Zanu-PF Youth League told to bring evidence

Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has summoned the Zanu-PF Youth League to bring evidence of corruption against the ruling party and Government bigwigs named recently for possible prosecution...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Chombo faces fresh charges

Former Cabinet minister Ignatius Chombo yesterday appeared in court on fresh charges after he allegedly sold a Government house in Mutare without following due process. He is jointly charged with Laza...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwean attitude, self hate

Is it not a shame that over the years, a lot of us have been taught by the West to define everything from democracy to good governance and accountability in the eyes of foreigners as if we are still a...

By Isdore Guvamombe | Published: 05 July 2019

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's new envoys told to 'engage, re-engage'

NEW ambassadors appointed by President Mnangagwa recently should consider themselves strategic agents in the re-engagement process, which is central to the country's objective of achieving an upper mi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare to splash US$23 000 on iPads

CASH-strapped Harare City Council, which is struggling to buy chemicals to treat drinking water, is set to splash US$23 000 on councillors' iPads. Each of Harare's 46 councillors plus some selected co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Money supply up by ZWL$3 million

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country has recorded an annual increase of money supply by almost ZWL$3 million while both exports and imports decreased by over 15%.This is contained in th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019

POLITICS

ZACC receives 38 corruption cases in 2 months

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has received 38 cases of corruption since the appointment Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo as chairperson in May.Addressing a press conference earlier today, J...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019

OPINION

Mugabe is gone; long live Mugabe!

When a king dies, an announcement is made that: "The king is dead; long live the king", quite a confusing statement for many of us that may not be aware of the intricacies of death and ascension in mo...

By Nqaba Matshazi | Published: 04 July 2019

OPINION

Dictatorship clearly anachronistic

The propensity by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to dictatorial tendencies is probably the biggest drawback to his well-intentioned efforts to reform the country's economy, which has been in a tailspin ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

PPC to dispose Colleen Bawn, Bulawayo houses

LOCAL cement producer, PPC Zimbabwe has said the disposal of houses at its Colleen Bawn and Bulawayo factories will be finalised during the 2020 financial year because government was still processing ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe tourism hits hard times

ZIMBABWE'S tourism sector has stagnated, recording a percentage growth in arrivals in the first quarter of the year, an industry official has said.In the first quarter last year, tourist arrivals reac...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2019

OPINION

TelOne: Even good management cannot save a parastatal

Bad management has helped sink many Zimbabwean parastatals, but TelOne, the state-owned telco, shows that not even the best leadership can keep a state enterprise afloat as long as government keeps up...

By newZWire | Published: 04 July 2019
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