BUSINESS NEWS

'RBZ not funding black market'

Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has dismissed speculation that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was funding the black market through selling foreign currency.Minister Chi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Damning appraisal of Chamisa

A RESPECTED University of Liverpool professor yesterday issued a lengthy, damning appraisal of MDC Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa, who was on a visit to the United Kingdom, describing him as exc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Grace Mugabe demands prime land 'gift'

Former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe has approached the High Court seeking to compel a local company to hand over to her a "donation" of five hectares of prime land worth millions of dollars in Borrowda...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Chihuri, mistress disagree on child upkeep

Former Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Commissioner-General Dr Augustine Chihuri and his mistress, Ms Sithulisiwe Mthimkhulu, seem to have failed to negotiate for an out-of-court maintenance settlement...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Parliament okays $153m airport deal

The National Assembly yesterday ratified the $153 million Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport expansion project following the signing of a loan agreement between Government and China Eximbank ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Knives out for AMA

Farmers have called for an overhaul of the country's agriculture regulatory board, the Agriculture Marketing Authority (AMA), saying it has repeatedly failed to address the chaotic marketing of cotton...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

OPINION

Mobile money is the future coming early?

With 96 percent of all transactions in Zimbabwe now being done on point-of-sale machines, mobile phones or through digital platforms, Zimbabwe is moving rapidly into what will be the norm for the 21st...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Government, teachers clash

Government yesterday ordered a few teachers' unions agitating for a strike next week to channel their grievances through the Apex Council, a body that brings together all civil servants organisations....

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa appoints two Supreme Court judges

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed two new judges to the Supreme Court to beef up the understaffed bench.Justices Francis Bere and Lavender Makoni - who were at the High Court - were elevated after suc...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

RGM to be removed from Zimbabwe Airways

TRANSPORT minister Joram Gumbo yesterday said the political plates affixed to the planes - Mugabe (RGM), President Emmerson Mnangagwa (ED) and former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko (PM) were just t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF candidate hits the ground running

Zanu-PF parliamentary candidate for Mutare South Jeffrey Ngome has hit the ground running by beginning to address a myriad of challenges confronting the constituency.His priorities include rehabilitat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

How a mission to kill Mugabe was thwarted

A mission to kill Robert Mugabe before he seized power was thwarted - when the British tipped him off that assassins were closing in.Mugabe was leading the fight for majority black rule against Ian Sm...

By guardian | Published: 11 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Brainworks bullish on Zimbabwe

Brainworks Capital expects improved business performance for the 2018 financial year following a better than expected first quarter in which most of its city hotels were fully booked. Brainworks CEO B...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim economy on the rebound

Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya, says the Zimbabwe economy has started registering growth on the back of improved industrial productivity, but the expansion was exerting pressure on th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt delays measures to prevent fuel smuggling

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has deffered the fuel marking programme which was scheduled for the first quarter of this year, citing lack of fiscal space and high cost of implementat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF growing increasingly nervous

Zimbabwe's ruling party is growing increasingly nervous that it could lose power in its first election without Robert Mugabe at its helm against an opposition emboldened by the end of the 37-year rule...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

'It's impossible for Zanu-PF to change'

Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance leader, Nelson Chamisa, has criticised President Emmerson Mnangagwa for "failing" to address electoral reforms less than three months before a watershed e...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

'Voting day may be declared holiday'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is mulling declaring the day of voting in this year's eagerly-awaited elections, a public holiday, a Cabinet minister has said.Justice and Parliamentary Affairs minister Z...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

Chief Charumbira's presidential bid opposed

Zimbabwe's civil society is vigorously opposing the candidature of Zimbabwe's president of the Chiefs Council, Fortune Charumbira, for the presidency of the Pan African Parliament (PAP).This comes aft...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim companies clinch $500k deals at Zambia fair

ZIMBABWEAN companies clinched deals worth over $500 000 at the Agritech Expo held in Chisamba, Zambia recently, the country's trade promotion body, ZimTrade has said.Agritech is an international agric...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

POLITICS

NPF launch flops

THE newly-formed National Patriotic Fund (NPF) Mashonaland East provincial launch flopped yesterday due to a poor turnout.The event, meant to establish structures in the province, was called off after...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zinara boss a liar, says court

THE High Court has described Zimbabwe National Roads Administration (Zinara) chief executive Nancy Masiyiwa-Chamisa as "a liar", in a recent judgment with far-reaching consequences on Zimbabwean indus...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

CFI Holdings spills the beans on 28 ZSE counters

THE war pitting CFI Holdings Limited and the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) has taken a dramatic twist with CFI querying its suspension from the bourse when 28 other counters were in breach of the same...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Botswana offers multi-million dollar market for Zim

BOTSWANA has a huge market for Zimbabwean products as long as they are priced competitively, a ZimTrade survey has indicated.The trade promotion body conducted a market survey in Botswana in February ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

IPEC Commissioner suspended?

THE Insurance and Pension Commission (IPEC) commissioner Tendai Karonga has reportedly been suspended for alleged insubordination by the regulator's board.According to information at hand, Karonga cla...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 May 2018

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