A new pharmaceutical manufacturing plant is set to be constructed in Mt Hampden, about 20km north-west of Harare, in a development expected to cut reliance on foreign drugs and create more jobs for ci...
Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lost the presidency of the small-scale miners' body after her appeal was dismissed by the Supreme Court. Ms Rushwaya had earlier been...
A 38-year old Rushinga man recently appeared in court for insulting President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Morgan Muchemwa of Rushinga in Mashonaland Central Province recently appeared before magistrate Tendai ...
AS power shortages escalate with devastating effects on both domestic and industrial use, power utility Zesa Holdings (Zesa) has threatened to cut supplies to defaulting users including political heav...
THE country's fuel crisis is getting worse as long winding queues have begun to resurface across the country, a week after government banned the use of the multi-currency system.Deputy Energy minister...
Leader of the smaller MDC Thokozani Khupe has said the new monetary policy highlighted by the ending of a 10-year multi-currency system, does not demonstrate a long term plan with a defined path to so...
THE water crisis in the second largest city is set to worsen after the local authority said the ongoing power challenges have grossly affected its pumping capacity.The city council introduced a 36-hou...
The government will never repeal Statutory Instrument (SI) 142 of 2019 which bans the use of foreign currencies as legal tender and makes the RTGS the country's sole legal tender - Justice minister Zi...
OUTSPOKEN traditional leader, Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni - who has in recent months courted the ire of Zanu-PF apparatchiks with his stinging criticism of the government - has praised President Em...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's under-pressure government says it is confident that the sky-high prices of basic goods that have made the lives of ordinary citizens miserable over the past few months w...
Zimbabwe's energy minister Fortune Chasi was on Tuesday forced to put the proof of the country's US$10m (R139m) payment to Eskom on his twitter account, after earlier claims of having paid was refuted...
Zimbabwe's economic crisis has potential to breed instability in the country and needs urgent redress, opposition leader Nelson Chamisa has said.Chamisa, mandated by the MDC congress in May to find la...
DEFENCE Minister, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has filed a $1 million suit against the Daily News for alleged defamation in a case in which the private paper published an article claiming her housing coop...
Finance and Economic Development Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube says authorities have instituted measures that will ensure that the local currency will not suffer previous depredations, following the...
THE move by government to make the RTGS currency the country's sole legal tender can work if government remains fiscally disciplined, builds political and economic confidence and boost production.Last...
THE Zanu-PF Youth League which has been breathing fire and brimstone over corruption in government and the private sector said it will be looking into Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri's reports whic...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is under extreme pressure to act on Auditor-General (AG) Mildred Chiri's reports, which are exposing the rot in government.This comes after Chiri released damning reports ...
THE Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) yesterday said its members will proceed with their demonstration if government does not revert back to the multi-currency regime, but President Emmerson Mn...
WITH a 15 to 19 hour load shedding schedule underway, massive hikes in prices of firewood and acute shortages on gas, some Zimbabweans have resorted to burning plastic to cook meals.Barely a week ago,...
FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube's sweeping decision to discard the multi-currency system that had obtained in Zimbabwe for the past 10 years has brought with it some modicum of stability into the econom...
BARRING threats of social upheaval, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared he is ready to stick it out and push with his reform agenda.Mnangagwa on Thursday told captains of industry meeting under ...
Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs minister Appolonia Munzverengi is being accused of using her political muscle to grab a mining claim owned by Mekasi Engineering.The company claim that the minister...
ON June 24, 2019, Zimbabwe woke to news of a statutory instrument with clearly far-reaching effects in that it alters the currency landscape. This instrument has been followed by directives from the R...
CHIEFS in the Midlands and Matabeleland regions have called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently address the rising cost of living, including sharp increases in food insecurity.Mnangagwa met ch...
ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has publicly apologised for the embarrassment he caused after the government misinformed the public that the State had paid a US$10 million to settle a debt with a South ...