BUSINESS NEWS

Harare water crisis reaches alarming levels

Residents in several parts of Harare, including Kuwadzana, have been left without clean water for over two weeks, highlighting the growing severity of the city's water crisis.The failure of the City C...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 August 2025

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Zimbabwe needs US$10 billion to fix power crisis

Zimbabwe will require up to US$10 billion in energy sector investment over the next decade to meet rising electricity demand and address chronic power shortages, according to a new report by Veritas, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 August 2025

MINING & RETAIL

Zimbabwe miners weather power crisis

Zimbabwe's mining industry says it has largely been shielded from the worst of the country's electricity shortages thanks to a targeted power rationing strategy that prioritises the sector. But operat...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe faces malaria crisis

Zimbabwe is grappling with a sharp and alarming rise in malaria cases, with nearly 112,000 suspected infections and over 300 deaths reported in the first half of 2025 alone - a surge that has sparked...

By Staff reporter | Published: 31 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange faces ecological crisis

Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe's largest wildlife sanctuary, is facing a looming ecological disaster as its overpopulation of elephants threatens to wipe out one of the park's most vital tree species ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 July 2025

POLITICS

Maimane criticizes SA govt over Zimbabwe crisis

South African opposition leader Mmusi Maimane has accused President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) of "folding its arms" amid Zimbabwe's ongoing political crisis. He a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 July 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis

Zimbabwe's pension sector faces a mounting crisis as contribution arrears soar to a staggering US$93 million, prompting the Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC) to announce an aggressive enforceme...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 July 2025

EDUCATION

Zimbabwe's teacher shortage crisis worsens

Zimbabwe's education sector is facing mounting pressure as the teacher-to-pupil ratio has climbed to an alarming 1:45-far above the recommended standard of one teacher for every 20 learners in early c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimra faces deepening tax enforcement crisis

The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is grappling with a growing tax enforcement crisis as the dominance of the cash economy, rampant informality, and high-profile tax disputes expose critical weakn...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2025

POLITICS

Zimbabwe's Air Force crisis exposed

In August 2021, President Emmerson Mnangagwa experienced a harrowing emergency when his VIP helicopter crash-landed at a farm in Sandringham, approximately 64 kilometres southwest of Harare. The incid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Lake Chivero water crisis deepens, cancer risk soars

Once a cherished symbol of Zimbabwe's natural heritage and a critical lifeline for the capital's water supply, Lake Chivero is now the epicenter of a deepening public health crisis, with new research ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 May 2025

POLITICS

'Zimbabwe's political crisis has to be managed carefully,' says Biti

As Zimbabwe grapples with escalating political tension and worsening economic conditions, fresh calls have emerged for the establishment of a National Transitional Authority (NTA) as a crucial rescue ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2025

EDUCATION

UZ crisis deepens amid strike

The University of Zimbabwe (UZ), the country's oldest institution of higher learning, is reeling under a deepening crisis as a month-long strike by lecturers brings academic activity to a standstill.S...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2025

POLITICS

Zapu calls for urgent action on Zimbabwe crisis

The Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) has called for the immediate formation of a caretaker government to address the country's long-running socio-political and economic crisis. The call comes am...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

Cash crisis shakes Mnangagwa's govt

CAUGHT in a dilemma between printing money and possibly fuelling inflation, or nursing acute cash shortages, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has turned to militant policies, controlling some...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 October 2019

OPINION

Zimbabwe economic crisis a silhouette of the political crisis

The enduring crisis in Zimbabwe presents a conundrum to a lot of people.To the generality of Zimbabweans,whose only desire is the pursuit of a dignified existence, the debilitating liquidity crunch, f...

By Learnmore Zuze | Published: 09 July 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Fuel crisis persists in Zimbabwe

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 July 2019

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa's govt seized with economic crisis'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met members of the Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) amid the deteriorating economic situation in the country which has seen prices of basic goods skyrocketing...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 May 2019

OPINION

Mnangagwa must urgently act on worsening economic crisis

THE political and socio-economic crises in Zimbabwe is slowly edging towards the tipping point as espoused by the Registrar-General (RG) Office's failure to issue passports and standard national ID ca...

By Editorial - Newsday | Published: 29 April 2019

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Currency crisis hits real estate sector

Zimbabwe's real estate sector is under immense pressure to review rentals in response to the country's deteriorating economy, which has resulted in rising operating costs, defaults and voids.First Mut...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2019

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Data tariffs soar as Zimbabwe crisis bites

Mobile network operators became the latest sector to increase prices for their products with an upward adjustment of tariffs for broadband services following the floating of the country's local curren...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2019

OPINION

Chamisa calls for SADC intervention in Zimbabwe crisis - Fulltext

Text of speech by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa as prepared for delivery at a news conference in Harare on Tuesday, January 29:THE situation in the country has reached crisis levels. The country is curren...

By Nelson Chamisa | Published: 30 January 2019

OPINION

Mnangagwa left paralysed by a crisis of legitimacy

Last week on November 24 Emmerson Mnangagwa was in Murombedzi - former president Robert Mugabe's village backyard in Mashonaland West - to commemorate his chequered one year in office following his co...

By Jonathan N Moyo | Published: 02 December 2018

MINING & RETAIL

PPC hit hard by foreign currency crisis

PPC Zimbabwe Ltd is stuck with R896 million (US$64,2 million) due to its parent company after the local company failed to remit rights issue proceeds and other amounts due to the Johannesburg Stock Ex...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 November 2018

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Musimboti cashes in on drugs crisis

CERTIFIED herbal medicines manufacturer, Musimboti Traditional Science and Technology Institute (MTSTI), has over the past two months experienced a surge in business as patients resort to traditional ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 November 2018
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