BUSINESS NEWS

RBZ clamps down on illegal cash deals

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has banned with immediate effect all cash-in, cash-out and cash-back transactions, which were used by some dealers to extort cash from members of the public. Further, the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 October 2019

MINING & RETAIL

Illegal mining threatens Blanket Mine operations

CALEDONIA Mining Corporation has bemoaned the rampant increase of illegal mining activities on properties controlled by its gold mining company, Blanket Mine in Gwanda.Blanket Mine has exploration tit...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 September 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Tendai Biti claims SI 142 is illegal

FORMER Finance Minister and legislator Tendai Biti has described the abandonment of the multi-currency system by government as a disaster while urging its reversal.The MDC MP for Harare East was addr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 June 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Bulawayo Power station ownership transferred illegally without council knowledge

THE dispute between the Bulawayo City Council and the Zimbabwe Power Company over the ownership of the Bulawayo Power Station has taken a dramatic twist after it emerged that title deeds to the disput...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 May 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Online legal advice now on Zimbabwe market

LawBasket is a start-up from Zimbabwe, providing online legal services on the market for small businesses and start-ups in Africa. The company also offers free client relationship management technolog...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 April 2019

OPINION

Legality of blocking the Internet simplified

TODAY, we discuss the legality of the recent shock total blockade of the Internet and subsequent limitation of service to the exclusion of social media sites Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Twitter, a...

By Miriam Tose Majome | Published: 19 January 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

State broadcaster seeks illegal tenant's eviction

THE Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (Pvt) Ltd (ZBH) has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to evict Blackbury Enterprises from its premises, accusing the latter of occupying its premises withou...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 November 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa's hefty legal bill

Zimbabwe's opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa may have to fork out more than R42 million to meet the costs of his election outcome challenge he launched and lost at the country's Constituti...

By Staff eporter | Published: 06 September 2018

MINING & RETAIL

4 injured in shooting at illegal gold mine

Police in Mashonaland East Province have arrested three security guards from Braising Security Company for shooting illegal gold miners at Arcturus Mine in Goromonzi over the week-end. The guards shot...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 September 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

ZPC in $20m legal services bill scandal

The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) is engulfed in a $20 million legal-payment row amid revelations that the Zesa Holdings subsidiary might have flouted procurement regulations by awarding such a hefty c...

By Financial Gazette | Published: 20 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Council threatens legal action over bills

The Masvingo City Council has given residents with outstanding water bills dating up to five years, a seven-day ultimatum to pay or risk legal action. The move has been met with stiff resistance by re...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga speaks on illegal sanctions blame-game

Acting President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday said former president Mr Robert Mugabe blamed his failures on sanctions even where he could have proffered solutions to challenges facing the nation dur...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 June 2018

POLITICS

Harare seeks order to demolish illegal structures

Harare City Council has approached the High Court, seeking an order to demolish hundreds of illegal structures built in Kuwadzana 3 by members of Sekusile Housing Co-operative, arguing the land in que...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 June 2018

POLITICS

Legal costs drown ZEC stewing in massive legal bills

With the clock ticking towards make-or-break harmonised polls on July 30, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) is stewing in massive legal bills following an increase in the number of election-rela...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 June 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's anti-corruption unit illegal

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to create a Special Anti-Corruption Unit in his office has sparked controversy, with legal experts questioning the constitutionality and legality of appointing ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 01 June 2018

POLITICS

Polling station-based voting legalised

Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has taken the final step needed to give legal effect to polling station-based voting.Chigumba has done so by gazetting the requisite ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 30 May 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Ex-Arcturus Mine workers' stay in houses illegal

TN Securities (Pvt) Limited, which acquired Arcturus Mine from Metallon Corporation, says the former employees still residing at the mine's premises are doing so illegally. The company, led by Harare ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 May 2018

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Legal battle looms as tobacco farmers fleeced

Private tobacco farmers could have been prejudiced nearly $4 million by contractors who fraudulently contracted them and bought their commodity at low prices. This comes after the Zimbabwe Farmers Uni...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa wife's pay plan illegal, unsustainable

ZIMBABWE'S parliament has rejected a proposal to pay allowances to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his two vice presidents Constantino Chiwenga and Kembo Mohadi's spouses on the basis that it was ill...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Smoking cannabis/ mbanje remains illegal

The use of cannabis, also known as hemp or mbanje, for recreational purposes is still illegal in Zimbabwe and the thrust for legalising its production is specifically for medicinal and industrial purp...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mixed reactions over cannabis legalisation

Zimbabweans have expressed mixed feelings over government's move to legalise the production of cannabis (mbanje).Last Friday, government gazetted a $50 000 licence fee for those wishing to farm the dr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe legalises production of cannabis

Government has legalised the production of cannabis (mbanje or dagga) for medicinal or scientific purposes.This was announced by Health and Child Care Minister Dr David Parirenyatwa in a Government ga...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa, OK Mart in nasty legal battle

LOCAL stock-exchange-listed supermarket group, OK Zimbabwe, has approached the High Court seeking an interdict barring the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) from turni...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2018

MINING & RETAIL

Mutare houses converted to illegal diamond centres

Several houses in the leafy suburbs of Mutare have reportedly been converted into illegal diamond trading centres by a syndicate of foreigners that is receiving the precious stones from artisanal diam...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 February 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe says, 'Mnangagwa government is illegal'

FORMER president Robert Mugabe this week came out guns blazing at his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa during his first ever briefing to outsiders since his ousting by the military last November...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 February 2018
Pages:
1
2

Latest News

Latest Published Reports

Latest jobs