Cash crisis: Zimbabwe cuts bank charges in push for electronic payments
Bankers Association President Charity JinyaCHARGES for electronic payments have been cut after an agreement between the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, banks and providers of payment platforms, the central...
View ArticleZimbabwe corruption threatens bond notes
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor John MangudyaFOR a country experiencing its second most deadly cycle of cash shortages, to see groups of young men and women waving wads of foreign currencies on...
View ArticleZANU-PF factions fight over maize
Vice President Emmerson MnangagwaMAIZE donated to alleviate hunger by sugar producing company Tongaat Hullet in the famine ravaged Masvingo province, has become the new frontier for fierce ZANU-PF...
View ArticlePolitical parties in the red
MDC -T leader Morgan Tsvangira and ZPF president Joice MujuruZIMBABWE’S major political parties are in the red, as the economic hardships which have swept over industries and the general population...
View ArticleNo suitor for Shabanie and Mashaba Mines
Mutumwa MawereGOVERNMENT has for several years now been hoping to pull a surprise by securing capital for the revival of the troubled Shabanie and Mashaba Mines (SMM), but its efforts have failed to...
View ArticleCivil servants on edge as government runs out of cash
Finance Minister Patrick ChinamasaTHE cash-strapped government is facing increasing fiscal pressures on the back of a rapid decline in tax revenues amid tell-tale signs that it could struggle in the...
View ArticleEvan Mawarire sponsored by foreign countries – Mugabe
#Thisflag pastor Evan MawarirePRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has accused a pastor who organized a nationwide strike against the government of being sponsored by foreign countries allegedly trying to...
View ArticleAntonio Fourie steps down as Innscor Africa Limited CEO
Antonio FourieINNSCOR Africa Limited chief executive, Antonio Fourie has resigned from the group and its subsidiary boards with effect from August 21 2016, group chairman Addington Chinake said in a...
View ArticleGovernment rejects ZESA’s electricity tariff hike proposal
The power utility is owed more than US$1 billion by electricity consumers and has been struggling to collect this debt.GOVERNMENT has rejected a hike in electricity tariff proposed by the Zimbabwe...
View ArticleTables turn on ZANU-PF bigwigs
Former war veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa AT their prime — they had the world eating out of their hands.No one dared oppose their word, which was almost sacred.When they entered a room,...
View ArticleMawarire stirs revolutionary spirit
Supporters pray for the release of Pastor Evan Mawarire last Wednesday.THROUGHOUT history, characters that somehow refuse to be ignored have come along.Movers and shakers such as Mahatma Gandhi, Martin...
View ArticleJoshua Nkomo’s son blasts politicians
Sibangilizwe NkomoBULAWAYO — Late vice president Joshua Nkomo’s son, Sibangilizwe Nkomo, has said politicians have lost their way unlike his father who united Zimbabweans across the political divide...
View ArticleAnother MDC T split imminent
MDC-T leader, Morgan TsvangiraiTHE appointment of Nelson Chamisa and Elias Mudzuri as vice presidents of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has opened a Pandora’s Box in the fragile opposition...
View ArticleDiasporans take on ZANU-PF
Evan Mawarire, a pastor of the #ThisFlag campaignZIMBABWEANS in foreign lands are coalescing around a new political outfit called the United Democratic Front (UDF) to challenge the ruling ZANU-PF in...
View ArticleGovernment delays paying civil servants salaries again
Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare, Prisca MupfumiraGOVERNMENT says it will pay salaries for its soldiers on Monday, over a week late, and has deferred other payments to next month...
View ArticleGovernment issues 6 000 import licences, 75 percent to South African products
Industry and Trade Minister Mike Bimha pic from The SourceGOVERNMENT has issued over 6 000 import certificates, with three quarters of those for South African products, five months after it tightened...
View ArticleGovernment, UN in 20 million euro industrialisation programme
Industry and Commerce deputy minister, Chiratidzo MabuwaTHE United Nations Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) has launched a 20 million euro programme for capacity building to help rebuild the...
View ArticleImports decline 18 percent in six months – ZimStat
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor, John MangudyaTOTAL imports for the half year to June 2016 amounted to us$2, 5 billion, a decline of 18 percent from US$3...
View ArticleZimbabwe’s economy deteriorates: Analysts
Finance Minister, Patrick ChinamasaOLD Mutual Securities (OMSEC) has indicated that the country’s economy continues to slide due to weak aggregate demand caused by increasing joblessness, low...
View ArticleTables turn against Sarah Mahoka
ZANU-PF Women’s League national secretary for finance, Sarah MahokaKAROI — ZANU-PF Women’s League national secretary for finance, Sarah Mahoka, is getting a taste of her own medicine.Last week, some...
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