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Chivayo feels heat over Zesa projects

Controversial  Harare businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, is staring down the barrel of a gun as the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority (Zesa) and Parliament turn the heat on him in a bid to have ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

OPINION

3 Mugabe laws that will scare away investors in Mnangagwa era

Since the deposition of Zimbabwe's long-serving dictator Robert Mugabe from power by the military on 14 November, the country has seen an ever-changing citizenry in terms of political choices.During ...

By Tawanda Madamombe | Published: 10 December 2017

POLITICS

Mugabe headache for Mnangagwa

President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces his toughest test yet after taking over from Zimbabwe's former leader when he presides over Zanu-PF's first congress in the post Robert Mugabe era, with war veteran...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

POLITICS

Tsvangirai facing MDC-T ouster

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's quest to run for the presidency for the fourth time might hit a brick wall, amid revelations, there are renewed efforts to force him to make way for a new leader befo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

POLITICS

Mugabe was captured, says his obedient son

Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu says former president Robert Mugabe was captured by people bent on destroying Zanu-PF as he justified the military takeover of government last monthMpofu told heads ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Chinamasa's 2018 budget gets thumbs up

Finance and Economic Planning minister Patrick Chinamasa has set the tone for economic recovery, ticking the right boxes with a raft of reforms, analysts have said.In his 2018 National Budget present...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Chinamasa under fire

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa has been critisised for failing to prioritise the funding of health in the 2018 budget as the Health and Child Care ministry's vote was dwarfed by that of Defence a...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

OPINION

How Mnangagwa got it wrong

Journalist Violet Gonda (VG) interviewed former Education minister David Coltart on the Hot Seat programme to understand President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Cabinet.Coltart warned the government was going...

By Violet Gonda | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Banks in 99-year leases U-turn

Banks are waiting for the government to start rolling out the 99-year leases to farmers so that they can start accessing loans backed by the instrument, an official has said.A 99-year lease is a legal...

By The Source | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Baker's Inn customer walks away with Merc

It was a case of Christmas coming early for a Victoria Falls resident and 40-year-old Mr Simbarashe Shoko after he won a Mercedes Benz C Class at the Baker's Inn 2017 edition of the Buy and Win promot...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

IDBZ sets up $5m project preparatory fund

THE Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has established a Project Preparatory and Development Fund with $5 million seed capital aimed at financing bankable project proposals in the co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Cash amnesty gazetted

Government has amended the Exchange Control Act to enable individuals and corporates to return externalised funds to Zimbabwe without prosecution.The amendment gives legal effect to the three-month m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

POLITICS

Mnangagwa to make VPs decision

THE Zanu-PF's Extraordinary Congress in Harare this week will not elect leaders, but largely endorse Central Committee resolutions passed on November 19, 2017.President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be end...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

OPINION

Budget should unlock country's agricultural potential

A FEW days ago I listened to a business discussion that was made by a Zimbabwean business mogul at one of the prestigious universities in the United States of America. This was Mr Strive Masiyiwa, ch...

By Mhlupheki Dube | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt tightens Command Agriculture screws

GOVERNMENT is in the process of plugging leakages in the distribution of Command Agriculture and Presidential Agricultural Programmes inputs.The move comes after reports that Command Agriculture inpu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

OPINION

Take aways from the budget

Let me start by thanking Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinamasa and the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Budget and Finance for the job well done.I participated in budget consul...

By Dr Gift Mugano | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe industry calls for policy consistency

Finance and Economic Planning Minister Patrick Chinamasa has challenged business leaders to take advantage of the pro-business fiscal policy initiatives announced in the 2018 National Budget, saying ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Chinese firms to bring own workers

Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa said the Chinese companies contracted to build the new parliament and the Robert Mugabe International Airport were coming with their workforce under the $153 millio...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

OPINION

Budget has many bright spots

At the beginning of 2017 Finance minister Patrick Anthony Chinamasa was voted the best performer.We also included the new President Emmerson Mnangagwa who was the vice president then, among a short ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

'Chinamasa made right calls'

Economists have said Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa made the right calls on some key elements of fiscal policy on one of the harshest budgets in a generation on Thursday, slashing spending, re-en...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

'Nothing in budget for workers'

Zimbabwe's largest trade union federation yesterday said the national budget presented by the Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa had nothing for the working people to celebrate.The Zimbabwe Congress...

By Staff reporter | Published: 10 December 2017

POLITICS

3,700 'Green Bombers' fired

Government has cut loose 3 700 national youth service workers reinstated by former president Robert Mugabe in July after they had initially been fired by the Ministry of Public Service.The move is mea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zinara apologises for long queues

Zimbabwe National Road Administration (Zinara) has apologised for unusually long queues at Norton toll plaza due to the use of cashless payment methods."Zinara and its partners have developed cashless...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

'Brace for Zimdollar return'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government will soon reintroduce the Zimbabwean dollar which will be anchored by international goodwill, Special Advisor to the President Chris Mutsvangwa has said.The r...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Security at DPC tightened after threats

SECURITY has been tightened at the office of the Deposit Protection Corporation (DPC) following threats made against the institution's chief executive John Chikura and his staff.According to a letter ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 December 2017

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