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RBZ avails $10 million loan facility

THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ), through its Financial Inclusion Department, has provided a $10 million concessionary loan facility targeting vulnerable youths in rural areas. The loans will carry ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2017

POLITICS

Teachers' unions welcome Dokora sacking

TEACHERS' unions have welcomed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's decision to drop controversial Primary and Secondary Education Minister, Dr Lazarus Dokora from the new Cabinet.Dr Dokora was dropped at t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Retailers seek Mnangagwa's intervention

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) says President Emmerson Mnangagwa should address the foreign currency shortages, among a host of constraints, to grow the economy.Speaking at the CZR 2017...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 December 2017

POLITICS

Mphoko to be charged

Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko who arrived in the country on Friday through Plumtree Border Post amid reports that he might have been detained upon his e...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

Chombo pleads with Mnangagwa

Former Finance minister, Ignatius Chombo, wrote to President Emmerson Mnangagwa two days after he had been sworn into office offering to work for him in any capacity.In a passionate congratulatory mes...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

Confusion hits Mnangagwa's new govt

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made a sudden U-turn on some of his Cabinet appointments to avoid falling afoul of the supreme law of the land.In terms of section 104(3) of the national charter, the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

'Mnangagwa's choices compromised by allegiances'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new Cabinet announced late on Thursday night remains a chauvinistic and ‘‘old people's home'' where there is no space for youth, women and progressive technocrats, s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

Chombo's case to open can of worms

The ongoing trial of former Finance minister Ignatius Chombo on corruption and fraud charges is likely to open a can of worms as it continues to suck in more and more people every week.Chombo was arr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Egodini project to be cancelled

THE much hyped project to rehabilitate Basch Street Terminus commonly known as Egodini and turn it into a regional public transport hub and shopping mall, hangs in the balance after Bulawayo councillo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

AAG boss jailed

AFFIRMATIVE Action Group national vice-president Samuel Ncube has been ordered to perform 210 hours of community service, after he was convicted of contempt of court on Friday.Ncube appeared before Bu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Amnesty for cash hoarders, barons

Government will allow individuals and companies hoarding cash inside Zimbabwe to bank the funds without prosecution in line with steps to end currency shortages.Further, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

Farm workers celebrate G40's fall

PROGRESSIVE Agriculture and Allied Industries Workers' Union of Zimbabwe (PAAWUZ) is celebrating the fall of the Zanu-PF G40 faction, saying its members protected farmers that exploited workers.PAAWU...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

POLITICS

Britain charms Zimbabwe

THE country's economic players and the generality of Zimbabweans have welcomed Britain's intention to bail Zimbabwe out of World Bank and African Development Bank arrears and foreign currency shortage...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Top Zimra officials acquitted

FOUR of the eight Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) bosses, who were facing charges of fleecing the parastatal of thousands of dollars, through an import duty scam, were last week acquitted by a Hara...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

CZI proposes scheme to stem forex woes

The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has proposed an importer-financed export incentive scheme, which lessens pressure on the central bank to look for foreign currency for importers.In its s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 December 2017

OPINION

'Zim must return to economic fundamentals'

The exit of President Mugabe from the echelons of state power saw the ascendancy of interim President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the blessings of the military after a week of aIt is clear that the new p...

By Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition | Published: 02 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Minister Gumbo not dead

Contrary to reports on the social media that the newly appointed Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development, Dr Joram Gumbo had died in a car accident, the Minister today attended the 17th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

Mnangagwa makes cabinet adjustments

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has made some ministerial adjustments to the appointments made on Thursday to ensure compliance with the constitution and considerations on gender, demography and special ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

Jonathan Moyo declares war on Mnangagwa

Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, claiming the incumbent was under a false sense of victory that would soon come to an end.Cur...

By Staff Reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

Dokora fired from Mnangagwa's cabinet

The Minister of Primary and Secondary education  Lazarus Dokora has been replaced by Prof Paul Mavima.Following an earlier announcement made by the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet on...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

Mphoko in dramatic return to Zimbabwe

Former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko who returned to Zimbabwe from Botswana yesterday caused a dramatic 45-minute spectacle at the Plumtree Border Post as he tried to evade the media.Mr Mphoko had...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

'Zimbabwe poised for massive industrialisation'

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his Government is preparing for a massive industrialisation and modernisation of the economy underpinned by a new thinking in wealth creation.The Head of State and Go...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa reiterates re-engagement drive

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday reiterated his desire to engage the world, in order to get assistance to rescue the country from socio-economic collapse.Speaking at his installation as chancell...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

Zim Government of National Unity talk quashed

Zimbabwe will not have a Government of National Unity (GNU) and political parties should ready themselves for harmonised elections slated for next year, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services pe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

POLITICS

ZRP's 11-point plan

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) National Traffic Branch has come up with an 11-point commitment plan to improve relations with members of the public.According to the plan, the force is making a com...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 December 2017

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