Bloomberg ZIMBABWE has threatened to ban traders from the country’s foreign-exchange auction platform for exploiting the gap between black-market and official currency prices. Authorities are dealing with an underground phenomenon that has the potential to “totally destabilise the Zimbabwean economy,” deputy finance minister Clemence Chiduwa said in an op-ed in the state-run Sunday Mail newspaper
Agencies THE Founder of the Synagogue, Church of All Nations, Temitope Joshua, better known as Prophet TB Joshua, is dead. Joshua reportedly died on Saturday night in Lagos after concluding a programme at his church. The church and his family have not officially announced his death. He was 57. Plans were underway for his 58th birthday.
By Alois Vinga ZIMBABWE Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) Saturday announced the reduction of fuel prices as the country inflation continues to tumble on the back of the government economic reforms. The southern African nation has been implementing a raft of economic reforms which have seen relative improvement in some sectors although last week Zimbabwe witnessed
By Anna Chibamu recently in Mhangura RESETTLED farmers not fully utilising their land have been told to surrender their properties or risk losing the farms to other deserving and productive citizens. The latest threats were issued by Mashonaland West provincial minister Mary Mliswa-Chikoka Thursday while touring Mucherengi and Summerhill farms in Mhangura. The minister said
African News Agency SHE has been fondly hailed as South Africa’s latest woman crush on social media, while other social media users have been in awe of Pan-African Parliament’s Barbara Rwodzi’s unwavering stance amid violent scuffles in the continental legislative body’s chambers in Midrand. Recounting her experience at the Pan-African Parliament, Zimbabwe’s Member of Parliament
By Costa Nkomo MDC activists Last Maengahama and Tungamirai Madzokere, who were serving 20 year jail terms for murdering a Harare police office in 2011, have been freed by the Supreme Court after languishing in prison for an effective five years. Maengahama, Madzokere and Yvonne Musarurwa, who is now MDC-T MP, were all convicted and
By Alois Vinga FINANCE Minister Mthuli Ncube Thursday claimed Zimbabwe had recorded a whopping $9.8 billion budget surplus during the first quarter of 2021. However, presenting the Treasury quarterly bulletin, Ncube attributed deep economic reforms he has implemented to the enormous budget surplus. “On the fiscal front, a budget surplus of $9.8 billion was recorded
By Staff Reporter A ZIMBABWEAN man, Godfrey Muzhuzha (50), who was jailed in the United Kingdom in 2005 for killing his former wife Judith Muzhuzha, has died just before his release from prison. Muzhuzha had served a 15-year jail term in Hemel Hempsted but died two weeks before his release from an unknown ailment. His
By Staff Reporter SELF-STYLED Prophet Blessing Chiza has once again courted controversy and the ire of government after his weekend’s prophecy predicting the newly-erected Mbuya Nehanda statue faces demolition by restless citizens protesting against economic collapse. He also sensationally claimed the iconic statue at the intersection of Samora Machel Avenue and Julius Nyerere Way in
By Costa Nkomo PATRICK Chinamasa, the Zanu PF secretary for finance, has been appointed acting political commissar as the governing party prepares for the 2023 national elections. The outspoken politician takes over from Victor Matemadanda. Matemadanda, who is also the Deputy Defence Minister and Gokwe Central MP, is set for reappointment as Zimbabwe’s ambassador to
By Staff Reporter PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration continues presenting “itself in the worst possible light at home and internationally”, casting any pretence of implementing reforms to the wind, with hopes for a rebounding economy continuing to fade. According to Ringisai Chikohomero, a research consultant at the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) based in Pretoria, South
By Leopold Munhende CHAOS characterised the second day of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) presidential election forcing the process to be aborted again as SADC MPs maintained with their “No Rotation – No Election” stance. Zanu PF Chirumanzu South MP Barbara Rwodzi and South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) president Julius Malema were again at the
By Mary Taruvinga LUKE Malaba says he remains Chief Justice as last month’s landmark High Court ruling declaring his continued tenure unconstitutional, was being appealed against at the Supreme Court. Malaba was forced out of office on May 15 after High Court judges nullified the extension of his term by another five years. The decision
Bloomberg ZIMBABWE’S Mines Minister has informed Todal Mining, a venture controlled by Eurasian Resources Group, that its platinum mining concessions could be seized because no progress has been made in developing them. The Bokai and Kinonde concessions may be taken over under the “use-it/lose-it principle” which allows the state to repossess idle mining claims, Minister
By Bulawayo Correspondent ZANU PF politburo member, Retired Colonel Tshinga Dube has defended the party’s old guard which continues to cling to top government positions despite advanced ages, saying pensions offered by government were too little to sustain them after retirement. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Media Centre this past week, the outspoken politician said
By James Muonwa, Mashonaland West Correspondent MDC Alliance Mashonaland West provincial secretary, Tawanda Bvumo says he is now living in fear following an attempted abduction incident by three unknown men in Chegutu on Tuesday night. A perennial campaigner in Chegutu East constituency, Bvumo claims Zanu PF elements were behind the failed bid to kidnap him
By Robert Tapfumaneyi THE Natural History Museum in London, which has an extensive collection of artefacts, says it does not have First Chimurenga heroine Ambuya Nehanda’s skull as constantly alleged by the Zimbabwean government. This follows President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s renewed efforts to repatriate Nehanda’s skull which is said to have been taken as a war
By Bulawayo Correspondent OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe’s family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba. Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club on Africa Day, the ex-Makokoba legislator and one time Mugabe minister said his former boss
By Leopold Munhende INFORMATION ministry permanent secretary Nick Mangwana has distanced government from ongoing manoeuvres to have late President Robert Mugabe’s remains exhumed from the former ruler’s rural home in Zvimba for reburial at the National Heroes Acre. In fact, Mangwana said, government was annoyed by attempts by family representatives and critics’ continued dragging of
By Leopold Munhende FIREBRAND teachers’ group, Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (ARTUZ) says it is plotting a protest at the newly unveiled Mbuya Nehanda statue site in Harare ostensibly to draw some inspiration to fight “modern-day exploitation”. The statue was unveiled Tuesday by President Emmerson Mnangagwa who in his address called upon Zimbabweans to
