Zimbabwean economist: Bond note is like putting lipstick on a frog to make it...
“The bond note is like putting lipstick on a frog to make it beautiful. You won’t succeed.” So says Zimbabwean economist Dr Gift Mugano. Just over three weeks ago, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)...
View ArticleNo ‘Quick Solution’ in Sight to Zim Cash Crisis – Zimbabwe Finance Minister
Zimbabwean Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has reportedly said that the cash crisis in the southern African country is set to continue for a long time. This was despite the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe...
View Article#Zimbabwe Government Sets Up Cash Collection Offices in Diaspora for Citizens...
GOVERNMENT, through the Ministry of Macro-Economic Planning and Investment Promotion, is targeting a foreign direct investment level of 25 percent of the country’s gross domestic product starting next...
View ArticleZimbabwe Telecoms Mogul Launches Free satellite TV service to Challenge DStv
African Media Network, Econet media, has bought all the Ghana and Nigeria assets of the Modern Times Group (MTG), a leading Swedish digital entertainment group in a deal that that will create thousands...
View Article#Zimbabwe citizen takes Mugabe to court to publish terms of the $200 million...
President Robert Mugabe’s government has been thrown into a fresh bond notes quandary after a citizen threatened to take Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa to court to force him to publish terms of the...
View ArticleZimbabwe and Zambia launch single tourist visa
Zimbabwe and Zambia launch single tourist visa – Zambia and Zimbabwe have started using a single tourist visa for both countries. The neighbouring states, separated by the famous Victoria Falls, signed...
View ArticleZimbabwe Vice President –‘We Have Skills But No Money’
‘We Have Skills But No Money’ By Golden Sibanda — Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Government contracts foreign companies to undertake multi-million dollar infrastructure projects because of...
View ArticleTravellers Beware – Visa Bank Cards Not Working in Zimbabwe
It’s a nightmare. You travel back to cash-strapped Zimbabwe for Christmas ready to spread a bit of festive cheer with your Visa card and then find out it doesn’t work. Returning Zimbabweans have...
View ArticleZimbabwe Citizens Find Creative Solutions to Cash Crisis
ANALYSISBy Anita Powell Ngqabutho Mabhena is unusually nervous about this year’s trip home to Zimbabwe. That’s because, this time around, he’s hand-carrying a whack of currency from South Africa to...
View ArticleZimbabwe Government refuses to accept its own bond notes currency
After spending thousands of dollars advertising and bringing awareness to the public about the introduction of bond notes, it seems Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya’s efforts were all in...
View ArticleAnger as #Zimbabwe President Mugabe steals Christmas, again.
Anger as #Zimbabwe President Mugabe steals Christmas, again. IT is the festive season yet again when families around the world gather for merry-making and share gifts to mark the annual period of...
View ArticleZimbabwe Capital City Harare Owed U.S.$550 Million in unpaid bills by residents
The Harare City Council is now owed more than $550 million in unpaid rates and bills by residents, Government departments and businesses, it has been learnt. The local authority, however, hopes that...
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Zimbabwe To Rename Victoria Falls to Robert Mugabe Falls
Zimbabwe To Rename Victoria Falls to Robert Mugabe Falls By Ken Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu PF party plans to rename world renowned tourist attraction, Victoria Falls to Robert Mugabe Falls arguing it...
View ArticleLondon School of Economics : #Zimbabwe Land Reform a Huge Success, New Black...
When the war veterans took the land it was nasty. Farmers were evicted at gunpoint with only what they could carry, losing cattle and all they had invested in the farm. People were beaten; houses were...
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Robert Mugabe redistributed land from 6,000 white farmers to 245,000 black...
The tobacco industry is no longer marked by the pattern of large, white-owned farms, which have been seized and resettled Godfrey Marawanyika The Independent Online Robert Mugabe redistributed land...
View ArticleJack Ma, China’s richest man worth US$22 Billion, was happier earning $12 a...
Jack Ma, the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba, became the richest man in China after Alibaba IPO’d for a record $25 billion last September. But Ma was just as happy — perhaps even happier —...
View ArticleBreaking News: China gives Zimbabwe US$1 Billion grant for Beitbridge-Harare...
“We have secured a grant to start the dualization of Beitbridge-Harare road and the construction will start in January next year,” Transport Minister Joram Gumbo tells lawmakers in the capital,...
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Breaking News: How Zimbabwe Officials Looted and externalized US$15 Billion...
WHILE real-life diamond heists are as dramatic as robberies we see in the movies — from the raiding of vaults at the Antwerp Diamond Centre in Belgium where US$127 million was stolen in 2003, to the...
View ArticleZimbabwe top 40 under 30 emerging leaders 2016
“If yours actions inspire others to dream more, learn more ,do more and become more , you are a leader” -John Quincy Adams This list has been compiled by Gumiguru Inc.., a Harare based Motivation &...
View ArticleOld Mutual’s Marjorie Mayida on investing in Zimbabwe and Southern Africa
DESCRIPTION: As a long-term investor and responsible steward of the assets it manages on behalf of its customers, Old Mutual Africa is on course to becoming the leading responsible investor on the...
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