Money and the winds of change in the 1960s. Federal collapse, the Rhodesian rebellion, sanctions UN sanctions and the turn towards a post-sterling currency.
Tinashe Nyamunda
The 1960s have been viewed by historians as the decade of African independence. While many...
Shamiso Ngwena
Air Zimbabwe is set to resume domestic flights next Wednesday after enduring a period of tumultuous times that led to the national airline failing to service some of its regional and international...
HARARE – The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has announced that it has completed the validation of foreign exchange applications submitted under the blocked funds framework.
The framework was announced in the monetary policy statement in February 2019. RBZ governor John...
Munyaradzi Doma
The Government has approved a cash transfer programme which will benefit all those affected by the 21-day national lockdown, which was ordered by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to contain the spread of the deadly Covid-19.
The cash transfer programme which...
By Jono Waters
The Spanish Flu epidemic struck Rhodesia in early October, 1918, being introduced into the country by passengers arriving from South Africa by train. It spread quickly in all the urban centres before making its way into the...
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro
HARARE - Zimbabwe Asset Management Company (Zamco) has so far resolved $452 million of the bad debts it mopped up and said they are still in line to meet the annual $140 million target.
In February 2020, the debt...
Shamiso Ngwena & Cynthia Chitombi
Zimbabwean farmers, struggling with traditional crops such as maize, have shifted focus to the sesame plant targeting at least 100 000 tonnes of the crop during the 2020/2021 agricultural season.
Agricultural production in Zimbabwe has been...
Simba Rushwaya
THE government will soon crack the whip on banks it is suspecting to be withholding foreign currency and cash instead of injecting it in the mainstream economy, a top government official has...
Farai Mabeza
Tobacco farmers will get fifty percent of their proceeds in foreign currency, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) and the Tobacco Industry Marketing Board (TIMB) announced.
In a statement the two organisations said the money would be paid into foreign...
Farai Mabeza
The High Court has dismissed with costs Ecocash’s application by Ecocash seeking an interdict against a Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe directive to suspend and freeze all agents accounts with a monthly transaction threshold above $100 000.
In his ruling,...
