Zimstat says unemployment rate at 16%
Farai Mabeza
HARARE - About 1.2 million people in Zimbabwe have given up on securing employment, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has said as it reported that the national unemployment rate stood at 16...
US citizen deported from Zim
Munyaradzi Doma
Zimbabwe has deported an American citizen who visited the country in June last year on a holiday visa before he overstayed until last Friday.
Frederick Ray Mckoy, who was staying in Marlborough, was also...
Command Agric funds all accounted for: Sakunda
Staff Writer
Funds availed for government’s Command Agriculture were accounted for and everything done was above board, Sakunda Holdings officials have declared explaining that they only received a third of the US$3 billion figure that's...
New exam fees violating children’s rights
Cynthia Chitombi
New examination fees announced by government are against the basic children’s right to access state funded basic education, Tag-A-Life executive director Nyaradzo Mashayamombe has said.
Mashayamombe, whose organisation is running the Every Child in...
TSL says Q2 volumes to be affected by late start to tobacco marketing season
HARARE - TSL says the late start to the tobacco marketing season volumes in the second quarter of all tobacco related businesses are expected to be below prior year although this is expected to...
Marry’s attempted murder investigations almost complete
Munyaradzi Doma
Police investigations into how Marry Chiwenga allegedly attempted to kill Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, currently underway in South Africa are almost complete, it has been revealed.
Prosecutor Tinashe Makiya told Magistrate Crispen Mberewere that...
Harare City Planner arrested for demanding bribe
Munyaradzi Doma
Harare’s acting city planner Samuel Nyabezi has been arrested for allegedly demanding payment to fast track a land developer’s lease application which had taken four years to be granted.
Nyabezi, who allegedly said he...
Factors and events to watch out for: March 16 -20, 2020
HARARE – Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has set in motion measures to steady the volatility of the exchange rate with the latest of the four market signals released so far, being...
ZMDC saga takes new twist following Murangari’s death
Munyaradzi Doma
Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation’s Acting general manager, Luke Akino will have to face the legal challenge on his own following the death of his co-accused, David Murangari.
Akino was at Harare magistrate court facing...
News Feature: Brain drain puts Zimbabwe at a further disadvantage
Farai Mabeza
HARARE - "Our mining engineers are well sought after all over the world", says Chamber of Mines chief executive Isaac Kwesu.
For any economy, this would be good news. But in Zimbabwe this has...
















