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...
Zimbabwean courts are handling emergency cases only during the Level 4 national lockdown

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...
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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...
Schools opening has been deferred until further notice

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...
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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...
Zimbabwean courts are handling emergency cases only during the Level 4 national lockdown

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...