Churches allowed to gather under COVID-19 restrictions as ED sets prayer day
Cynthia Chitombi
President Mnangagwa has allowed churches across Zimbabwe to gather for their services on conditions that congregants observe social distancing and not to exceed...
Teachers against schools opening
Cynthia Chitombi
The Amalgamated Rural Teachers’ Union of Zimbabwe is against government’s proposed opening of schools announcing that it would seek an interdict blocking the...
NMB loan book immune from Covid-19; plans to target economic growth sectors
Tapiwanashe Mangwiro
HARARE – NMB Zimbabwe says that its loan book does not have significant exposure to business sectors that are most affected by the...
Raymond Njanike dies
Maxwell Chingaira
EmpowerBank board chairman and former Interfin Bank executive Raymond Njanike has died.
He was 52.
The banker died on Wednesday after a battle with pancreatic...
The centenary of the arrival of Harare’s first flight
Jonathan Waters
Tomorrow, June 11, marks the centenary of the arrival of the first aircraft in Harare carrying two passengers from Kadoma, and it...
Money and Economy in Zimbabwean History: A Concise Currency Timeline
The end of Chartered Rule, entrenchment of white self-government and African economic disempowerment: Currencies, and the consolidation of Racialised Economic Spaces, 1920-1930
Tinashe Nyamunda
In the...
Slowdown in economic activity during C-19 lockdown sees Zim narrow its trade deficit by...
HARARE – A slowdown in economic activity in April due to the coronavirus-induced national lockdown, saw the country’s trade deficit narrow by a significant...
Zimbabwe maize yields at 0.57t/ha in 2019/20, faces cereal deficit of 1.16m tonnes
HARARE - The country's maize production is estimated to have risen 17% in the 2019/20 season, but the biggest concern remains the poor yields,...
Banks to finance productive sector Covid-19 support
Farai Mabeza
Productive sector support under the $18.02 billion COVID-19 Economic Recovery and Stimulus Package will be financed by banks through normal banking channels and...
Nampak pessimistic as Covid-19 pushes economic reform into the background
Farai Mabeza
Paper packaging firm, Nampak Zimbabwe, sees no improvement in the country’s economic environment for the remainder of 2020 citing the COVID-19 outbreak and...
