Mash Holdings rent collections drop to 70% in April due to coronavirus lockdown
HARARE - Mashonaland Holdings says that the coronavirus-induced lockdown had seen rent collection levels drop to 70% from the average 95%. This comes as...
Money in Zimbabwean History: A Concise Currency Timeline
Early State-making and the historical foundations of Zimbabwe’s colonial monetary system: 1890-1900
Tinashe Nyamunda
What is money in Zimbabwe? Given the contentious and dynamic experiences in...
Mother Touch School in online fees storm
Farai Mabeza
Parents with children at private schools, who, after being bombarded with United States dollar demands for online learning, are feeling the pinch of...
Buyanga takes child custody battle to Supreme Court
Staff Writer
Businessman Frank Buyanga has taken the fight for his son’s custody to the Supreme Court following a 16 April High Court order that...
Govt moves in to address Covid-19 procurement corruption
Sydney Kawadza
Government has reacted swiftly to deal with potential corrupt activities in the procurement of locally produced Personal Protective Equipment in the fight against...
US$13.7m boost for Zim’s health system, anti-COVID-19 fight
Sydney Kawadza
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $13.7 million grant to finance the COVID-19 response in Zimbabwe.
According to...
Separation of accounts to nostro and RTGS invalid: High Court
Staff Writer
HARARE – In a judgment, which could have potentially far-reaching implications over the conversion of USD bank balances to RTGS, the High Court...
Zimbabwe currency: Instability begets instability
Happi Zengeni/Tinashe Nyamunda
Zimbabwe has spent at least half its fiscal existence using temporary cash, other people’s cash with additions, facing cash shortages, counterfeiting its...
COVID-19 response must target African agriculture and the rural poor
Olusegun Obasanjo and Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe
ROME, Italy, – Africa has so far escaped the worst health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the continent...
Celebrating Kariba’s Diamond Jubilee on May 17
Jonathan Waters
SUNDAY May 17 marks the 60th anniversary since Kariba Dam was officially opened by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. At 10:57am...
