AS COVID-19 continues to run amok, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube had one message for the masses yesterday: get vaccinated and the economy remains fully open, or don’t get vaccinated, it gets shut! Ncube made this call as the government received two million vaccines from China, amid surging infections and rising number of people succumbing to…
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) Commander Edzai Chimonyo died in the early hours of yesterday after a valiant battle with lung cancer. Chimonyo had been admitted at the Avenues Clinic since Friday last week. He was 69. “Commander Defence Forces General Valerio Sibanda regrets to announce the untimely death of Commander ZNA Lieutenant General Edzai Chimonyo whose…
TRANSPORT minister Felix Mhona yesterday appointed a six-member interim board for the troubled Air Zimbabwe (Air Zim) following the expiry of the airline’s administrator’s contract last month. The mandate of the administrator, Reggie Saruchera of Grant Thornton, came to an end after a three-year stint, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa approving the appointment of the interim…
THERE was significant confusion yesterday over the government’s exact position on who is eligible to enter urban central business districts without travel…
ZIMBABWE’S number one business newspaper, The Financial Gazette — in partnership with blue chip investment, savings, insurance, and banking group, Old Mutual (OM) —…
ZANU PF has shelved its politically-charged restructuring exercise, amid fears that the process could worsen the Covid-19 situation in the country as infections and deaths continue to soar at an alarming rate. This comes as the ruling party is also contemplating holding its October annual conference virtually at a time the country is battling to…
A REGIONAL gender-based organisation, South Western Region Gender Network (SWRGN), has urged the government to effectively implement gender policies, saying this will help reduce gender-based violence (GBV) in the country. SWRGN national coordinator Chelesile Nyathi told journalists yesterday that they were concerned with the rate at which GBV cases were increasing in Matabeleland, especially during…
Renowned commercial bank CBZ recently announced the launch of CBZ Tap to Pay and Win promotion. Running from 1 July 2021 to…
WITH the lethal coronavirus continuing to wreak havoc in the country, authorities announced last night that law enforcement agents would turn away people entering city centres without travel exemption letters. In addition, they also re-instated police checkpoints in and around major roads leading to city centres, to enforce the latest hard lockdown measures. This comes…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has unveiled a new $50 note which will begin circulating today, amid hopes that this will not lead to rises in inflation and the prices of basic consumer goods. “The RBZ wishes to advise the public that the $50 banknote … will be introduced into circulation on July 7…
