RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Mangudya will be the guest of honour at the presentation of the first quarter “State of the Economy Report” for this year at the Daily News Breakfast Forum set for Friday. The highly-anticipated presentation of the quarterly report, produced by the Africa Economic Development Strategies (AEDS) in conjunction with…
SOUTHERN African Development Community (Sadc) Health ministers are today set to meet in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania in an emergency meeting aimed at assessing the region’s state of preparedness for coronavirus (Covid-19), following three cases that have so far been confirmed in South Africa. The meeting comes as South Africa, a member of the regional…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF fear a popular uprising by ordinary Zimbabweans who are enduring the worst economic crisis in the country for a decade, expelled former Zanu PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu has told the Daily News On Sunday. This comes as the church, regional peers and Western powers are stepping up their…
THE government should adopt and put emphasis on pro-business reforms to enhance export earners’ capacity to earn foreign currency and capacitate industry in order to reduce the need for imports and improve foreign currency inflows correspondingly, a research service has said. This comes as the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says it is targeting a…
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) will recover this year as valuation mismatches on stocks brought by the de-dollarisation of the economy are corrected, a latest report has said. In their 2020 market outlook analysis, Fincent securities said stocks were seen gaining this year despite liquidity challenges constraining the markets as investors relook at the earnings…
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize has announced that a second case of COVID-19 has now been confirmed in South Africa. On Thursday it was announced that a KwaZulu-Natal man who had travelled back from Italy on Sunday was the first confirmed case in South Africa. The second patient is a 39-year-old lady from Gauteng who…
RESTIVE members of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) have told the labour body’s leadership to organise a mass stay-away to force the government to address the current economic crisis. This emerged during a recent consultative meeting held in Harare, one of many by the labour body to chart the way forward in the…
THE City of Bulawayo has recorded an increase in the number of tuberculosis (TB) and TB-related deaths at its clinics. According to the latest council minutes, in January this year the local authority initiated 191 patients on tuberculosis treatment up from 128 patients in December last year. During the same month, 22 people died of…
ZIMBABWE today (March 8) celebrates International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. International Women’s Day has occurred for well over a century, with the first IWD gathering in 1911 supported by over a million…
THE prices of basic goods and services are set to skyrocket anew, after the local currency plunged against the United States dollar on the black market yesterday, the Daily News reports. This comes as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned that the country will this year face more economic pain, and also experience a…
