PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe will forge ahead with plans to ditch the multi- currency regime for the greater good of the Country’s economy. With the multi-currency regime set to end at the end of 2025 against the backdrop of financial institutions refusing to advance US dollar beyond this date, the government has been…
By Ketty Nyoni AN International Monetary Fund (IMF) team is expected in Zimbabwe later this month to assess how best Zimbabwe can be assisted with a new Staff-Monitored Programme (SMP). SMP is an informal agreement between an IMF member country and the financier’s staff to monitor the member country’s economic programmes. The programme can help…
ZIMTRADE will tomorrow showcase trade and investment opportunities in Zimbabwe at the ongoing Botswana Global Expo in Gaborone as part of a two-day European Union (EU)-Botswana Business Forum. The session, dubbed Doing Business with Zimbabwe, would be facilitated by ZimTrade’s client advisor for the southern region, Nozipho Maphala. “This will be an interaction between Zimbabwean…
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says the opposition party has resolved that all its deployees in the National Assembly, Senate and local authorities should disengage for two weeks from the public offices with immediate effect. Addressing the media in Harare yesterday, Chamisa said the elected public officials in last August’s general elections…
HOME Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe says the police recorded over 290 000 criminal cases in the country in the first eight months of this year. This, he said, was a serious cause of concern and the law enforcement agency needed to urgently intervene and combat the scourge. Addressing senior police officers in Harare yesterday, Kazembe…
THE 16th edition of Sanganai/Hlanganani World Tourism Expo opens in Bulawayo today with a packed schedule of intense business engagement sessions as Zimbabwe seeks to capitalise on the showcase to drive higher tourism earnings. The annual exhibition runs from today to October 14 at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) grounds under the theme: “Tourism…
By Ketty Nyoni IN the first half of this year, Zimbabwe recorded 32 level crossing accidents which saw four people being killed, the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has confirmed. Speaking at the launch of the Southern African Railway Association (SARA) Railway Safety Week in Harare yesterday, NRZ acting general manager Ainah Dube-Kaguru said the…
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD girl from Glen View in Harare has been sentenced to three years in prison after she was found guilty of sexually assaulting two boys, aged eight and six. The minor was facing a charge of aggravated indecent assault. During her trial, the State told the court that the girl, who resides at the…
AS THE world observes the Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe — the country’s leading telecommunications and technology company — has introduced new biometric fingerprint technology in all its shops and major distribution outlets, to strengthen cybersecurity around its customers’ identity, enhance overall data protection, and significantly reduce incidences of fraud and identity…
THE chaos-ravaged Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) is faced with two equally undesirable alternatives in the wake of the debilitating recall of 15 of its legislators from Parliament this week. So say political analysts, who told the Daily News yesterday that both withdrawing all the party’s legislators from Parliament in protest at the recalls, or…
