PROPERTY sector players say plans to discontinue the use of the United States dollar (US$) beyond December 2025 will impede them from realising the housing goals of Vision 2030. This comes as banks are no longer offering long-term funding beyond 2025 when the multi-currency regime is set to end. Speaking during a property session on…
INDUSTRY and Commerce minister Sithembiso Nyoni has invited business leaders to contribute to the ongoing review of the Zimbabwe National Industrial Development Policy. Nyoni made the remarks on Wednesday at the 2023 CEO Africa Annual Roundtable (CEOART) running in Victoria Falls till weekend under the theme ‘‘Delivering the vision: prospering through smart partnerships’’. “This Industrial…
SENGEZO Tshabangu, who asserts that he is the “interim secretary-general” of the at-war Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), is cranking up the heat on beleaguered party leader Nelson Chamisa. In the latest instalment of the CCC’s growing infighting, Tshabangu ordered the party’s legislators and councillors yesterday to defy Chamisa’s Wednesday directive that they disengage from…
THERE is no law that classifies crystal methamphetamine or simply crystal meth or mutoriro as a dangerous drug, and arresting and prosecuting…
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) is ramping up its efforts to boost its tax collections, including getting the informal sector to contribute more to the fiscus. Speaking in the National Assembly on Wednesday, deputy Finance minister David Mnangagwa said the government was doing everything it could to collect more tax from the burgeoning informal sector….
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…
