TAKUDZWA DHAMBUStaff Writer THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) says the country has seen a sharp rise in active mobile subscriptions, resulting in an increase in mobile penetration across the nation. In a sector performance report for the second quarter of 2025 released last week, Potraz director Gift Machengete said he was…
MUKURU Financial Services Zimbabwe (Mukuru) is targeting to turn to profitability in the next 12 months, driven by increased wallet activities and the rollout of new products. This comes as the deposit-taking microfinance bank made a loss after tax of ZWG20,2 million during the 15 months to March 31, 2025. Mukuru chairman, Bongai Zamchiya, said…
SIMBISA Brands (Simbisa) says it will continue to expand its store network and maintain market share through a new store pipeline of 61 outlets across the companyoperated markets for the full year to June 30, 2026. The Victoria Falls Stock Exchange-listed group said during the year ended June 30, 2025, it continued to grow with…
THE recent warning from the parliamentary portfolio committee on Primary and Secondary Education paints a stark and alarming picture: deep-seated structural and financial crises at the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) are now the primary threat to the integrity of the country’s national examinations. While Zimsec has focused efforts on policing examination cheats, Parliament’s findings…
THE Mutare City Council has applied for a US$2,8 million loan to finance a series of key infrastructure and service delivery projects aimed at improving water supply, roads, and public amenities. The loan application followed a council resolution on borrowing powers passed on August 23, 2024, and has since been submitted to the ministry of…
BY EMMANUEL MARAMBE DYNAMOS…………………….(1)1 NGEZI PLATINUM ………..(1)1 TEN-MAN Ngezi Platinum Stars might have held Dynamos to a one-all draw at Rufaro Stadium yesterday, but the point gained was still enough for the Harare giants to climb out of the drop zone. With Bikita Minerals falling to a 2-0 defeat at ZPC Kariba, and Triangle United…
BRANDON JOSPHATChief Writer AUHORITIES will crank up their ongoing clampdown on all the people who are in possession of illegal firearms in the country. In addition, police also warn that those people who don’t surrender such weapons during the current 30-day presidential firearms amnesty, which ends on October 24, will only have themselves to blame…
THABISO MUTIRWARA Staff Writer MORE than 1 000 vehicles were recorded violating traffic lights in the Harare central business district. National Police spokesperson Paul Nyathi yesterday confirmed that 1 241 vehicles were captured by the electronic traffic management system in Harare. “The Zimbabwe Republic Police releases the registration numbers for vehicles which were captured through…
POLICE have made a breakthrough in the murder case of prominent businessman, Joseph Mutangadura, who was killed by armed thugs in August this year. It emerged yesterday that law enforcement agents had arrested a suspect in the brutal killing in Gweru — one of the seven villains who took part in the attack. Mutangadura was…
By Tapiwa ChirumeStaff Writer THE Harare City Council (HCC) has issued a stern warning to the public over a land scam involving council owned land in Borrowdale’s Quinnington area along Walton Drive where fraudsters are reportedly selling plots illegally. The municipality raised the red flag after an advertisement, widely circulated on social media and other…
