On Tuesday, the main opposition MDC Alliance issued its State of the Economy Address, a response to government's new economic blueprint, the National Development Strategy.
Here, we publish an extract of MDC-A’s policy position on RBZ’s currency reforms, by the...
By Farai Shawn Matiashe
For more than a year, Lionda Mhonda searched for a plot of land to buy in northeastern Zimbabwe, but struggled to find anything that was both affordable and came with a legitimate title deed.
Then the 33-year-old...
By Takura Zhangazha
The Zimbabwean government has signed what it referred to as a Global Compensation Deed (GCD) with ‘former farmers’.
The latter being mainly white former commercial farmers as represented by, in the agreement, the Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), Southern...
Fadzayi Mahere, lawyer and MDC Alliance spokesperson, was among dozens arrested on Friday for taking part in protests against the government. She was in a group of seven arrested at Groombridge, Harare. The group spent Friday night in jail...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced a 6PM-6AM curfew as part of a raft of lockdown measures that he says are necessary to halt the spike in local transmissions of COVID-19.
Below are some of the highlights of the measures announced...
The government is to tighten lockdown restrictions and postpone the reopening of schools, as part of a response to rising COVID-19 transmissions.
Cases rose above 1000 this week, while 19 people have so far died.
Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa...
Zimbabwe’s economy will shrink by 10.4% in 2020, worse than the 7.4% estimated just two months ago, the IMF has said in a revised forecast that paints a dire picture for African economies this year.
It is the second time...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has today spoken on new measures to ease the lockdown. Highlights:
People in the informal sector are allowed to operate, but only after they formally register. Once registered, they can resume...
Zimbabwe’s government lashed out at its critics on Wednesday, accusing foreign diplomats of acting like “card carrying members” of the opposition and charging that the currency was under attack.
The Joint Operations Command (JOC),...
RioZim, the country’s largest gold producer, has been licensed to install solar power with an initial combined capacity of 75MW at its four mines.
In a notice on Monday, the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority...
