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South Africa has dismissed attempts by the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) to reverse its ending of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) as a waste of time and urged Zimbabweans to adhere to new regulations or leave. ZEPs were ended in November 2021, having been in operation since 2017, when the South …

ABOUT 87 properties belonging to Harare City Council are benefiting unnamed individuals due to corruption in the capital’s  local authority, Harare mayor Jacob Mafume revealed. Mafume revealed this during a special council meeting held at Town House Wednesday. It was also unearthed that three beer outlets belonging to the council …

ZAPU has accused the government of reducing the supply of the Zimbabwean bond notes on the market in an effort to manipulate the exchange rate. The opposition party said the government is aware that the pricing of goods and services locally was indexed to the exchange rate, so when the …

The interbank exchange rate has been set as the sole exchange rate to be used in commercial and other transactions and anyone selling goods and services, who uses any other rate faces a minimum civil penalty of $20 million. The new legislation does allow a 10 percent addition to the …

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday declared that he will rule the country after elections expected next year. Addressing scores of mourners at the burial of the late constitutional law expert and academic Alex Magaisa in Mangisi Village, Chikomba district in Wedza, Mashonaland East province, Chamisa (44) …

The Department of Home Affairs has accused the Helen Suzman Foundation (HSF) and NGOs of trying to “dislodge” the government in response to the notice that the foundation intended to take the department to court over its handling of the conversion of Zimbabwe Exemption Permits (ZEP) to visas. “This development …

The Pan-African Parliament Southern African caucus yesterday officially nominated Chiefs Council president, Fortune Charumbira, as their sole candidate to contest as president of the continental legislative body, paving way for him to stand unopposed if the Northern African caucus does not field a candidate. The nomination by his region also …

Opposition political parties have demanded that Finance minister Mthuli Ncube and Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor John Mangudya resign, accusing them of crafting anti-poor policies that are worsening the plight of the majority in the country. Economists yesterday took a dig on government’s 200% interest rate hike on bank …

Late law expert and former advisor to the Prime Minister, Alex Magaisa, who died earlier this month was Tuesday laid to rest at his rural home in Njanja. Magaisa, an ardent but respected critic of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Zanu-PF government, succumbed to cardiac arrest on June 5 in the United …

Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has revealed that Parliament has no documentation proving that Harare and Belarus signed an agreement to procure fire tenders on behalf of local authorities as initially claimed by government. This follows Local Government ministry secretary Zvinechimwe Churu’s letter to all councils informing them of a …