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Zimbabwe has reduced the price of petrol by 0,3% to ZW$675,35 per litre as the country battles to ease the cost of living for citizens. A recent update by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) shows that diesel will also be sold at Z$714,45 per litre from Z$714.91. The developments …

Individuals and institutional buyers of Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ’s) gold coins will be required to hold them for at least 180 days before selling while exporters earning less than a million US dollars will be allowed to use the surrender portion of their receipts to purchase the coins in …

DEBT-TROUBLED Zimbabwe has launched its arrears clearance and debt management programme at a time the economy is struggling to access concessional facilities to finance capital projects. After years of neglect, the government has in recent years been using domestic financial resources to mend key infrastructure such as the road network. …

Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Harare Metropolitan, Oliver Chidawu has died. Reports from sources say he succumbed to a heart attack in the early hours of Tuesday. More details to follow….*Nhau/Indaba*

Exchange Control Directive RX 20 (dated 18 July 2022) issued in terms of Section 35 (1) of the Exchange Control Regulations, Statutory Instrument 109 of 1996 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Pursuant to the Press Statement of 4 July 2022, announced by the Governor on the introduction of the Mosi-oa-Tunya gold coins, …

Exiled former Zanu PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere bristled on Monday after President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman claimed he had “appealed” to be allowed to return. George Charamba’s claim came after two other outspoken former Zanu PF politicians suggested that Kasukuwere was potentially on the slate of vice president Constantino Chiwenga, …

Zimbabwe’s economic and political crisis will only find resolution in “meaningful, inclusive dialogue”, Zimbabwe’s Catholic bishops said on Monday as they warned that no one party could resolve the crisis. In a pastoral letter, the bishops said many Zimbabweans were living in conditions of “dehumanising poverty” as they also sounded …

Full Text: ‘Pastoral Letter of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference to the Church in Zimbabwe and All People of Goodwill’ Introduction The Roman Catholic Church in Zimbabwe has embraced the synodal process inaugurated in October 2021 by the Holy Father Pope Francis. This process entitled “For a Synodal Church: Communion, …

The government is violating its own statutes on the protection of the rhinoceros, bringing into question President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s publicly expressed commitment to wildlife conservation. In 2011, the country declared the rhino a “specially protected species” in a policy and management framework signed by the government. The invasion of the …

President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s brother Patrick, Finance minister Mthuli Ncube, a prominent businessman, diplomats, Zanu PF acolytes from the Marange apostolic sect and bureaucrats have settled inside the highly protected Midlands Black Rhino Conservancy (MBRC), The NewsHawks can reveal. They join Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda, who …