FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube unconstitutionally transferred over ZWL$100 billion to line ministries without parliamentary approval, taking advantage of poor accounting systems at the Treasury, Auditor General Midlred Chiri said in her latest annual report. The audit was for the year 2020. Chiri said the approved budget for …
Read More »ZACC Fails To Account For Millions In State Funds
IN a dramatic irony, Auditor-General Mildred Chiri says the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) has failed to properly account for millions of United States dollars which could have been misappropriated as its accounting books have remained in a shambles for a decade – since 2012. Chiri warns the risk of fraud …
Read More »Prices Run Riot! As Inflation Jumps To 72,7pc
The economic malaise has deepened in recent weeks as the cost of living is spiralling out of control with prices soaring by about 30% during the first week of April. This has plunged households into extreme poverty as workers, whose salaries are being eroded by the stratospheric inflationary increases, struggle …
Read More »Upcoming ‘Bledo Beatz’ Rocks Hwange
Hwange Bureau “Music is not just child’s play but I live in music,” says upcoming producer Blessed Dube (19) who ventured into music at a tender age. Popularly known as Bledo Beatz, Dube began playing the keyboard at his father’s church in Hwange from the age of four. “I loved …
Read More »Renewed Bid To Make 99-Year Leases Bankable
The government has tabled fresh security mechanisms to make the 99-year leases bankable as it seeks to help resettled farmers get funding from banks, Business Times can report. The move comes as lenders have been rejecting the leases as collateral due to tenure uncertainty. The lenders want immovable assets, which most farmers do not …
Read More »Ziscosteel Board Chair Backs Kuvimba Deal
ZISCOSTEEL board chair Martin Manuhwa says Kuvimba Mining House’s undertaking to revive Ziscosteel is the best deal the former steel-making company has had. Kuvimba, linked to tycoon Kuda Tagwirei, is set to inject about US$1 billion towards the resuscitation of Ziscosteel over a three year period. The former integrated steelworks …
Read More »Massive Gold Looting Leads To Mass Exodus Of Workers At Vumbachikwe Mine
A TOTAL of 23 senior and junior managers plus 140 general workers have quit Vumbachikwe Gold Mine in Gwanda, Matabeleland South, within the past two months. According to an internal memo seen by Chronicle, the resignations started soon after the company instituted investigations on February 7 following the discovery of …
Read More »‘New $100 Note Won’t Stoke Inflation’
The new $100 notes that will soon be introduced by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will not be inflationary, but instead, improve convenience for the transacting public as the use of small-value denominations has been rendered more cumbersome by inflation, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) Governor Dr John Mangudya has …
Read More »Mnangagwa’s Crying Doctor Stabbed In South Africa
A Zimbabwean doctor who famously wept at a Zanu PF rally while claiming doctors were having it good under President Emmerson Mnangagwa has revealed that he was nearly killed in a stabbing incident in January. Patrick Mugoni, writing on Twitter Tuesday, said he had undergone multiple surgeries after being knifed …
Read More »Government Introduces New ZW$100 Note Amid Spiralling Inflation
GOVERNMENT has introduced a new ZW$100 note. Finance and Economic Development Mthuli Ncube announced the introduction of a new, note, which becomes the highest Zimdollar denomination, via Statutory Instrument (SI) 68A of 2022 Wednesday. It comes at a time the ZW$10, ZW$20 and ZW$50 notes introduced only last year, have …
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