Consolidate cargo piles up at Beitbridge Border Post

07 Sep, 2020  TRUCKS, mainly those carrying goods known as ‘consolidated cargo’ have been piling up at Beitbridge Border Post in the last five days after the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) introduced 100 percent compliance searches. Cross border transporters commonly known as ‘Omalayitsha, have accused the tax authority of implementing the new system while ill [...]

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ZIMPOST celebrates 20th anniversary

7 Sep 2020 The year 2020 marks ZIMPOST’s 20th anniversary following the unbundling of Posts and Telecommunications Corporation (PTC) and subsequent formation of ZIMPOST and other successor companies. The year also marks 130 years of Postal Services in Zimbabwe since the establishment of the first Post Office in Rhodesia in 1890. The first Post Offices [...]

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Pensions, insurance sector shows resilience

07 Sep, 2020  Tawanda Musarurwa Senior Business Reporter Zimbabwe’s pensions and insurance sector is showing resilience to the Covid-19 crisis, with players in the sector continuing to pay out benefits and claims during the peak phase of the pandemic. Despite the sector being weighed down by the double whammy of reduced contributions and premiums on [...]

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Zimplats delivers strong performance

7 Sep 2020 Zimplats, Zimbabwe’s biggest platinum group producer, delivered another strong performance in the full year to June 30, 2020, navigating challenges and threats to workers and operations from Covid-19 pandemic, to help drive positive group results for Impala. The South African based platinum group metals (PGMs) producer, however, delivered marginally lower mine-to-market Six-Element [...]

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Zimbabwe to expel US Ambassador?

7 Sep 2020 The President’s press Secretary George Charamba has said the American Ambassador to Zimbabwe, Ambassador Brian Nichols by speaking to eNCA and reiterating that SADC should intervene and stop the government of Zimbabwe from descending on people opposing the government creates a basis for Zimbabwe to expel him, The Standard reports. Responding to [...]

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Gutu villagers embark on commercial garlic production

7 Sep 2020 With the current drive to ensure that all Zimbabweans contribute to the country’s economic revival gaining momentum, villagers from Gutu Central have ventured into garlic production for commercial purposes. Rural communities which depend on rain-fed agriculture often focus on subsistence farming but changing circumstances have seen most of them going beyond the [...]

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Hotel Rwanda film hero, Paul Rusesabagina, 66, arrested

7  Sep 2020 A man who inspired a Hollywood film about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, Mr Paul Rusesabagina, 66, has been arrested for leading “terrorist movements”. He had been living in exile. The authorities did not say where he was arrested or give any further details about the accusations he faces. The 2004 film Hotel [...]

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Zim, Russia to partner in science, technology development

  7 Sep 2020 ZIMBABWE has received a consignment of PPEs, medicines and equipment from the Russian Federation to assist in the fight to contain the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The two countries have strong relations that date back to the days of the liberation struggle with Russian Ambassador to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Nikolai [...]

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War veterans demand government return of Zapu properties

7th September 2020 A SECTION of the mainstream war veterans association in Zimbabwe has demanded the return of properties seized from the then PF Zapu by President Robert Mugabe’s regime at the height of the governing Zanu (then)’s hostilities with the once main opposition in the early 1980s. The properties include farms dotted across the [...]

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