ED Hopeful Of Economic Turn Around This Year, Analysts Think Otherwise

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has predicted Zimbabwe’s moribund economy will turn around this year following the recent discovery of oil and gas near the country’s border with Mozambique and Zambia and improvement in the country’s mining and tourism sectors. Economists are not as optimistic, as Zimbabweans continue to leave the country. …

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Church Splits Shutting Out & Confusing Congregants

The recent emergence of the Apostolic Faith Mission of Zimbabwe (AFMOZ), which broke away from the Apostolic Faith Mission in Zimbabwe (AFM) due to factionalism, has placed a bad tag on the faith movement, thrusting congregants into eternal confusion. The split came after Cossum Chiangwa, the church president allegedly amended …

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Beitbridge Traffic Increases 9pc

More travellers are now preferring to use the country’s transformed Beitbridge Border Post over other land borders with the Department of Immigration handling an increase of 9 percent in the number of people who crossed the border in 2023 compared to 2022. At the moment Beitbridge is the only land …

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Zimbabwe Seeks To Drop Expensive Electricity Imports

Zimbabwe anticipates a 17,4 percent surge in electricity production this year, as the country seeks to reduce expensive imports and load shedding that negatively affected businesses and households in 2023. The optimistic outlook is based on the expected full incorporation of Hwange Thermal Power Station units 7 and 8, and …

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Sigh Of Relief For Distressed Tobacco Farmers

THE GOVERNMENT’S decision to review the tobacco seedlings destruction deadline from December 31 to January 15 next year will give farmers sufficient time to complete planting their crop buoyed by the rains being received across the country, stakeholders have observed. This follows the Government’s recent issuance of a statement in …

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Dreaded Green Bombers To Return

The government has revealed that the controversial National Youth Service (NYS) commonly known as the Border Gezi Youth Militia training reintroduction is on the cards. Popularly known as Green Bombers because of their green training uniform, the NYS was established as a youth militia in the 2000s by late youth …

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Armed Robbers Tuck Tail As Homeowner Opens Fire

An armed gang that had broken into a house in Kwekwe, Midlands Province, fled in terror when their victim suddenly opened fire on them. Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) spokesperson for Midlands Province Inspector Emmanuel Mahoko confirmed the incident to the Chronicle which occurred on 22 December. He said three armed …

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