adminBusiness suffers as EcoCash still down
Retailers and other business entities may have lost potential revenue running into hundreds of millions of dollars after Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile money platform, EcoCash, remained largely out of service yesterday due to a major systems upgrade, which began on Friday night.
A Derby in the shadow of Heroes
WHEN Joey Antipas guides his Warriors in Lusaka tonight, he is likely to set a new record, for a national football team coach, after taking charge of FOUR matches, in FOUR different locations, in just a week.
‘ . . we’ve removed all restrictions’
INTERNATIONAL investors should consider investing in Zimbabwe as it has removed restrictions that hindered investment, President Mnangagwa said yesterday.
Young Gems invited to South Africa
THE Zimbabwe netball Under-20 national team coach, Ropafadzo Mutsauki, says an opportunity to play the Spar Baby Proteas in Cape Town will give the team a perfect opportunity to prepare for future assignments.
Invest in film, China urged
YOUTH, Sports, Arts and Recreation Minister Kirsty Coventry has urged China to invest in the local film industry, saying it will help the country to tell its own story and safeguard its cultural heritage.
We need to formalise economy, increase production: RBZ
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has admitted chances are high that new notes and coins will find their way onto the informal sector. When the cash is traded illegally it may not return into the formal banking system because the domestic economy is about 60 percent informal.
EDITORIAL COMMENT : RBZ must do more to regain public confidence
After two banks were implicated in authorising massive withdrawals by two of their clients — which withdrawals were soon perceived to have been offloaded onto the parallel market — the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was swift to institute an investigation into how this had been possible.
President appoints two perm secretaries
President Mnangagwa has appointed a renowned agronomist in the private sector, Dr John Basera, as the new Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement and housing specialist Engineer Silibaziso Chizwina the Secretary for the newly-created Ministry of National Housing and Social Amenities.
Growth demands productivity, Zimbabwe demands jobs
Austerity is behind us; opportunities sparkle on the horizon.