Sikhulekelani Moyo, Business Reporter THE financial services sector should come up with an incentive package and improve its customer services to encourage the public to deposit their foreign currency, economic analysts have said. Citing the spate of armed robberies involving large sums of forex experienced in the course of the year, the analysts said these […] …
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Monthly Archives: December 2021
COMMENT: Civil servants must engage their employer over forex salaries
GOVERNMENT this year paid its workers their bonuses in foreign currency in order to cushion them from inflation. The civil servants were paid in forex up to a maximum of US$700 while pensioners were paid US$100. Government said the decision to pay bonuses in forex was a response to developments in the market and the […] …
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Villagers green oasis transforms lives
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Reporter TUCKED deep in the heart of Bulilima District in the semi-arid Matabeleland South province, Somnene Irrigation Scheme has transformed the lives of more than 20 small holder farmers whose livelihoods have for the past two decades, revolved around irrigation farming. The irrigation scheme, which was established 36 years ago, draws its […] …
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China buys more of Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary
Source: China buys more of Zimbabwe – Zimbabwe Vigil Diary: 25th December 2021 It has been a happy Christmas for China which has acquired one of Zimbabwe’s main assets – a lithium mine – as it continues its worldwide search for precious metals. Lithium is a key element in the production of rechargeable batteries to […]
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Zapu reminisces surrendering to Zanu PF
Source: Zapu reminisces surrendering to Zanu PF – The Standard BY SILAS NKALA THE opposition Zapu last week said Unity Day remains a painful reminder of how the party was forced to surrender to Zanu PF to save lives in Matabeleland and Midlands. Then Zanu leader and former president Robert Mugabe and ex vice president […]
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Omicron dampens festive season
Source: Omicron dampens festive season – The Standard BY PHYLLIS MBANJE THIS year’s festive season has been punctuated with rising concerns over the spread of the Omicron variant which is expected to increase as people throw caution to the wind as they make merry and disregard WHO preventive measures. Covid-19 statistics for December have been […]
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Violence flares in Nkayi
Source: Violence flares in Nkayi – The Standard BY SILAS NKALA ZANU PF activists in Nkayi South, Matabeleland North have been accused of torching a field belonging to an aspiring ward 14 Mthwakazi Republic Party (MRP) candidate Prince Moyo ahead of pending by-elections. President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week said he will announce the by-election dates […]
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Security companies fret over robberies
Source: Security companies fret over robberies | The Sunday Mail Leroy Dzenga Senior Reporter PRIVATE security companies have asked the Government to allow some of their guards to be trained by the police on how to react better to armed robbers. The recent spate of robberies has put into question the effectiveness of private security […]
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Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s moral conscience, dies at 90
‘He never lost his impish sense of humor and willingness to find humanity in his adversaries’ …
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‘I saw a Rhodesian soldier writhing in agony’
WE continue our interview with Lieutenant-Colonel (Retired) Stanford Moyo, a former Zipra guerilla who trained in the famous Group of 800 at Morogoro in Tanzania and was later deployed for operations in January 1977 in the region later to be code named Northern Front Two (NF2), which covered Lupane, Binga, Nkayi and some parts of […] …
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