Price instability drives consumers away from chain stores in Zimbabwe

A man serves a customer at a store in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Sept. 26, 2024. (Photo by Shaun Jusa/Xinhua) Chain stores have traditionally been the preferred choice for shopping, but informal stores are becoming popular among cost-aware Zimbabweans as the new gold-backed currency, the Zimbabwe Gold, continues to depreciate against the U.S. dollar.  HARARE, Sept. […]
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His majesty’s loyal opposition

Sometime in the 1820s this phrase was first used to describe the party out of power in Britain. It implied members would cooperate with the government even though they did not agree with them. The opposition party accepted the basic structures of civil society though they had their own ideas about how it should be […]
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Back in the Soup

Who could forget 2008? We had inflation so high we had to double Z$ prices every 4 hours, we had 150 000 cases of Cholera in Harare. Our fuel filling stations were all empty and closed, our supermarket shelves empty. Eddie Cross We were even buying bread in neighbouring countries. Even today I have no […]
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Pioneering Apostolic Faith Church clergyman dies

Online Reporter ONE of Zimbabwe’s popular religious organisations, The Apostolic Faith Church, has lost a giant following the death of one of its pioneer pastors, Reverend Lot Mateza (85). The church, one of the oldest in the country, was founded in 1955 by the late Rev Morgan Sengwayo in Pelandaba suburb, Bulawayo before later spreading […] …
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Jumbo killing angers Victoria Falls residents

Online Reporter ZIMBABWE National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks) rangers have courted the ire of concerned tourism players and wildlife conservationists in Victoria Falls after they shot and killed a female elephant that had strayed into Low Density residential area. While ordinary residents from across the city immediately crowded Reynard Road near Seven 11 […] …
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