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Zimbabwe faces black Christmas

ZIMBABWE will experience more power cuts in December due to maintenance being carried out at Kariba South power station, a Zimbabwe Power Company official said. Acting Kariba Power Station general manager Charles Bhebhe said Unit 6 will be shut down for six weeks from December 8, taking 125 megawatts off…

Purging in ZANU PF

THE ruling ZANU PF party’s highest decision making body outside congress – the politburo – converged on November 13 at its national headquarters to deliberate on various issues affecting the organisation. The explosive meeting resolved to suspend party national spokesperson Rugare Gumbo for five years who has been underfire in…

Health sector bleeds

PARALYSIS has gripped the country’s major hospitals across the country after a deadlock between the Ministry of Health and Child Care and the striking doctors that has seen the latter not returning to work. Most patients at referral hospitals such as Parirenyatwa and Harare Central Hospital in the capital are…

RBZ blames delinquency for bank failures

A SENIOR Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) official has blamed poor corporate governance for the collapse of many banking institutions in the country, saying delinquency by management and shareholders had ruined most financial institutions. About 20 banking institutions have closed since 2000. The notable casualties include Trust, Genesis, Royal, Barbican,…

Tsvangirai grabs more power

MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC-T) insiders have raised eyebrows at the ad hoc formation of a stand-alone constitutional thematic committee on the sidelines of the party’s congress which hastily prepared amendments to the movement’s supreme law under the smokescreen of “institutional transformation”. The committee pushed through constitutional amendments…

ZSE record worst trading since January

WEAK sentiments that prevailed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) this month resulted to the market recording its biggest fall in October since January. The bearish trend has been worsened by the miniscule funding that is available on the market and intense money market illiquidity.  Analysts said some investors were…