[Financial Gazette] A SIX-YEAR long feud between the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) and some of its employees, who have been on suspension without salary and benefits since 2010, could spill to the International Labour Organisation (ILO). ......
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Zimbabwe: Zimra Feud Spills to International Labour Organisation
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Harare City Council Workers Siphon U.S $70 000
[Financial Gazette] HARARE City Council (HCC) employees took advantage of an opaque procurement system to siphon about US$70 000 in just two weeks through a sweetheart deal involving the purchase of 52 000 litres of fuel. ......
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TM Supermarket Loses Tax Case
[Financial Gazette] LEADING retail group, TM Supermarket, is embroiled in a dispute with the taxman after being penalised for trying to evade tax when it imported refrigeration units in 2012. ......
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Zimbabwe: Investment Approvals At U.S $305,6 Million in First Half 2016
[Financial Gazette] THE Zimbabwe Investment Authority (ZIA) says investment approvals in the first half of 2016 reached US$305 587 782.77 from 84 projects compared to 67 that were approved same period last year on the back of improved appetite for investment in Zimbabwe. ......
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Zimbabwe: Local Tea Sector Has Growth Potential
[Financial Gazette] The country's tea sector has potential to grow by 66 percent from the current production of 15 000 tonnes to 25 000 tonnes, a government document has revealed. ......
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Zimbabwe: Bond Notes Protests Rock Harare
BUSINESS briefly came to a standstill in some parts of Harare's central business district yesterday, as anti riot police fired water cannons to disperse demonstrators protesting against the planned introduction of bond notes in October. Although government has said the bond notes will be used as an incentive to promote exports, there is growing public fear that they are a backdoor strategy to bring back the Zimbabwe dollar, abandoned in 2009 after a hyperinflationary crisis that led to market-wide commodity shortages. ......
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Zimbabwe: Advise Your Father to Resign, Mugabe's Daughter Told
[New Zimbabwe] BONA Mugabe-Chikore should advise her father, President Robert Mugabe, to "see reason" and resign as demanded by fed-up Zimbabweans who have staging protest around the country, a Zanu PF youth leader expelled this week has said. ......
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Zimbabwe: Police Attack Reporters in Harare, At Least 2 Injured - Media Watchdog
[News24Wire] At least two reporters were injured when riot police attacked them in Harare on Tuesday during a march against a new currency, a media watchdog said. ......
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Zimbabwe: Rio 2016 - Zimbabwe Women's Arduous Journey to Brazil
[Al Jazeera] The Olympics are a showcase of the struggle, dedication and hard work that the participants have put in. ......
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.com | Police attack reporters in Harare, at least 2 injured - media watchdog
Forget Cecil the Lion: for Zimbabweans, 2015 was mostly about President Robert Mugabe and money - and how long both would last. Hundreds of Zimbabweans fearing they will lose their savings have taken to the streets to denounce President Robert Mugabe over plans to introduce bond notes. ......
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Zimbabwe: Turkish Airlines to Fly Into Zim Soon
Turkish Ambassador Kadir Hidayet Eris has said a deal to bring Turkish Airlines to Zimbabwe is imminent. In an interview with The Herald Business recently, Ambassador Eris said that the airline should begin operating by the end of the year or early next year. ......
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Zimbabwe: Aliko Dangote Team Denied Zim Visas
BILLIONAIRE Nigerian investor Aliko Dangote's plans for US$1 billion worth of investment in Zimbabwe could go up in smoke after the country's Immigration Department denied visas to aides he wanted to dispatch into the country to expedite progress, the Financial Gazette can exclusively report. The decision could be a result of factional fights within President Robert Mugabe's government, torn by internecine bickering between a faction linked to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and another fighting to thwart any prospects of him succeeding the incumbent in the event that he leaves office. ......
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Zimbabwe: Army Warns Social Media 'Destabilisers'
[The Herald] Zimbabwe National Army Commander Lieutenant-General Philip Valerio Sibanda yesterday said the army was ready to deal with malcontents and the country's detractors using electronic gadgets to mobilise people to do unlawful activities. In an interview with The Herald ahead of the 36th Zimbabwe Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesday, Lt-Gen Sibanda said insurgent groups were now resorting to cyber warfare, hence the need for the security sector to increase alertness.His remarks come in the wake of recen ......
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Zimbabwe: Relegation-Threatened Mutare City Rovers Defeat Highlanders
[The Herald] RELEGATION-threatened Mutare City Rovers turned on a disciplined show to defeat Highlanders at Barbourfields yesterday in what of the biggest shock results in the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League programme this year.The Premiership newboys scored two second half goals through Kudakwashe Gurure and Caleb Masocha to register a dream result. ......
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Zimbabwe: Knitting Machines Boost for Prisons
[The Herald] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday donated knitting and sewing machines worth $136 000 to the Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) at Harare Central Prison. The donation comprises of 10 automatic knitting machines, four over-locking machines, four straight lock machines, 7 000 cobs of knitting yarn, 18 chairs and a semi-industrial iron.ICRC also offered a two-month training programme to inmates and prison officers in knitting and sewing techniques and the project wil ......
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Zimbabwe: Chungwa Looks Ahead With Optimism
[The Herald] CAPS United forward Dominic Chungwa says he feels he could have a big season and is fighting to improve his rate of conversion. Chungwa scored his fourth goal of the season on Wednesday but, crucially, his goals have been priceless for the Green Machine in that whenever he scores the team usually wins.He scored the goal that ended Makepekepe's seven-year wait for a league victory over Dynamos in the Harare Derby and also the goal that won the game against Highlanders last Sunday. ......
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Is Opposition 'Deadlocked' Over Polls?
[The Herald] The MDC-T national council that met on Wednesday was deadlocked on whether to lift its election boycott stance which has seen the opposition party surrendering to Zanu-PF parliamentary and council seats that it had won in the July 31, 2013 harmonised elections. Some of the national council members felt that it was high time the election boycott was lifted ahead of the 2018 harmonised polls while others felt that the conditions were still not yet ripe, according to sources that attended the meeting.The oppo ......
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A Letter From Zimbabwe Where the People 'Battle to Breathe'
[The Daily Vox] Marching Wednesdays seems to be the country's new fad since the citizen movement #ThisFlag and civil servants' strike shut the nation down on the 6th of July. After weeks of Zanu PF demonstrators dominating the streets of the capital, pro-change protesters had their turn to march against bond notes, a local US dollar-backed currency proposed as a measure to resolve the country's cash shortages and stimulate exports. Unfortunately for many, bond notes, among their many other complications, sound like an att ......
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No Bail for $56 000 Heist Cops
[The Herald] Four of the six policemen who reportedly connived with five civilians and mounted a fake roadblock in Belvedere, Harare, where they robbed an Indian businessman over $56 000 have not been reporting for duty after their colleagues were arrested in connection with the case, the court heard yesterday. Investigations carried out so far revealed that after robbing Mr Junaid Pervaiz, the 11 suspects splashed the loot on vehicles about four hours later.The cars, which were all bought on July 27, include a Mercede ......
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Mubhawu Mental Test Results Out
[The Herald] Psychiatrists who examined former MDC-T MP Timothy Mubhawu certified that he is sane and fit to stand trial for domestic violence. Mubhawu (55) was sent for examination after the State submitted that it suspected he was mentally ill and had defaulted on taking medication. Harare magistrate Ms Nomsa Sabarauta postponed the trial to August 11. Mubhawu, who is facing charges of breaching a protection order, is represented by Ms Concellia Maheya.The prosecutor Mrs Devoted Gwashavanhu-Nyagano alleged that on Ma ......
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