AILING Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has reportedly banned his wife Mary from visiting and has shut out government security, zimbolivenews.com has learnt. Chiwenga is currently in China where he has been receiving treatment for an ailment believed to be linked to his esophagus that has since been replaced with a plastic one all the way to the stomach. High placed sources told Zimbolivenews.com that Chiwenga has since been admitted to a Chinese military hospital where only that country’s security is allowed. “If you hear government saying they have an idea of how he is, it would be a lie. When he left Zimbabwe after South Africa, the Vice President had security details from both the army and the police protection unit. “Chiwenga is in a military hos
Doctors treating Vice President Constantino Chiwenga have advised the retired army general to call time on his political career as his health problems continue. Chinese doctors watching Chiwenga the former Commander Defence Forces who masterminded the coup that toppled former President Robert Mugabe in 2017 and thrust President Emmerson Mnangagwa into the hot seat want him to focus mending. Sources within government said the VP who is now able to walk, take light food as well as talk even though still critics has been advised to take less strain. “The VP is coming back but the doctors have advised him to take a rest. The pressure that comes with his office might affect him badly. “As already reported he has a problem with his esophagus replaced the whole way to the
THE bitter fallout between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the late former president Robert Mugabe which has divided their families, Zanu PF and government, as well as the public — exacerbated this week in his death as it did in life, with far-reaching political consequences. A series of dramatic events — including Mnangagwa’s visit to Mugabe’s home yesterday and his failure to break the deadlock over where his mentor would be buried – characterised the theatrical end of an era. “There has been so much fighting and drama over the funeral and burial issues since Mugabe’s death a week ago,” a senior government official said. “I have been talking to government officials and the Mugabe family; there is an interesting interplay of dif
Trading in any currency, which is not the Zimbabwe dollar, now attracts a fixed $6 000 fine and failure to pay the fine will result in the person involved being jailed. The new rules, gazetted yesterday, empower the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to arrest and fine people and businesses that continue charging for their goods and services in any currency other than the Zimdollar. Under the new regulations, the central bank can charge an extra fine of $100 per day for delays in payment of the $6 000 initial fine but when one defaults for more than 90 days, the person will be jailed. This comes as Government amended the Exchange Control Act to include provisions of Exclusive Use of the Zimbabwe Dollar Regulations, associated civil penalty orders as well as the schedule for enforcem
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) will introduce new Zimbabwe notes in November this year, a development which is expected to end the long queues at the banks, a member of the RBZ’s Monetary Policy Committee has said. Eddie Cross told State-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) that the RBZ will put the first notes of its reintroduced currency into circulation in November. Zimbabwe has been chronically short of paper cash, forcing most transactions onto electronic platforms such as mobile-money system Ecocash. “We have insufficient cash in the system to meet people’s needs for transactions,” Cross said. “The new notes should do away with the queues at the banks and people then should have adequate money for daily use.” Th
MDC Alliance legislators will not receive their sitting allowances for the past five months after they walked out of the National Assembly chamber when President Mnangagwa was about to present his State of the Nation Address (SONA) in Harare yesterday. The MPs had also refused to stand when the President walked into the chamber as required by Parliament’s decorum. The ruling was made by Speaker of the National Assembly Advocate Jacob Mudenda in his capacity as Head of Parliament after the presentation of the SONA which also coincided with the opening of the Second Session of the Ninth Parliament. “The behaviour which has been demonstrated by the honourables who walked out when His Excellency the President started to speak shall not be allowed to come back during this sit
ZIMBABWE Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed Cassava Smartech Zimbabwe Limited, a subsidiary of Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Wireless, has threatened a complete shutdown of its EcoCash platform if the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) insists on its ban on cash-in, cash-out transactions effected on Monday. The RBZ on Monday effectively put 50 000 EcoCash agents out of work after banning cash-in and cash-out services accusing them of “engaging in illegal activities”, including selling cash at a premium. The ban curiously came after Masiyiwa last week said the RBZ should take the blame for starving the market of cash, creating opportunities for arbitrage. The central bank has also banned the use of the cash-back service when customers pay with cards at point-of-sale machines, say
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will be in Uganda one week from now Tuesday at the greeting of Yoweri Museveni as Uganda holds its 57th Independence Day and festivities, Esther Mbayo, the Ugandan priest for administration, has said. Mbayo said Mnangagwa will go to the 57th Independence Day festivities as an extraordinary visitor of the nation. "President Yoweri Museveni will be the main visitor who has additionally welcomed another uncommon visitor Emmerson Mnangagwa, the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe," Mbayo told columnists on Tuesday at the Uganda Media Center. Museveni was in Zimbabwe in April this year where he joined the chorale of African pioneers approaching the west to lift authorizations forced on a portion of Zimbabwe's legislature and politic
Vice President, Gen. (Rtd) C.G.D.N. Chiwenga; Vice President Col. (Rtd) K.C.D. Mohadi; Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate J. Mudenda; Madam President of the Senate, Mai M.Chinomona; Honourable Members of Parliament; Fellow Zimbabweans; Comrades and friends; Before I begin my address, I kindly request the August House to observe a minute of silence in honour of the late Founding Father of our country and Former President, His Excellency, Cde R. G. Mugabe who passed on, on the 6th of September 2019. As we remember him, let us stand emboldened by the fact that we cannot change the past, but the future is in our hands. Mr Speaker Sir; My Government continues to take bold and decisive steps to open up and grow the economy for the benefit of all our people. The road map articulated in o
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has, with immediate effect, ordered that all EcoCash agents are barred from carrying out cash-in and cash-out transactions, saying the facilities were being abused to carry out illegal selling of cash at high cost to the public. The RBZ also says the money transfer agents are barred from carrying out cash-back transactions. In a statement issued Monday by the central bank’s Deputy Director for Financial Markets and National Payments Systems, banks and mobile payments service providers have been advised to ensure they stay in compliance with the new directive. “It has come to the attention of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe that some economic agents weere engaging in illegal activities abusing cash-in, cash-out and cash-back facilities th
