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As the Zimbabwe crisis worsens former long-serving Tourism Minister and candidate in the last UNWTO Secretary-General elections, Dr. Walter Mzembi breaks his silence to weigh in with a prescription on the dialogue between the two main protagonists, incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his nemesis Nelson Chamisa. The Zimbabwean hospitality industry has recently published huge nose dives up to 30% in hotel occupancy dues to a myriad of policy failures. We publish in the following a perspect...

Zimbabwe’s land deal off-track Zimbabwe’s land deal off-track Prof Mthuli Ncube CASH-STRAPPED Zimbabwe will miss the July deadline to pay US$1.75bn in compensation to dispossessed white commercial farmers amid revelations the administration has failed to get financial support from development partners and international financiers, it emerged this week. Last year, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government tabled a US$3.5bn offer to white former commercial farmers for assets expropriat...

Health development partners extend US$234m to Zim Herald Reporter Development partners in the health sector have extended to Zimbabwe aid commitments worth US$234 million, just over half of which has already been disbursed in response to Covid-19 and this has also mitigated the impact of the infection on people with other medical conditions. Government yesterday listed and quantified the assistance given in a joint statement by Acting Minister of Health and Child Care Professor Amon Murwira and...

Prof Mthuli Ncube This has, without doubt, been one of the most tumultuous years in living memory for businesses and economies globally due to the harrowing impact of Covid-19 and many people cannot wait to see its back. By Golden Sibanda It is expected the majority of global economies, following months of national lockdowns that disrupted economic activities and value chains, in order to contain the spread of Covid-19, will record significant negative growth this year, and Zimbabwe’s economy...