The Insider

The stock market bull run accelerated today, with the main industrial index gaining 3.95 percent to 487.14 points while the mining index added 1.73 percent to 137.52 points. Market capitalisation…

Econet Wireless Zimbabwe’s mobile money platform, EcoCash today suspended the use of its debit card to pay for international transactions, as the country’s foreign currency shortage intensifies. Local financial institutions…

The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) says two international firms have submitted bids to provide fuel marking services as it battles to meet a 2018 first quarter deadline. The two…

Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, still smarting from the humiliation of being stripped his powerful post of Justice Minister- it made him leader of the House of Assembly-,is likely to have his…

There have been a series of stories about how corrupt new Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo is, referring to the fortune he has built for himself over the years. Chombo’s wealth…

President Robert Mugabe yesterday made changes to his cabinet replacing Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa with Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo. Despite a long history of corruption Chombo, a former university…

Zimbabwe equities edged up yesterday as punters kept up their uptake of local stocks, unimpressed by the appointment of Ignatius Chombo as Finance Minister. The instability in the money market…

Linguist and media critic Noam Chomsky has listed 10 strategies used by politicians to manipulate the people. Chomsky a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology might as well have been…

On September 27, a panicky Patrick Chinamasa, then Finance Minister, threatened to tighten government controls on social media, blaming it for fuelling shortages of basic commodities and bank notes in…

President Mugabe has always hated it when Finance Ministers have minds of their own. In Ignatius Chombo, Mugabe has his yes-man. By giving control of the economy to Chombo, the…