Bulawayo residents have welcomed plans by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) to regulate the pricing of Liquid Petroleum Gas (LPG) to protect consumers against arbitrary price hikes by retailers. Owing to electricity loading-shedding, stretching over 18 hours per day, LP gas, which in the past was considered alternative energy, has become an integral energy […]
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Fuel pricing system sparks outrage
The zonal fuel pricing system introduced by the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) which will see fuel prices being determined by location has sparked outrage. According to the prices set by ZERA, Victoria Falls, Hwange, Beitbridge and Plumtree, would now sell the most expensive fuel. For instance, a litre of diesel at Victoria Falls […]
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Zim foreign currency ban: déjà vu?
The introduction of the Statutory Instrument 142 of 2019, which abolishes the use of the multicurrency system for local use and brought back the Zimbabwe Dollar as the only acceptable medium of exchange for local transactions has been met with shock and disbelief. This shock move means all retailers, shops, supermarkets, franchises that were charging […]
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Millers warn of looming price increases
By Lulu Brenda Harris Consumers must brace themselves for yet another increase in the price of mealie meal and flour-related products with millers saying the cost of imported wheat, packaging and transport have significantly gone up. The removal of wheat subsidy hit grain millers hard and this has been worsened by the exchange rate movements, […]
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Amnesty International condemns rising repression in Zimbabwe
By Thabani Zwelibanzi Amnesty International has raised the alarm at rising repression in Zimbabwe after two more civil society activists were arrested on subversion charges on arrival at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on Monday. So far, the police have arrested seven people, with five of them having appeared before a Harare magistrate last […]
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Scarcity forces traders to import Amacimbi from Botswana
Following poor local harvests this season, Amacimbi traders say they have been forced to source the mopane worms from neighbouring Botswana, a development that has pushed prices sharply up across Zimbabwe’s major markets. Vendors who spoke to CITE said while Zimbabwe received good rains in some provinces, mopane worms did not mature in expected quantities in key […]
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Over 100 school procurement irregularities recorded in 2025
The Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education says more than 100 cases of procurement irregularities were recorded in schools last year, highlighting persistent concerns over corruption and weak oversight. Speaking at a public dialogue on Community Voices on Corruption in the Delivery of Education Services organised by Transparency International Zimbabwe (TIZ) in Bulawayo last Thursday, […]
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Cheap fakes, costly losses: How smuggled counterfeits are crushing Byo’s industries
Bulawayo’s city centre, like other Zimbabwean cities, is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation where established retailers and high-end shops, which once anchored the formal economy are shutting down, resulting in the space they were taking being subdivided and rented to clusters of small informal traders. In these same spaces where brands like Haddon & […]
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How forged permits are propping up the lives of immigrants in South Africa
Twenty years ago, *Fungai Nyirenda (53) from Murehwa District in Zimbabwe, illegally crossed into South Africa looking for a job. Without a residence permit, Nyirenda had to quickly legalise her status to land a job. She bought one. “There was no way I could claim to be a local. I needed a document,” said Fungai […]
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STORIES OF THE YEAR 2025: A Year of Strain
FUNDING CUTS AND SYSTEMATIC FRAGILITY: Zimbabwe’s HIV system on the brink In January 2025, United States President Donald Trump ordered a 90-day pause on foreign aid and halted grants by the US Agency for International Development (USAID). The agency was responsible for implementing the bulk of the assistance under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS […]