Harare, (New Ziana) – Finance and Economic Development Minister, Mthuli Ncube on Monday appointed a new board for the country’s official statistics body, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) chaired by Dr Naomi Wekwete. Other members of the board, which will serve for three years, are Dr Florence Matarise, Evans Manjoro, Nkululeko Mkandla, Charles Chimedza, […]
Harare, (New Ziana) – The Zimbabwe dollar slid marginally by five cents against the greenback to $81.79 in Monday’s weekly forex trade, the last for the year. Last week, the local currency traded at $81.74. Monday’s trade is the last for the year, and was shifted from the normal Tuesday weekly auction because of the […]
Harare, (New Ziana) – Zimbabwe recorded 1 079 new Covid-19 infections in the past seven days ending December 20, up 551 cases from the previous week, latest data shows. The rolling average for new cases was up to 154, doubling from 75 the previous week. On the other hand, the number of deaths was however […]
Harare, (New Ziana) – President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday warned that Zimbabwe was still far from accessing Covid-19 vaccines, ringing alarm bells over “complacency and recklessness” that has resulted in a surge in new infections. The country has since March recorded 12 151 Covid-19 infections that resulted in 318 deaths. And while new infections had […]