On this day in 1964, directer general and secretary of the Standard Associtation of Zimbabwe Eve Christine Mandaza was born. Eve was born on the eve of Christmas. She is the 13th President of AU standards body and had served as chairperson for the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) board and Institute of Directors of Zimbabwe […]
Read More →On this day in 1972, Zimbabwean former programmer, criminal cartell boss and informant to the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Paul Le Raux was born. He started as a computer programmer and later became one of the world’s most wanted criminals. He migrated abroad in the 1990’s, where he showed his programming skills by developing […]
Read More →On this day in 1987, the House of Assembly elected Robert Mugabe as executive president of Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo signed the Unity Accord, which provided for the merge of ZANU and ZAPU into ZANU-PF on the same day. This was a turning point in Zimbabwe’s post-independence history as it marked the forging […]
Read More →On this day in 2003, Coca-Cola Africa Foundation donors funded Harare and Bulawayo about USD$200.000 to help children with special needs.
Read More →On this day in 2000, the founder of Zimbabwe African National Union, Ndabaningi Sithole died at the age of 80. His political ambition began in 1960 when he joined the new National Democratic Party (NDP) which was led by Joshua Nkomo. In the 1995 election, he won a seat in Parliament but later that year […]
Read More →On this day in 1974, the leaders of the four African nationalist groups signed the Lusaka Declaration which pave way for the formation of the Rhodesian political party, that is, the United African National Council (UANC) which was headed by the Late Bishop Abel Muzorewa.
Read More →On this day in 2018, the former minister of finance, Patrick Chinamasa stood in parliament to present the first budget of the Mugabe-era. In his speech, he pledged broad spending cuts and suggested the end in most sectors to the Mugabe policy of, ‘indegenization’, which forced business the transition of majority ownership.
Read More →On this day in 1997, the Republic of Zimbabwe signed the Mine Ban which was endorsed on 18 June 1998 and become a State policy on 1 March 1999.
Read More →On this day in 2003, former Governor of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono was appointed to head the RBZ central bank. In his speech, he pointed out that he was going to undertook money-targeting framework as the monetary policy strategy and consequently set up a framework for liquidity management.
Read More →On this day in 2013, the owner of the financial Gazette in Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono stepped down from serving as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ).
Read More →On this day in 1959, former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, Gideon Gono was born. Gono is a proprietor of the financial Gazette, Zimbabwes oldest private newspaper. In November 2008, Gono published a book titled, ‘Zimbabwes Casino Economy’. His book depicts several thematic concerns of economic and social malaise for the period of […]
Read More →On this day in 2017, Zimbabwean politician Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa was sworn as Zimbabwean President. In his oration he promised Zimbabwe a cornucopia of political, social and economic ameliorate.
Read More →On this day in 2017, in Harare, a ceremony was held for the purpose of renaming Harare International Airport after its late president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe. Apparently the airport was inducted by Mugabe in April 2001. The Civil Aviation Authority pointed out that, Mugabe as one of Zimbabwe’s founding fathers so it was a fair […]
Read More →On this day in 1991, the ZW country code top level domain was fabricated. The registry was managed by Professor John Shepherd, who at the time worked at the University of Zimbabwe Computer Science Centre. The zone file was hosted in the United States of America. The first registered domains were mango.zw and healthnet.zw.
Read More →TelOne MD, Chipo Mutasa via Satellitetoday.com announced a deal that will see the company partnering with global satellite operator Eutelsat to offer satellite broadband services targeted at households and businesses in remote areas.
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