Tag: south africa
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South Africa and Nigeria Greylisted by Financial Action Task Force: Implications for Zimbabwean Businesses
Read More: South Africa and Nigeria Greylisted by Financial Action Task Force: Implications for Zimbabwean BusinessesZimbabwean businesses have been closely watching the recent developments in South Africa and Nigeria, two of the continent’s largest economies after they were greylisted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). This global financial watchdog placed the countries on the grey list, which is reserved for nations that have fallen short in their efforts to…
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How Namibia’s Ban on Secondhand Cars Impacts Zimbabwe?
Read More: How Namibia’s Ban on Secondhand Cars Impacts Zimbabwe?The Zimbabwean market for secondhand vehicles has long been a significant source of affordable transportation for its citizens. However, recent developments in neighbouring countries have posed a challenge to this practice. Namibia Imposes Ban on Secondhand Cars As of March 1st, 2023, the Namibian Revenue Authority (NamRA) has imposed a ban on the driving of…
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Eskom introduces Stage 6 Loadshedding
Read More: Eskom introduces Stage 6 LoadsheddingEarlier today, we uncovered that Zimbabwe’s electricity utility had quietly upped load-shedding hours from an agonising 19 hours to an incredible 20 hours per day in a number of underserved areas. It appears that Zimbabweans are not the only ones experiencing power outages. Eskom, South Africa’s electricity company, has also announced that they will increase…
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South African hospitals now need permission to treat Zimbabweans and other foreigners
Read More: South African hospitals now need permission to treat Zimbabweans and other foreignersLast month there was a lot of noise after an administrative official from Limpopo province complained that Zimbabweans were overwhelming her healthcare system at the expense of taxpaying South Africans. She was castigated for this but it seems the powers be noticed the support she received from ordinary South Africans. Now most hospitals in the…
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Zimbabwean Consulate in South Africa will now be accepting passport applications during the weekend
Read More: Zimbabwean Consulate in South Africa will now be accepting passport applications during the weekendOn Monday the Zimbabwean Consulate in South Africa announced that they would now be opening on weekends starting from 3 October to 17 October. This exercise is being done in order to help mitigate the continued high demand for passport, birth, death and other registration papers in South Africa. The backlog is probably a result…
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Video: Limpopo province’s MEC says she is not xenophobic
Read More: Video: Limpopo province’s MEC says she is not xenophobicA video of South African medical doctor Phophi Ramathuba who is also a member of the executive of health in Limpopo speaking hard truths to a Zimbabwean recently went viral on social media prompting others to label her a xenophobe. It is a charge the MEC has vehemently denied in a follow-up interview with SABC.…
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Xenophobia in South Africa will negatively impact Zimbabwe’s economy
Read More: Xenophobia in South Africa will negatively impact Zimbabwe’s economyOne of the first consequences of the economic meltdown in Zimbabwe was the mass exodus of qualified personnel who moved to other countries in search of greener pastures. This hit its peak around the early to mid-2000s when a lot of Zimbabweans left for the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, the United Stands and of course…
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SA Judge: Mukuru unfairly favoured employing Zimbabweans
Read More: SA Judge: Mukuru unfairly favoured employing ZimbabweansA South African judge recently made a ruling against Mukuru, the market leader when it comes to foreign remittances to Zimbabwe. According to the judge, Mukuru had an unfair employment policy where they preferred hiring Zimbabweans and Malawians for positions that could be filled by South Africans. Mukuru had taken the South African Department of…
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South Africa to pass its own indigenisation laws
Read More: South Africa to pass its own indigenisation lawsA long time ago Zimbabwe, under the government of the late Robert Mugabe, passed some indigenisation laws and everyone, including me, laughed and scoffed. Now it seems more and more African countries are passing similar laws. Not so long ago Botswana passed indigenisation laws that prohibited foreigners from entering into certain sectors. Now South Africa…