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Shame Mugova - Zimbabwe had a change of government in November 2017 which brought optimism that the economy might be guided on a recovery path following depression for several years since the turn of the millennium. Operation restore economy has not been launched and some people have already started to lose faith in the current administration’s ability to turn around the economy whilst some still believe the economy will be revived and grow again.

The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) director general Gift Machengete has promised to transform the once opaque organisation into a transparent one.

After re-emerging on the global map following the coming in of a new political dispensation, Zimbabwe is seeking to regain lost shine by making moves to host one of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO)’s key calendar events in 2019.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, pictured below, has banned trade in live elephants following a global outcry in the wake of the sale of 34 baby elephants to China late last year.

Finance minister Patrick Chinamnasa was on Tuesday taken to task by parliamentarians for understating the country’s budget deficit and violating the Constitution in many areas of fiscal management.