Zimbabwe civil servants to get salary in foreign currency

October 12th, 2009 Nestle: Zimbabwe accounts back to normalHARARE, Zimbabwe — Nestle says its Zimbabwe banking is back to normal just days after newspapers reported that the government froze their accounts and ordered an audit after the company stopped buying milk from a farm owned by President Robert Mugabe's wife. Nestle spokesman Ravi Pillay in neighboring South Africa said the company's Zimbabwe accounts were "operating as usual" Monday.

August 19th, 2009 11 killed in truck-bus accident in ZimbabweHARARE, Zimbabwe — Police say a truck hit a bus head-on in Zimbabwe, killing 11 people including six members of a family returning from a funeral. Rangarirai Mushaurwa, an assistant police commissioner, said Wednesday the truck driver, who was among the dead, was trying to overtake a third vehicle Tuesday night just outside Harare.

August 4th, 2009 PANAJI - The Goa government is in consultation with the central government over creation of a separate cadre of civil servants for the state. "The possibility of having our independent cadre of IAS (Indian Administrative Service) and IPS (Indian Police Service) officers is being explored in consultation with the government of India," Chief Minister Digambar Kamat said in a written reply tabled in the assembly Monday.

August 3rd, 2009 40 die in bus Zimbabwe bus crashHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe state radio says a crowded bus slammed into a truck on a stretch of highway notorious for accidents, killing 40 people and injuring another 30. Monday's radio report said the bus swerved to avoid another stationary truck on the southbound highway 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Harare on Sunday.

August 3rd, 2009 40 killed in Zimbabwe bus crashHARARE, Zimbabwe — Zimbabwe state radio says a crowded bus slammed into a truck on a stretch of highway notorious for accidents, killing 40 people and injuring another 30. Monday's radio report said the bus swerved to avoid another stationary truck on the southbound highway 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Harare on Sunday.

April 12th, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's new coalition government has decided to withdraw the country's worthless currency from circulation for at least a year and rely exclusively on other hard currencies, according to reports Sunday. Economic Planning Minister Elton Mangoma was quoted in the state-controlled Sunday Mail newspaper as saying that the Zimbabwe dollar, whose value was sent crashing by an official policy of the former regime of President Robert Mugabe to print huge volumes of cash to keep up with state spending, 'will be out at least for a year'.

March 19th, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's new Finance Minister Tendai Biti Wednesday indicated that the country's national currency Zimbabwe dollar is no longer in use, New Ziana reported. Presenting a revised 2009 Budget to parliament, Biti said: 'The death of the Zimbabwe dollar is a reality we have to live with.

February 25th, 2009 WELLINGTON - The New Zealand cricket team's scheduled tour of Zimbabwe in July has been postponed until next year, it was announced here Wednesday. Justin Vaughan, chief executive of New Zealand Cricket, said he and his Zimbabwe counterpart, Ozias Bvute, had agreed to put off the tour for 11 months after talks during an International Cricket Council meeting in Johannesburg.

February 23rd, 2009 AUCKLAND - The New Zealand government is unlikely to send its cricket team to Zimbabwe for the series in July. Prime Minister John Key said that sending the team to politically unstable Zimbabwe will be a risk.

February 1st, 2009 HARARE - Zimbabwe's central bank slashed another 12 zeroes off the country's worthless currency Monday, shrinking 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars into a single Zimbabwe dollar. The move by Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono comes just six months after he lobbed ten zeroes off the money in August last year.

January 25th, 2009 PRETORIA - Police in South Africa fired rubber bullets at hundreds of people protesting outside government buildings over the crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe, injuring at least one. The protest took place around a kilometre from where Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was meeting with his southern African counterparts and his arch-rival Morgan Tsvangirai over the political impasse in his country.

January 23rd, 2009 HARARE - At each till in a large supermarket in the upmarket Avondale suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare is a small, much-handled cardboard tray containing boiled sweets, boxes of matches and a few loose eggs. Most customers in the queue are paying in US dollars.

January 23rd, 2009 MUMBAI - Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has invited the Zimbabwe President's XI to play in the limited overs Deodhar Trophy cricket along with the five zonal home teams. The move comes after Zimbabwe Cricket Union's (ZCU) chairman Peter Chingoka met BCCI president Shashank Manohar and secretary N.

January 15th, 2009 HARARE - The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has introduced a new family of trillion Zim-dollar banknotes in denominations of 100 trillion, 50 trillion, 20 trillion and 10 trillion that went into circulation Friday, starting with the 10 trillion notes, a media report said. The 20 trillion, 50 trillion and 100 trillion notes will be introduced gradually, The Herald newspaper said.

December 28th, 2008 JOHANNESBURG - South Africa has lifted a blockade on aid to Zimbabwe because of the worsening humanitarian crisis in the neighbouring country, a South African presidential spokesman said Monday. South Africa halted aid to Zimbabwe earlier in a bid to build pressure on Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and the opposition to hasten the formation of a national unity government.