MMCZ says it intends to revive a metallurgical plant in Kwekwe that processes refractory ore, an initiative that will promote gold production, particularly from various small-scale miners dotted aroun...
The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) will audit financial statements of telecommunication firms that failed to pay licensing fees to ascertain veracity of such i...
Zimbabwe (GMAZ) said on Jan. 23 that despite the recent dry spell its members have sufficient grain reserves to take the country through the next farming season, according to Newsday Zimbabwe."Even wh...
ZIMBABWE'S new government talks up the country's mineral wealth in its push for investment, as it seeks to snap a run of sluggish economic growth, an official document shows.The country's tilt towards...
FIDELITY Printers and Refiners (FPR) has threatened to withdraw licences for agents it accuses of defying a directive to use receipt books issued by the State-controlled company when buying gold from ...
Zimbabwe's banana production increased 186 percent over two years to 45 775 tonnes in 2017, from 16 000 tonnes in 2015, industry data shows.According to a Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) re...
MOBILE phone users in Zimbabwe could enjoy mobile number portability (MNP) by end of this year, enabling them to switch service providers while keeping their original mobile numbers.The Postal a...
The Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (ZIMASCO) is failing to export optimum volumes of carbon ferrochrome through Mozambique due to a shortage of rail wagons from the NRZ. Clara Sadomba, the commu...
DELTA Beverages says the uptake of its beverages sorghum contract farming scheme (BSCFS) will decline in 2018, as some of its farmers were now attracted to the government's Command Agriculture scheme....
NETONE has sold more than 2 000 gadgets of the company's One-Fi gadget generating over $400 000 in the process, as demand for the one stop shop for communication services product grows.The country's s...
FORMER workers at the now defunct, United Touring Company (UTC) are bitter after allegedly being told they will not get their terminal benefits because the firm has no assets.The defunct tour operatin...
LOCAL tourists have appealed to tour operators to reduce charges for the various activities which they say are very high and as such work against efforts to promote domestic tourism.The Government, th...
THE Grain Marketing Board (GMB) posted a $209 million loss in the financial year ended December 31, 2017 due to subsidised sales to millers, an official has said.According to ZBCtv, GMB general manage...
The Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (TIMB) is consulting stakeholders on possible dates for the start of the 2018 marketing season, an official has said.TIMB corporate communications manager Mr I...
Zimbabwe is unlikely to license new entrants in the mobile telecoms sector in the foreseeable future, with the regulator saying due to limited electro-magnetic spectrum, which carries sound and data, ...
The Zimbabwe Power Company has secured $116 million from regional financial institutions to go towards its equity contribution for the expansion of Hwange Thermal Power Station.ZPC's equity contributi...
WILLOVALE Motor Industries, which last year partnered Beijing Automobile International Corporation (BAIC) to assemble vehicles, is failing to meet its initial production targets due to shortage of for...
Zimbabwe's full year gold production rose to 24.8 tonnes in 2017 from 22.7 tonnes the previous year, the central bank's refining and printing subsidiary said on Wednesday.Gold is the southern African ...
Former Jaggers Wholesalers building in Ardbennie is set to go under the hammer on Saturday in the ongoing liquidation of the country's largest wholesaler.The sell is meant to raise money to pay credit...
A SOUTH Africa-based foundry and engineering company, Thos Begbie has won a tender to construct a smelter for Unki, one of the platinum mines in Zimbabwe.Following the awarding of the tender last year...
CAPTAINS of industry have welcomed the reduction of excise duty on fuel saying this will see the pump price going down as well as reducing the cost of production in the manufacuring sector.In the pas...
One of the three firms granted a coal-bed methane concession by Government in Lupane, Matabeleland North Province, Discovery Investments, has said it required about $700 million to start commercial ga...
TOBACCO, Zimbabwe's largest foreign currency earner is under threat after main international buyers resolved not to accept tobacco cured using coal citing environmental concerns.Recently, the Global T...
The Environmental Management Authority has started reviewing its licensing regulations for the extractive industry as part of efforts to encourage formalisation of small-scale mining under Government'...
Government has ordered players in the petroleum industry to reduce fuel prices with immediate effect to $1,35 per litre for petrol, $1,23 per litre for diesel and $1,17 for paraffin following the redu...