CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

NBS builds 3,000 houses

THE National Building Society (NBS) has constructed 3 000 houses so far this year through its housing mortgage scheme.The building society, which is wholly owned by the National Social Security Author...

MINING & RETAIL

Tanzania to nationalise seized Petra gems

Tanzania said on Saturday it planned to nationalise diamonds whose value it put at $29.5 million belonging to a mine majority owned by London-listed Petra Diamonds after it accused the miner of under-...

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Microfinance industry confidence levels rise

ZIMBABWE'S microfinance industry appears to be gaining public confidence if latest statistics are anything to go by.Despite being blemished by a culture of usurious interest rates and repossession of ...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

'GMB silos not yet full'

Despite government claims of a bumper harvest, the Grain Marketing Board (GMB) silos in various provinces are not yet full with the national granary still accepting grain from farmers.This comes amid ...

MINING & RETAIL

Harare to re-capacitate quarry mining

Harare City Council (HCC) has secured a loan of $4,5 million from a local bank for the re-capacitation of their quarry mine.HCC acting Town Clerk Josephine Ncube said a board to run the affairs of the...

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Kwese TV craze hits Harare

ECONET recorded brisk business in Harare yesterday after its shops started selling accessories for its new television pay-per-view offering Kwese TV following a High Court ruling overturning a governm...

MINING & RETAIL

Esats invests $250k in new shopping complex

ONE of Bulawayo's oldest clothing retailing shop, Esats, has invested about $250 000 in setting up its new mini-shopping complex that will accommodate at least seven other shops.Esats director, Mr Mo...

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Telecel Zimbabwe takeover inches closer

Government is finalising an offer to buy Empowerment Corporation's 40 percent stake in Telecel Zimbabwe, sources familiar with developments have said."It is now clear that the Government wants to buy ...

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

AirZim wet lease deal in limbo

AIR Zimbabwe's proposal to wet lease Malaysia Airlines planes is in limbo despite senior government officials and the national carrier's senior executives frequent sojourns into the Far East country t...

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Dangote may enter bidding war for PPC

Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, is among those considering counteroffers for PPC that could signal a bidding contest for South Africa's largest cement maker, according to people familiar with the...

MINING & RETAIL

Zim's mining industry forecast maintain growth

ZIMBABWE's mining industry is forecast to maintain its growth trajectory, driven by high production volumes, despite the revenue challenges posed by a downslide in global metal prices across most mine...

MINING & RETAIL

Parrogate to invest $18m in Alaska chrome smelter

PARROGATE Zimbabwe plans to set up chrome smelters in Mhangura, at an estimated cost of $18 million, with potential to generate $40 million in export earnings annually, managing director Ganediwal sai...

MINING & RETAIL

Zesa gold tariff reduced by 34%

Zimbabwe's power utility Zesa has reduced its tariff for gold miners by 34% to USc7,87/energy unit following calls from the miners who argued that the charges were hurting their operations.Gold produc...

FINANCIAL SERVICES

RBZ transforms MFIs in financial inclusion thrust

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) are being transformed to aid financial inclusion taking on-board the marginalised groups, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) deputy governor Jesimen Chipika has said.Speak...

FINANCIAL SERVICES

BancABC conduit for dodgy funds

BancABC, which has subsidiaries in Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia and Tanzania, was one of the major conduits for dodgy diamond funds flowing internally and across borders, the Zimbabwe Independent has ...

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

DStv sued over US dollar subscriptions

A HARARE lawyer has approached the High Court seeking an order compelling Skynet Private Limited (Multichoice Zimbabwe) to accept bank card swipe, bank transfers, ecocash and bond notes for DSTV subsc...

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

TelOne draws $54 million for NBB

STATE-OWNED telecommunications operator TelOne has to date drawn down $54 million from its $98 million facility for the National Broadband (NBB) Project financed by the ChinaEXIM Bank as the company m...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Irvine's sues for $1,36 million debt

Irvine's Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd has approached the High Court seeking to compel Valhalla Chickens (Pvt) Ltd's liquidator, Winsley Militala, and another company called Robbyryan (Pvt) Ltd, to settle a $1,3...

MINING & RETAIL

Artisanal gold miners descend on Arda Transau

HUNDREDS of artisanal gold miners have descended on Arda Transau following rich gold deposit discoveries in the area, crowding out families relocated to the area from Chiadzwa.The gold rush in the com...

Small scale miners bemoan shortage of funds

Small scale miners in Matabeleland South say their access to loan facilities has been very limited compromising their potential.The miners have also called on the need to speed up claims disputes whic...

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Econet owed over $26m

MOBILE telecommunications operator, Econet Wireless Zimbabwe (Econet), is owed over $26 million by local partners, a situation that has affected the firm's cash flow, chairman, James Myers, has said....

MINING & RETAIL

Mittal family firm snaps up ZimAlloys

ONE of India's leading ferrochrome manufacturers, Balasore Alloys, controlled by the Mittal family, is on the cusp of taking over chrome miner, Zimbabwe Alloys (Zim Alloys), with plans to inject nearl...

FINANCIAL SERVICES

FML sees balance sheet growth

FIRST Mutual Holdings Limited (FML) has said shareholder assent for the acquisition of NicozDiamond has poised the company to bolster its balance sheet to nearly $300 million by year end.Speaking to T...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Zim govt to re-establish agriculture boards

GOVERNMENT is planning to re-establish agricultural boards, a move likely to result in the restoration of controls that had ended with liberalisation of the economy in the late 1990s.Minister of Agric...

FINANCIAL SERVICES

AfDB hunts for country manager

AFRICAN Development Bank (AfBD) is hunting for a country manager after Mateus Magala left the Zimbabwean mission two years ago to head Mozambique's energy development utility.Well-placed sources at th...