AIM-listed Africa-focused resources group, Mwana Africa Plc (Mwana), has appointed Yat Hoi Ning as its interim chairman.Ning, who takes over from Stuart Morris who retired last week Friday, will - wit...
Zimbabwe's financial services now prefer lending to individuals in favour of risky corporate borrowers, the African Development Bank (AfDB) has said.In its March 2015 Monthly Report on Zimbabwe, the r...
Zimbabwe's total gold deliveries surged by nearly 50 percent to 1 546,16 kilogrammes (kg) in March 2015, from 1 040,49 kg recorded in March 2014, figures from the African Development Bank (AfDB) revea...
Listed hospitality concern African Sun Limited (ASL) recorded a profit of $850 519 in the six months to March 2015, compared to a loss of $1,4 million in the prior period, due to increased foreign tou...
Zimbabwe tobacco farmers have so far earned nearly $430 million from the sale of 145,5 million kilogrammes (kg) of flue cured tobacco since the beginning of the current marketing season in March this ...
Sugar producer, Tongaat Hulett Zimbabwe (Tongaat), says its domestic market sales for the year to March 2015 surged 109 percent to 309 000 tonnes from 148 000 tonnes in 2014 due to the introduction o...
Zimbabwe must stop mortgaging minerals to secure loans but must negotiate deals more shrewdly to preserve future generations from bad decisions, a renowned Ghanaian economist said.Douglas Boateng, Afr...
Listed financial services group First Mutual Holdings Limited (FMHL)'s operating profit surged by 1 090 percent to over $1 million in the first four months to April 2015 due to cost cutting measures a...
Zimbabwe's largest mobile telecommunications company by subscriber base, Econet Wireless (Econet), will pay out a whopping $15 million to shareholders this year.This comes after the mobile giant regi...
Mashonaland Holdings (Masholdings) says its property occupancies slumped by six percentage points to 79 percent in the half year to March 31, 2015, on the back of declining economic conditions in Zimb...
London-listed Caledonia Mining Corporation Limited (Caledonia)'s expansion plans have been given a boost by an increase and upgrade in the gold resource at its Zimbabwean Blanket Mine (Blanket).This c...
Listed short-term insurer NicozDiamond Insurance Limited (Nicoz)'s gross premium written (GPW) for the four months to April 2015 remained almost flat at $11,16 million compared to same period last yea...
Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed retailer, OK Zimbabwe Limited (OK), says it is engaging foreign retailers for the manufacturing of in-shop brands to boost the group's revenues.Its chief operation...
Zimbabwe's largest sugar producer, Tongaat Hulett, production declined by nine percent to 445 000 tonnes in the full year to March 2015 compared to 488 000 registered in the prior period due to low da...
Moira Kambanje, 66, can now receive money from her daughter in South Africa, buy groceries, pay bills and also send money to her other child at a local university.She does this without even visiting t...
The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) has secured a foreign investor willing to inject $100 million in capital to revive the defunct Kamativi tin mine (Kamativi), deputy Mines minister Fr...
Tourism operators in Victoria Falls are prepared to defend themselves in courts over non-payment of rates after the resort town's local authority increased them by an astronomical 650 percent, Zimbabw...
Former Lobels chief executive - Ngoni Mazango - has joined rivals Innscor Africa Limited (Innscor) as chief operating officer for its bakery division, Business Live has established.Mazango, a seasoned...
Murowa Diamonds (Murowa) is expected to resume full scale mining operations in a few weeks' time after it has finalised contracts of companies subcontracted to do work at the mine, deputy Mines minist...
Beverages manufacturer Delta Corporation, (Delta), plans to spend nearly $50 million in capital projects aimed at buttressing its operating capacity.Matts Valela, Delta financial director told busines...
London Stock Exchange-listed low-cost airline Fastjet has embarked on a recruitment drive as the company moves to establish operations in Zimbabwe."We are growing quickly and are on the lookout for ta...
Zimbabwe tobacco farmers have so far earned $315 million from the sale of 112 million kilogrammes (kg) of the golden leaf since the beginning of this year's selling season in March.Figures released by...
Zimbabwe National Farmers Union (ZNFU) says the decline in agriculture production is due to most farmers' lack of collateral.Edward Dune, ZNFU's executive director told Parliament this week that close...
Zimbabwe's sole gold buyer, Fidelity Printers and Refiners (Fidelity), has reduced its minimum acceptance threshold for gold from licensed small-scale dealers from 10 to five grammes as the country mo...
London-listed investment vehicle Masawara Plc (Masawara) recorded a 167 percent surge in profits to $16,1 million in the full year to December 2014 up from a loss of $10,8 million in the corresponding...