BUSINESS NEWS

Call to scrap Asycuda Customs clearing system

CUSTOMS clearing agents and transporters have called on the Government to dump the existing Automated System for Customs Data (Asycuda World plus) which is delaying the movement of commercial cargo at...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe Defence Industries to be resuscitated

The Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) is set to be resuscitated through strategic partnerships with universities and colleges to provide cutting edge military solutions, Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

OPINION

The dilemma facing Zimbabwe

A new year has dawned and I think all Zimbabweans suffered over this past festive season from a hangover caused by the unscheduled departure of Robert Mugabe from the presidency.Former president Rober...

By Eddie Cross, economic analyst | Published: 12 January 2018

POLITICS

Tsvangirai succession: MDC-T faces implosion

OPPOSITION MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai's (pictured) announcement that he is considering retiring from politics has escalated succession fights in the party with officials warning of implosion.Insid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

POLITICS

Zim immigration staff complain about corruption

IMMIGRATION department employees have written to Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu and parliament asking them to urgently investigate allegations of rampant corruption, nepotism and abuse of state ass...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Employers to meet Kagonye

EMPLOYERS are scheduled to meet Labour minister Petronella Kagonye today to discuss issues which include the amendment of the Labour Act as well as map the way forward for the year, businessdigest has...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Zim requires $26bn infrastructure support'

ZIMBABWE requires at least US$26 billion over a period of 10 years to address a gap in infrastructural development and become competitive for investment, the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabw...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt to revive fuel plant

THE Ministry of Higher and Tertiary Education intends to resuscitate a key fuel plant at Feruka as well as develop a solar energy project as part of its 100-day work plan, among other key policy progr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

CZI pushes for power tariff cut

THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) is lobbying government to lower power tariffs which it cites as one of the factors triggering recent commodity price increases.This comes amid a proposal...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Shiri stops farm fights

The Minister of Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement, Chief Air Marshal (Retired) Perence Shiri, has moved in to stop land fights in Manicaland and warned that the final authority to change owner...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

3 million tourists expected in 2020

Zimbabwe's tourism industry is set for a rebound as arrivals mainly from traditional markets are expected to hit the three million mark by 2020, a development that will see over 300 000 jobs being cre...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Kangai granted bail

Former NetOne Chief Executive Officer Reward Kangai appeared before Harare magistrate Rumbidzai Mugwagwa facing 20 counts of criminal abuse of office and has been granted US$800 bail.Kangai appeared b...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mangudya to present 2018 Monetary Policy Statement

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya is in the coming few weeks expected to present the eagerly anticipated 2018 Monetary Policy Statement amid a persistent cash crisis coupled with ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

RBZ dismisses $5bn facility rumours

The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Dr John Mangudya has dispelled social media reports that the central bank is putting in place a $5 billion facility for Zimbabwe. In a written response to inquiri...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

$100m for Beitbridge border rehabilitation

ZIMBORDERS, a locally-owned company, has been awarded a US$100 million contract to rehabilitate the Beitbridge Border Post within 100 days, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government targets to impr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe's 'enforcers' consolidating their power

Emmerson Mnangagwa's post-Mugabe regime is consolidating its power even as it takes steps to open the economy.To that end, the new president has appointed as his vice president the former army chief, ...

By John Campbell | Published: 11 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's first $ billionaire

Telecom tycoon Strive Masiyiwa has become Zimbabwe's first billionaire.According to a report by Forbes, Masiyiwa, 57 is now worth $1.7 billion. Masiyiwa controls Econet Group, a Zimbabwe-listed mobile...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

Grace Mugabe loses State security

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has reportedly withdrawn former First Lady Grace Mugabe's State security detail, as the former First Family continues to adjust to life after former President...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

MDC-T's Tamborinyoka attacks Obert Gutu

Drama continued to unfold in the MDC-T yesterday, with Morgan Tsvangirai's spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka, making a thinly-veiled attack on party spokesman, Obert Gutu, and other party organs, which ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

Chihuri in posh vehicles scandal

A Harare businessman yesterday filed a civil lawsuit of almost $3 million against Retired Commissioner-General of the Zimbabwe Republic Police Augustine Chihuri, whom he accuses of causing his unlawfu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa heads for Davos

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will mark his first appearance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland in a fortnight's time, presidential spokesman, George Charamba told The Financial Ga...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

Top UK diplomat arrives in Zimbabwe

THE permanent under-secretary in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Simon McDonald, arrived in the country this week, the second high-profile British government representative to visit Zimbabwe insi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

OPINION

Mugabe, Tsvangirai off ballot for first time in decades?

ZIMBABWE is set to have its first elections in nearly two decades without veteran politicians, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the two men whose epic duels have for years reduced other political ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Chiwenga to deal with price hikers

The Zanu-PF Politburo yesterday set up an ad-hoc committee to deal with wanton price increases for basic commodities in the past three months, with President Mnangagwa warning unscrupulous businesspeo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

POLITICS

WATCH: Jonathan Moyo HARDTalk interview

FORMER higher education minister and now prominent government critic professor Jonathan Moyo appeared on the BBC's HARDtalk with the pre-recorded interview set to be broadcast Thursday morning. ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 January 2018

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