TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Top Air Zimbabwe official fired

Air Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd has fired its Human Resources Manager, Oswald Madziwa for negligently performing a transaction which led to the national airliner losing millions of dollars.Madziwa was dismisse...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Tanganda Tea invests in $2.5m plant

Leading tea-producing company Tanganda Tea (Pvt) Ltd has acquired a state-of-the-art blending and packaging plant worth $2.5m, finance director Henry Nemaire has said.Nemaire told reporters that the w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Monopoly stifles telecoms sector

LACK of competition in the fixed line telecommunications sector as well as restrictive policies has hampered growth in the sub-sector where State-owned TelOne still maintains a monopoly on fixed lines...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

335 lose jobs in the banking sector

THE Zimbabwe Banking and Allied Workers' Union (Zibawu) has said ZB Bank and Steward Bank are in the process of terminating jobs of 335 employees as the two institutions embark on rationalisation of t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

TRANSPORT & TOURISM

Beitbridge hotel operation in doubt

THE National Social Security Authority's hotel in Beitbridge could be closed by the local authority after the temporary permit allowing it to operate expired last month.NSSA is pinning its hopes on ne...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Old Mutual declares $10m dividend

Old Mutual Zimbabwe has declared a $10 million dividend for its shareholders for the year ended December 2013. The group in the same period posted positive results recording a 2000 percent increase in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Kaukonde ups stake in Willdale

Businessman Mr Ray Kaukonde has increased his shareholding in brick maker Willdale Limited ahead of the recapitalisation of the group. Mr Kaukonde upped his interest in the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-lis...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 April 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Australia to offer Zim miners training

Australia, one of the world's leading mining powerhouses, has pledged to empower small-scale miners in Zimbabwe to enable them increase contributions to the mainstream economy.The country aims to achi...

By CAJNews | Published: 23 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Tetrad property to be auctioned

Tetrad Investment Bank's movable property face the hammer after the Deputy Sheriff attached its assets to recover nearly $500 000 which Bindura University of Science and Education had invested with th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Foreign banks can keep majority stakes, for now

Zimbabwe will let foreigners keep majority stakes in banks for now because locals have no money to buy shares, the Finance Minister said on Wednesday.But Patrick Chinamasa said the Government would no...

By Reuters | Published: 23 April 2014

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Steelmakers revenue plummets

KWEKWE-based steel manufacturer, Steelmakers, has been rattled by the liquidity crunch prevailing in the country and this has resulted in turnover plummeting by 50 percent.Steelmakers group general ma...

By Lovemore Zigara | Published: 23 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Steward Bank to close 8 branches

Steward Bank intends to close about eight branches across the country, rendering more than 100 employees jobless, as the bank seeks to streamline its costs.The financial institution, currently with 20...

By Tinashe Makichi | Published: 23 April 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Mine to send workers on unpaid leave

Gold producer Pan African Mining on Tuesday said it is considering sending workers on a two weeks unpaid rotational leave as a cost-cutting measure since it has not been operating due to lack of elect...

By New Ziana. | Published: 23 April 2014

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Belgium tops tobacco buyers' list

Belgium is the biggest buyer of Zimbabwean tobacco so far this year with 3,4 million kilogrammes worth $9,1 million having been exported to that country to date, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Boa...

By New Ziana. | Published: 23 April 2014

MINING & RETAIL

Freda Rebecca, BNC increase output

The Freda Rebecca Gold Mine and Bindura Nickel Corporation are well posed to boost Mwana Africa's top and bottomline.The multi-commodity mining conglomerate's Zimbabwean operations posted increases i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2014

BUSINESS NEWS

ZIA approved investment projects valued at $93,4m

The Zimbabwe Investment Authority approved a total of 30 investment projects valued at $93,4 million in the first quarter of 2014 compared to 37 projects worth $37 million in the same period last yea...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2014

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

SINO Zim added to US sanctions list

The United States Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added to its Zimbabwe sanctions list Sam Pa, a business partner in Sino Zim and Anjin.This means Sino Zim and its various subs...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2014

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Savanna decries industrial espionage

Savanna Tobacco says industrial espionage by its tobacco industry arch rivals is suffocating its potential and capacity to increase exports by a factor of at least 50 percent.Executive chairman Mr Ad...

By Staff reporter | Published: 23 April 2014

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Dendairy seeks $6m for heifer project

Local dairy firm, Dendairy is lobbying for offshore funding for a heifer project that would require $6 million over the next five years.Dendairy director Darren Coetzee said the initiative will go a l...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

NMB to issue another SME bond

NMBZ is set to issue another tranche of Small to Medium Enterprises bond following interest from investors and will use other financial sources to beef up the purse to finance targeted enterprises, a ...

By Conrad Mwanawashe | Published: 22 April 2014

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Chinese experts expected at Sable Chemicals

A team of Chinese experts to undertake a coal gasification project at the country's sole ammonium nitrate (AN) manufacturer, Sable Chemicals, is expected at the beginning of next month to start work o...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 April 2014

BUSINESS NEWS

SA seeks to bag R10m deals at ZITF

THE Department of Trade and Industry (the dti) will lead a group of South African companies to the 2014 Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which begins in Bulawayo today.The fair is being held ...

By Fin24 | Published: 22 April 2014

BUSINESS NEWS

IDC fails to attract investors

LACK of interest from investors has forced the Industrial Development Corporation to put on hold its gold processing project.The project requires $233 million capital injection.IDC has been seeking te...

By Tinashe Makichi | Published: 22 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

Lending, deposit rates gap widening

THE disparity between lending and deposit rates in Zimbabwe is widening, dampening the already weak savings culture in the country and its economic recovery, the African Development Bank (AfDB) said.I...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 April 2014

FINANCIAL SERVICES

ZB in wrangle with dismissed workers

CONTRACT workers, who were laid off by ZB Financial Holdings last month, are up in arms claiming they were unfairly dismissed.More than 200 workers have been affected by the decision to shed staff.Aff...

By businessdigest | Published: 17 April 2014

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