BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa speaks to Zim engineers

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has said engineers must be in the forefront of advising Government on projects and reforms needed to fill infrastructure gaps to modernise and expand the country's rail, r...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Colcom speaks on smaller pies

COLCOM Foods has blamed the contentious size of its pies on their plant that was commissioned in August 2015, principally to increase production and meet growing demand. The company said while it expe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

OPINION

Stop meddling in ZEC affairs!

Mr Speaker, Sir As the election date beckons the MDC Alliance is becoming hysterical in accusing ZEC of plotting to rig the elections in favour of Zanu-PF. The Alliance, which to all intents and purpo...

By Farirai Machivenyika | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Insurers profit jumps 250%

NON-LIFE insurance companies registered 250 percent growth in profits to $33,6 million in the 12 months to December 2017, according to Insurance and Pensions Commission (IPEC)'s 2017 fourth quarter re...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

POLITICS

Hlabangana promises proactive leadership

Zimbabwe requires proactive leadership to keep problems at bay, instead of reacting to them, Republican Party of Zimbabwe (RPZ) leader Mr Kwanele Hlabangana has said. Mr Hlabangana, who is one of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 05 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Zimbabwe's recurrent trade deficit toxic'

The central bank has warned that Zimbabwe's recurrent trade deficits poses significant challenges as the country continues to rely on export revenues to generate liquidity and support domestic economi...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Chiwenga under fire over 'reckless' talk

Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, has come under heavy criticism for advising residents not to pay for services they do not receive.In the heat of electioneering, Chiwenga told Zanu-PF supporters i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Zhuwao's statements on gukurahundi reckless

Former National Healing minister Moses Mzila-Ndlovu has  come out guns blazing against former president Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, over what he termed misguided statements on the Guk...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

Zimbabwe greets a real new dawn after years of uncertainty

Even with the remaining challenges, there are tangible signs that things are set to improveWe are now into the eighth month of the new dispensation in Zimbabwe but what, if anything, has changed on th...

By Patrick Colegrave | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim placed on African risk analysts watch list

Zimbabwe has been ranked among the most promising economies in Africa due to the political transition currently taking place.Risk analysts who attended a forum on investment risks in Africa in Côte d...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

Chamisa u-turn on Khupe comes late

As we report elsewhere in this issue, MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has withdrawn his court challenge against Thokozani Khupe over the use of the MDC name, symbols and logos.Had t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe army vows neutrality in election

Zimbabwe's military vowed on Wednesday to stay neutral in upcoming elections, dismissing suggestions it would deploy service personnel to influence national polls scheduled for July 30.The military is...

By AFP | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim duo making baking flour out of bananas

Two 20-year-olds who dove into business after high school in Zimbabwe, turning bananas into a low-cost alternative option to wheat flour.Where most youngsters would opt for a business degree before st...

By FORBES AFRICA | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mphoko accused of funding Mthwakazi

Choppies chairperson, Festus Mogae has written a strongly worded letter to Choppies Zimbabwe's 51% shareholder, former vice president, Phelekezela Mphoko, demanding that he relinquish his Choppies sha...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Chamisa a dishonest politician, says Mujuru

MDC Alliance presidential candidate Mr Nelson Chamisa is an evasive and dishonest politician whose traits led to the collapse of coalition talks with other opposition parties, National People's Party ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's ally faces jail term over debt

Deputy Finance minister Terrence Mukupe is today set to appear before High Court judge Justice Edith Mushore, where he faces civil imprisonment over a $32 593 Trust Bank debt.Trust Holdings' banking s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe returns

FORMER President Robert Mugabe limped home to the humiliation of being consigned to watching his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reception party wait to receive him complete with a spread out...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Kasukuwere's home raided by police

FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar and Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere's fallout with law enforcement agents continued to unfold with police detectives raiding his Harare mansion yesterda...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Noah Manyika reports Zanu-PF to EU observers

BUILD Zimbabwe Alliance (BZA) presidential candidate Noah Manyika says he has notified police and election observer missions that Zanu-PF supporters are engaging in electoral malpractices ahead of the...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwean to be deported from Philippines

THE Philippine Bureau of Immigration (BI) indicated Tuesday that United Methodist missionary Tawanda Chandiwana from Zimbabwe had overstayed and engaged in political activities violating his missionar...

By inquirer.net | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Khupe, Chamisa face off over party funds

THE battle for control of the opposition MDC-T alliance's resources has taken a new angle with leader of the breakaway faction Thokozani Khupe threatening to take her rival Nelson Chamisa to court dem...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mphoko's Choppies fails to pay Zimra

THE government has distributed to Bulawayo hospitals foodstuff confiscated from former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko's trucks at Beitbridge border post by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA).Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

Mugabe flies into bomb storm

Former president Robert Mugabe returned home yesterday to face a torrent of allegations, inflamed by the recent bomb explosion that rocked the second city of Bulawayo on June 24, claiming two lives.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

POLITICS

MDC Alliance candidate raises kidnapping allegations

MDC-T councillor for ward 9 in Chegutu, Edward Dzeka claims he was abducted and tortured by suspected State security agents on Sunday night.Dzeka, who is also his party's deputy spokesperson for Masho...

By Staff reporter | Published: 04 July 2018

OPINION

NPF: Possessed by a retrogressive agenda?

Mark Duncan, writing from Moscow, felt compelled to advise The Economist [Letters - A party of the people, April 14, 2018], that its belief that Russian youth post Gorbachev generation offered optimis...

By Tapiwa Nyandoro | Published: 04 July 2018

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