BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's escalating mental health crisis alarming

Stakeholders have raised alarm over Zimbabwe's worsening mental health crisis, warning that suicide, drug abuse and depression are taking a devastating toll on communities, particularly among young p...

By Staff reporter | Published: 2 hours ago

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's gold boom masked by environmental ruin

Zimbabwe's gold sector is experiencing one of its strongest rallies in years, but behind the production surge lies a darker reality of smuggling, lawlessness, and environmental collapse that threatens...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 August 2025

BUSINESS NEWS

BCC battle illegal environmental activities

The Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has intensified efforts to clamp down on illegal gold mining, sand poaching, and firewood theft-activities that are wreaking havoc on the environment and jeopardising t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 21 May 2025

OPINION

Which fundamentals require attention?

There is a real sense of despair in the country. Perhaps it is a left over from the heady days when we celebrated the final departure of former President Robert Mugabe from office and welcomed a 'new'...

By Eddie Cross | Published: 10 December 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt urged to establish Environmental Commission

PARLIAMENT has recommended the establishment of an Environment Commission by January next year to protect the environment, including wetlands.The issue was suggested in a recent report by the Parliame...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim lacks holistic infrastructural developmental capacity'

ZIMBABWE Institution of Engineers (ZIE) chief executive officer, Sanzan Diarra says the government on its own cannot tackle the country's infrastructural development challenges.Speaking to NewsDay yes...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 June 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

'Low wages trigger mental cases'

The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has blamed the paltry wages paid to most workers in the country for triggering a spike in mental cases.Addressing stakeholders attending the World Day for ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Beitbridge expansion an environmental time bomb

Beitbridge municipality has been cautioned against the continued expansion of residential settlements west of Dulivhadzimo, as this is threatening the town's supply dams.An environmentalist said the w...

By Staff reporter | Published: 03 April 2018

POLITICS

Tribalism counter developmental, says Mohadi

VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi has implored Zimbabweans across the country to embrace each other and shun tribalism as it was counter-development.Speaking at the Bulawayo Investment Conference held in th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 26 March 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mudenda slams banks' 'colonial mentality'

Speaker of the National Assembly, Advocate Jacob Mudenda, yesterday slammed financial institutions for their stringent requirements when opening bank accounts, saying the conditions were not commensur...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 February 2018

OPINION

'Zim must return to economic fundamentals'

The exit of President Mugabe from the echelons of state power saw the ascendancy of interim President Emmerson Mnangagwa with the blessings of the military after a week of aIt is clear that the new p...

By Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition | Published: 02 December 2017

MINING & RETAIL

PPC spends $2.5m on environmental compliance

GIANT cement maker PPC Zimbabwe says it has spent $2.5 million to curb high stack emissions in the last two years at its Colleen Bawn plant in line with the environmental compliance regulations.The pl...

By Staff reporter | Published: 28 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim firms lose $100m to stress, mental health

Zimbabwean companies are losing over $100 million annually in wages and productivity through mental health or stress related absence from work, a latest survey has shown.Industrial Psychology Consulta...

By staff reporter | Published: 21 June 2015

ZIMBABWE

Zimdollar mentality lingers

Zimbabwean products are expensive as "companies have failed to leave the Zimbabwe dollar mentality" of charging high prices, central bank governor John Mangudya said.He said the scenario has made loca...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 June 2015
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