BUSINESS NEWS

Rising temperatures threaten fresh produce in Zimbabwe

Rising temperatures across the country are taking a toll on fresh produce, with massive losses being recorded at markets.Knowledge Transfer eMukumba chief executive Dr Charles Dhewa has called for urg...

BUSINESS NEWS

Gold panners threaten Mutare water source

Mutare City Council is weighing plans to deploy municipal police to safeguard the Nyakaunga River, one of the city's main water sources, amid growing threats from illegal gold panning.Speaking during ...

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe faces cyclone threat this season

Zimbabwe is likely to experience tropical cyclones during the upcoming 2025/26 rainfall season, with the Meteorological Services Department (MSD) urging communities in flood-prone areas to take early ...

BUSINESS NEWS

Solar scam threatens Zimbabwe's renewable energy drive

Zimbabwe's booming solar energy market is under threat as unscrupulous dealers exploit rising demand to sell counterfeit and substandard products, experts warn.Over the past decade, prices for solar p...

EDUCATION

Zimbabwe teachers threaten predictable ritual?

Government has expressed frustration over the "predictable ritual" of teachers threatening industrial action, as educators prepare for a sit-in set to start today across primary and secondary schools ...

SOCCER

Zifa boss threatens lawsuit against journalist

Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) president Nqobile Magwizi has filed a legal case against journalist Hope Chizuzu, accusing him of publishing a series of defamatory articles targeting the footbal...

BUSINESS NEWS

Cash dependency threatens Zimbabwe's digital economy goals

Banking experts have warned that Zimbabwe's heavy reliance on cash is undermining the country's push towards a digital economy, despite widespread mobile penetration and modern payment infrastructure....

BUSINESS NEWS

Police warn of rising cybercrime threats in Zimbabwe

The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has raised alarm over a sharp increase in cybercrime, warning that criminals are deploying advanced tactics to exploit vulnerable internet users.National police spok...

BUSINESS NEWS

SA steel tariff hikes threaten jobs

Proposed increases to 460 steel tariff codes are set to affect more than 16 000 traders and R51,5 billion (US$2,9 billion) worth of imports, sparking fears of job losses in South Africa's downstream s...

BUSINESS NEWS

Civil servants' right to collective bargaining under threat

Proposed amendments to the Public Service Act could strip Zimbabwe's civil servants of key labour rights, including the right to fight for better wages and conditions, legal experts and labour activis...

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe's broken railways threaten lithium, tobacco exports

Zimbabwe's crumbling railway system, once the backbone of the economy, has become a major obstacle to growth, inflating transport costs, stifling exports, and threatening emerging sectors such as lit...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Poaching threatens US$10m black pepper project

A lucrative US$10 million black pepper farming venture at Sable Ranch Farm in Marondera is under serious threat from rampant firewood poaching, with allegations that state security agencies are invol...

POLITICS

Mnangagwa urges ZDF to confront emerging security threats

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has called on the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) to broaden their operational scope beyond traditional military defence to address evolving security challenges, including c...

OPINION

Zimbabwe faces new threat from AI voice cloning scams

Last month, a disturbing case emerged from Canada where fraudsters used artificial intelligence to clone the voices of elderly Americans' grandchildren. Between 2021 and 2024, the ring targeted senio...

BUSINESS NEWS

Vaccine hesitancy a threat to Zimbabwe's immunisation drive

Vaccine hesitancy, once largely associated with impoverished communities and apostolic sects, is now increasingly taking root among Zimbabwe's wealthy urban elite, sparking concern among health exper...

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe nurses threaten strike

Zimbabwe's fragile public healthcare system is facing yet another major crisis as nurses across the country have signalled their intention to embark on a nationwide strike over poor remuneration, dire...

BUSINESS NEWS

How Tagwirei's ascent threatens - and could reward - investors

Zimbabwe's political landscape has erupted into a new era of factionalism, with sanctioned tycoon Kudakwashe Tagwirei's meteoric rise within the ruling Zanu-PF party becoming a flashpoint. As the 20...

POLITICS

Iran-Israel conflict threatening Zimbabwe's economy

The recent breakdown of ceasefire agreements between Iran and Israel has raised alarms over a potential full-scale conflict in the Middle East, with serious global economic repercussions that could se...

BUSINESS NEWS

'Unregistered pharmacies serious health threat'

A growing number of pharmacies in Bulawayo and the Matabeleland North and South provinces are reportedly operating without licenses from the Medicines Control Authority of Zimbabwe (MCAZ), raising ala...

POLITICS

Shuvai Mahofa's family faces eviction threat

The family of the late Zanu-PF politician, Shuvai Mahofa, may soon be evicted from a farm she seized during Zimbabwe's land reform era, amid claims that Deputy Minister of Environment, Climate and Wil...

POLITICS

Guvamatanga faces summons threat after snubbing Parliament

Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry permanent secretary George Guvamatanga is facing the threat of a parliamentary summons after he failed to appear before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for the second t...

LANDS & AGRICULTURE

Tobacco crop faces new disease threat

Tobacco farmers in Zimbabwe are grappling with a growing challenge as the destructive Fusarium Wilt Disease (FWD), which primarily affects the prized gold leaf, continues to spread across several dist...

AFRICA NEWS

South Africa reverses VAT increase that threatened ANC-DA coalition

Enoch Godongwana's decision came after the second-biggest party, the Democratic Alliance (DA), threatened to quit the government, warning a VAT hike would hurt the poor the most.Godongwana, a member o...

Tobacco crop under threat from fungal disease

Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers are facing a major crisis as a destructive fungal disease, Fusarium Wilt and Root Rot (FWRR), spreads across fields, threatening the country's lucrative tobacco industry.Far...

MINING & RETAIL

Granite miners face threat of closure

GRANITE producers are making frantic efforts to avoid a ban on exports to save their operations and jobs in the sector, businessdigest has learnt.President Emmerson Mnangagwa has tasked Industry minis...