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Mnangagwa condemns violence, hate speech

President Mnangagwa once again made a clarion call yesterday for leaders of all political parties to be exemplary in their conduct and shun violence ahead of the first harmonised elections under the n...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe should restore its status, says Shiri

Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister Air Chief Marshal Perrance Shiri (Retired) has implored beneficiaries of the Land Reform Programme to ensure maximum utilisation of land and boost pr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Nurses retirement age moved to 70 years?

The Health Services Board is inviting applications from qualified unemployed registered general nurses, primary care nurses and retired nurses below the age of 70.In a statement yesterday, it said: "T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Govt rewards non-striking nurses

PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has directed the Ministry of Health and Child Care to pay nurses who did not participate in the recent strike action benefits already agreed by Government under a $17 million pay r...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

MINING & RETAIL

River Ranch seeks removal from liquidation

RANI Investments LLC, majority shareholder in, Limpopo Mining Resources (Pvt) Limited (LMR), has filed an application with the High Court seeking removal from liquidation due to a change in circumstan...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

INDUSTRIALS & ENERGY

Chiyangwa's Zeco remains in the red

Listed engineering firm, Zeco Holdings, said it losses widened to $2,1 million in the full year to December 2017 from $1,3 million in 2016. In the period under review, the group generated revenues of ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 April 2018

POLITICS

'Elections critical for Zim economic growth'

Zimbabwe's elections scheduled to take place this year will be the most important in a generation and critical to restoring democracy and economic growth in the southern African nation that has been d...

By Bloomberg | Published: 19 April 2018

AFRICA BUSINESS

Responsible investors channel over $400bn into Africa

Responsible investment in Africa continues to rise. According to the latest data from the 2017 African Investing for Impact Barometer (AIFIB), there has been an increase in investments on the continen...

By Agencies | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa dispensation brings hope to business

The new dispensation has brought with it some fresh impetus on the business front with Bulawayo's indigenous entrepreneurs regaining confidence by setting up some new enterprises in line with governme...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Zimbabwe expects boom in telecomms sector

The government is expecting a boom in the country's telecommunications sector following reforms that will see three state owned utilities being partially privatised.The second quarter performance of t...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

BCC debt races to $174 million

BULAWAYO City Council (BCC)'s debt has ballooned to $174 million as of February this year as the local authority is struggling to service it, owing to the decline in revenue collections, latest counci...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

TelOne cuts interest on bills

STATE-OWNED telecoms operator TelOne has reduced the interest rate it had been charging on outstanding bills for businesses backdating to 2009 to 0,04%, the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Vic Falls join top must-visit sites

CANADA's largest travel agency, Flight Network, has named Victoria Falls as one of the top tourist destinations in the world to experience, after consultations with over 800 recognised agencies and pe...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

School of Mines students block CEO

STRIKING students at the Zimbabwe School of Mines (ZSM) yesterday blocked the college's chief executive officer Dzingai Tusai from entering the premises and demanded to be addressed by board members.T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Tongaat Hulett commissions Chiredzi gas plant

TONGAAT Hulett, Zimbabwe's largest sugar producer, has commissioned a 40-tonne liquefied petroleum gas plant in Chiredzi that will provide renewable and clean energy to more than 5 000 workers of the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Private firm to set up 125MW solar plant in Vic Falls

A PRIVATE firm, Southpole Consulting Private Limited, has engaged the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) seeking a power generation licence to set up a 125 megawatts solar plant in Victoria F...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

AfDB, Export Trading Group sign $200m loan deal

THE African Development Bank (AfDB) has signed a $200 million loan agreement for a soft commodity finance facility with the Export Trading Group to support agriculture on the continent.AfDB said the f...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

POLITICS

Zimbabwe celebrates Independence Day

ZIMBABWE today celebrates 38 years of Independence from British colonial rule with Zanu-PF yesterday calling on all patriots to uphold and cherish the values that sprung from the liberation struggle.T...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

POLITICS

Six more Zim kids to be deported from SA

SIX more Zimbabwean children who were smuggled to South Africa by omalayitsha through Beitbridge Border Post will be repatriated back to the country on Thursday as the governments of the two neighbour...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Year-on-year inflation drops

ZIMBABWE'S year-on-year inflation rate for last month shed 0.30 percentage points on the February rate of 2.98 percent to 2.68 percent, official figures show.The country's national statistics agency, ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

POLITICS

Khupe fights expulsion in court

MDC-T breakaway deputy president, Dr Thokozani Khupe yesterday filed an urgent application at the Constitutional Court in Harare challenging her expulsion from Parliament and seeking re-instatement.Th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa targets middle-income economy

GOVERNMENT has set out a clear vision for youth to have decent jobs and to benefit from broad-based empowerment initiatives that will move them out of poverty, President Mnangagwa has said.He also war...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Developers reduce housing backlog by 50%

PROPERTY developers in Masvingo have reduced the housing backlog in the city by more than 50 percent following the unveiling of land for development. Property developers who spoke to The Herald yester...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Kickbacks delay city road rehab

Some Harare City Council workers are reportedly sabotaging the city's road rehabilitation programme by demanding kickbacks from contractors to facilitate payment from Zimbabwe National Roads Administr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

NSSA bars Vela, ex-CEO Chitiga

NATIONAL Social Security Authority (NSSA) has barred fired ex-chairman Robin Vela and former general manager Elizabeth Chitiga from entering the authority's premises. This comes as Labour and Public S...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 April 2018

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