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Private sector reforms stepped up

GOVERNMENT is implementing private sector reforms to improve ease of doing business to boost local and foreign investment, Energy Minister Simon Khaya Moyo has said.Speaking at the launch of the Zuva ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

RBZ deal boosts Ariston

AN export incentive scheme unveiled by the central bank two years ago spurred growth of exports at listed agro-industrial firm Ariston Holdings Limited, which yesterday reported a 53 percent rise in r...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim moves to establish correspondent banks

FINANCE minister Patrick Chinamasa says the country is making frantic efforts to re-establish international correspondent banks through the enactment of morden financial laws that are aligned to lates...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim business prays for credible elections

A CREDIBLE election is the only answer for unlocking foreign investments, economic growth and Zimbabwe's return to prosperity, business lobby groups and industry captains have said.With President Emme...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Mnangagwa bows to Chinese pressure

THE Zimbabwean government has bowed to Chinese pressure and will restore Anjin Investment's operating licence after finalisation of the new diamond policy, nearly three years after the entity was stop...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Petina Gappah targets Mukupe in smear campaign?

LAWYER and writer, Petina Gappah, has reportedly been exposed for meddling in Zanu-PF internal affairs, after she allegedly attempted to use a phantom Twitter character to have Finance deputy minister...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Mukupe in more trouble

FINANCE deputy minister Terrence Mukupe has been taken to court by a Harare-based Chinese construction company, China Industrial International Group, over a $28 000 debt, which arose following the con...

By Staff rpeorter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Millers import Canadian wheat

ZIMBABWE will in two weeks complete a deal with Canadian wheat suppliers for 290 000 metric tonnes of wheat from the North American country up to December 2019.The deal followed a recent visit to Cana...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

EU offers fund to audit Zim's first biometric voters' roll

THE European Union (EU) has offered to provide funding for an audit of Zimbabwe's first biometric voters' roll ahead of this year's general elections, as part of measures to promote transparency and p...

By Staff rpeorter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's anti-corruption charade unravels

FORMER Mines permanent secretary, Francis Gudyanga was yesterday removed from remand by a Harare magistrate in a case in which he is accused of fraudulently facilitating the issuance of a certificate ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa has 18 children

A publication based in the United Kingdom has added to the mystery around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's offspring by claiming the 76-year-old former Zanla combatant has a total of 18 children. The on...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Mnangagwa's office exonerates Undenge

DEPUTY Chief Secretary in the office of the president and cabinet, Ray Ndlukula Tuesday gave his testimony in a case in which former Energy Minister, Samuel Undenge, is accused of abusing his duties s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

OPINION

Mnangagwa needs new PR team

Stuart Doran spent the last 15 years researching and writing about Zimbabwe's early post-independence period, including the Gukurahundi massacres of 1983 and 1984.Sunday Times (ST): You have a PhD in ...

By Sunday Times | Published: 24 May 2018

Gunguwo mocks Mnangagwa

SUPERMODEL and aspiring parliamentarian for Seke Rural constituency, Rairo Gunguwo, has mocked President Emmerson Mnangagwa for what she described as his failure to manage the Zanu-PF primary election...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

School chucks out Tsvangirai's child

The late MDC founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai's child has been chucked out of school for failing to pay school fees. As a result, the mother of the child - born out of wedlock - has through her lawye...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe budget deficit to remain above $1bn

ZIMBABWE'S budget deficit is set to remain above $1 billion despite government's efforts to rein in fiscal spending, economists have said.For years, a persistent fiscal deficit has been the underlying...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Industry mulls forming unified body

Zimbabwe's private sector is planning to set up a unified body to represent its interest, after the collapse of the Business Council of Zimbabwe (BCZ) due to internal bickering. BCZ, which was made up...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

PDP seeks to test ballot paper chemical compositio

TENDAI Biti's People's Democratic Party (PDP) has approached the High Court seeking an order to compel the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to disclose the chemical composition of ballot papers bei...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Processors spend $4,6 million on deboned meat

MEAT processors imported 5 800 tonnes of mechanically deboned meat valued at $4,6 million between January and November 2017.Mechanically deboned meat (MDM), the main ingredient in processed meats and ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

BUSINESS NEWS

Hwange Colliery board shake up on the cards

TROUBLED Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed Hwange Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) will by the end of next week have a new-look board of directors, Mines minister Winston Chitando has said.The new board c...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Zanu-PF bigwigs in public spat

ZANU-PF Harare provincial women's league chairperson, Ratidzo Mukarati and Kuwadzana legislature Betty Nhambu-Kaseke were reportedly involved in a public spat recently during a meeting to discuss the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Local firm to print ballot papers

THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will print ballot papers for the forthcoming general elections locally, amid indications that Government Printers is a firm favourite to do the job ahead of Fid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

APA defends one on one campaign strategy

THE Nkosana Moyo-led Alliance for People's Agenda (APA) has defended its one-on-one campaign strategy, saying it was more effective and interactive than mass rallies.APA spokesperson, Nyaradzo Charidz...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Police, Zanu-PF supporters clash

UGLY scenes were the order of the day at Zanu-PF's headquarters in Harare yesterday, as riot police officers crushed demonstrations by hordes of ruling party supporters, over the alleged imposition of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

POLITICS

Khupe shocked

THOKOZANI Khupe's breakaway faction of the MDC-T has expressed shock over police's failure to arrest suspected party hooligans, who verbally abused the former Deputy Prime Minister during her Supreme ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 24 May 2018

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