EDUCATION

Zimche bemoans decline of education quality

THE Zimbabwe Council for Higher Education (Zimche) has expressed concern over the sharp decline in the quality of graduates churned out by local universities.Speaking during a Higher and Tertiary Edu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Mphoko opens LOGIC

Vice President Phekezela Mphoko has implored local authorities and other public entities to adopt good corporate governance and greater accountability in order to reduce poverty and create wealth amon...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

CZI honours excelling companies

SEVERAL companies scooped awards of excellency at the just-ended 2017 Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) congress here. Retail chain Metro Peech and Browns landed the company of the year title...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Cut freebies for executives, says IDBZ

The Government and the private sector should stop giving freebies to top executives and harness resources for infrastructure projects that will support economic growth, veteran economist, Mr Thomas Zo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Cash, RTGS gap widens

The gap between cash in circulation and virtual balances is seen widening despite initiatives to boost foreign currency earnings through exports, driven by speculative cash hoarding and the externaliz...

By Staff reporte | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Victoria Falls seeks investors

Victoria Falls Town Council is looking for business investors across different fields, as the resort town continues to face difficulties in raising capital for its own development.The resort town's ma...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim to implement ease of doing business reforms

AT least five regulatory authorities have started implementing some of the reforms recommended under the rapid results initiative (RRI) for the ease of doing export business.A ZimTrade monthly report ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Seek ZDF artisanal skills, says Sekeramayi

THE Minister of Defence, Dr Sydney Sekeramayi, has invited communities with ongoing projects to approach the Zimbabwe Defence Forces for assistance with artisanal skills as that is part of their non-m...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

POLITICS

Mphoko supports local businesses

VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko was one of the first customers to visit the newly opened Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) outlet in Bulawayo on Sunday.In an interview, the Vice President said he visited...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

'Local content for 13 sectors'

THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has proposed local content regulations on products or operations of foreign firms in 13 sectors including mining, agriculture, manufacturing, energy and touris...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Civil Service Commission suspends retrenchments

THE Civil Service Commission has frozen the rationalisation exercise in the public service that sought to reduce the Government wage bill, it has emerged.CSC chairperson Dr Mariyawanda Nzuwa yesterday...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

EDUCATION

Jonathan Moyo reverses private schools closure

THE Government has described as null and void the immediate closure of 251 private and independent training institutions over non-compliance with operational and registration statutes, conceding that ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare to recruit 300 municipal police officers

Harare City Council has resolved to recruit an additional 300 municipal police officers to enforce the ban on pushcarts in the central business district as the local authority moves to bring sanity in...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Meet Southern Africa's billionaires

There are 11 billionaires from the Sadc region on this year's Forbes list of 25 billionaires on the African continent.The list, released in March, showed that Mohammed Dewji of Tanzania is still the y...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Bimha to lead business delegation to Namibia

INDUSTRY and Commerce Minister Dr Mike Bimha will lead a high-powered business delegation for the Namibia-Zimbabwe Business Forum to be held in Namibia in October.According to ZimTrade a number of Zim...

By Staff reporter | Published: 08 August 2017

EDUCATION

250 illegal colleges shut down

FOUNDATION College, the prestigious Girls College and Dominican Convent High School are part of 251 private and independent training institutions which have been closed with immediate effect for non- ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Redan IT manager dies in car crash

An Information Technology manager with Redan Petroleum (Pvt) Ltd, Emmanuel Posherai, died in a head-on collision in Tanzania on Saturday evening. He was 32.Posherai had travelled to Tanzania to collec...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Bureau Veritas rejects $182m unsafe imports

BUREAU Veritas, a global standards firm contracted by the Government to carry out consignment based assessment of imports, has rejected $182 million worth of sub-standard goods destined for Zimbabwe s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zim can increase Comesa market share

ZIMBABWE has the potential to increase its market share in the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) and Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) for engineering, building and co...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

High rentals choke companies

HIGH rentals have been cited as one of the negative factors that repel potential investors resulting in a high number of vacant properties in major cities.The Deputy Minister of Industry and Commerce,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Harare airport to undergo major upgrade

Harare International Airport will undergo various upgrades to accommodate the growing demand for air travel, both domestically and internationally.Top government officials said the focus was not only ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 07 August 2017

POLITICS

Grace Mugabe, Mnangagwa rift widens

First lady Grace Mugabe's onslaught against Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is part of a strategy to undo gains made by the veteran politician in Zanu-PF's fluid battle to succeed President Robert M...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Vic Falls seeks investment partnerships

VICTORIA Falls Municipality is seeking investment partnerships with local and foreign companies keen to participate in a number of multi-million dollar developmental projects in the resort town.Mayor,...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

$100m for Harare high-rise apartments

Government has given Harare City Council the green light to float a US$100 million bond for the construction of high-rise apartments in keeping with President Mugabe's counsel to optimise land use.Tow...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 August 2017

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe warned over expenditure

The government should stop unbudgeted expenditure because it makes domestic borrowing very expensive for local industry and leads to productivity constraints as well as lack of competitiveness, analys...

By Staff reporter | Published: 06 August 2017

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