A REGIONAL regulatory body has blocked Dutch paint and coatings firm, AkzoNobel N, from acquiring a stake in the Mauritian and South African subsidiaries of Japanese chemical firm, Kansai Paint Co Ltd...
Varun Beverages Zimbabwe is planning for further capacity expansion, which should see the beverages maker put more production lines in the country, as it seeks to meet growing demand for affordable be...
South Africa is losing more than US$62 billion a year because of illicit financial flows (IFFs), which could be used to fund the building of schools, hospitals and safer roads.This was highlighted at ...
The cooking oil industry has engaged the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to review the weekly allocation of US$500 000 per member at a time when the edible price has more than doubled due to opening up...
Listed cement maker, Lafarge Zimbabwe will soon commission a new vertical roller mill plant at its Manresa complex as it seeks to double its output, CEO Godfrey Ndugwa has said.The launch of the verti...
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed Ambassador Tayerera Faranisi as the new permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry with effect from August...
The stock market made a marginal swing back to negative territory weighed down by losses in Simbisa and Innscor although the market breadth was positive, as stocks remain a safe haven in this crisis p...
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, government is to erect a 40km fence within a month to ensure that no undocumented or infected persons cross the border into South Africa from Zimbabwe and vice ve...
The equities market closed near flat on Thursday after gains in select heavyweight stocks restricted the losses on the benchmark index to just 0.08%.Trading in the heavyweight was not impressive with ...
President Mnangagwa has said that travellers from ‘high risk countries' will be quarantined for 14 days before they can mingle with Zimbabweans as Zimbabwe upped efforts to stop the spread of COVID-...
Government has gazetted a statutory instrument which directs that all classes of deposits in the banking system, should be indexed to treasury bill yields as part of efforts to promote fair compensati...
Lafarge has budgeted US$25 million for its expansion project which will double capacity by year-end 2022. The expansion plan kicked off this morning at a ground-breaking ceremony for a Dry Morta...
THE opposition MDC has defended its MPs who recently attended a government organised pre-budget seminar in Victoria Falls, where an estimated US$5 million was blown in less than a week.Amid a backlash...
ZIMBABWE Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya has called on government to re-align mining laws to decriminalise the possession of gold to increase production by artisanal miners.Speaking at ...
SPEAKER of the National Assembly Jacob Mudenda has kept MDC legislators guessing about whether or not they will be allowed to hold ministers to account in Parliament, saying they will only know their ...
Energy and Power Development Minister Fortune Chasi has proposed a 30-year mandatory prison sentence for vandalising ZESA infrastructure. This comes after the power utility has suffered losses amounti...
Zimbabwe's travel and tourism sector business levels in the first 9 months to September recorded a 5% and 10% drop respectively when compared to the same period last year, with industry officials attr...
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has kept to his word and resisted the temptation to take revenge on former first lady Grace Mugabe who terrorised him in 2017 and also humiliated him last month after her ...
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) deputy governor Jesimen Chipika has urged banks to focus on savings deposits in order to enhance financial support to the productive sectors.Productive sectors of agricu...
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) is using sub-standard business and aviation software instead of recommended enterprise tools owing to the airline's failure to pay service providers, the Zimbabwe Independent can...
A total of 124 new accounts were opened on the Central Securities Depository in September, bringing the total number of accounts that have been opened to 26,845. This is against the historical peak of...
HIGHLANDERS chairperson Kenneth Mhlophe has praised United Kingdom-based radio personality Ezra "Tshisa" Sibanda for his crowd-funding efforts to help the Bulawayo giants. While the Daily News could n...
BOTSWANA Movement for Democracy (BMD) president Sydney Pilane has said Zimbabwe, whose 2018 harmonised elections were disputed, has no moral authority to lead the Sadc Election Observer Mission (Seom)...
The Hwange Thermal Power Station expansion project is now 21 percent complete, with the first unit set to be commissioned by the end of the first quarter next year. This was said by Finance and Econom...
OPPOSITION MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday came face to face with empty hospitals as members of the public now opt for private health centres following the countrywide doctors' industrial action o...