BUSINESS NEWS

Varun Beverages in expansion drive

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 September 2023

ASIA PACIFIC

Oil price resurgence has further to run

When crude surges above US$90 a barrel and the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Russia get on the phone to congratulate each other on a job well done, oil consumers should take note.After half a year in th...

By Bloomberg | Published: 12 September 2023

AMERICAS

US dollar starts week under pressure

The dollar's record hot streak came under threat yesterday as Asia's biggest central banks took aim in different ways at the recent rally in the greenback.The People's Bank of China gave a strong warn...

By Bloomberg | Published: 12 September 2023

Shortage of oil refineries haunts Africa as fuel prices rocket

A shortage of oil refineries across sub-Saharan Africa coupled with soaring crude prices because of the war in Ukraine has left countries dangerously short of fuel supplies, disrupting airlines and ca...

By Staff reporter | Published: 02 June 2022

BUSINESS NEWS

Tax breaks for renewable energy investors as govt launches new policy

Government has dangled a carrot to potential investors in the renewable energy sector by giving tax breaks as well as awarding national project status for such ventures.This is contained in the new en...

By Staff reporter | Published: 19 March 2020

BUSINESS NEWS

COVID-19: Zimbabwe places restrictions on visitors from high risk countries

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-...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 March 2020

ECONOMC INDICATORS

Zimstat says Zimbabwe unemployment rate at 16%

About 1.2 million people in Zimbabwe have given up on securing employment, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) has said as it reported that the national unemployment rate stood at 16 per...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 March 2020

ZSE TODAY

Old Mutual falls 19.91% after Mthuli removes fungibility

Old Mutual Limited fell 19.91% on Monday as the stock market reacted to Government's latest measures to stabilise the exchange rate.  Yesterday, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development s...

By Staff reporter | Published: 16 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

Mnangagwa's govt suspends fungibility on dual-listed shares

Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube has suspended fungibility on dual listed shares for a period of twelve months as part if efforts to stabilise the exchange rate. This comes as go...

By Staff reporter | Published: 15 March 2020

ZIMBABWE

SecZim to audit fungible shares trading amid 'cheating' reports

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe says it will undertake an audit of all transaction inflows on dual listed shares that were consummated with effect from June 1, 2019. This comes amid...

By Staff reporter | Published: 12 March 2020

CONSTRUCTION & PROPERTY

Lafarge to double capacity after launching US$25m expansion project

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 March 2020

POLITICS

Mnangagwa woos Gamatox, G40 big guns

IT HAS emerged that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's close confidantes have been meeting and "exchanging notes" with some of the leading lights of Zanu-PF's vanquished Gamatox and Generation 40 factions...

By Staff reporter | Published: 29 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Fuel prices remain unchanged

THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) said on Saturday that the country's fuel prices remain unchanged for this week, much to the relief of motorists used to weekly price increases. This i...

By Staff reporter | Published: 22 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Energy ministry secretary grilled over Zesa rebundling, tariffs

MINISTRY of Energy secretary Gloria Magombo was yesterday grilled by Parliament over issues of rebundling of Zesa with MPs questioning why an institution that was recently unbundled was now being rebu...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zesa announces more load shedding

ZIMBABWEANS should brace for worse load shedding following "severe supply constraints" being experienced at South African power utility Eskom. The national power utility advised consumers about the la...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

POLITICS

Mnangagwa, Chamisa under immense pressure to dialogue

President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa have come under immense pressure to dialogue Zimbabwe's way out of the economic meltdown with analysts saying that was the only soluti...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Zimbabwe govt starts pilot run for new accounting system

The government has started a pilot run of the new accounting system for its entities as it moves to professionalise the public sector, Business Times can report.Zimbabwe has adopted the International ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Energy Perm sec under ZACC probe

The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) is probing Gloria Magombo, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Energy and Power Development on allegations that she has been drawing a salary fr...

By Staff reporter | Published: 18 October 2019

ZSE TODAY

Rising market activity sees 124 new accounts opened on the CSD in September

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...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

POLITICS

Zanu-PF, MDC big guns push for Mnangagwa, Chamisa talks

MANY Zimbabweans have welcomed the tentative moves to end months of political brawling in the country between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa - through the holding of...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

BUSINESS NEWS

Hundreds attend Bulawayo Amazing Voices auditions

AUDITIONS for the Zimbabwe leg of the Old Mutual Amazing Voices singing competition kicked off in Bulawayo at the Large City Hall yesterday with hundreds flocking the venue to try their luck. Among th...

By Staff reporter | Published: 17 October 2019

Grace Mugabe's problems mount by the day

FORMER first lady Grace Mugabe risks losing one of the properties that forms part of her family's sprawling residence in Harare's leafy suburb of Borrowdale famously referred to as the Blue Roof follo...

By Staff reporter | Published: 14 October 2019

POLITICS

Zimbabwe 'killer soldiers' facing the gun

IN A surprise development, a close confidante of President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the long-awaited prosecution of soldiers who killed innocent civilians in August last year will begin next year, the ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

MINING & RETAIL

Colliery bounces back to profitability

HWANGE Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) is on the rebound after posting a profit of $3,5 million in the first half of 2019, recovering from a loss of $23 million recorded in 2018.The troubled firm had ...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019

TELECOMS & TECHNOLOGY

Govt to unveil electronic fuel monitoring

The government is fast pushing for the introduction of electronic monitoring devices for the petroleum industry as part of measures to reduce arbitrage opportunities in the fuel sector, Energy and Pow...

By Staff reporter | Published: 11 October 2019
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