CAPTAINS of industry scrambled to engage government this week after a debilitating power crisis escalated, threatening over 200 companies. (more…)

MORE than 300 home seekers at the centre of one of many controversial residential land allocations in Harare risk losing over US$200 000 in an intriguing case of double allocations. (more…)

IN between the usually hot debates in the National Assembly and the rather lukewarm Senate sittings, legislators will from next week convene in smaller groups for committee meetings as they exercise their oversight role. (more…)

GOVERNMENT has begun the process of allowing the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to discontinue its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), which has effectively been dysfunctional due to the country’s inability to control money supply. (more…)

CIVIL society organisations have ratcheted up pressure on President Robert Mugabe to expedite the appointment of the National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC), which should have been established more than two years ago. (more…)

THE Zimbabwe government on Tuesday said that more than 60 percent of the country’s 13 million people have no access to electricity as the country struggles to meet demand, accelerating deforestation and woodland degradation. (more…)

The European Union will support Zimbabwe’s efforts to gain approval for its strategy to repay its external arrears at a meeting of international creditors next month, but says the country must ‘walk the talk’ and implement the promised reforms which it said could be painful. (more…)

THE World Bank has set aside a US$6,5 million grant to enhance the business environment in the country and a further US$5 million to promote e–procurement in government, World Bank Senior Financial Management Specialist,  has said. (more…)

ZIMBABWE’S Parliament is expected to debate retirement benefits for the country’s top civil servants, which are now likely to increase as government seeks to take good care of its pensioned Statesmen, the Financial Gazette can report. (more…)

AT least 90 percent of houses in Zimbabwe do not have title deeds, which means most homeowners cannot leverage on their properties in the event that they want to secure loans from the country’s banks. (more…)