ZIMBABWE today joins the rest of the world to mark the World Humanitarian Day under the theme “Share Humanity” as the country faces severe food and water shortages, especially in the southern rural communities where drought is ravaging following poor rains. (more…)

PARLIAMENT on Tuesday overturned an adverse report by its legal committee, which argued against the retrospective application of proposed changes to the Labour Act, as both major parties railroaded amendments to the law that labour experts say will leave it open to challenge and adds more confusion. (more…)

TROUBLED National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) has floated a tender for 50 000 metric tonnes of steel as it seeks to rehabilitate part of its massive web of rotting railway lines. (more…)

GABORONE - Botswana President Ian Khama on Monday accepted the chairmanship of Southern African Development Community (SADC) from his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe in the Botswana’s capital city, Gaborone. (more…)

GOVERNMENT will accelerate the demolition of illegal structures countrywide in a massive operation murambatsvina-style crackdown raging on in Harare in the last few weeks. (more…)

FORMER higher and tertiary education minister Olivia Muchena was recently left homeless after a fire gutted her thatched farmhouse in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East, which she had only occupied for less than two months, the Financial Gazette can exclusively report. (more…)

ZIMBABWE’S fuel pricing has effectively priced the country’s aviation industry out of the market. Investigations by the Financial Gazette have revealed that the pricing of Jet A1 fuel in Zimbabwe has plunged the airline industry in jeopardy, contributing to the unending economic downturn. (more…)

“WHY are people buried at that nice place,” a precocious child asks its father as they drive from the National Heroes Acre in Harare back home. (more…)

GLOBAL steel giants have begun moves to court the troubled Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco), only a few months after rumours of a possible pull out by Indian outfit, Essar Africa Holdings Limited (EAHL), began swirling in the market. (more…)

A CENTRAL bank executive has indicated that government has accelerated efforts to re-engage multilateral institutions to resolve the country’s external debt arrears, which have proscribed it from accessing offshore support to extricate the economy from crisis. (more…)