A CABINET minister has defended President Robert Mugabe’s attendance at the G-20 summit which starts Sunday in Turkey saying the Zimbabwean strongman is the only leader who could speak for Africa. (more…)

ZANU-PF’s national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, last week came face to face with irate war veterans in Marondera, the provincial capital of Mashonaland East, where he had gone to stop raging factional fights on Friday. (more…)

CIVIL service bonuses, which created a storm when President Robert Mugabe last year rejected moves by Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa to scrap them, could this year throw government into a financial quandary. (more…)

BULAWAYO — More than 80 lodges operating here have shut down since 2009 due to viability challenges. The closure of the lodges has resulted in 400 workers losing jobs. (more…)

  AMERICAN  multi-national food, snack and beverage corporation, PepsiCo, is to open a multi-million dollar plant in Zimbabwe following the intervention of President Robert Mugabe during his recent trip to India, the Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets has established. (more…)

KADOMA — Combative Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister, Patrick Zhuwao, says the country’s indigenisation law is a piece of legislation based on race, which law specifically seeks to benefit black Zimbabweans at the expense of whites, whom he said were previously “over-advantaged.” (more…)

MERCURIAL former ZANU-PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman, Temba Mliswa, has dismissed media reports that he was itching to rejoin the ruling party as lies. (more…)

A TEAM of ZESA engineers from Chegutu town has gone “AWOL”. A week ago the engineers dutifully attended to a fault at Chimbiya business centre more than 150km west of Harare in Mhondoro-Mubaira, where wooden poles hoisting a transformer were sagging. (more…)

THE boss of Africa's biggest mobile company, MTN, has resigned after the firm received a US$5,2 billion fine from Nigeria. (more…)

THE government will pay bonuses to the army, police this month and stagger payments for the rest of the civil service, a cabinet minister has said. (more…)