November 28, 2024
THE ZANU-PF Women’s League boss, Oppah Muchinguri, and party spokesperson, Rugare Gumbo, are at odds over the former’s announcement of the alleged kidnapping of members of the women’s wing over the past few weeks. As the national mouthpiece of the party, Gumbo took issue with members of the…
THE City of Harare management has come under severe criticism over its planned US$2,9 billion water deal in which a Singaporean firm called Neoparagon will invest in water infrastructure and get the lion’s share of the profits over a period of 30 years. Eyebrows were raised over the…
MUTARE Bottling Company (MBC) has been hit by shortages of glass supply at its soft-drink assembling plant, reducing the supply of some of its products, an official has said. The bottler holds the Coca-Cola franchise for the Manicaland region and in February this year commissioned a new $17…
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is working on a national credit bureau to minimise bad debts in the banking sector. RBZ governor, John Mangudya, said this at the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) annual congress held in Mutare in July. He said the bureau would enhance the…
AIR Zimbabwe (AirZim) resumed flights to the resort town of Kariba on August 1, beginning the difficult task to revolutionarise the destination in a drama-filled week for airlines, as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines and Egyptian Air shocked the market with an announcement that they would be discontinuing direct…
THE Zimbabwe-EU Business Information Centre (Zim-EBIC) was launched on August 1 in Harare. An information hotspot, Zim-EBIC will provide Zimbabwean businesses with easy and convenient access to information about trade with the European Union. The opening ceremony of Zim-EBIC was presided over by Iris Mabuwa, Zimbabwe’s Deputy Minister…
THE race to fill up the vacant vice president position has taken a sharp twist following the opting out of the contest by former deputy president of the Senate, Naison Ndlovu, who had been named as possible contender for the position. A Politburo member, who is also the…
A YEAR after the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) was trounced at the July 31, 2013 harmonised elections, the ruling ZANU-PF party is still to find the winning formula needed to slam the brakes on a failing economy. According to estimates provided by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade…
FINANCE Minister Patrick Chinamasa has indicated that government is contemplating closing several loss-making parastatals, which he said were hurting economic recovery through perennial dependence on the fiscus. Chinamasa, who was addressing an Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe Winter School in the resort town of Victoria Falls, said…
BRUCE Grobbelaar has taken a gig as a keeper coach with a professional Canadian outfit. Grobbelaar — a former star keeper with Liverpool in the English Premier League and the Zimbabwe national team— came to terms with the Ottawa Fury FC of the North American Soccer League on…
