HARARE – Zimbabwe tobacco farmers have so far earned $315 million from the sale of 112 million kilogrammes (kg) of the golden leaf since the beginning of this year’s selling season in March. Figures released by the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board yesterday showed that farmers who sold their crop at auction floors earned $81…
HARARE – London Stock Exchange-listed low-cost airline Fastjet has embarked on a recruitment drive as the company moves to establish operations in Zimbabwe. “We are growing quickly and are on the lookout for talented people to implement our business model and be part of our team,” said the airliner on Thursday. The available vacancies, which…
HARARE – Zimbabwe National Farmers Union (ZNFU) says the decline in agriculture production is due to most farmers’ lack of collateral. Edward Dune, ZNFU’s executive director told Parliament this week that close to 90 percent of farmers in the country are in need of security to enhance their chances of borrowing for investment purposes. “Local…
HARARE – Deflationary pressures in Zimbabwe continue to persist with the country’s annual inflation shedding 1,45 percentage points to -2,65 percent in April form -1,20 percent recorded in March. Latest figures from Zimstat show that the year on year food and non-alcoholic beverages inflation prone to transitory shocks stood at -2,93 percent whilst the non-food…
EDITOR — The MDC has been totally taken aback by the crude and bizarre remarks that were made by Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko in Masvingo last Thursday regarding the Gukurahundi genocide. What we find totally appalling is the fact that this is the second time in as many months that Mphoko has uttered irresponsible, insensitive…
HARARE – The Sports and Recreation Commission (SRC) stance of warning the Zimbabwe cricket team against travelling to Pakistan is a welcome move. But Zimbabwe Cricket (ZC) is adamant that the tour will go ahead despite the escalating terrorist attacks that have been taking place in the south Asian country in recent weeks. The SRC,…
HARARE – After hibernating for the past five months since she underwent an appendix operation in Singapore late last year, First Lady Grace Mugabe is once again flexing her considerable political muscles after she summoned provincial ministers to a meeting at her Mazowe business hub. However, the meeting — that was supposed to take place…
HARARE – Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko yesterday made a damaging faux pas when he made a slogan extolling former VP Joice Mujuru. Sloganeering at a rally in Hurungwe West yesterday, Mphoko shocked delegates after he unwittingly chanted the slogan “Pamberi na (Forward with) President Robert Mugabe! Pamberi naDr Joice!” Just after blurting out the fatal…
HARARE – Home Affairs deputy minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has said police are still searching for abducted human rights activist Itai Dzamara. Ziyambi told senators on Thursday that the police still have no leads on Dzamara’s whereabouts. “So, the police have been sending appeals to anyone with information, to bring it forward so that the culprits…
HARARE – Liberation struggle stalwart Rugare Gumbo (pictured) says Zimbabweans who hold an increasingly dim view of both the future of the country and post-congress Zanu PF are justified to do so as President Robert Mugabe is now “evidently” no longer capable of keeping the “centre together”. In an interview with the Daily News yesterday,…
