HARARE – Zimbabwe’s imports ban has created opportunities for the local manufacturing industries to boost their production capacity, a consumer pressure group has said. This was after the government in June imposed an imports ban Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 (SI64) on a number of basic goods, the majority of which pass through South Africa….
HARARE – One of Zimbabwe’s leading cement companies, Lafarge, last week unveiled 85 houses it build for its employees who do not have decent accommodation under a $1,8 million scheme. Lafarge chief executive Amal Tantawi (pictured) said the housing scheme at Adelaide Park in Harare was aimed at reducing the country’s 1,25 million housing backlog…
HARARE – It was a night of disaster for Sound Events Management following a monumental flop in the Toya Delazy concert which took place at the Harare International Conference Centre (HICC) on Friday night. So poor was the attendance that organisers had to make everyone sit in the lower auditorium. There were so many open…
HARARE – The Latter Rain; By Phillip Kundeni Chidavaenzi; Harare, New Heritage Press, 2016. 244 Pages ISBN: 978-0-7974-5784-3 (Paperback) WHEN I read The Ties That Bind some time last year, I thought I had come across the best from Chidavaenzi. There was no way he could produce another gem — so touching in terms of…
HARARE – Rise Above It, By Carol Shereni; Tulsa, CreateSpace Independent Publishers Platform, 2016. 110 Pages ISBN: 978-1-523-207-565 (Paperback) Reviewed by Eddie Zvinonzwa UNITED States-based Zimbabwean Carol Shereni recently released a book Rise Above It — a motivational title mainly targeted at empowering young women between 15 and 35 years of age to rise above…
HARARE – Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed engineering firm, Zeco Holdings, says it is banking on new energy projects in the country to boost its revenues and operations. The group’s chairman, Philip Chiyangwa, yesterday said his company was confident of striking the right cords and return to profitability in the coming few months despite the country’s deteriorating…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s leading gold producer Metallon Corporation (Metallon) picked the perfect quarter to deliver robust production growth. According to the company’s preliminary third-quarter production report, its gold production jumped 18 percent to 26 622 ounces in the three months to September at a time when prices of the precious metal are at their 2016 peak….
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s speech at the National Heroes Acre in Harare yesterday, at the burial of former Cabinet minister Cephas Msipa, was more noteworthy for what he omitted to say rather than his rehearsed tribute to the much-loved and respected nationalist. Many mourners who gathered at the national shrine to bid Msipa farewell…
HARARE – After the barbaric violence of the past few days in the area, many Norton residents appeared to show little enthusiasm for yesterday’s by-election, amid reports of intimidation by Zanu PF supporters in some areas. The overall quiet atmosphere in the constituency was in sharp contrast to the chaos and hive of activity that…
HARARE – As hunger may stalk up to about six million Zimbabweans by January 2017, various organisations have moved in to save multitudes of children from starvation — as both urban and rural populations have been affected. Government — through aid agencies — has begun implementing schools feeding programmes to alleviate hunger of children in…
