© ZIMBABWE’S business sector has adopted a wait-and-see approach as a strategy to survive the country’s worsening economic conditions, a local research firm has said. [GoogleAd] The southern African country is experiencing its worst economic crisis in a decade characterised by lack of investor confidence in the new government, foreign currency shortages, rising prices of…
© IT’S NOT every day that an ordinary Zimbabwean feasts on a meal of two pieces of chicken and a soft drink from one of the country’s top fast food outlets due to the tough economic situation that has left many in the country living from hand to mouth. [GoogleAd] This was the reward on…
© THE government’s ambition to achieve a US$12 billion mining industry by 2023 is feasible only if tangible operating and business reforms are swiftly undertaken, says mining and economic experts. [GoogleAd] Launching the extractive industry roadmap to 2023 in the capital about a fortnight ago, the Mines and Mining Development ministry said mining revenues would…
© BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) has been forced to urgently commence work on repairing 38 boreholes around the city after it extended water rationing from 48 hours to 72 hours last Tuesday. [GoogleAd] Bulawayo Town Clerk, Christopher Moyo said the local authority had awarded the contract to a company which is already on the ground,…
© THERE are a number of strikes or “job actions” that are being undertaken in Zimbabwe. The most significant of these has been an over a month long junior doctors strike at a majority of our State- owned referral hospitals. [GoogleAd] This has also played out very badly in the public discourse with government issuing…
© THE Zimbabwe Republic Police have arrested four men in Nyabira suspected of poaching and illegally possessing firearms. [GoogleAd] According to police spokesperson Paul Nyathi, on October 22 at around 0300hrs, the four went to a farm in Nyabira driving a Mazda B1800 and Peugeot 504 and were intercepted by two alert security guards while…
© ONCE dubbed the Sunshine City, Zimbabwe’s capital Harare stinks to high heavens — garbage is strewn all over, threatening all kinds of disease, while burning trash is polluting the environment. [GoogleAd] The garbage menace and its unattended damage to human life and the environment could have been a thing of the past in the…
© ENERGY minister Fortune Chasi has called on banks to invest in solar energy by financing entrepreneurs and residents to set up their own commercial and domestic solar energy infrastructure. [GoogleAd] Speaking at the Financial Gazette Annual Energy Innovations Summit recently, Chasi said: “I want to call upon financial services to get involved in…
© WHILE President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rise to power was premised on his pledge to fight corruption the same way China has done, the reality on the ground paints a different picture, analysts say. [GoogleAd] Since ascending to the Chinese Communist Party general secretary position in late 2012, Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign has targeted widespread graft…
© NORTON Member of Parliament (MP) Temba Mliswa told parliamentarians last week that government is wasting millions of dollars on fruitless re-engagement efforts instead of making significant reforms and channelling the funds to depressed sectors of the economy such as health. [GoogleAd] President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s under pressure government has so far hired two top American…
