© ON NOVEMBER 4, 2012 the Rainbow Tourism Group (RTG) announced that they had appointed top business executive Tendai Madziwanyika as the new chief executive as it sought to return to profitability in the next financial year. [GoogleAd] Until Madziwanyika’s appointment, RTG finance director Paschal Changunda had been acting since the departure of Chipo Mtasa…
© THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has called on the country’s monetary authorities to rein in runaway inflation and the fall of the local currency against major currencies as local companies are once again headed for closure. [GoogleAd] Industry has been struggling to operate due to foreign currency shortages, an unstable economic environment, inconsistent…
© CORRUPTION has over the past two decades decimated the country’s economy. [GoogleAd] Ordinary folks have bore the brunt of corruption with those in positions of power diverting resources to benefit a few individuals and perpetuating inequalities and vulnerability, subjecting the weak to poverty and stripping them of their dignity. While corruption will never disappear…
© GOVERNMENT ministers had a torrid time in Parliament last week as opposition legislators grilled them over rising abductions of political activists. [GoogleAd] In the Senate, MDC Senator for Manicaland Douglas Mwonzora was the first to raise the matter, asking the government what it was doing to end the abductions. “My question is directed to…
© The health sector has been dogged by a myriad challenges, including shortages of drugs, equipment and foreign currency which have translated into exorbitant fees, with footprints of bad economy written all over. . . [GoogleAd] TAURAI Ncube (not his real name), a thin, wiry, middle-aged man gazed into the horizon after the doctors handed…
© CIVIL servants in rural areas have bemoaned the slow pace of the ongoing biometric registration exercise saying it was now adversely affecting their work. [GoogleAd] The biometric registration is being implemented by the Civil Service Commission with the assistance of the World Bank and is part of efforts to weed out ghost workers and…
© LADY Chevrons quick Nomatter Mutasa is over the moon after she tied the knot with her long-time sweetheart Dylan Ziyambi in Kwekwe last weekend. [GoogleAd] The wedding ceremony attracted some of the big names in cricket including some of Mutasa’s teammates. Lady Chevrons captain Mary-Anne Musonda was the maid of honour, speed merchant Josephine…
© SOUTH Africa’s opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has boastfully claimed that the party’s leader Julius Malema was the one who knocked sense into the Zanu PF government to accept that the late former president Robert Mugabe be buried at his rural Zvimba home. [GoogleAd] Malema angered Zanu PF last week when he accused…
© ALTHOUGH she finished in 59th place out of 70 participants, Zimbabwe’s Andie Kuipers is pleased with her effort at the Triathlon World Championships in Lausanne, Switzerland in late August. [GoogleAd] The Zimbabwean was making her debut at the event and clocked a time of 01:11:20 while the Italian duo of Beatrice Mallozzi and Costanza…
© People should stop using e-cigarettes, especially those with marijuana ingredient tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), US public health officials recommended on Friday, as an investigation into illnesses and deaths related to vaping deepens. [GoogleAd] E-cigarettes have been marketed as tools to help smokers quit, but rising use among youth in the United States and a spate of…
