Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR RETAIL giant OK Zimbabwe has suspended employee salaries and wages with immediate effect as part of measures aimed at stabilising the struggling business, which is currently under corporate rescue. According to a resolution of the company’s Joint Works Council dated 22 May 2026, management and workers agreed to halt payroll payments,…
Brandon Josphat POLITICAL EDITOR ZIMBABWE’s opposition movement has been plunged into mourning following the deaths of veteran democracy campaigner Elliot Pfebve and Labour Economists and African Democrats (Lead) president Linda Masarira. Pfebve, who was 57, died in the United Kingdom yesterday after a long battle with colorectal cancer, while Masarira died in Harare on Sunday…
BRIAN Nandana- a 30-year-old inDrive driver who was allegedly killed by his friend in Warren Park suburb last week, was laid to rest yesterday at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare. His funeral service was held at Newstart Children’s Home, where he was raised. Brian’s body was discovered in a shallow grave at Warren Hills…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITE FORMER Allied Timbers chief executive officer and former president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Joseph Kanyekanye’s accomplice, Lucia Kunaka appeared in court on Friday on allegations of forging president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s signature before extorting a business man more than US$600 000. Kunaka was remanded in custody until tomorrow…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER TOBACCO farmers in Matabeleland are targeting to produce two million kilogrammes of the golden leaf during the 2026/27 summer cropping season. This comes amid growing interest in tobacco production across Matabeleland, with hundreds of small-scale farmers taking up the crop under the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board’s (TIMB) natural cured…
ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe’s economy appears to have turned the corner, a full return to the exclusive use of the country’s own currency remains a distant prospect. So says prominent economist and businessman, Eddie Cross, who also prays that the country’s history of political chaos does not scupper the current economic progress. Speaking on Thursday night on…
KUDZANAI GEREDE THE Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) is battling worsening commodity supply shortages, with demand outstripping available stocks across key agricultural products, triggering pricing pressures and weakened agro-industrial supply chains. According to the ZMX latest trading bulletin, the exchange reported severe supply imbalances in maize, wheat and soya beans as buyers struggled to secure adequate…
MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE LOCALLY manufactured products are continuing to gain ground in the country’s retail sector, with the government saying more than two-thirds of goods now found on supermarket shelves are produced locally. The development comes amid ongoing efforts to promote import substitution, strengthen local industry and reduce reliance on imported goods under the government’s industrialisation…
ALMOT MAQOLO ZIMBABWE’ small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are failing to utilise trade remedy safeguards against unfair imports due to low awareness and participation, the Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) said in its Q1 2026 report. Zimbabwe’s long-marginalised SME sector is beginning to receive infrastructural attention that reflects its importance to the economy. SMEs account…
ALMOT MAQOLO ZIMBABWE’ small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are failing to utilise trade remedy safeguards against unfair imports due to low awareness and participation, the Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) said in its Q1 2026 report. Zimbabwe’s long-marginalised SME sector is beginning to receive infrastructural attention that reflects its importance to the economy. SMEs account…
