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…
Masimba Makwembere THE police have confirmed the arrest of three suspected drug traffickers who were found transporting more than 120 kilogrammes of dagga along the Beitbridge-Bulawayo Road. Police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the arrest yesterday, further revealing that one of the suspects is a foreign national. “The ZRP confirms the arrest of a foreign…
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…
SPORTS WRITER Chicken Inn………………………………0 Scotland………………………………(1)2 GOALS in either half from the Musona brothers, Knowledge and Walter, helped champions Scottland outclass an out-of-sorts Chicken Inn two-nil in a Castle Lager Premier Soccer League match played at Barbourfields Stadium yesterday. Scottland’s win saw them close in on log leaders Hardrock, with Mabviravira now on 27 points, two…
TOMORROW, as the rhythmic pulse of Africa Day echoes from the Cape to Cairo, it is time to silence the empty rhetoric of “Pan-Africanism” and face a devastating reality. Africa is a giant shackled by the hands of its own architects. For decades, our leaders have stood on podiums draped in flags of independence, yet…
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…
ZIMBABWE stands at a critical industrial crossroads, balancing a legacy of power deficits against a future of aggressive liberalisation and green energy. Speaking to Group Editor-In-Chief Guthrie Munyuki in his widely followed news and current affairs programme, Vantage, on leading national independent commercial television station, 3Ktv, on Thursday, renowned economist and businessman Eddie Cross breaks…
RUTENDO NGARA THE heavy, sweet scent of cured tobacco leaf usually signals the arrival of the “golden” season for Zimbabwe’s rural communities, bringing with it the promise of liquid cash and economic renewal. This year, however, the air inside the bustling Willowvale auction floors is thick with an entirely different, volatile emotion: pure, unadulterated fury….
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…
