Botswana lures Zim companies
Business Reporter
THE Botswana Export Development and Investment Authority (Bedia) has invited Zimbabwean companies to participate at
Sweet music for sugar-cane growers
Business Reporter
SUGAR-CANE farmers under the Successful Rural Sugar Cane Farming Community in the Lowveld are expected to rake in
Be innovative to remain viable, insurance sector urged
From Walter Muchinguri in Bulawayo
THE insurance industry has been challenged to be innovative to remain viable as the economy continues on a recovery path
Namibia oil explorer expects to secure rig
LONDON. – Namibia-focused oil explorer Chariot Oil & Gas expects to secure a rig to start drilling its first well before the end of
Tanzania’s growth to surpass 6pc
DAR ES SALAAM. – Tanzania’s growth this year may exceed the 6 percent forecast earlier due to the strong performance of its
Disposals, mergers dominate market
SINCE the beginning of the year, the market has experienced a number of disposals, mergers and acquisitions as companies
ZSE’s index shrinks on global financial crisis
Bright Madera Senior Business Reporter
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange’s mainstream index has lost 4,3 percent since the beginning of the year as foreign investors
NSSA mulls pensions review
Business Reporter
THE National Social Security Authority is considering lobbying the Government to review upwards the statutory maximum
‘Gay rights’ — we hear you PM
Tomorrow marks that tragic day in Zimbabwean history when in 1965 during this eleventh month (“the month of the goat declared sacred by our people), on the eleventh day and eleventh hour, the renegade Rhodesian leader Ian Douglas Smith proclaimed the Unilateral Declaration of Independence.
History has since shown that Smith’s defiance was done on a day set aside to remember their kith and kin that fell in the 20th century’s two world wars.
With this unilateral act, he extended the quarrel started by his ancestors when they colonised Zimbabwe in 1890. This week, I look at a current issue in the context of UDI, and why it continues to be a devil in our
Designer changes perception on Chinese fashion
HONG KONG. – Like the rags she turned into clothes for her siblings in Hong Kong, Chinese-American designer Vivienne Tam


