adminAdvertisers to benefit from Zimpapers integration
Business Reporter
ADVERTISERS will accrue major benefits from plans by Zimbabwe Newspapers Ltd to become an integrated media house, the company’s chief operating officer, Mr Pikirayi Deketeke, has said. Mr Deketeke was speaking at a breakfast meeting hosted
Afdis earnings surge
Business Reporter
half-year earnings for Afdis, Zimbabwe’s largest wine and spirit maker, rose 68 percent on solid volume growth and margin expansion. Headline earnings were US$1,35c per share in the June to December 2011 first half, up from US0,8c during the
Fiscalised tax registers: Zimra cracks whip
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority has started penalising retailers for failing to install fiscalised tax registers, an official has said.
Under the country’s new tax regulations, enterprises with an annual turnover of US$240 000 are compelled to install the tax registers as a way of enhancing accounting for VAT. The deadline for installing the devices has been deferred several times
The future of business is green
Prechard Mhako Business Correspondent
In an effort to turn around our economy we should not lose sight of the need to adopt sustainable ways of production that limit the destruction of our environment. Our efforts should be on creating a sustainable US$100 billion economy by 2030
CFI expansion drive ‘in full swing’
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
CFI Holdings has embarked on a massive expansion programme designed to improve capacity and efficiency of the group’s operations. In an update of its operations yesterday, chief executive Mr Steve Kuipa said the expansion programme was “in
World Theatre Day preps on course
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre corridors
The International Theatre Institute (Zimbabwe Centre) has decided to the celebrate World Theatre Day on March 26. The day which falls on March 27 and was first commemorated in 1961, is celebrated the world over by national centres of the
China bans foreign shows at primetime
BEIJING. – China’s media regulator has issued new rules banning foreign television shows from being shown at primetime as the country tries to encourage domestic programming, state media reported on Tuesday. Foreign television series must be capped at a total of 50 episodes and the running time for an imported series must not exceed 25 percent of the total time a given channel
The agony of hot-sitting
Farai Kuvirimirwa Features Correspondent
THE bell rings and Takudzwa jostles with other students while he enters the school gate. Mud squirts from under his shoes as he heads westwards to the assembly point. It’s his first day at a Harare high-density suburb secondary school and he is excited
Tobacco sales open on high note
Agriculture Reporters
THE 2012 tobacco-selling season opened in Harare yesterday with the price averaging US$4 per kilogramme.
The bulk of the crop was bought for more than US$ 4per kg, a price that many farmers feel was fair while the industry expressed satisfaction with the quality of the leaf.
Most farmers at all the four auction floors expressed satisfaction at the state of the infrastructure and the service they were getting.
Boka Tobacco Auction Floors, Millennium Tobacco Floors, Tobacco Sales Floor and Premier Tobacco Floor are the licensed floors.
Farmers said they were happy with the ablution, water and health facilities.
When sanitary wear becomes a luxury
Catherine Masunda Features Correspondent
SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD Tinashe Magaya’s parents struggle to feed their offspring and for things like sanitary pads and tampons are luxuries she can not dare ask for. She has devised a way of making her own sanitary pads using pieces of cloth during her