Govt allows millers to buy maize

Agriculture Reporter
Government has allowed milling companies to buy maize from the Grain Marketing Board to raise money to pay farmers. The farmers who delivered their grain last season have not received their

Top SA agency invests in Zim

Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ONE of the world’s leading advertising agencies, the Jupiter Drawing Room (South Africa), has partnered with a local agency, Jericho Advertising, to form the Jupiter Drawing Room (Zimbabwe). Speaking at the launch of the Jupiter Drawing Room (Zimbabwe), Jupiter Drawing Room (South Africa) founder and

Construction sector on the rebound

Stabilisation of the macro-economic environment following the adoption of multiple foreign currencies in 2009 has allowed the construction sector to slowly emerge from the financial crisis of the past decade, attaining a positive growth of 1 percent in 2011 while a 1,5 percent growth is projected this year.

SA’s top-two banks expect double-digit profit growth

JOHANNESBURG. — South Africa’s top two lenders said yesterday they expected profits to rise by around 20 percent, the latest sign banks in Africa’s largest economy are back on the road to recovery after a 2009 recession suppressed credit demand. Standard Bank Group Ltd, Africa’s biggest lender by assets,

Fans eagerly await Tuku-Macheso show

Entertainment Reporter
AS the countdown to the much-hyped gig pitting music icons Oliver Mtukudzi and Alick Macheso hots up, fans of the two artistes eagerly await to hear what new material the artistes will sample for them at the

Suluman billed to perform at Gomojena

Entertainment Reporter
Award-winning singer Suluman Chimbetu is billed to perform at the newly opened Gomojena hangout in Mazowe tomorrow. Sulu, as his fans call him, will head his Orchestra Dendera Kings at the venue that

Too Open invades Holly’s Hotel tonight

Richmore Tera Arts correspondent
TALENTED jazz outfit Too Open, famous for the hit song “Matida Hostels”, will prove why they are one of the jazz groups of the moment when they invade Holly’s Hotel tonight. The group — led by Brian

Pay up or else . . .

Fortious Nhambura Features writer
“Only last week I received a note from ZETDC, the transmission arm of Zesa Holdings, instructing me to pay or get disconnected. What saved me is that I had the meter box secured and locked otherwise

It’s all about ‘action, action, action’

Robert G. Muganda Buy Zimbabwe
The recently ended CEO’s Roundtable held in Victoria Falls should be commended for unanimously calling for a clear national vision for the US$100 billion economy by 2040. Considering the number

Investment firm courts global equity fund

Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
RAIN Tree, a local investment firm, with its eye on a substantial stake in RioZim, is courting international equity fund, Global Emerging Markets, to establish a Mauritius-based fund that will invest

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