Let’s turn our abundant sunshine into energy

The sun provides a huge amount of energy and this energy is fully renewable, free and available approximately six to eight hours per day. The sun does not have to be shining fully to provide this light energy and can still generate power on cloudy days. In Zimbabwe, we have an abundance of good quality sunshine throughout most of the year and this can be utilised as

Local firm courts Austrian investor

Business Reporter
A local company has entered into a partnership with an Austrian pipe manufacturing firm, Hobas Pipe System, to establish a U$50 million plant in the country this year. The local firm, Dzinza Rangu Holdings, specialises in the marketing and distribution

Improve exporters’ incentives, ZimTrade tells Govt

Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ZIMTRADE has called upon the Government to improve on trade incentives for local manufacturers. ZimTrade chief executive officer Ms Sithembile Pilime told a recent ZimTrade Exporters Conference that the Government needed to offer regionally

Inflation declines

Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S headline consumer inflation declined by 0,3 percent to 4 percent in March. At 4 percent it remains one of the lowest in the Southern Africa region. The year-on-year inflation rate declined 0,3 percent from the February rate of 4,3 percent,

Potraz okays mobile phone tariffs

Business Reporter
THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulation Authority of Zimbabwe says there is no need for a downward review of charges being levied by mobile telecommunications service providers on their clients. This was revealed in a feedback report that was

Michelle Obama responds to Beyonce’s letter

TWO days after diva Beyonce (30) wrote a heartfelt and handwritten thank you letter on her official website, US First Lady Michelle Obama (48) responded via Twitter last Friday. “Thank you for the beautiful letter and for being a role model who kids everywhere can look up to,” Obama told Knowles. In her letter, Knowles praised Obama for being “the ultimate example of a

Savannah Afros to dazzle at Hifa

Arts Correspondent
THE Harare International Festival of the Arts, this year running from May 1-6, will have a wide variety of artistic offerings to titilate the art-loving palate. One of the premier attractions will be the Coca-Cola Green Stage that will have an eclectic mix of

A call to praise and worship

Edgar Moyana Christian Entertainment
Ebenezer World Outreach Ministry (EWOM), a Christian organisation based in Harare, will on Friday launch a two-day interdenominational outreach programme titled “Call to Worship Africa” that will be held at the Harare International

Bobby Brown pleads not guilty to drunk driving

Los Angeles. — Whitney Houston’s ex-husband Bobby Brown has pleaded not guilty to a charge of drunk driving and driving on a suspended licence in Los Angeles last month. Brown (43), a singer with the 1980s boy band New Edition, did not appear in court for Monday’s hearing and his plea was entered by his lawyer. A pre-trial hearing was set for May 16. The singer was

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