adminAstra profits bump 167 percent
Business ReporterASTRA Industries posted a US$751 412 profit for the half year ended February 29 2012. Growth in profitability was up 167 percent from the US$281 803 recorded for last year’s corresponding period. Group revenues increased 21 percent from the
My Own Boss roars back into life
Robert Muganda Buy ZimbabweZIMBABWE’S first ever entrepreneurial television reality show, My Own Boss Season 4-Buy Zimbabwe edition, is set to hit the small screen across Africa and parts of Europe in June 2012. It will be screened on ZBC-TV and on free-to-air satellite
Africa Bank AGM opens in Tanzania
NAIROBI. — Africa Development Bank’s annual general meeting began yesterday, with the major theme being “Africa and the Emerging Global Landscape: Challenges and Opportunities”. African ministers of finance and economic development, World Bank representatives and Africa’s privately-owned financial institutions thronged Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, yesterday for theMining sector reforms near completion
Bright Madera Senior Business ReporterZIMBABWE is expected to have concluded the transfer of majority stakes in foreign-owned mining companies to locals by the end of the month. Foreign firms operating in Zimbabwe are required to sell a controlling 51 percent stake to indigenous
Bob Marley sings again in new film
Director Kevin MacDonald has enjoyed a distinguished career making both documentaries — “One Day in September” and “Touching the Void”, among them — as well as feature films such as “The Last King of Scotland”. For his latest non-fiction movie, the 44-year-old MacDonald has taken on iconic Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley in “Marley”, which is currentlyBrace for Big Brother StarGame launch
Entertainment ReporterIT is two days to go before the much-awaited Big Brother StarGame starts on DStv’s channel 198 at 8pm. The show begins on Sunday May 6 and will screen live 24/7 for 91 days. With an attention-grabbing “winner takes all” grand prize of US$300 000 at
‘Courageous’ takes you back in time
Film: CourageousDirector: Alex Kendrick
Cinema: Eastgate
Running time: 126 minutes
Type of film: Inspirational drama
Poets illuminate Hifa
Richmore TeraALTHOUGH music has become the dominant crowd puller at Hifa, there are however other genres that are attracting huge crowds at the festival. One of such genres is poetry, which has emerged from the shadows to become one of the most-followed
Children in for a big treat
Entertainment ReporterCHILDREN will have something to smile about at this year’s Harare International Festival of Arts, where they are expected to take part in a number of activities at the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe. Hifa started in Harare on Tuesday. The Gallery has
Visual artists eye better fortunes
Richmore Tera Arts CorrespondentVISUAL artists who are selling their artifacts at the on-going Harare International Festival of the Arts are confident of reaping better profits this year than in previous years. They said this was largely due to the increased number of people who had