adminTime to tackle maternal deaths head-on
ZWRCN Desk Women EmpowermentWith a population close to 13 million, Zimbabwe has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Africa. It is estimated by the Zimbabwe Demographic and Health Survey that the maternal mortality rate in Zimbabwe has risen from 700 to a
ZSE shares lose 0,41pc
Business ReporterSHARES on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange lost 0,41 percent on Friday to 129,90 points on losses in heavyweight stocks. Trades were much lighter with turnover dropping 71 percent to US$658 242 as volumes fell by 40 percent to 9,6 million shares. Foreign
Maize import bill set to balloon
Tawanda Musarurwa Business ReporterThe anticipated drop in maize output is set to push up Zimbabwe’s import bill by more than US$100 million, a Harare economist said last Friday. The negative food crop output for the current season will have negative implications for the broader
Exxaro mulls expanding DRC iron ore project
Exxaro Resources Ltd, a South African coal company, is studying speeding up an iron-ore project in the Republic of Congo after its 20 percent stake in a mine producing the commodity contributed more than half its earnings last year. “We’re looking at the geology, the plans, the product, the possible start date, the size,” chief executive officer Sipho Nkosi said in an interview inKenya tops in investment projects
A report by financial advisory Ernst & Young ranks Kenya top among countries with highest growth in new investment projects into Africa in the last four years to 2011. According to the report, African Attractiveness Survey, released on Friday last week Kenya beat South Africa and Nigeria in the outward growth.New projects from Kenya and Nigeria into the rest of the continent
No more white elephants, please
Jeff Gogo Climate StoryTHERE are several policy blunders that Zimbabwe has scored since 1980, which for lack of other progressive options, can be forgiven. The ongoing careless human-sponsored disasters in the ethanol fuel industry is not one of them. As a nation, we
Cotton farmers, buyers deadlocked over price
Business ReporterLOCAL cotton farmers and merchants reached a deadlock over this year’s minimum cotton producer price last Friday and were due to meet the Government to help break the impasse, an official said. Buyers are offering US35c per kilogramme for the
Telecel to expand network coverage
ORASCOM Telecom Holdings has said its local unit, Telecel Zimbabwe, will expand its network to cover at least 85 percent of the country. Orascom has invested US$70 million in the company, which is expected to cover expansion, currently at 58 percent, and upgrading of both voice and data services to ensure Telecel’s clients are able to access a wider range of mobile
1 200ha tourism park for Vic Falls
Business Reporter
Government has acquired 1 200 hectares of land in Victoria Falls for the construction of a tourism park as the country gears for the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly meeting next year. Zimbabwe will co-host the world tourism
Minister blasts parastatal bosses
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
MOST State-owned firms are being run by incompetent managers as evidencec by their failure to come up with meaningful restructuring proposals, State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Gorden Moyo has said. This has prompted Government to