Zimasco secures US$35m to resuscitate furnace
The Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company last week said it had secured US35 million capital injection from its largest shareholder, Sino Steels, to revamp furnace number two which was damaged by fire in 2006. The ferrochrome producer currently has five furnaces running. Zimasco marketing and
Promoting corporate social responsibility
Terrence Chimanya Business Correspondent
Corporate social responsibility is defined as the concept whereby business organisations or companies across Zimbabwe consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact
June deadline for power bids
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
final bids for the expansion of Hwange Power Station units 7 and 8 will be submitted next month, says the Government. If all goes according to plan, the construction of a new plant would begin next year.
Liquidity squeeze on stocks persists
Business Reporter
STOCKS opened the week on the backfoot, shedding a marginal 0,08 percent to finish at 130,17 points as the liquidity squeeze continues. Noticeable trades were only seen in Delta where a total of 3,1 million
Air Namibia resumes Windhoek-Harare flights
Walter Muchinguri Assistant Business Editor
AIR Namibia is set to fly into Harare tomorrow, almost 13 years after it suspended service.
The airline last flew to Harare in 1998. An Embraer ERJ-135 aircraft to be used on the direct flight
Retired church minister caught shoplifting sex enhancer
A retired Dutch Reformed church minister has been arrested for shoplifting herbal erection medication from a Pretoria pharmacy. The 60-year-old man paid a R500 admission of guilt fine at the Sinoville Police Station before being released. An employee at the Dischem pharmacy in Wonderboom Junction‘Dying’ wife gives birth
A HUSBAND abstained from having sex with his wife for two years under the impression that his wife was suffering from cancer — and then got the shock of his life when she later gave birth. Thabo Mokgotsi* had feared that his wife Maria* was dying from cancer when an ostensibly cancerous growth turned out toArabs must reduce dependence on US
Dr Mustafa Hajik
The Arab world is deemed combative and confrontational against the United Sates and its policies, but China thinks the same Arab world is depending too much on US support for survival. China believes the Arab world should take a principled
Copac draft: False start presented as ‘new start’
Dr Tafataona Mahoso
The latest draft Constitution from Copac co-chairmen shows that for the MDC formations Copac became a fraudulent “new start centre,” if we understand the concept of a “new start centre” as that donor-funded and donor-driven outfit where people
Youth Participation: A new mode of Govt
Innocent Katsande
Events in the past few months clearly show that our youths now want to be involved in policy matters of governance more than ever before. The young people now want to go further than just fit in. They want to participate than just care about


