Harare route excites Air Namibia

Business Reporter
AIR Namibia is optimistic about the growth prospects in terms of passengers on the Windhoek-Harare route, which it re-introduced mid last month after 13 years. The airline is using a 37-seater

Barclays complies with indigenisation law

Fanuel Kangondo Acting Business Editor
Barclays Bank Zimbabwe is working on an indigenisation proposal that will effectively transfer the majority ownership of the British-owned bank to locals, officials have said. Following a meeting on

Dozens die in bloody day in Afghanistan

KABUL — Up to 40 civilians were killed in a bloody day across Afghanistan yesterday as a twin suicide bombing laid waste to a crowded makeshift bazaar and a Nato air strike hit a home, Afghan officials said. Twenty-three people were killed and 50 others were wounded in the suicide attack in a car park

Protesters camp out in Cairo’s Tahrir

CAIRO — Dozens of protesters remained in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square yesterday after camping out following a mass demonstration against verdicts handed down in ex-president Hosni Mubarak’s murder trial. Fresh protests were expected in both Cairo and the port city of Alexandria later in the day, to mark

Republican governor survives Wisconsin recall

MILWAUKEE — President Barack Obama’s foes claimed a “momentous victory” after Wisconsin’s union-busting Republican governor survived a recall election aimed at ousting him mid-term. Governor Scott Walker prompted mass protests — and ultimately, Tuesday’s rare special election — after pushing

Editorial Comment: Sell vehicle licences at more post offices countrywide

Between Zinara’s inexperience in the new licensing system and an attitude among about half of Zimbabwe’s motorists not to put off to tomorrow what they can put off to next week or next month, there are a lot of unlicensed vehicles on the road today. The Zimbabwe National Road Administration

US mission in Libya’s Benghazi attacked: Embassy

TRIPOLI — The premises of the US diplomatic mission in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi came under attack during the night, but there were no casualties, embassy and security sources said yesterday.
“There was an attack late last night on the United States office in Benghazi,” a US embassy official said,

Elections and nation’s stability

Albert Nhamoyebonde
Politicians put themselves up for election in order to exercise power to control the levers of the State or just to control the apparatus of State governance. What then happens when a revolution has taken

Zim gets US$11m ACBF grants

Bright Madera Senior Business Reporter
THE Africa Capacity Building Foundation yesterday advanced US$10,8 million in grants to Zimbabwe for various capacity development programmes. South Sudan also received US$2,25 million from the

Zimbabwe Alloys secures US$60 million loan

Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE Alloys Ltd, the country’s second largest ferrochrome producer, has secured US$60 million loan from Global Emerging Markets to rebuild its three furnaces, an official said yesterday. The reconstruction

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