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Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ZIMBABWEAN businesses have been urged to minimise the incidence of fraud in their organisations by effectively screening the employees they hire.
The call was made by Security Association of South Africa president Ms Jenny Reid at the inaugural Securitex Risk Management Conference in Harare
WHO proposals will render 30 million jobless
Rodney Ambrose
With the global economy stuck in neutral and world leaders struggling to find the right blend of policies to jumpstart long-term growth, you would think every bureaucrat from Accra to Zurich would be tasked with helping to resolve the crisis. Yet a handful of international regulators in Geneva —
Zimnat introduces SMS insurance facility
ONE of Zimbabwe’s oldest insurance companies Zimnat Life Assurance Lion has introduced an instant SMS vehicle insurance facility as the company moves in line with the Information Communication Technology revolution that is changing how most companies are marketing their products.
IMF hails Zim turnaround efforts
Business Reporter
THE International Monetary Fund’s executive board has applauded Zimbabwe for its efforts to turn around the economy and urged the Government to make full and prompt settlement of its overdue financial obligations to the Bretton Woods institution. Zimbabwe owes the IMF’s Poverty
Ethanol: Locals get raw deal
The Government wants the Chisumbanje Ethanol Plant in Chipinge to increase the number of locals it employs. The plant, initially a Build Operate and Transfer arrangement between Green Fuel and the Agricultural and Rural Development Authority, ceased operations after running out of storage space
Telecel promo deal turns sour
Business Reporter
LOCAL private firm Mobile Connexion and pan-African mobile telecommunications auxiliary services provider Jet Telecomms are demanding more than US$340 000 from Telecel Zimbabwe after a business partnership proposal went sour. The two firms claim they were “the brains” behind Telecel’s
Govt reassures farmers
Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
GOVERNMENT has come up with a broad framework to support farmers during the forthcoming season, with focus on assisting communal farmers and clearing outstanding debts for last year’s inputs and grain deliveries. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph Made
Platinum giants comply with indigenisation law
Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
THE three biggest foreign platinum mining companies have submitted acceptable empowerment proposals, Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere has said. Minister Kasukuwere, who was speaking in Beijing, said Government was happy with the
Winky D’s death a hoax
Arts Correspondent
Popular dancehall artiste Winky D is alive and well, his manager Jonathan Banda has said, and rumours of his death are false. Reports were abound at the weekend that Winky D, real name Wallace Chirumiko, had died in a road accident, while returning from a show. Some of his fans took to
Exhibiting for a worthy cause
Jonathan Mbiriyamveka Entertainment Reporter
Tambira Arts will hold an exhibition titled “Raising the Roof” at Dominic Benhura’s Studios in Greendale on Saturday. The exhibition, featuring urban art and African-inspired prints by American artist Carol Jenkins, will be officially opened by David Abell, Charge d’Affaires of the United States of