RBZ cautious on Treasury bills

Tawanda Musarurwa Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE’S fiscal authorities are reluctant to issue paper for fear this could add to present fiscal pressures. An International Monetary Fund’s executive board report brought out the issue following the Article IV consultations it held with the country’s monetary authorities earlier this year.

Ethics foundation for good governance

Bradwell Mhonderwa Business Ethics
SINCE the formation of the inclusive Government, so much has been said and written about the need to institute good corporate governance in businesses. This was justifiably so, as business leaders want the country to turn a new leaf, bury the ills of the past decade and consummate

Search for Zim Black Opal face begins

Brenda Phiri Arts Correspondent
IT was all glitz and glamour when Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe launched its products and a promotion to search for a person who will represent the company in Harare last week. The search for the Black Opal Face of Zimbabwe will begin this month where the winner will endorse cosmetics and skin

Family day delight

Problem Masau Arts Correspondent
The Police Commissioner-General’s Funfair held on Saturday is growing each year judging by the number of people who turned up for this year’s edition. The event lived to its billing as a family day fete, as parents came with their children for a day of fun, where they were treated to different

Masawara suffers US$4,2m loss

Golden Sibanda Business Reporter
LONDON Stock Exchange-listed Masawara plc lost US$4,2 million in the interim period to June 30 2012 on the back of losses in subsidiary and associate companies. Telerix Communications, Zuva Petroleum, Mauritius Energy Limited and Joina City suffered losses in the period under review.

Power tender cancelled

Martin Kadzere Senior Business Reporter
THE State Procurement Board has cancelled the tender for Kariba South’s US$700 million expansion programme, Energy and Power Development Minister Elton Mangoma said yesterday. A Chinese firm, Sino-Hydro, was the sole bidder for the project but failed to win the tender after

‘Marikana probe will be quick, thorough’

RUSTENBURG. — The judicial commission of inquiry into the shootings at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana will conduct its work with speed, retired judge Ian Farlam said in Rustenburg yesterday. However, Farlam said the inquiry would be thorough in its processes, in a bid to extract and

Venezuela’s presidential aspirants to conclude campaigns

CARACAS. — Venezuelan presidential candidates Hugo Chavez and his rival Henrique Capriles on Sunday entered the last stage of their campaigns with rallies held in two of the largest cities, gathering thousands. On his second visit since last July, Chavez, the incumbent president, led a large

African troops enter Somali port of Kismayo

MOGADISHU — Kenyan troops from the African Union force in Somalia entered the southern port of Kismayo for the first time yesterday, witnesses said, three days after launching a beach assault that led Islamist insurgents to withdraw. Local clan militia had filled the streets since Saturday’s rebel

Work-related skin disorders

RESEARCH internationally shows that skin disorders account for more than 35 percent of all occupational diseases. They are believed to affect approximately one in every 1 000 workers, although few cases are reported to NSSA.  The medical term for skin disorders characterised by

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