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Business ReporterGOLD producer New Dawn Mining Corporation has reported record gold production of 37 623 ounces for the year to September 30, 2012. This was a 41 percent improvement from the 26 689 ounces produced in the previous year. As a result, the Toronto Stock Exchange-listed company’s revenues also
Zim slips on ‘Doing Business’ index
Business ReporterZIMBABWE needs to improve its business climate to lure investment after dropping points in most key indicators, to slip two places down the World Bank’s 2013 Global Doing Business rankings to 172. The country lost ground on the global index after failing to garner credit on resolving insolvency,
NSSA loses land worth US$11m
The National Social Security Authority has lost land worth US$11,2 million that it had acquired from four local authorities after failing to develop it within the agreed time frame. NSSA failed to develop some of the land that it had acquired for housing stands due to the hyperinflationaryZim women underpaid: Survey
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Business ReporterZIMBABWEAN women in formal employment are facing discrimination at work as they are getting paid considerably lower salaries than their male counterparts with the same qualifications, studies have shown. According to a recent salary survey conducted by CV People Africa in partnership with
‘Firms flout business ethics’
Business ReporterAlmost 30 percent of employees have witnessed an unethical business activity within their organisations or firms, a study carried out by Industrial Psychology Consultants (Ltd) has revealed The study, which sought to highlight Zimbabwean companies’ level of adherence to ethical business
Eagle Insurance offers relief for patients
Business Reporter
Eagle Insurance has launched an innovative hospital cash plan that is set to benefit people when they are hospitalised. Subscriptions are as low as US$1,50 per month and the beneficiaries get as much as US$100 for each day spent in hospital. This is a first for Zimbabwe using an SMS platform
Funding boost for culture
Stephen Chifunyise Theatre CorridorsThe European Development Fund (EDF) has issued its 10 call for proposals within the ACP-EU Support Programme for the ACP culture sector.
The overall objective of this call for proposals “aims to contribute to the fight against poverty through the development of and consolidation of viable and sustainable cultural industries in the Africa Caribbean and Pacific countries by reinforcing their contribution to social and economic development as well the preservation of cultural diversity”.
The 10th call for proposals has stressed that the deadline for receipt of project proposals in Brussels is December 20 this year.
Mandebvu in trouble again
Problem Masau Arts CorrespondentIt never rains but pours for urban grooves artiste Taurai Mandebvu. The young man seems to invite trouble or trouble seems to follow him wherever he goes. Mandebvu might be sending his fans into delirium with his hit song “Better Man”, but the talented musician is not striving to be one.
See you at the Summer Beach Party!
Entertainment ReporterSome of Harare’s top club and radio deejays are set to clash this Saturday at Spillway Pub and Restaurant for what has been dubbed the “Summer Beach Party.” The party, which is one of the biggest shows featuring well-known DJs, brings together an array of talented mix masters and this year’s
Makwa’s forgotten rainmaking shrine
Rutendo Mapfumo Features CorrespondentTHE sky is yawningly cloudless and the atmosphere is stuffy. The temperatures are soaring at around 45 degrees Celsius. There is no other sound except the cicadas. At nightfall, lions roar and rumble endlessly within the village but attack neither villagers nor their livestock. Something is about