adminWanted: Lessors for Rufaro Marketing outlets
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Business ReporterRUFARO Marketing, Harare City Council’s liquor underatking, is set to lease out its remaining 36 beer outlets to try and clear outstanding retrenchment packages for their workers and pay off its debts. The company requires about US$530 000 for retrenchment packages and US$6 million
Young Warriors lose due to lapse of concentration
Godknows Matarutse Sports ReporterZIMBABWE’S Young Warriors face an uphill task of progressing to the next round of the Under-17 African Youth Championship when they failed to capitalise on home advantage as they went down 1-2 to Congo. Lapse of concentration in the last stages of the match by the Young Warriors’ back
More firms attain ISO certification
At least 108 companies in Zimbabwe have attained the International Standards Organisation 2001:2008 (IS0 2001:2008) certification this year, up from 86 last year. Many companies had lost ISO certification during the hyperinflationary era as they could not procure new equipment or maintainZim teams cursed?
Augustine Hwata Sports ReporterIT was a gloomy weekend for Zimbabwe sport when five national teams were all defeated in their various international assignments. Three football sides and two hockey teams took part in international matches over the weekend and they all ended up licking their wounds after the final whistles,
Ovidy feels the pain
Sports ReporterZIMBABWE international midfielder, Ovidy Karuru, revealed last night that the Warriors’ failure to qualify for the 2013 Nations Cup finals had left him a shattered man. The Belgium-based midfielder was the stand-out player for the Warriors in their failed 2012 Nations Cup campaign where he
Competition body probes Cimas
Tawanda Musarurwa Business ReporterTHE Competition and Tariff Commission says it has commenced full-scale investigation into some unfair business practices by Cimas. “The CTC is embarking on an investigation, in terms of Section 28 of the Act, into allegations of restrictive practices by Cimas Medical Aid Society in the provisions
Who’s to blame now?
Hope Chizuzu Sports CorrespondentVICTORY has a tendency of masking monumental flaws in a team and, after our failure in Angola last night, one gets the feeling that the victory at home flattered us so much we ended up forgetting who were really are. The 3-1 victory at Rufaro plastered over our weakness that were there
Zim to mark World Standards Day
Business ReporterZIMBABWE will this week join the rest of the world in commemorating World Standards Day. The commemorations are pencilled in for October 19, although the day is falls on October 14 each year. National standards bodies and other organisations in countries all over the world commemorate this
Elections: When the supposed draw card doubts
Ha ha ha! Did you see it dear reader? I mean did you read it? Could it be true? Could it? That one Giles Mutsekwa, our supposed Minister of Housing and Social Amenities wants to soundproof our buffeted lives by penning us all in kaylite homes? KAYLITE panelled homes!
Listen to the erudite Rhodesian army major we take for a minister in free Zimbabwe whose coming into being he so resisted: “The adoption of appropriate technology has been found to be one of the effective measures of increasing housing at affordable costs while at the same time addressing issues of environmental degradation.”
Uuuh! Yes, Major: “Zimbabwe, with an estimated housing backlog of 1 250 000 housing units, is not an exception. It is in recognition of this fact that I led a delegation of technical persons to Italy to assess a building technology for possible adoption in Zimbabwe.”
Mondiuraya nekuseka kani Minister (Minister, you crack my ribs with laughter)!
Shangano preps at an advanced stage
Givemore Muzariri
PREPARATIONS for Shangano Arts Festival, to be held in Hwange are now at an advanced stage and the festival is expected to present the best artistes from different parts of the country.