Mahindra in bid for Aston Martin stake: report

MUMBAI. — Indian car maker Mahindra and Mahindra is competing with Italian buyout firm Investindustrial for a stake in British luxury sports car maker Aston Martin, media reports said yesterday.

Pride stifles company growth

Bradwell Mhonderwa Business Ethics

PRIDE, or excessive belief in one’s own abilities, is one of the common ills that follow corporate executives. It entails placing oneself above everyone else and looking down upon other people.

Help us build communities

FOR generations, mankind has always been faced with threats of extinction from diseases, disasters, wars and many other calamities. Deforestation and climate change feature prominently among the

Dorowa Mine shuts down

Tendai Mugabe recently in Buhera
Chemplex Corporation has shut down its subsidiary Dorowa Minerals which is the country’s sole producer of phosphate citing liquidity challenges. Phosphate is a major nutritional component

CZI seeks legal advice on Zesa tariff reversal

Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries is seeking legal advice to enforce an Administrative Court order directing power utility Zesa Holdings to reverse the 31 percent electricity tariff increase effected in

Haddon Motors in violent demo

Wenceslaus Murape Business Reporter
HADDON Motors workers yesterday staged a demonstration that later turned violent after learning that the company, which had initially sought to retrench them, had been granted a provisional

Minister shares stage with Jah Prayzah

Givemore Muzariri
MINISTER of Information and Publicity, Webster Shamu made a surprise appearance at Jah Prayzah’s gig that was held on Saturday night in the city.

ZimTrade to present South Sudan findings

Business Reporter

THE country’s export promotion body, ZimTrade, will this week present to the business community findings of a survey it recently conducted in South Sudan to explore trade and investment opportunities.

Dragons Academy karatekas graded

Sikhumbuzo Moyo
SEVEN members of the Tsholotsho-based Dragons Karate Academy were on Saturday graded to various belt levels by renowned Bulawayo chief instructor, Elias Mwanaka.

Lightning victims’ relatives suspect foul play

Chronicle Reporter
RELATIVES of the four people who were burnt to death when lightning struck a bedroom hut they were sleeping in have said they suspect foul play and would consult on the issue.

The four, a 22-year-old woman, her two children and a niece were burnt beyond recognition in an incident that occurred in the early hours of Thursday in Sasame Village, Sigangatsha area under Chief Malaba in Matabeleland South Province.

The four were identified as Siphetheni Reason Mathuthu, her children Perseverance (two and a half years) and Zinhle Nyathi (six months) and niece Rosina Chabarika (nine), who was in Grade Three at St Sebastian Primary School.

Chronicle visited the homestead on Friday where relatives and villagers had gathered and everyone appeared devastated by the tragedy.

Mathuthu’s husband, Mr Willard Nyathi, who had returned from South Africa where he works, was said to have gone to Tshelanyemba Hospital as the family prepared for the burial.

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