Insurance workers get pay hike

Golden Sibanda Senior Business Reporter

ZimTrade turnaround strategy to cost US$5m

Rumbidzayi Zinyuke Business Reporter
ZIMTRADE, the country’s trade development and promotion agency, says it will need US$5 million to implement its turnaround strategy in the next three years aimed at restoring the organisation’s effectiveness in promoting regional and international trade and exports. Industry has been saddled

Blue Ribbon up for sale

MILLER and food processor Blue Ribbon Industries (BRI) is up for sale with tenders invited yesterday for investors to either buy or invest in the company. The company, currently under judicial management, closed shop last year on the back of funding constraints worsened by a debt overhang

How fit are you to drive?

THE  road  traffic crash problem has been with mankind ever since the first crude internal combustion engine spluttered into life.  Last year, there were 29 423 recorded road crashes resulting in 1 987 people killed and 14 527 injured. Most of the road crashes were caused by human error,

Dealing with common radiator problems

Fact Jeke Behind the Wheel

Facebook forces 104 to lie about age

Most people would be delighted to be stuck at the same age for a while, but for Maguerite Joseph, it has been disappointing. The 104-year-old Michigan woman, who has been active on Facebook for the last few years, says she is unable to post her actual age on the site because it exceeds

The ‘kaffirs’ and of Rhodesia

Reflections By Isdore Guvamombe
Back in the village in the land of milk, honey and dust, elders say whenever a person breaks a stick in the forest, let him consider what it would be like, if it were himself, thus broken.  In 1977, this villager’s father, Ephraim, after whom this villager named his son, had been a revered teacher

Malawi school pupils denounce Banda

BLANTYRE. — Business came to a standstill in the central business district of commercial capital Blantyre yesterday morning when school kids from different primary schools in the city took to the streets singing anti-Joyce Banda songs. Clad in their school uniforms, the children were running in

Malaysia ‘steals’ travellers’ hearts

By Costa Mano in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ZIMBABWEAN travel agents and tour operators who left Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, for Ethiopia on Wednesday night have described their Malaysian experience as an eye opener and have pledged to sell the destination back home. The eight member delegation, comprising some of Zimbabwe’s

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