Price stagnation irks tobacco growers

Agriculture Reporter
Tobacco growers have expressed worry over the stagnation of prices which has seen the highest price failing to go beyond US$5 since the marketing season started in February.
The highest price has so far remained at US$4,99 at the auction floors while the contract floors have since recorded a high of US$5,70 per kilogramme.

Internet firm to roll out 4G technology

Business Reporter
Harare-based internet access provider Aquiva Wireless says it plans to roll out a new standard for wireless data communications technology that will push forward the growth of the country’s telecommunications industry.

Parliament urged to pass consumer law

The Consumer Council of Zimbabwe last week petitioned Parliament to pass a consumer protection law which it said was long overdue.
The CCZ has since 2010 been lobbying Government to enact the Consumer Protection Act.

Engineers body breathes fire

Business Correspondent
THE Engineering Council of Zimbabwe has expressed concern over the increasing number of foreigners who come into the country under the guise of being visitors and start undertaking engineering works illegally at the expense of the local and qualified engineers.

Three more killed in road accidents

Herald Reporter
Three more people died on Sunday to take the number of people killed in road accidents during the Easter holidays to 45, police spokesperson Superintendent Paul Nyathi said yesterday.

How to resolve ethical challenges

Bradwell Mhonderwa  Business Ethics

Employees’ ability to make ethical decisions is a key element of sound workplace relations and staff productivity. 
The need to develop ethical decision-making skills among employees should always be on the agenda of every responsible business entity. 

Insure assets, consult on contracts, ZFU tells farmers

The Zimbabwe Farmers Union has encouraged farmers to have their assets insured and also to consult farmers unions before signing contracts to avoid being duped.
The call comes after it emerged that some farmers were signing dubious contracts while others, particularly small scale, were not insuring their assets resulting in them losing out

Call to fight EU’s divisive tactics

Sydney Kawadza Assistant News Editor
Zimbabweans should fight hard and protect their leaders who are being persecuted  through illegal sanctions by western forces

Odinga’s firm vandalised

NAIROBI — Offices of East Africa Spectre Limited, a company owned by the family of Prime Minister Raila Odinga were Sunday night vandalised by unknown people.
The attackers are said to have taken off with two trucks of gas cylinders worth over Sh3 million. According to Hudson Chitala, the technical manager of the Company, two night

M23 rebels slam UN

KINSHASA — The main rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo yesterday denounced as an act of war the UN approving to send its first-ever “offensive” peacekeeping brigade to the region.

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