Introduce policies conducive to growth: Small-scale miners
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent SMALL-SCALE miners have called on Government to introduce policies conducive to the growth of the sector, saying the existing ones were a hindrance to their advancement.…
United Refineries acquires new stockfeed machine
BULAWAYO-BASED agro processing company, United Refineries, has procured a $250 000 state-of-the-art stockfeed manufacturing machine from India as part of its diversification strategy, which will see its capacity utilisation increasing…
Busmetal on verge of collapse
ONE of the country’s oldest cast iron product manufacturers, Bulawayo-based Busmetal is on the brink of closure if it fails to immediately access at least $150 000 needed urgently to…
Flights into Vic Falls increase
STAKEHOLDERS in the tourism industry have welcomed the introduction of more airlines flying into Victoria Falls saying this development was likely to increase tourist arrivals into the resort town and…
Zera drafts net metering regulations
THE Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) has drafted net metering regulations meant to govern the generation of electricity from small scale, grid tied renewable generators like solar PV generators on…
Zimbabwe’s retail sector facing decline in revenue inflows
ESTABLISHED retailers are facing a decline in revenue as a result of limited and constrained consumer disposable incomes, stockbrokers have said. According to a research done by a local stockbroking…
FAO to rehabilitate irrigation schemes in Mat South, Manicaland
Farming Reporter UNITED Natons’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) will soon embark on massive irrigation scheme rehabilitation programmes in Manicaland and Matabeleland South provinces under a six million pounds facility…
Ukraine accuses rebels of destroying evidence
HRABOVE/DONETSK – Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels yesterday of destroying evidence of “international crimes” as guerillas and foreign observers faced off over access to the wreckage of the downed…
5 car bombs kill 26 in Baghdad
BAGHDAD — Five car bombs killed 26 people in mostly Shi’ite Muslim neighbourhoods in Baghdad yesterday, police and medics said. The first explosion, a suicide car bombing, killed seven people…
Deaths reported in Boko Haram raid
Suspected Boko Haram fighters have killed many villagers and set homes ablaze in a northeastern Nigerian town, witnesses say. Residents of Damboa town told the Associated Press news agency on…










