adminJunction 24 hosts arts festival
Entertainment Reporter Outdoor entertainment venue Junction 24 hosts an inaugural arts festival featuring artists from various genres on September 26. Dubbed Junction 24 Arts Festival and Markets, the festival will…
NMBZ posts $1,4m profit
Business Reporter NMBZ Holdings recorded attributable profit of about $1,4 million, but total income decreased by about seven percent as operating expenses shot up in the six months to June.
‘Two tobacco firms still trading’
Agriculture Reporter At least 17 out of 19 tobacco contractors have stopped trading, signalling the end of the 2014 marketing season. The two merchants still trading are also winding down operations…
Mabasa takes storytelling to Alliance Francaise
Stanely Mushava Arts Correspondent Avant-garde novelist Ignatius Mabasa will on August 29 and 30 merge tradition and creativity as he tells Shona stories at Alliance Francaise.
Volume growth spurs Afdis performance
Business Reporter Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed African Distillers Limited posted a 150 percent increase in profit for the year ended June 2014 spurred by volume growth, cost management and improved productivity.
SA hires 3 banks for debut offering
Cape Town. — South Africa said it appointed BNP Paribas SA, KFH Investment and Standard Bank Group Ltd to arrange a debut sukuk sale of at least $500 million.
Disowning my totem
Stephen Garan’anga Visual Art Anyone that refuses to acknowledge their ‘mutupo’ (totem) is regarded as a prodigal child who has been mentally colonised. It is grossly unacceptable in native African…
Tuku delivers Masekela lecture
Own Correspondent Superstar Oliver “Tuku” Mtukudzi will on September 9, deliver the inaugural Hugh Masekela Lecture at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa.
Impala revisits growth plans
Johannesburg. — Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd is reviewing mines and capital commitments after a five-month strike at its largest South African mine even as the second-biggest producer has no plan…
Man U in costly comeback bid
LONDON. — Manchester United are attempting to return to the summit of the English Premier League with the most expensive squad ever assembled in the English game.