adminAgro firms turn to mergers for survival
Brighton Gumbo, Business Reporter SIXTEEN mergers were approved by the Competition and Tariff Commission last year as companies continue to consolidate their balance sheets. In 2014, the CTC approved seven…
SA firm to recruit Ex-Zimasco employees
Lovemore Zigara, Midlands Correspondent SOUTH Africa-based firm, Portnex, which took over operations at the Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) following a $12 million lease agreement, has started recruiting employees.
Robbers fight 97-year jail terms
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter THREE Bulawayo men, who were each jailed for 97 years last year for masquerading as private transport operators in order to rob commuters, have filed…
Gold miners aim to double output
Lovemore Zigara, Business Correspondent THE Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) targets to double gold output from the 2015 figures to 14 tonnes this year on the back of small-scale miners’ mechanisation…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Well done police for terror gang arrest
WE applaud the police in Bulawayo for the swift manner in which they arrested nine men accused of raping two teachers and a woman at Luveve High School at the…
OPINION: What if 2015/16 is a drought season?
Morris Mpala, MoB Capital Ltd As a child my mother used to advise me not to dwell on bad things for if I did, then they would come true.
Insanity saves killer aunt from jail
Mashudu Netsianda, Senior Court Reporter A BEITBRIDGE woman who smashed her one-year-old niece’s head with a stone in a bushy area in Dulibadzimu suburb has been freed after the High…
Twin soldiers confound woman at maintenance court
Noleen Makhurane, Court Reporter A BULAWAYO woman who last week dragged the wrong twin brother to the maintenance court came face to face with the identical twins on Monday, adding…
Spike Lee, Jada boycott Oscars: Academy promises more diversity
Director Spike Lee and actress Jada Pinkett Smith said on Monday they will boycott next month’s Academy Awards ceremony because black actors were shut out of nominations, and the Academy…
Man caged 7 years for wanting brother dead
Thandeka Moyo, Court Reporter A 56-YEAR-OLD man from Plumtree who hired an assassin to kill his brother over inheritance before striking him with an axe after his plan was exposed,…