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Oliver Kazunga Senior Business Reporter THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe will present the 2016 monetary policy statement end of January with a call to focus on interventions that promote resource…
Choppies acquires 21 more stores in SA
BOTSWANA-listed retail giant, Choppies Enterprise Limited, is acquiring South African retail outlets owned by Jwayelani, which owns 21 stores in Kwazulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape.
Zesa tariffs hike panic . . . Business warns of imminent closure
Prosper Ndlovu Business Editor THE proposed 22 percent electricity tariff increase will further strain already struggling businesses in the country and push other cost drivers up, economic experts have warned.
Call for open skies policy
Brighton Gumbo Business Reporter THE government should award more licences to low cost airlines that will ply local routes so as to boost domestic tourism, an official said. The Zimbabwe…
Obama’s crocodile tears
John Chuckman Had I seen the image of Barack Obama, weeping over American gun deaths, seven years ago, I know I would have been deeply moved. It would have reinforced…
Editorial Comment: Find alternative funding to build schools
The pace of infrastructural development in the primary and secondary education sub-sector has failed to keep pace with demand. There has been slow investment since 2000 because of limited resources…
Ministry approves $8.8m Beitbridge council budget
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau THE Ministry of Local Government, Public Works and National Housing has approved Beitbridge Town Council’s 2016 $8,8 million budget that will see tariffs remaining unchanged.
Bad practices blamed for farmers’ plight
Harare Bureau Bad practices by farmers are partly to blame for their plight as they are making agricultural production difficult in some areas. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Deputy Minister…
20 cops detained over Whatsapp chat
Harare Bureau At least 20 police officers in Bindura were on Wednesday last week questioned after they allegedly made “bad” comments over delayed salaries and bonuses on a WhatsApp group…
War vets blast Coltart over ‘reckless’ utterances
Nqobile Tshili Chronicle Correspondent ZANU-PF and war veterans yesterday blasted MDC senior member David Coltart for his “reckless” utterances that President Robert Mugabe must apologise for the Gukurahundi disturbances.