adminHip-hop artistes stand their ground
Leroy Dzenga: Arts Correspondent Pitched against acts of high repute, the stakes were high for local hip hop artistes to justify their inclusion on the roster at the just ended Shoko…
‘Hippo sugar production up 7pc’
Business Reporter SUGAR manufacturer Hippo Valley Estates Limited anticipates sugar production for the year to 2017 to reach an estimated 220 000 tonnes, an increase of 7 percent from prior…
Food for Work programme staves off hunger in Mwenezi
George Maponga recently in Mwenezi A few weeks ago, the world woke up to shocking news reports that villagers in the drought-choked Negari communal lands in northern Mwenezi were resorting…
Wits employee’s death to be probed
CAPE TOWN/TSWANE . — Higher Education and Training Minister Blade Nzimande has called for an investigation following the death of a University of the Witwatersrand cleaner during the ongoing student…
Ngwerume carves to preserve culture
Tawanda Marwizi: Arts Correspondent African pride and identity has been enhanced by totems that were created by ancient communities to identify people’s origins. Many people in Zimbabwe still find pride in being…
Fresh lithium deposits to transform Zim economy
Munyaradzi Musiiwa: Midlands Correspondent LITHIUM is set to transform the country’s economy following a fresh scramble for the mineral by foreign companies after new deposits were discovered around Harare, Mines and…
Salt off the earth
Christopher Charamba: Featurers It is believed that one of the causes of the collapse of the Great Zimbabwe empire was the shortage of salt in the area. Nyatsimba Mutota was sent…
Cheeky tenant ‘steals’ house
Andile Tshuma: Bulawayo Bureau A 53-YEAR-OLD Thorngroove suburb man has appeared in court for allegedly stealing his landlord’s house. Phillip Ndlovu appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Mr Tinashe Tashaya facing forgery and theft…
Kenya Airways in talks for stake sale
NAIROBI. — Kenya Airways is talking to “about three or four” foreign institutional investors and airlines about buying a stake to raise cash for the loss-making carrier, its chief executive…
Oil prices fall as hopes for deal in Algiers fade
LONDON. — Crude oil futures fell yesterday as optimism faded for an output-limiting deal from an oil producer meeting in Algeria to curb one of the worst supply gluts in…