adminAfDB commits $26m to Zim
Business Reporter— The African Development Bank has committed about $26,5 million towards developmental projects for Zimbabwe. The projects are consistent with Government’s priorities enshrined in its Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper.
More TM stores to be upgraded to Pick ‘n’ Pay
Business Reporters Retail giant TM/Pick n Pay has started identifying existing TM stores across the country to upgrade them into world class stores following the launch of a $25 million…
CBZ profit down 32pc
Business Reporter ZIMBABWE’S largest financial services group by assets and deposits, CBZ Holdings Limited, saw its profit after tax for the year-ended December 31, 2016 decline 32 percent to $23,8…
Allied Timbers seeks private partnership
Business Reporter STATE-owned Allied Timbers Zimbabwe is looking to team up with private investors to build up its harvesting capacity as it seeks to meet growing demand for timber products.
Develop maize value chain
Conrad Mwanawashe Bumper Harvest ZIMBABWE has vast tracts of arable land which must be put to use all year round. One way that Zimbabwe could ensure that all the arable…
FAO to spend millions of dollars in fight against fall armyworm
Jeffrey Gogo Climate Story THE Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) is to spend millions of dollars acquiring specialised trap kits to control the spread of the fall armyworm, an invasive…
DDF needs $4m for roads
Walter Nyamukondiwa Chinhoyi Bureau The District Development Fund (DDF) needs at least $4 million to rehabilitate and regravel roads damaged by incessant rains in Mashonaland West province. This comes amid reports that…
Zim safe from Renamo — Army
From George Maponga in Masvingo The country is safe from incursions by RENAMO bandits from Mozambique despite sporadic attacks between that country’s Government forces and the rebels, the Zimbabwe National…
Marx: Timekeeper of the oppressed
Stanely Mushava Literature Today When we gather around Karl Marx to size up the elites, we think of the patron saint of socialism as a hardened ideologue with a mane…
Nigerian novelist Buchi Emecheta dies
Wiliam Grimes Correspondent Buchi Emecheta, a British-based Nigerian writer who, in “Second-Class Citizen”, “The Joys of Motherhood” and other novels, gave voice to African women struggling to reconcile traditional roles…