SWIM OR SINK!… Agriculture looking strong… Discipline, reforms required… Improve investment, business climate.
Business Reporter Zimbabwe’s economy is looking strong on agriculture after a good rain season but Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa has warned sustained economic growth would depend on discipline and structural…
ZIMRA closes in on tax-cheating dealers…Dealers use false declarations to evade import duty …Fuel tankers among goods smuggled at borders …Serving and former ZIMRA officials involved in rackets
By Golden Sibanda The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) is closing in on business rackets and dealers who have defrauded the government of over a billion dollars by avoiding paying tax…
SeedCo gives Ministers Business Weekly subscription
Tinashe Makichi Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has implored Zimbabwe Newspapers’ newly launched exclusively business publication, Business Weekly, to portray the real unfolding economic story about Zimbabwe.
Albwardy still keen on Meikles units
Happiness Zengeni and Tinashe Makichi Dubai-based investor Ali Albwardy offered only $35 million for Zimbabwe Stock Exchange listed Meikles Limited but there are discussions still taking place around specific individual…
Zim loses $77m in raw hides export
Dumisani Nsingo Bulawayo Bureau Zimbabwe could have lost up to $77 million through exporting raw hides in the third quarter of 2016 as the country lacks capacity to beneficiate the…
Bidding war on ZSE for CFI . . . as Van Hoog proxy is suspended
A YEAR ago, it was a sleepy, penny stock that took all year for the price to rise by the same percentage as heavyweights such as Delta rose in a…
Growth requires investment in agriculture and progress on all fronts
Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa yesterday presented his annual budget review which projected a five-fold increase in the economic growth rate in 2017 from a near negative rate of 0,7 percent…
RBZ should print more. . . if productivity requires it. . .Hyperinflation memories are not lessons learnt
Chris Chenga As a society in Zimbabwe we have often struggled to conceptualise independence outside of politics. This is quite unfortunate; political self-determination should have preceded a vibrant society excited…
Planas ponders future over kaylite ban
Enacy Mapakame Zimbabwe’s biggest polystyrene (kaylite) manufacturer, Planas Investments’ recent $6 million investment in factory machinery might go to waste following a ban on the use of the packaging material…
Dunkin Donuts to phase out polystyrene cups
The National Research Council has affirmed that styrene, often used in food packaging and foam coffee cups, is linked to cancer. What’s the industry’s reaction?









