Cabinet set to approve new motor industry policy

Darlington Musarurwa and Walter Muchinguri The drafting of a new automotive industry policy which aims to boost local vehicle production and component manufacturing is now complete and awaits Cabinet approval,…

National Blankets ceases operations

Oliver Kazunga GIANT textile firm, National Blankets, has ceased operations despite showing signs of recovery in the last three years.

Maize, wheat racketeers swindle GMB of millions

Conrad Mwanawashe A RACKET involving Grain Marketing Board (GMB) employees and a network of middlemen could be costing the national granary millions of dollars through the sale of imported wheat…

Duty on truck cargo imports soars. . . as smuggling, transit fraud tumble

Golden Sibanda IMPORT duty paying entries into Zimbabwe have risen by 25 percent while transit cargo has plunged 62 percent since the introduction of the electronic cargo tracking system in…

Merging international best practices with local necessities

Chris Chenga Just across the Limpopo a subject of pervasive interest is taking place; one of which a majority of developing nations could benefit by conducting their own relative self-introspection.

Dirty tobacco wars waged in Africa

British American Tobacco (BAT) and other multinational tobacco firms have threatened governments in at least eight countries in Africa demanding they axe or dilute the kind of protections that have…

Other side of cash and forex crisis. . . Is there any good?

Albert Norumedzo The other side Although it is a hard sell, especially considering the daily pain of dealing with cash and foreign currency shortages, the current crisis has its own…

Confronting Zimbabwe’s reconfigured economy

Dr Tinashe Nyamunda The Economy Corner At the launch of Business Weekly on 10 July 2017, I found the acknowledgement of the Minister of Finance, Patrick Chinamasa, that Zimbabwe was…

“Resettled and yet unsettled?”…. Security of tenure, productivity and long term investments in resettlement areas

Ushehwedu Kufakurinani The year 2000 saw Government implementing the Fast Track Land Resettlement Programme to redress imbalances in the allocation of land.

Farmers can cash in on green mealies in winter

By John Basera. Gocha/green mealie production is one venture with a very lucrative Return On Investment (ROI), which farmers can adopt in irrigation schemes, A2, A1, large and small scale…

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