Will intra-African trade flourish in 2018?

Correspondent Overcoming the barriers for intra-African trade to double in a decade can feel like a Sisyphean task – impossible to complete. But that is the objective of the Boosting Intra-African…

Aussies hit back with late wickets

SYDNEY. — Australia stunned England with two late wickets, including that of Joe Root for 83, to leave the tourists wobbling on 233 for five at the end of the…

RioZim to retrench 900, evict 350

Blessings Chidakwa and Heather Charema Nine-hundred employees are set to be retrenched while at least 350 families face eviction at Dalny Mine in Chakari, after it was taken over by…

Dembele returns in Barca draw

VIGO. — Ousmane Dembele returned from injury as Barcelona drew at Celta Vigo in the Copa del Rey last-16 first leg. The 20-year-old £96,8 million summer signing came on for…

Wake up to the risks of new technologies

Ralph Hamann Correspondent Technological advances associated with the fourth industrial revolution — including artificial intelligence — allow the automation of an increasingly wide array of processes in increasingly interactive and sophisticated…

Micro-finance firms enjoy brisk business

Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau Micro-finance companies offering loans here are recording brisk business as individuals and parents with school-going children throng the institutions in search of cash, as the “January disease”…

Zambia shuts Hungry Lion restaurants

LUSAKA — Zambia has shut three of South African retailer Shoprite’s Hungry Lion fast-food restaurants after their food tested positive for the bacterium that causes cholera, a government minister said…

Platinum, Ngezi in player logjam

Mukudzei Chingwere Midlands Bureau FC PLATINUM have found themselves in a complicated contractual logjam over defensive midfielder Liberty Chakoroma whom they have registered for the Champions League.

Gunners sign Mavropanos

LONDON. — Arsenal have signed defender Konstantinos Mavropanos from Greek side PAS Giannina for an undisclosed fee, the Premier League club said yesterday.

Takaringofa gets Mutare City job

Mukudzei Chingwere Sports Reporter NEWLY promoted Premiership side Mutare City have appointed Joseph Takaringofa as their head coach on a one-year contract for the upcoming season in line with ZIFA’s club…