Botswana sees lower mineral revenues in 2019

Diamond rich Botswana expects mineral revenues in the 2019/20 fiscal year to drop by 4 percent to 13.6 billion pula ($1.26 billion) due to a decline in royalties and dividends, a minerals ministry budget document showed on Thursday.

Fashion’s huge waste problem

The biggest trends in fashion today are ones no one wants to be seen in. They include vastly increased clothing production and declining use, massive levels of waste and more greenhouse gas emissions than international shipping and flights combined.

DFA opens office in Zim

Dfa has opened a new office in Harare, Zimbabwe marking its first expansion into African markets outside of South Africa.

Chinese equity plunge leads world stocks lower as growth fears haunt

Chinese shares were slammed more than 4 percent lower on Friday after data showed exports contracting by a fifth, deepening fears for the world economy and pushing global equities to three-week troughs.

The Biggest Bulawayo Awards are back

Please note I purposely excluded the word arts to the awards as I am tempted to believe the Bulawayo Arts Awards are just the biggest across board. 

Zim can’t afford mobile network breakdown

Imagine waking up one day not being able to go on the Internet, Zimbabweans know the feeling very well, with the country having gone through an Internet shutdown earlier this year — it’s not on. But at least that time, people could make calls and transact, though with a little bit of restriction on the latter.  

Prospect to leverage on petalite production . . . Gem mostly used in glass, ceramic industry

Prospect Resources says it has a competitive advantage in the production of petalite and will leverage and ride on the stability of the glass and ceramic industry where the resource is used.

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