adminGovt acts on drug cartels
Government has started working on curbing cartels in the pharmaceutical sector, amid revelations that a team of Indian manufacturers will be arriving in the next few days to assess the working environment before setting up in-country warehouses, Health and Child Care Minister Dr Obadiah Moyo has said.
Chinamasa new Airzim board chair
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has appointed former Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa as the new Air Zimbabwe (Airzim) board chairman with immediate effect.
Donor fatigue, cash woes hit theatre hard
Local theatre seems to be taking its last breath as only a handful of plays are going on stage, while paltry numbers are attending what used to draw revellers in their hundreds.
EDITORIAL COMMENT : Why US-China trade war hurts African countries
Last week, China produced a White Paper in which it noted that the unnecessary trade war provoked by the United States’ Trump administration will damage the whole world.
‘Zim not ready to fully implement AfCFTA’
Zimbabwe will fully implement the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) in the next 15 years once the country has fully industrialised for it to effectively benefit from the 1,2 billion market provided by the trade agreement, Minister of Industry and Commerce Mangaliso Ndlovu has said.
Matemadanda appointed Zanu-PF commissar
Zanu-PF has appointed Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Cde Victor Matemadanda as Secretary for the Commissariat.
VULTURES POUNCE ON ZIFA
A SHADOWY operation, in which a daring ZIFA creditor masqueraded as a police officer to try and intimidate a bank manager to freeze all the association’s bank accounts, has been blown into the open after being captured on closed circuit television (CCTV).
Sambo unveils anthology tackling societal problems
Award-winning poet and author Humphrey Sambo recently released an anthology titled “Freedom Train” that speaks on societal problems and ills.
Cottco optimistic of new hybrid varieties
The new cotton hybrid varieties Cottco intends to introduce could catapult annual output to about 1,1 million tonnes, managing director Mr Pious Manamike said last week.