CBZ non-performing loans surge 27pc
The country’s biggest financial services group, CBZ Holdings Limited’s non-performing loans surged 27 percent to $127 million in the third quarter to September this year from $100 million recorded in the same period last year.
Africa now tech investment centre
Africa is increasingly becoming a centre for big technology investment and fertile ground for tech start-ups.
Recession shrugged off
Just three months ago, the escalating US-China trade war and a troubling signal in the US bond market induced a global panic, sparking a sell-off in stocks and, for the first time in a decade, resurfacing the dreaded r-word: recession.
Companies to exhibit at Zanu-PF annual conference
LOCAL and international companies are expected to exhibit at next month’s 18th Zanu-PF Annual People’s Conference at Goromonzi High School in Mashonaland East Province.
Syngenta develops Fall Army worm protected seed
Steps are being taken to fight fall armyworm, an invasive species from the Americas that arrived in AFrica in 2016 and which has spread across the continent attacking maize crops.
Collabos in vogue
THE past six months have seen musicians releasing new projects across all genres.
Cimas targets additional health infrastructure
Health insurance firm, Cimas, says it is planning to expand its health facilities — including specialist facilities — with at least two targeted for launch in 2020.
Zim history teacher makes history
Kwekwe High School history teacher Manners Musongelwa scored a first for the country when he was elected president of the Association of History Teachers and Lecturers in Africa (AHTLA) at its convention in Dodoma, Tanzania recently.
ZRP beefs up security in ‘machete warzone’
Crime Reporter POLICE have beefed up security in “machete warzones” to end bloodshed among artisanal miners and to reduce other criminal activities. Several people have died this year in bloody…
433 cars under Zimra probe
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) has identified 433 vehicles suspected to have been smuggled into the country and has invited their respective owners to the taxman’s offices for a verification exercise.



