adminIdai: Manicaland firms pick up the pieces
As the year 2019 ends tomorrow, businesspeople in Manicaland will want to forget it in a hurry.
Blitz nets grocery smugglers at Beitbridge
Smuggled grocery and household goods worth R54 120,71 were intercepted in a police blitz at Beitbridge Border Post, with owners of the goods forced to pay duty worth $27 979,05.
The decade that gave us Paris Agreement: And so much more
This decade folds in a few days’ time. Perhaps the most significant global event within the climate change and environment sector in the last 10 years is the signing of the Paris Agreement in 2015.
ZRP rebrands
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) underwent a major transformation this year as it adopted a new structure and rebranding to rebuild public confidence.
China’s firms profits grow fastest in eight months
BEIJING — Profits at China’s industrial firms grew at the fastest pace in eight months in November, but broad weakness in domestic demand remains a risk for company earnings next year.
OK Zim’s revenues rise
Zimbabwe’s biggest retailer OK Zimbabwe Limited’s revenue for the half year to September 30, 2019, improved by 237,4 percent to $1,1 billion from $330,1 million during the same period last year, despite the prevailing economic challenges in the country.
Universal health coverage tops…as SADC Parly Forum Plenary meets
The 46th Plenary Assembly Session of the SADC Parliamentary Forum ended recently in Swakopmund, Namibia, with a call for SADC member states to work towards universal healthcare.
Thieves steal solar batteries at robots
Thieves repeatedly steal fittings and solar batteries from traffic control lights at the intersection of Bishop Gaul and Samora Machel avenues, resulting in fatal road accidents, according to Harare Ward 5 Councillor Midia Mudariki.
Police-vendor clashes hog limelight in 2019
Police have been fighting running battles with vendors after informal traders started trickling back onto Harare’s pavements, a year after being pushed out by Harare City Council, to designated vending sites.
Cameroonians recount France’s ‘dirty war’ against independence
On January 1, Cameroon will marks its 60th anniversary of independence, the first of 17 African countries that became free from their colonial masters in 1960.