Price hikes: Don’t panic, Goverment says . . . Year-on-year inflation hits 540%

Oliver Kazunga/Pride Mahlangu, Business Reporters GOVERNMENT says the fiscal and monetary policies it is implementing will stabilise the exchange rate and keep under check, inflationary pressures, which have seen the…

Industry urged to explore bio-fuels

Nomvelo Siziba, Victoria Falls Reporter  ENERGY and Power Development Minister, Fortune Chasi, has said increased research should buttress development of bio-fuels as one of the alternative solutions to the country’s…

Wilson Patrol wipe out: Victory never dies

Nduduzo Tshuma, Political Editor  ON December 4, 1893, King Lobengula’s army led by strategist Mtshana Khumalo, killed Major Allan Wilson and his men at the Battle of Pupu in Lupane, blocking…

Miner attacked, left for dead underground

Midlands Bureau THREE artisanal miners were each sentenced to 10 years in for attacking and seriously injuring a rival miner with an axe and a machete in a fight over…

UPDATED: Suicide over cattle in maize field row

Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter A 20-year-old man from Siabuwa in Binga allegedly committed suicide by hanging after an argument with his father over a neighbour’s cattle that strayed into their…

Vandalism, squabbles stall Bulawayo Kraal

IT’S a sultry yet windy afternoon in Binga. Ms Lilian Munga (60) rubs her eyes as she squints in reaction to strong light reflecting off the silver surfaces of overhead…

US$1.4bn Hwange project: Oasis of socio-economic transformation

Oliver Kazunga, Senior Business Reporter DEVELOPING sound energy infrastructure is a critical step towards attracting greater investment in an economy.  For a developing economy like Zimbabwe, increased investment in the…

Church leaders should stop ‘spiritualising’ sexual violence

Lungelo Ndhlovu, Feature SEXUAL violence against women is a public health concern across the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO).  WHO specifies gender-based violence (GBV) as any harmful act,…

Focus shifts to domestic tourism

Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter THE decline in international tourist arrivals as a result of Covid-19 presents a compelling case for tourism industry players and hoteliers to promote domestic tourism if…

Millers call for increase in grain allocations

Business Reporter SMALL-to-medium scale millers have appealed to Government to increase grain allocations to enable them to improve supply of mealie-meal to the formal market. Through their lobby group, the…

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