Prominent Rusape lawyer succumbs to Covid-19

Lovemore Kadzura Rusape Correspondent VETERAN Rusape-based lawyer and businessman, Mr Maxwell Chiwanza (65), has passed on this morning. Mr Chiwanza was admitted at private hospital in Harare where he was…

Customs clearing agents raise concern over harassment

Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau   A potentially volatile situation is looming at the country’s ports of entry amid reports that some freight forwarders who process the export and imports of commercial…

Indebted Zambia pays $400 mln in VAT refunds to mining firms

Zambia paid 8.5 billion kwacha ($400 million) in value-added tax refunds to mining companies last year, the head of the tax authority said on Wednesday, equal to about 3.5% of…

Zoom Video raises $1.75bn in new stock offering

Zoom Video Communications Inc. is raising $1.75 billion through a stock offering, capitalising on enduring demand for the video-conferencing platform during the pandemic. Zoom is selling about 5.15 million shares…

YouTube removes Trump content, blocks new uploads for a week

YouTube removed new content from US President Donald Trump’s channel, citing concerns about the potential of violence following the riot at the US Capitol last week. Trump’s channel now has…

Global banks warn of market chaos if court abolishes Libor

Some of the world’s biggest banks are urging a U.S. judge not to immediately terminate Libor after a group of borrowers filed suit claiming the benchmark was the work of…

Trump’s China investing ban spurs broad Wall Street pullback

Two months after Donald Trump issued an executive order banning US investments in Chinese military-linked companies –- and more than a day after it took effect — the financial industry…

House convenes to impeach Trump for his role in Capitol assault

Washington – A week after President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol, the US House of Representatives gathered on Wednesday to impeach the president for his role in an…

Malawi declares emergency as two ministers die of Covid-19

Malawian President Lazarus Chakwera has declared a state of disaster in an address to the nation delivered hours after two cabinet ministers died from COVID-19 amid a spike in coronavirus…

Israeli jets strike Iran-backed militias in Syria

Syria said Israel bombed Iranian-backed militia bases near the Iraqi border in the early hours of Wednesday, in a raid which military defectors and Western intelligence sources said was one…

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