The biggest bank ever: Why history matters
Dr Alfred M Mthimkhulu By the time the Argentine finance minister quit in July 1890, a financial meltdown of global proportions was inevitable. The minister had had enough of the…
Trillion-dollar figure evokes bad memories
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange market capitalisation reached the trillion dollar mark this week as investors; amid limited investment options, growing money supply, and a depreciating local currency continued to look for a safe haven for cash holdings.
PPC secures R2,1bn for finance facilities
JSE-listed cement and building materials producer PPC has secured R2,1 billion in new finance facilities from its South African lenders and will no longer be proceeding with a planned equity…
Stock Market Weekly Review
Equities on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) maintained an upward trajectory in the week, which saw overall market value reach the $1 trillion mark, sustained by gains in blue chips.
Reviving the fortunes of Zim’s coffee growers
Deep in Zimbabwe’s south-eastern highlands, close to the Mozambique border, lies the prime coffee-growing region of Chipinge; home to the first ever coffee grown in Zimbabwe in the 18th century, and famous for its slowly sun-dried, smooth tasting, earthy, chocolatey flavours.
Bulawayo residents face 216 % rates hike
Nqobile Tshili/Thandeka Moyo-Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporters BULAWAYO rate payers are expected to pay an average of 216 percent more in tariffs as the local authority has proposed a $24 billion budget…
COMMENT: Let blitz on cattle rustlers continue
For years, Shanyaugwe area in Gwanda, Matabeleland South has been a haven for cattle rustlers who lived freely as if the area was exempt to the country’s laws. It had…
Bosso, Chiefs draw
Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter Highlanders 1-1 Bulawayo Chiefs A DRAW was the fairest result in yesterday’s Chibuku Super Cup match between defending champions Highlanders and Bulawayo Chiefs at Barbourfields…
Leaky canal retards ‘game changer’ irrigation project
Leonard Ncube, Victoria Falls Reporter POLLARDS Irrigation Scheme in Bubi District, Matabeleland North is a low hanging fruit that can transform the area into a greenbelt and improve local people’s…
Huge parallel market premium threatens exports, says CZI
Prosper Ndlovu, Business Editor THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says the distortionate impact of the parallel market exchange rate in the economy is becoming a big threat to exporting…











