Global economic outlook — June 2022

Unrelenting global inflation pressures continue to intensify, with increasingly adverse implications for the growth outlook. Recent Covid-19-related lockdowns in China are adding to global manufacturing supply-chain pressures. Energy and food…

Gadzikwa to step down from SAZ

Oliver Kazunga THE Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) director general, Dr Eve Gadzikwa, is set to step down from her post at the end of the month after 14 years…

Africa hardest hit as pollution kills 9m a year

Air pollution from industrial processes along with urbanisation drove a seven percent increase in pollution-related deaths from 2015 to 2019, according to scientists. Covid-19, by comparison, has killed about 6.7…

Dancer Zoey on lessons learnt during lockdown

Mthabisi Tshuma, Showbiz Reporter THE queen of pole dancing Zoey has said there is a need for artistes to continue being innovative, outside the creative sector in order for them…

Bosso fine harsh, but necessary: Followers

Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter HIGHLANDERS’ followers feel the US$6 000 fine imposed on the club for the abandoned Castle Lager Premier Soccer league match against FC Platinum is harsh,…

COMMENT: Local languages are a resource for national prosperity

During the colonial era, it was illegal for Zimbabweans to speak their native languages at school. They had to speak English, the language of command. The language of the colonial…

‘Digital commerce is the answer’…one million online trading drive launched

Business Reporter GLOBAL electronic commerce company, Appletree Digital Commerce, yesterday unveiled its “Taking One Million African Traders Online Movement (TOMATO)” in Zimbabwe, an innovative-driven solution to lack of opportunities facing…

Ariston tea exports drop 22%

Business Reporter LISTED agriculture company, Ariston Holdings Limited, says its tea export revenue dropped by average 22 percent in the first quarter of 2022 due to the adverse impact of…

Hwange residents go six years without water

Sikhumbuzo Moyo, Senior Reporter NGUMIJA suburb in Hwange, which is home to National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) employees and those that are renting has gone for more than six years…

Machete now a weapon of choice for armed robbers

Stanford Chiwanga / Bongani Ndlovu, Chronicle Reporters THE emergence of machete gangs in Zimbabwe’s mining towns has given birth to a new breed of armed robbers who use machetes as…

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