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Blessings Chidakwa Herald Reporter IN line with President Mnangagwa’s high-performance culture, Cabinet ministers and heads of public sector agencies will this week sign their performance-based contracts which are designed to…
Grain import duty scrapped
Mukudzei Chingwere Herald Reporter THE Government has liberalised the importation of grain at household level as part of a raft of measures aimed at mitigating the effects of the El…
Govt mourns 15 SA crash victims
Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau The Government yesterday extended its condolences to families of the 15 Zimbabweans who died in a road accident when a Simlex Transport and Logistics (Pvt) Limited…
African countries urged to harmonise diamond laws
Leonard Ncube Victoria Falls Bureau THE 9th African Diamond Producers Association (ADPA) ordinary meeting of the Council of Ministers began here yesterday amid calls for member States to harmonise diamond…
Murambinda awakens ahead of Uhuru celebrations
Blessings Chidakwa Herald Reporter AHEAD of the country’s 44th Independence celebrations, the usually quiet Murambinda Growth Point is buzzing with activity as construction works have begun in earnest. When The…
New UK visa rules hit hard
Wallace Ruzvidzo Herald Reporter THE United Kingdom’s Home Office has implemented new visa rules that ban overseas care workers and most overseas students from bringing dependant family members to the…
Irrigation scheme business units receive boost
Ashton Mutyavaviri DISTRIBUTION of vegetable combos to irrigation scheme business units (ISBU) under the Presidential Rural Development Programme (PRDP) is gaining momentum with 456 119 households having been given 456…
Tea production drops 14 percent, as El Nino rears its ugly head
Fildah Gwati TEA production has joined the list of casualties of the El Nino inspired drought with producers focusing on hectarages that match their irrigation capacity causing a 14 percent…
EDITORIAL COMMENT: Business responds seriously, positively to vision challenge
The Zimbabwean business community has responded very positively to the call by President Mnangagwa to back the national vision of an upper-income economy by 2030, and as part of the…
Call to expedite remodelling tobacco financing
As the 2024 tobacco marketing season opens today, calls are growing for a strategic shift in the financing model for the crop.