Air safety, market pressures and cockpit technology

In just five short months, two Boeing 737 Max 8 airliners crashed, killing a total of 346 passengers and crew members. Both occurred shortly after take-off, and the similarities between the two catastrophes raised fundamental questions about the aircraft’s safety. It was grounded by nation after nation, with only Canada and the United States holding out. Finally, they too halted flights on March 13.

Duty rebate on donated goods

Zimbabwe is among the Southern African countries that were affected by Cyclone Idai which caused a trail of destruction that has affected human and animal life and infrastructure.

We can fix Cylone Idai damage properly

The economic cost of Cylone Idai has yet to be quantified, the Government rightly at this point being more concerned about immediate aid to the communities and families hit, but the final total should not be that high, no more than 1 percent of the national budget and probably less.

CTC expects more mergers, acquisitions in 2019

The Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) is expecting to see more mergers and acquisitions in 2019 after the statutory body handled 18 mergers and acquisition transactions in 2018.

Cyclone Idai: The storm that knew no boundaries

Tropical cyclone Idai has made headlines across southern Africa throughout the month of March. Lingering in the Mozambique Channel at tropical cyclone intensity for six days, the storm made landfall in Beira, Mozambique in the middle of the month, then tracked in a westerly direction until its dissipation.

February month on month inflation at 1.67%

The month on month inflation rate in February 2019 was 1.67 percent shedding 9.08 percentage points on the January 2019 rate of 10.75 percent.

NSSA forensic audit nails former boss

Former National Social Security Authority (NSSA) chairman Robin Vela has been implicated in irregular housing deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars unearthed by a forensic audit that was instituted to probe various questionable transactions at the state pension fund last year.

SA backs Zimbabwe on import controls

Zimbabwe’s manufacturing industry may be the biggest beneficiary of the Third Session of the Zimbabwe-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) Summit held this week amid revelations Pretoria has given its blessings for Harare to maintain import tariffs on nearly 1000 product lines.

Listed entities stick to USD reporting standard for now

Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed companies that have released their financial results to date, have resorted to the use of old reporting standards as they await detailed guidelines from various regulators, Business Weekly has established.

Zesa to extend Hwange life for US$310m

Zesa Holdings is working on upgrading Hwange Power Station to restore the plant’s generation potential to rated capacity of 920 megawatts from current levels of around 700MW, acting group chief executive officer Patrick Chivaura has said.

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