Basel III: Why Zim should comply
Tawanda Musarurwa With the deadline for the implementation of Basel III set for March 31, 2019, Zimbabwe’s financial services sector appears to be far from it. The Basel Standards were…
African cocoa giants come together on sales strategy
Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, which together supply about 60 percent of the world’s cocoa, will start co-ordinating their sales of the beans as part of efforts to exert more influence…
A pyrrhic victory for trade hawks
The recently announced trade “truce” with China didn’t last long: Unless negotiators led by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross reach a breakthrough in talks scheduled for this weekend, tariffs on Chinese…
‘Zim may be losing $300m VAT yearly’
Golden Sibanda Treasury might be losing over $300 million in potential annual Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue due to smuggled products that do not pay any taxes, the country’s single…
Byo: The historic heartland of Zim
Tawanda Musarurwa Ever been to a place so many times, and then for the umpteenth time you get to realise that you hardly know the place? This is exactly the…
Who will win the World Cup?
Professional athletes are just like us. They’re in much better shape, of course, but they still find it hard to recover from long plane trips. Research shows that athletes perform worse…
All eyes on De Villiers
Chipo Sabeta All eyes will be on Zimbabwe Sables coach Peter De Villiers, who has an immediate task to lead the Zimbabwe rugby senior team qualify and seeking to end…
US fails to keep pace with global tourism boom
Berlin. — The United States is missing out on a global boom for tourism, hurt by a so-called Trump slump and currency exchange rates, travel industry experts said at a…
Bulawayo Chiefs: The new party spoilers
Africa Moyo On recent form, one would have been forgiven for thinking that Bulawayo Chiefs are the defending champions or are topping the Castle Lager Premier Soccer League. Two straight…
U.S. monthly consumer prices increase moderately in May
WASHINGTON – U.S. monthly consumer inflation rose moderately in May as gasoline price increases slowed, suggesting the Federal Reserve could continue to gradually raise interest rates this year. The Labor…


