Nigeria to loan cash-strapped states $435m
Abuja – Nigeria’s government will loan its states a total of 90 billion naira (about $453m), in its latest effort to augment their monthly income and ease strain caused by…
Bata enlists rural women as shoe merchandisers
Lovemore Zigara: Midlands Correspondent THE country’s largest shoe manufacturer, Bata Shoe Company has partnered with a non-governmental organisation, the African Women in Developing Economies (AWIDE) to contract rural women to…
Zanu-PF MPs start party’s lessons
Nqobile Tshili: Chronicle Correspondent ZANU-PF Members of Parliament yesterday started lessons on the party’s ideology premised on the Chitepo Ideological College that was operational during the liberation struggle. The lessons…
Ramaphosa thanks SA unions, business for junk status escape
Cape Town – South Africa has to thank its extremely militant labour unions as well as big business for the country not having been downgraded to junk by the three…
Rand adoption to trigger Zim price correction: Analysts
Business Reporters ADOPTING the South African Rand as the major transacting currency could force a price correction in Zimbabwe and enhance local manufacturers’ competitiveness while solving the liquidity challenges the…
Mozambique currency plunges
Maputo – An International Monetary Fund team arrived in Mozambique on Wednesday to try to find a way out of a sovereign debt crisis that is crippling the economy of…
Zim-SA seal deal
Bianca Mlilo: Business Reporter ZIMBABWE recorded a 22 percent increase in tourist arrivals from South Africa between 2014 and 2015, the Ministry of Tourism and Hospitality Industry has revealed.
Lady Stanley burial for Lameck Kasuka
Sikhumbuzo Moyo: Senior Sports Reporter FORMER Highlanders Rugby Club player Lameck Kasuka, who died last Sunday at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) at the age of 49, will be buried…
Brexit would put a ‘for sale’ sign over much of UK
London – The independence of United Kindom multinationals could be at risk if sterling collapses after a vote for Brexit. Shares denominated in pounds would suddenly look cheap to buyers…
Lobengula spear ‘thief’ nabbed
Nqobile Tshili: Chronicle Correspondent POLICE in Bulawayo have arrested a man who allegedly broke into the Old Bulawayo Museum and stole King Lobengula’s gold coated spear among other artefacts that…

