Poultry producers hike eggs price

Charity Ruzvidzo Business Reporter POULTRY producers in Bulawayo have increased the price of eggs due to high demand this festive season. One of the city’s major poultry suppliers, Higrow Poultry…

Plant short season varieties: ZCFU

Charity Ruzvidzo  Business Reporter THE Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU) has urged farmers to plant short season varieties to boost food security. ZCFU president Wonder Chabikwa said planting short season…

ZSE in record loss

THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange recorded its biggest year to date loss since dollarisation at the end of the year yesterday. The benchmark Industrial Index lost 19.46 percent as weak foreign…

Increased support for cotton farmers

Martin Kadzere Harare Bureau The government has increased support to cotton farmers with the aim of improving yields and quality, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Minister  Joseph Made has said.

Small businesses struggling with labour laws

Labour Matters Davies Ndumiso Sibanda AS small businesses become major employers of labour there is a sudden increase in labour disputes between small business owners and employees and in the…

Shift in Cuba-US ties refreshing

By Tim Anderson THE dramatic shift in Cuban-US relations has caused joy both in Cuba and among those of us who backed the independent island for decades, but confusion elsewhere.

Editorial Comment: Find ways to stop ARVs theft racket

Anti-Retroviral drugs are providing an important lifeline to people living with HIV. Before the advent of ARVs, the lives of people living with HIV were greatly shortened but they can…

VP Mphoko directs Minister to settle land row

Nduduzo Tshuma Senior Political Reporter VICE President Phelekezela Mphoko has directed Matabeleland South Provincial Affairs Minister Abedinico Ncube to solve a wrangle over Magwamazi Ranch in Beitbridge District between resettled…

Knives out for Chamisa

Harare Bureau SENIOR MDC-T national executive members plan to pass a vote of no confidence in the party’s former organising secretary Nelson Chamisa for allegedly plotting to unseat party president…

Resettled farmers get death threats

Munyaradzi Musiiwa  Midlands Correspondent ABOUT 50 resettled farmers in Vhungwana resettlement area of Lower Gweru are living in fear after their houses were torched by people from surrounding communities protesting…

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