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Acting Business Editor CHINA has for the fourth year-running remained the major importer of Zimbabwe tobacco consuming 60,3 million kilogrammes of the golden leaf in 2013, statistics from the Tobacco…
Zimra misses net revenue target
Acting Business Editor THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) missed its net revenue target for 2013 and blamed liquidity challenges, power cuts and scaling down of operations by companies for the…
National Foods re-opens Mutare milling plant
THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange-listed company National Foods has re-opened its maize milling plant in the eastern border town of Mutare, which has been inactive for the past six years.
Schweppes in talks to export regionally
Harare Bureau LOCAL beverages manufacturer Schweppes Zimbabwe plans to export some of its products into the Southern African Development Community.
Government drafting contract farming policy
Harare Bureau Government is drafting a Statutory Instrument (SI) to guide contract farming and encourages farmers to switch to the arrangement. Farmers are in a dilemma due to lack of…
NEC to present report on findings
Acting Business Editor THE National Employment Council (NEC) for the mining industry is expected to present its findings on claims by the Chamber of Mines that the lowest paid worker…
Tourism association loses $100,000 in potential revenue
Victoria Falls Reporter THE Hwange-Gwayi-Dete Conservancy and Tourism Association has lost more than $100,000 in potential revenue from hunting safaris following its decision to cancel bookings for the greater part…
Weak rand lures tourists from Africa, America
Cape Town — “This summer season there appeared to have been more African and American visitors to Cape Town, as well as more tourists from Europe, particularly from the UK…
Strike hits world’s top platinum producers
Marikana — Mines producing half the world’s platinum shut down yesterday as the sector’s main union began a strike for hefty wage hikes their employers say they cannot pay.
Minister steps into Gwanda passrates shame
Marvelous Moyo Gwanda Correspondent THE Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in Matabeleland South, Cde Abednico Ncube yesterday said he would approach the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education to…