British firm to invest in Zim banks
A BRITISH firm is considering investing in Zimbabwe’s troubled financial sector, which has seen several banks collapsing over the past few years, a British diplomat revealed last week. Britain’s...
View ArticleHunyani forecasts improved performance
HUNYANI Holdings is forecasting an improved performance during the second half of the year after a restructuring exercise which is expected to be completed by June this year. The restructuring will...
View ArticleMangudya has a job to do
The appointment of John Mangudya, the current chief executive officer of banking group CBZ Holdings, as governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) with effect from next month should surely have...
View ArticleThis is a disaster!
The rot in our body politic is manifest in other facets of our lives. We may not want to care about the goings on at the Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) House but the decisions or lack of...
View ArticleNo one will say I did not warn them — Mangoma
BARELY three months ago, he was a deputy treasurer-general, whom many thought was mild, malleable and agreeable to Morgan Tsvangirai’s leadership of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T). Today,...
View ArticleMuchechetere’s five-star treatment raises eyebrows
SUSPENDED Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) chief executive officer, Happyson Muchechetere, must count himself lucky judging by the way his court appearance was handled. Muchechetere was recently...
View ArticleGovt unlikely to repay New ZimSteel loans
GOVERNMENT may not be able to meet its obligation to settle New ZimSteel’s domestic debt which it agreed to repay as part of the conditions to resuscitate operations at the steel manufacturer, a...
View ArticlePressure piles on government
PRESSURE is piling on ZANU-PF to tackle a cocktail of economic challenges that threaten to bring business operations and the economy to a halt. After a landslide victory in the July 31, 2013 harmonised...
View ArticleMinister defies cabinet
MINES and Mining Development Minister, Walter Chidhakwa has defied a Cabinet resolution barring permanent secretaries from sitting on the boards of parastatals. Chidhakwa recently appointed new boards...
View ArticleHwange on brink of judicial management
TYCOON Nicholas van Hoogstraten (pictured) has written to the embattled Hwange Colliery Company Limited demanding an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) where he will fight to axe the board and top...
View Article. . . Chamisa fingered in Mangoma violence
AS the internal turmoil continues to rage on in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), national organising secretary, Nelson Chamisa, has been implicated in the violence unleashed on the party’s...
View ArticleMangoma to lead MDC-T?
THE leadership renewal debate reverberating within the troubled Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) has taken another peculiar twist with suspended deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma declaring...
View ArticleDating the king at the escarpment
I DECIDED to head north two weeks ago. Having exhausted my appetite for energy- sapping adventures through the rambling waters of the Zambezi, both through the authoritative river channel to the west...
View ArticleThe story of Obama fictionalised
Writing a book of fiction based on a living character is no easy undertaking. Barack Obama, President of the United States, is an even more complex choice for fictional treatment. But local author,...
View ArticleGovt accrues massive power debt
GOVERNMENT has accrued over US$114 million in interest on its Federation-era debt to Zambia inherited after the taking over of power generation assets that had been shared between the two countries,...
View ArticleFather’s shoes too big for Zvobgo Jnr
MASVINGO — Eddison Zvobgo Jnr seems to be finding it difficult to retrace his father’s political footsteps. If recent developments are anything to go by, it would appear that the late maverick...
View ArticleOpposition parties in disarray
RUCTIONS within opposition political parties in Zimbabwe have shaken the confidence of those eager to see change in the manner the country’s affairs are governed. The country’s main opposition...
View ArticleZim’s US coins deal collapses
ZIMBABWE’S plans to import coins from the United States to alleviate the shortage of coins for small denomination change has collapsed, meaning the country will continue to depend on South African rand...
View ArticleUK, US embroiled in MDC-T succession battle
WASHINGTON and Number 10 Downing Street are said to be at odds over who should take over from Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) leader Morgan Tsvangirai as the leadership renewal agenda gains...
View ArticleMDC-T returnees to face disciplinary action
THE Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) this week said it will subject some of the returning members who were either expelled or left the party on their own volition to disciplinary hearings, the...
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