Cairns Foods stages comeback
CAIRNS Foods, a unit of suspended Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE)-listed food manufacturing firm, Cairns Holdings Limited, is set to double output for baked beans products from its Mutare plant to meet...
View ArticleMayor Manyenyeni’s crucibles
Harare Mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni (BM), has had a turbulent tenure at the Harare City Council, where he has often clashed with management and Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo. The Financial...
View ArticleICAZ mourns Eric Bloch
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (ICAZ) has mourned the death of Eric Bloch, a renowned financial, management, taxation and economic consultant. A qualified Chartered Accountant and...
View ArticleChiefs get their pound of flesh
GOVERNMENT is to buy traditional chiefs brand new vehicles at a total cost of US$10 million and hike their monthly allowances by nearly 170 percent with effect from this month, despite grappling with a...
View ArticleNRZ strike unsettles investors
STRIKE action at the beleaguered National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) could undermine progress in the procurement of a US$460 million loan from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) meant to...
View ArticleMozambique snubs Zim
MOZAMBIQUE has snubbed Zimbabwe’s proposal to construct a second petroleum pipeline, a government official has revealed, saying the move has undermined plans to augment the existing pipeline which no...
View ArticleTsvangirai backs Mashakada
Acting Secretary General of the MDC-T, Tapiwa Mashakada. MDC-T president Morgan Tsvangirai is battling to control fissures within his party after trusted lieutenants successfully lobbied against...
View ArticleMedical aid societies in crisis
Dr Paul Chimedza, deputy minister of Health, was one of the key speakers at the Association of Health Funders of Zimbabwe conference recently. ZIMBABWE’s medical aid societies are slithering into...
View ArticleRooney adamant Man United can still be successful
Manchester United players in disbelief after letting slip their lead to a determined Leceister who beat them 5-3. Picture: ESPN WAYNE Rooney has promised that Manchester United’s current squad will be...
View ArticleStop wasting company time in meetings
HOW often do you call people and get told they are in a meeting. It seems managers have now perfected the art of holding meetings. The question is, are the meetings productive? In the majority of cases...
View ArticleTsvangirai to battle Mugabe without former comrades
Erstwhile friends, Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai. MOVEMENT for Democratic Change (MDC-T) president Morgan Tsvangirai will confront ZANU-PF and its presidential candidate without the majority of...
View ArticleMinister agitates for recognition
President Robert Mugabe and Harare resident minister Miriam Chikukwa. MINISTER of State for Provincial Affairs for Harare Province, Miriam Chikukwa, caused a stir by launching a public outburst at...
View ArticleGovt mulls alternatives to fund health insurance
Dr Paul Chimedza, deputy minister of Health, was one of the key speakers at the Association of Health Funders of Zimbabwe conference recently. THE Ministry of Health and Child Care is now exploring...
View ArticleTruant ZANU-PF officials face eviction
Jim Kunaka THE Harare City Council (HCC) is planning to evict ZANU-PF officials who have been leasing council properties without paying rentals thereby prejudicing the city of huge sums of money in...
View ArticleWill demos work in present day Zim?
Protests have always been quelled in Zimbabwe. “UNDER bad governments, equality is only apparent and illusory: it serves only to-keep the pauper in his poverty and the rich man in the position he has...
View ArticlePlot to oust Mliswa
ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Provincial chairman Temba Mliswa is walking a tight rope as his nemeses in the ruling party have temporarily put their differences aside to depose the outspoken politician from...
View ArticleEditorial | On a steep decline
AS we head into the last quarter of the year, nothing points towards redemption for the Zimbabwe economy. If anything, the slow growth of the economy and the denials of the political class of the...
View ArticleZimRe to delist from ZSE
CONGLOMERATE, ZIMRE Holdings Limited (ZHL), is considering delisting from the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), in a major blow to the bourse that has had too few listings over the past few years. Sources...
View ArticleIs social media making us anti-social?
ABOUT 25 percent of people surveyed by the Financial Gazette‘s Companies & Markets (C&M) recently said they had missed witnessing important moments because they were too busy sharing aspects of...
View ArticleReduce work accidents: Minister Goche
WITH 71 deaths at work in the first eight months of this year and 3 598 serious injuries, a lot more needs to be done to reduce work accidents, Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare Minister...
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