THE government says it is scaling up efforts to revive Zimbabwe’s pharmaceutical manufacturing industry in a bid to boost universal health coverage. Speaking on the sidelines of a business stakeholders’ engagement meeting in Bulawayo yesterday, the minister of Industry and Commerce, Mangaliso Ndhlovu, said the local pharmaceutical industry was now on a firm growth path…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER A CHITUNGWIZA man allegedly ransacked the Office of the President twice and other government offices and stole property worth US$23 000. Romeo Kurai Pemba yesterday appeared before Harare magistrate Tapiwa Kuhudzai and pleaded guilty to nine counts of unlawful entry. He awaits formal plea recording today. It is the State’s…
Takudzwa Dhambu and Thabiso Mutirwara HARARE mayor Jacob Mafume has announced plans to establish a designated dumpsite for abandoned or malfunctioning vehicles parked illegally across the city. This follows the recent tragedy in Kuwadzana Extension, where the bodies of three missing children were discovered in the boot of a parked car a day after they…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER TWO Zanu PF officials who allegedly illegally parcelled out land in Hopley, Harare, to more than 200 residents appeared in court yesterday facing US$1.5 million fraud charges. Phinias Muchichwa and Anderson Frendson, who are district party officials in Hopley, were remanded in custody and are expected back in court on…
THE Department of Agricultural, Technical and Extension Services (Agritex) reports that Matabeleland South Province continues to make steady strides in its rural industrialisation programme, with 345 Village Business Units already operational. Speaking on Sunday during a joint meeting of the Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) and Provincial Development Committee (PDC) in Gwanda, Matabeleland South Agritex deputy…
Yvonne Ncube in BULAWAYO A BULAWAYO-BASED company, Luzern Enterprises (Pvt) Ltd, has been fined US$400 after being caught selling unregistered skin-lightening creams worth nearly US$1 000. The company’s sales representative, Simelweyinkosi Kanye of Bellevue suburb, appeared before Bulawayo magistrate Maxwell Ncube on behalf of the firm. Luzern Enterprises was convicted of selling unregistered medicines following…
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Retailers (CZR) has opposed a proposal by the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) to introduce an import and export licencing regime for clothing and textile products. This comes after CZI submitted a proposal to the ministry of Industry and Commerce on behalf of industry players for the imposition of an import…
ZIMBABWE now has one of the most unequal societies in the world, which is neither good nor sustainable, veteran economist and presidential biographer Eddie Cross has said. The concerned Cross lamented at the weekend that while a few people in the country, who included both black and white, had amassed obscene wealth — many of…
Blessings Mashaya and Brandon Josphat THE ruling Zanu PF has implored its members to desist from fanning factionalism within the former liberation movement. Addressing party members in Mashonaland Central on Saturday, Zanu PF national political commissar, Munyaradzi Machacha, said divisions were not good for both the party and the country. This comes as the former…
ZIMBABWE recorded a significant increase in tourist arrivals in the second quarter of 2025, with 471 041 visitors entering the country, up from 381 293 during the same period in 2024, according to Zimstat. This comes after President Emmerson Mnangagwa implored international exhibitors to continue supporting the country’s tourism products. In a transport statistics brief,…
