BRIAN Nandana- a 30-year-old inDrive driver who was allegedly killed by his friend in Warren Park suburb last week, was laid to rest yesterday at Glen Forest Memorial Park in Harare. His funeral service was held at Newstart Children’s Home, where he was raised. Brian’s body was discovered in a shallow grave at Warren Hills…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITE FORMER Allied Timbers chief executive officer and former president of the Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI), Joseph Kanyekanye’s accomplice, Lucia Kunaka appeared in court on Friday on allegations of forging president Emmerson Mnangagwa’s signature before extorting a business man more than US$600 000. Kunaka was remanded in custody until tomorrow…
Rutendo Ngara SENIOR STAFF WRITER TOBACCO farmers in Matabeleland are targeting to produce two million kilogrammes of the golden leaf during the 2026/27 summer cropping season. This comes amid growing interest in tobacco production across Matabeleland, with hundreds of small-scale farmers taking up the crop under the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board’s (TIMB) natural cured…
ALTHOUGH Zimbabwe’s economy appears to have turned the corner, a full return to the exclusive use of the country’s own currency remains a distant prospect. So says prominent economist and businessman, Eddie Cross, who also prays that the country’s history of political chaos does not scupper the current economic progress. Speaking on Thursday night on…
KUDZANAI GEREDE THE Zimbabwe Mercantile Exchange (ZMX) is battling worsening commodity supply shortages, with demand outstripping available stocks across key agricultural products, triggering pricing pressures and weakened agro-industrial supply chains. According to the ZMX latest trading bulletin, the exchange reported severe supply imbalances in maize, wheat and soya beans as buyers struggled to secure adequate…
MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE LOCALLY manufactured products are continuing to gain ground in the country’s retail sector, with the government saying more than two-thirds of goods now found on supermarket shelves are produced locally. The development comes amid ongoing efforts to promote import substitution, strengthen local industry and reduce reliance on imported goods under the government’s industrialisation…
ALMOT MAQOLO ZIMBABWE’ small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are failing to utilise trade remedy safeguards against unfair imports due to low awareness and participation, the Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) said in its Q1 2026 report. Zimbabwe’s long-marginalised SME sector is beginning to receive infrastructural attention that reflects its importance to the economy. SMEs account…
ALMOT MAQOLO ZIMBABWE’ small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are failing to utilise trade remedy safeguards against unfair imports due to low awareness and participation, the Competition and Tariff Commission (CTC) said in its Q1 2026 report. Zimbabwe’s long-marginalised SME sector is beginning to receive infrastructural attention that reflects its importance to the economy. SMEs account…
THE government says it is moving to restore order in the mining sector and will arrest owners of mining claims who allow illegal artisanal miners to operate on their concessions. This development comes amid growing concern over fatal mining accidents across the country with some registered claim holders being fingered for allowing illegal mining activities…
MASIMBA MAKWEMBERE EIGHT Roman Catholic members died while others were injured in a road traffic accident that occurred yesterday at Deka Bridge in Hwange, Matabeleland North Province. Police national spokesperson Paul Nyathi confirmed the accident yesterday and said the victims were coming from a church event. “The ZRP reports a fatal road traffic accident at…
