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Go Beer Breweries nears revival
Gweru residents are anticipating a brighter festive season with the imminent revival of Go Beer Breweries, which has been dormant for nearly a decade. The Gweru City Council has committed US$2.3 milli...Published: 13 Dec 2024 at 09:29hrs | 143 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu fails to pay transporters
Truck owners in Bulawayo have clashed with Ingwebu Breweries (Pvt) Limited, a company owned by the Bulawayo City Council, over unpaid dues for car hire services. The truck operators claim they have no...Published: 10 Oct 2024 at 07:55hrs | 955 | by Staff reporter
Gweru airport project stalls
Plans by the Gweru City Council to transform its aerodrome into a fully operational airport have hit a snag, with delays at the Deeds Office cited as the primary obstacle. This revelation emerged duri...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:53hrs | 1917 | by Staff reporter
Power challenges delay Go Beer re-opening
Gweru Mayor Martin Chivhoko announced at a recent full council meeting that the servicing of equipment at the city's beer concern, Go Beer, has been completed. However, plans for reopening are hindere...Published: 10 Jul 2024 at 07:49hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu seeks bill payment holiday
Ingwebu Breweries, owned by Bulawayo City Council, has requested an exemption from paying its water bill, which has accumulated to over US$400,000. This request was detailed in the latest council minu...Published: 24 Jun 2024 at 06:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu requests water payment holiday
Ingwebu Breweries, owned by the Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Unit, requested a one-time water payment holiday from the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) due to the 2023/24 El Niño-induced drought. This dr...Published: 09 Jun 2024 at 09:07hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Indian soldiers in murky deals
SUSPECTED former Indian army officers, who have been operating in Mozambique's troubled northern province of Cabo Delgado region, have reportedly settled in Zimbabwe, where they are allegedly operatin...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 05:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta Loss control manager demands USD from clients
Delta Beverages, a prominent brewery, has purportedly initiated a demand for payments in foreign currency for its product range within Mashonaland Central province. This action unfolds against a backd...Published: 04 Nov 2023 at 12:18hrs | 32 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Zanu-PF's bhora musango proponent in hot soup
Zanu-PF has cracked the whip and summoned its disqualified and disgruntled aspiring candidate for Chipinge South - Mr Robert Nyemudzo - for a disciplinary hearing for allegedly orchestrating a bhora m...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 13:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Council divided over Go Beer revival
Gweru City councillors have called on management to compile a report on the defunct Go Beer Breweries before the local authority entertains any plans of reclaiming the business.The brewery was...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries hunts for board members
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking, Ingwebu Breweries, is hunting for three new board members to fill gaps created by the expiry of the term of office of previous members.The board'...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe in 2023: There is great disorder, chaos under the heavens
GEORGE Orwell wrote so much and so well that one day it became cause for a whole essay to explain to himself and the world why he wrote as such.In the essay of 1946, Why I Write, Orwell recoun...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 05:49hrs | 70 | by Dr William Jethro Mpofu
Victoria Falls corruption jolts July Moyo into action
LOCAL Government and Public Works minister July Moyo has recommended the Victoria Falls City Council to come up with a robust housing policy whose absence is fuelling the rampant illegal allocation of...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
July Moyo pressures Victoria Falls City Council to give prime land to gold baron
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo, who is entangled in Victoria Falls land scandals — with his ally mayor Somveli Dlamini currently out of jail on bail after he was arrested for a fraudulent land ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 14:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
July Moyo entangled in Vic Falls corruption scandals
LOCAL Government minister July Moyo (pictured), who is entangled in Victoria Falls land scandals — with his ally mayor Somveli Dlamini currently out of jail on bail after he was arrested for a fraud...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mafume promises to rebuild decrepit Rufaro to international standards
HARARE Mayor Jacob Mafume has declared that council will rehabilitate Rufaro Stadium to world class standards on its own, declaring the local authority has the financial capacity to implement the ambi...Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Production costs, competition strain Ingwebu
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking's beverages producer, Ingwebu Breweries, says rising costs of production coupled with increasing competition strained its earnings, which saw profit dropping ...Published: 10 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu re-introduces 'Shake Shake' beer
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking's beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries, has re-introduced its "Shake It" opaque beer brand as the company augments its market share and operational...Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu to set up PET, water bottling plants
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking owned Ingwebu Breweries is working on establishing a polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plant at their depot so as to package their beer in takeaway bottles...Published: 17 Oct 2021 at 09:01hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Bureaux de change operator opens shop in western suburbs
WHILE many financial service businesses are concentrated in the Central Business District, Swift Global Forex Bureaux de Change has decided to be different.The entity has become the first comp...Published: 29 Sep 2021 at 06:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Beer shortages hit Bulawayo, surrounding areas
SOLE clear beer manufacturer, Delta Corporation Limited is now coercing its customers to buy unpopular beer brands as clear beer shortages have hit the southern region.A survey carried by New ...Published: 02 Sep 2021 at 12:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu mulls opaque beer exports
IN an effort to position itself for a wider regional footprint under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), beverages producer, Ingwebu Breweries, is considering packaging of its traditiona...Published: 11 May 2021 at 06:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Businessman breaks up marriage
THE serial bed-hopping antics of Plumtree-based businessman Bhekisisa Bhebhe, who was chucked out of his in-laws' house after his shenanigans were exposed, caused the marriage dissolution that befell ...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu scales down operations
INGWEBU Breweries has scaled-down operations to 50 percent due to Covid-19 pandemic that has forced the Government to ban bottle stores from operating as part of measures to contain the disease. Befor...Published: 19 Jan 2021 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Shebeens sprout in Vic Falls amid lockdown
Shebeens are sprouting around Victoria Falls with many houses being turned into drinking spots in the absence of bars and nightclubs that were closed because of the Covid-19 lockdown.Shebeen o...Published: 13 Dec 2020 at 08:05hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Some cheap goods can be very expensive
Sweet tongue trickster is a conman (confidence man) who can be a woman as well. They are very smart with words and can actually sell a fridge to an Eskimo whose igloo is made using ice blocks. ...Published: 11 Sep 2020 at 07:04hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Ingwebu Breweries re-introduces mahewu
REBOUNDING Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries will re-introduce its non-alcoholic sorghum drink, Royal Mahewu next month as it seeks to ...Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Delta targets Botswana, SA markets
Listed beverages maker Delta Corporation says it is moving ahead with plans to consolidate the ownership of its Chibuku brand in the region with an arrangement to enter Malawi and Botswana markets bef...Published: 04 Aug 2019 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu's remarkable turnaround
BULAWAYO Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)'s beverages manufacturing unit, Ingwebu Breweries, which has close to a decade been reeling under massive losses, has had a remarkable turnaround....Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:38hrs | 1 | by Sytaff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries caught in the eye of a storm
The Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)-run Ingwebu Breweries has been caught in a storm after failing to furnish its contractors who are running tenders of transporting the opaque beer w...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 08:28hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Ingwebu franchises its beer outlets
INGWEBU Breweries plans to franchise all its beer retailing outlets and focus on manufacturing and distribution of traditional beer, a development which could increase the company's revenue by at leas...Published: 06 Feb 2019 at 08:19hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu Breweries invites suppliers
The Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)-run Ingwebu Breweries has called for fresh applications from current and prospective suppliers who are registered by Procurement and Regulation Aut...Published: 26 Jan 2019 at 17:16hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
7 killed in road accidents
Seven people died in road traffic accidents in Bulawayo and Masvingo yesterday while 56 others were injured in the two accidents. Two people died on the spot while 37 others were injured when ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gweru council unbundles Go Beer Breweries
GWERU City Council has resolved to unbundle its Go Beer Breweries unit after failing to attract investors. The council's public relations officer, Mr Manford Gambiza, said council resolved to ...Published: 08 Oct 2018 at 06:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Gweru privatises Go-Beer farms
GWERU City Council finance director, Edgar Mwedzi yesterday disclosed that the local authority is in the process of registering a private company to oversee the running of Go-Beer Breweries farms as p...Published: 28 Sep 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Delta invests $3m into Bulawayo infrastructure projects
BEVERAGES maker, Delta Corporation, has invested close to $3 million in effluent and road upgrade projects in Bulawayo since 2016 as part of its community development initiatives. As one of th...Published: 13 Sep 2018 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Delta in accelerated sustainability spending
DELTA Corporation (Delta) says it has invested at least $2,9 million in infrastructure-related corporate social investments under its integrated sustainable development framework.Sustainabilit...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
BCC seek to lease high density beer outlets
THE Bulawayo City Council has invited applications for potential partners interested in leasing its beer outlets located in the high-density suburbs as the local authority currently struggles to capit...Published: 30 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
New boss for Ingwebu Breweries
THE Bulawayo Municipal Commercial Undertaking (BMCU)-run Ingwebu Breweries will soon get a new managing director after Bulawayo councillors decided against extending the contract of the incumbent....Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Lumumba ejected from Mnangagwa function?
Acie Lumumba - real name William Gerald Mutumanje - was yesterday ejected from President ED Mnangagwa's tour of Delta for gatecrashing.The controversial activist turned up at the Delta Corpora...Published: 24 Jul 2018 at 15:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF rejects spoiling MDC Alliance with their dirty tactics
Not long ago I warned about the dangers of coalitions built on political convenience and not values and ideological leanings. I warned that such coalitions bring unsavoury characters onbo...Published: 23 Jul 2018 at 13:35hrs | 2 | by Hopewell Chin'ono
Tsholotsho boy opens craft brewery in Cape Town
I was born and bred in Tsholotsho, a village in Zimbabwe. As a child, I enjoyed watching my grandparents brewing traditional beer - umqombothi.The process was fascinating. But because my paren...Published: 09 Jun 2018 at 18:33hrs | 6 | by Staff writer
10 Dangerous places to eat in Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls is such an awesome place to visit for a number of reasons. One of the biggest features of this town happens to be the choices of food and drink you have. Ironically all these places com...Published: 24 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | 17 | by Carl Joshua Ncube
Harare 'city of booze'
Harare mayor, Bernard Manyenyeni has chided the local authority for licensing more bottle stores at the expense of residential stands, earning itself the tag "booze city".Manyenyeni said city ...Published: 05 Apr 2018 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ingwebu requires $100m war chest
Ingwebu Breweries which was unbundled last year needs more than $100 million to be fully turned around, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) mayor, Martin Moyo, has revealed.Ingwebu has been run under ...Published: 14 Feb 2018 at 05:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa does not drink beer
President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa became a teetotaller during the liberation struggle in Mozambique after he witnessed fellow comrades die of excessive alcohol consumption. The President r...Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 08:40hrs | | by Staf reporter
Delta to complete Natbrew Zambia acquisition next year
DELTA Corporation Limited says the transaction for the acquisition of National Brewery Zambia (Natbrew) is expected to be completed by March next year as the beverages maker consolidates its position ...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 04:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC privatise Ingwebu
THE Bulawayo City Council (BCC) has privatised its commercial undertaking, Ingwebu Breweries as part of efforts to turn around the loss making entity.Early this year, BCC announced that it had...Published: 05 Oct 2017 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's ally employed by Biti as a lawyer
AT its formation, the MDC had the vibrancy of youthful politicians who managed to change the face of opposition politics in Zimbabwe.One such person was, Job "Wiwa" Sikhala, known for his fier...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe city honours prostitutes who made the town popular
Chiredzi - A town in Zimbabwe has set tongues wagging after honouring prostitutes who plied their trade in the 1960s and 1970s. Chiredzi, a small sugar-growing establishment in the Southern Region, is...Published: 15 May 2017 at 15:00hrs | 2 | by Garikai Mafirakurevai
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