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Edgars turns to mass market and local supply
Edgars Stores Limited has effectively become Zimbabwe's sole listed clothing retailer after Truworths Zimbabwe entered corporate rescue in 2024, following a prolonged period of financial distress and ...Published: 20 Jun 2025 at 17:38hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy
GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 7 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Zimbabwe electricity generation to increase monthend
Power cuts being experienced across the country are expected to ease by the end of this month when power generation will increase on the back of two units being brought back to the national grid....Published: 16 Nov 2023 at 05:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF 'thugs' assault MP Nduna at nomination court
CHEGUTU West Member of Parliament (MP), Dexter Nduna was Wednesday manhandled by members of his Zanu-PF party outside the nomination court sitting in Chinhoyi resulting in an injury.The legisl...Published: 24 Jun 2023 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
13 distressed Zimbabwe firms rescued
Testifying to its commitment to tangible deliverables aimed at transforming the livelihoods of the people, the Second Republic, under the stewardship of President Mnangagwa, has resuscitated 13 previo...Published: 11 May 2023 at 05:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Dexter Nduna has case to answer
THE court has indicated that legislator, Dexter Nduna, has a case to answer in a matter he is alleged to have illegally prospected for gold at David Whitehead's waste dump site in Chegutu sometime in ...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
MPs call govt to order
LEGISLATORS from across the political divide yesterday teamed up in condemning the government sanctioned demolitions, describing them as an open war against citizens, particularly informal traders....Published: 17 Jun 2021 at 06:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Minister sucked into gold mine wrangle
THE Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairperson and Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has been sucked into a gold mine ownership wrangle in Chegutu amid reports he could have abused his office to a...Published: 10 Nov 2020 at 05:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
BCC engages business community to revive industry
Bulawayo City Council is engaging the local business community to spearhead the development and revival of industries.This was revealed by council spokesperson Bongiwe Ngwenya yesterday in a n...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tax scam costs Govt billions
Some players in the garment-making sector are allegedly skimming the Government of billions of dollars in potential tax revenue and suffocating downstream textile industries by abusing a special cloth...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Whitehead sale raises a stink
CONFLICT of interest and possible abuse of office concerns emerged this week after David Whitehead Textiles Ltd (DWTL) judicial manager Knowledge Hofisi sold a 51% equity stake in the textile company ...Published: 07 Jun 2019 at 07:26hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt only repays 2% of $9,5m domestic debt
GOVERNMENT has, in the first two months of the year, only managed to pay $195 million, or 2%, towards the country's domestic debt which is currently hovering around $9,5 billion, Finance and Economic ...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 06:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Nduna's claims on US$2m Zamco facility false'
David Whitehead Limited has dismissed claims by Chegutu West Member of Parliament Dexter Nduna that the company was failing to account for a $2 million facility extended by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabw...Published: 25 Mar 2019 at 23:02hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Job losses spike as economy deteriorates
POOR government policies have led to the escalation of the country's economic crisis with an estimated 13 000 people in the western region losing their jobs in the past 12 months, a labour official ha...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Indian firm to set up $40 million textile plant in Bulawayo
ONE of India's biggest and international acclaimed textile firms Shreejikrupa Spinners is considering investing over $40 million towards setting up a plant in Bulawayo soon.Industry and Commer...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 08:46hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Product dumping killing Zimbabwe industry
As local manufacturers struggle to raise foreign currency to import raw materials and equipment on one end, another uncontrolled delinquent flourishes on the other to their detriment. Cheap imports ha...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Battle for political supremacy in Kadoma
An interesting battle for supremacy has emerged between Kadoma's political heavyweights, with incumbent legislator Fani Phanuel Phiri (Zanu-PF) facing MDC Alliance candidate and current mayor Clr Much...Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 07:09hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A sad reminder that nothing has changed: Bulawayo-Harare highway
Under a gigantic Zanu-PF colourful election campaign billboard covered with the image of a half-smiling president of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is a small stall manned by a middle-aged vendor selli...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not only looking East
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says Zimbabwe is not just looking East but open for investors from all parts of the world.Addressing thousands of Zanu-PF supporters at-PFupajena Stadium in Chegut...Published: 02 Jun 2018 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Staf reporter
Most Zimbabweans buy from flea markets
More than 64% of Zimbabweans are relying heavily on flea markets for clothing as the country's clothing and textiles industry is yet to recover from years of under investment and distortions to the co...Published: 04 Mar 2018 at 18:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
David Whitehead revival hopes high
A public statement on the utilisation of the US$2 million injected by the government towards the resumption of operations at David Whitehead is expected early next week, amid hopes for a quick turnaro...Published: 24 Feb 2018 at 19:05hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa receives railway equipment from SA
THE revival of big industries in the mining, agriculture and manufacturing sectors is top of the Government's agenda as the nation seeks to transform the economy and create jobs for Zimbabweans,...Published: 22 Feb 2018 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions NRZ rolling stock
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has commissioned a consignment of 157 wagons, 7 locomotives and 7 coaches for the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), marking a giant step towards the country's revival o...Published: 21 Feb 2018 at 14:15hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
2018 Elections - Who will take the front seat?
Looking at the current political developments in the country one would agree with me that, the country is now ripe for Economic development. 2018 elections were once necessary mainly to end the regime...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 14:08hrs | | by Patrick Imbayarwo
Renewed political will gives hope for economic revival
THE new political dispensation has brought with it a renewed sense of hope for a genuine national economic turnaround that is expected to better the lives of the country's citizenry with economic anal...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
David Whitehead resumes operations
TEXTILE Company, David Whitehead Limited (DWTL), has resumed operations at its Chegutu factory after receiving a $2 million bailout from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe.The company had ceased ope...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 05:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa land deal in new twist
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) could have lost millions of pensioners' funds after it purportedly bought a non-existent Chegutu farm from Philip Chiyangwa as new details emerge that the...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 10:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo on the rebound
After decades of progressive decay, signs of recovery have started to show for Bulawayo's beleaguered industry as factories where birds had come to roost begin to rise out of their slumber.The...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe leaves sleepy Masvingo in awe
The cavalcade of top-notch fuel-guzzling vehicles snaked through the usually serene and traffic starved city of Masvingo guided by police riders that cleared the road for President Robert Mugabe to cr...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maridadi deserves the title
Mthwakazi Republic Party spokesperson Mbonisi Gumbo has said MDC-T legislator James Maridadi deserves the title honourable after he made brilliant submissions in parliament over the Chinese investors ...Published: 21 Mar 2017 at 06:13hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
VP Mnangagwa interview makes troubling reading- Moyo
Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo has said the piece that features an interview with Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa was making a troubling reading on many fronts and was terri...Published: 04 Jan 2017 at 05:39hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Banks should have SMEs desk - Zanu PF MP
Zanu PF MP for Chegutu Dexter Nduna has said banks in the country should introduce desks for the Small to Medium Enterprises as a way of promoting the local industrial growth.Speaking in parli...Published: 30 Jul 2016 at 09:38hrs | | by Stephen Jake
'13 companies liquidated, 1 000 retrenched,' says RBZ
Enacy Mapakame NEARLY 1 000 people were retrenched as 13 companies liquidated during the first quarter of 2016 on depressed manufacturing activity, according to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (R...Published: 12 Jul 2016 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC-T rapped for supporting violence
ANALYSTS yesterday rapped the MDC-T after the opposition party hastily convened a press conference urging its members to join hooligans who were blocking roads in Epworth and Ruwa.The beleague...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Gumbo and Chikwati
David Whitehead workers enlist Mphoko's help
DAVID Whitehead Textiles employees have petitioned Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko demanding the removal of the final judicial manager Mr Knowledge Hofisi of Aurifin and Capital, claiming that two a...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:57hrs | | by Takunda Maodza
MDC-T in bid to escalate violence
ANALYSTS yesterday rapped the MDC-T after the opposition party hastily convened a Press conference urging its members to join hooligans who were blocking roads in Epworth and Ruwa.The beleague...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 06:54hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo and Elita Chikwati
Zimbabwe army general calls on industry to invest in research, development
ZIMBABWE industry should invest in research and development and link with the defence forces and the government to promote local production and procurement to support economic growth, Defence Forces G...Published: 27 May 2016 at 06:31hrs | 35 | by Staff reporter
Cephas Msipa presents fascinating read in auto-biography
Cephas George Msipa, one of Zimbabwe's living pioneer freedom-fighters, will officially launch his book, In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice, in Bulawayo this Friday.Msipa, 85, lives in Gweru in...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Saul Gwakuba Ndlovu
LISTEN: Mugabe 92 birthday interview
Tazzen Mandizvidza (TM): Hello and welcome to the programme, "The President@92", this is a special programme in which we talk to the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe who turned 92 on the 21st of ...Published: 05 Mar 2016 at 07:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF MP wants prisoners' sperms exported
Zanu PF MP for Chegutu Dexter Nduna has described the unemployed youths in his constituency as pollution which is resulting to an increase in number of people going to prisons and urged the governmen...Published: 13 Feb 2016 at 08:26hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
History of Labor in Zimbabwe before and after independence - Part one
If the former Prime Minister of Rhodesia; Ian Douglas Smith was alive today he would concur that the white regime lost the war because of the failure of the government to implement labor laws an...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 12:50hrs | 45 | by Nomazulu Thata
Zanu-PF Conference: Much ado about nothing
The ZANU PF annual circus rolls into the magnificent national resort of Victoria Falls while a bewildered and bemused nation wonders how a group of men and women can recklessly sacrifice this beautifu...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 16:00hrs | 2 | by Moses Manyengavana, PDP Youth Assembly President
'No amount of money can revive David Whitehead textiles'
Chegutu West legislator, Dexter Nduna has claimed that there is no amount of money which can revive the David Whitehead Textiles ubnless the company change its credit into equity.Nduna made th...Published: 24 Oct 2015 at 11:06hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Zimbabweans love Mazda, OK and TelOne - survey
Zimbabweans show that when it comes to price-quality ratio, companies and brands ranging from Mazda, OK and TelOne to Nestlé, Delta and CABS have come out on top in their respective categories in the...Published: 10 Sep 2015 at 08:33hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Former Chapungu FC player dies
Former Chapungu FC player Gilbert Nyakudanga has died.Berina Community Radio Station reported that the soccer fraternity has once again been plunged into mourning following the death of Gilber...Published: 30 Jul 2015 at 08:34hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Clothing industry needs Government protection
The unbridled influx of smuggled second hand clothing into the country daily is causing the total extinction of the local clothing industry. Clothes manufacturers and the respective outlets which ...Published: 18 Jun 2015 at 13:34hrs | | by Suitable Kajau
Zimbabwe to restore its breadbasket status
Through the agricultural farming equipment that was financed by the Brazilian government recently, Zimbabwe has the opportunity to regain its status as the bread basket of Africa once again....Published: 28 May 2015 at 09:34hrs | 1 | by Peacemaker Zano
Residents still sharing toilets 34 years after independence
Despite the country attaining 35 years of Independence this year, some residents in Kadoma are living without access to proper ablution facilities.A survey carried by The Zimbabwean recent...Published: 21 Jan 2015 at 11:07hrs | | by Marcus Tawona
David Whitehead Resuscitation of operations Noble
Zimbabwe used to have burgeoning textile industries with companies like David Whitehead, Julie White and Fashion Enterprises, most of who have gone out of business. Therefore, there is an opportun...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 09:48hrs | 13 | by Stewart Murewa
'Stop harassing vendors', cops urged
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday blasted members of the Zimbabwe Republic Police saying they should stop harassing women who are into vending at a time when the economy is struggling to perform ...Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 10:27hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
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