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Sunway City targets 70% growth in five years
Sunway City, one of Zimbabwe's flagship special economic zones (SEZs) and a major smart city development project, is aiming to reach at least 70 percent completion within the next five years as part o...Published: 11 May 2025 at 21:57hrs | 854 | by Staff reporter
Whi-Zim's cement plant progressing well in Zimbabwe
Construction of a multi-million-dollar cement manufacturing plant by Chinese firm Whi-Zim on the outskirts of Magunje Growth Point is progressing smoothly, with commissioning scheduled for June 2025, ...Published: 10 May 2025 at 20:48hrs | 1500 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe restricts steel imports
The Zimbabwean government has introduced new restrictions on the importation of specific steel products, requiring importers to obtain licences before bringing them into the country, in a move designe...Published: 02 May 2025 at 19:44hrs | 626 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga urges industry to partner universities
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga yesterday called on Zimbabwe's industry and commerce sectors to strengthen their collaboration with universities and research institutions to drive innovation and f...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:35hrs | 654 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe unveils fund to support value chains
The Government of Zimbabwe has launched the Industrial Development Fund (IDF) to support the strengthening of domestic value chains, promote industrial growth, and increase the export of value-added g...Published: 24 Apr 2025 at 07:20hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's steel revolution begins
Zimbabwe has taken a major step toward economic transformation and self-sufficiency with the launch of full-scale finished steel production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) plant in Manhiz...Published: 17 Apr 2025 at 07:29hrs | 7231 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe steel production cuts import reliance
A monumental step forward for Zimbabwe's import substitution strategy has been achieved with the commencement of extensive finished steel production at the Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco) plant ...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 08:43hrs | 1046 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches ZImbabwe's new land tenure programme
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to launch the new Land Tenure Implementation Programme today at Pricabe Farm in Kwekwe, a transformative initiative aimed at enhancing land ownership security, unlo...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 11:00hrs | 115 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches ZImbabwe's new land tenure programme
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to launch the new Land Tenure Implementation Programme today at Pricabe Farm in Kwekwe, a transformative initiative aimed at enhancing land ownership security, unlo...Published: 20 Dec 2024 at 10:59hrs | 155 | by Staff reporter
The impact of duty-free incentives in the 2025 national budget
The 2025 National Budget is a forward-thinking approach to economic recovery and national development, introducing strategic duty-free incentives aimed at empowering local industries, stimulating econ...Published: 17 Dec 2024 at 20:12hrs | 1062 | by Innocent Mujeri
Zimbabwe strengthens push for rice self-sufficiency
Zimbabwe is set to significantly boost its rice production, with a projected output of over 2,000 tonnes for the 2024/2025 farming season. This marks a remarkable recovery from the 73.5 tonnes produce...Published: 08 Dec 2024 at 09:47hrs | 76 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube's budget is anti-people, anti-business and anti-Zimbabwe
Citizens Coalition for Change Statement on 2025 budget statement The recent national budget proposal exposes the Zanu-PF government's obnoxious penchant to compulsorily expropriate people's mo...Published: 30 Nov 2024 at 13:28hrs | 87 | by Willias Madzimure
Zimbabwe's new policy outlines plans to widen tax base
The Zimbabwean government has announced a new policy under the Zimbabwe Industrial Reconstruction and Growth Plan (ZIRGP) to simplify tax models for Small to Medium Enterprises (SMEs). This move aims ...Published: 27 Oct 2024 at 12:18hrs | 275 | by Staff reporter
IMF upgrades Russia to world's fourth-largest economy
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has ranked Russia as the world's fourth-largest economy based on purchasing power parity (PPP). PPP compares economic produc...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 16:21hrs | 6339 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe targets 7 sectors for import substitution
In a bid to reduce reliance on imports and boost local industry, Zimbabwe has identified seven key sectors for import substitution.The country's short-term manufacturing blueprint, the Zimbabw...Published: 24 Oct 2024 at 12:51hrs | 743 | by Staff reporter
The Chinese-owned Dinson invests over US$2 billion in Zimbabwe
The Chinese-owned Dinson Iron and Steel Company (Disco), the anchor industry for the Manhize Industrial Park near Mvuma in Zimbabwe's Midlands province, has invested more than US$2 billion in the coun...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:38hrs | 3203 | by Staff reporter
Dairibord has no plans to exit Zimbabwe
Dairibord Holdings has firmly dismissed recent online reports suggesting that the company is planning to shut down its operations in Zimbabwe and relocate to South Africa. The group has reaffirmed its...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:36hrs | 307 | by Staff reporter
Local cattle breeder donates semen
A local stud breeder is offering free semen from his stud bulls to help improve cattle breeds in communal areas, aligning with the national effort to rebuild Zimbabwe's livestock herd. This initiative...Published: 03 Oct 2024 at 08:43hrs | 162 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe businesses note low activity
THE business sector has reported a decline in activity since the announcement of the 2024 National Budget in November last year, NewsDay Business has learnt.Most firms found the 2024 Nat...Published: 15 Mar 2024 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa a good farmer but then...
While Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Precabe Farm in Sherwood, near Kwekwe, is doing well and is often used to showcase isolated success stories of the state-sponsored chaotic land reform p...Published: 13 Mar 2024 at 16:29hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commissions US$7.3m plant
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday commissioned a US$7,3 million National Oil Company of Zimbabwe (NOIC) ethanol storage and handling facility, that will help save foreign currency, create employment and p...Published: 09 Nov 2023 at 05:53hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa's Vision 2030 unstoppable'
Vice President Kembo Mohadi expressed that President Mnangagwa has achieved remarkable strides in promoting socio-economic development and has paved the way for the nation to swiftly reach its Vision ...Published: 23 Oct 2023 at 06:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe may starts lithium car batteries production
Zimbabwe may start commercial production of lithium batteries for passenger vehicles next year following headway by the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) which has already purified lithium phosphat...Published: 07 Oct 2023 at 19:28hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urbanites and the politics of the West
The country is nearing the conclusion of the election period, with the appointment of Cabinet ministers, deputies, Mayors, and council chairpersons being among the final steps in the process. This ele...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 09:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Air Force to fine-tune training of staff in defence of Zimbabwe airspace
The Air Force of Zimbabwe will continue training its personnel to meet the requirements of contemporary threats, building competent and determined forces ready to serve and protect the country, its pe...Published: 20 Jul 2023 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Tony Blair pledges to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery?
FORMER British Prime Minister Tony Blair has made a major climbdown and pledged to support Zimbabwe's economic recovery by joining the anti-sanctions lobby to remove the punitive measures which he imp...Published: 17 Jul 2023 at 06:53hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt lifts import restrictions on basics
GOVERNMENT has lifted all restrictions on the importation of basic commodities to boost market supplies and granted 100 percent retention of domestic foreign currency earnings, with a further fine-tun...Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:00hrs | 4 | 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
Zimbabwe govt guns for maximum land utilisation
Government has put in place several maesures, such as penalising multiple land owners and re-allocation, to ensure that every piece of agricultural land is fully utilised, NewsDay Farming reported....Published: 20 Apr 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Imports only occupy 20% shelf space in Zimbabwe?
IMPORTED products have been reduced to 20% on local retail shelves after the government introduced the import substitution policy, a senior government official has claimed.Government promulgat...Published: 15 Mar 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa salutes private sector
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday saluted the country's private sector which has risen to the occasion through the production of the majority of goods found in local supermarkets.This is testimony...Published: 11 Mar 2023 at 06:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
When all friendship ceases!
Von Hornick's nine principles on National EconomyIn 1684, an Austrian lawyer-turned-civil servant, Philipp Wilhelm von Hornick, published nine principal rules of a National Economy.The...Published: 04 Mar 2023 at 07:57hrs | 1 | by Jamwanda
Third World Underdevelopment - a forced condition
Underdevelopment in Africa, Latin American and much of Asia is not a condition of being several centuries behind the various kinds of transformations experienced in the capitalist centre but a conditi...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Steel firms pour US$1 billion into Zimbabwe
Major steel-processing firms developing operations in Zimbabwe have this year invested over US$1 billion into their projects, which are at various stages of implementation, official data showed yester...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'More Zimbabwean made products occupying shelf space'
LOCALLY produced goods have increased shelf space occupancy in shops to 80 percent this year from 55 percent last year as domestic businesses continue to ramp up output in response to supportive Gover...Published: 06 Dec 2022 at 05:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Global steel giant shows confidence in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe stands ready to welcome more investors from across the globe for win-win outcomes such as the development of the country's rich mineral resources, and the multi-billion-dollar steel mills and...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 04:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe speeds up medical training
ZIMBABWE is expediting the training of specialist health personnel to produce a critical mass attuned to the needs of the people while at the same time sustaining the country's development momentum th...Published: 22 Oct 2022 at 05:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's US$1 billion steel project takes off
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday led the ground-breaking ceremony of the long-anticipated US$1billion integrated Dinson Iron and Steel Industrial Park being established in Manhize, Chirumhanzu District, ...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:57hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Hitech pharmaceutical warehouse opens
THE Government is determined to facilitate the modernisation of all socio-economic enablers as precursors to the attainment of rapid economic transformation, President Mnangagwa has said.The P...Published: 07 Oct 2022 at 05:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
12 Matebeleland dams set for fisheries programme
MATEBELELAND fish farmers are set to benefit from the Government's fisheries programme after 12 dams from the region were targeted for the Presidential Fisheries Programme that will involve 50 000 far...Published: 23 Sep 2022 at 05:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
3,000 hectares of wheat in Mat North
FARMERS in Matabeleland North have increased their wheat hectarage from last year's 950 hectares to about 3 000 hectares as the province moves towards enhancing the country's food security and attainm...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Nust students centre nears completion
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) students' service centre is nearing completion with the structure set to be finished before year-end after the university roped in artisans fro...Published: 14 Sep 2022 at 05:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nust sets up factories
PLASTIC container making, honey and fruit processing factories have been established at the National University of Science and Technology (Nust) as the institution angles to play a critical role in Bu...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gwayi-Shangani downstream industries boost job creation
THE construction of the massive Lake Gwayi-Shangani in Matabeleland North province has led to the establishment of downstream industries, which have widened the economic impact of the project through ...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa commends talented young people
ZIMBABWE is poised to be at the apex of development given its rich pool of talented youths in various fields like engineering who have put shoulders to the wheel in transforming the country towards an...Published: 29 Jul 2022 at 06:46hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at ZPCS pass-out parade
President Mnangagwa is expected to officiate at the 150th recruit correctional officers' pass-out parade for the Zimbabwe Prison and Correctional Services (ZPCS) at Ntabazinduna Prison Training School...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 08:08hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Smith Debate is a Stroke of Genius
We have Lisah Ncube (Dutchess of Matebeleland) to thank for initiating the Smith was better than Mnangagwa debate. I don't know whether she planned it&n...Published: 25 Jun 2022 at 14:04hrs | 3 | by Simon Peter Chamisa
Bata puts faith on Zimbabwe economy: US$5 million in plant and machinery
BATA Shoe Company Zimbabwe has invested over US$5 million in plant and machinery, in sheer demonstration of confidence in the economy.The company recently installed a polyurethane pouring plan...Published: 24 Jun 2022 at 07:36hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moves to Covid-19 self-testing
THE Government is ready to introduce Covid-19 self-testing mainly at ports of entry and in remote areas as part of continuous, thorough and effective response to the global pandemic to minimise its ef...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe trade deficit hits US$34bn as industrialisation flops
ZIMBABWE has since 2002 accumulated a trade deficit of more than US$34 billion, a clear indication that the country's industrialisation-led import-substitution programmes have failed, new data show....Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:31hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
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