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Foreign tourist arrested in Zimbabwe for spreading 'falsehoods'
Two foreign tourists have been arrested in Masvingo with one charged for allegedly recording a video "falsely" claiming the existence of continued water shortages and power cuts in Zimbabwe while the ...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:33hrs | 2061 | by Staff reporter
Without Zimbabweans, Musina is going to be a big ghost town
By 7AM, lines of customers snake down the block outside stores on the main commercial strip in Musina, a bustling South African border town where thousands of people arrive daily from neighboring Zimb...Published: 25 Dec 2023 at 08:46hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga warns Innscor
A TENSE meeting between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Innscor Africa shareholders over allegations of fuelling currency volatilities rocking the market had a chilling effect after Vice-President Co...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 20:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
New Covid-19 regulations for hotels
THE Government has directed restaurants attached to hotels, backpackers' lodges and guest houses to restrict provision of food and drinks to room service while learning institutions are prohibited fro...Published: 21 Jan 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF conference lacked strategic imperatives for economic growth
THE Zanu-PF conference is of strategic importance due to its potential of providing simultaneous and sequential signal on the general direction or economic trajectory of the country. It is also not fa...Published: 04 Nov 2021 at 06:30hrs | | by Brian Sedze
Are Tray Packers A Necessity For Industries In 2021?
A key piece of American history since the later part of the 1800s has been robotic case packing. Although it was at first only used to pack a considerable quantity of food, it's since then been renova...Published: 04 Sep 2021 at 20:12hrs | | by Staff writer
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 | 2 | by Staff reporter
Dealers appeal for removal of VAT on rice
Players in the rice supply chain have appealed to Government to reconsider a 14,5 percent Value Added Tax (VAT) charge on the commodity. A Government VAT payment request in retrospect, for a p...Published: 21 Oct 2020 at 21:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Roller meal scheme revised
VULNERABLE households will start receiving cash grants pegged at a higher level than the price of roller meal to enable them to source the basic commodity from any place of their choice, President Mna...Published: 08 Oct 2020 at 06:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe: It is time to panic, a little
I THINK it was 1992, the season started badly and as it progressed the heat increased until we were experiencing temperatures over 50 degrees Celsius in the lowveld. We had a business there and my son...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:15hrs | | by Eddie Cross
Lionel Messi highest paid athlete in the world
Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi is the world's highest paid athlete, earning $127m in the past 12 months, according to the Forbes top 100 ranking.Juventus's Portugal forward Crist...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 08:23hrs | 2 | by Daniel Itai
Murder cases increase in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwe Republic Police have reported an increase in murder cases around the country. In a statement on Thursday, the police said it is unfortunate that perpetrators of this heinous crime have co...Published: 06 Jun 2019 at 20:10hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Shearwater acquires up-market cruise boat
SHEARWATER Adventures has acquired a 100-seater up-market cruise boat to cater for executives.The two-deck boat was manufactured by a Bulawayo company at a total cost of about $500 000 and is ...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Innscor reports good performance in all business portfolios
INNSCOR Africa Limited posted a $48,6 million profit after tax in the full-year ended June 2018 from $34,4 million in prior period, as all its business portfolios reported good performance.The...Published: 01 Oct 2018 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
WikiLeaks: 25 most corrupt ministers and public figures in Zimbabwe
These individuals will never be prosecuted by the Mnangagwa government because he is involved with entirely all of them. Either they were in the deal together or they know too much of his own dirty de...Published: 03 Jun 2018 at 11:06hrs | 28 | by WikiLeaks
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 | 13 | by Carl Joshua Ncube
Zimbabwe goes online to grow tourism
THE government is in the process of developing an online product, a platform that will offer home stays and eateries for international tourists to choose from when visiting Zimbabwe.Speaking t...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 07:10hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimra threatens to wield axe
The Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra), which is contending with widening tax defaults by both individuals and corporates, says it is open to payment plans to prevent ballooning interests and penaltie...Published: 11 Feb 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Why don't many British tourists visit Victoria Falls?
In August 1934, a memorial statue to one of Britain's greatest national heroes, David Livingstone, was unveiled alongside his beloved Victoria Falls.A thousand people attended the grand ceremo...Published: 03 Sep 2017 at 17:10hrs | | by Mark Easton
Zimbabwe is not in tatters, broken
Such portrayal of Zimbabwe by a 'Zimbabwean' journalist is just inadequate journalism. What would possess any person who is supposedly 'Zimbabwean' to portray the country with such pessimism, absolute...Published: 02 May 2016 at 11:31hrs | | by Bernard Bwoni
Pig production to increase by 28%
Colcom Holdings Limited has indicated that pig production will grow by 28 % by July after experiencing a 1% drop in the year ending December 31.The firms said its Tripple C Farms delivered 28 ...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 09:17hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zim woman stabbed to death in London, UK
LONDON - A mother of two was found stabbed to death at her London home - directly opposite the house of a man jailed last week for killing a prostitute after a botched manhood enlargement.Com...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 05:32hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Robert Mugabe is the Mobutu of our time
This article appeared in Spectator (London) on March 18, 2008.Nice shoes,' said a young Zimbabwean looking wistfully at my $40 Nike tennis shoes th...Published: 01 Feb 2015 at 09:18hrs | | by Marian L. Tupy
Ministry accuses retailers of cheating customers
THE Ministry of Industry and Commerce has accused retailers of cheating customers by under packing commodities, warning that they risk being slapped with penalties, Radio Dialogue reported....Published: 23 Jan 2015 at 06:43hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chicken slice apology
ApologyPackers International (PVT) LTD t/a Chicken Slice wishes to apologise for the typographical error on the word "unkhwenyanyana" or any grammatical error that would have been observed on...Published: 19 Dec 2014 at 16:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Chicken Slice must apologise to the Ndebele community
HARARE fast food outlet Chicken Slice opened its first restaurant in Bulawayo on Saturday - but it immediately ran into trouble with locals after misspelling basic isiNdebele words on its display adve...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 08:38hrs | | by Pamela Shumba and Oliver Kazunga
ANOTHER row over wrong Ndebele spelling
Chicken Slice under fire as locals mull boycott... PACKERS International, a Harare company that owns Chicken Slice, Pizza Slice, Creamy Slic...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 20:16hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
TM order to pay $2,390 back pay to its underpaid managers
TM Supermarket has lost an appeal at the High Court after it unsuccessfully sought the court to set aside of an arbitration which compelled it to pay three of its managers a total of $2,390 each being...Published: 16 Oct 2014 at 15:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
BAT volumes down 16% following increase in excise duty
BAT volumes are down 16% following the increase in prices after Treasury raised excise duty on cigarettes, MD Lovemore Manatsa has said. Manatsa told the AGM that owing to the liquidity chall...Published: 28 May 2013 at 11:03hrs | 1 | by financial express
Colcom's expects revenue to rise by 20 percent
Colcom has projected its revenues to increase by 20% in the current financial year to June 2013 while the pretax margin is forecast to ease by a percentage point to 12.7%, group CEO Theo Kumalo told a...Published: 06 Sep 2012 at 15:04hrs | | by Business reporter
Ngwabi Bhebhe named 2011 ZIM manager of the year
Midlands State University Vice Chancellor Professor Ngwabi Bhebhe and Zimplow managing director Mr Zondi Kumwenda are the 2011 Zimbabwe Institute of Managers winners of the manager of the year for the...Published: 25 May 2012 at 05:04hrs | | by Business Reporter
Australian immigration under pressure to extend
The Australian Immigration department is under increasing pressure to extend working holiday visas by a year if young people opt to work for the tourism industry in regional Australia.The move...Published: 13 Feb 2012 at 15:01hrs | | by Helen Johnson
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