Search / Tobacco company
Warrant of arrest for Shawashi Agri boss
A warrant of arrest has been issued against Shawashi Agri Private Limited managing director, Lillian Nyamasoka, after she failed to appear in court to answer to serious fraud allegations involving ove...Published: 30 Jun 2025 at 18:35hrs | 600 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo to be held in third quarter
ZIMBABWE will hold the first Zimbabwe-China tobacco expo in the third quarter of this year to promote the country's tobacco, the country's industry regulatory body, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing ...Published: 13 Apr 2025 at 09:35hrs | 49 | by Staff reporter
Fuel fraudster jailed for 20 years
The High Court of Zimbabwe, sitting in Harare, has sentenced Tinashe Sibanda to 20 years in prison after convicting him of fraud. In a related ruling, the court ordered the confiscation of assets belo...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 14:45hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
Tomana loses Supreme Court US$114,000 debt appeal
The late Zimbabwean ambassador Johannes Tomana lost his Supreme Court appeal against Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a debt of US$114,749.80 for farming inputs. Tomana had contested a High Court judgment...Published: 16 Aug 2024 at 08:42hrs | 691 | by Staff reporter
Molai never sponsored Kasukuwere
Adam Molai, the tobacco tycoon and owner of Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC), has refuted allegations that he provided financial support for former Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere's fail...Published: 16 Oct 2023 at 19:41hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean cigarette company's empire up in smoke
The Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC), formerly known as Savanna Tobacco Company, has been granted its request to undergo voluntary business rescue due to alleged tax violations and outstanding obligati...Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:10hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Adam Molai's Pacific Cigarette Company forced into voluntary corporate rescue
Pacific Cigarette Company (PCC), led by local business magnate Adam Molai, has voluntarily initiated corporate rescue proceedings due to a substantial $19 million tax liability. This move comes amid a...Published: 09 Oct 2023 at 16:00hrs | 223 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco company gives back to the society
The Tian Ze Tobacco (Pvt) has made strides in capacitating tobacco farmers to enhance their production and has run social responsibility projects in areas where tobacco farmers are located.Spe...Published: 06 May 2023 at 10:53hrs | 12 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Tobacco company employees up for fraud
Two Bindura Tobacco company employees were dragged to court yesterday facing fraud charges.Takudzwa Mubariki (23) and Tiny ...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 20:37hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Murder cases on the increase
OVER 10 murder cases have been recorded countrywide during the past seven days as the cases continue to surge.The latest case is the discovery of a body of a male adult found dead at Fly over ...Published: 06 Jun 2022 at 15:09hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Masuka in court over US$94 000 loan
AGRICULTURE Minister Anxious Masuka has allegedly failed to pay back a US$94 000 loan advanced to him five years ago in the form of tobacco farming inputs.A Chinese tobacco contracting firm Ti...Published: 19 May 2022 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Parly probes tobacco company
PARLIAMENT has launched a full-scale investigation into Premium Leaf Zimbabwe operations and the quality of its tobacco exports.The company executives yesterday appeared before the Parliamenta...Published: 18 May 2022 at 06:22hrs | 69 | by Staff reporter
Icaz appoints new CEO
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (Icaz) has appointed William Mandisodza as its chief executive officer (CEO), according to a statement released on Wednesday.Icaz said Mandis...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Icaz appoints Mandisodza as new chief executive
THE Institute of Chartered Accountants of Zimbabwe (Icaz) has appointed William Mandisodza as its chief executive, according to a statement released on Wednesday.Icaz said Mandisodza assumed h...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Face to face with brown envelop journalism
WHIle working on a story about how tobacco farmers are getting a raw deal from tobacco contracting companies, I did not anticipate that my investigation would dramatically bring me face to face with c...Published: 16 Jan 2022 at 18:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Pacific repositions cigarette brands
PACIFIC Cigarette Company (PCC), formerly Savannah Tobacco Company, on Friday relaunched its Pegasus and Branson brands under a US$9,5 million investment programme to enhance dominance on the local an...Published: 11 Jan 2022 at 18:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Tobacco company fails to pay transporters
A COLD war is looming between some tobacco transporters and Voedsel Tobacco International over non-payment for services rendered.Disgruntled transporters say they have not been paid for servic...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's tobacco floors raring to go
ZIMBABWE'S tobacco auction floors and contracting firms yesterday said they were ready for the opening of this year's marketing season next week. Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water, Climate ...Published: 01 Apr 2021 at 07:09hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Stanbic sets up remote branches for tobacco season
Harare - 09 March 2021 Leading financial services institution, Stanbic Bank, has set up nine remote branches at tobacco auction floors throughout the country to enable ease of access to funds for toba...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 14:39hrs | 3 | by Agencies
MDC miffed by #ZimAgricRising
The heavens have dealt a deadly blow to the jecha politics that characterises the MDC Alliance's body politik. The heavens have opened up admirably this summer cropping season, nurturing and sustainin...Published: 26 Feb 2021 at 10:07hrs | 2 | by Trevor Shiri
Cigarette cartels in Zimbabwe are a tax threat in SA
A recently released report on powerful cartels in Zimbabwe has exposed how cigarette companies are illegally infiltrating the South African market, while dodging the local taxman at the same time....Published: 24 Feb 2021 at 05:53hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Cigarette tycoon rubbishes Maverick Citizen bigotry
Businessman Adam Molai has denounced allegations that his Pacific Cigarette Company is part of powerful cartels accused of plundering Zimbabwe's economy and impoverishing the country's population....Published: 21 Feb 2021 at 22:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF MP refuses to settle loan
Mazowe North Member of Parliament Campion Mugweni (ZANU PF) the has refused to settle US120 253 loan advanced to him by contracting Tobacco company Tian Z...Published: 29 Sep 2020 at 11:12hrs | 12 | by Tarisai Mudahondo
Call for meaningful reforms grow louder for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent jaunt to Japan in search of elusive investment has once again brought to the fore the futility of his numerous trips outside the country without introducing polit...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matibiri sued over US$189k farming inputs debt
Former Police Deputy Commissioner-General Innocent Matibiri has been taken to the High Court by Tian Ze Tobacco Company (Pvt) Ltd, to recover US$189 083 after he failed to honour an agricultural input...Published: 17 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
More China investments coming to Zimbabwe
I arrived in Harare last month and I have already had a deep impression of the beautiful scenery, pleasant climate and wonderful people of Zimbabwe.I am especially moved by the friendship that...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Ambassador Guo Shaochun
Zimbabwe tobacco sales plummet 85%
Zimbabwe's tobacco sales have plunged 85% with deliveries reaching only 1,6 million kg in the first 10 days of trade compared to the 10,9 million kg sold last year, statistics from the industry regula...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
'BAT Zimbabwe not sponsoring Dembare'
TOBACCO giant BAT Zimbabwe have refuted social media reports that they have entered into a sponsorship deal with Harare giants Dynamos. There has been growing rumours in the social media circl...Published: 04 Mar 2019 at 07:09hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
South African billionaire defends white wealth
Johann Rupert, South Africa's second-richest man with a $6.3 billion fortune, spoke out to defend the stranglehold white people still have over the economy more than two decades after the end of apart...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 3 | by Bloomberg
Mutsvangwa spills the beans on 'Queen Bee'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday launched an astonishing attack against Zanu-PF benefactor Kudakwashe Tagwirei, claiming that he is now a source of divisions in ...Published: 28 Oct 2018 at 13:29hrs | | by Staff reportwr
Matibiri in trouble over $190 000
Police Deputy Commissioner-General, Innocent Matibiri, has been taken to court by Tian Ze Tobacco Company over a $190 000 farm inputs debt.Through its lawyers Muvingi and Mugadza, the tobacco ...Published: 24 Aug 2018 at 05:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's ex-wife battles to rescind default judgment
VICE-PRESIDENT, Constantino Chiwenga's ex-wife, Jocelyn Chiwenga, has petitioned the court seeking rescission of a default judgment in a matter in which Tian Ze Tobacco Company (Pvt) Ltd, recently obt...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 07:20hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to realign Stop Order Act
GOVERNMENT has been urged to revisit the Farmers Stop Order Act, in order to protect contractors and all financial institutions against small scale tobacco farmers who are side-marketing their crops....Published: 29 May 2018 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farmer jailed 90 days for side marketing his crop
A 43-year-old Guruve farmer was jailed 90 days on Friday for side marketing his tobacco crop after he had been contracted by Mashonaland Tobacco Company (MTC).Guruve magistrate Mr Artwell Sany...Published: 20 May 2018 at 06:50hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chinese firms seek clearance on externalisation
Chinese nationals, retail and mining companies accused of being part to the externalisation of more than $1,3 billion have approached the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe to be cleared citing a number of irre...Published: 28 Mar 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
CBZ chickens out on Mliswa
A $3 million loan dispute pitting businessman Mr Temba Mliswa and CBZ Bank has taken a new twist, with both parties now pursuing an out-of-court settlement.This comes after Mr Mliswa, who is a...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tobacco farming transforms Zimbabweans' lives
Thomas Chakauya (not his real name) from Odzi Farm in Odzi, Manicaland Province of Zimbabwe has just sold his tobacco crop and has managed to roof the five-roomed house, which he started building two ...Published: 17 Sep 2017 at 17:22hrs | | by Nobleman Runyanga
Urge Mugabe to resign, China told
China must persuade President Robert Mugabe to step down and hand over power as part of strategies to prevent a potential civil war and protect the Asian economic giant’s over $10 billion investment...Published: 13 Dec 2016 at 05:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa gets reprieve from Supreme Court
BUSINESSMAN Temba Mliswa yesterday got a reprieve from the Supreme Court protecting his property from being auctioned over $3 million he allegedly owes CBZ Bank Limited, pending determination of his a...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 08:02hrs | | by Daniel Nemukuyu
Man seeks downward variation of maintenance claiming he has been fired from work
A man from Harare has appeared before the Civil Court seeking downward variation of maintenance for his child saying he had been fired from work.Jonathan Chavarwisa applied for lighter order f...Published: 06 Sep 2015 at 08:42hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
'Insolvent' Matonga fails to pay debts, property attached
FORMER Deputy Minister and Mhondoro-Ngezi legislator Bright Matonga's property has been attached by the Deputy Sheriff for failing to settle debts.Matonga's property will go under the hamm...Published: 30 Oct 2014 at 08:28hrs | | by Court Reporter
Zimra dragged to court
More than 10 corporates have taken the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority to court over punitive garnishee orders issued on their accounts for outstanding taxes running into millions of dollars, with the Fisc...Published: 21 Jul 2014 at 00:46hrs | 1 | by Fidelis Munyoro
Tobacco company to pay wife $23b for cancer death
A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer.RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was hit with t...Published: 20 Jul 2014 at 10:49hrs | 1 | by BBC
Two in court for crop side-marketing
A 38-year-old tobacco contract farmer will perform 210 hours of community service after a Karoi magistrate found him guilty of side marketing his crop last week.Magistrate Mr Obidience Matare ...Published: 29 Jun 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's niece linked to cigarette smuggling
Johannesburg - A prominent Zimbabwe tobacco company, with ties to President Robert Mugabe, is suspected of smuggling millions of rands worth of illegal cigarettes into South Africa in what is thought ...Published: 29 Dec 2013 at 04:07hrs | 22 | by Staff Reporter
Man steals fuel coupons totalling 2,000 litres of diesel
A Harare man appeared in court recently for allegedly stealing fuel coupons totalling 2 000 litres of diesel worth $2 660 from Ms Jocelyne Chiwenga. Aleck Chimedza (37) of Hatcliffe, who worke...Published: 26 Aug 2013 at 04:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Five men in court for stealing 15 bales of tobacco
Five men among them two crew members of a Zambian haulage truck have appeared at a Karoi magistrate court facing charges of stealing 15 bales of tobacco destined for a Harare company.Hillary M...Published: 24 Jun 2013 at 00:07hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Dembare bus creates fissures at the club
The Dynamos leadership is at loggerheads with an influencial supporters' association, accusing the body of creating tension between the club and its official sponsor BancABC.The Dynamos Fans ...Published: 25 May 2013 at 12:22hrs | | by Sports reporter
Mugabe's R1 million whisky imported duty free
HARARE - A parasitic group around President Robert Mugabe has "imported" 1 million Rand worth of whisky "duty-free" under the guise of supporting his Mutare birthday and various charitable initiatives...Published: 12 Mar 2012 at 10:32hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Sin tax raises local cigarette prices
BRITISH American Tobacco company has raised cigarette prices for most of its brands by between 53 and 85 percent after the increase in excise duty.Finance Minister Tendai Biti increased the ex...Published: 06 Dec 2011 at 06:09hrs | 2 | by Business Reporter
Load More Stories
