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Bulawayo launches blitz on pushcart operators
In a bold move to restore order in the city centre and clamp down on illicit activities, Bulawayo City Council (BCC) yesterday launched a sweeping operation targeting pushcart operators and street ven...Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 09:48hrs | 156 | by Staff reporter
Informal sector keeps Bulawayo running
THE informal sector in Bulawayo has contributed more than $13 million to council coffers through licence fees and rentals during the first six months of the year, Southern Eye has learnt.The l...Published: 10 Aug 2021 at 08:48hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Why Bulawayo service delivery is collapsing
LONG-TOUTED as the best-run local authority in the country, the Bulawayo City Council (BCC) is failing to offer efficient services as seen by collapsing water and sewer infrastructure, failureto f...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:33hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Afro-Sino economic relations in the 21st Century: Mixed Reactions and Misinterpretations
The Author is a Master of Science in International Trade and Diplomacy student at the University of Zimbabwe. He holds a MSc degree in Development Studies (National U...Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 19:21hrs | 39 | by Livingstone Kazizi
Power cuts cripple informal sector
THE incessant power cuts being experienced across the country have hit the informal sector hardest with players now spending long hours or days without production. The power utility, Zesa, is ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Textile giant retrenches 200 workers in Bulawayo
BULAWAYO textile and clothing giant, Archer Clothing Manufacturers has been forced to lay off 200 of its workers because of inadequate power supplies at its factory and dwindling local orders....Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 06:10hrs | 2 | 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
SA scraps 54-year-old bilateral trade agreement with Zimbabwean
Fears of significant job losses in the textiles and clothing sector have arisen after Archer Clothing in Bulawayo laid off 200 workers following South Africa's decision to scrap a 54-year-old bilatera...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:25hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe clothing sector wants colonial era SA deal implemented
CLOTHING sector players have urged government to implement a colonial era Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) it signed with South Africa in 1964 in a bid to boost the local industry.Zimbabwe Clot...Published: 23 Sep 2018 at 09:07hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Forex shortages frustrate Bulawayo clothing factory
ONE of Bulawayo's clothing factories, Femina Garments, is operating at 30 percent capacity utilisation due to persistent foreign currency challenges, blamed for frustrating operations.The comp...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Edgars to resume exports
GIANT clothing manufacturer and retailer, Edgars Group, says it will soon resume garments and clothing exports into the region.In an interview after the ZimTrade/Zimra stakeholder engagement s...Published: 05 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | | 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
Cheap fabric tears clothing sector
The clothing and textile industry is weighed down by cheap sub-standard fabrics that are continuing to flood the local market despite a raft of measures to protect local players, industry officials ha...Published: 08 Mar 2018 at 05:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's clothing sector has 186% increment potential
ZIMBABWE'S clothing sector can increase employment by 186% to 20 000 if all sectors in the country could procure locally, Zimbabwe Clothing Manufacturers' Association chairman Jeremy Youmans has said....Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 13:52hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Bulawayo's pleas to Mnangagwa
THE BULAWAYO business community has urged the new government led by Emmerson Mnangagwa to come up with deliberate policies that will ensure that the city returns to its former industrial hub status....Published: 03 Dec 2017 at 08:27hrs | | 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
120 000 workers unpaid in three years - report
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has said at least 120 000 workers have gone without pay for three years mainly in the private sector.In a 36-page report titled "Working Without Pa...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:19hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
120 000 workers unpaid in three years---- report
The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has said at least 120 000 workers have gone without pay for three years mainly in the private sector.In a 36-page report titled "Working Without Pa...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 06:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe to introduce tight import laws soon
Government might soon introduce stringent legislation to control importation of basic commodities that can be manufactured in sufficient volumes locally, Industry and Commerce Minister Mike Bimha ...Published: 21 Jun 2015 at 10:20hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Edgars Zimbabwe select 3i Infotech's Orion ERP to enhance their Business Operations
HARARE - 3i Infotech, a global technology solutions and services provider celebrates one of their biggest wins in Zimbabwe with Edgars Stores Limited joining their long list of soon to be satisfied cu...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 08:41hrs | | by APO
Businesses desert Bulawayo's CBD
A NUMBER of businesses once housed in buildings in Bulawayo's Central Business District have either closed or relocated to suburban locations because of increasing rentals and lack of business. A surv...Published: 25 Jan 2015 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Ngonidzashe Chiutsi
'Women are the most important resource in Africa'
Turkey - Africa is poised for growth but can only achieve its full potential if women are given due space in the development process, the deputy chairperson of the African Union, Mr Erasmus Mwencha, h...Published: 01 Mar 2014 at 04:20hrs | 1 | by Victoria Ruzvidzo
'South Africa is practising double standards,' says Zim minister
A Government official says South Africa is practising double standards in its approach to a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries.Industry and Commerce Deputy Minister Chiratidz...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 05:48hrs | | by Zvamaida Murwira
BCC gives up on illegal vendors
BULAWAYO City Council (BCC) seems to have given up on removing illegal street vendors that have virtually camped in the city, turning the once clean central business district (CBD) into a dumpsite....Published: 08 Dec 2013 at 07:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
NSSA increases monthly allowances for pensioners
THE National Social Security Authority (NSSA) has increased monthly allowances for pensioners by 20 percent.The development is expected to come as a relief to thousands of pensioners who have ...Published: 23 Aug 2013 at 03:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's trade deficit widens
ZIMBABWE'S trade deficit for the four months to April widened to US$1,6 billion after the country imported goods worth US$2,62 billion against exports of US$1,02 billion.According to statistic...Published: 05 Jul 2013 at 04:41hrs | 1 | by Business Reporter
Zimbabwe's 4 months trade deficit worsens to $1.6 billion
Zimbabwe's trade deficit for the 4 months to April widened to US$1.6 billion after it imported goods worth US$2.62 billion against exports of $1.02 billion.According to statistics made availa...Published: 25 Jun 2013 at 11:32hrs | | by Business reporter
Bulawayo to be declared a 'special economic zone'
GOVERNMENT plans to declare Bulawayo "a special economic zone", as it intensifies efforts to revive the city's status as the hub of industrial activity in the country, deputy minister of Economic Plan...Published: 02 Jun 2013 at 16:56hrs | | by Musa Dube
64 clothing companies have closed shop, 4000 jobs have been lost
64 companies in the clothing sector have closed shop and close to 4 000 jobs have been lost in the last year, as the combined impact of smuggling, especially of cheap Asian goods, a skewed duty and po...Published: 24 Oct 2011 at 05:56hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
De-industrialisation Bulawayo continues
Companies in Bulawayo, the second-largest city in Zimbabwe, continue shutting down factories under pressure from harsh economic conditions, a lack of working credit and competition from cheap imp...Published: 24 Mar 2011 at 04:42hrs | 4 | by Byo24News
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