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Zimbabwe steel sector poised for rebound
Zimbabwe's steel industry is poised for a major revival following the Government's recent introduction of import licensing requirements for specific steel products. Industry stakeholders have welcomed...Published: 18 May 2025 at 11:53hrs | 273 | 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
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
13 players ditch Dembare?
DYNAMOS are on course for yet another rebuilding mission next season after announcing the departure of 13 players ahead of next season.After recently appointing Herbert Maruwa as their ne...Published: 05 Jan 2023 at 21:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
West's double standards on coal slammed
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday slammed the West's double standards that discourage African countries from generating power from coal while ignoring the fact that these first world countries developed t...Published: 08 Sep 2022 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mangudya retains confidence at the Central Bank
From the time Zimbabwe switched from inter-bank market for foreign currency to an auction system, which is largely driven by market. The idea is to determine market exchange rate. The bids come from u...Published: 05 Nov 2020 at 16:02hrs | 2 | by Tinashe Eric Muzamhindo
Africa the 'Sun Continent' and Investors understand that Solar Energy is a Low Risk Business
Africa is often considered and referred as the "Sun continent" or the continent where the Sun's influence is the greatest.According to the "World Sunshine Map", Africa receives many more hours of brig...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 15:24hrs | | by Enos Denhere
Ramaphosa to discuss Zimbabwe's energy woes with Eskom
President Cyril Ramaphosa has said he will discuss Zimbabwe's energy woes with Eskom, adding that boosting the supply of electricity to SA's northern neighbour requires a "balancing act". The ...Published: 09 Jul 2019 at 08:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's minister apologises, posts R139 million proof of payment to Eskom on Twitter
Zimbabwe's energy minister Fortune Chasi was on Tuesday forced to put the proof of the country's US$10m (R139m) payment to Eskom on his twitter account, after earlier claims of having paid was refuted...Published: 02 Jul 2019 at 08:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major boost for Dembare
HARARE football giants Dynamos have received a major boost ahead of their trip to Barbourfields for a blockbuster Castle Lager Premiership tie against old rival Highlanders on Sunday after their injur...Published: 13 Jun 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Money is not the only solution to Zimbabwe's problems
Money has become central to how our authorities are conceptualising and defining solutions to our problems. This is why there is so much effort by Finance minister Mthuli Ncube to secure credit lines ...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 08:07hrs | | by Tapiwa Gomo
Zimbabwe will rise
In his book titled "How Rich Countries Got Rich and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor", Professor Erik Reinert explains to us that it will only be when we adopt strategies to deliberately industrialise thr...Published: 27 Aug 2018 at 18:10hrs | | by Vince Musewe
Poultry import permits remain frozen - Shiri
GOVERNMENT is not issuing any permits for importation of chickens, Lands, Agriculture and Rural Resettlement Minister, Perrance Shiri, has said."Permits are issued under my signature and so fa...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Simba Makoni speak on economic rot
Two of Zimbabwe's former Finance ministers who served at critical junctures in the history of the country's economy are seeing the nation's economic prospects worsening if President Robert Mugabe gets...Published: 01 Oct 2017 at 12:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mushowe threatens providers of social media platforms
Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Christopher Mushohwe said Government was aware of the social media abusers and action will soon be taken against them. He added that social media platform s...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's govt presses panic button
Feeling the heat of the country's worsening economic crisis, the government has pressed the panic button — threatening a savage clampdown on the media and pro-democracy groups in its desperate bid t...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe now back to 2008 doom
Experts have issued a fresh warning that the country is now a touch away from an economic disaster similar to the meltdown of 2008 when local inflation hit world record levels and supermarket shelves ...Published: 24 Sep 2017 at 16:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Drug prices soar
A critical shortage of drugs is looming in Zimbabwe as pharmacies struggle to stock due to biting foreign currency challenges, which have forced them to hike prices to essential medicines. Zim...Published: 14 Sep 2017 at 07:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zhangazha say it directly and clearly: Zimbabwe needs socialist ideology
Zipra Song in FC Camp: "Kuyini isocialism? Sizo lima santando, sivhume santando, ukulume okufunayo lawe, yiyo leyo inhlalakahle ye socialism. Bayakhalo bhuzhwa bonke" ngoba bayayesaba isoc...Published: 22 Sep 2016 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 meant to protect local industry
Statutory Instrument 64 of 2016 (SI 64/2016) gazetted by the Zimbabwe Government has a prime effect of stirring domestic productivity and encouraging consumption of locally produced products. This wou...Published: 26 Jul 2016 at 11:31hrs | | by Sparkleford Masiyambiri
'Import ban on weaves, wigs & braids worries me a lot'
"Guys is Nivea banned also?" That was the question from one anxious Twitter user in Zimbabwe after news broke that the authorities were limiting imports of a vast range of goods - including beauty pro...Published: 21 Jun 2016 at 12:27hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe urged to replace imports with local produce
A Bassfisherman's ApproachACCORDING to recent statistics, the trade deficit between Zimbabwe and South Africa is US$530 million. Zimbabwe is importing goods worth US$3,2 billion from Sou...Published: 08 May 2013 at 03:47hrs | 1 | by Ben Chiganze
Cheap alcohol kills 50 in less than 3 days in Tripoli
Tripoli - More than 50 people have died in Libya since Saturday after drinking cheap homemade alcohol and hundreds were poisoned, the health ministry said on Monday, as the authorities in the Muslim c...Published: 11 Mar 2013 at 17:04hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Business community criticise the Buy Zimbabwe Campaign
The Zimbabwe business community has criticised the recently launched Buy Zimbabwe Campaign which they say should be shelved until challenges hampering production on the local industry are addressed....Published: 14 Jul 2011 at 17:28hrs | | by Moyo Roy
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