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Bulawayo company pioneers dust suppression breakthrough
In a significant stride towards sustainable industrialisation, Bulawayo-based manufacturing firm, Chemical Technology Africa (CTA), has unveiled an innovative solution to combat air pollution caused b...Published: 24 Jun 2025 at 17:10hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter
CZI urges companies to reduce idle capacity
Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) chief executive officer, Ms Sekai Kuvarika, has called on Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector to reduce unutilised capacity as a key strategy to lower production...Published: 30 Apr 2025 at 07:14hrs | 291 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe manufacturing sector faces challenges
Industry and Commerce Minister Nqobizitha Ndlovu has called for urgent action to address the challenges stifling the competitiveness of Zimbabwe's manufacturing sector, after new findings revealed tha...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:23hrs | 147 | by Staff reporter
Busisa Moyo inducted into Zimbabwe business hall of fame
Renowned industrialist and business leader Mr Busisa Moyo has been inducted into the Zimbabwe Business Hall of Fame 2025, a prestigious honour recognising his exceptional contribution to Zimbabwe's ec...Published: 16 Apr 2025 at 23:16hrs | 204 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe power crisis grounds industries
In Zimbabwe, recent rolling blackouts have severely impacted key industries, raising concerns about potential economic downturns and job losses. Kurai Matsheza, president of the Confederation of Zimba...Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's manufacturing capacity to hit 70% this year?
Capacity utilisation in the manufacturing sector is forecast to reach 70 percent this year, with production continuing to increase with more investment flowing into factories, according to the latest ...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe manufacturing sector on rebound
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) says the country's manufacturing sector is on a massive expansion push after consuming roughly 70% of all foreign currency injected into the economy last year....Published: 02 Apr 2023 at 11:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Sanctions choking Zimbabwe: Myth or reality?
"African politics is dogged by crises of legitimacy, monetised politics and corruption, personalised leadership, and lastly the sit-tight syndrome" notes the African Exponent. During an electoral seas...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:33hrs | 1 | by Zvikomborero Sibanda
Zimbabwe exporters object to latest forex electricity tariff
THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) has requested an urgent electricity tariff meeting between exporters, energy bodies and the Government to clarify several operational issues emanating fr...Published: 28 Oct 2022 at 06:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Treasury yet to disburse US$30m industry bailout
TREASURY is yet to disburse about US$30 million it promised to industry under the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) to boost capacity utilisation and save some firms from total collapse.This was re...Published: 23 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's construction boom chokes suppliers
ZIMBABWE is experiencing a massive boom in housing construction spearheaded by the Government and private developers, which has choked supplies of critical raw materials with suppliers now struggling ...Published: 18 Jul 2022 at 08:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chinhoyi municipality bans use of farm bricks
JUNE 30 officially marks the date outlawing the use of farm bricks in property construction following their ban by Chinhoyi Municipality last year.Council had given residents a six-months grac...Published: 30 Jun 2022 at 06:50hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's forex currency crisis worsens
An outlet in Harare's Graniteside industrial area has been turning away customers using local currency through point of sale (POS) platforms on the pretext that they are experiencing network failure....Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:16hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
SA returnee finds success in dad's footsteps
SOON after completing his O-Level studies in 1996, Mr Killion Mafuruse (43) of Mpopoma suburb in Bulawayo decided to follow in the footsteps of his late father who was a full-time carpenter.Al...Published: 23 May 2022 at 06:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thieves get away with whopping US$1, 1 million from Lobels Biscuits
CONFECTIONERY manufacturing firm, Lobels Biscuits, has lost nearly US$1,1 million after thieves broke into its premises in Bulawayo's Belmont industrial area on Sunday night.The suspects made ...Published: 29 Mar 2022 at 11:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
National Blankets halts production as tiff with Zimra escalates
TEXTILE giant National Blankets has temporarily stopped production after the manufacturing firm failed to settle a ZW$800 000 Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) debt.The Bulawayo company...Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 08:51hrs | 11 | by Staff Reporter
Zesa switches off Ziscosteel
ZESA has disconnected power supply from the defunct giant steel manufacturer, Ziscosteel, over a ZW$40 million debt.Zisco group chief executive officer, Dr Farai Karonga, confirmed the develop...Published: 16 Nov 2021 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Industry in fresh push for bailout
ZIMBABWE'S manufacturing sector has escalated its push for State-assisted bailout packages to stem a blazing crisis precipitated by the COVID–19 pandemic, a deteriorating foreign currency crisis and...Published: 15 Oct 2021 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZITF scores major success
NO case of Covid-19 was recorded from the tests done at the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF), which ended on a high note in Bulawayo yesterday.Industry and Commerce Minister, Dr Sekai ...Published: 25 Sep 2021 at 06:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Arenel gets SEZs status
ONE of Bulawayo's top companies, Arenel Private Limited, has been granted a special economic zone (SEZ) status, a decision meant to add impetus to the firm's production efficiencies. A SEZ is ...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 05:53hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe hunts for Zisco investor again
THE Government is in a fresh hunt for strategic partner to resuscitate operations at the defunct State-owned Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Zisco).Over the years, the Redcliff-based steel ma...Published: 12 Apr 2021 at 18:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Aircraft mogul Hartnack arrested
BUSINESSMAN Adam James Hartnack, who owns Adamair (Pvt) Limited and Mr Bristle, a manufacturing firm located in Msasa, Harare, was yesterday arrested by the Special Anti-Corruption Unit (SACU) on alle...Published: 08 Apr 2021 at 08:39hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Bulawayo to lead leather sector revival
ZIMBABWE has received US$15 million funding from the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) to capacitate industrial operations under the leather sector value chain. Industry a...Published: 23 Mar 2021 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gives away 99% of exported tobacco
A STAGGERING 99% of the tobacco crop produced annually by Zimbabwean farmers is shipped to the international markets without being processed, the Tobacco Industry and Marketing Board (Timb) revealed l...Published: 14 Feb 2021 at 12:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Young business women get windfall
A shot in the arm. This best describes the story of seven Zimbabwean young women entrepreneurs after each received a US$25 000 grant to capitalise their businesses.This is part of a US$10 mill...Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 07:51hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Shiri's previously unknown children surfaces
A MAJOR row has erupted among relatives of the late national hero and Cabinet minister, Perrance Shiri, as they fight to benefit from his significant estate.This comes as it has emerged that t...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 13:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Perrance Shiri relatives in estate dogfight
A MAJOR row has erupted among relatives of the late national hero and Cabinet minister, Perrance Shiri, as they fight to benefit from his significant estate.This comes as it has emerged that t...Published: 16 Nov 2020 at 07:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube working on private equity fund
Finance and Economic Development Minister, Professor Mthuli Ncube says the government will step up efforts to stimulate productivity in the manufacturing sector by facilitating the introduction of pri...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 17:39hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt keeps Russian investor guessing
A Russian investor has said negotiations to buy shareholding in fertiliser manufacturing firm Chemplex Corporation are moving slowly amid fears government's lethargy will affect its efforts to lure fo...Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Another blow for Bulawayo
BULAWAYO textile manufacturing firm, National Blankets (Pvt) Limited, has been liquidated following years of poor performance and failure to find a good investment suitor in yet another blow to the ci...Published: 12 Jun 2019 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
SA company wants MDC-T garnished over R4m debt
A SOUTH African wholesale textile company and a Bulawayo garment manufacturing firm which supplied MDC-T with 200 000 T- shirts and head scarves in 2008 have approached the High Court seeking an order...Published: 13 May 2019 at 08:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF MP in trouble over fertilizer debt
Zanu-PF legislator for Bindura South Remigious Toendepi Mutangira has been dragged to court by a fertilizer and chemical manufacturing firm which is seeking over $18 063 for services rendered to him a...Published: 11 May 2019 at 15:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes headway in Ease of Doing Business
THE Government is making concerted efforts to improve the Ease of Doing business as it moves to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) into the country.Speaking at the Zimbabwe Internationa...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 07:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe new dumping ground for second hand Chinese chrome smelters
Zimbabwe has become a target for Chinese companies that are looking at dumping second-hand chrome smelters following the promulgation of an environmental law prohibiting use of heavy environmentally u...Published: 14 Feb 2019 at 08:10hrs | 1 | by Business Times
RBZ incorporates US$ on RTGS platform
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has upgraded the Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) platform to include the United States dollar as the institution seeks to facilitate payments of the greenback Nost...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 07:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who used the extra 480 million litres of fuel the last six months?'
It's official, the exchange rate for American dollars to our 'surrogate currency' is not 1:1, neither is it 1:2.All the other parameters have been logically adjusted in the economic circles to...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:03hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
Bulawayo diaper plant launch hits snag
BULAWAYO's first diaper manufacturing project, which is being developed at a cost of more than $2 million, is failing to take off due to foreign currency shortages to import critical raw materials. ...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Please save our doctors
The handling thus far by the government of the ongoing industrial action by the country's medical doctors has left a lot to be desired - reflecting very poorly on both the bona fides and humanity of t...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Re-dollarisation of economy: Wrong turn for Zimbabwe
There is an effervescence in the economy – an imperceptible but definite shift towards re- dollarisation of the economy.Initially a trickle, this will soon turn into a mighty tide in one dir...Published: 30 Dec 2018 at 10:06hrs | 2 | by Joseph Mverecha
Wheels come off Zimbabwe health sector
Medical experts have warned the government that it is putting the lives of thousands of people at risk, after it recently started dispensing expired drugs in hospitals - including life-prolongin...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 18:36hrs | | by Nokuthaba Nkomo
MSU seeks order to execute judgment
MIDLANDS State University (MSU) has petitioned the High Court seeking an order to attach and sell property belonging to a local furniture manufacturing firm which was paid $242 900, but failed to deli...Published: 08 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube probes cooking oil shortages
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has commenced touring manufacturing firms, starting with a visit to Surface Wilmer, the largest cooking oil manufacturer in Zimbabwe.Surface Wilmar (Pvt) Ltd, sit...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 12:40hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gounds to a halt as shops, pharmacies close doors
THE price hike madness prevailing in the country has seen some shops and pharmacies closing doors to customers. A snap survey across Bulawayo showed that a number of shops are reluctant to sel...Published: 10 Oct 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
$2m diaper factory set up in Bulawayo
A $2 MILLION diaper manufacturing plant has been set up in Bulawayo with the investment expected to create scores of downstream jobs. The manufacturing concern, which is called Masters Diapers...Published: 09 Oct 2018 at 06:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Product dumping killing Zimbabwe industry
As local manufacturers struggle to raise foreign currency to import raw materials and equipment on one end, another uncontrolled delinquent flourishes on the other to their detriment. Cheap imports ha...Published: 07 Aug 2018 at 07:31hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
Busy schedule for President
President Mnangagwa got down to serious business yesterday on touching down at Beijing Capital International Airport.Straight from the airport he received a courtesy call from China's Minister...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 06:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Industry pins hopes on tobacco auctions
MANUFACTURING industries are pinning their hopes on the opening of tobacco auctions next week to increase foreign currency earnings for the country which will assist them in procuring key raw material...Published: 15 Mar 2018 at 06:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Renewed political will gives hope for economic revival
THE new political dispensation has brought with it a renewed sense of hope for a genuine national economic turnaround that is expected to better the lives of the country's citizenry with economic anal...Published: 04 Feb 2018 at 09:33hrs | 1 | by Vincent Gono
Mugabe will go down in history an iconic figure of principle
OUR past is rich in history; the sacred sacrifices made by the founding fathers of this nation alongside many sons and daughters who perished for our freedom can never be overlooked.From the e...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:11hrs | 2 | by Reason Wafawarova
$600 million to stabilise market this week
Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa has said the projected strong economic growth this year has increased the demand for foreign currency in the country.Speaking at the...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
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