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Mnangagwa in Bulawayo for ZimTrade indaba
President Emmerson Mnangagwa arrived in Bulawayo yesterday, where he is set to officially open the ZimTrade Annual Exporters Conference today. The event, hosted at the Zimbabwe International Exhibitio...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 08:50hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Mupezeni appointed ambassador to South Sudan
President Mnangagwa has appointed Mr Kossam Mupezeni as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of South Sudan.Mr Mupezeni replaced Ambassador Kufa Chinoza who was transfe...Published: 10 Jan 2024 at 05:35hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Artificial ivory opens another way to end ban on natural ivory trade' says U.S. NGO
A United States-based NGO welcomed a BBC report this month that Austrian scientists have developed a new artificial ivory product, called Digory, that looks and feels like the real thing. The ...Published: 19 Sep 2023 at 23:41hrs | 1 | by Emmanuel Koro
Investors to get Zimbabwean citizenship
Deserving investors will be granted citizenship as part of Government efforts to increase investment, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Monica Mutsvangwa has said.The S...Published: 04 Nov 2022 at 05:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ambrose Mutinhiri to be named ambassador to Russia
Former National Patriotic Front (NPF) president Ambrose Mutinhiri is set to be appointed Zimbabwe's new ambassador to Russia, ZimLive reported.He will replace Nicholas Sango, a retired brigadi...Published: 03 Nov 2022 at 18:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
MPs want Zimbabwe to quit Cites
LEGISLATORS are calling on the government to quit Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in order for the trading and eating of wildlife animals to go ...Published: 10 Oct 2022 at 06:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Former PetroTrade bosses' case dismissed
THE High Court yesterday dismissed an application filed by two former PetroTrade executives who were challenging the termination of their employment contracts.High Court judge Justice Owen Tag...Published: 01 Apr 2022 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Top govt officials in messy Petrotrade fight
STATE-OWNED petroleum firm, Petrotrade, has been rocked by fresh controversy amid reports that Energy and Power Development permanent secretary Gloria Magombo ordered the firing of two executives via ...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 18:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Maximise on regional protocols to grow trade'
LOCAL businesses should capitalise on regional trading protocols to which Zimbabwe is a signatory to expand their export market and grow foreign currency earnings, ZimTrade chief executive officer, Mr...Published: 05 Nov 2021 at 06:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's exports on the rise
AMID the pervasive disruption to world trade caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Zimbabwe's exports held up well between January-June this year compared to the same period last year.According ...Published: 05 Sep 2021 at 06:51hrs | | by Allan Majuru
'Chinese influential players in Zimbabwe illicit gold trade' - why not, milking their colony to death
"Chinese Now Influential Players In Illicit Gold Trade: Study!" screamed the headlines in New Zimbabwe."The presence and influence of Chinese nationals in the Zimbabwe gold sector has signific...Published: 08 Jun 2021 at 17:16hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Boosting women's economic empowerment with AfCFTA'
THE International Trade Centre (ITC) has urged women entrepreneurs in Southern Africa to expand their business opportunities through the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).The free t...Published: 17 Mar 2021 at 14:46hrs | | by Mayibongwe Moyo
Zimbabwe in key post-Brexit UK investment indaba
Zimbabwe's engagement and re-engagement drive continues to bear fruit after the United Kingdom invited local businesses to participate in next week's Africa Investment Conference along with companies ...Published: 15 Jan 2021 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Free condoms
THE Zimbabwe National Family Planning Council (ZNFPC) has said sexually active people should not panic over a recent increase in price of condoms as the organisation continued to issue them free of ch...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 00:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'No fix to illegal forex trade'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa says his administration has no immediate solution to dealing with illegal foreign currency trade despite admitting its role in the economic crisis.Last week, offic...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
ED now faces tough political choices
AS Zimbabwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequen...Published: 23 Jun 2019 at 17:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa faces riots, palace coup and impeachment
AS Zimbababwe's economic turmoil intensifies and the country reaches a crossroads, government security experts and foreign diplomats based in Harare have started drawing scenarios and weighing consequ...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Embrace RTGS dollar for local trade'
RESERVE Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) deputy governor Dr Kupukile Mlambo has called on Zimbabweans to embrace the reference RTGS dollar for domestic transactions and reduce pressure on foreign currency requi...Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Miners to retain 55% export earnings
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has agreed to increase large scale miners' retention of foreign currency from mineral exports to 55 percent to allow them to cover production costs. Recently...Published: 13 Nov 2018 at 05:52hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZimTrade board appoints new substantive CEO
THE ZimTrade board has announced the appointment of Mr Allan Tawanda Majuru as the new substantive chief executive officer for the country's trade promotion agency with effect from 1 September 2018. ...Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 07:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe companies clinch $3m deals in DRC
ZIMBABWEAN mining companies recently clinched business deals worth over $3 million at the just-ended DRC Mining Week, ZimTrade has said.The expo, attended by 10 Zimbabwean mining companies, wa...Published: 17 Jul 2018 at 10:33hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa launches online trading platform
Zimbabwe has broken new ground by becoming the first nation in Southern Africa to launch an online trading platform 'C-Trade' for the capital markets, setting a new path to attracting further investme...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 12:58hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
South Africa's trade grows 10% in the third quarter of the year
Cape Town - During the third quarter of 2017, the total import and export container trade market experienced consistent 10% year-on-year growth, a similar result as in previous quarters - which on fac...Published: 19 Dec 2017 at 12:05hrs | | by Agencies
SMEs vital to healthy trade in Africa
Accounting for roughly 60% of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), trade is the pulse of the global economy. Beyond economics, however, there is a strong human component that comes through in the stor...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:23hrs | | by Agencies
MDC-T wins T-shirt legal fight
THE High Court has ruled in favour of the MDC-T and dismissed South African clothing company Cabat Trade's demand for R46,6 million for campaign T-shirts printed for the main opposition party in the r...Published: 31 Oct 2017 at 11:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwean companies should focus on increasing trade'
INDUSTRY and Commerce Minister Mike Bimha says Zimbabwean companies should focus on increasing trade as a strategy to achieve economic growth.Increased trade through export earnings is the hal...Published: 28 Apr 2016 at 06:56hrs | | by Oliver Kazunga
Billionaire promised MDC-T $1 million
Econet Wireless founder Mr Strive Masiyiwa pledged US$1 million to support MDC-T's 2008 ill-fated election campaign, it emerged in court on Friday.The Sunday Mail reported that claims were ma...Published: 26 Jul 2015 at 16:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZimTrade to demand removal of trade obstacles
ZIMTRADE has vowed to press government to remove various impediments negatively affected business in Bulawayo, ZimTrade Board Member Busisa Moyo has said.Hundreds of firms have shut down in th...Published: 09 Mar 2015 at 10:48hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Dead man's goblins cause havoc
RESIDENTS in the Nyamauru area of Dangamvura high-density suburb were left weak-kneed on Sunday after mythical creatures and artifacts believed to be "wealth- enhancing tools" stormed the funeral of ...Published: 18 Jan 2014 at 15:05hrs | 15 | by Staff Reporter
Gono owes local banks $40 million
Bikita West MP Munyaradzi Kereke says ex-RBZ governor owes local banks $40 million. Kereke said Gono borrowed the money using fraudulently acquired collateral. He claims Gono covered his track...Published: 13 Jan 2014 at 10:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Woman dies at sangoma's place trying to terminate pregnancy
Harare mother of 1 dies at sangoma, tries to terminate pregnancy carrying twins A Kuwadzana woman died at a suspected sangoma's place in Tafara on Wednesday morning, amid reports that she was attempti...Published: 12 Apr 2013 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Imposition of sanctions on Zim diamond producers, hampering fair trade' - Mpofu
Mines and Mining Development Minister Dr Obert Mpofu on Friday said imposition of sanctions on some of Zimbabwe's diamond producers is a threat to the country's projected $600 million diamond earning...Published: 11 May 2012 at 23:29hrs | | by Moyo Roy
Eighteenth African Union Summit to hold on the theme: 'Boosting intra-African trade'
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The 18th Ordinary Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) is scheduled to take place from 23 to 30 January 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Holding under the th...Published: 11 Jan 2012 at 05:19hrs | | by APO
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