Locally manufactured goods are returning back onto the supermarket shelves rising from five percent in 2017 to 45 percent as industries increase their capacity utilisation

Increasing locally-manufactured goods delight ED

Staff Writer Supplies onto the market have increased from a measly five percent in 2017 to reach an impressing 45 percent this year, President Mnangagwa...
Government efforts to curb the rate of infection from the COVID-19 virus are bearing fruit with cases dropping by almost 50 percent

Zim a possible source of infectious COVID-19 variant

Sydney Kawadza Zimbabwe could have been a source of a COVID-19 variant that ravaged the country and Southern Africa in December 2020 and early this...

FAO seeking US$20m to overcome food insecurity in Zimbabwe

Staff Writer United Nations agency, the Food and Agriculture Organisation is seeking at least US$20 million to assist 630 000 Zimbabwe overcome expected food insecurity...

GMB maintains producer prices as it readies for better harvest

HARARE - GMB said it does not generate foreign currency as it announced that it will pay farmers in Zimbabwean dollars for their produce...
Relations between President Mnangagwa's administration and the US government remain strained over human rights issues

US doles out $341 million to Zimbabwe in 2020 despite strained relations

Staff Writer The United States government provided more than US$341 million in assistance despite strained relations between the two administrations. The US has maintained sanctions against...

Takura to acquire Interfresh Limited

HARARE - The Competition and Tariff Commission Zimbabwe has approved the acquisition of the majority shareholding in Interfresh Limited by Takura Ventures. The transaction is...

Government amends Chilonga Statutory instrument

Davison Kaiyo HARARE – The government, which has been under fire over displacement of Chilonga community the since the publication of Statutory Instrument (SI) 50...

Global Finance names AfDB the World’s Best Multilateral Financial Institution in 2021

Abidjan, COTE D’IVOIRE – The prestigious U.S. magazine, Global Finance, specializing in financial markets and investment banking, has named the African Development Bank as...
President Mnangagwa is expected to make a shrewd decision when he appoints Zimbabwe's second Vice President to replace Kembo Mohadi who resign under a cloud of sexual impropriety

Mohadi replacement; litmus test for ED’s political acumen

Sydney Kawadza Former vice president Kembo Mohadi has put the spotlight, once again, on President Mnangagwa, who is expected to perform a Houdini Act when...
Most councils in Zimbabwe are struggling to provide water to their residents and government plans to promote roof-top water harvesting to ease the challenge

Enough water for urban centres, but…

Staff Writer Zimbabwe’s major cities Harare and Bulawayo have a combined 39 months’ supply of water that could ease shortages that have hit the urban...