Tobacco sales drive money supply: RBZ
ZIMBABWE’S broad money supply rose 2.25 percent to $4.3 billion between April and May driven by tobacco sales, figures released by the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) on Friday show.The tobacco selling...
View ArticleTelecoms revenues fall on liquidity squeeze
REVENUE in Zimbabwe’s telecommunications industry fell by 15%, while the country’s largest mobile operator, Econet Wireless, registered a 4.1% growth in subscribers in the first quarter pushing its...
View ArticleCig firm to pay wife $23b for cancer death
A US court has ordered the country's second largest cigarette company to pay $23.6 billion (£13.8bn) to the wife of a smoker who died of lung cancer.RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company was hit with the...
View ArticleWe’re uniting polarised media: Nyarota
VETERAN journalist and chairman of the Information Media Panel of Inquiry (IMPI), Geoff Nyarota last week, said they were engaged in an attempt to unite the country’s once polarised media.Nyarota was...
View ArticleMillers welcome grain traders ban
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe last week commended the government’s decision to stop all GMB depots across the country importing maize or buying grain from private traders.In an interview...
View ArticleMedia trainer laments falling standards
A LOCAL media trainer, Peter Mandava, says the mass recruitment of journalism students in colleges and universities is compromising the quality of graduates.Mandava, who is a journalism lecturer at the...
View ArticleTop civil servant blasts idle new farmers
A SENIOR civil servant has taken a swipe at Zanu PF youths for under-utilising farms that were seized from whites under the government’s controversial land reform programme.Manicaland Provincial...
View ArticleZimbos arrested in SA over $260k shellfish
THREE Zimbabweans and a Mozambican national were arrested in Cape Town, South Africa, on Thursday for being in possession of abalone worth an estimated R3.8 million (about $262,000).Police said the...
View ArticleBob's chairmanship toxic for SADC, group
THE Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition has warned that SADC risks exporting into the region Zimbabwe’s economic and socio-political problems if President Robert Mugabe takes over as chairman of the...
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Dynamos edge Caps United in NetOne Cup
Dynamos 1-0 Caps UnitedIT WAS nothing much to write home about, but Dynamos are known to grind results from nothing and on Sunday, they did just that to beat Caps United and sail through to the last...
View ArticleSuarez needs Psychiatrist, Uruguay president
URUGUAY President Jose Mujica has slammed FIFA for their treatment on Luis Suarez, claiming the striker needs help not a ban.The Barcelona forward is banned from football for four months after biting...
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Raza century sets up huge Zimbabwe win
Zimbabwe 257 for 2 (Raza 141, Masakadza 93) beat Afghanistan 256 for 7 (Ghani 118, Raza 2-25) by eight wicketsSIKANDAR Raza’s maiden ODI century helped Zimbabwe crush Afghanistan by eight wickets and...
View ArticleTsvangirai, Mugabe Siamese twins, rival
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and rival, Morgan Tsvangirai, are both impediments to the growth and revival of Zimbabwe, an opposition leader has said.Jacob Ngarivhume, the leader of the newly formed...
View ArticleSunday Southern Eye newspaper folds
LOCAL media group, Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) has shut down one of its titles, Sunday Southern Eye, as the company battles a serious financial crunch.AMH, who are also the publishers of the Newsday,...
View ArticleFootballers squeal as taxman strikes
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) wants all Premier Soccer League (PSL) players to start paying tax with indications players may face PAYE bills backed to January.ZIMRA revealed the plan at a...
View ArticleWe're ready to fight, Mthwakazi leader
THE president of secessionist group, Mthwakazi Liberation Front (MLF), Fidelis Ncube, has said they will serve divorce papers on the Zimbabwean government before year-end.Mthwakazi Liberation Front is...
View ArticleBaba Jukwa ‘funder’ implicates minister
A SOUTH Africa-based Zimbabwean wanted by the police for allegedly financing Baba Jukwa has dismissed the allegations as pathetic and farcical saying he had neither the wish nor the capacity to splash...
View ArticleTroubled economy on the mend, Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has said Zimbabwe’s struggling economy is now on a rebound adding his government has put in place several measures to ensure a sustained recovery.“Let me assure our people that...
View ArticleToll gates fee fight political mischief
THE tollgate court interdict application by Zimbabwe Human Rights Lawyers Association (ZHRLA) was simply a heap of a dog’s breakfast which the no-nonsense judge rightly dismissed in haste for lack of...
View ArticleTsvangirai’s morbid obsession with Rhodesia
MORGAN Tsvangirai is comatose to the disturbing and misleading ploy of the elite behind the false and fraudulent regime change agenda that has evidently been on the table since the inception of the...
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