The head of Old Mutual Zimbabwe says there are green shoots appearing in the economy after the devastation of a severe drought and the coronavirus pandemic.
“There are good signs emerging in economic sub-sectors...
Zimbabwe plans to buy up to 1.8 million doses of the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said, as the country received its first vaccines Monday.
A consignment of 200,000 doses of the...
Above-normal rainfall during the 2020/21 wet season will guarantee the sugar industry’s water security for the next three years, boosting production prospects after an 8% decline in output during the ten months to December 2020.
The government has, at several points over recent weeks, announced that its COVID-19 vaccine rollout plan was ready.
As ever, government communication on a critical issue has been scattered and unsure.
Alrosa, the world’s largest diamond producer by output, says COVID-19 has not altered its exploration in Zimbabwe and the company plans additional concessions this quarter.
The Russian company entered into a joint venture with...
New amendments that were supposed to drop empowerment requirements for platinum and diamonds are having the opposite effect; unsettling miners still haunted by the 51% empowerment law that drove out investment.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s...
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe’s move to compel mining companies to surrender more of their export earnings could cut mine output and cause “a viability crisis”, miners warn.
Central bank announced on January 8 that...
Zimbabwe, banking on mining to end two decades of economic stagnation, plans to list Kuvimba, the company in which it has placed state mining assets, to raise cash to meet government obligations.
Late...
Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza on Friday became the fourth government minister to die of COVID-19, as official statistics showed nearly half of all people dying from the disease are dying at home.
Friday...
If beer sales are anything to go buy, the two sectors with the most extra money to spend right now in Zimbabwe are mining and construction.
Delta Beverages, the country’s biggest brewer, says Zimbabweans...
