By Lungelo Ndhlovu
Before agronomist Peter Sena retired, he planted a variety of mango trees on his rural homestead in the Midlands, aiming to ensure an ongoing income for his family.
By Miles Tendi
Major General Paradzai Willings Zimondi, who has died aged 73, had multiple identities.
There was the young Zimondi who in 1974 left his wife and seven month old...
By Ben Bloom
A few months after Zimbabwe had so unexpectedly gatecrashed the global netball party in finishing eighth at their debut World Cup in 2019 – and doing so with some of the most exciting netball...
Just days into the COVID-19 lockdown, Samantha Murozoki discovered that a neighbour and her family were going hungry.
With markets shut down, they, like many others who live off trading, had no income to...
By Simon Usborne
Even in a normal year, the scene I find inside a luxury car garage in central London would be unusual. It’s here in Marylebone, on a murky November morning, that I find a young Zimbabwean aviation and...
Afdis, Zimbabwe’s biggest maker and distributor of spirits, wines and ciders, says volumes grew 28% in the quarter to September, despite the impact of COVID-19.
Among Afdis’ most recognisable brands are Viceroy and Klipdrift brandy, Smirnoff vodka, Sting spirit cooler,...
The name Machipisa is one of the names that pops up when Zimbabwe’s earliest black entrepreneurs are mentioned.
By the 1970s, Philemon Machipisa Murambiwa owned at least 20 houses, some of which he sold, reportedly at the insistence of the...
Zimbabwe and International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, have launched an initiative to boost tourism in Victoria Falls and support recovery in Zimbabwe’s tourism industry, the worst hit by COVID-19.
The initiative, the ‘Victoria Falls...
Customer numbers at Simbisa Brands, the country’s largest fast-food company, dropped 33.7% in the year to June, the latest evidence of the collapse of disposable incomes.
The company, which operates brands such as Chicken Inn, opened 14 new outlets in...
By Farai Shawn Matiashe
When the girls at Sahumani Secondary School in Hauna started playing rugby, they had to make do with the soccer pitch and the oversized football shirts used by the boys.
Five years on, several have represented their...
