The Dinson Iron and Steel Company, Zimbabwe’s biggest new industrial investment, has taken its first major production pause since commissioning started last year. The company will shut down its plant for a scheduled maintenance programme running from...
Zimbabwe has finally signed off on a long-delayed plan for India’s Jindal Power to fix Hwange’s ageing power units, which keep breaking down and causing blackouts.
Plans for a loan from the India Eximbank...
A new bill in the US Congress could repeal the long-standing Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA). However, future economic cooperation with the US would still depend on settling an old quarrel: how to compensate white...
By Nomsa Maseko
The queue to get fuel rather than the queue to vote is what is on the mind of many Malawians in Tuesday's general election.
Prolonged petrol shortages,...
Zimbabwe’s government will freeze recruitment in most of its departments next year to contain the state wage bill, the nation’s finance ministry said.
The halt to hiring will exclude only the health, security and...
Italtile, South Africa’s biggest floor tile manufacturer and owner of retailer CTM, says business has taken a knock due to rising competition from north of the Limpopo.For years, Zimbabwe and Zambia were Italtile’s strongest regional markets. Not...
Zimbabwe can start exporting blueberries to China after it agreed a protocol on phytosanitary standards, an industry body says.
The agreement was concluded during Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's visit to China this week,...
By Linda Mujuru
Zimbabwe’s tobacco sector was once on the brink of collapse. Now, it’s booming again. Last year alone, it earned the country close to US$1 billion in revenue.
But...
Delayed payments from government have forced Bitumen World to cut jobs, the latest contractor to show distress from public works.
Bitumen is one of five local construction companies awarded contracts on the Harare–Masvingo highway,...
Zimbabwean laboratories are struggling to cope with a surge in mineral samples submitted by mines ramping up exploration activity in response to record gold prices.
Geopolitical tensions, central bank buying and, lately, economic uncertainty...
