The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
Clothing retail group Edgars Stores had a five-fold increase in sales during the year ended January 3 despite an acute shortage of cash for most of last year until the…
Circle Cement, probably the country's second largest cement producer, had a dramatic turnaround from a loss of $862.3 million in 2002 to a profit of $9.8 billion, largely because of…
I could not hold my excitement when the Federal Express man handed me the white envelop. I opened it nervously. It contained two copies of a two-page agreement that I…
Finance Minister Christopher Kuruneri became the first big gun in President Robert Mugabe's cabinet to be caught up in "Cyclone Gono" when he was arrested on Saturday, 24 April, for…
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange continued on its slow recovery with the key industrial index improving from 347707 at the end of March to 374 465 on April 28. The index…
Central bank governor Gideon Gono announced new measures to boost foreign currency inflows from exporters and Zimbabweans living abroad but, at the same time, maintained his grip on the financial…
Central bank governor Gideon Gono is expected to give a new lifeline to exporters, most of whom had threatened to stop exports because they were no longer viable, when he…
Central bank governor Gideon Gono has done a tremendous job in exposing the rot that was bedevilling the country. But it is high time the government instituted a full-fledged commission…
The two-week visit by a seven-member delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which ended on Wednesday marked a turning point in relations between Zimbabwe and the Bretton Woods Institution…
On paper Radar's results for the six months to December were excellent. Though mainly driven by inflation, turnover from continuing operations was up 621 percent from $5 billion to $36.2…