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.
TZI, which has transformed itself into an investment company leaving management to the boards that are running its investments, had a turnover of $22.6 billion in the year ended September.…
A change in focus from a dwindling Zimbabwean market to an expending regional one saw newly listed Amalgamated Regional Trading (ART) almost treble its sales from $4.5 billion to $12.4…
Queues are a common sight in Zimbabwe. They are usually associated with shortages- of maize meal, bread, fuel or sugar. But there is a new type of queue that is…
Former editor-in-chief and founder of the Daily News, Geoff Nyarota, has indeed changed the face of journalism in Zimbabwe. As editor of Chronicle in the late 1980s, he ushered in…
One of the biggest problems Zimbabwe has faced over the years is that of policy reversals. One observer even joked that President Mugabe is a very generous man. He always…
Horticultural company, Interfresh had excellent results in the nine months to September with sales going up 238 percent to $3.9 billion, more than the total sales for last year which…
Astra Industries, the star performer on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange whose share price had soared by more than 2 700 percent by the third week of November, had a sterling…
Strong demand for products of Cairns Holdings saw the company's sales increase more than four-fold while net profit increased nearly ten-fold during the year ending August but volumes only increased…
Intermarket Building Society, which has taken over the former Founders Building Society, has taken advantage of the booming property business by launching a facility for Zimbabweans living abroad, who most…
Price controls, which kept the price of seed maize at pre-June 2001 levels, saw the net profit of SeedCo, one of the country's biggest seed producers, plummet by 63 percent…