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The Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change has called on the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission chair Rita Makarau and her team to resign and not be part of sham by-elections to be held in Mount Darwin West and Chirumanzu-Zibagwe next month.

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Zimbabwe’s hard-up government, which has resorted to domestic borrowings to support its budget, is struggling to repay and is scrambling to reschedule some of the debt as it falls due.

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The local unit of South Africa’s Impala Platinum has reported an 88 percent drop in after tax profit for the six months to December compared to the same period last year on weakening volumes and depressed prices.

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Zimbabwe’s largest gold producer Metallon Corporation has reported a $10 million after tax profit in 2014 and sees earnings more than doubling to $22 million on improved output and acquisition of the new mines, the company reported today.

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CABS has reduced the initial deposit payable for stands under its Budiriro housing development scheme to 10 percent from 25 of the total cost after reporting slow uptake of the stands, an official has said.

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The High Court today attended to a record 17 cases of companies under judicial management and liquidation, a sign of the country’s worsening economic crisis with many firms closing shop and leaving creditors — mainly the taxman, employees and banks — in the lurch.

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The Zimbabwe Congress  of Trade Unions (ZCTU), the largest labour body in the country today hit out at Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (ZIMRA) boss Gershom Pasi for calling for a wage cut, and alleged a conspiracy among top government officials to trample on workers’ rights.

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The resuscitation of the Redcliff-based Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Corporation, now renamed New Zim Steel, is still unclear as the agreement between the government and India’s ESSAR Group had to be renegotiated and is yet to be signed.

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Mining companies are bracing to challenge the recent three percent wage increase awarded to workers citing viability challenges.

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