News about Zimbabwe that you can use
The export market for indigenous plants used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals is largely underserviced and Zimbabwe should look to commercializing a number of its plants, an industry official said this week.
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The run-up to the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front congress was nasty. Though no blood was shed, the internal fighting has left many disgruntled, bitter and aggrieved people.
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The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe today unveiled a set of new bonded coins worth $10 million, which will start circulating on December 18, in a bid to ease the shortage of lower denomination currency, but repeated assurances it would not bring back the local currency.
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AIM-listed resources company, African Consolidated Resources has announced that its Pickstone-Peerless gold project near Chegutu, 100 kilometres southwest of Harare, will come on line in the second half of 2015 after it secured funding from a Zimbabwean company to start operations at the gold mine.
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Bulawayo City Council (BCC)’s debt has ballooned to over $90 million, about 57 percent of its $158 million 2015 budget, and is struggling to service it after revenue dropped by 65 percent since July last year, latest council minutes have shown.
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Zimbabwe’s efforts to re-engage and seek debt relief from multilateral lenders may be an exercise in futility due to government failure to contain a bloating wage bill and recurrent expenditure, an economic think tank has said.
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The $55 million Agricultural Marketing Authority (AMA) grain purchase bills floated by CBZ Bank in June registered a 96 percent success rate, the bank announced yesterday.
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