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By John Robertson Introduction Three separate and extreme crises currently top the long list of profound uncertainties already affecting Zimbabwe's business sectors and its people. Food scarcities are becoming more…

While Education and Sport Minister Aenias Chigwedere is fuming over the meddling by some of his colleagues into football whispers say Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has long had an interest…

A new organisation made up of Zimbabwean and South African church leaders, the Solidarity Peace Trust, has questioned the legality of national service introduced by the government two years. It…

One of the most respected newspapers in the United States, the New York Times, has called on the Bush administration to fulfill its promise to help Africa fight the AIDS…

The ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have been talking for some time, and continue to talk, but the two parties are being forced to issue,…

Furniture retail group Pelhams had mixed fortunes during the year ended March. It had a buoyant first quarter, followed by a subdued second quarter, a big spend third quarter which…

The half-year report to March for Powerspeed Electrical is full of contradictions. It says trading conditions continued to worsen. Demand for all products remained soft. Volumes traded were no greater…

Interfresh, another horticultural company, had an excellent first half ending June with sales and net profit double that for the full year ending December. And it says it usually has…

Phoenix Consolidated Industries which contributed more than half of the revenue of Apex Corporation had a good first half with only one business unit, William Smith & Gourock suffering from…

Horticultural group, Ariston Holdings, made double the profit it made for the entire year ending September last year in the first six months of its current financial year. It made…