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While most companies are mourning about the difficult trading conditions, Beverley Building Society says its operating conditions returned to near normality during the year ended June. It realised a net…

Zimbabwe has reached that stage when newspaper circulations should start falling. The country had all along had one of the highest newspaper circulations per capita, largely because its people were…

While an estimated 6.7 million are facing food shortage and the country's imports will only meet 73 percent of the nation's requirements, whispers say some indigenous millers are selling their…

Flue-cured tobacco seed sales have dropped by 19 percent from 352kg last year to 295 kg. The Zimbabwe Tobacco Association estimates that a total of 41 300 ha, about 50…

Despite the crippling drought which has affected half the country's population, National Foods, one of the biggest milling companies in the country, says its sales volumes for the first half…

About 212 000 tonnes of wheat is expected this season and 68 000 tonnes of this had already been delivered to the Grain Marketing Board by early October. Wheat deliveries…

The current shortage of sugar is due to smuggling and parallel market sales where it is being sold at up to three times the government controlled price. ZSR Corporation says…

The 2003 budget announced on November 14 and the monetary policy statement of November 20 seem to have sent jitters in the once booming stock market. New measures announced by…

President Robert Mugabe, only beaten by Iraq President Saddam Hussein in terms of grabbing world headlines, is not even the longest serving surviving leader. According to a list compiled by…

Embattled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has found a rare friend. George Monbiot, writing in The Guardian, one of the papers that have been highly critical of his regime and whose…