Msika : forgotten or a mistake

The Senior Minster for Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Joseph Msika, his deputy Swithun Mombeshora who is in fact a fully-fledged Minister, and the eight provincial governors whose office…

VP’s house $1m up

The cost of the house being constructed for the vice-President in Harare is reported to have gone up by $1 million from last year's estimates $3 million to $4 million…

Civil service reduced

At long last, there seems to be some headway in reducing the country's bureaucracy. The size of the civil service has been reduced by 6 941 posts from last year's…

Lorac: was First Lady involved?

The Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to carry out a more comprehensive investigation into irregularities of the Zimbabwe Banking Corporation and the Merchant Bank of Central Africa in their relationship with…

Copper going up

Coper prices are expected to go up by 39 percent by the end of the year if the European economies emerge from the current recession. This should be good news…

Milk tag

The introduction of a special "temporary" drought relief payment of five cents a litre to dairy farmers from 1 August to 30 November to assist them through "this difficult time"…

Commercial rents to drop?

Rents for commercial and industrial space are likely to drop in response to the current economic downturn while residential rents will continue to be high because there is still a…

Press battles looming

Zimbabwe's fledgling independent press is to receive another boost with the launching of an independent daily within two months, reports say, but its survival could be at stake because of…

Boost for NRZ

The National Railways of Zimbabwe, which almost collapsed three years ago but has since managed to cut its deficits by more than 300 percent in the past two years is…