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The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange is soaring, reaching new records each day. Last week alone, the market capitalisation added $3.2 billion to close at $11.3 billion as demand for equities soars.…

In January 1983 Robert Mugabe’s government launched a massive security clampdown in Matabeleland. It was led by a North Korean-trained, almost exclusively chiShona-speaking army unit known as the Fifth Brigade.…

First Mutual Life (FML) reported a 63 percent increase in after tax profit in the six months to June from $2.6 million last year to $4.3 million driven by high…

First Lady Grace Mugabe has been playing her cards right.  Only a decade ago, the United States embassy in Harare said it believed she had little or no political influence…

The ZSE mainstream index rose 39.56 percent to close at 400.03 points with a lift from Delta, adding to the week’s record-setting performance. The market capitalisation increased by 39 percent…

I could not help overhearing the conversation. I was in a commuter mini-bus on my way from Killarney in Bulawayo to town to make my weekly withdrawal of $100.  That…

Zimbabwe’s National Biotechnology Authority (NBA) has opened the country’s first laboratory to test imports for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). The southern African nation has maintained a ban on GMOs citing…

First Lady Grace Mugabe and her children live large.  You hear her children are renting an apartment for R70 000 a month! With this kind of money, one can buy…

Movement for Democratic Change presidential spokesman Luke Tamborinyoka has confirmed that party leader Morgan Tsvangirai is in hospital in South Africa “for routine medical procedure” but is not critical. A…

Imagine a country where the economy has not grown since the 1960s and where infant mortality has not improved in 30 years. In the meantime, neighbouring countries have got wealthier…