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Agro-processing concern United Refineries says it will attempt to revive exports after making inroads into the local market, aided by government’s imposition of punitive levies on cooking oil imports. Government…

The Zimbabwe government has appointed former Africa Development Bank (AfDB) vice-president Thomas Zondo Sakala as the new chief executive of the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) with effect from…

The $1.3 billion project to increase Hwange Thermal Power Station’s electricity generation by 600 megawatts is awaiting financial closure, a Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) official has said.…

The government should channel more funding in research and investment into sustainable energy sources as electricity costs in Zimbabwe are prohibitive for commercial farming, the Zimbabwe Commercial Farmers Union (ZCFU)…

The Morgan Tsvangirai faction of the Movement for Democratic Change today said President Robert Mugabe is a tired and sickly old man who is not likely to provide any solutions…

Mangwe Member of Parliament Obedingwa Mguni has called on the government to give priority to the production of maize, sorghum, beef and poultry and not tobacco so that Zimbabwe can…

Higher Education Minister, Jonathan Moyo, who is said to be one of the Young Turks in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front in the group called Generation 40, which is…

Zimbabwe narrowed its trade deficit to $337.5 million in July from $362 million in June, latest data from the country’s statistics agency shows. Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (Zimstat) data show…

Capitalism gets blamed for many things nowadays: poverty, inequality, unemployment, even global warming. As Pope Francis said in a recent speech in Bolivia: “This system is by now intolerable: farm…

Zimbabwe’s largest short-term insurer, NicozDiamond’s Gross Premiums Written (GPW) grew 42 percent to $22.4 million in the full-year to June, pushing its net profit up by 71 percent to $1.3…