Tobacco watch

With auction floors due to open in two months, Zimbabwe's tobacco farmers, after receiving a battering last year in which they were only saved by the depreciation of the Zimbabwe…

Zimbabwe: a hard sell

South Africa's Business Day of October 19, 1998 provided an interesting scenario of how difficult it must be to sell Zimbabwe to investors. On the front page was a story…

Mutasa shoots his mouth again

ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and now confirmed Manicaland boss after his faction swept all the seats in the provincial elections held recently is once again shooting off his…

Mugabe in desperate moves!

The last 12 months have been a nightmare for President Robert Mugabe. Faced with probably the stiffest challenge to his leadership in the 18 years he has been at the…

Chiyangwa and indigenisation

When the Affirmative Action Group was formed in 1994, there was a lot of acrimony about the new organisation. Several questions were raised about why it had been formed when…

Tedco forecasts better results

Retail credit group, Tedco, which owns among others, Nyore Nyore Zimbabwe Furnishers, Radio Limited, CW Stores and the House of Kumali, had a 59 percent increase in pre-tax profits in…

Apex fares well

Despite losing $3.2 million through redundancy costs and a further $3.5 million through exchange losses, Apex Corporation still managed to post an $8.6 million profit in the six months ending…

Maize, soyabean deliveries up

Maize, soyabean and wheat deliveries to the Grain Marketing Board increased by 545 percent, 450 percent and 262 percent, respectively, in the first three months of this year as compared…