Zimbabwe Insider - Part 1724

  • Beverley in record advances

    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...

  • Century profit up 410 percent

    Century Holdings had an excellent year ending September with net profit increasing more than five-fold from $76 million to $440.2 million but it is only...

  • Truworths profit up 419 percent

    Clothing retail chain Truworths capitalised on the consumptive spending that has gripped the country to record a net profit of $537.7 million, a 419 percent...

  • Haddon’s last report

    Bulawayo-based Haddon and Sly, which has now been taken over by Barbican Holdings, made a profit of nearly $4 million in the first half of...

  • Wheat will not last until April

    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...

  • Tobacco seed sales drop by 19 percent

    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...

  • Quick buck!

    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...

  • Can papers maintain circulations?

    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,...

  • Bob, age and gays

    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...

  • Anti-Mugabe campaign now hysterical

    The campaign against President Robert Mugabe has reached hysterical proportions. He has been called a tyrant, a murderer, a hate-mongering leader and Zimbabwe’s president-by-fraud, but...