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A $210 million investment into Interfresh in 2001 is beginning to pay off. The company made a net profit of $1.6 billion last year an increase of 839 percent from…

Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai could go down in history as the president who never was. His Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) missed the 2000 parliamentary elections by a whisker. It…

South African police are reported to be closing in on David Jesse who is continuing to cause havoc in that country. Their only problem, reports say, is that they are…

"You have the jewel of Africa in your hands," said President Samora Machel of Mozambique and President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania to Robert Mugabe, at the moment of independence, in…

The wide gap between the price of diesel and that of petrol could be an indication that the government is planning to phase out vehicles that use petrol from the…

The stock market which had become a safe haven for investors over the past two years is now lagging behind escalating inflation which soared to 228 percent last month. The…

The parallel market will not disappear until a holistic economic revival programme encompassing all sectors and markets of the economy is put in place. A parallel initiative to stabilise the…

The shortage of foreign currency and the accumulation of arrears is discouraging foreign investment as investors are unable to repatriate their dividends. By the end of last year an estimated…

Foreign exchange remains the single most important factor hobbling the performance of the economy. Concessions should therefore be made and consensus on the way forward should be forged if the…

The Merchant Bank of Central Africa (MBCA) says after two years of negative growth charactised by critical shortages of foreign currency, fuel and basic foodstuffs, high inflation and unemployment, it…