The Insider

Astra Industries, the star performer on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange whose share price had soared by more than 2 700 percent by the third week of November, had a sterling…

Strong demand for products of Cairns Holdings saw the company's sales increase more than four-fold while net profit increased nearly ten-fold during the year ending August but volumes only increased…

Intermarket Building Society, which has taken over the former Founders Building Society, has taken advantage of the booming property business by launching a facility for Zimbabweans living abroad, who most…

Price controls, which kept the price of seed maize at pre-June 2001 levels, saw the net profit of SeedCo, one of the country's biggest seed producers, plummet by 63 percent…

Food shortages and the threat of starvation for the less privileged members of the community have forced many people to redirect their meagre resources towards food purchases rather than clothing…

Zimbabwe has imported 647 000 tonnes of maize and at the current rate of imports of 99 500 tonnes a month it could import a further 650 000 tonnes before…

The expulsion of Munyaradzi Gwisai from the Movement for Democratic Change made headlines in almost every local newspaper, the Sunday papers- both pro-government and privately-owned, the dailies papers- all four…

In Zimbabwe, choosing your political affiliation is a matter of life or death, confirms a new report. Political abuse of food is the most serious and widespread human rights violation…

The 2003 budget announced on November 14 and the monetary policy statement of November 20 seem to have sent jitters in the once booming stock market. New measures announced by…

The current shortage of sugar is due to smuggling and parallel market sales where it is being sold at up to three times the government controlled price. ZSR Corporation says…