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2 years ago | August 24, 2022

Pensioners pray for oil, gas breakthrough

New Ziana Hundreds of thousands of pensioners are on the cusp of securing a life-changing turn in financial fortunes if ...

Kandlela leaving POSB

Business Writer   PEOPLE’S Own Savings Bank (POSB) chief executive officer, Mr Admore Kandlela, is stepping down from ...

Sasol warns carbon tax poses big risk to its business, and it may ...

Bloomberg Sasol, South Africa’s second-biggest greenhouse gas emitter, sees carbon taxes posing a “significant risk” to ...

2 years ago | August 23, 2022

Zimbabwe’s food inflation a worrying case

Tapiwanashe Mangwiro The World Bank’s latest Food Security Update placed Zimbabwe second among 10 countries with ...

Modern building tech to spur housing delivery programme

Business Writer/NewZiana Government has adopted the use of new building technologies to build 100 blocks of flats per ...

ZTA partners Immigration Department to promote tourism

Business Writer    The Zimbabwe Tourism Authority (ZTA) has engaged the Immigration Department as part of efforts to ...

Rich countries gobble up fuel while poorer nations stuck with ...

Bloomberg Stephen Stapczynski, Anna Shiryaevskaya and Faseeh Mangi Russia’s war in Ukraine has Europe bracing for a ...

2 years ago | August 22, 2022

 Govt loans empower 7 000 women

Senior Business Reporter OVER 7 000 women have directly been empowered after accessing loans from $300 million, which is ...

Farmers decry rising cost of inputs

Michael Tome Business Writer FARMERS have raised concern over the increase in agriculture inputs price as preparations ...

Crowdfunding could bring funding relief to SMEs

Martin Kadzere In light of poor access to credit by small businesses and start-ups, there are growing calls to expedite ...

  ‘Slowbalisation’ stoking inflation

Moneyweb Economists are warning that a reversal of globalisation will keep inflation higher for longer as firms ...

Sarb to banks: Get with the crypto programme!

Moneyweb Most South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) guidance notes get read by the compliance officers and few others, but ...

Mozambique to export first LNG as global natural-gas prices soar

Bloomberg Mozambique is poised to ship its first cargo of liquefied natural gas overseas, joining the ranks of the ...

Germany risks a factory exodus as energy prices bite hard

Bloomberg Europe’s industrial heartland faces a potential exodus as manufacturers of German car parts, chemicals and ...

Gold heads for weekly drop amid mixed signals from Fed officials

Bloomberg Gold headed for the first weekly decline in five as traders weighed mixed signals from Federal Reserve ...

2 years ago | August 19, 2022

Govt sticks to guns on not paying suppliers

Business Writer THE Government remains adamant it will not rescind the decision not to pay its suppliers unless all ...

‘High inflation handicapping companies’

Nelson Gahadza The Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries (CZI) says Zimbabwean companies are handicapped with a high ...

Zim power crisis has no short term solution

Golden Sibanda Zimbabwe will continue to struggle to stabilise power supply in the short term as the water level at its ...

Sable Chemicals in ambitious dairy project

Business Writer Sable Chemicals has an ambitious plan to establish a dairy farm aimed at producing 65 million litres of ...

Thrive on business clarity

We are continuing with the series that I started last week, on the Seven laws for Effective Businesses. I made the point ...