Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

AMAKHOSI Cultural Centre director Cont Mhlanga has hailed the tourism destination development seminar that was held at the cultural centre last week as a resounding success saying it presented tourism stakeholders with a platform to seek strategies of promoting cultural tourism.

Mistaken theories about insects

Insects are not animals

When most people think of animals, they often mean furry creatures such as dogs, cats and even more menacing lions, tigers and bears. Perhaps because of the unusual appearance of most insects, which have exoskeletons among distinctive features, people tend to assume these arthropods are of a different classification. Though they may not have skin or fur, insects are animals just like dogs, cats and us.

Ngonidzashe Chiutsi

Business Correspondent

THE Motor Industry Association of Zimbabwe (MIAZ) has challenged new players in the panel beating industry to formalise their operations so as to enhance their chances of getting tenders from insurance companies to repair accident- damaged motor vehicles.

Dumisani Nsingo

Business Reporter

GOVERNMENT plans to aggressively lure potential investors from the world's emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (Brics) to invest in the country, a Cabinet Minister has said.

Ngonidzashe Chiutsi

Business Correspondent

THE Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) has attributed the few number of flights landing at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (JMN) International Airport on the effects of deindustrialisation haunting the City of Bulawayo.

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

THE Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises and Co-operative Development, Sithembiso Nyoni says there is a need for Government to formulate policies aimed at capacitating SMEs as they play an integral role in the growth of the country’s economy. 

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

THE Southern African Railways Association (Sara) and the National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ) said they are unaware of talks on the creation of a regional unified railway system which is expected cut across the country.

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

GOVERNMENT continues to lose huge sums of revenue through illegal mining and under declaration of minerals by miners owing to a poor monitoring and surveillance system, a portfolio committee report on Mines and Energy revealed.

Walter Mswazie

Business Correspondent

THE Batoka Gorge hydro power project, a joint-venture between Zimbabwe and Zambia, with the capacity to produce 4 000 megawatts if fully-exploited, will be a major boost towards easing power deficits being experienced by the two countries.

Closure of companies an economic pinch

The recent events surrounding the closing of the shop of Belmor Manufacturers have prompted me to put pen to paper and come out with this article

Business Correspondent

THE Standard Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) has urged local companies to manufacture high quality and competitive products so as to withstand the competition for markets with foreign goods.