Dumisani Nsingo in Hwange

THE Hwange Local Board (HLB) plans to build a civic centre as it moves to enhance infrastructural development and lure investors.

Of bank charges

I thoroughly enjoyed Honourable Minister Tendai Biti’s budget presentation last week because it had all the ingredients of a stage play: big words, metaphors, dramatic irony, puns, plots, conspiracy theories and comic relief.

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

THE Zimbabwe Economic Empowerment Council (ZEEC) is set to host a historic national empowerment conference that is set to move the empowerment agenda a gear up as its broad-based membership from the 10 provinces convene to present their provincial empowerment blueprints to President Robert Mugabe in December.

Walter Mswazie

Busiess Reporter n

THE country’s banking sector’s regulations and recommendations are discouraging the growth of entrepreneurship while an estimated 85 percent of the population is informally employed, an official has said.

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

THE Ministry of Energy and Power Development has stepped up its efforts of using biogas as an alternative source of energy through initiating the construction of biogas digesters at public institutions.

Ngonidzashe Chiutsi

Business Correspondent

GOVERNMENT is strongly opposed to the relocation of one of the country’s largest paper packaging and converting companies, Hunyani Holdings Limited from Bulawayo to Harare.

Ngqwele Dube

Recently in Victoria Falls

ZIMBABWE has the ability to generate more revenue from diamonds if it courts investors for the purposes of beneficiation.

Following the economic downturn caused by the global financial crisis, most economies have focused on increasing exports in an effort to reduce the widening trade deficits. This has been no easy fit however, with global demand weakening on the back of a less than impressive world economic outlook as indicated by forecasts from the Bretton Woods Institutions.

Business Reporter

THE tourism sector has received an olive branch from Government ahead of the United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) general assembly next year in August with a six-month extension of the rebate on capital goods for the sector.

Roberta Katunga

Business Reporter

THE Ministry of Information Communication and Technology is working on modalities to revise its estimated budget of US$12 million for the installation of the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls fibre-optic cable system, a Cabinet minister has said. 

Thokozani Ndlovu

Business Reporter

GROWING electrical components manufacturer, Leaford Electric Rewinds, is on the brink of entering into a partnership with a Turkish firm, Astor Transformer, a move that will see it introducing latest technologies into the local market.