Special Report

5 years ago | November 1, 2019

Liquidity crisis hits Edgars

Michael Tome and Panashe Chikonyora CLOTHING retail giant, Edgars Stores Limited, says it continued to experience a ...

IDBZ ramps up housing, irrigation projects

Kumbirai Tarusarira The Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe (IDBZ) has partnered Zvishavane Town Council in the ...

Masiyiwa’s Mascom bid flops

South African telecoms major MTN Group Ltd has ditched a plan to sell its 53 percent stake in Mascom Wireless Botswana, ...

Exchange rate stabilises in October

Business Writer The Zimbabwe dollar remained largely stable in the month of October, with the interbank foreign exchange ...

Avoiding toxic partnerships among MSMEs

Joseline Sithole Extensive literature exhorts the gains and advantages of working together in business. In the same ...

Analysts upbeat on Natfoods 2020 earnings performance

Enacy Mapakame Analysts are upbeat on National Foods 2020 earnings performance on the back of an anticipated increased ...

Mboweni to hit embattled taxpayers harder

If you are middle class and tax-paying, get set to pay more and receive a lot less from the government next year – ...

New notes have little impact on formal sector

The new $2 coins and $5 notes will have a negligible effect on almost every business that needs premises bigger than a ...

Know your numbers, sales

Robert Gonye Sales has traditionally been an intuition-driven profession. What does this  mean? Well, salespeople ...

Lost by life in transit: The right advice

Tsitsi Mutendi In the past two weeks, we have been following the saga of SME/MME family business owner Thomas Mbanje and ...

Reform is about tackling specifics

Alfred M. Mthimkhulu I gather the Big Bang which begot the universe as we know it was not a split-of-a-second event. ...

Sanctions do hurt the economy

Hopewell Mauwa The US Ambassador, Brian Nichols, was unusually hyperactive last week. The diplomat attempted to counter ...

Why are black-owned SMEs struggling?

Clifford Shambare In my last week’s article on indigenisation, you may, or may not have noticed a certain pertinent ...

Fed cuts rates as US economy slows

Washington. — The Federal Reserve cut interest rates for the third time this year as the US economy continued slowing ...

Did you know? Simbisa brands thus far

Fradreck Gorwe Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) listed quick service restaurants (QSR) business, Simbisa Brands Limited ...

Stock Market Weekly Review

Enacy Mapakame The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange maintained gains in the week to Wednesday that saw three of the benchmarks ...

MPC Statement with no action plan

Taking Stock Kudzanai Sharara While the maiden Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) Statement presented by its chairperson ...

Effects of adverse opinions on Zim firms

Tawanda Musarurwa At no fault of their own, Zimbabwe’s listed firms have been receiving adverse opinions on their ...

A guide to sunflower production

Own Correspondent Introduction Sunflower is a crop which, compared to other crops, performs well under drought ...

Zim debt overhang challenge

Zimbabwe’s current sovereign debt is regarded unsustainable estimated at $66,8 billion as of June 2019. External debt is ...