Friday 18th May, 2012

• Zimbabwe: Mining Sector Likely to Miss Projected 16 Percent Growth Target

  General Sources

  THE mining sector is likely to miss the projected 15,9% growth target this year due to a plethora of challenges, chief among them erratic electricity supplies and lack of financing for developmental ...

• AUDIO: Film tackles Mugabe's rise and fall

  BBC

  Robert MugabeWhat Happened?, a new film about Zimbabwe's president, has just been screened in New York. The film's director, Simon Bright is a Zimbabwean exile living in the UK and ...

• The Human Capital Telescope - Internet-Based Phones Vs Telecoms

  All Africa

  THE ability to use a regular mobile phone handset (Nokia, Samsung, HTC,etc) to make and receive free to ultra lowly-priced calls, text messages and multimedia messaging via the internet is now a ...

• FML Poised for Growth - Ncube

  All Africa

  Madam, last month Afre CEO Douglas Hoto said FML had weathered the storm created by the previous administration. Can you enlighten our readers about what your personal vision for FML is and where ...

• Constitution - VP Posts to Be Based On Seniority

  All Africa

  ZIMBABWE'S new governance charter will tackle the contentious succession debate with two vice presidents being appointed based on seniority to provide certainty compared to the current ...

• Econet, Delta Powerful Near Monopolies

  All Africa

  THE strong financial results recently posted by Econet and Delta have received mixed reactions from analysts and the public, with some raising eyebrows as to the sustainability of the earnings going ...

• Chiganze Pushed Off African Sun Board

  All Africa

  AFRICAN Sun Ltd directors pushed off Tim Chiganze as chairman at a board meeting held on Tuesday, businessdigest can reveal. Chiganze was pushed off the board of the leading hotel group after ...

• Green Fuel - Ministers' 'Ignorance' of Project Shocking

  All Africa

  GREEN Fuel has dominated newspaper headlines over the past few weeks, but not for reasons that are unlikely to turn anyone green with envy. In fact, it is a classical case of why Africa continues to ...

• Zimbabwe: Security Forces Campaign for Mugabe

  All Africa

  THE military and police chiefs have launched a spirited campaign on behalf of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF ahead of the next do-or-die elections to regain ground lost to the MDC parties in ...

• Call for Mandatory Blending of Fuel

  All Africa

  THE Confederation of Zimbabwe Industries has called on the Government make blending of fuel mandatory. The call comes as low uptake of Green Fuel's 90:10 percent petrol-ethanol blend -- E10 -- ...

• PwC to Raise Funds for Orphans

  All Africa

  PRICE WATERHOUSE COOPERS (PwC) is set to raise funds for orphans at Mashambanzou Care Trust through a Cycle Trust Fund project as part of its corporate social responsibility. As a sponsor, PwC is ...

• Tongaat Hulett Heps Seen Up 10 Percent to 839 Cents

  All Africa

  Sugar producer Tongaat Hulett (TON) says its headline earnings per share for the year ended March 2012 are expected to be 839 cents per share - a 10% increase on last year's 761 cents. ...

• Private Media Living in Utopia

  All Africa

  These past weeks the donor funded, donor controlled and donor owned 'independent' or private media has been very busy giving us various versions and dosages on factionalism in Zanu-PF. ...

• Time to Rejuvenate Our Motor Industry

  All Africa

  LAST week I wrote a bit of commentary on activity in the motor industry in Zimbabwe, which received fair comment from readers across the nation. I must say most of it was positive despite being for ...

• Potato Declared Strategic Food Security Crop

  All Africa

  GOVERNMENT has declared potatoes a strategic food security crop that will now be included in various inputs support schemes. Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Joseph ...

• Zimbabwe poachers target rare anteaters

  General Sources

  HARARE, Zimbabwe-An animal welfare group in Zimbabwe says poachers are now targeting rare anteaters because of a growing demand for exotic animal parts for Asian traditional medicine. The National ...

• DCC Polls - Politburo Decision Hailed

  All Africa

  ZANU-PF provinces have hailed a Politburo decision directing national political commissar Cde Webster Shamu to go back to the provinces and address challenges arising from the imposition of ...

• Zebras Cause Stir in Harare Suburbs

  All Africa

  TWO zebras -- believed to be part of a family that escaped from Lion and Cheetah Park -- caused a stir in Budiriro and Kuwadzana, Harare, yesterday morning. One of the zebras was found in Budiriro 3 ...

• Gunners Face 'FC Gunners'

  All Africa

  HALF-a-dozen former Gunners players now form the backbone of the team which ambitious FC Platinum hope to win a championship with this season. But Gunners captain Pardon Chinungwa said they are not ...

• Chaos Dogs New Car Licensing System

  All Africa

  The Zimbabwe National Road Administration yesterday said it will not extend the deadline for registering for new computerised licence discs despite an outcry from the public that the process was ...

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