Mutare’s entrepreneurs crave funding and credibility. A seminar offers both—for the price of two cappuccinos. by BERNARD CHIKETO FOR the ambitious business owner in Mutare, two problems loom large: access to capital and access to each other.
by STAFF WRITER Zimbabwe’s procurement officials have been told to stop chasing the cheapest price and start rebuilding local industry, in a sweeping policy shift that turns public purchasing into a tool for industrialisation.
by BERNARD CHIKETO ANOTHER worker has died at Bikita Minerals, a lithium mine in eastern Zimbabwe. Two, in fact, over the same weekend.
by BERNARD CHIKETO When government declared a state of disaster last week to rehabilitate the country’s ravaged river systems, it offered a rare admission: mining, both legal and roving, has brought ecological catastrophe to seventeen major waterways.
Zimbabwe’s real-estate awards honour a developer, recycler and football treasurer by BERNARD CHIKETO ON MAY 30th, at a ceremony in the capital, Beauty Dorothy Hughes was named an innovative entrepreneur in housing schemes and community development at the Zimbabwe Women in Real Estate & Construction Awards.
by BERNARD CHIKETO Government has told its mine inspectors that their orders to close unsafe pits will no longer be quietly reversed by well-connected operators, promising to shield them from the political meddling and intimidation that have long undercut regulation in one of Africa’s more dangerous mining jurisdictions.
by NORMA TSOPO PEPETUAL Guwila, the long-serving regional manager for the Zimbabwe National Chamber of Commerce (ZNCC) in Manicaland and Chiredzi, died on Wednesday morning at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals in Harare.
by STAFF WRITER FOR THE elderly women of Mushenjere village, Zimbabwe’s grand industrial future is a wall. Erected by Dinson Iron and Steel Company (DISCO), it encloses all the arable land they once farmed. Four years on, they have not planted a single crop.
by BERNARD CHIKETO IN A MOVE that blurs traditional lines between civil service and political mobilisation, Zimbabwe’s agricultural extension officers have collectively donned a new mantle.
In Zimbabwe’s eastern highlands, a banana giant is proving that a lucrative crop can coexist with a rich web of life. by BERNARD CHIKETO A FROG’S chorus is not the sound one expects to dominate a commercial fruit plantation.
