ECOCASH Holdings Zimbabwe Limited’s short-term insurance business, Moovah, is reinvigorating the country’s home insurance market with its innovative products and services. Moovah’s said its home insurance policy not only protects houses from physical damage, but also provides coverage for items inside the house. Mr Gift Noko, Moovah’s Chief Insurance Officer, said the leading insurance firm […] …
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Monthly Archives: July 2022
Meet actress Natasha Dlamini. . . from depression to the cusp of international stardom
Yvonne Ncube, Showbiz Correspondent IT is not surprising that children have imaginary friends, an imaginary world and an imaginary self in which they can be whoever they want. It’s a trait they will quickly abandon as they get older, realising its puerile. However, for Natasha Dlamini, born in Bulawayo’s Emakhandeni suburb, it’s a trait that foreshadowed […] …
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COMMENT: Diaspora professionals should consider returning home
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa on Thursday commissioned a US$7 million detonators plant at Intrachem Explosives Company in Kwekwe. The new plant which has an import substitution value of up to US$20 million per year, is set to boost production of mining explosives at the company. The company which was established by young Zimbabwean engineers who returned home […] …
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The story behind female names for beer gardens
Nqobile Tshili, Chronicle Reporter MAKHUMALO, MaDlodlo, MaMkhwananzi, MaHadebe, MaNdlovu are some of the names of iconic Bulawayo beer gardens that are part of the city’s culture. Lifetime friendships have been forged through interactions, some spanning half a century, at these beer gardens. Most Bulawayo residents however have little knowledge of the story behind the history […] …
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Brito is brewing something beautiful at Highlanders
Ricky Zililo, Senior Sports Reporter SOMETHING is brewing at Highlanders and the brew master is Portuguese expatriate Baltermar Brito who has so far not only proved to have a good eye for the finest ingredients but a brewmaster of the highest calibre. It might be early days as Brito has barely been two-months old at […] …
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Taking cleanliness closer to Godliness
Stephen Mpofu, Perspective WITH a people’s welfare-concerned head-of-state in President Emmerson Mnangagwa anchored by a team that by and large appears to talk his talk and walk his walk, the Second Republic Government will have no valid excuse whatsoever should it fail even by election time next year to take our living conditions a niche […] …
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Govt splashes cash on foreign mission buildings
Source: Govt splashes cash on foreign mission buildings – The Zimbabwe Independent President Emmerson Mnangagwa SYDNEY KAWADZA THE government will this year spend more than ZW$2,8 billion (US$6,7 million) on erecting new embassy buildings, while sprucing up old structures, which have deteriorated over the years. The Permanent Mission of Zimbabwe to the United Nations in […]
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Govt encouraging SMEs to pay tax
Source: Govt encouraging SMEs to pay tax – The Zimbabwe Independent Sithembiso Nyoni ZIMBABWE’S micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) have faced several challenges, especially on funding. Business reporter Freeman Makopa (FM) caught up with Women’s Affairs, Small and Medium Enterprises Development minister Sithembiso Nyoni (SN) to discuss strategies implemented by the government to ensure MSMEs remain afloat […]
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‘Gold coins for the elite’
Source: ‘Gold coins for the elite’ – The Zimbabwe Independent TATIRA ZWINOIRA THE introduction of gold coins this week will not benefit the ordinary person, necessitating the need for the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) to inject smaller denominations of the coins affordable to the poor, analysts have said. On Monday, the RBZ introduced gold […]
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Zim squanders power deal with Zambia
Zesa Holdings executive chairperson Sydney Gata SHAME MAKOSHORI A POWER importation deal inked between troubled Zesa Holdings and Zambian power utility, Zesco, winds up in the next two days, but before the cash-strapped Zimbabwean outfit tapes into the electricity, it emerged yesterday. Documents obtained by the Zimbabwe Independent showed the botched deal had already cost Zesco US$40 […]
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