HARARE City Council (HCC) says it may not be able to supply enough water during the festive season on the back of crippling foreign currency shortages. (more…)

BOTH commerce and industry say they cannot wait for the curtain to come down on 2018, a year which local businesspeople have variously described as the “toughest since dollarisation” and annus horribilis — a Latin phrase that means “horrible year”. (more…)

INFLATION continues to be Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s worst nightmare after firming 10,16 percentage points in November to settle at 31,01 percent, against the treasury chief’s 26 percent projection for close of 2018. (more…)

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government needs to develop a clear and coherent long-term economic reform strategy to build a modern market-based economic system, economist Dale Dore has said. (more…)

GOVERNMENT has admitted that its fiscal and monetary measures have contributed to a slump in gold deliveries by small-scale miners, who have been tendering 60 percent of Fidelity Printers and Refiners (FPR)’s bullion haul or receipts for some time. (more…)

THE High Court has described as “false” the Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC)’s insistence that it was not behind Wicknell Chivayo and Intratrek Zimbabwe (Intratrek)’s criminal charges, in a judgment with far-reaching consequences for some companies with disputes against other parastatals. (more…)

SOUTH Africa’s former president Jacob Zuma, facing 16 corruption charges and a demand to pay back as much as R32 million in legal fees, may soon see his woes deepen from beyond the country’s borders. (more…)

ZIMBABWE'S year on year inflation rate for the month of November stood at 31,01 percent, gaining 10,16 percentage points on the October rate of 20,85 percent following a surge in prices of goods and services. (more…)

HWANGE Colliery Company Limited (HCCL) scheme chairperson Andrew Lawson says he is opposing the reconstruction of the struggling miner citing a need to protect creditors’ interests. (more…)

A LEADING United Kingdom- based advisory firm FitchSolutions (Fitch) says the continued use of bond notes is worsening Zimbabwe’s liquidity crisis. (more…)