Business

Harare — Farm workers and employers have agreed on a salary increment of 4.2 percent or $3 for 2017, which will see the lowest earner being paid $75 per month effective this month. According to a collective bargaining agreement signed last Friday between the General Agricultural and Plantation Workers’ Union …

INTERVIEWBy Violet Gonda Tendai Biti has accused Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa of ‘stealing’ money from the central bank to fund excessive expenditure by the government which caused crippling cash shortages. In an in-depth interview on the Hot Seat programme with Violet Gonda on the economic crisis in Zimbabwe, Biti talks …

THE colonial government had oppressive laws and African women in particular, suffered the most. For example, the colonial education system in Rhodesia did not have a specific policy for the education of women and girls and the labour laws did not recognise women. In an interview with The Patriot, the …

Colletah Chitsike is a trainer and capacity building specialist with her Masters Degree in Adult Education from the University of Zimbabwe. She has extensive experience in Community Development, Organizational Development and Gender Training for Change. She has previously worked with the Zimbabwe Council of Churches, OXFAM GB and NOVIB in …

Anyone meeting Anna Mudeka would soon realise that she is energetic and passionate about her music and cultural roots. Having been awarded the Most Influential Woman in Business and Government in Africa in the Arts and Culture section 2013, it’s very different from her humble beginnings having grown up in …

Founder of Love Zimbabwe charity 1137434 and Love Zimbabwe Fair Trade company. Martha has reached over 300 Welsh schools teaching Fairtrade. She is the only resident Fairtrade producer who has helped set up 15 workers’ co-operatives in Zimbabwe. A very ethically minded person who educates communities about Fair trade and …

Charity Chiratidzo Jinya is a Zimbabwean banker who was appointed as the first female Managing Director (MD) of the Merchant Bank of Central Africa Bank Limited (MBCA) (established in 1956, a subsidiary of Ned Bank Group of South Africa) in 2010. She has also served on various boards of numerous …

Troubled flag carrier, Air Zimbabwe, has failed to pay staff salaries for the month of May, it has emerged. President Robert Mugabe’s son-in-law Simba Chikore is chief operating officer at the crippled airline. A memo to the company’s 400-plus employees from acting human resources manager, one T Jayirai, confirmed the …

President Robert Mugabe has arrived in New York for a summit on oceans, the state media reports. As Zimbabwe is a landlocked country, the news of Mugabe’s latest trip has been greeted with shock and ridicule particularly coming soon after his return from Mexico where he attended a conference on …

Rudo Boka, who runs her family’s Tobacco auction house in Harare, on the auction floor. Rudo Boka had a rough start to her entrepreneurial career. The first born of seven, she was at the front of the line to take over her father’s business dynasty when her parents passed away …