By Isdore Guvamombe

ZIMBABWE has won an international excellence award, the Golden Award for the Tourism, Hotel and Catering Industry, New Millennium, for its tourism marketing development and promotion efforts, while five more companies and a Cabinet minister have been nominated by Africa Investor for the 2010 Tourism Investment Awards slated for next week.

Zimbabwe scooped the 35th edition of the award after exhibiting in Madrid, Spain. The award also comes hardly a week after Zimbabwe Tourism Authority chief executive Mr Karikoga Kaseke was elected first vice president of the newly formed Africa Tourism Promotion Initia...

Business Reporters

THE availability of locally manufactured basic commodities has improved with these now the dominant products on the shelves of leading supermarkets in the country.

According to a price monitoring schedule released by the National Incomes and Pricing Commission, products such as mealie-meal that is being sold in shops such as Spar, OK and TM is now virtually locally manufactured.

This is a different situation from the same time last year where mealie-meal that was available were virtually imports from mainly South Africa.

Apart from mealie-meal there has also been a dramatic increase in the...