The history of parastatals or state-owned enterprises in Africa from the colonial and Apartheid eras to present day, is littered with contradictions. This is so because of the schizophrenic attitude that governments, private capital and citizens have...
RBZ Governor John Mushayavanhu’s latest Monetary Policy Statement is themed “Staying the Course” – and he’s done exactly that. There are no big changes, with RBZ holding rates steady, showing how anxious authorities are about sparking a...
By Perry Munzwembiri
As Food Lovers Honeydew flung open the doors of its glitzy, expanded store, OK Zimbabwe’s shareholders huddled to greenlight a $30.5 million lifeline plan to resuscitate their flagging retail giant....
This week, Cabinet made the kind of announcement every Zimbabwean businessperson wants to hear — we plan to cut down on the many licences that make it hard to do business.
But, we are...
By Tonderai Maruke
The US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has reportedly ordered American diplomats to stop pretending that they care about the integrity of foreign elections, unless it really matters to Washington.
In early 2004, I travelled with media colleagues Luckson Chipare (Zimbabwe) and George Christensen (The Gambia) to Bamako, Mali, to attend a conference on what we called then “the information society”. The conference was part of a...
By John Legat, Non-Executive Director, Imara Asset Management
In 1993, when as an eager, young and excited fund manager living in London, I discovered many opportunities in South Africa and Zimbabwe that, by comparison...
In 1996, the ever-affable, Colgate-smile Marshall Munhumumwe released yet another gem titled Ane Mari Ndiye Mukuru. It spoke truthfully of the dynamics in friendships and families – the loaded take the lead. The rich friend dictates the...
By Maurice Hutton
Kontuthu Ziyathunqa – Smoke Rising – was what they used to call Bulawayo when the city was the industrial powerhouse of Zimbabwe. Now, many of its factories lie dormant or derelict. The daily...
1991 was the year that the great minds at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund forced Comrade Robert Mugabe to drink some poison called ESAP (Economic Structural Adjustment Programme). Before that deadly drink affected all...
