Mugabe was never a single story.
Zimbabwe, the country he led for almost four decades, was never just a Mugabe story either.
Few places help define Robert Mugabe, and...
By Perry Munzwembiri
Mthuli Ncube, Zimbabwe`s minister of finance wrote an interesting op-ed in the Financial Times defending the re-introduction of a local currency. His argument is primarily premised on the theory that a weaker local...
By Chris Chenga
There is a story told by Dominic Barton, the former Managing Director of global consultancy firm, McKinsey and Company.
According to Barton, Xi Jinping, then governor of...
Zimbabwe, the country I serve as finance minister, has been in the news for restricting the use of the US dollar and other international currencies as legal tender. Why would we want to return to our own...
By Chris Chenga
Have you watched “Bohemian Rhapsody”? It is an autobiographical movie about the band, Queen, focused on lead singer Freddie Mercury.
The opening scene glances through Mercury’s
passage to...
Perhaps the only surprise about Friday’s planned protests, which the police are now determined to stop, is that the Zimbabwe government appears surprised by them. They shouldn’t be.
When, in October 2018, a...
Starting Wednesday’s MDC press briefing on Friday’s planned protest, party spokesperson Daniel Molokele could pass as a deacon making routine church announcements.
By the end of the briefing, the placid lawyer had become testy,...
By Mukasiri Sibanda
Open for business?
Totemic. That is the word which perhaps aptly sums up the
potential of Zimbabwe’s huge and diverse mineral wealth to propel the country’s
socio-economic development agenda. Early...
By Chris Chenga
Economists
are disenfranchised. They are professionals wandering about trying to find
their place in society. Don’t get me wrong, banks and industries employ
economists; and pay them well too. These clients understand the importance...
As the gold price touched all-time highs late August 2011, Zimbabwe’s government was not, as would be expected, doing all it could to ensure the country capitalised on the boom. Instead, the government was moving to cancel...
