OPINION: Road tragedies – a crisis of law enforcement
By Mike Murenzvi
On the evening of 7 November, two long distance buses operating as Smart Express and Bolt Cutter sideswiped in Rusape. Sadly, 50 people lost their lives and...
As drought looms, Zimbabwe asks itself: Should we keep growing maize?
As Zimbabwe’s farmers head to the fields to plant, the country is facing yet another dry growing season, meteorologists predict.
But that has not persuaded Sikhathele Sibanda to grow something...
How Mthuli’s budget is changing the way we account for our minerals, and what...
By Mukasiri Sibanda
Shortly before the Finance Minister Professor Mthuli Ncube delivered his maiden national budget statement in Parliament, Bulawayo city was showered with rains. The Botswana Pula, a...
Mthuli’s budget: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
In September, while meeting fund managers in New York, Finance Minister Mthuli said what the economy needed was a “big bang”, a shock to the system. A week later,...
Half-hearted austerity: Govt raises taxes, takes symbolic pay cuts
Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube’s 2019 budget statement promised ‘Austerity for Prosperity’, but by the time he finished delivering it, it was clear that government remains half-hearted about cutting spending,...
One year on: Zimbabwean miners’ confidence falls on deepening forex hole
A year after their confidence soared after the change of leadership, morale among Zimbabwe's mining executives has waned as they fret over deepening foreign currency shortages and a Government...
