WHEN the Southern Africa Aids Information Dissemination Service (SAFAIDS) resource centre programme officer Joshua Chigodora, asked a group of journalists attending a recent workshop on Aids to come forward to be tested for tuberculosis, everyone enthusiastically volunteered.
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ANALYSTS have given the 2009 national budget the thumbs down even before it has been presented, underlining the difficult choices facing acting Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa today.
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THE Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE), shut two months after the central bank accused traders of using fraudulent cheques, will remain closed until the government agrees on a plan to denominate shares in US dollars, the bourse’s chief said.  “We’ve reached agreement in principle to dollarise trading, but there are still…

BULAWAYO — Francis Tambanowako is a pensioner, Elphina a legal secretary and Arnold Munaki a businessman. But they all have one thing in common — they have survived into 2009 but no one can explain how they are making ends meet except to say it is by the “grace of…

Brian Mangwende
News Editor

THE dollarisation of Zimbabwe’s economy has further heightened fears that schools and tertiary institutions may not re-open anytime soon because of an assortment of reasons.
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A FADING election campaign poster, one of hundreds still hanging on walls and trees countrywide after Zimba-bwe’s June 27 discredited presidential election run-off, flaps madly in the wind. On it is the face of President Robert Mugabe, smiling broadly and the words: “This is the final battle for total control”.…

THE late founding president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere, once made a remark that aptly desc-ribes the current scenario in Zimbabwe and somewhat explains the inertia on the part of ZANU-PF in concluding the power-sharing agreement.

EDITOR — People never cease to amaze me. How can they have the cheek to expect something to come out of the on-going talks?
From the look of it, there is a certain group of people favouring the status quo and determined to perpetuate our suffering.
I believe it is…

“IN a hailstorm, even chickens can fly,” said one top executive on observing the northward trend on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE).

Despite the economic turmoil in Zimbabwe, the bourse has been in terrific form. The rally seen on the stock market in recent weeks has not been…