THE private sector has never played a greater or more influential role in international economic development than it does today.
…THE United Nations Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) concluded on September 22 2010 with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015 target date and the announcement of major new commitments for women’s and children’s health and other initiatives against…
Shame Makoshori, Chief Business Reporter
ZIMBABWE faces one of its brightest years in a decade, probably much more prosperous than 2000, when the government embarked on the controversial agrarian reforms that triggered a bitter diplomatic standoff with Britain and its allies resulting in the imposition of targeted sanctions against President Robert…
Dumisani Ndlela, Staff Reporter
A RECENT spate of farm invasions targeting properties protected by bilateral investment protection ag-reements has vindicated critics of the Zimbabwe government and thrown the country’s bid to lure foreign investment into turmoil.
…Shame Makoshori, Chief Business Reporter
WHEN South Africa won the bid to host the World Cup, the excitement was so contagious that one would have been forgiven for thinking that Zimbabwe was an extension of Africa’s largest economy.
…Njabulo Ncube, Assistant Editor
THE Chinese say 2010 is the year of the tiger — an animal considered to be the king of all beasts in Asia.
The tiger represents power or energy. It is also an unpredictable animal in the cat family.
Clemence Manyukwe, Political Editor
AS schools opened this week, the major preoccupation for most parents was the issue of exorbitant fees, the soaring cost of uniforms and strike threats by teachers over poor salaries.
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