ZIMBABWE will see better-than-expected economic growth of 4,7 percent this year, ending a decade of financial ruin, Finance Minister Tendai Biti said yesterday in his first annual budget speech.

Mahlangu receives human rights award from Obama

Clemence Manyukwe, Political Reporter

A CHILDHOOD partly spent in rural Kezi fills Magodonga Mahlangu with nostalgia, but she does not remember ever dreaming of meeting a United States president one day.

Njabulo Ncube, Political Editor

NEGOTIATORS in the dialogue aimed at resolving a plethora of outstanding issues threatening the Global Political Agreement (GPA) are maintaining a tight lid on the delicate process thereby reducing media practitioners to mere speculators or fiction writers.

Govt keeps Zim dolla on ice

Sunsleey Chamunorwa

A FEW questions in local economics have roused more debate than the fate of the defunct Zimbabwe dollar.

Brian Mangwende, News Editor

WHY do people change their minds? According to a United States writer, Jeremy Campbell, the answer to this question does not have to be one of opinion.

 United States policy inconsistency undermines world democracy

Sunsleey Chamunorwa Group Editor-in-Chief, Modus Publications

WORLD opinion remains sharply divided over the United States of America’s role in global politics given its partiality, hypocrisy and double-standards in its dealings with other nations.

Munyaradzi Mugowo, Staff Reporter

THE grass is slowly greening in developed economies and every head is up, closely monitoring the situation.

Brian Mangwende and Njabulo Ncube, Staff Reporters

DESPITE the deep-seated mistrust among the three main political parties constituting the inclusive government, it is becoming increasingly clear that ZANU-PF and the two formations of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) have no way out of this marriage of convenience until the next…

Shame Makoshori, Senior Business Reporter

POLICE’s shooting of three workers during an industrial action at the troubled Shabanie Mine last week highlights the need to refresh labour laws to make them impervious to the excessive use of force by members of the uniformed forces, labour experts said.

Njabulo Ncube, Political Editor
THE latest move by the three principals to the Global Political Agreement (GPA) to reconfigure the Parliamentary Select Com-mittee to include their respective chief negotiators has created controversy that has added another twist to the long awaited constitution making process.