It is encouraging to note that readers of this column continue to acknowledge it as a trusted source of academic and evidence-based ideas and insight judging by the number of useful views, suggestions and comments that come my way weekly on various issues. One reader wrote: “I am…

If your wife or significant other is a fire-eating feminist fighter, go to your backyard, read the story, and pretend you know nothing about that “Bloke, Ken, who writes weird stuff from America.” Feminists here are out to hang any man who asks a simple question. Do girls…

What it means is that we should get ready for elections on June 29. Never listen to the twaddle from our detractors who still dream of delaying the inevitable by a few more weeks. Very soon our party will be having its primary elections, immediately after which our…

The stock market is still used as the economic barometer by which economists get a view of how the economy is performing. Studies on the relationship between the stock market and the economy abound with many theories on the causal relationships or lack of it between the two.…

 This was consistent with a pattern of steadily increasing deposits witnessed since the advent of dollarisation. The financial sector was reported to be stable and thriving.This update seems to be in stark contrast to the general sentiment coming out of industry and commerce. Almost without exception, large corporations…

The learned High Court judge appears to have fallen out with a powerful clique in ZANU-PF that cannot wait to see his back.The plot against the High Court judge has been thickening since last month and, from the look of it, it has a pre-determined outcome.But as the…

The main criticism was essentially to point out that for all our government’s self-praise for its “Look East” policy the fact that the Chinese leader did not visit the country could be described as “a diplomatic snub”. And that after all is said and done it appears we…

 The forthcoming elections threaten to be as divisive as ever. Noone can tell just how each day will pan out. This week I want to focus on some of the issues that I have picked up in terms of what some of the parties are considering as well…

 In fact, we have seen some defining evolution of SADC’s conduct and approach to conflict in the region, since the regional bloc undertook its role as guarantor of the Global Political Agreement (GPA). Some scholars actually argue that SADC needed the Zimbabwe crisis (together with Madagascar) in order…

On a number of occasions we may hear that a man has left his wife for another woman.  When and if this happens it’s usually for a younger newer model and at other times, much to the disbelief of many, it could be to an older woman with…