In Zimbabwe, to say that members of the public have confidence in State institutions would be to lie through one’s teeth. That confidence has been shaken at its foundations.What makes the situation extremely worrying is that some of the officials in government have also lost confidence in national…

The MDC-T launched its “Vote Yes” campaign in Gweru last Saturday. Although it was washed out by the heavy rains, the turnout was remarkably resounding. That turnout must have given Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and his team a bit more confidence of their level of mass support, especially…

The year 2012 proved to be very challenging after low production in agriculture led to reduced economic traction. The demand side for most corporates was reduced as liquidity challenges cut spending power for buyers. Turnall, Zimplow, SeedCo and AICO were greatly affected by the poor agricultural season such…

 Presenting the group’s full-year results to December 31 2012, the listed company’s CEO John Mangudya recognised the importance of the SME sector in national economic development and confirmed that his institution would scale-up funding to the sector from the current 5 to 15% by year end. Going forward, SMEs…

At the Awards Ceremony, 10 organisations were recognised as being the best companies to work for in Zimbabwe. These       were Plan Zimbabwe, Trocaire,      World Vision Zimbabwe, Transp­-arency International Zimbabwe, Ernst&Young, Cordaid Zimbabwe, People’s Own Saving Bank, FMRE Property and Casualty, Speciss College Harare and Curechem Zimbabwe.To determine who…

 A share scheme by one of the companies involved an outright sale to a consortium of local investors, a sale to the employee trust for a consideration and a donation to Community Share Ownership Trust. In both sales to the consortium of local investors and employee trust the…

 Apart from the confusion over what exactly constitutes an SME, and the need for clarifying that SMEs and the informal sector do not mean the same thing, the other big discovery was that the SMEs themselves often mis-diagnosed their problems.The most common misconception we came across was that…

 They saw themselves losing fight after fight; first to make him a one term president, then to protect the wealthy one percent quintile from paying taxes at the same rate as normal people do. The issue of the century is what to do with black boys who are…

That will never happen, that I can assure you. Let them try every trick in the book, but that will never stop us from having the elections this year.At first the idea was to delay the constitution-making process for as long as they could, but they themselves ended…

 Is this hope based on the reality on the ground or is it based merely on wishful thinking?This article starts from the premise that far from 2013 being a watershed year for Zimbabwe, the economic crisis the country is facing is here for the foreseeable future. Indeed, it…