The crackdown would extend to those caught distributing them.Police argue that the radio receivers were communicating hate speech and cultivating intolerance which might lead to violence ahead of the referendum to be held in two weeks time and make-or-break elections expected around June/July.Police believe that “subversive organisations” were…

 It has been mired in a lot of misunderstandings, erroneous stereotyping and ultimately a lack of understanding of what it is that SMEs need, and who should be providing it. Our problem starts right from when one tries to define what an SME is. In Zimbabwe, SMEs are…

 For instance the issue of youth unemployment received serious attention from policy-makers at the World Economic Forum on Africa held in Cape Town in 2011, South Africa with delegates concurring that youth unemployment has become a ‘global’ problem. There was broad consensus among policy-makers that urgent measures need…

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…

Christpowers died in a fire set up by suspected ZANU-PF supporters in their long battle to try and dislodge his father from the growing political influence he has been having in the Hea-dlands area. Mais-iri has been subjected to a long-drawn battle with ZANU-PF heavy-weights in the area…

Apparently this draft, though not perfect, offers women the most they have ever been constitutionally provided since Independence and even beyond. And it is a lot. We have discussed it in this column. If you need to be appraised of what the constitution offers (or doesn’t) visit www.copac.org.zw…

The prevailing liquidity challenges currently facing the economy are expected to persevere during the whole of the year 2013, sustained by subdued money supply growth emanating from a background of underperformance of all major sources of money supply. The major sources of liquidity and money supply in the…

Did you know that, that gentleman at work, who holds doors for the ladies and nods and says "after you" in that distinguished man-of-the-world, cosmopolitan style, has never once held a door for his own wife? Not at all in their 30-plus years together!Okay, so folks will go…

On the ease of trading across borders it is ranked 167 up from 172 in 2012, but it is still a bad ranking out of 185 countries particularly if we compare with its peers in the region. An analysis and comparison of indicators under the ease of trading…

One of the prominent features in these two, and in most small towns and villages then was the country club.Country clubs in the 1980s were generally places where the white farmers and their families would come to over weekends to wind down and have some fun. They were…