Individual investors who had become active during the hyperinflation era became incapacitated and local institutional investors grappled with liquidity challenges that saw them becoming more risk averse. Foreign investors became the major drivers of liquidity on the market as their participation increased from 35 percent in 2009 to…

 According to the Income Tax Act the expenditure or losses  should be: incurred, for the purpose of a given trade, in Zimbawe, during the year of assessment, in the production of income and they must not constitute  expenditure or losses of a capital nature. The rest of this…

 In the 19th century, treadmills were built into prisons, and were used as a means to harness prisoners' mechanical power to grind grains, pump water and do a host of other menial tasks.Their technical ingenuity on the part of the designers was however, counteracted by the drudgery, boredom…

 Employee Confi-dence is defined as the extent to which employees perceive their organisation as being effectively managed and competitively positioned. It also refers to whether or not employees believe they have a promising future with their organisation; that is if there is job security given the current performance…

 The just-ended CAF football extravaganza held in South Africa is testimony of the embedded talent, organisational capability and healthy dose of Pan-Africanism in the Motherland. It is confirmation of the latent potential in the continent which for so long had been bastardised by the West.       The typical…

 One set of bad news is followed by worse news. For white conservatives, as if it was not enough to lose the United States presidential election to a man of colour, here comes Jonathan Last, telling them that the real problem is that they are having fewer children…

 The constitutional draft goes to Parliament in the next fortnight with officials promising a national referendum by the end of March.Because the three parties - President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF, Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T and the small MDC splinter group led by Industry Minister, Welshman Ncube - support…

The devastation of wetlands has been prevalent in mostly land under municipalities where service delivery has been on the decline due to corruption and mismanagement of public resources.It would appear that gatekeepers in these municipalities are taking advantage of the administrative shortcomings in councils to authorise developments on…

Since it is getting fashionable worldwide that in the run-up to elections, the main presidential candidates engage in debates live on television, I am just wondering what harm this could have if we were to do the same here. Only this week, candidates in the Kenyan elections had…

From the outset, no one had really disputed the relevance and importance of redistributing the country's wealth. Since independence in 1980, the country's economy had remained in the hands of the minority whites. Such a lopsided situation favouring a handful of the country's population of 12 million was…