One of the challenges our companies are facing is capital. Banks in particular will face serious challenges as the recapitalisation deadlines draw closer. Reports have already begun to suggest that banks are on the market looking for marriage partners. Mergers and acquisitions will most probably be the way…

In fact, it is a comparably very small fraction of women who engage in directly transactional sex. Commercial sex that is.But here is this, and yes I do dare say it, whether married or not married, earning their own means or not, mai veruwadzano or not, muroora waamai…

The only thing that keeps some employees, managerial and non-managerial employees, alike, at an organisation is the pay-check. Well, in the most recent research we have undertaken as a Consultancy, we have validated yet another reason why employees like to cling to their organisations - unethical business practises.Undoubtedly,…

 Who cares? Whether or not he and his party choose to participate, elections are still going to be held by the end of March next year. Nothing, I mean nothing, will ever change that.Hasn't he earned himself the nickname Mr Boycott because of his penchant for boycotting anything…

The Senkaku Islands are under the valid control of the government of Japan.Although China and Taiwan make their own assertions about the Senkaku Islands, they are completely without merit. The government of Japan rejects these assertions and has lodged protests against them.The lands of the three islands (Uotsuri…

With a politically polluted environment, punctuated by polarisation, one wonders whether it is really true that there is a correlation between the bankruptcy of ideas on the part of the country's leadership and the crisis gripping the health delivery sector.This follows grim statistics released by the Zimbabwe National…

SADC has theoretically become both a problem and part of the supposed solution for Zimbabwe. The ICG report therefore gives us insights into what kind of a regional bloc we are dealing with and what capacity or lack of; it has in its attempt to help our nation…

 This view is predicated on sound empirical evidence demonstrating the positive correlation between SME sectors and these variables generated across various countries (World Bank, 2003). For example, the employment creation potential of the SME sector is well documented in both developed and developing countries (World Bank, 2003: 22-23)…

The special rules under consideration are for connected persons, lay-by agreements, rental agreements and periodic payment for services and progressive payments.1. Connected personsThe general rules relating to the time of supply of either goods or services that is the earlier of issuance of an invoice or receipt of…

The two women who knocked at a local church, at the invitation of a black minister, were not unique. They were pitiable, malleable, humble and humiliated.One was slightly built; a whiff of wind could have blown her away. She was the white one. Another was slightly heavy but…