By the time the congress ended, significant ground had been covered in terms of deliberations on policies, programmes and practices in the important field of small business development.This year's congress has been symbolic in that it is the first time that it has been held in Africa since…

 Then there is a bit part of me, the cautious part of me, which is saying, "Careful Lorca, tread carefully girlfriend, are you sure this is the way to go? Could you do the court thing minus the character (or is it mental) assassination? You want to win…

 Reportedly, this is due to the high level of non-performing loans sitting on their books. It is estimated that this SPV will require about a billion dollars to carry out this exercise.Looking at the banks' recently-published financials, this non-performing debt appears to have been hidden somewhere, as we…

 In some cases, there are actually no human resource policies and procedures to talk about and in others, if they are there, they are hopelessly outdated as to be practically useless. One such policy that is often taken for granted is the remuneration and benefits policy.This week I…

In 2006 my informants were fearful and very reluctant to give their names. The year 2012 was very different. It became obvious to me that my informants, with poetic names like Sakubende, Satumba, Samanyika, Saunyama, SaBande, Sanyanga and Sanyan-gombe had largely benefitted from the land reform programme. HIV…

One idea that struck me is the suggestion that we sponsor one of the organs of our party to make a show of suing me into calling for elections. That was a brilliant idea that we took up immediately and as you all know, that court case -in…

In his review of the state of the economy, Biti highlighted that revenue has been underperforming to the tune of US$30 million per month. As a result, a massive US$400 million is required to plug the revenue gap and hopefully bring the smiles back on the faces of…

I was just looking through the list of those fingered in the controversy-ridden invasion and realised that it is top heavy with senior officers from the security sector plus obviously a few ZANU-PF senior officials from the province. Some senior ZANU-PF members including the Minister of Tourism and…

 At the same time, the paper strongly argues that elections should not be held this year but probably they should be held in 2013.A useful starting point is that political power in Zimbabwe is less about capable administration. Power in Zimbabwe must be understood in terms of the…

Assuming that the current stalemate around the Parliamentary Constitutional Select Committee constitutional draft is resolved amicably, the country would be headed for a referendum in the last quarter of the year whereby Zimbabweans would get another opportunity to adopt or reject a proposed new supreme law of the…