Whether we like it or not, an African president died on that day, and that was Cde Brother Bingu wa Mutharika whom we buried this week. (I really envied his mausoleum). As much as we may hate or like this Nigerian fellow, some of us are reluctantly beginning to…

Somehow there has been disquiet about separate meanings of indigenisation and economic empowerment. Even the most  learned professors have skirted the matter.Economic empowerment refers to policy frameworks put in place to deliberately facilitate easier participation in the country's economy by persons previously disadvantaged.The words "previously disadvantaged" are of…

 He has led several delegations on international tours, traversing the width and breadth of the globe at a huge cost to the country, in desperate attempts to drum up investor support critical to improving the country's capital account and release pressure on the job market.At the very beginning…

 The last part, ability to repay, is a key part of the equation, as whoever will be advancing the means expects to get their value back, perhaps with a little extra to compensate for the time value of money.When there is no repayment of debt, this creates a…

 Indigenous cultures such as African and Indian used herbs in their healing rituals, while others developed traditional medical systems in which herbal therapies were used. Researchers found that people in different parts of the world tended to use the same or similar plants for the same purposes. Mutamba…

 While management spends hours on end drafting and crafting strategies, trying to pave the way forward for their organisations, this very important aspect is most often forgotten. It is rather ironic that regardless of what strategies you come up with, the onus at the end of the day…

The first is that when you are a man, especially one in power, when some woman starts accusing you of some crime of abuse and you find yourself pitted against her publicly because she has dared speak out, the most common modus operandi is to do the one…

I call them children because at that age most girls and boys are just children. Legally in Zimbabwe your child can consider himself or herself an adult at 18 but seriously, is that very realistic?What are we as mothers teaching our daughters? That dating at 15 and falling…

Perceived investment-discouraging political risk, absence of meaningful liquidity on the economy as well as the negative effects of the topical indigenisation and economic empowerment regulations are the major factors currently negating the inherent potential of the local stock market.By yesterday, a day shy of the half-year, the aggregate…

 But if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights. If you associate with turkeys, you will think, walk, talk, and act like a turkey. A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really is shown by the kind of friends…