Following is a list of some of the most important statutes catering for various aspects of our tax law and top of the list  is  the Capital Gains Tax (Chapter 23:01), followed by the Customs and Excise Act (Chapter 23:02), the Income Tax Act (Chapter 23:06), the Estate…

Not that this is anything new.  For as long as most of us can remember, SADC’s approach to the Zimbabwe crises has remained, at best ambiguous, but mostly ambivalent. In the absence of clear cut resolutions on Zimbabwe from the regional bloc, it was left to the media…

When a mystic, Count Hamon advised Lord Carnarvon in 1922 against entering the tomb of King Tutankhamen, the Egyptian boy king, the results of spurned advice were there for all to see. Within a short period of time, in what became commonly known as “The curse of the…

This emerged from a recent thought leadership seminar held in Harare.Addressing hundreds of guests during a British Council Management Exp-ress forum presentation entitled The New Normal: Implications for business decision-making in Zimbabwe 2010’, renowned economist and University of Zim-babwe’s Graduate School of Management academic Professor Tony Hawkins set…

 It deals with the relationships between jobs within an organisation. The aim of job evaluation is to provide a systematic and consistent approach to defining relative worth of jobs within an organisation. As such, job evaluation is aimed at providing a defensible and equitable basis for determining and…

Psychometric tests are standardised measures that provide scores on hypothetical variables. The test is designed to measure one or more facets of a person’s behaviour or personality. There are a selection of tests that are now used widely to assess the character, strengths and weaknesses of each potential…

 Boys and girls, men and women, mbuya nasekuru, were all united in one cause — that of fighting the injustices of the time and today we are an independent people. This week we reflect on and celebrate the lives of those who lost their lives for our cause.…

Well, it took a couple of e-mails and a lengthy telephone conversation between the two of us in the course of last week to clarify issues, correct misconceptions and forge a common position on the way forward regarding the state of the HR profession in Zimbabwe. If my…

 This led to the collapse of a number of banks and other financial institutions causing a chain reaction of panic across the globe.In economic circles presently, there is discord regarding the direction of the global economy with some schools of thought either suggesting that the global economy is…

California Federal Judge Vaughn Walker, in a 155-page report, ruled that that discrimination against gays and lesbians, passed by California Proposition 8 in a referendum, was illegal. Vaughn lives an openly gay life with his boyfriend. What is earth shaking is the summation of all the major arguments…