Both official and unofficial figures put unemployment figures in ranges that I have not heard in any other part of the world. The figures range from 70 percent to 95 percent. If this is not a ticking time bomb, then I do not know what it is…

 In the past, I have written on the subject matter of communication within the discourse of workforce management (www.businesscommunication.org/conventionsNew/.../27ABC07.pdf). It is against this background that I seek to interrogate the role of communication in reputation management. The specific focus of this instalment is on how companies strive to…

As you know I am the patron of all war veterans in this country, whichever name they may want to go by, and all genuine war veterans are members of the party, so I really get concerned when in the middle of a crisis like this I start…

Therefore, at our first Zimbabwe Global Forum in Johannesburg, we assumed that the three million exiles would want to return home if the political climate changed. The economic climate hinges on the former.The Zimbabwe Global Forum (Zimforum) therefore saw what has now become obvious, that the Zimbabwe exiles…

 It is widely believed that the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) will soon get down to work and start licencing new media players.Most of the discussions over licencing of new media players have been largely based on opening media space (and in this case, licencing more newspapers). What has…

There are various reasons for the non-recognition. One of the most cited reasons for non-recognition by other senior managers is that HR professionals do not take time to understand the business so that they can add value to it. This has seen most HR professionals embarking on business-related…

Insatiable appetite indeed. Words of Cecil John Rhodes (of the British South Africa Company), a British national in whose name Zimbabwe was once named until Independence in 1980, as he was expanding north of the Limpopo River from South Africa, marking the beginning of the colonisation of Zimbabwe.…

 One such response reads: “I enjoy reading your articles which give important benchmarks on workforce issues. I am the chairperson of a trade union in a certain sector (sector given but omitted to protect identity of writer). Could you please give some guidance on salary indexation to productivity?…

The bill relates to fees for an environmental impact assessment of the project done by EMA.Construction of the US$80 million road was suspended earlier this month after the Movement for Democratic Change-led council queried the manner in which Augur Investments, a company based in the Ukraine, was awarded…

On of April 24 2010, I was in Bulawayo-just after the closure of the Trade Fair when the fateful phone call from Welshman Ncube came, informing me that he had just received unconfirmed reports that Renson Gasela and Lyson Mlambo had died in a horrific car accident about…