ORGANISATIONAL structures can be a source of inefficiency that impacts on the ability of the organisation to deliver its mandate. The process of designing structures needs to be managed properly. Self-interest should never be a key consideration when designing structures. (more…)

BMW is one of those brands that long ago became the victim in some quarters of negative mass perception. I’m sure you know what I mean. It gets singled out as the brand that’s most often driven with undue aggression. It’s the brand that will be heard, but…

FALLING into debt may be necessary, but there are problems that come with it. More often than not, the debtor ends up enslaved to the creditor if one defaults in payment. (more…)

I WONDER how many readers know that the Tiguan is now Volkswagen’s global best seller. Such is the momentum behind SUV sales that a new Tiguan rolls off the production line every 35 seconds from five plants across the globe, with total production soaring past the 6 million…

A FEW years back we did a comprehensive study of the prevalence of stress among the Zimbabwean working population. We used the Four-Dimensions Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) developed by Terluin (1996). The questionnaire measures the following dimensions. (more…)

A fundamental reason for the existence of the rules of prescription in tax law is to provide taxpayers with certainty regarding their tax position. (more…)

A recent tweet on Zimbabwe inflation estimates by Professor Steve Hanke, a Professor of Applied Economics at the Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Cato Institute, has caught many by surprise given that his y-o-y inflation of 455 percent is below the official figure of 761.02…

A recent High Court judgment in the case of Chikiwa v St George’s College brought to the fore the issue of children’s rights viz-a-viz educational institutions’ right to receive school fees. (more…)

THE world has been changing at an alarming rate and we now live in what is called the “information age”. The Internet has changed how business is being done as the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence take centre stage. (more…)