I AM writing to my brother (munin’ina) Musaruwa who has asked that I not reveal his first name. Since the matter he asks me to address is weighty, I will go straight to the issues before us. (more…)

THE price hikes we have witnessed in the last few months call for a deeper analysis of how businesses in this country operate. Profiteering is still rife in the Zimbabwean economy. Some of the price adjustments are justifiable while the majority are not. (more…)

HERE is a sentence that will make many in the Zimbabwe leadership feel very uncomfortable. US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has been working the telephones trying to recruit international support for the people of Venezuela who are struggling to free themselves from the mafia state of President…

ACCORDING to the United States (US) Secretary for Human Services, Tom Price, the epidemic which has devastated the US falls under a group of doctor prescribed pain killers called opioids. (more…)

WHAT exactly do we mean when we say a person is competent? The dictionary defines competent as “having the necessary ability, knowledge, or skill to do something successfully”. (more…)

THE year 2019 is here and my predictions are that there will be a lot of things happening on the human resources front. Given that most human resources issues are linked to business performance, let's first look at the business side of 2019. (more…)

I MUST admit Comrades that I was really angry with all of you for being used by evil forces to humiliate me last November. I could not understand why intelligent people like you could be used in such a silly way to install an illegal regime. But I…

IT IS very likely that most organisations are overstaffed in various roles for various reasons. Some could not react quickly when we went into the multicurrency regime. In some cases, regulatory and company procedures made it difficult to make changes in the head count in line with the…

EVER since I was born, I have not experienced such a lousy Christmas. Even during the 11 years I was imprisoned by the very, very racist Ian Smith regime, Christmas was a time to look forward to. It was a time of merry-making and even in prison we…

ON visiting the US in 1994, the then South African leader, Nelson Mandela, found the nation gripped in a bitter war over the Monica Lewinsky-President Bill Clinton affair. (more…)