THERE is always something exciting about the idea of an airline re-entering discontinued routes.The hope is to pile pressure on existing competitors, increase frequencies and load factors, and recapture lost market share.This feeling gripped Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) on Friday last week as the troubled airline reintroduced flights on the cash-spinning…
AS Zimbabweans go to vote today, focus is slowly shifting to the enormous task facing the new administration to be ushered into office soon.The coalition government of President Robert Mugabe, Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara assumed governing powers in February 2009 and today’s general…
. . . Zim to decide AS Zimbabweans go to the polls on Wednesday, the battle of the titans will once again be between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai who may not meet again in any such contest after this crucial poll, The Financial Gazette can…
GOVERNMENT has virtually been paralysed as ministers and members of the presidium intensify their political campaigns ahead of next week’s polls.A number of government ministers are fighting tooth and nail to retain their seats in the bicameral Parliament in order to stand a good chance of being appointed into Cabinet.A…
DECADES of a monopoly and partisan programming by the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) has forced millions of television viewers to look beyond the country’s borders for an alternative source of broadcasting content.It would appear that the entry of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999 onto the political…
THE silencing of Lindiwe Zulu, the spokesperson for South African President Jacob Zuma’s facilitation team in the local dialogue could signal a possible waning of the African National Congress (ANC) leader’s influence in Zimbabwean politics.Zuma’s influence also took a battering after the Constitutional Court ruled last month that elections be…
ZAPU alternate secretary-general, Strike Mkandla (SM) says his party’s main objective in participating in this year’ elections is to continue from where they left in 1987 at the signing of the Unity Accord with ZANU-PF. The Financial Gazette’s this week caught up with Mkandla who is also ZAPU’s National Assembly…
. . . as clock ticks towards polls BUNGLING by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) in the conduct of the two-day special vote could be a harbinger of worse things to come unless urgent measures are taken to capacitate the commission before the polls, which will take place in under…
BULAWAYO — Zimbabweans based in South Africa and Botswana appear disinterested in the forthcoming elections as traffic through points of entry linking Zimbabwe to these neighbouring countries has remained low, with only a few days to go before the polls.Zimbabweans based in the Diaspora had hoped to participate in postal…
…as electoral field gets congested A PRESIDENTIAL election run-off pitting bitter rivals President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister (PM) Morgan Tsvangirai once again is one huge possibility that could emerge from the political setting that has evolved in recent weeks, The Financial Gazette can report. In terms of the country’s…