DESPITE the Zimbabwe government awarding power generation contracts amounting to more than US$1 billion to dodgy companies that have inflated their bills by more than US$500 million and pocketed millions […]
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Rise in pan-African banks ideal for trade
Malawi’s First Merchant Bank (FMB) completed its acquisition of Barclays Plc’s Zimbabwean assets, cementing the dominance of pan-African banks on the sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) banking landscape.
FMB-Barclays project a mixed financial bag
THE biggest corporate news last week was that First Merchant Bank (FMB) of Malawi had bought a controlling stake in Barclays Bank Zimbabwe after agreeing terms with Barclays Plc. What […]
Managing risk through board configurations
The agency problem refers to the potential of conflict between the needs of the shareholders and those of managers.
Mugabe should now step down
ANGOLAN President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, Africa’s second longest-serving leader after Equatorial Guinea’s dictator Teodoro Obiang Nguema, will not seek re-election in August after decades in power. He will call […]
The wounds are still fresh
In one of the saddest episodes in Zimbabwe’s never-ending political drama, some lawmakers are now approaching the National Peace and Reconciliation Bill from factional vantage points influenced by Zanu PF’s […]
Talent identification: A leadership imperative
JUST recently at a function I was chairing at a local hotel, a young man from one of the participating organisations approached me at tea break and asked: “Mukoma (brother), […]
Jostling for posts discredits opposition parties
RECENT remarks by People’s Democratic Party leader Tendai Biti and National People’s Party president Joice Mujuru that any one of the leaders from the 15 opposition parties in coalition talks […]
Why elections won’t solve the crisis
The deep crisis in the state was neatly expressed by Brian Kagoro at last week’s Pan-Africa Lecture at Southern African Political Economy Series (Sapes). He posed the notion that Zimbabwe […]
British ‘excessively defensive’ on atrocities in Matabeleland
THIS is the fifth in a series of articles of a detailed research paper by British academic Hazel Cameron on the state-sponsored killings of civilians by Zimbabwean security forces between […]
