SOUTH African opposition parties yesterday celebrated after Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng ruled that Speaker of Parliament Baleka Mbete could conduct a vote-of-no-confidence motion in President Jacob Zuma through a secret […]
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Roadblocks used as means of extortion
IT is almost a month after President Robert Mugabe ordered the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) to reduce the number of roadblocks, saying they were becoming an inconvenience to motorists and […]
Parastatals now burden on fiscus
Although the plunder of Zimbabwe’s perennially loss-making parastatals is nothing new, the latest reports by the Auditor-General and the World Bank — whose findings we reveal in these pages today […]
Soaring health costs: Poor caught in death trap
AS medical costs continue to skyrocket in Zimbabwe, access to treatment has become a luxury many cannot afford.
Let us discard failed policies
Two recent reports have confirmed the parlous state of Zimbabwe’s economy, showing that there is very little fresh capital flowing into the country.
Gumbo’s warning haunts Zim
ON the eve of Zimbabwe’s historic general election in 1980, veteran nationalist Rugare Gumbo, whose contribution to the liberation struggle is illustrious and undeniable, strongly warned Zimbabweans on February 21 […]
Mugabe should stop profligacy
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s jet-setting spree came to the fore yet again this week when he cut a lonely and pathetic figure at the United Nations Oceans Summit attended only by […]
Let’s assess succession candidates
LAST week Higher Education minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo threw a cat among pigeons after he launched an unexpected yet thought-provoking review of President Robert Mugabe’s succession […]
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 […]
