Mnangagwa demands security purges
AMID renewed intense factional fights in Zanu PF, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly moving to consolidate his power base by piling pressure for…
Indigenisation
Findings influenced by ‘margin of terror’
Public opinion surveys can be useful planning tools for political strategists and policy makers. This is especially so in well-established democracies where…
Dejection dampens Workers’ Day celebrations
TODAY Zimbabwe’s emasculated trade unions will in some cities lead low-key events to mark Workers Day, fully aware that the formal sector from which they…
Indigenisation changes fuel rent-seeking
AMENDMENTS to the contentious Indigenisation and Empowerment Act blamed for spooking foreign investors are widely viewed as artificial as they fail to address…
Govt to revisit indigenisation: Mnangagwa
VICE-president Emmerson Mnangagwa says government is in the process of realigning indigenisation laws — widely deemed as a barrier to the much-needed foreign…
Govt must clarify indigenisation
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe this week met with a high-powered French business delegation and used the opportunity to explain to the potential investors that the…
Banks get govt reprieve on indigenisation
THE Zimbabwean government has agreed to a somewhat soft stance on indeginisation of banks amid indications it has abandoned its one-size-fits all approach…
No indigenisation levy, says Nhema
INDIGENISATION minister Francis Nhema says there will be no indigenisation levy contrary to reports that his ministry was mulling its introduction.
Indigenisation saga rages on
PUBLICLY, the first assertions that this country required to effect meaningful economic indigenisation were made in about 1958.
Indigenisation now a mess
GOVERNMENT’s controversial indigenisation programme has now degenerated from being unworkable to the depths of confusion bordering on a circus as…
