© A FEW years ago, there were hardly any restaurants in Harare’s low-density suburbs serving traditional Zimbabwean dishes. Now it seems there are a great many of them, but all too many are poorly established and offer a sad and unappetising set of meals, usually over-priced. As a result, I have had a number of…
© CHILD marriages often interrupt the girl child’s schooling, limiting her opportunities for career and vocational advancement while placing her at an increased risk of domestic violence. [GoogleAd] Over the years, gender activists have been fighting to end child marriages and break the inter-generational cycle of poverty by allowing girls and women to participate fully…
© When Zimbabweans are expressing nostalgia for Robert Mugabe you know things must be bad. Yet it is now common to hear that things are worse under Emmerson Mnangagwa, president since a 2017 coup, than during the darkest days of the man he deposed. Zimbabwe is in humanitarian meltdown. [GoogleAd] Food is in such short supply…
© CALEDONIA Mining continues to make money and put the bravest of faces on life in Zimbabwe where it operates its Blanket gold mine. [GoogleAd] It is helped by the devaluation in the southern African country’s currency, but the firm does score highly for grit in any case. Earlier this week, it reported lower adjusted…
© As technological innovation transforms our economies, workers all over the world are doing whatever it takes — whether crossing borders, changing jobs, or starting businesses — for a chance to thrive. [GoogleAd] Yet, social safety nets have been much slower to change, meaning that workers in transition are often highly vulnerable. What will it…
© “IT IS in your best interest to avoid sleep debt, otherwise be prepared to pay both the debt and the interest!” Stan Jacobs wrote in one of his famous book: The Dusk And Dawn Master: A Practical Guide to Transforming Evening and Morning Habits, Achieving Better Sleep, and Mastering Your Life. [GoogleAd] The socio-economic…
© AS ZIMBABWEANS made their way to holidays on Friday, two weeks before, without notice toll fees had been revised upwards and, of course, many did not take the changes lightly, some barricaded roads while some went through without paying. [GoogleAd] It was a small protest against Finance minister Mthuli Ncube’s latest squeeze on hard-pressed…
© STELLA (not her real name) raced down the staircase to the hospital’s accounts department with a bunch of papers. She had to pay for a delicate surgical procedure on her 68-year-old mum, who had been bed-ridden for no less than a month now. [GoogleAd] The department would close in the next five minutes, after…
© GOVERNMENT’s subsidy on urban public transport operations is incurring staggering losses and higher fares would be necessary to keep subsidies in check, economists have said. [GoogleAd] Since the resumption of the Zimbabwe United Passenger Company (Zupco) service, the total cost of running the public bus network has increased, with government running a $13 million…
© PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s most-recent attempt to stop the country’s massive inflation problems is failing, at least according to one measure. [GoogleAd] The Zimstat, which gauges Zimbabwe’s inflation through the consumer basket, showed an annual inflation rate of 174 percent after its latest reading. Finance minister Mthuli Ncube has stated in his mid-term fiscal policy review…
