EDITOR — Entrepreneurship is the act of creating a business or businesses while building and scaling it to generate a profit. However, as a basic entrepreneurship definition, it’s a bit limiting. The more modern entrepreneurship definition is also about transforming the world by solving big problems. [GoogleAd] Like initiating social change, creating an innovative product…
EDITOR — The Harare City Council (HCC) is at it again making sure that councillors are given unrealistic packages. Why should councillors be given stands in their area of residence? Most of them am sure have stands but this goes to show that when this decision was made it had nothing to do with the…
EDITOR — The mineral industry of Africa is the largest minerals industry in the world. Africa is the second largest continent, with 30 million km² of land, which implies large quantities of resources. For many African countries, mineral exploration and production constitute significant parts of their economies and remain key to economic growth. [GoogleAd] Africa…
EDITOR — The looming showdown between doctors and the government over demands that have not been addressed since the bargaining agreement in January this year that saw doctors ending their industrial strike is worrisome. [GoogleAd] What is more worrisome is that if the doctors down their tools again the ordinary citizens will be most affected….
IN THE past two decades or so, ordinary Zimbabweans have had to contend with the political banter — a form of teasing either opponents or allies — which normally ends in a pleasant way, at least according to the dictionary. [GoogleAd] Political banter is deeply rooted in mature democracies where nothing is taken personal. Sadly,…
LATE last month Air Zimbabwe (AirZim) confirmed its plane’s departure from the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International airport was delayed because it had developed a technical problem. [GoogleAd] Plane delays and postponements are not uncommon at AirZim as the airline has experienced numerous challenges over the past two decades. Despite all their challenges, we must give…
AS one of the contesting presidential candidates in the 2018 harmonised elections, I am happy that for once President Emmerson Mnangagwa has listened to the voice of the people and decided to sit down and dialogue. [GoogleAd] As candidates and leaders of political parties when we meet with Mnangagwa we are just representing a fraction…
Zimbabweans, most of whom are not employed, have found a pastime on social media networks where they are brewing all sorts of social skits and jokes. [GoogleAd] They have all the time in the world as they have no promising prospect of finding a job soon. And this supports the old adage that an idle…
Why is there congestion at our public healthcare institutions? Patients take long hours before they are attended. The challenges facing referral hospitals are a direct result of existing economic circumstances. The referral system, user fees and access have put unbearable pressure on the main referral hospitals, which are Parirenyatwa, Harare, Mpilo, Chitungwiza, and United Bulawayo hospitals….
One year after jubilant residents celebrated on the streets of Harare when Zimbabwe’s army removed Robert Mugabe from power, the country is in darkness. In January, after days of protests over a doubling of fuel prices, security forces launched a crackdown in which more than 12 people were killed and 600 arrested. Zimbabwe’s government also…
