HARARE – The recent wave of price increases that has been sweeping across the country has not spared the country’s agricultural sector, without doubt the mainstay of the Zimbabwean economy. Prices of farming inputs — especially those for seed and fertiliser — virtually shot through the ceiling. [GoogleAd] A 20kg bag of maize seed, which…
HARARE – “Only a life lived in the service of others is worth living.” (Einstein). Einstein was indeed a great thinker who spoke beyond his own time. A commitment to the betterment of other world citizens would surely happen if everyone is driven by the commitment to be a servant of all. Authoritarianism ought to…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economy has been going through its worst period since dollarisation in 2009. To preserve value, most companies are going for the easy way out, which is to charge their equally struggling customers in the most dependable currency — the United States dollar. But here is one big problem! In a country where…
HARARE – One would be forgiven for thinking that Zimbabwe is caught up in some sort of national religious frenzy. Pastors, prophets, politicians-come-pastors-messiahs, business people are regularly making reference to God or Jesus in relation to what should essentially be secular spheres of our national social life. It should have all reached its fever pitch…
HARARE – President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent meeting with bankers as well as captains of industry and commerce is a good start. Coming as it does after the scrapping of Statutory Instrument (SI) 122 of 2017 and the turbulence that rocked the country after the bond note suffered heavy losses on the black market, the overdue…
HARARE – English premiership side, Tottenham Hotspur, has flattered to deceive in the last decade in England’s football top division. Spurs or Lilly Whites, as the London club are fondly called by their faithful, have produced great talent and fused it with a few buys from a strict budget which their chairperson Daniel Levy rarely…
HARARE – Finance minister Mthuli Ncube should be ashamed of himself for the unprecedented events that culminated in the suspension of senior Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) officials. This was an uncalled for action done to cover up for the ministers’ careless and inconsistent pronouncements, which were the source of panic and current economic malaise….
HARARE – The cost of one of the most basic foodstuffs — bread — is set to increase by over 100 percent despite government’s attempts to heavily regulate the price without offering any subsidy to bakeries. Lobel’s, which runs one of the country’s largest bakeries, advised its customers that the retail price of both a…
HARARE – After many bans by the authorities ostensibly to stop the spread of the cholera outbreak, the rebranded main opposition party MDC — formerly the MDC Alliance — had its 19th anniversary celebrations yesterday. Since its historic formation in September 1999 at Harare Grounds, the opposition party has been a trailblazer in the fight…
HARARE – Recent developments in the Zimbabwe economy have just confirmed what most people have suspected all along; greediness is at the centre of our problems. Ever since new Finance minister Mthuli Ncube announced his new monetary policy earlier this month, the economy has been on a free fall. With the economy regressing with each…
