HARARE – Zimbabwe must work on harmonising the indigenisation and investment laws to improve the ease of doing business in the country. For the past few years, the country’s global ranking on the ease of doing business has been dropping consistently due to the controversial investment policies and harsh economic environment. Although government has promised…
HARARE – The shocking full page of photographs in last week’s Daily News on Sunday of people scavenging in Harare’s Pomona dump site could not have come at a more appropriate time. The images appeared when members of the Harare Residents Trust (HRT) were addressing MPs at a Parliamentary Portfolio Committee Meeting on Local Government….
HARARE – According to one of the major national objectives pledged in the new constitution, government must see to it that the State takes all practical measures to promote free and compulsory basic education for children. It must also take measures to ensure that girls are afforded the same opportunities as boys to education at…
HARARE – The blatant contempt of court by expelled MDC secretary-general Tendai Biti’s rebels who went ahead with a purported disciplinary hearing against opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday, despite a High Court order stopping the charade, not only exposes the so-called renewal team for the hypocrites they are, it also smacks of embarrassing kindergarten…
LONDON – Zimbabwe’s economic revolution — encapsulating the transfer of land and business ownership to blacks and the empowerment of communities — has been plagued by a plethora of problems. First was land redistribution. But after about 14 years since the agrarian reforms, the failures of land redistribution have only been masked by successes in tobacco…
HARARE – The group of MDC rebels took their game to Harare Showgrounds on Saturday, were the attendance clearly underlined the failure of their rebellion. Here is how and why. Less than 300 people attended the meeting, which the Tendai Biti group had hoped to make a massive statement and impact in terms of their…
HARARE – Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown does not require a scattergun approach to the myriad of problems being currently experienced. Sadly there appears no one, among the ruling elite, with a clue as to the serious ramifications of such an approach. This view is strongly backed by the approach taken by the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra)…
HARARE – It is a pity that Harare residents woke up this week with no tap water amid a big scandal surrounding Harare City Council’s $144,4 million loan facility recently secured from China. While the contentious loan secured from China National Machinery and Equipment Import and Export Corporation in 2010 is meant to rehabilitate the…
HARARE – Construction of a massive ethanol project in Nuanetsi ranch should have started by now, but it hasn’t. Its progress came to a screeching halt thanks to the logrolling and political grandstanding kicked off by Masvingo provincial minister Kudakwashe Bhasikiti, who used his power to block the project rather than allow villagers to benefit…
HARARE – As much we might want to act macho and pretend that we can go it alone, inside of every individual there is a burning desire to love and have the love reciprocated. All my life I have assumed that men were just egotistical beings who never get their feelings hurt when a relationship…
