HARARE – Fuel pumps around Zimbabwe have recently begun to feature a new E10 sticker, albeit one less shocking than the bottom line of your receipt. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (Zera) recently rewrote the rules defining allowable fuel mixtures, opening the door for producers to blend in a minimum of 10 percent ethanol. The…
HARARE – Widely viewed as still “green” and a novice for the new job, Mines minister Walter Chidhakwa proved at the last held Kimberly Process (KP) Plenary that although he was thrown in deep-end, he is a shark. The 2013 KP Plenary was expected to deal with basically six issues which include the ban on…
HARARE – Let me start the belated obituary of Doris Lessing, who died last week, by quoting from a letter written to me in 1982, when I wrote Comrade Muromo in The Herald: “This is to put on record how much I enjoy your Saturday column — the reasons for this enjoyment are too complicated…
HARARE – Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono’s ten-year tenure at the helm of the central bank comes to an end tomorrow at a time when the economy is going through a shocking downward spiral. Gono, who presided over the bank at a tumultuous time of unprecedented inflation and economic collapse, is credited…
EDITOR — This is for my fellow Zimbabweans and for the Church in this nation. If you are like me you will have noticed and felt the deep air of despair and hopelessness that prevails in this nation at this time. You will see the seemingly depressing headlines in our newspapers and you will have…
EDITOR ? I have learnt with disappointment that some companies have not paid their workers for several months. I know that times are hard but I believe it is very unfair to the workers to work for the whole month and not get paid. If companies are honest enough they would plan well, but they…
HARARE – There is no doubt that cancer has become one of the biggest killer diseases in Zimbabwe and the rest of the world. Any move that is aimed at reducing the rate at which the disease is taking precious lives would be most welcome. For quite a long time many activists have been campaigning…
HARARE – Zimbabweans should brace themselves for a depressed festive season following the worsening liquidity crunch. Already, many people in the country are feeling the pinch of cash shortages as evidenced by most depositors who this week failed to get their money from various financial institutions. The financial services sector is buckling under cash shortages…
HARARE – Ask a dispossessed white Zimbabwean farmer how many cords of wood you need to cure a hectare of tobacco and he’ll shake his head and look blank. White farmers for the most part say they didn’t use wood to cure their tobacco because there simply weren’t enough trees or wood close to hand…
HARARE – A few weeks ago, Information, Media and Broadcasting Services minister Jonathan Moyo made the most incisive observation about the latent danger lurking ahead for Zimbabweans if they remain in election mode after Zanu PF’s victory in the July 31 harmonised polls. He is concerned that the nation could easily become hamstrung by euphoric…
