National unity: is there really anything to celebrate?

December 10, 1997

December 22 will be a national holiday. Only three days before the big day, Christmas, to some people it will…

Zimbabwe: Investment for growth

December 10, 1997

Zimbabwe is currently facing a financial quagmire. Stocks are falling, taxes have been raised, unemployment is rising and investment is…

Land issue: playing to the gallery?

December 10, 1997

The die has been cast. "Land is the people's sovereign asset. It is their home, economic resource, a social and…

People’s power at last

December 10, 1997

President Robert Mugabe and the war veterans must have been baffled. While the people agreed that war veterans should be…

Stocks tumble, but one broker says this is the time to buy

December 10, 1997

With the key industrial index at a 12-month low of 7699 points on December 10, one of the leading stockbrokers…

Ministers and boards

December 10, 1997

Only a few months after assuming office, Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende, fired the Posts and Telecommunications board. No reason was…

National Foods makes good after profit

December 10, 1997

Predictions that food companies tend to thrive when there is news about a drought seem to have been confirmed with…

SAPS and riots….

December 10, 1997

Susan George, a leading pro-Third World economist argues that, when the two Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the…

Murerwa given political clout

December 10, 1997

Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa seems to have been given the political clout he requires to steer the country out of…

Mandaza launches weekly paper

December 10, 1997

Southern Africa Printing and Publishing House publisher Ibbo Mandaza has fulfilled his ambition to own a national weekly newspaper. He…