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…

Drought: a misery for some, big business for others

September 29, 1997

Zimbabweans still smarting from the effects of the 1992 drought which saw families surviving on yellow maize, mainly grown as…

ZANU-PF using financial squeeze to keep MPs in line

September 10, 1997

When ZANU-PF backbenchers refused to ratify the $957 million loan for the new Harare International Airport at a party caucus…

The Great Betrayal: A Review Of Ian Smith’s Book

September 2, 1997

There is nothing about "Never in a thousand years" (Former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith's vow that blacks would never…

Presidential blunders

February 18, 1994

President Robert Mugabe seems to have a knack for making blunders whenever the country seems to be steering towards greater…