Business optimism dwindling

September 25, 1992

Business optimism in Zimbabwe is fast dwindling and there are now reports that some investors may soon reduce or transfer…

Zim-Kenya in reinsurance

September 25, 1992

Zimbabwe and Kenya, which are currently dominating trade in the Preferential Trade Area of Southern Africa, are reported to have…

Spilling the beans

September 25, 1992

The decision by the editor of the Financial Gazette Trevor Ncube to disclose the names of two Members of Parliament…

Zimbabwe lacks consumer resistance

September 24, 1992

"Sharp decline in demand for refrigerators. Bus operators drop their fares. Slump in prices of electrical appliances. Prices of second…

Civil service reduced

August 28, 1992

At long last, there seems to be some headway in reducing the country's bureaucracy. The size of the civil service…

VP’s house $1m up

August 28, 1992

The cost of the house being constructed for the vice-President in Harare is reported to have gone up by $1…

Funny money

August 28, 1992

The newly created Ministry of National Affairs, Employment Creation and Cooperatives, carries a very unusual item under its training centres…

Dangerous comparisons

August 28, 1992

During the UDI era of Ian Smith, life in the then Rhodesia was always compared with that in the countries…

Msika : forgotten or a mistake

August 28, 1992

The Senior Minster for Local Government, Rural and Urban Development, Joseph Msika, his deputy Swithun Mombeshora who is in fact…

What’s what?

August 28, 1992

Claims by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation acting director general, Christopher Mutsvangwa, that all is well and there is an "insodus"…