The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.
The collective bargaining process which was introduced last year is rapidly turning into a sham as Labour Minister John Nkomo is rejecting most of the wage increases suggested by companies.…
A farmer who instructed an estate agent to find a buyer for his property but later negotiated a separate deal was ordered to pay the agent $50 150 commission after…
According to residents of Masvingo, one of the reasons why Public Service Minister Eddison Zvobgo, has remained popular in both the town and the province is that he does not…
A senior government minister recently boasted that were it not for people like him and other politicians the President would be in the dark. President Mugabe, he said, did not…
Getting a new vehicle has become such a pain in the a… that a Bulawayo businessman is reported to have travelled all the way to Harare to knock some sense…
An idea mooted by former detainees while they were in detention before independence has turned into a multi-million dollar cooperative running supermarkets, shops and a small-scale farming plot. In the…
Zimbabwe is developing an animal vaccine against ticks and Australian scientists are doing the same thing "but Zimbabwe is unlikely to release its tick genes to the Australians for fear…
A visit to Namibia, the second last colonial bastion of Africa can be both exciting and frustrating, even nerve wrecking. Exciting by the degree of welcome from the ordinary people…