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Acting Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa will be under pressure to review the tax threshold from the present $750 000 to at least $1.5 million a month when he announces his…

ZANU-PF slipped back into the Bulawayo City Council through the back door when its candidate, Ernest Msipa, stood unopposed when nominations for a by-election in Ward 7 closed on September…

I had to withhold tears as I watched my eight-year old daughter sob when I told her I could not fill her raffle form. Her teacher wanted it that day.…

After a series of glitches, Bulawayo business tycoon Delma Lupepe has finally taken over towelling giant, Merspin, at the beginning of this month and has pledged to invest $30 billion…

The mother of an eight-year-old girl at a private school in Bulawayo will never forget the day when she ran out of small change and gave her daughter a $5…

ZANU-PF, which has now pledged to implement electoral reforms to comply with Southern African Development Community (SADC) principles and guidelines for democratic elections, may have already completed rigging next year's…

Zimbabweans are a funny lot. Despite the wealth displayed everyday on the country's roads in the form of luxury cars and four-by-fours and mansions sprouting everywhere in the cities and…

Former ZANU-PF Bulawayo City councillors who switched sides after being frustrated in the party and jumped onto the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) bandwagon, are reportedly fuelling divisions in the…

Botswana was one of the poorest countries in Africa when it attained independence in 1966. Its per capita income was about P60 (US$80 at the time). Its gross domestic product,…

It's a tale of two cities. Not Charles Dickens', but Bulawayo and Harare. They are so alike, yet they are so different. They are both under Movement for Democratic Change…