Zimbabwe: Investment for growth

Zimbabwe is currently facing a financial quagmire. Stocks are falling, taxes have been raised, unemployment is rising and investment is not forthcoming. What then should the country do? Reserve Bank…

Murerwa given political clout

Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa seems to have been given the political clout he requires to steer the country out of its economic woes. He has been elevated to deputy secretary…

SAPS and riots….

Susan George, a leading pro-Third World economist argues that, when the two Bretton Woods Institutions, the World Bank and the IMF, call for economic reform, they almost take over everything…

Church and politics

The next general elections may be some time away but the Catholic Church seems to have made an early start to conscientise people on the need to vote. But at…

Presidential blunders

President Robert Mugabe seems to have a knack for making blunders whenever the country seems to be steering towards greater democracy and accountability. After his government had just announced measures…

Mr ESAP’s short-lived death

Rumours about the death of Finance Minister Bernard Chidzero sparked more debate about his successor than whether they were true or not. The name that was on most people’s lips…