Land Reform Derailed!

It is amazing how Zimbabwe, of late, seems to have developed a propensity for self-destruction. Over the past 15 months there has been so much talk about the land issue,…

Mhangura makes a $78m loss

Nothing seems to be going on well for the troubled Mhangura Copper Mines. It's results for the 12 months ending June 1998, were seven months late and they were a…

Hunyani profits up 39 percent

Packaging giant, Hunyani Holdings, saw its earnings attributable to shareholders increase by 39 percent from $84.3 million for the year ending October 1997 to $117.1 million last year but it…

Zimbabwe: a hard sell

South Africa's Business Day of October 19, 1998 provided an interesting scenario of how difficult it must be to sell Zimbabwe to investors. On the front page was a story…

Mutasa shoots his mouth again

ZANU-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and now confirmed Manicaland boss after his faction swept all the seats in the provincial elections held recently is once again shooting off his…

Mugabe in desperate moves!

The last 12 months have been a nightmare for President Robert Mugabe. Faced with probably the stiffest challenge to his leadership in the 18 years he has been at the…

Chiyangwa and indigenisation

When the Affirmative Action Group was formed in 1994, there was a lot of acrimony about the new organisation. Several questions were raised about why it had been formed when…